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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
A BRUTE RUN DOWN.

A Peddler's Outrageous Treatment Of .
Woman that Will Certainly Land Him
in the Penitentiarv for Long Term.
NEWARK. N. j.. Oct 26.-Thursday night
q peddler obtained lodging at the house
of Isaiah Marsh. a shoemaker living at
Milburn, six miles from Newark. He
paid for his lodging and breakfast yes =
terday morning and left saying that he
might return and stop there again last
night. Mr.. Marsh went to his work,
leaving the house in charge of his house.
keeper, Jane Strowbridge. Abont noon
the peddler returned, paid for and ate
dinner, and then demanded that the
woman give him whatever money was
in the house. On her refusal, he beat
and knocked her down, took the keys
from her pocket opened trunk and OBJ
tanned twenty-seven dollars. He then
forcibly outraged the woman, who was
helpless from fright and the beating she
had received. The peddler then de-
parted.
A neighbor who called soon afterward
gave the alarm, and Marsh, who was no.
titled, started with a team and overlook
the peddler on the road near Short Hills.
He nearly kicked the scoundrel to death
before some passers. by interfered. The
peddler was taken to q police station in
Newark and locked up. He was recog-
nized by the police as John Mcclure,
Newark rough, who has served terms in
the State prison. The woman whom he
assaulted is in a critical condition, and
the physician attending her doubts that
she can recover.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
THE WHEAT GROWERS
Proceedings Of the Convention Of
Wheat-Growers In st. Louis.
A Permanent Organization Effected with
Ex-Secretary of Agriculture Norman
j. Colman Presidential Series OF
Resolutions Adopted.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. A.-The Wheat Growers
National convention, under the patronage of
the Farmers Federation, assembled at Gen.
trail Turner Hall yesterday, Walter n. Allen,
president of the Farmers Federation, call
ing the convention to order, j. P. Limeburn-
er acting as secretary. About ninety dele
gates were present, representing seventeen
States and Territories, and a number of dele
gates were expected to arrive last night,
swelling the number to quite two hundred.
Secretary Limeburner read the call for the
convention, after which Mr.. Allen proceeded
to address the convention at considerable
length. He thanked the delegates for their
hearty response to the call for the conven-
tion-''the first meeting of this kind ever held
on this continent''-and said: eve can take
no action here, nor elsewhere, that would i'm
prove our condition as an agricultural class,
that would not tend to the improvement of
every other Industrial class.
Earning is the basis of civilization.
good price for the products of the farm
means good times, the revival of business,
more employment for labor and better pay,
the Improvement of railroad property, less
failures and the liquidation of mortgages.
1--WE are not here for the purpose of de-
nouncing trusts and combines, but to meet
the issue of new systems and conditions in
trades He that hath the power to fix the
price on the product of another's labor Is the
master, and he who submits is his slave.
Liverpool is the master. Situated as we are,
/ 900 miles from the seaboard and 5000 miles
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Fat Jobs.

The positions at the command OF the
internal revenue collector for the st.
Louis district and the salaries attached
are as follows: Chief clerk at g., 600 per
annum; two deputies at 81, 500 each; two
deputies at 81 900 each; one deputy col
lector at $500; one deputy collector at
81, 400; one deputy collector at S1,Soo;
one deputy collector at $1,000; one dep
uty collector at 5000; four division city
deputies at 81, $50: four country division
deputies at 81, 100 each, with an allow
ance of $3.50 travelling expenses; two
country division deputies at $1,000, with
5000 for travelling expenses; one porter
at 5000; one stenographer at $500; one
stamp deputy at 5000; one stamp deputy
at $500; ten store-keepers at 81 per day;
twelve gaugers, with maximum earn
ings of S. per day; twelve country
gaugers, earning from 50 to So per day;
one country fruit-brandy gauger at So
per day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE marriage of the Duke of Sparta
to the Princess Sophie of Germany was
solemnized at Athens, on the 9th, in
the presence of magnificent assem-
blagc of royalty and citizens of scarcely
less note.
THREE Arabs have been executed at
Uwapa for the murder of Mr.. Nelson,
an officer of the German East Africa
Company.
THE launching of the new steel
cruiser San Francisco was successfully
accomplished, ON the Goth, from the
Union Iron Works at San Francisco.
GEORGE A. HALsEY, of Newark, N. j.,
has declined the appointment rendered
him by the President to the vacancy in
the Cherokee Commission caused by the
death of General Hartranft.
In speech at Chester, England, on
the Goth, Mr.. Gladstone said the system
of government in America combined
that love of freedom and respect for the
law, which formed the surest elements
of national greatness. The revolution
airy statesmen of America, he declared,
were the greatest of any epoch.
THE position of the French in NADIA
gascar has again become critical, and
the Hovas are preparing to repudiate
the French protectorate.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made in
Washington for public reception to
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American National Red Cross, on the
evening of the I'd, in honor of her re-
turn from her labors at Johnstown, Pa.
In his forthcoming annual report
Postmaster-Gpnera1 Wanamaker will
recommend that post-offices be estab-
lished on the principal steamers that
Div between the United States and Eu-
rope, similar to the postal service on
railway trains. This would greatly IA
cilitate the delivery of mail matter on
both sides the Atlantic.
THE Russian press, in commenting
upon the steady increase in the eff
aciency of Germany's arms, urges the
St. Petersburg Government to add large
lv to the strength of the Russian ar
tiIlery stationed along the German
frontier.
CAPTAIN WIssMANN's forces in Zanz1-
bar have overtaken and defeated Bushrl
and his followers, killing and woundlng
upward of 800 of them. The loss to the
Germans was sven killed.
The Berlin National Zeitung declares
that Turkey occupies solid position In
the European concert and enjoys the
protection guaranteed by the treaty OF
Berlin. If Emperor William had not
: visited the Sultan the omission to do so
would have admitted of the worst inter
probation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

mer is everywhere. and the bountiful gifts of q
generous people Astounding in sympathy and
love are falling in the open palms, as IL in de-
hance OF the winter which awaits them. The
people are no long scattered and ST.
lent, but banded together into one
grand union for benevolent action and protec-
tion.in an organization which will We, Challenge
the respect OF all observers. Grateful to all
the world for help.in its hour Of terrible need,
Johnstown is once more equal to its own sup
port. A true. grateful, resolute people, full OF
kindly spirit and heipfulness, to be known with
pleasure and profit and left with tenderness
and regret. These are the sentiments with
which the Red Cross takes its leave; glad OF
every need it has met, every hour 1t has labored,
every gift it has made and every God Bless
YOU that has fallen from trembling lips upon
its listening ears.
(Signed.1 CLARA BARTON
President American National Red Cross
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
Has a Big Railway Scheme.

At recent meeting of the Duluth
(Minn.) Chamber of Commerce, says
dispatch from that city, a communi-
cation was presented from l.. L.
Hunt, a capitalist of Springfield, Mo-,
asking cooperation in the formation of
the Salina Pass & Duluth railway, in
which he has heavy money backing.
The road would run from Salina Pass,
on the Gulf of Mexico, to Duluth,
through New Orleans, Hot Springs,
Springfield, Sedalia, Des Moines, st.
Paul and Minneapolis. The projectors
think such road would become the
outlet for Central and South American
trade.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
The Check Wouldn't Pass.

The st. Louis police are looking for a
well-dressed young man, giving the
name of c. A. Post, and claiming to hail
from Chicago. 1t is charged that he
passed bogus check for $50 on the pro-
prietor of the Belvedere Hotel. Post
came to the hotel and secured the best
two rooms in the place, stating that he
expected his wife from Chicago. He re-
manned at the hotel for a few days and
in payment of $25 bill rendered a $50
check, which was taken, he receiving
SIS in money. When the check was pre-
scented for payment it was found to be
bogus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
Medical Men at RolIa.

The Rolla District Medical Society
held it's thirty-second semi-annual ses-
sion in that city recently. Among the
features was banquet at the Grant
House. There was larger attendance
than has been known for years. Inter-
esting papers were read by Drs. McIn-
tyre and Dickinson, of ST. Louis; DR..
Coffey, of Steelville; DIR. Carpenter, of
Rolla, and others.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
Pool Alley to Blame.

Oscar Kleemier, eighteen years old,
who until recently was employed as the
delivery clerk and collector for the Sic
gel Gas Fixture Company of st. Louis,
was arrested few days ago on charge
of embezzling about $500 in money from
his employer, besides stealing hang
ing-lamp valued at S12. Kleemier adj
mits having taken about $500 of the
missing money and also the lamp. Pool
alley and wanting to be an ''all round
sporting man" are said to be the cause
of the young mans downfall.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

A tragedy was averted at Platte City
recently by a looking-glass. A. F. John
ston, the owner of livery stable, and
wife have rooms at Mrs. Ida Bakers
boarding house. Mrs. Johnston has for
some time been jealous of the kindness
shown her husband by Mrs. Baker, and
in fit of jealousy was in the act of
shooting him while his back was turned,
and he was only saved by seeing her re-
Election in the looking-glass. He prompt
ly disarmed her. In a letter written
just before the attempted murder to the
Platte County Argus, and left on the
floor of her room, Mrs. Johnston says:
''Mrs. Baker caused all the trouble"
Mrs. Johnston's maiden name was Mollie
George, and her home was at Gum City.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
They Would Clear cronin'. Memerv.

They Would Clear CrOntn's Mom0rv.
CHICAGO, Oct. ga number OF tho
friends OF the late DR.. Cronin propose to
clear his memory of any possible
aspersion by getting from Charles
Stewart Parneu and Sir Charles Russell
q definite and categorical statement that
Cronin's name was not one OF the four
handed in by the spy LeCaron as his
confederates in betraying tho Irish
movement in this country. Letters have
been already written to the other eide
up On this subject but so far no express
sion has been received. aud some ot DIR.
Cronin's friends propose hereafter 60 Put
the matter In such shape that an Auswsr
and statement must be produced
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

the Red Cross TO It only
o memory. To-day We
prepare to leave them.
the faces are bright and
cheerful. Some hope
springs in every heart.
Business is brisk; work
plentiful. The merry
shout OF the school chill
dren is on the streets,
and the evening bells.
toll the hour Of prayer.
The aaund nf tho ham,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
TO LOSE THEIR HOMES.

Settlers at Fort Pierre, 8. D.. Will Hav
to vacate tho Lands on which They
Have Squattod as No Title Can Accrue
to Them-Intense Excitement Prevails.
PIERRE, 8. D., Oct. 25.-Intense excite
ment prevails at Fort Pierre, across tho
river from this place, caused by the re-
ceipt Of private advices from officials
of the Interior Department stating
that the people there have no
recognizable right to the lands
whereon they are settled, and that tho
land where the town is situated belongs
to the Government and will be opened
for settlement in the same manner as the
rest Of the reservation land; provided,
however, that the Northwestern rail.
way does not accept the mile square
on the conditions heretofore agreed
to between the company and tho
Government. The advices also add that
the company Is certain to take the land,
as it has recently signified it's intention
of SO doing, and that the land it wants In
exactly that on which the Fort Pierre
settlers are located. The information
clearly states that in either case the
settlers will bes compelled to vacate the
reservation entirely and come across
the river after the President issues his
proclamation, and before it takes ef-
feet; and the military authorities have
been notified to prepare to compel the
settlers to vacate at any time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
singular Suspicion Against q Post-Oe.
fee Clerk.

FARGO, N. D.. Oct. 26.-Harry Milton,
the night clerk in the post Office, is either
playing deep laid game or Is the vic-
tim of bold burglars. Thursday mid.
night he claims that being awakened by
q noise, he investigated with revolver in
hand; was confronted by q man who shot
at him four times at close range ono
shot taking effect in his arm. Tho man
jumped through q window, five bullets
from Harry's pistol going after him.
There is growing belief that Harry
himself Is the real rogue. and that no
wounded himself to create sympathy. .
Post Office Inspector s. P. Childs IL here
investigating.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
1t Didn't Pan Out.

A few days since Chief-of-Police Speers
of Kansas City received an anonymous
letter, dated st. Joseph, purporting to
locate some stolen diamonds. The let
ter said the diamonds were in box in
Harlem, across the Missouri from Kan
sas City. Detectives visited the place,
but only found a hole where box might
have been.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
Went Through His Pockets.

Patrick Calvin was robbed of s., 01s in
q saloon in st. Joseph. by two confidence
men. They showed him up into a corner
and picked his rockets.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

COUNT DILLON, the French exile, who
had just been expelled from Lorraine by
the German police, arrived in Brussels
on the 25th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

fenced on the 21st, at Aachen, for SNUG
Cling corn into Germany. Their opera
lions during the past year aggregated
hundreds of tons of grain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
Died from Her Injuries.

Mrs. Mary Hall, an old lady, was run
over and crushed under the wheels of
Cable & Western car in st. Louis few
evenings ago, and died from the injuries
received. The gripman of the car was
arrested, but was released, the coroner's
jury holding him blameless.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

St. Louis will soon be Illuminated by
electric light. The entire city is polled
already and men are at work putting up
lamp supports. The lamps which will
be used weigh about eighty pounds and
will be strung on poles Numerically
opposite each other.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

An old lady, born under the admins
tration of President Washington, who
is now ninety-three years of age, has
just fled an application for pension as
the widow of a soldier of 1912.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

THE daughter of the Italian Prime
Minister, Crispi, has been bethrothed to
the Duke of Comano.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

GERMANY has proclaimed a protector
ate over the East coast of Africa from
Witoo to Kismaya, conditioned upon the
consent of the chiefs there to be given.
The rights of all foreigners are reserved
under the proclamation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

OK the 23d Mayor Grant of New York
City issued an appeal to the citizens of
that city for subscriptions to the Worlds
Fair fund, declaring that every days
delay endangered the success of the
project, and pointing out the advantages
to accrue to the city from the EXPOSE
fjOn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

MUNICH, Bavaria, has a slack the
Ripper" mystery quite as profound as
that of Whitechapel, London. Two
girls were found in that city, on the
morning of the 21st, with their bodies
mutilated in manner to lead to the
suspicion that the London fiend had
started on his travels.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
FAREWELL 70 JoHNsTows.

Letter OF Clara Barton, President NJ the
American National Red Cross, to che
People of Johnstown, PA Noble
Work that Has Been Nobly Done.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct 26.-Clara Bar !.
ton left JohnstOwn yesterday, and be /.
fore leaving sent the following letter to
the Times:
YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Oct %
The last preparations are making ana Johns
town with us will soon be among the past and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

THE New York Cotton Exchange
voted recently on a proposition to re-
peal the present system of inspection
and classification of cotton. The result
was 119 for the repeal and 100 against
it. On the 22d the board of managers
decided that the system now in use pre-
vail for the present
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
A Narrow Escape.

Lizzie Krill, a young lady residing at
Cheltenham, a ST. Louis suburb, met
with narrow escape a few days ago.
She was driving across a railroad in a
milk-wagon, when a locomotive struck
the wagon, demolishing it and injuring
the horse to such an extent that it was
found necessary to kill the animal.
Miss Krill was thrown high in the air,
and fell into ravine at the side of the
track. She was badly bruised about the
right side and head, and had to be car
ried to her home. Her injuries, while
painful, are not considered dangerous.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

SIR EDWARD WATKINS, who is at the
head of the company organized to erect
a structure in London which shall out
Eiffel Eiffel himself, has issued a circu-
lar offering $50 guineas for designs for a
tower 1850 feet in height.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

NJ. TRANTwEILER, chief engineer of
the Brunig railway, has applied for
concession from the Swiss. Government
for an underground railway up the jung
frau mountain. 1t is proposed to reach
the summit of the mountain by means
of tubular tunnel
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

In a speech at Cincinnati, on the 25th,
Senator Sherman said that the next
Congress will undoubtedly institute
some action tending toward the union
of North, Central and South America
into solid phalanx of republics, COM
mercially and politically.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

THE man Cole, the first of the prison
ers tried at Marysboro, Irel and, for the
killing of Inspector Martin, was, on the
ed, found by the jury guilty of man
slaughter. Father McFadden and the
others accused will probably receive the
same verdict.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

THE Brooklyns won the fourth game
in the worlds championship series from
the New York base ball team, on the
Esd, by score of 10 to Z, in six innings,
the game being called on account of
darkness, thus scoring three out of four
games played up to that date.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

In his great speech at Southport, on
the 23d, Hon. William E. Gladstone was
greeted by house crowded almost to
suffocation. He spoke of the struggle
for home rule in Ireland as being as de-
serving as the late strike of the London
dock laborers of public sympathy and
support.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

PENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM is en-
titled to a pension as a wounded soldier
of the late war. but has never filed an
application. While his case would no
doubt receive careful attention at pres
ent from the pension officials, he has no
idea of trying to get place on the pen
sion list.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

THE Oxford Copper Company obtained
an attachment in the Supreme Court of
New York City, on the Esd, against the
property in that State of the Paris So
ciete Des Metaux, which organized the
late corner in copper, on claim for
$3.50, 600 for non-fulfillment of contract.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
The Drought Broken.

The long drought in various portions
of the State has been broken. Farmers
have been greatly retarded in fall work
almost everywhere, and fall pastures
were bare, in many instances stock suf-
fering for want of water.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

ADvIcEs from Apia, Samoa, report:the
occurrence of battle on the Island of
Savoii between the forces of Malietoa
and Tamasese. A thousand men are said
to have been engaged, but it is not
known which party was victorious.
Several are said to have been killed and
q large number wounded.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
A Big Option.

The ST. Louis Merchants Exchange
has obtained an option on the entire
stock of the Planters House property in
that city, amounting to S35O,O0O. It is
proposed to change the location of the
exchange.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31

DURING the trial of Father McFadden
in Maryboro, Ireland. on the ed, vio-
lent alteration between the crown at
torney and the counsel for the defense
took place, which threatened to result
in general fight. After the excite
ment was over, the Judge imposed heavy
fines upon three of the principal Of
tenders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-10-31
A Jute Bagging Fire.

The Southern Mills Bagging Com
pany's factory in ST. Louis was dam
aged $4,000 by fire at an early hour a
few mornings ago. The company gave
employment to $50 people, $50 of whom
were girls. The concern is member of
the Jute Bagging Trust, and was run
ming full handed.