The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-05-18
A Story That is Calculated to
Startle Some of His
Followers.
Deserving His Wife for a Pros
titute, and That, Too, i'm
His Own Home.
Me Was Arrested at the Instance
of His Sen for Assaulting
His Mother.
And This is the Man Who Is
Wholly Responsible for til,
Great Strike.

AsOcpOASfptS AOh tA'
Great Strike.
The BAzoo again pays its kinIest
Regards te Martin Irons this morning,
and it is Rot necessary that the " noble
order" should be called upon for an
assessment, for there is no expense
whatever attached to the publication.
Mr. Irons. it is claimed by some, is to
ne Mr.. Powderlv's competitor, at an
election to be held this fall, for the Of
ice of grand master workman of the
Knights of Labor. Mr.. Irons is a
citizen of Sedalia, and as the BAzoo is
interested in every resident of the
CITY, 1t feels in duty bound to rel'der
sIak particular individual all the as
sistance within its power in the lace
in which it is alleged he is about to
enter. There are many abroad who
do not appreciate the great COM
mander of the Knights on the south
vest system, and, In fact, know very
little about his past history. As the
BAzeo's facilities for obtaining in
formation of this character are re-
rnarkabiy good, the readers of CHS
paper can rest assured that nothing
uiM he overlooked. The BAzoo 10 at
present working up case in which
che developments promise to be start
aing, but in the meantime presents the
s1IlowIhg from the last issue of Che
&c. Louis Sunday Sayings:
REFLECTS ON IRONS.
some days ago the Sunday Sayings
received information rejecting very
seriously upon Martin Irons, master
workman Of district assembly No. 1O1,
K. of L., at whose dictum the great
STRIKE on the Gould system, resulting
IN the going out of workmen, was in-
xzgurated. At first blush it seemed
lnpossible that the charge could be
time; the idea seemed absurd that
nnan who had been guilty of such dis
rsxard of the moral and civil laws
eeuld possibly have been entrusted
w1fA such extraordinary powers as are
pSAced in the hands of those holding
high Offices in the great labor organ
frxtion. In brief, the allegations were
to the effect that Irons had been guilty
<af the crime of bigamy in contracting
a common law marriage with woman
while previous wife was still in the
land Of the living that he had ben
grossly cruel husband to both his
wyes, and, that although married
mxu, he had on several occasions been
<seescted in most serious and unrar-
dsuaSi. ;.nrhoralities
Of course such charges could not
saeaccepted with out proof, and, with a
lew TO either establishment or reiec-
szn, the Sayings sent Its emissaries TO
g. exiagton, Mo-, Richmond, Mo-, and
ssdalia, Mo-, where they met with
nd interviewed first number of
prominent citizens, and second, tn,
STILL SURVIVING FIRST WIFE
oS the famous agitator. The report
xhlch the correspondent made on his
retrrn to ST.. Louis: is given below,
and it may be stated that, while the
fsxts that it contains are startling,
sssaersl are omitted of much more
sensational nature, the correspondent,
tsssggh believing them also to be true,
ns9 being able in the brief time at his
Disposal to verify them so thoroughly
an TO warrant their publication.
The first place the correspondent
visited was Lexington, Mo-, where he
Ead an interview with [. b. Berne,
whe is brother:in-law of Martin
Hons, as follows: i.
81 have known Martin Irons for
6Erty-fve years but have not seen
Rsm for sixteen years or more. L
uurked with him at Richmond, Mo-,
xuE at St. Louis. He learned the
trade of a quadrant maker; and what
Re knows in other trades was picked
uz- L never thought he was finished
workman." sD
@11s there any truth in the allegation
faess Mrs. Irons and her children
Anye Martin from home ?"