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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
ELLEN PECK SENTENCED.

The Queen of Confidence Women Cots
Five Years for Larceny of JeweIry.
New YORK, Nov. ELLEN Peck, who
has been known for years as the queen
of confidence women, was yesterday
sentenced to FIVE years in prison by
Judge Cowing. Mrs. Peck, who is 80
wears old, was convicted last week of
the larceny of s., 200 worth of jewelry
from Christopher Gini, of this city. AS
security she gave the jeweler 81, 900
bond which proved to be worthless.
Mrs. Peck has been behind the bars
before.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Missouri Zinc and Lead.
According to the annual report of the
ktate mine in

according to the annual report OF the
state mine inspector,
Should the present demand for, and the
production Of ore continue, the value of the
lead and zinc output for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1898, will be betw cen S5.0GO000 and &C.
OOO,OO0 and If an earnest effort is made to intro
duce and pOpulariZe the use of zinc for roofing
purposes, the annual output would soon treble
in value, and the mines of Missouri would pro-
duce much larger net profit to their owners
than the gold and silver mines of the western
states, or even those of Alaska.
The lead ore production for the fiscal year
ending June 80 1896 was 65 ,5O4 tons, and the
output of zinc ore for the same period was g.
754 tons. Nor the year ending June 30, 1897 the
lead product was 81, 404 tons, showing IN
crease over 1895 of 1900 tons; and for the same
period the production of zinc ore 90, 1874 TONS an
increase of 1874 tons For the year ending June
30, 1896, the money value of both lead and zinc
produced in the state was $3.50 0l167, and for
the year ending June 80, 1897 s., 500 ,O10. Is
showing a decrease in the money value of 66
per
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
COnsul-GeneraI Lee Receiving Final In
structions Before Sailing for Cnh.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Omitted States
Consul-General Lee has returned to
Washington and yesterday morning,
before the meeting of the cabinet, he
called at the state department and
later at the White House. At the de-
partment he saw Secretary Sherman
and also Assistant Secretary Day, who
has just returned to the city from Cam
ton. The consul general is here simply
for the purpose of receiving any in.
structions that are deemed necessary
to give him before his departure for
his post at Havana.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
PROHIBITION DEFEATED.

q Practical PrOhIbatory Law Voted Dow IA
in the Georgia Senate.
ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 6.-The Georgia
senate yesterday defeated measure,
which, if passed, would have had the
effect of making Georgia q prohibition
state. The bill has been pending in
the legislature since last year, and has
been exhaustively argued. The vote
on the bill was Is to %. It is under
stood that the majority against the
passage of the bill would have been
proportionately much greater in the
house.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

ACCORDING to a dispatch from Mad
rid, the Spanish government intends
to enter into a contract with the Bank
of Spain at Havana, under which the
bank will assume the management OF
the Cuban treasury, the lottery and
the other public financial concerns OF
the island.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
SHOT BY A RoB9ER.
John NEEDING, of Detroit, Received = BuI-
let White In Bed.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 6.-John Med
ing, a shoemaker, was shot and
fatally wounded by robber while
asleep in his house on Antoine
street. Mrs. NEEDING awakened
lust as the intruder appeared
in the doorway. Realizing he was de-
tected the stranger fred q revolver at
the bed. The bullet pierced the breast
of Mrs. Meetings husband, penetr ating
. lung and blood vessels. NEEDING cs.u.
not live. The robber escaped.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

FIVE powers of the Latin union, on
the initiative of Switzerland, have
signed a convention to increase the
number of small silver coins by a franc
per head of their population, using the
existing fve-francs piece to supply the
necessary silver.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

The comparative statement OF the
receipts and expenditures of the United
States, issued on the 1st, showed that
the total receipts for the month of DC
tober were S24, S91, AIS, and the expendi-
lures S33, FOL, 512, making the excess of
expenditures over receipts for the
month So, $780, O7.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

LIEUT. Col. RANDALL will have at his
command 200 reindeer trained to har-
ness, and two Lapps and several Eski-
mos, experienced in driving deer, with
which TO relieve starvation in the 4u-
kon valley this winter and thus pre-
vent untold misery.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

SIR WnFRED LAURIER and Sir Louis
Davis will leave Ottawa, Ont, on the
sth, for Washington, to attend the con-
ference between experts of Great Brit
ain and the United States, regarding
seal life in Behring sea- j. n. Nc
Coun, the Canadian expert, and Mr.. K.
\. Vennin, chief clerk of the fisheries
department, will accompany the min
listers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

DIR. w. II. EVANS and Benton KILN
commissioners appointed to investigate
the agricultural possibilities of Alaska,
submitted their reports TO Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson on the 4th. The
reports agree that, while comparatively
little agriculture exists there it is pos
Rible that enough of certain crops and
animals may be grown to sustain a
considerable population, provided
,,roner methods are pursued
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

James Cunningham, a we1-known
and well-to-do farmer near KnObnos-
ter, and Miss Elizabeth Bell were mar
ried recently. He is IS and had been a
widower about eleven years. She is Is.
The marriage was surprise to both
families.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Assaulted Their Teacher.

James Allen, teacher of school near
Wheatland, Hickory county, kept sew
eral boys after school hours for miscon-
duct. The boys were angry, and after
they were dismissed assaulted the
teacher with rocks, fracturiug his skull.
1t was stated that the teachers recov-
cry was impossible.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
THE work OF eHouLs.
Grave Robbed and the Body Mutllated and
Left In the Woods.

MELVILLE, N. j., Nov. s.-While
Richard Simpxins and Charles Wiser
were walking through Mount Pleasant
cemetery yesterday, they were startled
by finding that the grave of Mrs,
Phoebe Tilton had been opened and
the body exhumed. They followed
the tracks where the body had been
dragged, and about 200 yards in the
woods found the corpse cut open with
an ak from breast to pelvis and the
heart missing. The police have no
clue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE total attendance at the Nash
vile Centennial exposition was 1852
3Oj. The associations indebtedness at
the close was $50, 900; with uncollected
accounts amounting to $4,000, and
properties valued at nearly as much
more.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
A Young Post-Omce Robber.

At Kansas City the federal grand
jury returned an indictment against a
13-year-old boy, who is thief and
proud of it. He robbed post office at
Eccles, Charlton county, while his IA
Their was preaching a sermon not 100
wards away
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE congress of the Association for
the Advancement of Woman, held in
Springfield, Mass, closed on the 4th.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, national presi-
dent, presided. The session was pure
ly a business one. The next meeting
of the association will be held in Bos-
ton in May, 1898.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 5th,
as reported by Z. u. Dun IL Co., were
276, against $50 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 80 against 81 last year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
travelled Flftx Years ToCether.

DR.. and Mrs. VIM. Dedmon, of Tip
ton, were rendered a reception in honor
of their golden wedding. They were
married in Moniteau county at the
ages of % and Is years respectively.
and have lived at Upton during the
entire past SO years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Fatally Iniured In q Runaway.

Thomas McHargue, a well-known
and prosperous young farmer, few
miles north of Trenton, was the victim
of a runaway accident, while returning
from town, receiving injuries that re-
suited in death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

DURING the three days ended on the
3D., 1876 persons died in the city of Ha-
vana. Over so per cent. of the people
gathered into the Matanzas district, as
a precautionary measure against the
insurgents, are without meat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE Madrid government received
cable message from Marshal Blanco,
on the 9Th, saying that 1.-THE autonomist
party in Cuba is reOrganizing," and
that several families who had emf
grated are returning TO the island"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE new congressional library at
Washington, which had been in course
of construction for six years, was
opened to the public on the lst.
There were no ceremonies of any kind.
All the departments. with the excep-
tion of those devoted to the fine arts
and music, are ready for the use OF
the public, and the work on the two
named is being pushed as rapidly as
possible
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

PROF. THOMAS WILSON, of the Smith
sonion institution who represented
this country at the Brussels exposi-
ton, has returned to Washington. He
describes the exposition as entirely OF
a commercial character, and says il
was not nearly SO large or varied as the
Worlds fair at Chicago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

The New York Commercial Adver-
User, on the 4th, said: Gratifying
evidences that New Orleans is freeing
itself slowly but surely from tine diff
culties and embarrassments due to the
prevalence of yellow fever are found in
the large transfers of currency FIR ON
the sub-treasury in this city to New
Orleans direct"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
He Was DISCRIMINATING.

Ben Wilkerson pleaded guilty to rob.
berry at Columbia, a few days ago, ex-
pecting light sentence. But he was
fooled, getting 10 years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE British ambassador to the Uni
ted States, Sir Julian PauncefOte, has
been instructed to ascertain the views
of the government of the United States
in regard to reciprocity treaty with
the West Indies.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
A st. Louis Police CommIssionership.

The governor appointed Harrison L
Drummond a police commissioner of
st. Louis, to fill a vacancy caused by
the resignation of James Bannerman.
Mr.. Drummond declined, and the gov
ernor appointed j. D. Kingsland.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
old semfnnrY Building Burned.

The old Flood Hill seminary build
ing, the only female school (Methodist,
in Fulton before the war, was burned
the other night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE 17T6 stone house at Tappan, n.
Y, was blown down by the wind on
the 2d. This is the house where Maj
John Andre was imprisoned, and
from which he was taken to his execu-
ton on October 2, 1850. 1t was owned
by DR.. Stephens, of Tappan, and has
been visited by people from all over the
world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

AT regular monthly meeting of the
New York chamber of commerce, on
the 4th, a resolution was adopted sug-
costing to the government the advis-
ability Embarrassing the army by about
1000 artillerymen, SO that the modern
seacoaSt defenses now under construc-
ton may be properly manned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
AcceDted His Resignation.

Police Commissioner Zimmerman, of
st. Louis, rendered his resignation to
Gov. Stephens, and it was promptly ac-
cepted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

THE municipal election in Create +
New York, on the I'd, resulted in the
choice of Robert A. Van Wyck for
mayor, the vote for the three more
prominent candidates being: Van
Wyck, 235, ISL; Low, 1898; Tracy,
IOI, S23. The vote for George was a
disappointment to his friends.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Christian Science Did Not Cure,

The ten-year-ol& daughter of s. h.
Kenney, of Kansas City, who was treat
ed by Chistian scientist, died of diph-
liberia, aud there is talk of prosecution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Rad Fire a. Liberal.

Eight business houses were destroyed
by fire at Liberal, Barton county; loss,
$50, 900. The same section was burned
over in 1898.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

ASSISTANT SECRETARY VANDERBILT of
the treasury department returned
to Washington, on the 4th, from
q brief visit to New York, where
he had arranged for the transfer, by
the reorganization committee, of the
governments share of the purchase
price of the Union Pacific raj lroad.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

The citizens of Gallatin voted SIS. 900
of 2O-year bonds for the purpose of
putting in an electric light and water
works plant.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Coffee House LOungers Engage in n Seri-
GUS ARRAY.

VIENNA. Nov. s.-While a number of
students and officers were lounging in
a local coffee house a dispute arose,
which eliminated in a serious ARRAY.
Three of the students and a waiter
were badly wounded. The police have
begun a thorough investigation into
the causes of the difficulty.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
Have a Ronch Road Eco Trarel.

The judges of st. Clair county are
liable to go to Jail again, for refusing
to levy tax to pay bonds for rail-
way that was never built.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11

OWING to the fact that the Carlists
are known to be importing arms into
Spain. the premier, Senior Sagasta, and
the minister of war, Gen. Correa, are
considering the adoption of repressive
measures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
For burning AN Orchard.

Josiah Mcdonald, a farmer, near Car
thage, was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary for burning an Or
ch&rd.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
grun County gesister.

IRoNToN. MISSOURI
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24


The senate computations of the equiv
alents for Dingley bill rates on wooden
goods only need to be stated. They
make opposing argument unnecessary
in the mere reading. For example, the
rate is IS per cent. on second-class wool,
ESQ per cent. on garnetted waste, 326
per cent. on shoddy, III per cent. on
wooden cloths valued at not more than
80 cents per pound, 167 per cent on
blankets more than three yards in
length and valued at not more than so
cents per pound, 212 per cent. on shawls
valued at not exceeding 40 cents per
pound, Isl per cent. on knit fabrics val
ued at not exceeding 40 cents per pound,
257 per cent. on hats of wool valued at
not more than 80 icents per pound, 419
per cent. on felts of the same value, lat
per cent. on pushes valued at not over
40 cents per pound, and Ga per cent.
on the aggregate of wooden carpets.
The people of the United States could
better afford to buy every sheep in the
country and to put every shepherd on
the pension list than to submit them
selves to such shameless plundering.-
Philadelphia Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24
THE COTTON PLANTATION.

The Present Status of the Renter Farmer.
The present status of the renter
farmer in north Texas claims nv at
tention in this article. Every clew
needed to ferret out such data as shall
be of value in giving fair synopsis of
the aspect shall be used During pc
Rod OF great depression, which has ex-
listed with more or less severity for the
past four years, the renter farmer has
been compelled to use greater econo-
my and prudence than has been hith-
erto pursued. AS the. merchant felt
the necessity of rislxing less of his
wares upon the chattel mortgage
plan, the renter at once began to use
more diligence in raising his meat
and other provisions at home, until he
is amazed at his own former waste
fulness in his former dependence upon
the merchant for such supplies. The
land owner, partly under pressure and
In part owing to his inability to collect
fixed price of money rent has. as a
rule, abandoned it and adopted what
Is in fact more just to land owner and
tenant, the part-crop plan. Even UNI
der favorable crop seasons with the
past low prices for farm product. So
per acre is full average price to pay
in north Texas black lands. Expert
ence has taught me that when all
things are considered, the part-crop
plan will rebound more to the benefit
OF the parties interested. 1t brings
about united effort of land owner
and tenant to take such steps as will
increase the annual yield of the farm
titled. 1t is natural that the owner
will take greater interest in helping
to procure better seed, In having the
fences in better condition to prevent
damage from breacby cattle, and in
having comfortable houses and in en-
couraging his renter farmers in raising
their home supplies, when he finds
that such a course will increase his
rents. Money rent in my opinion will
soon be found TO be improbable to
either party-the land owner or renter
farmer-principally because of that
care which is wanting to keep farm
in proper condition to make the yield
remunerative. 1t would become in a
few years, under imperfect cultivation,
so choked up with noxious weeds for
the want of proper interest on the
part of the tenant farmer as soon to
prove unfruitful, or in other words, the
renter farmer loses interest wheneve,
he sees that the land owner only caret
If the farmer barely pays his rent. I'm
der present existing circumstances
even on our fertile black lands, the
margin of profit is small.-Old Cotton
Planter, in Farm and Ranch.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24
Feeding Pigs Regularly.

Much depends in feeding pigs ON Civ.
ing their food at regular intervals.
The pig will very soon become used to
this, and win not expect his food until
the next regular feeding time comes.
The old saying that squealing pig
loses pound of fat every time it
squeals has this much of truth in it,
that the irregular times for feeding
which occasions most of the squealing
is the surest way to destroy digestion.
This in pigs is not so strong as is often
supposed. The pig is greedy by nature.
Others must see to it that it does not
eat more nor oftener than is good for
it.-Farmers' Home Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24
WASHING BLANKETS.

Summer is the best time for washing
blankets. To do the work satisfactorily
fill tub half full of soft hot water in
which half bar of Ivory soap has been
dissolved, and wash gently with the
hands. Resin soap and hard rubbing
ruins blankets. When clean rinse well.
hang on the line in the sun. As soon as
dry. fold evenly and put away securely
in box or closet. Blankets washed
thus will remain fresh and soft for
years.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24
HERE AND THERE.

"A dairyman, living near a good
town has a good thing, if he knows
how to make good butter and sells di-
rect to the consumers.
--Over-feeding may develop diseased.
A great calf or colt, if very fat, is like
.ly to take premium, but under that
load of fat but few are capable of point
ing ont the defects of the animal.
"A perfectly healthy apple tree
should be. SO managed that, by the aid
of the pruning knife, every branch
should have chance to have its leaves
fairly well exposed tothe light.
When land is too poor to make good
corn it viii grow good crop of sor-
ghum. The sorghum goes further
down for food and brings it up from
the ssibsoil when it is beyond the reach
of corn roots.
The demand for mutton is increas-
ing and the tariff will probably add a
cent or two to the price of wool. Taken
all in all the sheep raisers ought to be
pretty well contented. But there ought
to be more small focks of fine sheep
kept and fed on farms.
Butter and eggs seem really made
to go together, and nothing fits better
on a dairy farm than moderate lot of
chickens Not only do the latter con-
sumo the waste milk products with
profit, but those who pay the best
prices for golden butter will be the
quickest to buy the fresh eggs and the
fat poultrv - ~..s-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24

There is no doubt but that it would
pay the ordinary farmer in the south
to begin sheep husbandry with small
flock and gradually work up. The adj
vantage of this course is that the
farmer will secure experience in the
care and handling of the sheep, and
render him better qualified to care for
large flock. The farmer need only
to start with flock of common ewes.
and by proper crossing can bring them
to high standard for wool or mutton.
Thus, at little outlay, the farmer can
obtain flock of sheep worth more
than double the old stock of common
ones. And it must be remembered that
while more hardy than common sheep,
they will eat no more. A very
strong point in favor of sheep is that
they yield three crops-one of wool,
one of lamb and one of manure, and
either one will pay the expense of
raising them. A great drawback to
sheep husbandry in the south is the
dog. If the sheep are housed at night.
or put up in dog proof pen, the dogs
viii rarely trouble them, a.ANaight is
their time for mischief. especially
after heavy rain. The better the
care taken of sheep, the better profit
they return. The farmer who turns
his flock of sheep out into the forest to
forage for and take care of themselves
in all sorts of weather, need not COM
plain of the depredations of the dog.
As rule the best care should be taken
of sheep.-Dixie Farmer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-07-24

The wooden manufacturers continue
to stock up with cheap raw material ia
anticipation of the coming tariff legis-
lation, the transactions in the Boston
market last week amounting to nearly
100000 pounds of foreign wool and
over 1850, 900 pounds of domestic. They
expect to reap rich profits when they
can make this wool into cloth to be sold
at the advanced prices which are now
in sight. 1t is one more illustration Of
the fact that the capitalists can over.
come many of TIE evils of any kind Of
tariff. 1t is the consumers who mus
bear the burden of the suffering
Providence Journal.