Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-21
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NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
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good health.
Andrew Carnegie has donated ST.
O00, 900 for the construction of library
buildings in ST. Louis. This contem-
plates the construction of one mod
ern fire-proof central library building,
to cost $500, 900, and buildings in diff
ferent sections of the city to be used
is auxiliary libraries-probably ten of
them-to cost 100000.
Gen. Trias and the members of his
staff surrendered, on the 18th, at
Santa Cruz de Malabon, Luzon, and
took the oath of allegiance to the
United States. His troops are march
ing to San Francisco de Malabon.
where they will formally surrender
to Lieut.. Reeves, an aide of Gen.
Bates.
Prisoners who have lately been re-
leased by Gen. De Wet say they think
he is a mailman. They ave that the
terrible fatigues he has undergone,
his anXieties and the intensity of mis-
feelings have unhinged his mind.
The British and Russians are dis
putting owe the limits of railway
property in the Russian concession,
at Tien Tsin, and the guards of the
two nations are in close proximity to
each other. The British have been
strongly reinforced and trouble is i'm
minent.
With four munificent donations
100000 each from John d. Rockefel-
Ter and j.. P%ierpont Morgan ana two
anonymous contributions making up
another $1,000 OO, the Young Mems
Christian association of New York
will be able to pay all the debts of
fv of its branches and be in a posi-
ton to further extend it's work.
Andrew Carnegie has signifed his
intention to give at least $3.50, 0OO. COO
for the erection of buildings and the
permanent endowment of the pro-
posed technical school in Pittsburgh.
Pa. 1t is his intention to make II the
finest institution of the kind in the
world.
Mary Paige, the young girl who, it
is alleged, was drugged and mistrcat-
ed by George F. Abbott, Jr., David
Patterson and Henry Gleason, in
Chapel alley, Brooklyn, has developed
symptoms of pneumonia, and her
young assailants may have to face the
charge of murder.
Lieut.-Col. Arthur Hamilton Lee.
who was British military attache with
the United States amy during the
Spanish-American war, is quoted as
saying, in the British house of COM
mons fhnf 4Ha N-,-
point of physique and intelligence,
are superior to any other troops in
the world.
Montpelier CO., citizens, on the
morning of the 18th, saw a mirage of
a cluster of buildings, trees, streets,
etc., which was easily recognized as
the village of Edon, eight miles dis
tant, on the line of the Wabash rail-
road, perfectly pictured out.
Lieut.-Gen. and Mrs. Miles and their
son, Sherman Miles; artermaster
Heneral and Mrs. Ludington, Col. Ii.
IL. Whitney, artillery corps, aid-de-
camp to Gen. Miles; Col. Albert
Pope. of Boston; Mr.. Frank Wiborg.
OF Cincinnati. and Gen. Miles secre-
tary and orderly, left Washington for
Cuba, on the 14th, on an inspection
tour.
Count Boni de CastelIane slapped NJ.
Fernand de Rodays, editor of Figaro,
in Paris, on the 14th. for stating that
he on. de Castellane) had betrayed
the De Roulede plot on the occasion
of the funeral of the late President
Faure, February IS, 1889. A duel was
the outcome.
A rich strike Of gold has been made
20 miles from Tombstone, Ariz.,
which has caused a stampede of min
ers and ~prospectors. Rich freaks
running $4,000 to the ton have been
found.
Col. VIM. Cary Sanger, of New York,
was appointed assistant secretary of
war on the 18th. His commission
was promptly. made cut, w%hereupon
Col. Sanger took the oath of office
and entered upon his duties.
Gov. Wells of Utah, on the 14th, in
a message to the state senate, vetoed
the Evans bill, designed, under cover
to rehabilitate the pOlygamous rela-
ton in Mormon families. Gov. Wells
said the measure was unwise, and
would preciPitate an avalanche of
righteous wrath.
President Mckinley, on the 14th, is
sued a proclamation extolling the vir-
tues OF the late Benjamin Harrison,
and ordering hat the flags on every
public building in the United States,
at every army post in the United
States, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines and on every Ameri-
can warship in whatever water of the
globe be placed at half-mast for a pc
Rod of 80 days.
The official list of foreigners who
have been made members of the
French Legion of Honor contains the
names of Secretary of the Navy long,
of the United States; James Deering,
of Chicago; Mr.. Humphreys, an artist,
and Mr.. PUG, an engineer.
A dispatch to the Central News
(London) from Durham says that
Gen. Delarey, after Gen. Methuen de-
fCated him at Hartebeestfontein, had
five prisoners shot. Two of them
were British and three were Dutch,
men, who had taken the oath of neu,
trality. They had been previously ar,
rested at Klarkadorp for refusing tc
fight against the British.
The president has approved tn.
sentence of the court-martial in tn.
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