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Iron County register., 1899-03-30
The Philippine Tagalos.

President McKinley's commission to
the Filipinos is not meeting with the
expected success. The natives do not
seem to be in the proper mood to en-
tertain proposals for peace which pro-
vide for their surrender TO the authori-
ty of the United States. 1t was hoped
by the administration that Colonel
DENLY would have no serious difficulty
in persuading the insurgent leaders to
at least consent to negotiations looking
to peace terms. He was United States
minister to China about a dozen years,
and is personally acquainted with sew
eral Of the chief men Of the Philippines,
but as the commission Is there for the
one purpose of securing the recogni-
ton Of the sovereignty of the United
States Colonel DENLY finds that his ac-
quaintance in the Philippines avails
him nothing at all.
But it is not surprising that the com
mission should find it difficult to infu-
ence the Filipinos. On several occa-
sions the press censor has permitted it
to be announced that the rank and file
of insurgent forces on the several is
lands will not permit their leaders to
listen to any proposition from the
United States that does not provide for
the withdrawal OF the American troops
If that be true, it is clear that the
leaders can not control the masses,
and it also shows that the people are
terribly in earnest. Then. again, the
commission reached Manila rather too
late in the day to secure good results.
Several small battles had already been
fought. and the censor reported that
the enemy was badly worsted in every
engagement, which, it would seem, in
tensifed rather than weakened their
determination to fight 10 the last. The
president hoped that so soon as the
Filipinos found out by actual expert
ence what manner of fighting material
they had to deal with they would be
| glad TO find just such way 10 peace
as the commission provided, but events
show that he knew nothing whatever
of Filipino character. The fact that
| the insurgents are always ready to put
up some sort of a fight shows very
clearly that they are not at all dis
couraged-
Perhaps the news which reaches this
country from Hong Kong comes nearer
giving the facts. L is not edited and
colored by a censor. The Associated
press telegraphs that a majority of
the English and other residents of the
Philippines are of the opinion that ex-
termination of the Taea Is the only
! guarantee of peace The dispatch does
not say how many Tagalos there are
/ in the archipelago, but the last census
] of the islands places them al over A.
| 600, 900. They represent the intelli-
gence and the wealth Of the Islands.
/ They control the best agricultural re-
gions aad such of the commerce as Is
not il the hands OF foreigners What
ever advances have been made il the
direction of a better civilization the
Tagalos are TO be credited with: and.
moreover, all the revolutions against
Spanish authority in the past century
were started by them. Ia fact, they
Iron County register., 1899-03-30

go. who claimed TO be able TO sell at
retail. after the freight was paid, 20
per cent lower than the local neT-
chants, took a notion TO weigh his
goods after their receipt. The result
was as follows: A ..100-pound" sack
of granulated sugar weighed 90 pounds;
'.15-pound" drum OF coffee, - pounds;
'.16-pound'' box of prunes, y pounds.
and other articles in proportion. After
the freight was paid he found that be
could have purchased the goods at
home for from to Is cents less.
The Lancaster case is not an excep-
ton. 1t can be duplicated in every
Missouri town.
The best plan is always to patronize
the home merchant Ii is best because
ii pays TO build up the town. and the
prosperity of each citizen depends TO
some extent upon the prosperity of
every other citizen. Moreover. the
home merchant is known to his eusto-
mers. He could not afford TO be dis
honest or tricky, even did be desire TO
do SO. His business success depends
upon his fair dealing. The city house
and its travelling salesman do not pay
any taxes in your county; they do not
help to keep up its schools and church
es; they are not identified with your
people and, as they may never sell you
goods again, they are not usually in
clined to be liberal or even honest.
Beware of the grocery peddler, the
travelling dry goods merchant and fel-
lows who sell a. retail for Wholesale
prices. Buy from the old established
home merchant every time. State
Tribune.
Iron County register., 1899-03-30

fund was provided by the sale Of bonds
and special taxes, which are still being
collected. Bnt deductipg the whole
amount necessary TO meet the war ap-
preparations. we still have the enor-
nous sum of nearly 81. 400, 600, 600 for
the ordinary expenses Of the Govern
ment on a peace basis. The total ap-
preparations Of the original "Billion
Dollar Congress. which so shocked
and astounded the people that it re-
suited in political revolution, amount
ed to s.. .o35, $50, ,109. "a, or nearly $780,
600, 600 less than the late Republican
Congress appropriated out of The peo-
pies money.
We have no apology to offer for
Cleveland. Democrats sincerely be-
lieve him TO have been a traitor both
TO his party and his country; bat IN
this case comparisons will not be
odious. During the last year OF Cleve-
lands second term. when he was sup
ported in general public measures by
Democratic Congress. The Govern
nent7s expenditures were reduced TO a
little over S293, 600, O00 Doubling the
amount so as to cover the two-year
period of Congressional appropriations,
We have total of $3.50. 900, 600,
against the 81. 400, 900. 600 of the late
Republican Congress, a saving to the
people Of more than $500, 900. 600 for
a single Congressional term. 1t will
be remembered also that lot of the
unpaid bills Of the Harrison admins
tration were bequeathed to Cleveland.
thus greatly increasing the necessary
amount OF the appropriations for the
ad mipistration. Cleveland was no
Democrat, but in the matter of public
expense Democrats DO not fear com
parisons, It is fortunate thing for
the people that the late Republican
Congress adjourned before 1t had time
to appropriate all their property
Mississippi TdlIey Democrat.
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
Startling Facts For the People.

According to State Auditor Siebert's s
tabulated abstracts OF the assessed val
uation of all classes Of property in
Missouri, the total amounts 10 1867, :
S11,32S. A few days before the ad-
journment OF the late Republican Con-
gress Mr.. Doekery pointed out the
alarming fact that It's appropriations
amounted to The enormous sum of not
less than s1,7o0. .oo0. 900, and would
probably reach 81. 800. 900, ,00G. or near
IL twice the amount OF all property in
the State of Missouri. The Spanish
war does not account for this wild and
reckless aud criminal extraYagance.
The total sum necessary TO meet the
liabilities incurred By that war amount
ed 10 less than $500. .o0o. 900. The peo-
pie viii also remember that a war
Iron County register., 1899-03-30

FARM For SALE-The Gregor Thone
farm in Flat Woods. Very cheap
Apply to Aug. Rieke, Ironton.
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
Sheriff Sale.

By virtue and authority Of a special c y
ecutiOn. issued from the office Of the
clerk OF the circuit court of Iron county.
Missouri. anI TO me, the undersigned
sheriff directed, in favor of the State OF
Missouri, at the relation and 10 the use
of Walter ii. Fisher, collector OF the rev
enUe for iron county, Missouri, pialntlH,
and against
Susan f. Blow. Mrs. Herbert WadS-
worth, Peter Z. Blow. unknown heirs
of John G. Blow. l4ucretia LeBurgeois,
a MINOR. Elizabeth LeBurgeois. min
or, Henry LeBurgeois. a minor, Joseph
&. IeBurgeOis. q minor, Mrs. Nellie
ID. SmirDoff. w. e Dunham- W. T..
O'Neal. Trustee: Cyrus Hall, Edward
Whitaker, Trustee: Henry +. Lewis !,
Charles Hodgman, unknown heirs OF
Samuel u. Wright.
AMI all unknown interested parties. De
PENDANTS. bearing date March 18th,
ISg,. and returnable 10 the April term s.,
1899, thereof. | have levied upon and
seized the following described real estate
and property. lying and being IN iron
county. Missouri. as the property oi sald
defendants, described aS follows. TO wit:
The southwest quarter OF the north
west quarter and the southwest quarter OF
section thirteen, township thirty, north,
OF range three east.
And / viii. on
Tuesday, the 25th day Of Apri, 1899,
at the east front door of the courthouse
In the City of Ironton, Iron county. Mis-
sOuri. between the hours of 9 O'Clock In
the forenoon and 3 O'Clock IN the after
noon of that day. and during the session
OF the circuit court. sell, at public VEN
due. all the right. title, claim, estate
and property OF the sad defendants, of.
in and 10 the above described real estate
and property, for cash in hand, 10 the
highest bidder TO satisfy said execution
and costs. s. :. GREGORY,
Sheriff Iron county. No.
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
Shot and Shell First.

Rev. DR.. Hoyt saysthis to his Boston
congregation: Il profess some sympa-
thy with Aguinaldo. He has iuterpre-
ted US by the Spaniard with whom be
has come in contact. do not wonder
that he does not want US around.
There never was a more manifest
providence than the waving of 'old
glory over the Philippines.
shall we give the islands over to
anarchy? Shall We sell them to some
other nation2 The only thing we can
do is to thrash the Filioinos until they
understand who we are. | believe ev-
cry bullet sent. every cannon shot,
every flag waved means righteousness.
When we have conquered anarchy.
then Is the time to send the Christ
there.
This reverend gentleman merely
clothes the presidents 'benefcent as
similation" idea in glaring colors. He
would not conceal his bloodthirsty
nature. He would not permit the Fill
ipinos to bear Christ's message of love
and mercy until they bad been pound
ed into abject snbingation. He would
give them shot ard shell until they
bowed the knee in supplication, and
then he would tell them OF the beati-
tudes. and recite the story of the cross.
The Filipinos may be savages, but
whatever they are. it is doubtful If DR.
Hoyt's< brand of civilization would
benefit them. He says that every bull
let sent and every cannon shot means
righteousness, and then be adds still
more sacrilege to his blasphemous ut
terances by proclaiming it all "mani-
fest providence"
No doubt DR.. Hoyt is right in one
particular. The Filipinos certainly
do regard Americans as Spaniards over
again. with The added advantage of an
exhausfIess backing of men. money
and munitions of war. But this rev.
erend frebrand would teach them that
we are far better every way than the
Spaniards by huTling the latest irVen-
tions in death dealing implements
against them; and teach them, too,
that If we are not worthy Of more of
their love than they gave to the Span
iards, W are at least 10 be more feared.
Dr. Hoyt is exceedingly anxious TO
ChrIstianize these benIghted people,
but he would shoot most OF them 10
death as righteous preliminary 10 the
advent of the gospel of peace and good
will. He would first kill thousands of
them that the remaining ones might
know OF our anxiety TO better their
condition. That is not the way Christ
paved the way for the spread of His
glad tidings, but DO doubt Dr. Hoyt
thinks Christ did not go about it in the
right way. More is the pity that our
Hoyts give the Filipinos very much
worse impression OF Us as q natieu
than We deserFe.-K e. Times
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
City Council Proceedings.

lRoNToN, No, March IA, 1899
City Council met in regular session.
Present: Hon. VIM. 4. Edgar, Mayor;
w. T. Gay, John +. Baldwin. w. J.
Schwab, Geo. w. Marshall and Henry
Kendall. Councilman; John /. Mar
shall. Marshall, and August Schwab,
Clerk.
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
Moved and carried that the follow
ing bills be allowed and warrants there
for be issued on the City Treasurer. 10
wit:
August Schwab, City Clerk, making
financial statement for the year ending
March /. 1899. S12.
John /. Marshall, Marshal. Ia days
work on streets. repairing 2 bridges,
and commission on licenses collected,
$43.05.
W II. Fisher, City Collector. CON-
mission on taxes, $7.53.
H. NJ. Collins hauling 169 yards
gravel, 5 loads o: lumber. loads OF
rock, grading Knob street. $49-55.
VIM. Spaugh. hauling 90 yards OF
gravel. So. 05.
VIM Belcher, hauling 20 yards of
gravel, 81 so.
Robt. Hill, hauling 81 yards of grav-
el and hauling tools. $l3 9S.
Robt. Hotson, hauling II yards OF
gravel, 81. 40.
III. H. Lashley, days work on
street, IS.
Ben Left, AZ days work on street.
$40.
Nose Lax, days work on street. 81.
Cad Lashley, 9 days work on street.
So.
Andrew Barnhouse, / days work on
street. 81.
Eli ID. AXE, printing 500 licenses,
500 city warrants. 200 special election
tickets. notice of special election, col
lector's notice to taxpayers. ordinance
No SO. 500 tax receipts and financial
statement. $37 50.
John l. Marshall, arrestipg one
Birch. 81.
w I. O'Neal, keeping one Birch. 81.
Wm. r. Edgar. Office rent from Jan
IA, 1899, to March Il. 1899. 81.
a settlement with John |. Marshall.
City Marshal, was then had a follows:
To licenses collected since last meet
ing, Sll75 so. By treasurers receipt.
No. 529. produced.
A settlement was had with Walter
Fl. Fisher. City Collector. as follows:
Collected current taxes $54 90, col
leeted 8ailroad taxes, $4l "a; collected
on back tax Of 1898, 1897 and 1896.
$1760.
Officers were then allowed salary
and per diem as follows:
w. r. Edgar, salary and per diem, Sl2 90
w. 7. Gay, per diem, I 90
w. ]. Schwab, per diem, I 90
6. w. Marshall, per diem, 90
Henry Kendall, per diem, 90
]. T. Baldwin, per diem, 90
]. |. Marshall, salary and per diem, II 90
A Schwab, Clerk, per diem, 90
On motion, Council adjourned. =
FARM For SALE-The Gregor Thone
farm in Flat Woods. Very cheap
Apply TO Aug. Rieke, Ironton.
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
WHERE IS THE FLAG OF ENeLAND2

And the winds OF the world made answer,
North, south and east and west;
''Wherever there's wealth 10 covet;
Or land that can be possessed;
Wherever are savage races
To cozen, coerce and scare,
Ye shall find the hunted ensign;
"Aye, it waves Ger the blazing novels
Whence African victims fly,
To be shot by explosive bullets,
Or 10 wretchedly starve and die!
And where the beach-comber harries
Theisles of the Southern sea,
At the peak Of his mellish vessel,
lis the English flag flies free.
''The Maroi full oft hath cursed If
With his bitterest dying breath:
And the Arab has Kissed his hatred
AS he spits At It's folds IN death.
The hapIess feIlah has feared It
On Tel-el-Kebir's Parched plain,
And the Zulu's blood has stained II
With deep indelible stain.
''It has foated Ger scenes of pillage,
ii has faunted Ger deeds OF shame,
II has waved DER the fell marauder,
As he ravished with sword and fame.
1t has looked upon ruthless slaughter
And massacre dire and grim;
II has heard the shrieks OF the victims
Drown even the lingo hymn
''Where IS the flag Of England?
Seek the lands where the natives rot;
Where decay and assured extinction
Must soon be the peoples lot.
Go, search for the once glad islands,
Where diseases and death are rife,
And the greed OF a caIous commerce
Now battens on human life.
s.W-here is the flag OF England?
Go, sail where rich galleons come
With shoddy and loaded cottons,
And beer, and Bibles and rum.
Go, too, where brute force has triumPhed
And hypocrisy makes lis lair;
And your question viii find It's answer,
For the flag Of England is there
-LoHaon T1nth
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
Academy of Music.
Ironton. Mo.

Auditorium, ,50xS7 feet. stage. 22x37 feet,
with opening or pTosceuium i6:oxI2. Two
q drsssinE-rooms. one on either side Of stage,
and aIarre room underneath. -Four Scenes
Street, Wood, Kitchen and Farior-in grooves
Fit4ed with all ordinary appurtsDances- Hall
Esatea with ehairs,a anu gallery With benches
seating capacity about Soc
TSe towns Of Tronton, Pilot Knob and
Arcadia, with population o. S,00O, are
vitbfn a radius of one mfle-lronton in
the centre
Forterns, etc. apply to
W. It. GAY, superintendent.
Iron County register., 1899-03-30
Buy at Home.

The farmer who buys groceries or
other goods from travelling salesman
instead of from the local merchant
nearly always gets the worst OF the
bargain. A Lancaster citizen affords
q case Ia point. He ordered grocer
les from q travelling salesman Of Chica-
Iron County register., 1899-03-30

made an effort to establish a govern
ment of their own long before the
American war Of independence. The
job of exterminatiug them will not be
completed in day, No wonder Otis
wants reinforcements; no wonder
Dewey wants a large fleet. instead OF a
small souadron.-A. c. Times
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
MINNEAPOLIS BREVITIEs.

Mrs. Margaret Dickinson Fairfield died
at the residence of-her daubhter, Mrs Ed
ward Kosko $50 East Eighteenth street.
The funeral of Ernest Herbert Thomp-
son, who was accidentally shot while
hunting, took place yesterday afternoon.
At the next meeting of the Minneapolis
board of trade Maj. James Edwin will
petition it to indorse the movement to Sc
cure a pardon for the six members of the
Fifteenth Minnesota sent to prison for the
Augusta mutiny.
post norton examination held by
Coroner Nelson over the remains of Mrs.
Ingor Rex, who died Friday, showed that
her death was due to phosphorus poison
ing.
The Hennepin Republican association
has arranged to hold its annual banquet
on the evening of LincolnS birthday an
niversary. Feb. II.
The strike of journeymen tailors, which
was inaugurated last Friday in North
Minneapolis. came to a peaceful settle
ment yesterday afternoon. when a com
promise was effected between the men
and the bosses and the strikers returned
TO work.
The Minneapolis board of charities and
corrections took no action of Importance
at its regular meeting last night outside
of the routine auditing Of monthly bills
The school board yesterday decided to
erect a new building on the north end of
NicOllet island.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
MADE AN ISSUE.
Grand Army Officials Ask the Pres
ident for Pension Reforms.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.--The commit
tee on pension legislation, appointed at
the recent encampment of the G A. r at
Philadelphia, called at the White house
today and presented to the president the
report adopted at the encampment. ask
Ing for modification of certain regula-
tlons relating to pensions. The commit
tee consisted of r. B. Brown, of Zaues.
vile, O., chairman; Gen. A d. Shaw.
commander-in-chief;M Maj. j. w Burst, Of
Sycamore, Ill; Gen. Daniel Z. Sickles, of
New York; Charles Clark Adams, of Bos-
ton, and Past Chief John
NJ. Palmer.
The report asks the president if he
deems it within his authority so to do to
issue an executive order to @the effect
that in determining the pensionable
status of soldier and in fixing his rate
of pension the several disabilities which
he may have sustained shall be groups
and taken into consideration The report
further asks the president to direct that
the practice of refusing pensions to wild
oWs of soldiers who have incomes of 39R
q year or more be discontinued, and that
the limit of income in such cases shall be
raised to $3.50 year.
The committee was with the president
for more than an hour and a half The
committee stated that Mr.. Evans, the
commissioner of pensions, was heartily
in accord with the suggestions, he MAIN
tanning, however, that the remedy lay en-
tirely with congress, as in his judgment
the existing pension laws did not war
listened with great attention to all the
committee had to say and in conclusion
assured them that their remarks would
have the fullest consideration.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
BIG SUM INVOLVED.
Noted HilImOn Insurance Case Again
in Court.

Noted HilImOn Insurance Case Again
in Court.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Nov 13.-Sen-
sational evidence was adduced today in
the noted Hillmon insurance case. in
which Mrs. Sallie F. Hillmon, for the
fifth time in twenty years, is suing East
ing insurance companies to recover on
policies held by her husband, John w.
Hillnon, who disappeared in 1879.
The attorney for Mrs. Hillmon put Ar
thur Simmons, a Leavenworth cigar man
ufacturer, on the witness stand, and he
swore positively that Adolph Walters
worked for him on May l, 1879. This is
two months after the insurance companies
allege that Walters was killed by Hillmon
and one Brown, near Medicine Lodge.
Kan. Simmons recognized Walters by his
photograph, and showed his books of
twenty years ago to prove that Walters
had worked for him at that time
The main point of the insurance COM
pany has been to prove that Hillmon,
Brown and Levi Baldwin were in a con-
spiracy, and that they killed Walters to
pass his body off for that of Hillmon.
The insurance, with interest involved.
now amounts to nearly 100000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
RL0BE'S MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE,
y 20 WASHINGTON Az. SOUTH
Advertising Subscriptions
Tel. 279O IA.

An organization Of the Minneapolis
Anti-imperialist league was effected by
the election of officers and the adoption
of a constitution at a meeting held yes
terday afternoon in the Office of E. S.
Corser.
The officers are: President, Henry ].
Fletcher; vice president, T. B. Janney;
secretary, Rev. S. W. Sample; treasurer,
Clarence A. Brown; executive committee,
Col G. c. Ripley, L. R. Larson. E. S.
Corser, Harlow S. Gale. s. A. Stockwell,
a. B. Choate and the officers ex-oficio.
The league will cooperate with the
American Antt-imperialist league, which
has headquarters at Chicago, and the
constitution provides as follows:
This league is organized to aid in hold
ing the United States true to the princi
pies of the Declaration of independence.
It seeks the preservation Of the rights of
the people as guaranteed to them by the
constitution. It's members hold Self-goV-
eminent to be fundamental 1t is it's pur-
pose to oppose by all proper means the
extension of the sovereignty of the
United States over subject peoples. It will
contribute to the defeat of any candi-
date or party that stands for the forcible
subjugation Of any people.
Membership in the league does not sub
ject the holder to any pecuniary liabil-
ity, but it is hoped and expected that
the members will voluntarily contribute
TO the support of the league to the ex-
tent of their several abilities The mem
bers are expected to aid in the circula-
ton of literature, in procuring signatures
to petitions, and in the promotion of the
work Of the league. - r-e+
The league is also pledged to contribute
to the support of the National, or Amer
lean league.
The meeting was given over largely to
a canvass of the local situation and the
consideration of available membership
material. It is the aim of the league to
muster as many prominent citizens, rep
resentatve of the different professions,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
WATERWAYS CONVENTION.
Vanguard of Delegates Have Ar
rived at Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 13.-The van
guard Of the delegates to the convention
of the Western Water Ways association.
which meets here tomorrow, have ar
rived. Many delegates arrived on to-
nights trains, and big crowds are ex-
pected to reach the city tomorrow.
When the convention meets at the Au-
dttorium Senator Turley will deliver an
address of welcome after which Chair
man B. D. Wood of the executive com
mittee, will formally call the gathering
to order. Permanent organization will
then be effected and committees ap-
pointed. In the afternoon a trolley ride
to points Of interest about the city will
be rendered the delegates.
President StuyVesant Fish of the I'LL
nois Central Railroad company, will ar
rive tomorrow, accompanied by William
n. Butler, general attorney, at Cairo;
George W. Smith, Of Murfreesboro. Ill.
chairman of the state house of repre-
sentatives committee on claims; Col. c.
o. Patier, of Cairo adjutant general on
the governors staff; George z. O'Haver,
of Cairo president of the umber ex-
change; Lieut.. Gov. Northcott, of Spring
field, and William Heinrichsen, of Bloom
irgtOn