Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-02-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the 4th, Mr.. Alien
(Neb.l offered a resolution constituting
| the treaty of peace as holding the
Philippine islands and Porto Rico as
occupying the same relation to the
United States, as a result of the war,
as that occupied by Cuba, and gave
notice that he would address the senate
upon it on the 9th. The open session
was devoted to the further discussion
of the Paris treaty. At 2:15 p. m. the
senate went into executive session, and
at 5:25 adjourned. In the house the
military academy appropriation bill,
| carrying $600,S17, was taken up.
Dispatches received in Washington,
on the 5th, contained the startling an
nouncement that Aguinaldo had made
| an attack in force upon the American
lines at Manila. Later dispatches as
serted that the fighting was kept up
at intervals all night, and renewed
| vigorously on the morning of the 9th.
The insurgents were driven back at
| all points, and Gen. Otis reported that
| he was master of the situation. Dur
ing the engagement Admiral Dewey
| effcctually bombarded the intrench-
ments of the insurgents.
Col. James A. Sexton, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
| lie and a member of the war investi-
eating commission, died, on the 5th,
at Garfield hospital, in Washington,
from complications resulting primarily
| from an attack of the grip. His re-
| mains were taken to Chicago for inter
ment.
Besides his, soldiers, Gen. Otis has
at his back in Manila bay, command
| ing the city, a veritable rock of Glib
raltar in Dewey's fleet. With those ves-
sells he now has and those about to
join him, Dewey will have 81 ships OF
various types, nine of them full-fedged
war ships
At a meeting of the Anti-Dreyfus
| League of Patriots, in the Alhambra
hall, in Marseilles, on the 5th, hos
tile demonstration on the part of some
| Dreyfusites led to serious fighting in
the streets, and a number of people
were injured. Many arrests were
made.
John NJ. Comstock, for 20 years
chief of the customs division in the
treasury department and one of the
most valued tariff experts in the serv-
ice of the department, died, on the 5th,
after an illness of several weeks.
Alice Anterior, the burlesque ac-
tress, died in New York city, on the
4th, after a weeks illness, OF pneu-
monia.
In the senate, on the 9th, in eXecu-
tive session, the Paris treaty of peace
with Spain was ratified by vote of 81
to 81, and great excitement and en-
thusiasm on the part of the majority.
After the doors were opened the Nc
Emery resolutions were taken up.
In the house, it being suspension day,
quite a number of bills were passed,
some of them important. Among
others the census bill was passed by a
vote of lat to AZ.
The mail facilities between Cuba
and the United States are to be still
further increased. In addition to the
five sailings a week from Port Tampa,
Fla, to Havana a steamship will leave
Port Tampa, on the 21st, with mail for
Havana, San Juan, Ponce, Port An
tonic and Santiago.
Madagascar, on the night of the 4th,
the district of Mejanga, on Bembatoka
bay, on the west coast, suffering Sc
verely. The new government build
ings there collapsed, and there were
other large property losses. No loss
of life is reported.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter, returned from
Cuba, called on the president, on the
9th, and reported that affairs general
ly on the island were in satisfactory
condition. Gen. Gomez was satisfied
with the proposition to pay his troops
So ,O00, 900 and would aid in its distri-
button.
Owing to the serious illness of DIR.
Losado, the remainder of the Philip
pine junta will be compelled to re-
main in Washington city some time
longer. Messrs. Ralston and Siddons.
counsel for the Philippine junta, have
withdrawn their services.
Chicago & Grand Trunk passenger
train No. /, west-bound, plunged full
speed into passenger train No. 6, east
bound, while the latter was standing
at the station at INLAY City, Mich, on
the 9th. Three persons were killed and
several injured.
Maj. Henry o. Heistand, of the adj
jutant general department, has been
detailed as military sattache of the
United States commissioners to the
Paris exposition. He is expected to
leave Washington about the first of
June for Paris.
The Nebraska state board of agri-
culture has begun to receive reports
touching the stock losses in that state
as a result OF the late severe weather.
The indications are that much loss has
been sustained by both cattle and
sheep owners.