Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN explosion occurred, on the ED, at
the works of the United States Smoke
less Powder Co., near San Rafael, Cal.
c. A. jerks, one of the head employees,
and a laborer named Jensen were
killed.
SENATOR HALE, of Maine, is reported
as saying on the ed: The country is
on the verge of war. l fear nothing
can prevent hostilities.
IT was reported in Key West, Fla,
on the ed, that the officers of the
Maine in Havana had been ordered
home.
THE General Transatlantic Co. S mail
steamer Vile de Rome was wrecked
off Port Mahon, Balearic islands, in the
Mediterranean, on the 22d.
THE supreme court of Montana has
handed down a decision affirming the
sentence of John P Bloor, convicted of
secreting and thus defeating the pas
sage of what was known as the county
salary reduction DILL, while he was sec
rotary of the state senate.
THE activity at the Charlestown
(Mass.) navy yard continues. Orders
were issued, on the ed, for the employ
ment of AZ men in the engineering de-
partment, on the gunboat MachiaS, in
making necessary repairs.
SECRETARY LONG has determined to
bring into service the eight old single
turreted monitors used during the war.
and since lying at League Island navy
yard, Philadelphia.
On the 23d Capt. Sigsbee was ordered
to hold himself in readiness for sea
duty. The other officers of the Maine
who had not already left Havana were
ordered home.
On the 23d the bureau of ordnance
awarded contracts for supplying about
1000 cast iron projectiles for seacoast
Notifications. AS rapidly as COM
pleted they will be shipped to the
various places at which they are need
ed. Two Virginia companies were
given the contracts.
COMMANDANT FoRsYTHE, at Key West,
has received orders from Washington
to refuse to give out any information
| regarding the movements of the fleet.
The order is very emphatic and does
not mince words regarding reporters.
The selection of the battleship Iowa
for the commander-in-chief's flagship
is regarded as significant, in view of Ad-
miral Sicard's probable retirement.
The president, it was said, would
take two days for the consideration of
the report of the Maine court of in
quiry, and send it to congress prompt
| " at noon on the 2sth with a short
message, at the came time having a
copy of it cabled to Minister Woodford
| to present to the Spanish government.
THE incessant rains of late have
caused disastrous floods throughout
Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
West Virginia and Kentucky, accom-
panied by loss of life through accidents
caused by washouts and weakened
bridges. Railroad traffic suffered Ge-
verely.
THE cold wave which recently swept
| in from the west did much damage to
fruit trees and early vegetation in all
the states which it has traversed. The
injury was increased by the fact that
the preceding warm had caused the
trees to blossom freely.
| 1t was announced in Madrid, on the
cath, that the Bank of Spain would
lend the Spanish government 100000
900 pesetas, (S3s, GOO, 900, guaranteed by
the new treasury bonds.
Miss CLARA BARTON, head of the Red
Cross society, Gunner Morgan of the
Maine, and four divers, with an uniden-
titled body from the Inflated Maine,
arrived at Key West, Fla, on board the
steamer Olivette from Havana on the
23d. Miss Barton went through to
/ Tampa.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY issued an or
der, on the 23d, placing ten vessels of
the revenue marine service under t he
control of the navy department and,
when properly armed, they will be at
tached to the feet at Key West.
| WHILE returning home from market,
on the cath, Samuel Hagey and wife,
living north of New Hagerstown, o.,
were drowned while crossing the Nc
| Guire creek.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 24th, showed:
Available cash balance, 1924, ZIG, 922;
gold reserve, Sill, s67,761
| A DISPATCH from Erie, Pa, on the
cath, said the crew of the lake gunboat
Michigan had been ordered to the sea-
| board
JOHN S. HOPKINS, cashier of the Peo-
Piles national bank of Philadelphia,
died suddenly, on the oath, of heart dis
ease.
The house committee on coinage,
weights and measures has decided to
! report bill for an assay Office on the
Pacific coast, to be located ut Seattle,
Wash.