Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-27

ADv1CEs, which come through diplo-
matte channels, represent the situation
in Madrid to be grave. The Spanish
government has been obliged to resort
to the same precautions that BIancO
has employed in Havana to restrain
manifestations of popular dissatiafac-
ton.
The seven transportation companies
which control nearly alb the business
to Alaska have agreed to raise the pas
| senger rate to Skaguay and Dyea $40
per head and freight from $40 to Sl3
per ton.
CAPTAIN-GENERAL BLANCo of Cuba
wants to disarm the volunteers, as with
| that body armed autonomy in Cuba is
not possible, and the attempt to dis
arm them is likely to precipitate re-
volt.
THE fate of the territories now press
ing for statehood already has been
practically settled. Unless the uneX-
pected happens. there will be no terri
torial legislation by congress at this
session.
CHARLES E. EVERETT, chairman of
the republican county central commit
| tee at Fort Wayne, Ind, was arrested
at his home, on the 2Uth, on the charge
of embezzlement, Editor E. w. Miner,
of the Garret Qnd.) Herald, republic
can paper, charging him with appro-
priating $50 sent to him with which tic
take up q note.
The Central underground railway of
London. England, has placed with the
General Electric Co., of Schenectady,
N V, an order for 81 electric loco
motives.
The directors of the Pullman Palaca
Car Co., on the goth, declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of two per cent,
payable February Is.
GOLD was quoted at Buenos Ayres
on the Goth, at 1880.
THERE is a glut in the labor market
at Juneau, Dyea and Sl1aguay, with
the result that wages are falling and
many men are now eating up their
supplies and earning nothing.
NJ. ERNEST Balm, the inventor of
the roller steamer, died in Paris Oh the
21st.
In the case of Chris. Merry, the Chi
cago peddler, charged with wife-mur-
der. the jury returned verdict, on the
21st, finding him guilty. Smith, his
alleged accomplish. was found not
guilty, but was Immediately. rearrest-
ed on a bench warrant charging him
with being an accessory after :he fact.
The jury was out all night.
Gov. MOUNT has advised the officials
of Lake county, Ind, to stop at once
the building of the gambling amphi-
theater at Roby, where it is proposed
to reopen the Indiana Monte Carlo.
Gov. Mount will call out the militia if
necessary to drive the horde of Chicago
gamblers from Indiana soil.
Miss CHARLOTTE CRANE, the actress
whom the ladies of Charleston, S. c.,
snubbed, was the heroine of d swell
ball and dinner at Hot Springs, Ark,
on the night of the 2Ist, attended by
the cream of Hot Springs society, in
Guiding the army officers stationed
there and their wives.
Miss MARY DOUTHAT, n well-known
society girl of Richmond, Va, who en-
tered the class for trained nurses at the
Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore,
Nd, Is months ago, has abandoned her
studies rather than attend a leper, as
directed by the university authorities.
MAYOR MCKIssoN of Cleveland, c., is
taking steps to contest the seat of SEN
ator Hanna in the United States GEN.
ate. Mayor Mckisson will rely large
ly on the testimony adduced at the in
vestigation of the bribery charges.
Mrs. WILLIAM MCGILLIvRAY, of To-
ronto. Ont, who is over 80 years old.
has given birth to d baby girl. Her
husband, to whom she was married
seven years ago, is rs. Mrs. McGil-
livray has been married twice, and this
is her twenty-second child.
AT Spanish headquarters in Havana
persistent rumors were in circulation,
on the 2Ist, to the effect that Gen.
Calixto Garcia, the famous insurgent
leader, was killed in recent engage.
ment with the Spanish troops.
WILLIAM WALLACE, 81 years of age.
and Mrs. George Seaman, who is past
go, and snowy haired, have eloped from
Bellaire, O., and have gone west to
grow up with the country.