Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-05-26


the Goth, destroyed the Dow Smell Gro
almost drowned out the Toledo Bla6 {
Office. The total loss will amor1At to
$500, 600; insurance, $500, 900.
INFORMATION has reached the state
department that German gunners have
been assigned to the Spanish fleet fit
ting out at Cadiz.
ADVICEs received by steamer tell of
a very critical state of affairs in the
Samoan islands, where another native
war is believed to be inevitable. The
rebels are hosting their flag in de-
fance of Malietoa's government.
THE calcutura has broken out among
the Spanish troops in Cuba. owing to
bad food and improper hygienic bar
rack arrangements, and it has been
more fatal than the yellow fever. AT
some points, notably Cardenas and
Jovellanos, the mortality has been &c
per cent. of those attacked.
THE Spanish troops in Cuba ha We re-
ceived no pay for many months and are
on half rations, and some of them have
mutinied recently, with the result that
a number of officers have been placed
under arrest and some of the privates
tried by drumhead court martial and
shot.
Two soldiers of a New Jersey volun-
teer regiment were arrested in Wash
ington, on the Goth, for having defaced
the beautiful bronze doors, erected at
cost of $4,000, on the east side of SEN
ate wing of the capitol, by scratching
their names in the bronze and other
wise defacing the work.
FAILURES during the week ended
May 20 were, for the United States,
$50, against 248 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 20, against 81 last year.
AN attempt was made by the Indian
apolis and Kansas City teams to play
ball, on the 22d, at indianapolis, Ind.
After two innings had been played all
the members of both teams and the
umpire were arrested. The idea was
to make a test case of the Sunday law.
The game was not advertised, but, in
stead, band concert.
THE statement of the associated banks
of New York city for the week ended
on the 21st showed the following
changes: Surplus reserve, increase,
$3,7lS, OPS; loans, increase, $7,S57 800;
specie, increase, SIS, 963, 500; legal ten
ders, increase, 81, 1921, 500; deposits, in.
crease, IA, 267, 800; circulation, increase,
$51 200.
THE centenary of the Irish rebellion
of 1898 was celebrated in Sydney, n. S.
w, on the ED. The remains OF
Michael Dwyer, who died in 1925, and
the remains of his wife were taken up
and reburied in ST. Marks cathedral.
The funeral cortege, which was miles
in length, was witnessed by thou
sands.
AT Alamada, Cal, on the ed, during
an alteration with her husband, from
whom she was separated, Mrs. Gregory,
a medical specialist, shot and killed j.
III. Williams, who was present. 1t is
supposed the bullet was intended for
Gregory, but the wOman's aim was bad.
THE One Hundred and Fifty-ninth
regiment of Indiana volunteers left
Camp Mount, on the 22d, in four Sec
tions for the rendezvous at Camp Dunn,
FallsChurch, Va, commanded by Col.
Barnett. This was the last regimenttc
leave Camp Mount.
THE old Single-turret monitor Jason,
which had been undergoing repairs
and reftting at League Island navy
yard, left for New York, on the 22d, in
tow of the tug Pioneer.
The great influx of gold into Eng
land has brought down the discount
rates. Over 96.25O, 900 has been received
at the bank of England since the mid.
die of April.
On the ED the associated banks of
New York city held $50, 253,115 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
THE funeral of Mr. Gladstone will
take place on the 2Sth.
FOUR men were crushed to death, on
the 21st, by the cave-in at Hartshell &
Swartzs hematite ore mines near
Marsville, Pa.
EDWARD BELLAMY, author and hui
manitarian, died, on the 22d, at his
home in Chicopee Falls, Mass, in the
forty-ffth year of his age.