Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-09-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Music at the Louisiana Purchase ex.
position will be on a grander scale
than ever before attempted in the his
tory of expositions. Regimental
bands from the British, German,
French, Austrian, Italian and, possi-
bly,, the Turkish armies will flood the
exposition with melody, if present
ideas can be made to bea fruit. The
most famous ~orchestras of the world,
it is expected, will play the harmonies
of the masters in the classic temple
which is to be dedicated to the Muse
of Music.
The Republican City (Neb.) bank
safe was blown with dynamite about
one o'clock on the morning of the
21st. The safe, a large one, was al
most completely demolished, part of
the money chest being blown through
the outer wall of the Sunbury res
taurant, rs feet distant. The robbers
took all the money and notes, and
left without a clew.
1.-THE long-expected strike-delayed
buying of Bessemer pig iron has start
ed. The United States Steel corpora
ton heads the list of buyers, and it
ONE from a reliable authority that
this concern alone is taking every
pound that it car lay its hand upon,
leaving but little for the independent
consumer"
The nationalists of the Basque
- C@.so -. H. 00l oo-A -
message to President Roosevelt, con-
graduating him upon his accession
and expressing their best wishes for
the welfare of the United States as
the defender of oppressed peoples"
An agent of the brigands who kid
mapped Miss Helen S. Stone, the
American missionary, in the district
of Djumabala, Nilayet of Salonika,
Turkey, was arrested at Baritza on
the 22d.
The international Institute of So
GEOLOGY, which consists of leading So
biologists of the world, with head
quarters at Paris, has elected United
Commissioner of Labor Carroll
d. Wright to membership.
Fire, which broke out in the Mer-
chants hotel at Madison, Mimi, ON
the 22d, destroyed the town hall and
Is business buildings, entailing a loss
estimated at $4,000.
DIR. Rixey said, on the 22d, that
the condition of Mrs. Mckinley, and
hat she was doing as well as could
be expected.
Emperor William, on the 23d, pre-
sented to the German Agricultural So
ciety a costly porcelain vase which
will be offered as a prize for the most
successful stationary engine burning
alcohol. The emperor has long cher
ished plans for increasing the indus
trial consumption of alcohol as an en-
enlargement to potato growers.
Richard Nevins, locating engineer
for the Kansas & Southern railroad,
started at Emporia, Kas., on the 23d,
with a gang of surveyors to run a di-
rect route to Omaha, Neb., for that
road. This road was projected
some time ago, and $4,000 in bonds
was voted by Emporia city and Lyon
county.
IL duhC diIu uuSlCoS VI
and York spent the day of the 22d on
the Ottawa river and in the forest lin
ing its banks, and were given a COM
plete exposition of a lumberman's life.
They shot the timber slides on RATS,
lunched in a Iumberman's shanty,
and enjoyed a days outing novel to
them.
There is terrible restitution in the
Yangtse districts" says a dispatch to
the London Times from Shanghai,
owing to the recent floods, which
have not yet subsidized. More than ten
million persons are homeless. 1t is
feared the distress will promote civil
disorder during the coming winter
1t is announced that British manu-
f~acturers have resolved to "form a
commission to defend their interests
and the interests of British commerce
in view of the entrance into the cOun-
try of the American Tobacco Co"
For this end a retailiatory measure
will be shortly announced.
City Marshal Geo. c. Welsh Of st.
Marys' Kas., was shot and perhaps ia
tally wounded, on the 23d, by Ed
mund Williams, whom he had arrest
ed for a trivial offense. y lynching
was threatened, and Williams was
put in the county Jail and a guard
placed over him.
The trial of the assassin Czolgosz
was begun at Buffalo, n. Y, on the
23d. Rapid progress was made. The
entire panel of jurors was secured and
-four important witnesses We're ex-
amined. 1t was predicted that the
trial would be very brief.
Judge Joseph W.'Ady, aged SIS years,
a prominent attorney, formerly of
Newton, Kas., died in Colorado
Springs, Col, on the 23d, of con-
sumption.