Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-20

THE greatest enthusiasm and activ-
ity prevails at Shor ncliffe, England,
from which camp the Third hussars
have been ordered to proceed. Large
drafts from other British regiments
are also preparing for foreign service.
MATTERS reached crisis in Havana,
on the 18th, in the form of a popular
outbreak. The mob was divided, som@
shouting down with Americans" and
Death to the enemies of SpainF while
another contingent demanded annexa-
tion to the United States and cheered
for Mckinley and Lee. A strong cor
don of troops was placed around the
URited States consulate.
The largest feet of war ships ever
assembled under the American nag
will be within six hours easy steam
ing of Cuba by February Ler very sooo
thereafter.
A FOUR hundred Thousand dollar
contract for mining machinery was
awarded to Fraser, Chalmers & Co.,
of Chicago, on the 18th, by Capt.
Thomas Main, of the Alaska Tread
we'll group of mines, calling for $40
When these $50 stamps are in opera
ton the Alaska Treadweu Co. will
have $50 stamps, the largest number on
a single ledge in the world.
The forthcoming annual report of
the New York chamber o; commerce
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1897,
will show the total value OF foreign
exports in 1867, was $3.50, PTS, 419, of
which $3.50, Gas, Oil was entered at the
port of New York. The total value of
domestic exports was 81, ri, 701, 94S, of
which amount New York is credited
with S4G7 ,624, $50.
AN official dispatch from Batavia.
Java, announces that the capital OF
Amboyna, one of the Moiuccas islands,
had been completely demolished by
an earth quake. Fiftys persons were
killed and 2aO injured.
THE chairman of the organizing
committee of the Cuban-American
league made public, or the 18th, let
ter from Hannis Taylor, former United
States minister to Spain, in which he
urges the formation, in every city of
the United States, of CubanAmerican
leagues, whose primary purpose
should be to arouse public opinion to
demand the instant passage of the SEN
ate's belligerency resolution now pend
ing in the house of repreSen tatives.
The supervisors of Queens county,
New York, went at the hotel bill of
the Thorn jurors on the the 18th, with
an ak The items of $3.50. Is for wine;
S23S. 40 for cigars and S52. so for bill
lizards were stricken out, and the net
C,,,,, Of he hi was ra6naaH from 30
O49 to 1904.
Up to the 14th 80 bodies had been
taken from the ruins of buildings
wrecked by the tornado in Fort Smith,
Ark, and almost 100 persons were suf-
eriEg from injuries. A conservative
estimate placed the property loss at
$780, 600.
Mrs. MARY CowDEN CLARKE, author
of The Complete Concordance to
Shakespeare" died at Genoa, on the
18th.
CIVIL ENGINEER MENoCAL, who is
with the canal commission in Mica
ragua, has been ordered home to eX-
plain, if he can, the shortcomings of
his work on the New York dry dock,
under pain of court-martial.
a CONCURRENT resolution was intro
dueed in the New York assembly on
the Hath, proposing a woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
Rev. C. Ii. DoDsoN, whose nom de
plume is Lewis Carroll the author of
Alice in Wonderland" died in Lon
don on the 14th.
ONE of the new coun terfeit 500 sill Z.
YER certificates was handed in at thu
New York sub-treasury, on the 14th,
from a New York bank which had re-
ceived it from savings bank in Brook
lyn- The note was handled by three
tellcrs before its spuriousness was de-
tected.
MRS HARRIET SKATER, wife of Brig
Gen. Nm. r. Shafter, commanding the
department of California, died at her
home at Fort Mason, Cal, on the 14th,
after a short illness. She was stricken
by paralysis, and never recovered con-
seriousness.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 18th, took
out 600, 900 ounces of silver.