Iron County register., 1898-04-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

CYRUS A. BELL, a miner, has been ar
rested at Butte, Mont, charged with
attempting to burn Mrs. Marian Kelly
and her two children to death in their
house. She had refused to marry him.
The perpetrator of the crime entered
her house in the early morning, bound
and chlorofOrmed her and her oldest
daughter and then set FIRE to the house.
Her screams when awakened by the
flames summoned the neighbors who
rescued the inmates and put out the
flames.
Gov. BUSHNELL, on the 10Th, ordered
the Ohio national guard to be recruited
to its maximum strength, $500.
THE war department has practically
decided that the first call to arms will
be for $4,000 men, to be taken from the
militia of the several states
IT was officially announced in Mad
rid, on the 10Th, that negotiations were
progressing with the Cuban insurgents
to obtain their submission as a result
of further concessions.
FOUR inches of snow fell at Ironwood,
Mich, on the night of the 18th. Mani
towoc, Depere and Plainfeld, Wis, also
reported a heavy fall of snow.
THE pneumatic gunboat Vesuvius
made successful test of her guns in
Narragansett bay on the 10th.
CUBANs at Key West, Fla, on the 10th,
adopted a memorial to President Nc
Kinley requesting him, after the Span
iards have been driven from Cuba, to
appoint Gen. Fitzhugh Lee governor
general of the island until a stable re-
publican government can be estab-
ished.
CHAIRMAN CANNON of the house COM
mittee on appropriations says that no
war appropriations will be made eX-
cept upon regular estimates from the
various departments.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY expected to
sign the Cuban resolution and the ulti-
matum to Spain at the same time, on
the morning of the Goth, transmitting
copies of the latter to congress, to Min
lister Polo and by cable to Minister
Woodford at Madrid, and then await
Spain's reply, which would be due
early on the morning of the 23d.
GEN. MILES is quoted as saying that
the army for the occupation of Cuba
should not be less than 100, 900 men,
the Atlantic coast for concentration in
case the Spanish should assume the of
fepSiEe-
SECRETARY GAGE is maturing his
plans for placing loan for carrying
on the contest with Spain The pro-
gramme of the ways and means COM
mittee has been adopted in regard to
loans, and probably will be put through
the two houses of congress
GEN. PALMA and one of Gen. Gomez
brigadiers, it is said, consulted Gen.
Miles, on the 2Oth, arranging for CO.
operation against Spain.
THE United States government has
purchased the Umbria and the Etruria
of the Cunard line.
THE authoritative statement was
made at the war department, on the
10Th, that ON the first call for troops,
embracing $4,000 men, only the nation
al guard would have an opportunity to
volunteer for service in war.
THE volunteer army bill was passed
by the house, on the Goth, without divi-
sion.
A SOLDIER named Wheeler, of Co. K,
Sixth cavalry, .. S. A, en- route from
Fort Riley, kaS., to st. Louis, fell from
a Missouri Pacific train at KnobnoSter,
No., on the Goth, and was killed.
THE Spanish minister and his suite
left Washington, on the Goth, the for
mer having demanded and very
promptly been handed his passports.
AT 11:24 a. M, on the Goth, the presi-
dent affixed his signature to the joint
resolution of congress requiring Spain
to evacuate the island of Cuba.
HERBERT w. Bowen, American con-
sul-general at Barcelona, left that city,
on the 21st, transferring his papers to
the British consulate.
SPANISH senators and deputies de-
clared, on the Goth, that the American
demands must be rejected and war
credits voted.
AT meeting of the Spanish cabinet t
on the 21st, Prime Minister Sagasta
said that the period of the armistice
declared in Cuba had been virtually
terminated by the rupture of diplo-
matte relations with the United States.