Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-29

The surplus $3.50 the agent then ex-
planned was in payment of the first
premium on $4,000 policy on young
Kaesemacher's life in the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York
The young man protested that he had
mt bargained for life insurance poll
cy, neither did he want one, and thew
should certainly resist the payment of
the note. The agent then left saying
he would make an investigation. The
agent and his confreres are at present
stopping at the American Hotel in this
city. but Mr.. kaesemacher has heard
no more from them. In the meantime.
until further light is thrown on the
subject, it would be well to be very
careful in all your dealings with in
surance and lightning rod agents who
are strangers to you. Such a course
may save you all manner of trouble
and expense!
A petition is about to be circulated
among the citizens of this town pray
ing the council to enact an ordinance
requiring all railroad trains while
passing through the corporate limits
to ''slOw up" to six miles an hour. The
ground upon which this request is
based is safety to life and property -
and no doubt the petition will receive
substantially the signature OF every
citizen of 1rOntOn, in which event of
course the enactment of the desired
law will follow without delay. While
the above is the plea upon which the
petition is based, there is no question
but that the spirit of retaliation is in
the movement. In reply to the state
ment that such law would work hard
ship upon the company, a prominent
citizen yesterday said: Suppose it
did. The managers of the Company
have shown no spirit OF concession to
this town, and can rightfully ask no
favOrs from us. There is more freight
shipped to this town than any other
between De Soto and Poplar Bluff, yet
they haYe made blind station of
IrontOn. They have taken away the
Arcadia Accommodation, and refuse to
give us any of the travelling facilities
offered by other roads to suburban re-
sorts. Although this is the only coun-
ty-seat on the line from st. Louis to
Poplar Bluff, they refuse to permit |
the, to US, most convenient trains to
stop at this place. One whose bust |
ness requires a day in St. Louis, must |
either sacrifice three days or rise at |
three o'clock one morning and not get |
to bed the next until one o'clock. |
When he gets to the station he finds it |
closed and dark, and if the weather is |
inclement he must stand outside and |
take it as best he can. The train he |
is waiting for may be hours late, but |
he can only patiently wait and let the |
event determine the fact. He must |
provide himself with a lantern to sig
nal the train with. and either take a
small boy along with him to take it
back home or provide a new lantern
for each trip and reckon it among the !
All this annoyance and
trouble and inconvenience would be
Obviated If the most ordinary facilities
were afforded us. If | want to send a
or if | receive one, it costs
me from twenty-five to fifty cents for
a messenger to make the connection
between here and Arcadia. Hardship!
The railroad company takes no ac-
count of the hardships it puts upon US;
" I1S ShOllIU VIC NC 81 SOIlCCA I4CO CLOOub
the hardship this ordinance may en-
tail upon it? i am for the slow up
law There is no question that his
view of the question is the popular
lne; but we ask this question: Have
these grievances ever been properly
presented to the managers of the road?
If not, would it not be well to lay all
he facts before them before indulging
n retaliatory measures-if the ordi-
nance in question may be put in that
An amicable adjustment is
always preferable to an Improbable
Last Mondays Post-Dispatch con-
aimed an item of local interest to the
Valleys social substratum. The sub
ect of the item is known here as Mary
Jones, late a deniZen of Pilot Knob:
May Williams, alias May Jones. mis-
ress of Lee Long, Chinese gambler, 81,
5 in the City Hospital, suffering from
wo bullet wounds inflicted by Lizzie
Moore, wife of another Chinaman,
Wong Lung Dong. Neither of the
Wounds are serious. The trouble oc-
,urred in Hop Alley Sunday night.
woman lives at rs and her assailant
ives at III. For two years there has
peen bitter feeling between the two.
LAST night when they met in the alley 7
lizzie Moore asked May Jones if she
lad said the Moore woman had a ne +;
no lover in Chicago. When she re- .
eived an affirmative reply the Moore
oman drew a revolver she had con-
called in her clothing and fired two
hots. She did not attempt to escape. :
It the Four Courts her story did not
airy from that related by her rival. =
lay Jones says she has been in St.
,ouis three years. She was the prin- =
ipal witness for the State in the case y
Jeu Jung, who strangled his white
Mistress, Dora Wagner, more than a :,
ear ago. When the case came to
rial she could not be found, and the :,
'hinaman was allowed to plead guilty 8
} manslaughter and take a thirteen :,
ears penitentiary sentence" Sup
lemental to the above is the following p
rom yesterdays Democrat, I'M
err the heading, 'sAn Affecting Scene" -
Iere. where the mother and daughter !,
re but too we'll known to a common
lme, the pathos of the reporter will 81
e but as pearls cast before swine; but n
/ other lands it no doubt will heave
ne breast and suffuse the eyes of the I,
emile reader; .'Mrs. Emiline Jones,
he mother of Chinese May who was =
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