Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-08-20
Annapolis News.

Ed. Register--A two-story house be.
longing to Alex White, and occupied
by Henry Brewington, situated on the
Brunot road, was destroyed by fire
Friday of last week. Mr.. Brewington
was absent from home and but little
was saved. The house was insured
with q proviso that a fue be built,
which had not been done.
The roof is now on Funkfs new mill,
and the stack Is up. Soon we will hear
the buzz of the saw. This makes the
fourth mill erected on this spot. Ber-
ryman first put a mill there and
thought he had exhausted the timber
supply. After that mill was removed
P. T. Russell tried the stand. He also
exhausted the supply of timber as he
thought, and moved away. A year or
two later Mr.. Funk placed mill on
the same ground, which ran two or
three years. and was bought by Slusher
& Lewis and moved over on Black
river. Now Mr.. Funk is putting up
the fourth mill on that spot, and the
yard is already full of logs of as APP
parently good quality as were ever
sawed there. Mr.. Funk, however, has
other cause to rejoice. Mrs. Funk has
Just presented him with a brand new
baby girl. All are doing well, and
Gus will be out again in few days.
Rev. Rennison is in town to meet his
regular appointments here.
Missourians should be proud of the
mastery speech delivered by Cover
nor Stone at Madison Square Garden,
New York. What is the matter with
William for Secretary of State?
In his Columbus speech John Sher-
man said, speaking of the period of
1854: ..Silver could be coined in
France at the ratio of Is to l, and the
owner OF silver bullion could send it to
France and have it converted into coin
at that ratio, thus receiving about 3
per cent. more for his bullion than if
coined at the American ratio of 16 to
l." And yet we hear of the 50-cent
dollar, and that legislation cannot
alter the price of silver bullion. This
is remarkable from John, bit | sup
pose that our friends of the gold stand
ard will have to accept it, as John is
the best posted Republican on finance
in America. Now. If free coinage in
France held silver to 1882 per ounce,
can't Uncle Sam raise it to 81. 20? We
don't expect Mr.. Sherman to answer
this, but would like for some of his
disciples to do so. Mr.. Editor. we
have been trying the gold standard for
some time, and our prosperity seems
to be slowly oozing out at the small
end of the horn. Why not try the
double standard? If it proves to be no
improvement on the other itz repeal
will be an easy matter. Then why are
our friends, the enemy, so much OPP
posed to the trial? Are they afraid
the object lesson will prove disastrous
to their theories? The election of
Bryan and a highly prosperous era
under his administration would forever
settle the goldbugs, and they know it,
hence the anxiety of the moneyed
classes to avoid the object lesson of
free silver. Their hypocritical cant
about the welfare of the laboring peo-
pie, like chat, will not catch birds.
Laboring people are not deceived
thereby, and if they were the Leh-
mans, Broadheads, etc., are furnishing
an object lesson for their benefit.
Jas. West is suffering with large
boil on his knee.
Mrs. David Paris has been on the
sick list, but we are glad to say that
she is convalescent. CRUx.