Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-05-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 10th the comptroller of the
currency issued cal! for reports on
the condition 70 national banks at the
close of business on May 5.
The president, on the 10th, told those
of his friends who have persistently
urged delay, frankly and plainly that
the administration had, after much
consideration, reached the conclusion
that the ends of the campaign could be
best subserved by immediate and vigor-
Gus action, and that there would be no
more waiting.
| ACCORDING to a provision of the
United States revised statutes the pay
| of private soldiers in time of war is in
creased from $13 to SIS a month, and
| that of non-commisSioned officers in
| the same ratio.
! THE engagement of Mrs. Pauline
Aubrey, daughter of Chief Justice
| Fuller, and Mr.. Jessup Blair, a we'll
known society man of Washington, is
announced. Since her divorce from
Aubrey, with whom she eloped several
| years ago, she and her daughters have
made their home with her parents in
| Washington.
| BRIG.-GEN. JOHN L. RODGERS, senior
! officer of the artillery branch of the
army was, on the 18th, appointed chief
of artillery of the army and placed in
| charge of all the coast defenSeS. Until
recently he was in command of the
| Fifth artillery, stationed at Governors
Island, New York.
| In an attempt to arrest Joseph Ben
nett, on the 18th, Chief of Police Cum
ningham of Indiana, Pa. was shot and
| killed. Bennett was intoxicated, and
was riding a bicycle and firing his re-
| volver at every one he met.
THE house of representatives, by
vote of 1874 to IL, on the 18th, passed
resolution to submit constitu tional
amendment to the states providing for
the election of senators by popular
| vote.
SONORA MARION, wife of the chief of
police at Ponae, Porto Rico, has been
cast into prison because she was sus-
pected of sympathy with the insurgents
and the Cubans. Two hundred other
patriots have been arrested, and eXecu- =
tions are of daily occurrence in San
Juan.
THE president, on the 18th, noni-
mated, and the senate promptly con-
firmed, Commodore George Dewey as
rear-admiral. The president also
signed the resolutions passed by the
senate and house extending the thanks
of congress to Commodore Dewey, his
officers and men.
THERE was an engagement off Car
| denas, near Matanzas, Cuba, on the
18th, the Wilmington, Winslow and
Hudson taking part. Ensign Bagley, of
the Winslow, and four of the crew were
killed and several others wounded. The
Hudson took the bodies of the dead to
Key West. Capt. Bernadow of the
Winslow is among the wounded.
The official announcement in Madrid
that Spain is preparing to send big
feet of 10, 900 troops to the Philippines
is looked upon with suspicion in Wash
lngton, but it has made the authorities
more anxious than before to reinforce
Admiral Dewey.
o. Fl. P. BELMONT and Charles w.
Moore, of New York, who offered the
government swift dynamite gun boat,
saw the president. on the 18th, to an
nounce that the navy department had
declined to accept their offer. The
president was sorry that the offer could
not be accepted, but expressed his
thanks.
MAJ.-GEN. WESLEY MERRITT will &C
company the military expedition to the
Philippines, and will be military gov
ernor of the islands. The appointment
is considered a highly honorable one,
and was made on the urgent recon-
mendatIon of Secretary Alger.
MORE than a million bushels of grain
in Armour's I'D" elevator, in Chicago,
was destroyed by fire, on the 18th,
together with the immense structure
| containing it. The flames also spread
throughout portion of the vast lum-
Der district around Twenty-second and
Morgan streets, the whole entailing a
loss estimated at nearly 81, 100000.
On the 18th Maj.-Gen. Wheeler was
ordered from Chattanooga to Tampa,
Fla, to command the cavalry about to
leave for Cuba.
GERMANY has intimated to the
United States, it is said in London,
that she expects to have voice in the
disposition of the Philippine islands
THERE are, it is alleged, only two
Spanish war vessels now left in Asiatic
waters, and one of these is in dry dock
at Hong Kong, while the cruiser Bos-
ton is searching for the other, under
orders to engage and sink it.
THE British war ship Linnet, which
arrived at Hong Kong, on the 18th,
from Manila, reported the whole coun-
try in state of anarchy, and Admiral
Dewey powerless to restore order.
The United States steamship Mo-
hican, which left Honolulu April 20,
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th.
THERE is much uneasiness in Ma
drid on account of failure of the bread
supply in all the bakeries.
SENIOR SAGAsTA, the Spanish pre-
mier, is experiencing unexpected diff
Guilty in forming new cabinet.