Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE $500, 900, 900 which the secretary
of the treasury asks the people to lend
to the government is a popular loan in
the strictest sense of that term. The
fact that the denominations of the
bonds run as low as $50 brings them
within the reach of the great majority
of persons. Anybody who has $40 to
spare can buy one of these bonds with
but very little trouble and with no cost
to himself.
BY a vote of 2O9 to 81 the house of
representatives, on the 18th, adopted
the Newlands resolution providing for
the annexation of Hawaii.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY has conferred
the degree of LID. upon Admiral
Dewey.
The landing of Gen. Skaters Fifth
army corps on Cuban soil is the most
interesting event the military world
has known for d long time. 1t is many
a year since one convoy has carried SO
many men, horses, heavy and field ar
tillery at the same time. Not since the
Crimean war has such a feat been at
tempted.
THREE attachments of marines, rein
forced by Cuban allies, attacked the
Spaniards in the vicinity of Guanta-
namo. on the 14th, completely routing
them. The Spanish loss is estimated
at about 100 killed and 200 wounded.
A large number of Mauser rifles, 10000
rounds of ammunition and complete
heliograph outfit were captured, and
water station destroyed. The Amer
nr1lv- had fHS-n or h1.na Slinht-
ly wounded, and the Cubans lost two
men killed and a half dozen wounded.
PASSENGER train No. 5, est-bound,
and No. 6, east-bound, on the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, collided
on a siding near Conroy, Col, on the
10th. Several persons were slightly
injured.
The second Manila expedition sailed
from San Francisco, on the 18th, on
board the Senator, Colon, Zealandia
and China, all under command of Maj
Gen. Greene. The troops were given
fine send-of by the San Franciscans.
They numbered 3, 300 men.
NEAR Wetumpka, Ala, on the night
of the 14th, the house of VIM. Gurden
was burned, and he, with his wife and
William Curley, all white, were Gre
mated. Gurden had the reputation of
keeping a hoard of gold, and there is
little doubt that the three persons were
murdered and the house set on fire.
The Spanish lieutenant captured in
the fight of the 14th, near Guantanamo,
admits that the two American sentries
killed on the 18th were assassinated by
Spaniards who stole up on them. The
assassins are said to have been killed
in the battle of the 14th.
The Spanish government has author
lied Gen. Blanco to entertain proposals
for an exchange of Lieut.. Hobson and
other prisoners taken when the Amer
lean collier Merrimac was sunk off the
entrance to the harbor of Santiago de
Cuba.
GEN. GOMEZ reports that many Span
ish soldiers are deserving their army
and joining the Cuban forces, on &C
count of the fact that they have re-
ceived no pay for a long time, and have
no prospects of getting any in the near
future.
JAMES JOHNSON, the negro soldier on
trial for the murder of Jacob Collins at
Lakeland, Fla, has been convicted of
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment
SIXTEEN HUNDRED members of the
Chicago WoOdworkers' union, en-
pIoyed in sash, door and blind fac
tories, struck, on the 10th, for higher
wages and shorter hours.
LATE official dispatches to the marine
hospital service showed there had been
no fresh developments in the yellow
fever situation in the south.
The story of the mutilation of the
dead bodies of our marines at Guam
tanamo is denied.
GRAF CAssINI, ambassador of Russia
to the United States, reached New
York city, on the 10th, on the North
German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Frede-
rich, from Bremen.
IN the Bow Street police court in
London, on the 10th, John Todd, who
shot Count Arco-Valley, the first secre-
tary of the German embassy, while the
latter was emerging from the embassy
in that city, was remanded until
the 22d.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has declined
the invitation of the Chattanooga
CTenn.) chamber of commerce to review
the army dl NdlhP AhOh0h" On u.S r.
He SAYS that he can not leave Washing
ton even for so short period of time.
4 WELL KNOWN Washington banking
house, on the 10th. made proposition
to the secretary of the treasury to sub
scribe for 500, 900, 900 of the new bonds
at IO1. Under the law the bonds must
be sold Rspar and allotted to the sub
scribe~s iur the smaller amounts first,
hence the offer could not be enter
tanned.
Four THOUSAND additional troops
will leave Mobile as soon as transpor-
tation can be provided. and proceed di-
rectly to Santiago de Cuba to reinforce
the American army under Maj.-icn.
Shafter.