Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The general ground plans and per.
spective views Of tine buildings of the
Louisiana Purchase Centennial expo
sition have been furnished the press
! for publication. They are the designs
of the most celebrated architects of
the country, and their setting, or
grouping, among the forest trees in
the Forest park Worlds fair site
makes a picture so ~stupendons and
dazzlingly beautiful in every detail as
to fairly startle the creators of the
work themselves.
A comparative statement issued, on
the 27th, by the division of insulaI
affairs of the war department., shows
that the total receipts from customs
sources in Cuba for the first nine
months of 1901 were $11, 5s4,837; for
the same period of 1900, $11,82S,74
and for 1898, SO, 1877, 4O7.
The japanese treasury announced
on the 27th, the issue of bonds to the
mount of 16,5OO,00O yen. Of this sum
100000 yen will be devoted to the
redemption CT other bonds, while the
remainder will be utilized in defray.
ing the cost of the Chinese eXpedi-
ton.
The forty-third anniversary of the
birth of President Roosevelt occurred
en- the 27th. 1t being Sunday, there
was no formal celebration, and the
day was spent very quietly. The
president attended religious services
at Grace Reformed church as usual.
On the 27th the constabulary re-
ported a fight with insurgents near
Passi, province of Iloilo, island of
Panay, in which 25 insurgents were
killed and three captured, together
with a quantity Of arms and ammuni-
ton.
Tobin Hanson, a Dane, IS years of
age, surrendered to a Montreal po-
fceman, or the 27th, saying: 81
killed a boy for money, and only got
so cents. That is not enough, so l
came to give myself up"
It is estimated that the general
buildings on the Louisiana Purchase
Worlds fair grounds will cost $S.0OO.-
600 in their erection, while 81, 900, 900
more will be expended upon the
grounds themselves.
ANU bIILS ~ d uISpdCCh 1TOn NIdu1-
vostok, the Russian general Grodekoff,
accompanied by the Russian assistant
minister of finance, M. Romaneff, will
soon open the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
railway.
Several Beers caught wearing khaki
uniforms, have been court-martialed
and shot as spies.
John Segrist, center rush of the
Ohio state university football team.
died, on the 2Sth, from injuries re-
ceived at Columbus, o., in the game
with the Western Reserves. He was
caught during a mass play, and his
body so twisted that his spine was
fractured. He was paralyzed from the
shoulders down from the time of the
accident.
While an undertaken was preparing
to lift upon a cooling board the sup
posed dead body of Mrs. Julia Bullock,
of New Albany, Ind, on the 2Sth, Mrs.
Bullock revived. She had been pro-
nounced dead by a physician, and had
lain for several hours with no ap-
parent signs of life.
A serious conflict took place, on the
2Sth, between soldiers belonging to
the garrison of Fort Waehlen, near
Malines, Belgium, and neighboring
peasants. The latter, armed with
spades and pitchforks, repulsed the
soldiers, killing three and wounding
q number CT them.
The captain of the British schooner
Attractor, from Grand Cayman, West
Indies, reports the finding of consider
able gold on a reef in Colombian wa
tiers. The gold bears date of 1871, and
resembles Mexican coin. 1t is thought
it went down with a vessel wrecked
years ago.
The navy department has under
consideration h taking over of the
naval reserves of the various states.
They will be under the jurisdiction of
the United States and will be paid
while ON duty az the rates which pre-
vail in the regular navy
A dispatch from Berlin, on the 2sth.
said: The German press is discuss
ing in lively fashion the following ut
terance attributed to Emperor Will
lam: If no commercial treaties are
negotiated L shall smash everything
to pieces"
y cable dispatch announcing the
election of President Castro, of Vene-
zuela, who has been provisional pres
ident for one year, was received, on
the 2sth, at the Venezuelan consulate
in New York city.
A ten-inch rifle of the segmental
wire type, weighing about twenty-sev-
en- tons burst while it was being
tested, on the 2sth, at the Sandy Hook
proving grounds. Nobody was hurt.
The board of trustees of Burlington
tIa.) institute, college founded there
in 1851, voted, on the 2Sth, to close
the institution permanently on ac-
1 count of lack of funds