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Iron County register., 1900-02-15
Defamlng a Martyr.

Governor Roosevelt, in speaking of
| the assassination OF Goebel, is reported
to have used this language: 1T is to
be regretted that such acts of violence
can take place in this country, but, at
the same time, our sympathy must be
tempered by the realization that the
dead politician himself established a
violent and equally fatal precedent.
1t is true that Goebel killed a man
in personal encounter. 1t was an
open fight, man to man and face to
face. There was no suggestion of
cowardice, assassinationVo or undue ad-
vantage in it, and Goebel was duly
acquitted by jury of his peers in a
community where both men lived and
had their personal friends. And la
mentable as was the tragedy, the cir
cumstances that led to it were entirely
to the credit of Mr.. Goebel. As
senator in the KeDtucky legislature he
became the Democratic champion IN
the fight against trusts, combinations
of capital and corporate greed. He
introduced bills to reduce the tolls of
turnpikes, and especially those oyer
the Cincinnati and CoYington bridge
over the Ohio river, so that the labor
ers of his town, who daily went to
work in the Cincinnati factories, could
obtain cheaper fares. The bills be-
came laws. despite corporate influences,
and Mr.. Goebel became the object of
their wrath. Mr.. Sanford was large
stock holder in the bridge company,
and Mr.. Goe5el's achievement was
taken by him as a personal affront.
The difficulty that followed the meet
ing of the two men resulted. unfortu-
nately, in Sanford's death. These are
the we'll established facts in the case.
Goebel's great misfortune was the
result of his championship of the in
terests of the common people. His
personal and political life was entirely
clean. He was sober, moral and in
corruptible. He was brave, but not a
broiler. He was hated by lobbyists
and corporations with axes to grind.
If he was ambitious. it was an honor
able ambition, whose attainment came
because of honest, fearless and able
service for his constituents. These
things Roosevelt knew. or should have
known, when he aspersed, in the Ian
guage above quoted, the fair fame of
this young hero. whose tongue was
stilled for defense by an assassin's bull
let.-K. c. Times.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

ties, the rulings of this board on ali
questions to be final.
The abandonment of a number oi
through fast passenger trains put in
service during the past few years as
the result of sharp competition.
The establishment of common sched-
| ules for passenger trains between Chi
cago and New York and between all OF
the principal terminals of the combi-
nation roads in the territory east OF
Chicago and St. Louis.
The abandonment of all fast freight
trains and the fixing of common time
for these trains between competitive
terminals.
Following are the roads now in the
com bination: New York Central, Penn
sylvania, Boston and Albany, Boston
and Maine, Fitchburg. New York, New
Haven and Hartford; Erie, Lehigh
Valley. Lackawanua. West Shore. New
York, Ontario and Western; Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensburg; Lake
Shore, Michigan Central, Nickel Plate.
Baltimore and Ohio. Wabash, Big Four.
Chesapeake and Ohio, Lake Erie and
Western, Monon, and all auxiliary
lines OF these systems.
When all details for the future man
agement of the roads in the Eastern
com bination have been perfected the
leaders in the consolidation movement
will turn their attention to the territory
west of Chicago, and attempt to bottle
up the Chicago, st. Louis. Rocky
Mountain country in like manner. The
com bination process may extend ulti-
mately to the Pacific coast.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

ANOTHER big chunk of prosperity is
| Mississippi and it may be securely de-
pended upon to eventually spread
across the Father of Waters and bless
the systems Intervening him and the
Pacific ocean. And then won't times
be good everywhere-for the railroad
corporations! As for the little fellows
who vulgarly do the work for the cor
poratious-ahem! Well, you know.
the big fishes can live only through
the death of the little ones, and what's
the use kicking the pricks or bucking
against the inevitable? About ftty
thousand minnows will. go to feed the
Unsuitable stomachs of the whales. As
to how it will be done, read the fol-
lowing. and as you read, at frequent
intervals drop on your knees, all good
Republicans. and through St. Hanna
and st. Mack, their patron saints, call
down blessings on the beloved trusts:
As a result of the recent consolida-
tions aud agreements among the own
ers of the great trunk railways east of
Chicago, the entire transportation sys-
tenn between the Mississippi river and
the Atlantic seaboard is TO be reorgan-
lied, involving the following changes:
The abandonment of the city ticket
offices of all of the roads ln the syndi-
cate in Chicago. New York. Philadel-
phia. Boston, Buffalo, Baltimore.
Washington, Pittsburg, Cincinnati.
Cleveland. Detroit, Indianapolis, Peo-
ris, and st. Louis, and the substitution
of joint offices in each city. The dis
charge of all city, general, travelling.
and district freight and passenger
agents and solicitors of the Eastern
roads in all parts of the United States,
Canada, and Europe. This will affect
nearly $4,000 men.
The abolition of all forms of COM
missions heretofore paid for the sale
of tickets over these roads.
This will affect the incomes of 10, 900
agents and eliminate the scalpers.
The establishment In Chicago and
New York of joint auditing agencies
that will apportion to each road an
agreed percentage of the total compet-
tive business.
The discharge of all superfiuous as
sIstants TO the heads of these depart
msnts of the individual roads. Later
the heads OF these departments may be
abolished and the work done by clerks
who will report to the joint agencies
-
board of control made up OF persons
representing the Vanderbilt, Pennsyl-
yania, MOrgao, aud Hartman proper
Iron County register., 1900-02-15
Call for Prohibition State Convention

PROHIBITION HEADQUARTERS, Mexi
CO, Mo-, Feb. 15, 1900: The ProhibI
tionists of Missouri are hereby called
to meet in State Convention, in the
Ferris Grand Opera House. Mexico
Mo, "Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
June i3. IA and Is, 1900, for the pur
pose of electing delegates to the Ma,
tional Convention, a new State Central
Committee. and nominating full State
ticket, and transacting such other
business as may be regularly brough,
before the Convention.
The first session will be as a Grand
Rally and mass meeting Wednesday
evening at eight o'clock. The con-
Vention proper will open at ten o'clock
Thursday morning, and continue over
Friday evening.
All ProhibitiOnists, men and women,
present, will be given seats in the
convention and be allowed all the
privileges of regularly accredited dele
gates. The only qualification required
will be an expressed loyalty and a
pledge of support TO the Prohibition
party in State and Nation.
To avoid difficulties that might arise
and to give each county an equal
showing according to it's voting
strength; upon any question that
comes before the convention, the sew
eral counties and the city of ST. Louis
will be allowed two votes for the first
twenty-five or less number of votes
cast for Judge r. B. Robinson, tor
Supreme Judge in 1898. and one vote
for each additional twenty-five votes
or major fraction thereof, cast for
Supreme Judge in that year.
Information as to railroad and hotel
rates, together with the program more
in detail. and other general informa-
tion will be given later.
By order of the State Central Com
mittee, at its meeting held in Sedalia,
January Is, 1900.
CHAs. E STOKES, Chairman.
j. Q. RoLFE. Secretary.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

1.-THE President feels the blood OF
this war like the blood of Baal is cry
ing to Heaven against him. He is in
no wise satisfied with his own position.
First. he takes up one, and in trying
to argue US into it he argues himself
out of it. He knows not where he is;
he is a bewildered, confounded and
miserably perplexed man; God grant
that he may be able to show that there
is not something about his conscience
more painful than all his mental per-
plexity." Don't shout ..copperhead'
and TRAITOR" before you know where
you are at, dear Republican reader.
The foregoing words were not used by
q down-hauler or Filipino ally, but
by Abraham Lincoln in denunciation
of and during the Mexican war. And
yet that war was no more iniquitous
and unjust than is the present lmper-
iaiistic conflict. In fact it was, by
contrast with the present conflict, as
virtue is to vice; as righteousness is to
Elm; as patriotism to crime.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

JOHN MORLEY, the Euglish states
man, thus strikes home at England
and America: First, you push on into
territories where you have no business
to be, and where you had promised
not to go; secondly, your Intrusion
provokes resentment, and in these wild
countries resentment means resistance;
thirdly. you instantly cry out that the
people are rebellious and that their
act is rebellion (this in spite OF your
own assurance you have no intention
of setting up permanent sovereignty
over them); fourthly, you send force
to stamp out their rebellion; and fifth
ly. having spread bioodshed. confusion
and anarchy, you declare. with hands
uplifted to the heavens, that moral
reasons force you to stay, for, if you
were to leave. this territory would be
left in a condition which no civilized
power could contemplate with equan-
unity or composure.n
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

A GLIMPSE of picture of the war in
the Philippines is given in the follow
ing pathetic story of Woodruff coun-
ty (Ark.) boy who met his fate in that
far-off land:
We journey down the road in the
wake of the SD. In the trench two
insurgents lay dead. One was a mere
child, a slender boy, IA or 10 years
old His rifle was tightly clinched in
his hand, and but for the bloody bull
let mark his face was almost smiling.
Back of the trench lay three more
dead insurgents. Further down the
road, under house, lay another. OF
to the right of the road in trench
along rice dixie were a half dozen
Capt Shields said he had counted 80 in
that field 1t was death and desola-
ton all along the muddy, bloody road.
A poor goat, shot through the legs
and in the head. lay pitiously bleating
by the side of two dead kids, both
pierced by Krag bullets. An insur-
gent soldier and another dead goat lay
side by side in a muddy slough. On
down the muddy road we go There
is another body lying in the puddles
Mother dead nigger," says a soldier,
struggling from the company. No, it
isn't either. 1t is one of our own men
We looked down at the poor, white
face. We see that a bullet has entered
one side of the body and passed out of
the other. There is a Testament in
the pocket of the blue flannel shirt the
boy wore 1 take the Testament out
On the fly leaf was a blank form which
had been flied in by the dead soldier:
My name is Willie Boone My regi-
ment is the Thirty third, Co H. /
live at Riverside. Ark In case of ac-
cident notify j. F. Boone. My favor
ite verse of scripture is Riverside,
Ark"
And then follows a eulOgy upon
the poor youth whese favorite text was
'.home Yet not all the pathos of
the picture attaches to him. Another
youth-a boy of fourteen years-lay
also in the mud. Drained by the cruel
''Krag." The Woodruff county boy
had traversed ten Thousand miles of
watery waste to execute the mandates
of his superiors. Peace to his ashes,
honor to his memory! The Filipino boy
fell fighting for home and fireside; for
those nearest and dearest to him; for
his country-against foreign invader.
Yet he was only ga dead nigger.n 1t
seems to US that the Christian civiliza-
tion which is always boasting itself is
sometimes unjust in its nice discrimi-
nation, especially when it undertakes
to deal with the heather; and that it
uses very peculiar object lessons in
propagating that brotherhood of hu-
mans which is to culminate in the uni
versal pecan, ION earth peace; good
will to men," We say this is the way
it strikes the writer; but perhaps an he
be ..born again" these things will not
seem distorted and unnatural, as of
trees walking.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

tention of the law is that their inter-
ests must be best subserved; it is no
infringement upon the dignity of the
Commissioners to ask for the reasons
which impelled them to locate on a
branch line of road at cost of $10,-
900 more than was necessary TO the
purchase of site a, point more ac-
cessible and convenient. Therefore,
the REGISTER persists in beseeching
them to give the reasons which i'm
PEELED their decision-a decision no
doubt justified in their own minds, but
alas! !unwarranted in the limited knowl-
edge of the people who are called upon
to foot the bills.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

A RETURNED army chaplain says
that when the Americans occupied
Manila there were only three saloons
in that city, which since have increas-
ed to four hundred! He says, too,
that the natives like the Americans
sober; but that hen the ''boys" fill
up they fear them. Judging from the
saloon growth the displacement of
liking oy fear must have been like
unto the Black Diamond Express in it's
velocity.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

The REGISTER hears unoficially that
the Commissioners of Asylum No.
last Thursday at Pennington paid over
the first instalment of the purchase
price for the site chosen. That price
is about $4,000 more than need have
been paid for better site at q more
accessible point. The causes leading
to the decision of the Commissioners
in thus locating q State institution
ought to be a conclusive defense of
their action. As the money which is
being paid is the States money; as the
Asylum is to be for the benefit of all
the people of the district, aud the in
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

THE time is nearing when delegates
to the State Conventions will be chosen.
Every Democrat should make himself
a committee of one to see that the
delegates to the convention which Is
in turn to name the delegates to the
National Convention are men true to
the Chicago platform and who will
consent to, no going back on that enun-
citation of Democratic principles. I'm
perialism and militarism, also, must
be looked after, and no man friendly
to these twin heresies can be counte-
napced. With their asceudancy De
mocracy as we'll as this government OF
the people by the people is doomed.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

If the United States goes into the
Panama Canal business it ought to
own the Canal after it is finished
Partnership with other nations will
not do. All or nonei
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

IT was in behalf of morality" that
the altruistically moral House-many
of whose members had complacently
and innocuously ''smiled, cloak-room-
ed and paired with their renownedly
pure and pious Kentucky confrere. w.
C. P. kenridge-violated the Con
stitution in order to exclude the in
iquitous Roberts. When it comes to a
question of morality, the Constitution
"a back number. anyway-must not
presume to stand between congression-
al Justice and outraged virtue. Not
unless Mile. Gould. the w. c. T. Q.
and supposed popular opinion are back
of the Constitution. But what if
Christ had come to Washington when
the vote was about TO be taken and
had imposed His old-time qualification
upon the Congressional stone-throwersP
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

THE creditor who asks payment in a
better dollar than that named in the
bond. is knave; the debtor who en-
dorses such exaction is an ass. Lay
they cudgel on limits all he's fit for!
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

If the gold standard is not to the in
terest of favored class, why is it
that the favored classes are unanimous
ly in favor of the gold standard?
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

THE Republicans have taken TO call
ing Senator Pettigrew names. but he
keeps right on breaking it off in 'eu.
Iron County register., 1900-02-15

CA To7TA
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-11

we're completely blown down and otsar
buildings DESTROYED. While there wer,.
no deaths reported at North Galveston
mere were many hardships endured NV
those wno battled with the clemens
Mr w. +, Durham. lumber dealer
OF Alta Iona. who made the passage
from Galveston with me. and myself Ieft
North Galveston this morning in a skis
ana struck the mainland on the south
side OF Dickinson bayou. After wadIns
knee deep through the marshes some
eight miles we struck the Galveston
Houston and Henderson railroad abo,,r
three miles below Dickinson. ana se-
cured a team to take us into Dickinson
where we were picked UP by sneciaI
International and Great Northern rescue
train and brought to Houston.
Among the Houston people whom
saw In Galveston and know to hs s.,a
are Major R. B. Bear receiver o, the
Galveston Street Railway company
Harry G.. Lidstope. Jr., well known
Houstonian. J. Waddy Tate Of the Mans
Leaf Route"
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ARCADIA DEsoLATED.
a Young hoy KiIied--OnIy One BuiId.
ing Left Standing.

A dead child. the destruction OF all
houses except one. and the destituton
OF some fifty families is the woful record
OF the work OF the hurricane at Arcadia.
]. L. Sampson of that place and Cap
tain Joe Owens. formerly of Galveston
but lately a resident OF Arcadia, when
seen by a representative of The Post
gave the following account of the effects
OF the storm:
The youngest boy OF Mr.. Bodaker. a
child about ten years old was struck
by flying piece of wood and killed.
The body was inferred yesterday
Before the storm Arcadia possessed
some fifty or sixty buildings. including
stores. dwellings and a church. But
now only one building stands. Much
havoc hfs been wrought on neighbour
ing ranches. The buildings on Captain
Owens ranch were swept away. The
barn on the Sampson ranch was carried
nearly mile by the wind. Slack
house Htlls store and the depot were
all DESTROYED.
Many poor people are in a lsmentable
condition. There are fully fifty families
who are in absolute want. They need
shelter. none OF them having more thar
the floors Of their former houses. and
some having not even that. But though
they need shelter badly, they need foot
much more.
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M'lLHfNNY BODIES BROUGHT IN
rupLiU SUSPENSE ALLASEu BY THE
FINDING or THE BODIES
All Except that of Mrs. Mciihcnny,
MIR. McIiheury' Alive but Pros
trated with Grief.

At Wall G. Stabe's undertaking estao-
lishmeut are resting che remains of ave
Houston people who persisted at seabrook
in Saturday evenings great hurricane.
They are MRS. C. II, LUCY. her two
small children, her brother, HAVEN MIL
KENNY, and the FIvE-YEAR-oLD SON
OF David Rice. The latter child was Wis
iting the family of Mr.. s. *. Mclhenny
at the time OF the disaster.
All of the bodies were SO badly mangled
and buffeted about by the drift aud wreck
age as TO make it very difficult to identity
them. They were washed ashore near
Seahrook yesterday morning ana were
sent up to Houston on the irst train into
Houston over the La Porte road, arriving
here about O'Clock yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by Mr.. Lucy and others
The body of Mrs. McIlhenny has not as
yet been recovered.
Mr.. McIlhenny was rescued alive yes
terday morning exhausted and in state
OF terrible nervous prostration. He was
| brought in on the afternoon train from
| Lamarque aud is now at HE home la
this city completely Frustrated Kind
friends are constantly In attendance and
are doing all within their power TO cheer
him.
Mr.. McIlhenny gives the following ac-
count OF the fearful disaster TO his family.
He says the water came up SO rapidly that
he and his family sought safety upon the
roof. He had Haven in his arms and the
other children we're strapped together. II
was not long before a heavy piece O.
timber struck Haven, killing him. HI
then took up young Rice and while he hid
him In his arms he was twice washed of
the roof and in this way young Rice was
drowned Mrs Luey's older child wa
next killed by a piece OF timber and the
younger one was drownsrs and next Mira
Lucy was washed off and drowned, thut
leaving Mr.. and Mrs. McIlhenny the onlJ
occupants of the roof. Finally the roo
blew off the house and as 1t fell into the
water was broken in twain, Mrs. McIlhen-
ny remaining on one half and Mr.. Nell
benny on the other. The portion of th'
roof to which Mrs. McIlhenny chung turned
over and this was the last seen Of her
Thus in very brief space of time MI
McIlhenny witnessed the loss OF his fam
. ny, one by one. He held to his side o
the ROOF 50 distracted In mind as to carr
very little where or how It drifted. H.
finally Ian led on terra frna about p. IN
Sunday and walked about the prairie no
knowing or caring whittier he went.
Thus ends the suspense concerning thu
fate OF this old and we'll known Houston
Family which has oppressed the city 10
over two days For the two griet-strick
en- husbands and other members OF tn
family the heart OF the entire city throb
In silent sympathy.
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TO RESTORE COMMUNICATION
sToRM-sTRICKEN GALVESTON CAN
BE REACHED VIA TEXAS CITY.
Thence by Steamer Eugene To GAL
veston-Tbose Most Interested TO
BE the First Accommodated.

Arrangements have been made by which
communication with Galveston will be
re-established today.
This Will be done BY way OF Texas CITY
over the Galveston, Houston and Hender-
son railway and thence across the nav n,
the steam tug Eugene, A. R. Moore agent
The railroad company sent out large
force OF hands yesterday to repair the
track from Texas City Junction into Texas
City. This necessitated the building of
about a mile of track, which will be ready
for use today. The first train will leave
at o'clock this morning from the Inter-
national and Great Northern depot, reach
ing Texas City by II a. ~, where connec-
ton will be made with the Eugene and
the trip across to Galveston will be made
in about forty-hve minutes, the distance
from Texas City to Galveston being only
six miles.
This service is arranged chiefly for the
accommodation Of those having dear
friends or relatives in Galveston and Is
not intended for those simply bent on
curiosity. They will be provided for later
on; Galveston from all accounts has
trouble enough to take care of it's own
in the way OF food and water and an in
iux Of people just now would but add to
the distress. Besides this, the carrying
capacity OF the tug is but seventy-hve
Later on 1t is intended that oil who desire
to make the trip will be provided tor
when the boat facilities will be increased
by the addition OF a barge.
This service will likely be the only
means Of reaching Galveston for some time
to come, as all the railroad bridges and
the wagon bridge across the bay ar.
washed away and 1t viii take some time to
replace them.