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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
A COWARDLY CRIME.
An Esttmable Citizen and Officer OF the
Peace Murdered in Cold Blood by an Hi.
nOis Desperate.

An Esttmable Citizen and Officer OF the
Peace Murdered in Cold Blood by an Hi.
nois Desperate.
WINCHESTER, ILL.,, March q.
One of the most dastardly muir
ders that ever disgraced this coun-
ty was committed in the town
of Glasgow, six miles southwest of
this city, about 4 p. m. yesterday At
that hour the citizens of that little village
were Mortified at seeing Jim Coats, one Of
their most estimable townsmen, shot dow u
and killed in cold blood by young des-
perado named Davis Wells, from Greene
County. The only cause assigned for the
killing is as follows:
Mr.. Coats is constable of the pre-.
cinct in which he resides, which embraces
the town of Glasgow. About week ago
Davis Wells, who is a young man about
twenty-five years old, and who is looked
upon as hard citizen, came up from his
home in Greene County to Glasgow and
undertook to run the town. His conduct
was very unbecoming, and Coats arrested
and incarcerated him in the calaboose.
This did not set we'll with Wells, and
since that time he has made some very
violent threats against Coats life.
To-day Wells met Coats in Glasgow and
began talking to him about the arrest
above referred to. They had not been
speaking long when Wells drew a large
revolver and shot Coats once in the left
side and then ran out of town swinging a
large revolver in either hand, since which
time he has not been seen. Coats died in
about twenty minutes after he was shot.
He was about twenty-eight years old and
one of Scott County's most estimable
citizens He was married and leaves
wife and one child. E.fEE Es.ff
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
MWAO KILLED HIMsn

An Incident of the Riley Tragedy In st..
Louis. Mo.,-Mrs. Riley still Living-Her
First knowledge OF the Suicide of Her
Husband-Recovery Doubtful.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March q.
al WIN warrant that the women
will live at least nine days
longer" said Mrs. Gantz, Mrs.
Riley's nurse this morning. 'sShe is
sleeping now. You can look in upon her,
but don't for the world disturb her."
Following the direction of the nurse the
reporter stepped to the door of the cham
her. Mrs. Riley was sleeping. Her
wasted face was toward the door and one
ihaad lay outside the coverlet. The arm
was barred. So thin and shrunken was
the hand and arm that the blue veins
seemed like swollen cords. She was
asleep, but such sleep-fitful and fever
tsh, broken by strange starts and pitiful
''Has she been conscious to-day,
uurse?"
eyes, she awakened this morning and
was quite conscious. For the first time
she asked about her husband and''-
The nurse began weeping and it was
some time before she would go on with
her story. By patient questioning it was
Drought out and was In substance this:
The patient awoke q little after nine and
asked: sWhere Is Mr.. Riley?" The
nurse, thinking she meant William Riley,
her husbands brother, replied: ssWYl.s
liam was here last evening and went
away. I will send for him il you want to
see him.
"No, no; not him. My husband, George.
tell you lam pretty weak. don'tthink
/ am going to last very long. I want to
see my husband and have himhere. Where
Is hef"
'.Don't you know where your husband
is?" The patient tried to raise her head
from the pillow. She grasped the hands
of her nurse. 50 :.
''No! No! Where is he? Tell me, have
they taken him away? Why don't he come
and see me?" m
CHE is DEAD" ~
"Who killed him?" she cried. "What
was he killed for?"
He killed himself" replied the nurse.
Mrs. Riley fell back upon the pillow in
"a faint. She recovered in a few moments,
however, but said nothing more and soon
fell into fitful sleep.
If she RECEIVERS the doctors will consid-
-er it almost a miracle, and yet her present
strength astonishes them. She may live
OnSeyeral weeks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
Our Young Folks.
QUE BOYs.

Here's to the boy who has courage to say
nc. when he's tempted, and turn straight
away
From temptation and tempter, and.do what is
Here's to the boy who is willing to work.
ana. II ne could, not q duty would shirk:
Doing his best at his work or his play
Such boys will do to depend on. say.
Here 8 to the boy who's determined to be
Man among men. If he lives you ii see,
Sooner or later he conquers the hill,
winning his way by his courage and will
Here to the boys who will dare and will do,
Truthful andttrusty, and steadfastly true;
Boys who aim high and are striving to make
Men OF themselves for q true manhood's sake.
~ IN. 7. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
Prohibition In Canada.


At a meeting in this city OF
the Ontario Branch of the Dominion Tenn
perance Alliance last evening the COM
mittee to whom was referred the subject
of the Scott act agitation, reported that
thew believed the time had arrived for con-
rerted agitation in the line of Prohibition,
and recommended that immediate action
be taken by the Alliance to secure the
massage of the Scott act in the twenty.
nine counties in Ontario. The Alliance
issues a circular in accordance with this
action, urging agitation for the suppress
sion of the liquor traffic throughout the
Dominion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
The Senate Committees Report Fore
shadOYei.

Senator Frye allows the substance of
what his Copiah County report will be
to leak out. He oracularly remarks that
the country vii! be amazed when the
truth is told, and that things down in
Mississippi are bad beyond concep ion.
Now. this is free admixture of truth
and demagogy. Why, every line of the
testimony which had any significance
has been printed and every word which
tended to justify the mission of the Sem
atorial Committee has been emphasized
with headlines, italics, and by every
method known to sensational journal
ism. How can he say, therefore, that
any surprise is in store for anybody?
There are many things in the anomalous
condition of society in the negro tates,
where horde of utterly disqualified
voters emerged at a single step from
slavery 10 the status of voting citizens,
in numbers sufficiently large to put
them in the MAORI y at the polls. which
may be distorted and misrepresente ed
by an ingenious politician to the disad-
vantage OF the people of those States.
The difficulties which be ct the white
people of several of the Southern States
have been such that fair minded men in
every part of the world see much more
to praise in their conduct than to blame.
That order has been preserved, pros
perity measurahy restored and life
and property made reasonably safe
excites the wonder of all GU ght ul
and fair men. This Copiah County in
vestigation has by vast preponderance
of testimony shown that the white peo-
pie have sought the common good of
whites and blacks and have ach eyed it
with as small an amount of injustice
and irreguarity as could be expected.
1t is a great mistake to suppose that
the white people in a commun ty where
the negroes preponderate are actuated
by any purely partisan considerations.
There is no such enthusiasm Tor either
OF tae great parties as would lead them
to assume great risks and spend much
time to cir umvent the negroes. Nor
are the offices of much value. They
ave small pay attached to them and
frequently arduous duties. What the
whites do set above everything, and
what they will continue to value above
everything, is the security of their fam
lilies, the projection of Their families,
the protection of their properly and the
maintenance OF social order. These
ends happen to be most easily secured
in the name OF and in alliance with the
Democratic party. 1t requires some
genius for government, and a much
greater amount of intelligence than the
negroes have to preserve local instuti-
tons ana good order. AS a, majority
of them are Republicans, Wien they
are defeated the Republican party is
de Gated. This is. the whole case, as
those who understand it know full well.
st. Louis Republican,.
"A resident of Glover, VT, has the
distinction of possessing the largest sole
in the State. He wears a shoe that
measures TWENTY-FIVE inches in length
and is eight inches wide. His friends
have no difficulty in keeping track OF
him. s
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
Distinctly Defined.

Tho Republican situation in regard
to the Presidential nomination is now
defined with some distinctness. It is
pretty certain that four candidates will
be presented to the convention. Presi-
dent Arthur will be named by New
York. Vermont will put Senator Ed
munds in nomination. John Sherman,
having settled his differences with ex-
Governor Foster, will be presented by
Ohio. General Logan will be named
by Illinois.
1t is probable that some names of less
prominence may be put forward at the
start, such as Gresham Or Harrison by
Indiana, for complimentary vote. But
the four candidates named viii initiate
the fight, and they will create a situa-
ton very much like that which pre-
vailed in the convention of 1880 be-
tween Grant, of Illinois, Blaine. of
Maine, and Sherman. of Ohio. 1t seems
probable that neither of the four will
be nominated, but they may hold the
was held by the triangular struggle un-
til some new candidate steps in to carry
off the prize. .re
OF the four candidates Edmun.ls has
the most character. The others are of
the Republican party has tried to make,
and with one accidental exception has
made. Presidents since its foundation.
In 1852 the embryo organization put
forward John p. Hale. In 1856, after
the death and burial of the Wing party,
Republicanism nominated and sought to
defy John G. Fremont. After Lincoln
the Republican party elected Grant,
pro-slavery Democrat, who had declared
that he would tear his epaulettes from
his shoulders if he thought the war was
waged for the abolition of slavery. Then
came Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. We
omit Lincoln, an accidental and provi-
DENTAL President. And now come as
expectant nominees Arthur, machine
politician; John Sherman, who has
been associated with every political
roguery that has been rracticed since
he entered Congress and has made him.
self millionaire; and Logan, an igno-
ramus. ss..E sr.. "f
What list of names as compared
with Washington, Adams, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, jackson, Van Buren,,
Polk, Pierce and Buchanan!
The contest will be bitter. Foster has
already given notice that Ohio will
..knifc'' Arthur if he should be the
nominee. Arthur will have to contend
against treachery in his own State. The
old enmities will again unite against
Sherman. The politicians will not have
Edmunds. Logan will be considered a
joke.
What will follow? Who will be the
Garfield of 1884?
viii it be James G. Blaine? He has
been playing a shrewd game to build
himself up quietly while hidden in the
pages of an imaginary book. He has
strength in New York and in the West
He has more popularity and more in
dividuality than any candidate named
on the Republican side. He might be
the best nominee after all. What won
der that his friends tegin to regard him
as the coming man? t.E
Does anybody discern the wiry form
of old Tecumseh Sherman in, the dis
lance? Would he accept a nomina-
tionp .~sa at.-
There is proverb in Ohio that
Sherman never declined anything-ex-
cept a loan to a friend.-A. I. World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03
Prohibition in Iowa.
DE MONIES, IA, Nj

DE MOINESy IA, MITCH %.
The House of Representatives last night
ordered engrossed bill providing most
rigid penalties for violation of the liquor
law, The fines reach as high as
81 GOO, and the words '.jail,"
"penitentiary," s'misdemeanor" and "fel-
.ony" occur with unusual frequency. 1t
will come up for final action at p. m.
to-day. There is no disposition among
Republicans to oppose the bin, and
>&he aid of several Greenbackers.
>xpected to favor it. it is liable
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03

hers that his discomfort came from act
aal neglect of his dear old mother.
But there is really no need OF writing
all this. for, of course. no fellow no"a~
days would ever neglect in any way, =.
cause sorrow to his best ana .rues'
friend ON earth. - COaqre1 GlsOnGtast.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03

-Apropos of the proposition to erect
a memorial to Dickens, correspond
ent of a London daily paper quotes a
passage from the novelist's will which
will probably prove fatal to the project:
II conjure my friends on no account
to make me the subject of any monu-
ment, memorial, or testimonial what
ever. / rest my claim to the remem-
brance of my country upon my pub
lished works."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03

Heed the old saying: Take care of
the backyard. the front win take caro-
of itself."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-04-03

"A resident of Glover, Vt, has the
distinction of possessing the largest sole
in the State. He wears shoe that
measures TWENTY-FIVE inches in length
and is eight inches wide. His friends
have no difficulty in keeping track OF
him.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-27
o

James REILLY came in from Hamilton
yesterday afternoon.
1. J. Wilson has gone with his wife and
BARNS to rusticste at J. AS Willows.
W. F. Cotton, formerly Of Eureka, ar
rived here yesterday from Salt Lake City.
Msckay can get the Nevada United States
Senatorship without endeavor and without
price.-San Francisco Report. How?
Geo. Z. Stockle has successfully passed
his examination at West Point, and is now
duly enrolled as a cadet in that academy.
Mrs. Senator Jones will remain in Wash
ington the greater portion of the Summer,
taking short trips to the many resorts neal
the city.
William Garrard writes to the Carson
Appeal that he is not q candidate for
State Senator, and adds, 81 would have TO
be very hungry for defeat before ! would
ask the nomination Of Senator from
Ormsby county"
The SENTINEL force was made happy
yesterday by the receipt of sundry bottles
OF Roderer from Hon. George W. Baker.
The cause of this generosity on the part oil
Mr.. Baker was the arrival OF o fine,
bouncing boy at his residence.
John ST. Clair, one OF the Directors OF
the Silver Lick mine, arrived from San
Francisco yesterday afternoon, and went
out to the mine at once with Supt. Powell.
He examined the ground thoroughly, and
expressed himself as well pleased with the
prospects of the property. He returns
below to-day.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-27
THE MILLS METHOD.
How the Largest Fortune Was Ac'
cumuiated I'm n West.

The report telegraphed from New York
on Sunday, giving the story OF a Herald
reporter touching the career OF Commo-
dore Garrison, the Salt Lake Tribune says,
is not in all respects correct. He was a
great friend of ". G. Ralston-Ralston
having for a long time been agent for his
steamship line; but Garrison never aided
d. o. Mills in the building of his fortune.
Mr.. Mills began making his great fortune
as a banker in Sacramento, when there was
muoh GOLD dust sold, and when bankers,
AZ a rule, did not lose money in buying IL.
And when at last the crash came 10 fais,
ton. il was not the fault of Mr.. Mills; and
if Mills failed in generosity he certainty
did not in justice to him. Very rev people
know how grandly Mills and SHARON.
especially the latter-acted in that terrible
crisis to cover up and make GOOD the losses
which the yenturesome but great-hearted
Ralston had made. And Commodore uar-
rison never used any "stinging WORDS, 70
ID. o. Mills; or, If he did, he took tnem
back when he knew the facts; and we are
quite lure that Mills has never sought re-
yenge for what was said; for he Is moi .
man who nurses revenges. he 10 simply q
cold business man. who keeps his promises
and expects all other men to do the same:
II he is vindictive, no one has ever accused
him of il in the West. His idea is that a
mans chief business in this world Is to
make money, and that to make 1t, n to
keen his business always in hand, he must
not vary from a straight line OF action;
must do what he says, when he says, and
must deal only with men who do business
in that way. The result is that while he
has about the largest fortune ever accumu.
lated in the West, he had it under perfect
control, and we do not believe there Is a
man East or West who can truthfuiiy say
he ever went back on his word or failed IN
any way to keep an agreement.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-27
iFLUE DUST.
scraps from the Notebook of the
Sentfnel's Reporter.

scraps from u Notebook of she
SentiaeI's Reporter.
Who in - is Judge Brennan of Sioux
City
The Supreme Lodge Of Colored Masons
OF California held its fourth annual session
at Stockton last Monday.
A contract has been let by the Hamburg
company to six Italians to cut 800 cords
OF wood on the Hamburg ranch.
The speiss furnace at the Eureka Con.
works has been running two days on ore.
1t will start up to-day or tomorrow on
speiss.
Look out for Morris & Levy's new ad-
vertisement in to-morrow's SENTINEL set
ting forth immense reductions in all kinds
of dry goods.
The Board Of Examiners report $685.
1853 38 in coin and vouchers in the State
Treasury, and 1927 900 in bonds in the
State School Fund.
Warden Bell went to Reno ON Saturday
to take John Roach out Of the Asylum,
and replace him in the prison. all traces Of
his insanity having disappeared.
A 3-year-old boy in Chicago has been
found to have his heart on the right in
stead Of OF the left side of his body. And
yet his heart may be in the fright place.
Messrs. Smith & Moser, at the Postofice
bookstore, are the agents for the celebrated
Key West cheroot cigars in Eureka. These
cigars are highly priced for the delicacy Of
their flavor.
The crescent moon presented q singular
appearance last night, and attracted the
attention Of many star-gazers. 1t looked
double and not unlike, as somebody said,
one slice Of musk melon inside another.
Rev. J. Lloyd Jones will deliver a lee
ture on Gilbert Haven at the M. E. Church
on Ruby Hill next Sunday evening. Mr..
Allen, the elocutionist, will read an sulogy
composed by the lecturer On the same
subject.
M. J. Franklin, in view OF his business
Interests recently acquired in San Fran
cisco, will discontinue business here. He
is going to get rid Of his Eureka stock at
once for whatever it will bring. Full par
ticulars will be given in to-morrow's
SENTINEL.
The stump speaker is now studying his
little Grafton, and will oon make the
welkin ring and the woods resound with
his vociferous eloquence. - Tuscarora
Times. The same is true of the forth
coming thunder in this locality. We lack
the woods for resonance, but we have an
abundance OF welkin.
Some dogs Of various breeds got into a
snsrl on Main street yesterday afternoon
and fell to chewing each other in a pile.
While they were at it Cavansugh's Jack, q
red-eyed bull-terrier, got among them and
selected one victim and pressed him into a
saloon, where he was going for his heart,
when he was pulled off by Gus and carried
away to q distance high in the air.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-27

TROUBLE AT BRISTOL.
The Furnace Hands on and n
Shooting Over Ii.

The arm Hands OF and u
Shooting over Ii.
In the San Francisco Examiner Of the
Gath, which arrived here yesterday morn
ing, we find the following special dispatch:
PIocHz, New, June 23.-At Bristol, on
the 21st, at 8 O'Clock in the afternoon, the
Day Company furnace hands struck for q
~half-dollsr additional daily wages, which
was So, SO so and 81. A resolution was
passed to prevent others from taking their
places except at the advance. Notice to
leave town was served on one objections
BILE person, whereupon the Sheriff and q
deputy were called from Phoebe. No
bodily harm has been inflicted yet. Supt.
Grim, the mine foreman, and one or two
others, are now engaged in drawing of
the furnace, which will be fred up again
as soon as new hands can be found.
The report of the same trouble was 60
ing about Eureka Tuesday night, but the
story was told in q different way. 1t was
understood that the furnace hands. in
stead of demanding an advance Of four bits
q day on their wages, had been cut of
to that extent. and that in consequence
they had all struck and quit work. 1t was
rumored that the gentleman in charge OF
the works during the absence Of the su-
perintendent in San Francisco, had got
into some disagreement with the men,
which resulted in his cutting down their
daily pay 90 cents each; also, that he is re-
Gently from the East, unfamiliar with such
work, and made himself obnoxious about
the works to the men who were temporarily
under his charge. The dispatch quoted
should, however, be credited, we presume,
rather than the rumored story referred to.
Last night it was reported that
the unpopular gentleman mentioned.
Mr.. Kelsey, furnace foreman, had
been fired upon on the main
street in Bristol by John Kelly, the bullets
from the pistol missing their aim. There
is evidently serious trouble in the camp, as
evidenced by this and by the presence OF
the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff, from
Phoebe, on the ground. 1t is somewhat
singular that the SENTINEL has not been
informed OF the matter accurately by tele-
gram. Those San Francisco papers with
which we are in telegraphic association are
minus the news which was sent to the
Examiner by its local reporter in Phoebe.