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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
A MURDER MYSTERY,

Cnraveled by the st. Louis PO1ice-Ths
Slayers or Edgar Fitzwilliam Mid
land Line Car in September Last Run
Down and Confession Secured from
One of the Gang.
ST. LOUIS. Dec S.-Edward and James
Murray, colored brothers, are in GUS
tody charged with the murder of young
Edgar FitZwilliam OF a car on the Mid.
land line, on the night of Septem be,
90 last.
james Murray, while in Jail on a
charge Of burglary and larceny, told a
fcllow-prisoner named Williams, locked
up on a similar charge all about the
murder, and the latter betrayed him to
the police in the hope of securing lem
iency for himself.
When charged with the crime Muir
ray at first denied all knowledge of it;
but when confronted with his own
story as reported by Williams, Murray
weakened and made full confession,
giving the names of his confederate s
and the part previously assigned to
and afterwards carried out by each.
1t was a cold-blooded murder for
money, and not, as has been repeat
eddy suggested, the result Of an old
quarrel, and had the regular conductor
been on duty for that trip he would
have met the same fate
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
"ELESSED" BY M'klNLEy.
The CnfulflIed Promise Made by High
Tarifiites IN 1890.

The CnfulfilIed Promise Made by High.
TarfGites 1890.
Now that the tariff fight is again on
over the Wilson bill, and publicans
of the ultra stripe are belching forth
forebodings of the disasters with which
the measure is pregnant, a comparison
of the promises made in 1890 as to the
effect of the Mckinley bill may be aptly
made with its performance We have
before US a pamphlet issued By the re-
publican national committee in the
campaign of 1890. the foot note to which
informs the reader that additional
copies of it may be had free of charge
on application to Tams Bixby," and
which bears the promise of the new
tariff in the quotation OF its first page:
''To scatter plenty o er a smiling land"
Scare heads announce that the pam
ph!et will tell you just what the Nc
kinley bill is, what it contains and
what its results will be-" that 1T W i'll
cause the establishment of many new
industries in the west. It will secure
work for thousands of idle men and
women. 1t will materially reduce the
farmers expenses and greatly increase
his profits, but it will not raise the
price to the American consumer of one
single article that can be termed
necessary expense" TIE same bill is
in force to-day, and is ''scattering bless
ings DER a smiling land" just as vigor~
ously and lavishly rs it has at any time
since its birth, and no more Not
line of it has been changed In the
fierce light of present conditions the
scare heads of that pamphlet take on a
lurid hue and are wreathed in sar
donic grin.-St. PAUL Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
DEMOCRATIC PURPOSES.

| Reasonable Reform Proposed by the VIII.
son Bill
The first decisive step towards the
performance Of the pledge given the
people of this country at Chicago last
June has been taken by the formula.
| ton of revenue tariff bill by the
ways and means committee Of the house
of represent atizea The measure has
been presented in its entirety, and even
q casual review of its provisions enables
the public to see that it approaches
more nearly to q revenue basis than
any measure which has been presented
in congress by the party in control for
the last thirty years
| 1t Is measure which embodies q
declaration of democratic tariff princi-
pies It does not provide unjust re-
strictions upon trade. It does not favor
one industry at the expense of another
1t is a judicious and well developed
measure of tariff reform which will
| benefit the material interest of the peo-
pie of the United States
| The immediate value Of the pub3ica-
| ton of the provisions of this measure is
! that it relieves the country of the rA-
certainty which the lack of knowledge
of the proposed reform has created. It
cannot be doubted that this uncertainty
has caused lethargy in certain lines Of
industry. Manufacturers have been
doubtful of the intent of the ways and
means committee and have waited I'M
til the specific rates to be provided for
in the tariff bill shoult be made public.
ALI the Information necessary to
proper appreciation of the purpose of
the majority IN congress has been given
the public. The measure may not, and
proba bly, Will not, pass as it has been
prepared, but its substantial provi-
sions will remain unaltered. The
changes, if any, will be of minor inn
portance. There is and should be,
therefore, very little ground for un-
easiness or hesitancy on the part of man
ufacturers now. They should see in
the measure which Chairman Wilson
has presented the kind of reform pro-
posed by the democratic party.
It is a conservative measure. It does
not go to the extremes to which the
more ardent tariff reformers would
wish nor on the other hand does it meet
the views of the protectionists. The
democratic party is neither free trade
party nor the party of protectiOEists-
It believes in tariff for revenue. That
is the scope of the measure Just COM
pleted. It is measure which should
win the favor of all who earnestly de-
sire the promotion and betterment of
our industrial condition.
1t is decisive announcement of dem.
ocratic purposes to which the party and
its representatives are pledged, and il
should create the confidence which the
honesty and sincerity on the part of
those who have prepared it and who
now stand ready to work for it's pas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
MINISTER THURSTON.

The Hawaiian Representatives at Wash.
ingtOn, Leaves the Capital for Chicago
and His Departure Gives Rise to the
Believe that His Real Destination in
Honolulu.
WASHINGTON. Dec. S.-Mr. Thurs.
ton, the Hawaiian minister, left Wash.
ington yesterday afternoon for Chi.
cago. His departure gave rise to re-
port that his objective point was Homo.
lulu: but this could not be confirmed
at the Hawaiian legation last evening"
Mr.. Hastings, secretary of the lega-
ton. when asked if Mr.. Thurston
would return to Washington from Chi
cago, said that he did not know. Asked
the object of Mr.. Thurston's trip,
Mr.. Hastings said that he was not
certain. but possibly it might be
in connection with the Hawaiian
exhibits which were now at Chicago
The minister he said, was DESTROYS of
making a good showing of the exhibits
of his country at the Midwinter expo
sition in San Francisco, and after his
visit at Chicago, might find it neces-
sary to go to the Pacific coast. Whether
he would proceed thence to Honolulu
he could not say, and added that it did
not look as if he would, because he
had left his wife and son in Washing
ton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
''GePnlan
Syrup

JUDGE ]. B. HILL, Of the Superior
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup to
send us voluntarily a strong letter
endorsing it. When men of rank
and education thus use and recon-
mend an article, what they say is
worth the attention of the public
It is above suspicion. IT have used
your German Syrup" he says, "for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. I can recommend it for
them as a frst-c1ass medicine -
Take no substitute. q
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
nARlNe
kC3BERS.

vbrk by Professional
MAIN 4Iy Which the South Bend
Qnd.) National Bank Ii Out $4,000
with No Deauite Clew to the Robbers.
Who Got n Good Start by Reason of
! Their Shrewdness.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. THE
boldest robbery in the annals of crime
in Indiana was committed to-day about
noon, the victim being the South Bend
national bank. one of the leading bank
| ing concerns of the state. The amount
taken was $4,000. No clew to the
| identity of the robbers has yet come to
light, and they seem to have made
good their escape. From the manner
in which the details Of the theft were
carried out, it is certain that it was en-
gineered by a gang of experienced
criminals, who have been for some
time shadowing the bank and its Off
GERS, and had been thoroughly con-
| versant with their business habits.
The South Bend national bank is To-
Gated on North Michigan street, the
| First national bank just north of it,
| an iron fence joining them.
Shortly before noon, while Cashier
Campbell was absent at dinner, AS
sistant Cashier Kelly, who resides in
the rear of the building, was called to
his front door by 4 man who said he
wanted to see him on some business.
just about this time a man approached
the bank building on the north and
effected an entrance to the directors
room, prying open the window sash
with steel chisel. He then forced a
heavy oak door and was in front of the
vault. The outer vault door was open,
but Il two-inch middle door had been
closed by Cashier Campbell. This
yielded readily, the combination hav-
ing for some reason failed to work, and
before the robber stood the counter
tray containing between $4,000 and
$4,000 In the safe a pile Of 1000 in
gold and many thousand in greenbaclzs
was arranged on shelves
The prime idea seemed to be to take
as much as possible of the money in
sight without arousing suspicion be-
fore the robbers had had plenty of
time to make good their escape. For
this reason the counter tray with its
loose thousands was left undisturbed,
the robber combining his theft to the
safe, from which he took 81 1000 in yell
low coin, about all he could carry, and
1000 in bills No silver coin was
touched. The vault was then closed,
and the robber made his escape by
means Of a back door before Assistant
Cashier Kelly had again passed through
the building.
1t is probable that but one man en-
tered the bank, he being protected by
outside guards who could easily have
been placed where they could watch
closely through the large plate glass
windows the movement of any one in
side the building without attracting
attention to themselves.
The money was not missed until some
time after Cashier Campbell returned
from dinner, and then information OF
the theft was suppressed for some time
in the hope that some clew to the rob-
bers might be discovered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
Tho Farmers wife.

The human body is very delicnte
and highly complex organization, and
it is not surprising that it sometimes
breaks down for no easily ascertain
able reason. A farmer met the village
doctor, according to an exchange. and
said: eff you happen to be out our
way ut any time, ] wish you'd stop and
see my wife. She don't seem to be
feeling very we'll" ''What ails her?
What aresome of her symptoms?" Il
dunno. This morning, after she'd
MIXED the cows, and fed the pigs, and
got breakfast for the men. and washed
the dishes, and built a fire under the
boiler in the sh-house, and done a
few little jobs around the house, she
complained of feeling tired like. /
shouldn't wonder if her blood was
poor, and guess she needs dose of
medicine. st Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
PARAGRAPHlC POINTERS.

THE steel-rail pool, made possible
by the Mckinley law, is preparing to
do the handsome thing by labor by
closing down large number of mills
N. Y. World.
Practical tariff reform has been
made difficult enough by the protec-
zionist raid on the treasury. No demo-
crat should be cantanlzerous enough to
add difficulties by unreasonable fault
finding. Pass the Wilson bilL-St
Louis Republic.
THE good sense of the president
of the United States and the sturdy in
telligence OF the mass of democrats in
both houses of congress will result, it
may be hoped, in placing upon the
statute book within d very brief period
revised tariff laws. Chicago Times.
-"Calico Charlie Foster, the bank
rupt ex-governor of Ohio and Harri-
sons ex-secretary of the treasury, will
pay his creditors fifty cents on the dol
Lar, it is said. Had he remained in the
national treasury much longer Uncle
Sam would have been reduced to liqui-
dalton on about the same hasis>-Chi-
cago Times.
- nOuSA we oppose thc IHeOTy
that tariff laws may be passed hav-
ing for their object the granting of dis
eliminating and unfair governmental
aid to private ventures. we wage no ex-
terminating war against American in
terests. We believe a REIMBURSEMENT can
be accomplished in accordance with the
principles we profess, without disaster
or demolition. We believe that freer
raw material should be accorded our
manufacturers, and we contemplate
fair and careful distribution of neces-
sary tariff burdens rather than the pre-
cipitation of free trade. Cieveland's
Letter OF Acceptance.
The New York Recorder says
Wilson's tariff bill kills the. tin plate
industry, which would. under the Me-
Kinley tariff, have given work and
wages to one hundred thousand Ameri-
can workingmen within two years"
This shows great modesty on the part
of the Recorder, or great poverty of inn
agination. Why not a million work.
ingmen in six months time? There is
just as much ground for that statement
as for the one actually made. The tin
plate industry" so far as this country
is concerned, is u myth; and there is
not the slightest reason for surprising
that the Mckinley bill could ever set it
On its feet-Detroit Free Press
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
PlTH AND POINT.

| think chaperons are . nuisance.
said Patkins. $50 do IT, said Maud
They cut us girls out half the time.
| -Harper's Bazaar.
-''Dr. B1under is building ND quite q
yes; the undertaken is busy night and
day.
City Sportsman-"Have you seen
| anything worth shooting at around
here?" Farmer-"Well, no; not till
you came. It'll Bits.
THAT'S fine typographical err
ror!' "Which?" "You say Peter Van
Amberg is wearing manacles this win
ter" instead of monocles" -Harper's
Bazaar.
This world will never be entirely
satisfactory until some woman who
believes in wearing one dress until it
is worn out becomes leader in FASH
ion.-Atchison Globe.
Ethel Showing her likeness, which
has been most fatteringly touched up
by the artist)-"It's good. amt it?'
Clarissa-"Good! My dear, it's too
good. IN. Y. Press.
Miss Manhattan (maliciously)-
"You must miss the dear old London
fogs very much" Lord Tuffnut Qofti-
ly)-''I do. But I am partially COM
pensated by your charming New York
mud."-Vogue.
There is about as much sense in
asking an active politician what the
chances of his party are as there is in
seeking the opinion of a mother as to
ho ~ hn1
Boston Transcript.
-Grass-''Don't you," said the pious
landlady to the boarder. "believe that
all flesh is grass?" NO" hesitated the
boarder, as he took another hold on
his knife, II think some of it is leath.
detroit Free Press.
-Jirks-''The fact that your friend
has written unpublished novels doesn't
prove that he is an author" Filkins-
mo; but it may be even more to his
credit. It may prove that he is a Ihi-
lanthropist- brooklyn Life.
-Colored n-''Melchisedek, huff
me tole yer sumfin. Yer sasse yore dad
this mawnin'. De boy what sasses his
payments arter awhile will complain
OBJ de roughness Oh de fare in the plen-
opotenshiary."-Texas Siftings.
-She-''The play was excellent ex-
cept for one thing" He-"And what
was that?1 She-''The time extends
over three months and it shouldn't be
more than a week" He-''I'd like to
know why?" She-''Why! Because
the same servant girl stays through it
l."-Inter-Ocean.
boys" said the kind-hearted
young lady to some turbulent young
sters, aren't you ashamed to beat
that poor little fellow SO, especially
when he was only a peacemaker?"
One Of the disputants grabbed the
victim by the hair and turned round
long enough to say: ''He amt nc
He's de umpire."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
TOO MUCH FOR THE MONEY

English Yarn About veragua's Revenge OF
| Chicago Man.
4 dark, handsome gentleman, with q
foreign air, stepped into the telegraph
Office in the Chicago exhibition grounds
and asked. eourteously:
us this the Office Of the telegraph,
senor?''
ut amt anything else" carelessly
| replied the operator, one of those
choice essences of Chicago
81 would send a telegram" said the
stranger, quietly
@'Wou1d you?" draw1ed the operator;
''well, why don't You send it?"
The visitors heavy eyebrows raised
but he said, quietly: ''How many of the
five of the eents?''
''Ten," snapped the operator, shortly
'Only so few as temp" asked the
stranger: t'They give twelve to twenty
abroad, SENIOR"
'"Ten words for quarter or she don't
go" snarled the operator. ''How much
do you want for TWENTY-FIVE cents?''
The visitors dark eyes CLEANED dam
gerous1y, and his firm lips closed.
II send but ten of the words for the
money then, senor?"
eyes"
"+And the name, does it go free,
senor9-
"YeS.'
A smile chased itself round the cor,
ners of the naughty mouth, and, pick
ing up a pen, the stranger quietly
wrote:
HIS HONOR THE MAYOR OF COLUMBUS o:
I will visit your city route to New York
Chr!stobal Colon de Toledo y'Larrcatagui do
Ia Corda Romirez. G Baque lana v Gante, Vice
Admiral Adelantado, Mayor de las Indias, mar
auis de Jamaica, duke de Veragua de la
Vega Grandee de In Spain. Senatorial de Ia
Kingdom, Caballera de la Insigne Orden del
Toison de Orc. Grand Cruz de Carlos III. Grand
Cruz de In Conception de Villaviciossa. Gentfl
EOmbre de Camara de King Alfonso XIII
The operator took one wild look at
the message-then he tainted dead
away. The stranger was the duke de
Veragua .-Pearson's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
RuinOus CompetitiOn.

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. S.-A singular
scheme has been discovered the object
being to prevent the competition of
the soft coal of eastern Pennsylvania
with the coal of the Hooking valley.
Last winter the Hooking Valley trust
advanced the price of coal fifteen cents
q ton at wholesale. Members of the
trust now complain that they are be-
ing undersold by the Pennsylvania
operators. who have shipped 10000
tons to Cleveland alone the past
month. The operators therefore de-
eided to make . cut of ten cents a ton
in wages.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
A Generous Appropriation of Doubtful
LegalitY.

DANBURY, Conn.,, Dec. S.-The spe-
cial town meeting yesterday was called
to order at 1905 o'clock and in five min
utcs had appropriated $50, 900 to be ex-
pended in giving aid to those in need
and then adjourned.
The hall was packed with hatters,
who brought the petition. The mer.
chants concluded that it was useless to
oppose the measure in the meeting, but
it is proba bile that an injunction will
be brought restraining the selectmen
from paying out any of the city's
money.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
Rough on the Judge.

Judge McGuzzle Ito witness)-You
say this .-oung man drank four glasses
of beer in your establishment That
could not have made him drunk.
Witness-Four glasses wouldn't have
much effect on such old soakers as YOU
and 1; but il is enough to knock out q
kid like him.-Texas Siftings.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
Struck Themselves Out of n job.

EvANsvILf.E. Ind. Dec. G.-Last
Wednesday forty-five miners at the
First-avenue coal mine quit work be-
cause. as they aIlege, the owner. Cash
Thomas, wanted them to work contrary
to law, in asking them to deliver
screened coal at eighty cents per ton.
screened coal, and the miners and
operators agreed that all settlements
for mining must be made upon the
basis of screened coal or its equivalent
1t now develops that Mr.. Thomas dis
covered that his men did not turn over
to him the equivalent of screened coal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14

Among the many curious rumors
which are being circulated concerning
Secretary Gresham anent the Hawaiian
affair the most astonishing is that he is
actua,ed, in defining the national poll
cy, solely by his hatred of ex-President
Harrison. This is a partisan excuse of
the poorest kind Those who are ac-
quainted with any part of Judge
Greshaul's public career know that of
all men he is the least liable to in
huence of this character. The repub-
lican press is now seeking to be re-
venged upon the secretary of state for
his action II the campaign OF 1922
Albany Argus
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
Executive Nominations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE president
sent to the senate the following nom
nations:
Joseph b. Doe, of Wisconsin, to be
assistant secretary of war.
POSTMAsTEHs.
Illinois-John Beard, Danville; Chas.
I. Haskell, Virginia.
Iowa-John +. Wood, Logan.
Indiana-Patrick c. Don ovan, Jefer-
sonville; Joseph A. Beane, Goschen;
James Renie, North Vernon; George
d. Price, Seymour; VIM. Corby. Metre
Dame.
Missouri-Robt. L. Nelson, Bethany.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
Refinement Wanted.

Van Demmit-You have been cult.
sating Miss Highheols society good
deal of late, haven't you?
WilIy-Yes; / thought it 4eeded cul-
tivatiou.-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
Den ed on Authority.

Miss Jonnson-Cic1y, Mistah SpIig-
gans said yes'day dat yo' were in de
sere an yaller leaf.
Miss Sprague-Dat's a positive un-
troof, Miss Johnsing. Use in de sere,
but eb'ry body knows dat amt yaller.
-Jud0e
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14
DISTURBANCE OF INDUSTRY.


Unavoidable Consequences of the Change
of IL had System.
When the tariff changes come to be
announced a great hue and cry is GER
tain to be raised by the high protec-
tionists about their destructiveness.
We shall tie told that all manufacture
ing industries will go to rack and ruin.
and that deadly blows are being dealt
to American capital and labor. Not
only will there be this frothy talk, of
which we have had asuperabundance
for twenty years Or more, but among
producers and manufacturers them
selves there will doubtless be an un-
easy sense of new and trying conditions
to come. The truth is that the great
mass of manufactures have been car
ried on inside of wall so high that
they have not been able to see what
was going on on the other side. Importa-
tions have ceased, domestic manufac-
lures have had sole control of the field,
and what foreign makers could do if
they had a chance nobody knew. Es-
pecially in textile industries the op-
portunity for real comparison of
prices and qualities in many grades of
goods has not existed at all. Those
who have looked carefully into the
situation are certain that the great
mass of American textile industries
will hold their own without difficulty
in face of a more serious reduction of
duties than congress is likely to enact.
But the continual preaching about
pauper labor and the disadvantages of
the American manufacturer has pro-
duced a natural feeling Of timidity and
uncertainty among business men who
have attended to their own affairs and
have had no time to concern themselves
with foreign competitors
The reform of the tariff, to be real,
must at best be somewhat unsettling.
A change from the very worst tariff
system to the very best would mean
some disarrangement of industry and
would inevitably bring trying period
of transition. The real and moderate
changes which we are likely to see
must cause some REIMBURSEMENT if they
are to be of any benefit to the COM
munity at all; but we may prepare our
selves for great exa2gerations of their
effects and may comfort
ourselves with the assurance that
when they are completed collapses
and break-downs in manufacturing in
dustries will be few, if any-Harper's
Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-12-14

Coming from a party that has
tinkered the tariff not less than score
of times within the thirty odd years of
its existence. the protest against tariff
tinkering at this time partakes some
what of the nature of monumental as
surance.-BoSton Herald