Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-04-20
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the United States transport Badger.
| Admiral Schley received his commits
sion as rear-admiral on the 14th. The
commissions of the other officers re-
Gently appointed to the grade of rear
admiral were also forwarded to them.
| Mrs. Il. Benton Letter, OF Chicago.
| las anruUnced her intention 1T going
en- the stage. She will. make Etr debut
at Auditorium Recital hall on tn, 2Oth.
| Mrs. Letter is the wife of sir. Benton
Letter, the nephew, and for 2n years
the private secretar,y of Levi z. Letter.
| While advancing toward Paetor An
contenia, on the 14th, Maj.-Gen. Weis-
enborgen's sharpshooters ran upon a
nest of rebels in some thick bushes,
which afforded splendid cover. Five
men of the North Dakota regiment
were killed and two were wounded.
| United States Commissioner Nuc-
kolz, at Kansas City. Mo-, on the 18th,
decided that Santiago Morply, chan ged
with embezzling $4,000 from the Ma
! tional Bank of the City of Mexico,
should be turned over to the Mexican
| officials who came after him.
The sixth annual convention Of tine
| Ohio branch of the international or
der of Kings Daughters met at New.
ark, on the 18th, for three days ses-
sion. Some preliminary business was
! transacted and a musicale and recep-
ton was held at night.
! A small-sized tornado that started
| in the southwestern suburbs of Otta-
wa. Kas, on the 14th, passed through
the residence portion of that city.
Many small buildings and feSces were
| blown down and seyral residences par
tally unroofed.
! \ dispatch from Manila, on the 18th.
said: Gen. Lawton is marching north
along the road between the hills and
The lake, with the gunboats Napidan
and Laguna de Bay abreast of his
troops. The enemy is retreating north
| warG."
| The first appropriation made for a
building by any state for the Ohio Cen
terniaI was made by the Michigan leg
isle ture on the 18th. One hundred thou
So nd dollars was allowed, and the bill
vas sent to the governo:.
| Aguinaldo has been deposed, and
| Gen. Luna is now in command of the
Filipino forces.
| l: is announced on official authority
that the Russian government. in the
hope of relieving the appalling suffer
| ing resulting from the famine now
raging in more than 81 provinces of
the empire, has decided to temporarily
! forbid the export of grain.
Gen. Polavieja, Spanish minister CT
1 instructed Cen RinS Ia
| Spsnish commander in the Philippines,
to evacuate the archipelago immeli-
ately, now that the ratificatiOns of the
treaty of peace have been exchanged.
Hon. Ella Williamson, daughter of
Lord Ashton, was married in London,
on the 18th, to Hon. William w. r..
| Peel, eldest son of Viscount Peel. The
| bride received as a present from her
father an annual allowance of 6 10000,
which is the largest marriage settle
ment on record in England.
| Poison was administered % the ac-
tress, Cora Tanner, through box of
| bonbons and a bouquet left at her no.
| tel, III Omaha, Neb., by supposed adj
mirer, on the night of the 18th. The
police are unable to throw any light
Oh the mystery. Only the most per-
| severing efforts saved her life.
When the North German Lloyd
steamer Lain arrived at New York,
on the 18th, from Bremen and
| Southampton, with GO cabin and 2S3
Storage passengers, the ships surgeon
reported ten cases of smallpox on
beard, three of the sick being infants
in arms.
The original rolls of the Cuban
army were delivered to Governor Cen
eral Brooke at Havana, on the 18th,
| by Senior Domingo Mendez Capote,
vice-president of the recently dissolved
military assembly, and long prominent
in Cuban affairs, who volunteered to
| obtain them from the special executive
committee that survived the assembly.
Tammany's Jeffersonian dinner,
| commemorative of the one hundred
and fifty-siXth anniversary of the birth
of the founder of democracy, costing
| so a plate, with wine included, was
| held in the Metropolitan opera house,
| New York city, on the night of the
| 18th, without any of the threats of
the anonymous frebug being put in
| operation.
| The Boston museum, the oldest play
! house in the city. was badly damaged
| by fire on the 18th. The loss to the
museum is estimated at about $50, 900,
while several firms that occupy stores
| on the ground floor sustained damage
by water.
| The sensational poisoning mystery
at Hastings, Neb., wherein Mrs. F. c.
Morey and several other prominent
! women came near meeting death by
| eating candy containing arsenic,
reached it's elimination in the issue,
on the night of the 18th, of a warrant
for the arrest of Miss Allie Hahlock-
er, a stenographer in the law Office of
Mr.. Morey, husband of the woman to
| whom the candy was sent.
Secretary Alger has put a quietus on
| the persistent reports that he con-
| teriplated retirement from the cabi-
net, by a positive and unequivocal
| statement that such reports were ao-
solntely without foundation.
While a rotary snowplow was clear
| ing the Great Northern track near
| Madison, Wash. it was struck by an
| avalanche and dashed a thousand feet
| down n canyon. There were seven
regular crew. All were dug out of
the snow but one. Four men were in
jured, three probably fatally.
Maj.-Gen- Lawton, on the 14th, turn
ed score of captured Filip;nos loose,
each with a bundle of the proclama-
tionS of the Philippine commission to