Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-04-21

| THE senate committee on foreign re-
| lations, in its report on the presidents
Cuban message, says: 1T is the opin.
| ion of your committee that the destruc.
ton of the Maine was comprised either
| by the official act of the Spanish au.
| thorities or was made possible by a
negligence on their part so willing and
gross as to be equivalent in culpabillty
| to positive criminal action
| A SEMI-oFFICIAL note was issued al
Rome, on the 18th, which states that
the powers have now considered direct
action in the Spanish-American diff
culties out of the question, and should
war break out, strict neutrality will be
observed by them
AMONG the stories afioat is one to the
effect that the order which will be sig
| nailed to Commodore Schley's flying
squadron when it goes into action, will
be the significant words: Remember
the Maine"
THE queen regent of Spain, on the
14th, signed the national subscription
decree to increase the navy.
THE fruit steamer Barnstable, from
Cienfuegos, Cuba, reached Boston, on
the 18th, having on board United States
Consul McGarr. Mr.. McGarr said ali
was quiet when he left Cienfgos.
HENRY H. PIERCE, secretary of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts, for 16
years, died at his home in Arlington on
the 18th.
THE Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and
Almirante Oquendo it now trBnspires
sailed from Porto Rico, on the 9th,
with secret instructions.
THE Madrid newspapers regard war
as inevitable.
THE president has decided in the case
of hostilities with Spain to offer to
Consul-GeneraI Lee the command of
the Virginia volunteers. This decision
was reached after Mr.. Mckinley had
held conference with Secretary Alger
and other military men.
THE Spanish cabinet has decided to
protest to the powers against the
charges made by the United States
senate in reference to the Maine dis
aster. The charges have aroused the
Spanish people to the highest pitch of
excitement.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE, in declining, on
the 14th, the honor OF a public recep-
ton at Washington, said: ''Look here.
boys, haven't done thing that either
one of you or any American citizen
would not have done, and l don't see
why there should be any fuss made
about it.
ANDREW AIKEN, a prominent pioneer
of Kansas, and once register of the
land Office at Topeka, died at Omaha,
Neb., on the 18th, aged IS. Mr.. Aiken
was very prominent in the early pc.
h1ctry,,, Of ~
the anti-slavery leaders.
AS INDICATED in the Madrid Heraldc
Spain is figuring on yellow fever being
an important factor of the Cuban sit
uation. 1t says: I'VE have 100000
troops on the island, perfectly acclima.
tized, and any Americans who are
landed there will die like flies"
GEN. MILES says in the event of the
passage of the resolution reported by
the senate foreign relations commit
tee, the president would have authori-
ty to call into the service of the gov
eminent militia to the number of about
10000 600 men.
THE rules of practice of the patent
Office have been changed SO that when
an appeal is taken the primary exam
liner shall furnish the board of exam
liners with the grounds for his decision
within five days, instead of Is days, as
heretofore.
On the 18th Congressman Charles
Curtis was renominated from the first
Kansas district on the 73Oth ballot.
THE British colonial authorities at
Kingston, Jamaica, received instruc.
tons, on the 18th, from their home
government to declare coal contraband
in the event of war.
VIM. j. BARRY, the comedian, died at
his home in Brooklyn, on the 18th,
aged 4S years. He had been i'll of
complication of stomach and liver trou
BILE for some time.
GEN. SKATER has received orders
from the secretary of war to send SOC
tents from the quartermaster's stores
in San Francisco to st. Louis.
MR. GLADSTONE was reported, on the
18th, as holding his ground and suffer-
ing less.