Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-02


United States government by John
Jacob Astor, when hostilities broke
out, has been accepted. Lieut.. C.
March, of the Fifth United States ar
tillery, has been detailed to command
the battery.
THE state department was notified,
on the 27th, by British Consul Gollen,
at Havana, that the exchange of pris-
oners had been effected, and the Maple,
with Charles Thran and Hayden Jones,
theAmerican correspondents, on board,
had sailed for Key West.
THE steamer China arrived at San
Francisco, on the eth, from Hong
Kong, via Yokohama and Honolulu.
The China left Hong Kong on April 80,
and therefore did not bring mail ad-
vices of the battle of Manila.
WHILE miners were working in the
Red Ash vein of the Kaska William
colliery, about ten miles east of Potts
vile, Pa, on the 26th, a large body of
water was struck and six men were
drowned.
FAILURES during the week ended
May 81 were, for the United States,
245, against PA for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 21, against % last year.
News from Calcutta says that the
plague is causing great alarm there.
At Hong Kong, however, it is stated
that there has been great decrease in
the number of fresh plague cases.
w. F. BOWEN, of Butte, Mont, while
on the departure of the troops for San
II -, Al, ell l. l,n
military train and was killed.
THE rainy season is beginning in
Cuba, and the fleet of war ships and
newspaper dispatch boats have already
experienced bad weather, with fire.
quent violent rain storms.
AT. Bracebridge. Ont, the trial of
VIM. J. Hammond, young druggist,
for the murder of his wife, Kate Ham
moud, on March 6, 1896, ended in a ver-
dict of guilty. Hammond was sem
fenced to be hanged on September Is.
The Bethlehem pa iron company
has made and shipped to Watervliet
arsenal, New York, the largest cannon
forging ever turned out in America.
1t is the first one of the 1G-inch group
ordered for Sandy Hook.
THE priests and nuns at Manila have
been removed from the latter place to
Laguna.
WORK at the Mare Island navy yard
is being pushed. Money for the repair
of the coal sheds is now available, and
the supply now coming in will be rap
idly stored.
The senate, on the 2sth, voted to lay
on the table the finance committee
amendment to the war revenue bill,
placing tax on corporations-41 to %.
AN American named Stickley, who
has been in Mexico City, Mex, in the
land business, has been arrested on the
charge of having stolen $4,000 when
agent, in Ohio, of the Adams Express
Co.
THE United States marshal has I'M
der arrest and in the federal jail at
Guthrie, Okla, Kinder FL. largo, a
young Seminole Indian, who has con-
fessed to numbering Mrs. Laird, for
whose death young Sampson and Geisy
were burned to death by white mob
last January.
DURING a dense fog, off Fire island,
on the evening of the 28th, the United
States cruiser Columbia was run into
and hole stove in her hull. The Fos-
cola sank almost Immediately, but the
Columbia succeeded in rescuing all of
her crew.
GEN. ERAsTUs NEWTON BATES. prom
inently identified with the civic and
military history of the states of Illinois
and Minnesota, died at Minneapolis,
Mimi. on the Goth, aged 20 years. He
was one of the trainers of the charter
of Minnesota and it's first senator.
THE car barn and 100 winter cars
stored therein, of the Consolidated Rail-
way Co. OF Baltimore, Md, were burned
on the evening of the Goth, entailing a
loss of $3.50, 900. The barn was located
at Irvington.1
THE number of troops assigned to
Gen. Merritts command has been in
creased by 5000 This means that co.
900 men are to be taken to Manila as
fast as the transports can be procured
to carry them.