Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

WILLIAM STEELE, cashier of the Chest
nut Street national bank of Philadel-
phia. was arrested, on the Goth, on an
affidavit made by United States Bank
Examiner William n. Hardt, charging
the cashier with making false entries
in reports to the comptroller of the cur
rency.
BY direction of Gen. Miles, command
ing the army, orders were issued, on
the 29th, for the transfer of the TWEEN
ty-fifth regiment of infantry to Dry
Tortugas. The fact that this regiment
is made up of colored troops is regard
ed as quite significant.
IT was announced, on the both, that
the Austria Hungarian government in
tended to ask for 45,O0O,OOO to 5O,O00,-
600 f1orins for the purpose of increas-
ing the strength of the Austrian navy.
SENIOR QUEsADA, secretary of the Gu
ban delegation in the United States,
said, on the Goth: 1--WE will have no
armistice, not even a day. If Spain
declares for an armistice, she can do so,
but as far as the Cubans are concerned,
she had better look out"
THE act for the relief of the sufferers
by the Maine disaster was approved by
the president on the 3Oth.
THE statement of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the 3Oth, showed:
Available cash balance, 1921, sos, TAB;
gold reserve, S173, 1873, 1886.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the night
of the goth said that the president had
sent a note to Spain demanding the in
dependence of Cuba and insisting upon
an immediate answer
THE Madrid Pals, of the both, said
that orders had been issued to mobil-
z all the Spanish war ships, and that
a second torpedo squadron was being
prepared for sea at CadiZ.
Ex-PREsIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON
left indianapolis, Ind, for New York
on the 30th. He went on legal BUSH
ness, and it was not his intention to
visit Washington.
THE members of the New York cot
ton exchange voted, on the 3Oth, not to
suspend business on Good Friday.
THE weekly statement of the bank
of France, issued on the 31st, showed
the following changes as compared
with the previous account: Notes in
circulation, increased 134, O75, 900 francs;
treasury accounts current, increased,
S1sS%0,OOO IrancS- 0Olu IN mana, de-
creased, 5,425, 900 francs. Bills, in
creased, POI, $50, 900 francs. Silver in
hand, increased, 1900, 900 francs.
BECAUSE Bertha Aspiegle would not
marry him, VIM. Hillman, a farmer, of
Munhall township, near Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 31st, shot and killed her
and then cut his throat with IA zor
The girl was Is years old, and refused
Hillman on account of her youth.
INSPECTOR OF POLICE MICHAEL J..
SCHAACK, of Chicago, who gained a
worldwide reputation through his
work in the Haymarket anarchist case,
was reported, on the 31st, dangerously
i'll with pneumonia. Slight hopes were
entertained of his recovery.
STEVE BRoDIE, famous for his jump
from the Brooklyn bridge, died, on the
31st, on a train at Adrian, Mich. He
had left Chicago suffering from conges-
ton of the lungs, hoping to reach his
home in New York.
MANY applications are being received
at the engineers Office of the war de-
partment from small towns along the
coast for the erection of some means of
defense to withstand the assaults of
! foreign ships in the event of war.