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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-29

1t did not take long for the rumor to
form and fly that it was working
mans regiment. and would not taie
the side of the employers.
When il had reached the little
square where the bank stood it was
drawn up. a skirlnish line was
thrown out, pickets stationed and the
crowd forced back.
The colonel and his staff then went
into the bank. The disposition of the
men in the street was such that access
to the bank was impossible, and as the
doorway was on level with the street
it was impossible for the crowd to see
what was going on, save that there
was constant fiuctuation in the
ranks of the men.
The regiment stood there quite two
hours and a half. In the meantime
there was great commotion at the
company's works. The sheriff set off
in a carriage with Mr.. Matloclx, fol-
lowed by half a score of deputies to
reach the bank, but were stopped by
the piclzets. The officer protested and
threatened, but in vain. When asked
if the governor had sent them, the
1SDilCu. 1ou ld1h "
the colonel, but you cannot pass the
lines at present"
IF the colonel desires to protect the
bank. he will confer with me-" said
Mr.. Mat1cSs,-
Il don't know what his orders are"
said the soldier. Better wait till he
calls on you at the works"
The sheriff, in high dudgeon. then
rushed to the telegraph office. 1t is an
hour before he gets an answer from
the governor at Lexington and it is:
Have not authorized use of troops
must be mistake about regiment. What
do you nean?"
Then followed several of the absurd
est of dispatches.
NO mistake" says the sheriff. Greg
iment, one thousand strong, armed
with repeating rifles"
"Impossible," says the governor.
"Your fears or your condition has
made you wild. There is not such a
regimental formation in the state. If
You cannot preserve the peace will
send the Louisville Lightguards-
ninety-four men. The law must be
upheld"
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Then it was that the director dis
covered that all the specie had been re-
moved from the bank a great crowd
had gathered round the entrance. lie
got upon q chair and i'll al excited
manner conveyed the information. 1t
was received with incrcdulous jcers,
cries OF Served you right. We don'S
believe it.. You brought the soldiers,
etc. and the widest excitement
ensued.
The sheriff was paralyzed and lost
his head. He sent kilograms to Louis
vile and Cairo calling on the author
tiles to arrest all soldiers in blue shirts
and duck trousers armed with Spencer
rifles He arrested the agents at the
Paducah railroad and held them for
collision. Armed parties were sent
out on the highways and discovered
nothing but struggling men drawn to
the town by the news.
Every other subject was now
swallowed up in the robbery of the
bank, and upon the arrival of the gov
ernor and his adjutant in the after
noon, there ensued a scene of in
credulous Indignation and fussy Of
fcialism. The adjutant, an old-tirsas
veteran with purely kentucky pref
udices and Kentucky dignity, in1medi-
ately framed theory that there had
been raid from southern Indiana,
and WIS ;o- calling upon the governor
of that state to make GOOD tis loss and
to return the raiders for punishment.
In Louisville, Cairo and Cincinnati,
the most extraordinary accounts were
published in the papers. One of the
sheets announced in its head lines:
1.-The English syndicate at st. Mary's
makes away with a million and a half
of money belonging to the working
men"
a paper in Louisville announced that
Kentucky had been invaded by an army
of Indiana free-booters, and its head
lines were startling. Are we to have
another civil war; they asked.
Shall an invading army desolate
Kentucky while our apathetic officials
are dicl1ering with the bloated barons?
Let there be call to arms"
One fact alone was clear to the
people of ST. Marys. The money and
the regiment had disappeared together.
That the astonishing circumstance
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The tone which Sherman, Reed
and other republican leaders are tax
ing on the tariff issue makes it plain
that Mckinley will have to change
that familiar speech of his or get out
Of the race.-Detroit Free Press.
Chairman Wilson has not any.
where found republicans advocating
a repeal of the new tariff or a reenact-
ment of the Mckinley law. And still
there are idiots who say that the cleo
tions were a rebuke of tariff REFORM
St. Louis Republic.
why should not the republicans
inaugurate their new regime with
bounties of fifty cents bushel on
wheat and five cents a pound on cot
ton? These would be just as reason
able as their bounty of two cents a
pound on sugar.-Louisv lille Courier.
Journal
Republican leaders are display.
ing no little equanimity over the fact
that they will not have to formulate
any policy for more than a year. The
vicissitudes of the past six years have
taught them to walk softly before the
people, and not to run before they are
sent. Republican leadership and
party discipline appeared to grea. adj
vantage in 1ss9-9o, in everything ex-
cept making an egregious mistake as
to what the country wanted or would
stand. That leadership and discipline
will doubtless prove as effective in the
next congress, and, unless the bitter
fruits of experience have been tasted
in vain, far wiser, far more sensitive
to public opinion.-N. Y. Post.
In view Of the present trend of
political events It may be questioned
if the next republican candidate is
likely to be taken from the prominent
figures who led the party SO blindly to
disaster in 1892. The rank and file of
the party do not want Mckinley or Nc
Kinleyism. This fact has found ex-
preston a thousand times since 1892.
Neither does it want the sarcastic and
reckless Reed. Harrison, who remains
to our mind the most likely candidate
for 1896. is closely identified with the
colossal blunders which led to the dis
aster of 1892. The selection of either
of these candidates would be declar.
alton that the republican party pro-
posed to go back to the lines of Nc
kinleyism and an unknown currency
policy. Observer.
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The -FOUR SIG ONES.
How the Leading Republicans Figure ~
Presidential Possibilities.

How the Leading Republicans Figure ~
Presidential Possibilities.
The elections have raised four re-
publican leaders into greater prom
inence as presidential candidates.
Harrison, Reed, Mckinley and Morton
are the national big Four" Each has
his elements of strength and of weak
ness.
AS ex-president, Mr.. Harrison leads
in prestige. He has gained rather
than lost in popularity within his
party since his defeat. He has
strengthened himself by his able,
tactful and effective speeches and by
his willingness to help the party and
serve his friends He still lives in q
state that is doubtful under normal
political conditions That he was de-
feated as a candidate for reelection
would operate against him were it not
for the precedent of Mr.. Cleveland's
success on a second trial under pre-
cisely similar circumstances. Unless
the situation shall materially change
meanwhile, Gen. Harrison will be q
strong force to be reckoned with by
the republican aspirants and managers
in 1896
Ex-Speaker Reed represents the
aggressive, younger element of his
party. His strong intellectually has
impressed itself on the country. He
will have fine chance to renew his
hectoring of the beaten democrats at
the approaching session of congress.
When the new congress meets in De-
cember, 1895. Mr.. Reed will probably
be reelected speaker. Whether he
would strengthen himself with his
party in that position is not SO clear.
Even republicans do not like to be
bossed too much. Mr.. Reeds location
on the extreme eastern edge of the
union and in a safe republican state
is against him as presidential candi-
date. And still he is possibility.
AS for Mr.. Mckinley, he will natu-
rally accept this years landslide as a
belated vindication of his tariff bill
that was twice condemned by the peo-
pie. His friends in Ohio, with fatuous
promptitude already put him forward
as the logical candidate for 1896.
Events are likely to undeceive them.
The country is not anxious to go back
to higher taxes and dearer living. The
shrewdest republican leaders and jour
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railway. 1t is not at all inaccessible
from st. Mary's. 1t is simply uninvit-
ing. About mile out there is an old
house standing half hidden in the gum
trees and brush near the one road. 1t
was built ten years before by a man
who manufactured potash and tannin
from the oak stumps and is said to
have done quite a business there in a
drudging way. About six weeks be-
fore the troubles broke out at ST.
Mary's the place was hired from an old
negro into whose possession it had
fallen by a man who gave out that he
was going to fit it up for the manufac-
ture of emery paper, a great deal of
which was used at st. Mary's and ma
terial for which had been found in a
crude state somewhere in the neigh
borhood. He had been receiving his
stock of machinery and implements
over the Paducah road.
On the morning to which reference
has been made, st. Mary's was in q
very demoraliZed condition. The news
had gone out over the country and
hundreds of strangers had poured in
across the Ohio and from Louisville
and Cairo. 1t was expected by every
body that a collision would take place
between the workmen and the colony
which the English company had
planted on the bank of the river. The
sheriff OF the county had arrived. but
the governor had declined to interfere
at the present state of affairs.
Such was the condition of matters
when at nine o'clock, to the astcnish-
ment of everybody, regiment Of in
fantry, one thousand strong, :n fell
marching order and armed with maya
zine guns, made its appearance 1T tho
edge of the town on the Paducah rail
road, and came down the main street
as far as the bank in fine order, pre-
coded by a drum corps of four pieces.
The establishment and excitement at
this sudden invasion were increased ten
fold by the banner which spread out to
the morning breeze, and which had
inscribed on it legibly: First Battal-
ion American Workingmen. No Tyr
amy of Money No Coercion Of Capt.
ita1.''
Where the regiment had come from.
how far it had marched or what
= - - intantions no one knew. But
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PiTH AND POINT.


Powell !" Henpeckt feels sure that
his wife went to q better world" Nit
ford-ssHow do you know" POWELL
HE has started IN to be tough. "-Har-
lem Life.
-Chawler-''Di yer go inter see de
snake charmer?, Hengoutt-..Yes,a an
it's question to me mind wedder she
charms de snakes or PARALLELS DEM
Boston Courier.
-Watts-''So You don't believe that
the good die young9" Potts-''That
used to bother me a good deal when ]
was boy, but know better now
Indianapolis Journal.
-Agnes-s'What are you writing,
Minnie-your will?" Minnie-''No, I'm
writing my won't. George proposed
last night and told him I'd answer to-
day."-London Tid-Bits.
--Figg-.Yes, / allow that her sing
ing is something terrible; but guess
we shall live drought it." Fogg-
''That is the most terrible thing about
it."-Boston Transcript.
NO." said the busy merchant; 81
don't care for no dictionaries to-day"
''Thank you," returned the fair book
agent from Boston; chow many shall
put You down for?'-Smith & Gray's
Monthly.
Wages (meditatively)-"It might
be considered additional proof that
time is money" Wiggs-''What
might?' Waggs-'9The fact that SO
many people take no note of it."-Buf-
falo Courier.
MIR. Aust look at that dolt of
a man. What a charming wife he has.
How true it is that the biggest fool al.
ways marry the prettiest girls" Mrs.
40, you f1atterer"-Boston Com
mercial Bulletin.
-Amy-''Why did you marry Harry,
who never sent you any presents,
while you refused Jack, who was al.
ways giving you jewelry, candy, books
and the like?" Mabel-"Jack had
spent all his money."-Harper's Bazaar.
Mother" sobbed the young bride.
she is just as mean as he can be-"
s'No, he isn't, DEAR" said the mother
soothingly. ga man can't really de.
velop all his meanness till he has been
married four or five years. "-Indianap.
oils Journal.
A Gentle Hint.-Jones (meeting
Brown smoking)-sI don't like to see
a man smoking on the street." Brown
-"Why, what difference does it
make?' Jones-''A great deal. 1t
makes me want to do the same, and
haven't anything to smoke. detroit
Free Press
Manageable idea in your play
is as old as the hills. 1t has been done
before Playwright-''What it been
done imp" Manager-"Well. it occurs
in one of the tragedies of Eschylus.
! Playwright-'That ats all right. I may
have got my copyright in ahead of him.
There is chance for suit, Brook
| Ign Life.
-Daughter-''What do you think,
mamma! That strange gentleman who
| just got out when we were going
through the tunnel kissed me-" Mother
-"But, my child, why didn't you tell
me at once, SO that I could call him to
| account for it?" Daughter-''Why, you
see, mamma, thought thought
that we were coming to another tun-
Blaetter.
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COUNTING FOR A HU sBAND.

A New Matrimonial Superstition Which
Sometimes Works and Sometimes Does
Not.
Just as the train pulled up at Chel-
sea avenue station, Long Branch, a
very pretty girl darted forward to greet
| a young man who stepped to the plat
form. Pleasure and triumph struggled
for possession of her bonnie face as she
grasped his extended hand and ex-
claimed:
''Thirty-one got eleven of them ON
the drive today"
els that alp" returned her escort
''Sixty-four!''
t'Sixty-four!" shrieked the girl.
"Where did you get them? You're real
mean; you said going up to town
wouldn't be much of an advantage to
you, as they weren't wearing them now
to any extent"
''Well, neither are they" said the
berated one. s'The fact is, I met a
chowder party going out of town. and,
in accordance with the etiquette Of such
occasions, they all wore EN-"
''Ohr' said the maid, ''what glorious
chance; and suppose you were glad"
mo, Lyle. was sorry you weren't
there. You know we must try to keep
even. I certainly will not shake hands
with any other than yourself when my
number is complete, and it will be en-
barassing to say the least to refuse
shaking any dainty little paws that
may be offered me. So you'd better
make haste" But the girl didn't hear
him. ''Thirty-two. thirty-three, thir-
ty-four," she exclaimed, breathlessly.
''They just got in cab!'
'sWhat is it all about?" / asked my
sister, who was helping me enjoy the
situation.
81 believe you are the only man in
Long Branch who don't know. It's
quite the latest thing in matrimonial
superstitions. You must count nine
ty-nine white hats and four black ones
and you are sure to marry the first per-
son of the opposite sex with whom you
shake hands-the first eligible persona
mean. OF course, if l happen to meet
the ragman first the charm does not
hold good"
Whereupon I grinned maliciously
and said: 81 always knew you were a
friendly soul, Grace, but do you shake
hands with the ragman pm. Y. Her.
aid
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Long-Distance Signals.

Seventy miles seem long distance
to send signals by photographs, but this
has been accomplished many times.
But this is entirely eclipsed by the re-
cent performances of the officers of the
United States signal corps operating in
the northwest. Messages have been
sent and received between Mount I'm
compahre. in Colorado, and Mount
Ellen, in Utah, distance from peak to
peak of one hundred and eighty-three
miles. Experiments are in progress
with view to increasing this distance
and breaking all previous reeords--N
Y. Ledger,
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AMERICANISM SIMON PURE.

President Cleveland's Idea of Respect to
the Stars and Stripes on the Ocean.
President Cleveland gave a charac-
teristic exhibition of the courageous
plain speaking. which has been the
chief cause of his popularity, at Phil
adelphia when he took occasion at the
launching of the new steamship OF
the American line to make a vigorous
attack upon our absurd navigation
laws! The great steamship about
which all the newspapers are
hurrahing would never have been
built had not those laws been
modified The president reminded
his hearers of that fact and advised
them to couple their rejoicings over
the great event with determination
to do away with the laws entirely, and
thus set free American mechanical
industry and excite American enter
prise We commend to all disciples
of good Americanism the following
passage from his speech:
Il am not able to see why Americans owning
ships. navigated by Americans and carrying
American cargoes. should in any case be driven
to the protection of a foreign flag and it seems
to me that the stars and stripes entering
port of the United States and spread over
Americans and American property should
never be frowned upon and repealed by Ame-
lean officials acting under the mandate OF our
navigation laws In the interest Of a revival
OF American commerce. SO much needed, and
for the honor OF our flag. so dear to US all, am
willing that the defense OF our governn ent
and flag shall be accorded to all ships OF Amer
lean ownership. wherever built Make our
flag more familiar sight in the ocean-carry-
ing trade, and thus remind our citizens that a
large share of the carrying trade OF the world
is due them and we need have no fear that our
ship builders, under laws giving them fair
chance will suffer from foreign competition
This heretical deliverance seems to
have been well received in the very in
nermost sanctuary of protection.-N. Y.
Post
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tidal wave in 1895, and it will be de-
mocracy that is swept into power.

tidal wave in 1895, and it will be de-
mocracy that is swept into power.
There are indications that the next
congress will not be governed by the
wisdom of true craftsmanship. De-
feated candidates are already clam
oring for seats to which they
are not elected, monopolists are
bowling for the restoration of
special privileges of which demo-
cratic legislation deprived them, and
many of the republican organs are
processing belief that in the result
Of the election there is a call for res
toration of McKinleyism. If the next
congress accepts what has been &C
complished by its predecessor, there ia
an acknowledgment that it is right. If
it seeks to overthrow the work done
by democracy, then it invites repub-
lican defeat in 1895. Detroit Free
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Growing Anection,

Teacher-Now, Jimmy, do You re-
member your first teacher?
Jimmy-Yes, MON,
Teacher-WeU, don't you love her
better as the years go on for what she
did for you?
Jimmy-Yes, mom-she's dead nowp
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Husband-And are you happy, dar
ling?
Wife-Yes. indeed; as happy IS if
had never been married. Hallo.
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Something Gained.

InquiHr-Does fish diet strengthen
the brain?
Phi.osophc--Perhap not; but going
fishing seems to invigorate the imagi-
nation.-N. Y. Weekly.
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"A single session of a republican
congress is all that is needed to get
the democrats together for a sweep in
iSQ6.-N. Y. World
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-29
The Proper Sequence.

SIS it still the custom in this country
to reach for your gun to back 1t up after
YOU have called man liar?' asked
the tourist.
1t air not. stranger" replied the
searly settler, land it never wuz- 1t
has alters ben the custom in the best
society of Yaller Dog to reach fur the
O:,n fust. --Indianapolis Journal.
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did not at the time betray to the coun-
try some of the real facts was owing
to the middle which the incompetent
Mr.. Matlock and the pig-headed sheriff
and governor had produced in the
minds of the people. There was a
widespread suspicion among the work.
ingmen that the superintendent was in
some way implicated in the removal
of the gold, and nothing could eradi-:
cate from the governors head the no.
ton that the regiment was an exag-
Grated ruse which had been brought
about by descent of invading villains
from southern Indiana.
Hendricks had counted on this very
result. His motto was: ''Audacity
that bewilders-and then, energy that
discrepancies"
CHAPTER XIV.
It is necessary now to keep in mind
two orders of events. One is the slow
focusing of public suspicion about the
operations at Laran The other is the
extraordinary relationship of the prin-
cipal personages at the headquarters
of the conspiracy.
A week passes and men are stray
Cling back to the Laran from all over
the country. They come in through
the woods at night singly or in little
groups. They arrive at the Wash
bayou, coming down from ST. Louis
and crossing at night from the Ar
kansas shore; they come up from
Memphis looking for work and some
of them ride in from the mountains of
East Tennessee.
Hendricks watches the reassembling
with cool calculation and appears to
have been satisfied of the main re-
suits. About fifteen per cent. of the
men never reappeared. This was &C
cording to his calculations. But the
rest, actuated by the fear of individual
peril, the esprit de corps of military
organization, or the desire to go on
with the war which a master-spirit
had planned, had, in great part, re-
turned at the end of the week. AT that
time there were by count five hundred
and fifty men of the regiment back in
the cave.
Hendricks sat up all one night read
ing the papers that had been brought
him from Memphis. He went over all
the accounts carefully. There was not
in any of them surmise as to the
truth. The regiment had got away
and it had accomplished it's purpose,
but the further away from the scene
the comments were, the less seriously
the newspapers regarded the occur
renee. In New York there was some
kind of enormous western practical
joke suspected. How" said one jour
nal, "a regiment of thousand men
can come and go without observation,
can dismantle bank and then depart
with million dollars in specie without
being detected or interfered with or
tracked, remains for the imaginative
west to explain. 1t looks very much
at this distance as if the English
company had been operating in phan-
toms to bear its own market:
An angry official correspondence had
taken place between the governor Of
Tennessee and tho governor of Indiana.
The town of St Marys and the city oil
Paducah swarned with newspaper
men and detectives. But it was plain
to Hendricks that fresh troubles at St.
Mary's between the director and the
men threatened to draw attention
from the search for the soldiers.
fro BE CONTINUED
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Oueered Himself.

Wool-Chappie doesn't go to see Miss
Fitz any more.
Van Pelt-Why not?
Wool-One night when his paresis
was pretty bad he asked her which
-was the older, she or her mother.-N
Y. World.
The herald., 1894-06-23
LAND FOR SALE.

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