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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
WHALES IN PRISON.
How They Are Sometimes Captured in Ice
bergs.


bergs.
The whales that live in northern
waters in winter have often to scour
search of food
Sometimes they visit still regions at
the bottom of the deep, and if they fail
to find there cod, herring, haddocl1 or
the other fishes upon which they prey
they start for some arm of the sea or
bay where they are pretty sure of find
ing at least a meal of herring.
When gale blows very hard whales
get under the lee of some high cliff
where the water is calm, and frequently
take. shelter by the edge of some great
iceberg or piece of heavy ice foe.
Sometimes large body of ice moves
landward driving them before it, and
filling every nook along the coast.
When this happens, the whales are
unable to rise to the surface to breathe.
for northern ice-foe is so thick that a
thousand legions of men might move
upon it with safety. The creature
therefore browns in a few minutes.
These facts bear upon something
that happened on the coast of Cape
a fragment of polar ice-foe came in
sight, and the wind brought it rapidly
toward the shore. Some people watch
ing it were surprised to see in a great
hollow on the inner edge, two huge
black objects.
AS the ice drew nearer these were
made out to be whales, They were
evidently dead, for neither of them
made any movement. The ice was
wedged firmly around them, and they
lay side by side, TIE tail of one being
partly covered with ice. There was
scarcely water enough in their icy
prison to float them, and evidently not
enough for them to live in even had
they been able to get food there.
When the ice foe touched the jutting
point of headland it broke in two be-
tween the monsters, one part swinging
outward around the point and moving
seaward, the other pushing into small,
deep cove and carrying one OF the
whales along.
The fishermen launched their boats,
mounted the foe and fastened grapnels
and stout hooks into the blubber of the
whale. The carcass was frozen hard
as the ice itself and must have been in
its prison for considerable time. The
Ice remained pressed close to the shore
for several days, during which time the
fishermen were enabled to strip off the
fat with axes and sharp spades.
How were the whales thus imprisoned?
My own opinion is that in some
part of Baffin's Bay they had taken
shelter on the leeward side of an ice
foe which was probably aground.
During the storm the foe became broken
and the detached part swung round and
imprisoned them. The mass afterwards
froze together, and when the current
began to set strongly towards the south
in March, the ice and its captives drift
ed off, at last reaching the Cape BrentoI
coast Youths Companion.
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AUTHORS BLUNDERS.
Small Words Which Sometimes Trip tn
Writer.


Apart from natural objects of any
description, what an abyss OF blunders
do the eXacting rules of grammar plunge
us into! Neither and nor for in
stance. How absolutely uncomfortable
some pens find these little words, and
what tiresome trick they have of
taking upon themselves pluralizing
properties to which they have no
right! Continually we hear s'that nei-
ther Ida nor Gerald were able to speak
for some moments. Well, then, we
suppose both of them ''was" silent.
One needs to come to close quarters
with these will-o tine -wispish parts of
speech. They are almost as terrible to
deal with as these perplexing verbs to
lay and Ito lie.''
Even those authors otherwise ire
proachable frequently trip, while the
great host of minor writer's appear to
give up wrestling with them, for we get
a heroine who had laid" on the sofa
an hour: hero who 'lies' his tired
head; or another who cries out, ''let
that glove lay sir" in nearly every
book we open. AS for the past partici-
Piles and past lenses we give up noticing
their little vagaries, so constant are the
stream of characters who s. 'rung' for
their maid, and drunk the water
hastily after having sang the song"
And so forth! But one of the common
est STUN bling blocks in fiction is that
much courted and frightfully misman-
aged orb, the moon.
Considering how useful this 1uminary
is for love scenes meditations, murders,
etc. the way in which people who in
troduce it persist in ignoring its natural
movements is really most ungrateful.
Thus we are frequently confronted with
day y-old silver crescent moons high up
In the clear heavens"-when? Why as
soon as the sun has set? New moons
are continually ''rising" in the west,
while full moons get solemnly up at
midnight. More than once they have
preferred to do this in the north, but,
in for one eccentricity, they think per-
haps they may as well be in for anoth-
er. As for waning moons, they get up
as the sun goes down and wander about
the north, south, east and west, just as
the situation requires them.
For the better control of poor SLAM
dered Luna may we suggest helping
nanu III that Sh1nlng Ighb OF every Ia
miliar book shelf-''Whittakerw An
other meteorological snare is the rain
bow. Far less frequent in fiction than
the moon, still, when it does get there,
it ought to be properly placed. What
was that lady thinking of who, having
put her heroine in church toward the
close of a showery day, made her gaze
out of the window in westerly O. apse
land behold in the heavens before her
brilliant, manyhued bow?" Very
few minutes after we hear the building
was in total darkness, at which we are
not surprised. After achieving that
phenomenal effort in the west, nature
must have wanted repose. So
ciety,
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SOCIETIES:

IRON LODGE, No. 107, /. 0. o. F.,
meets every Monday at its hall, corner Maiu
and Madison streets. HERMAN DAVIS, N.
8. j. 7. BALDWIN, Secretary.
IRoNToN ENCAMPMENT, No. 29,
o. o. r., meets on the first and third Thurs
lay evenings OF every montn IN Odo-fei-
lows, Hall, corner Main and Madison streets.
IT BALDWIN, c. P. f. DINGER, Scribe.
STAR OF THE WEST LODGE, No. 133,
A r & A. NJ, meets in Masonic Hall, corner
Main and Madison streets, on Saturday of or
preceding full moon. w. r. EDGAR, W. Nj.
w. A. FLETCHER, Secretary.
INDIAN CHAPTER, No. IL, r. A,
meets at the Masonic Hall on the first and
,hird Tuesdays of each month, at PM. w.
r.. EDGAR, M. E. FL. 2. III. b. JONES, Sec
cetary. ,-o
49, VALLEY LODGE, No. 1870,
}SENM KNIGHTS oP HONOR, meets in
ExgygIeaodd;, Fellows Hall every alternate
IN MA% w ednesday ev'gs. j. S. JORDAN,
SSS2N@ ID. A. 2. VANCE, Reporter.
EASTERN STAR LODGE, No. 81, A
E. & A. NJ. (colored), meets on the second
Saturday of each month.
IRON POST, No. a46, G. A. R.,
Efs,Ii meets the I'd and 4th Thursday
,NIsll,, Evenings of each month.
AAN j. r. HIGHLEY, P. c.
C.R. PECK, Adj't.
IRoNToN CAMP No. $50, Sons OF
Veterans. meets every 1st and Sd Saturday
evening, each month. and every Tuesday
evening for drill. IN. SCHWAB'
~ r. PEcK Capt. Commanding.
First Sergeant.
PILOT KNOB.
Pilot KNOB LoDdE, No. 253, A. o.
IT. w, meets every I'd and 4th Friday
evenings, 1880 P. NJ, upstairs In Union
Church.
PILOT KNOB LODGE, No. 156, [. 0. o.
F., meets every Tuesday evening at thell
hail. CHAs. MAsCHMEYER, Secretary.
IRON LODGE, No. 80, SoNS OF HER
MAN, meets on the second and last Sunday OF
each month. VIM. SrEFFENs, President
VAL. EFFINGER. Secretary.
IRON MOUNTAIN.
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 4o0
AT. S A. NJ, meets Saturday night on on
before the full moon. LOUIS PETIT, w. Nj
j. A. PARKER, Secretary.
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 26O, L
O. F., meets Wednesday night of each week
PAT. CAUGHLIN, n. G.
J. A. PARKER Se'y.
IRON MOUNTAIN LODGE, No. 293
A. o. u. W., meets on the first and thirC
Friday of each month.
BELLEyIEW.
Mosaic LODGE No. 35l, A. f. d A
NJ. meets on Saturday night of or after the
full moon. f. NJ. LOGAN, W. Nj. Ii. d
HILL, Secretary.
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Blaine ON the Mckinley Bill.

| it is not an uncommon experience that
| political letter writer's, having written one
letter, are compelled to write more letters
TO explain the first. Sometimes it hap
pens that the explanatory letters leave
| matters worse than before, and this ap-
pears 10 be the case with secretary
| Biaine's new letter explaining the old one
in which he criticised the Mckinley bill
because it did not open market for an
other bushel of wheat or bs rrel of pork.
This expression in letter addressed to
Senator Frye i'm July, $780, grievcd the
Mckinley school of war tariff statesmen
beyond measure but lit expressed the froz-
eli truth and they were compelled to insert
reciprocity clause in the bill. Mckinley
is candidate for Governor of Ohio and
his political opponents continue to parade
the Blaine criticism. McKinley's friends
appealed to Blaine to write another letter
and say that he is not opposed to the Nc
kinley bill. NIr. Blaine has done so aud
Mckinley doubtless wishes that Blaine
had been allowed to let his first letter go
for what it was worth. His explanation
just explains that Blains is entirely salts.
fled with thatsportion of the Mckinley
bill which.tis Blaine's-the reciprocity
clause.
1t will not require very sharp Ohio
voter who reads Blaine's second letter to
understand that the part of the Mckinley
bill which Blaine indorses with enthus,-
asm is the Blaine part and not McKinley's.
He enumerates with evident satisfaction
the benefits the country is deriving from
the Mckinley bill as whole? Not at
all. From the reciprocity clause which
has enabled him, to make treaties by
which Brazil, Cuba. Porto Rico, San
Domingo and Germany have agreed to
take American wheat and pork in ex-
change for their own produces without
the imposition of duties.
Here is the.exact form of MIR. Blaine's
present approval of the Mckinley bill:
Let me further say that the reciprocity
clause has given market for many barrels
OF flour and many pounds of pork.
The reciprocity provision is proving very
successful, especially in farm products, and
more particularly in the case of the two ar
tfcies mentioned In the paragraph quoted
four and pork.
In other words, the Mckinley bill does
not seem TO contain section or line
that opens market for Mr.. Blaine's COM
mendations except the reciprocity clause.
The Mckinley bill has done good deal
for flour and pork. Mr.. Blaine leaves the
reader TO find out what it has done for
any other industry, article or individual
ii he can.
Mckinley should write an open letter
begging his friends not to ask Mr.. Blaine
Kinley bill. ll.-Pniladelphia Times.
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Mr.. Blaine claims the removal of the
German prohibition against American
pork as triumph to1 the Blaine brand of
reciprocity. This was matter of course,
and it is almost as much matter of
course that on the wings of his brilliant
imagination he should soar away from
the facts. ''This opens to us an entire-
ly new market" he says, ''and SIS 5,0OO,-
0f'0 to $40, 900, 900 of american pork will
be consumed per annum where not
pound has been taken for ten years,
Seeing these figures, the New York
Evening Post was inqusitlve enough to
look at the commerce and navigation re-
ports to see how much pork we sold
Germany before the prohibition was i'm
posed. 1t found that the total value of
American pork, bacon and hams export
ed to Germany in 1880 was ST. ,S65, ,S5S,
and for 1881, 81, l,77S,544. So that if there
had been 10 prohibition at all "we
should not have exported to Germany in
ten years, - says the Evening Post, s'as
much as Mr.. Blaine says we shall export
in one year hereafter.
So MIR. Blaine's imagination is at its old
tricks. As matter OF fact, the future OF
our pork trade with Germany and France
is very uncertain. With a duty of over
81 on every 220 pounds In Germany. and
of So as the Senate Committee of the
French Congress proposes, the very
cheapest gaade of American .ssow-belly"
will be a luxury too costly for the aver
age family in Germany and France.
Both these countries have caught the
contagion of high Protective" tariff
taxes from the Republican party here,
and they are protesting that their farmers
cannot compete with the pauper farmers
of Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas and 9TH
er Western exporting States of this coun-
try. And when our agricultural produce
ers, attempting exchange In Europe,
find taxes averaging 55 cents on the dol
lar of their return cargoes to pay before
they can pass our custom houses, it takes
livery brilliant Imagination to conceive
of the possibility of carrying on n trade
with Europe thrt will give our sgricultur-
al exporters chance for living profits. -
Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY IRON COUNTY
COURTS:

L l.
CIRCUIT COURT is held on the
Fourth Monday in April and October.
COUNTY COURT convenes on the
First Monday Of March, June, September
and December.
PROBATE COURT is held on the First
Monday in February, May, August and No
fember.
OFFICERS:
4. w. HoLLoMAN, Presiding Judge Coun-
ty Court.
JOHN. skEMPER, County Judge, South
ern District.
J. (. Low, County Judge, Western Dis
trict.
j. s. JORDAN, Prosecuting Attorney.
Z. w. WHITwORTH, Collector.
W. A. FLETCHER, County Clerk.
Jos. HUFF, Circuit Clerk.
FRANZ DISGER, Probate Judge.
d. +. REESE, Treasurer.
w. III. FISHER, Sheriff.
S. p. REYBURN, Assessor.
G.. w. HULL, Coroner.
j. I. AXE, Public Admir-. Ironton.
4. w. HoLLOMAN, Surveyor.
a. z. VANCE, School Commissioner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
Dissolution Of Copartnership.

BELLEyIEw, Mo-, Oct. 10Th, 1891.
The copartnership heretofore existing be-
tween w. r. Read and Thomas c. Kuhnle
has this day been dissolved by mutual con-
sent. All liabilities Of said firm will be paid
by Thomas g. KuhnIe and all debts due said
firm will be collected by Thomas G. Kuhnle.
W. Il. READ.
T. c. KUHNLE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
Cheap Rates.

Tickets can be furnished from Ironton to
all points north. south, east, or west Ito
the Atlantic or the Pacific. to the Lakes or
the Gulf-at st. Louis rates, and baggage
checked through to destination, by giving
days notice. w. p. WEMP Agent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
Attention. Lawyers.

The undersigned, offers for sale slxty-nVe
volumes of Missouri Reports, beginning
with No. /. One half of the above reports
are new, and the remainder as good, or
nearly so. I. +. Z. JAMES.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29

Go to Payton Martins Livery Stable for
Buggies. Hacks. and for accommodation
for Picnic excursions. New rigs and good
horses.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-29
Official Directory.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS:

MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
HoN. SAMUEL BYRSs, Tenth District,
Potosi, Mo.
u. S. LAND OFFICE j. G. NJ ELL,
Register; WIN. b. NEWMAN, Receiver -
1ronton, Mo.
j. FRANK GREEN, Judge Twenty Sixth
-ircuit, De Soto, Mo.
The morning call., 1891-11-15
ASLEEP, NOT DEAD.
The Bay Dragged for a Sup
posed Murdered Man.

There was lively fight between two
night watchmen yesterday morning at a
DOLLHOUSE near the ferry depot, and as one
OF them disappeared it was supposed that
he had been knocked overheard and
drowned. The men engaged in the en-
counter were John Creamy, a resident of
Oakland. employed by the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company, and A. w. Cronkhit.
residing at 2l5 Larkin street, in this CITY.
and employed by the San Francisco Bridge
Company.
Officer Mucahey took Cronkhit into Gus
tody, and then visited the tool-shed where
the row took place and made an nvestiga.
ton. He found blood on the planks of the
dock and on quantity of iron bolts lying
on the wharf, but Creamy was not to be
found. Where he disappeared to after hav-
Ing been struck was more than the police
could learn, although every effort was made
to find him.
About o'clock Cronkhit was transferred
TO the City Prison. His mans was not
placed on the City Prison register, but I'M
ike most unlocked prisoners lie was not
placed in the tanks, but in one of the cells
IN the Hole in the Wall" Shortly after
Cronkhlt was arrested he made Il statement
o! the affair and gave history Of the trOu-
Die between himself and Creamy.
This morning." said he, "Greany came
over 10 The Toulouse while l was in it and
stood at the door. | told him not to come
In, as | wanted to have nothing to do with
him. He again threatened to do me up, and
| retOrted that lie would not act as he did if
was not cripple. The retort angered
him, and, with threat to knock my brains
ont he stepped inside the door. Fearing
that he intended to carry out his threat aud
assault NE, L seized the wooden handle of a
sledge-hammer that was lying alongside of
me and struck him with it. The blow
knocked him down, and when he picked
himself up lie walked away, threatening
vengeance.
Believing that he would come back and
do me some harm | went out into East
street and blew police whistle. When the
officer came up | told him what had oc-
CURED, and we both went back to look Tor
Creamy. He had disappeared, however, and
was arrested. What the charge against
he is do not knO~. but | believe they saw
that when l struck Creamy with the sic gs-
hammer handle | knocked MIN over board"
Several hours were spent in dragging the
bay for the body of Creamy, and as time
elapsed and nothing concerning him could
be learned things began to look very dark
for CrOnkhlt But at u 80 O'clock a te e.
phone message came from Oakland that
Creamy was at home, asleep. Upon receipt
of this cheering information Cron knit was
booked for an assault WITH deadly weapon.
The morning call., 1891-11-15
JOSEPH G. M'CALL.
What He Told Reporter for One of tn,
Chicago Papers.

What He Told Reporter for One of the
Chicago Papers.
The following Is from the Chicago Inter
Ocean Of last Wednesday:
81 haven't run away, ami there isn't any
Indictment out against me in San Fran
CISCO" said Joseph G. Mccall, whom a re-
porter for the Inter Ocean found at Cores
Hotel Yesterday afternoon. The San Fran
cisco Examiner is making a big effort 10
have NE indicted, along with a good many
other members of the last California Lsgis-
lature, but | don't think the attempt will
succeed"
M Mccall was a member Of the Lower
House of the last California Legislature
representing a portion OF the city of Oak
land, one of the most important eonstitu-
ences in the State. He took prominent
part in the passage of what was known as
the electric bills. BY curious omission in
the California statutes it was not legal to
opeIae railroads by electricity. Roads
connecting the city OF Oakland and its
suburbs had been constructed, ana bills had
been introduced to give the lines a legal
status. These bills were finally passed,
largely through MrCalPs instrumentality
and that Of his colleagues from Alameda
County. IL was long Tight, and it was
only when the papers came out vigorously
denouncing the opposition to these bills as
being inspired by Doodle that McCall's
measures went through.
Then followed the Bruner scandal.
Bruner was charged by the Examiner. while
semblyman, with selling positions on the
San Francisco police force. McCali was one
of the committee appointed to investigate
the charges. He brought in a report de-
claring Bruner innocent and the Examiners
charges not sustained.
That paper has opposed me ever since"
said Mccall. 1T charged that / attempted
to eXtort money from Adoph O,tinger as
the price OF my vote against the 'anti-ticket
scalper' bill. Bruner was indicted by the
Grand jury on such a charge l have not
been. More than this Ottinger testified
that never eXtorted or attempted to extort
money from him. As Ottinger is ticket
broker and | am the agent of the Erie road
it would not have been policy, TO say the
least, for me to have acted in a crooked
manner in relation to the blll.
The Examiners inSinuaiion that have
run away here To escape Indictment is all
bosh. leave for San Francisco tonight. |
came here on railroad business. | am a
Republican. The Examiner is a Demo-
cratic paper. 1t is trying to kill two birds
with one stone-throw mud on Republican
legislators and punish me because | would
not submit to be bullied and browb
into voting that Bruner was guilty. |
cOuldn vote that way. The Examiner did
not sustain Its charges"
The morning call., 1891-11-15
STOPPED BY THE
WANING LIGHT.
Opening of the Oakland Jockey
Clubs Winter Races.
Two Favorites, Annie Lewis and Oregon
Eclipse, Win-John Treat Disappoints
His Many Backers

What seemed to be unnecessary delays
for an opening day prevented the pro-
gramme of the Oakland Jockey Clubs OPEN
ing day for the clubs winter meeting being
run out to conclusion yesterday at the
Oakland track. Most favorable conditions
as TO weather and track were had, aud tax
ing everything into consideration the attend
ance was not less than was called for by the
merit of the racing. What the visitors
could justly complain of were the waits
between the four scheduled events So
long were the stops between acts that when
the new full moon shed IS light over e
course, at half-Dast o'clock, but three If
the four events SET for decision had been
disposed of, and the judges decided, after
betting had been going on Tor a while on the
last number, to postpone 1t to Tuesday. the
next regular day. Bets ana entries were
announced to stand.
Unless there be a radical change, race
goers need not leave this city until 2 clock :;
they will still be in full time TO see the first
race advertised to start at o'clock, Oakland
time
Two strong favorites won and one was
defeated. The first choice that threw down
majority of the talent was John Treat in
the mile run, No. on the programme.
Book odds were most tluctuating and be-
lore the horses went TO the post the judges
were notified that the race should be closely
watched. The four jockeys in the event
were called up and cautioned Treat opened
hrst PICK at ? 10 ., and came back to to 5.
The winner, Idaho Chief opened at and
closed also at 4 to 5. He proved an easy
victor III the very slow time, as announ ed,
OF :43. Outside watches made the mark
:4212. Oregon Eclipse, a big odds on
taEOIlfP- pallOup1 in b1n1ilV for tho
turlong heat race, Ida Glenn getting the
place. For The opening siX-furlong bumble-
by-go, Annie Lewis, the fayOrite, let the
others choke themselves to death at the out
set, and then rOmped- home.
Losers in the Treat race expressed them
selves quite freely about the result, particu-
larry Dan Mccarthy, who played the gray
geldng to via him nice little sum. After
the jockeys had weighed out Mccarthy Of
fe Ell TO match Treat against. the winner for
$4,000 side, same weights and distance. he
to name the Jockey on Treat. The def was
net accep ted.
For the last number on the card Treat
was again nuounced to start. He opened
at to 5. but the heavy play on FL RayO.
who was first figured at to ) and came
down To TO >, sent the Treat equine back
to TO ..
a full estimate of the quality of the
racing can be had by glance over the odds
ana the way they fuctuated. The days
Judges were Messrs. Raiton, Allen and
HuestOn.
Summaries for the day are as follows:
OAKLAND, Nov. Ia, 1891.
Introduction purse $3.50; sou to second; for two
yeaT-Olds. SIX furlongs.
&. H. Phillips b. T; Anne Lewis by fIood-Lady
Northern stables CHI kyrene, by Kyre BAY y.@
J. H. Lagghlin's br, c. incore, by Three cheers
inc sullivan
Also ran: sinbad 80. Harris. Won easily by 2