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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
LAwBREAKING REPUBLICANS.
Lottery Schem and Other Iniquitfes
COuntenanced by the Adj
ministratiOn.

The Mckinley administration has
prided itself upon its Christian zeal,
it is lauded by Methodist bishops. who
know better, as the party of progress
and beneyolence and withal favorable
to prohibition and missionaries. Some
other denominations have been almost
as great partisans of the republican
party and the great and good Mr.. Nc
Kinley. As the reverse OF this, the
democrats were a wicked. and worth
less crew, allied with the rum pow
er" and STEPPED in all kinds of political
heresies.
Some few years g these ardent re-
publican friends of reform instituted
a political crusade against lotteries
and polygamy and made Washington
howl with their outcries for congress
to pass laws to prohibit them. Con
gress was willing, and passed prohib-
itory laws against both, for a good
strong howl, well prolonged, nearly
always brings the. average congress.
man to heed the voice of the people.
Now, with this stringent statute
against lotteries, which the great
moral sense of the country required
should be suppressed, the first we
know this holier than thou republic
an administration has gone into the
lottery business on it's w account.
The greatest land lottery scheme ver
devised has been established by the
president and his cabinet, and the
drawing" has been supervised and
carried on by United States officials.
The prizes are $4,000 tracts of land in
the Indian territory, and there are
100000 persons competing for the
chance to obtain them.
That is an extraordinary spectacle
of a government breaking its own
laws.
But that is a small thing compared
to the other laws of the United States
that are continually being broken, and
the transgressors paid to do so by this
same republican administration, by
compromising the ~felonies of slavery
and polygamy in the Sulu section of
the Philippines. The sultan and his
dotees are monthly receiving pay from
the United States, with the agreement
that these twin relics of barbarism
are not to be interfered with, and are
indeed fostered by our republican adj
ministration by the payments of the
money which allow more slaves and
wives to be purchased and main
tanned.
What a howl there would have been
from end to end of the United States
If a democratic administration had
broken the laws and fostered the in
famous i~mmoralities of slavery and
polygamy and instituted an immoral
lottery to rattle off 13, 900 tracts of the
public land which belongs to the
whole people of the United States. But
not a voice is heard in protest from
the great morality party, because it
has been decreed that the hands of
our noble president must be upheld
and the republican party sustained in
any enormities they may commit. The
blame cannot be laid on congress, for
congress is guiltless so far of any
completely.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
FOR woMEN's TROUBLES TOO.

New Baden, ILL.,, August 12th:-MrS.
Anton Griesbaum, Jr., has been very
i'll. Female weakness had run her
down so low that she could not do her
housework. She had tried many things,
but got no relief.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, a new remedy,
which is better known here as a cure
for Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy,
and Rheumatism, worked Like a charm
in Mrs. G~riesbaum's case. She used
three boxes and is now a new woman,
able to do her work as we'll as ever
she was. Her general health is much
improved, and she has not a single
symptom of Female Trouble left.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are making q
wonderful reputation for themselves
in this part of the state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
ODD FELLOWS AND THE FAIR
Declarations and Resolutions Adopt
ed BY the Grand United d
Fellows o fMissOuri.

St. Louis, Aug. s.-The Grand Unit
ed Order of Odd Fellows of the state
of Missouri adopted the following
declaration and resolution at their
annual convention held recently:
"We, the members of the Grand
United Order of Odd Fellows of Mis-
souri,, in annual convention, share
with much pride the qualification of
the citizens of ST. Louis, in their ex-
t~raordinary success in the launching
of the Louisiana Purchase exposition
to be held in 1903: The purchase of
the Louisiana territory, in 1908, from
Napoleon Bonaparte, marks an inn
portant epoch in our country's devel-
opment. No event in the early his
tory of our country did more towards
awakening a spirit of liberty for all
men in the United States than did
this famous transaction, which will
be celebrated by citizens within the
bounds of the territory known as the
Louisiana purchase.
THE real meaning of the act was
that all men shall be free everywhere.
This is why our hearts leap for joy
for the success of this monster cele-
bration.
From correspondence that we have
already received there will be many
visitors from the old world during
this fair that are members of our or
der, and this alone is sufficient to
make us interested in the success of
this event. Let us adopt the follow
ing:
Resolved, That we, the members
of the Grand United Order of Odd
Fellows of the state of Missouri,
pledge the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition Co. u hearty support, as a
Worlds fair" will be of much educa-
tional value to all citizens"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
Decorated women.

Sixty-eight women have received the
cross of the French Legion of Honor
since it's foundation in 1902. Some Of
them nave been soldiers. There were
virginie Ghesquiere, sergeant in the
Twenty-seventh regiment of infantry,
decorated in 1908; Marie Schellinck,
sub-lieutenant, wounded at Austerlitz
and jena, and the Widow Brulow, an
other sub-lieutenant. Four vivandieres
have received the cross, which has also
been given to Al sisters of charity and
to women philanthropists. Mime. de
Ragis, wife of the mayor of Bizou, re-
ceived it as a reward for resisting a
riot" Rosa Bonheur is an officer of the
order. One nun received the cross in
recognition of 60 years service in a hos
pital.-N. Y. SUM-.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15

At Goa, near Bombay, there is a sim
gular vegetable, the sorrowful tree.
so called because it only fourishes in
the night. At sunset no flowers are to
be seen, but half an hour later it ia
quite full of them. They yield a sweet
smell, but the sun no sooner begins
to shine upon them than some of them
fall off and others close up; and thus
the tree continues Towering in the
night all the year. The grooming tree.
which made a strange noise like that
of a person in extreme agony, was an
elm which grew near the center of the
village Of Badsley, near Lymington,
England. Though the country people
assigned manys uperstitious causes for
this strange phenomenon the natural
lists could assign no physical one that
was in any degree satisfactory. 1t
continued an object of establishment
for about 20 years, when the owner
cut it down for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the cause.-Ladies' Home Jour.
nal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
FIRE IN COMMISSION HOUSE.
Chickens and Calves Asphyxiated
During n Fire in a ST. Louis
Commission House.

st. Louis, Aug. 9.-Fire broke out
at lis o'clock Thursday morning in
the building at No. 9O5 North Fourth
street, occupied by the Mound City
Poultry Co. About twenty coops of
chickens, stored IN the upper floor
of the structure, and several calves,
that were kept quartered on the Sec
ond floor, were killed by asphyxiation
before the fire was brought under
control. The cries made by the fright
ened animals and fowls were audible
several blocks away. The loss will!
amount to So, 1000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
A New plastic Compound.

"Plastiline" is a new compound for
taking casts of organic remains found
in the earth. Hitherto beeswax, pure
or mixed with paraffin and ozokerit,
dentists modelling composition, glue,
gelatine, melted sulphur, or plaster of
paris have been used. Plastiline, in
vented by Prof. Luigi Giudice, of Genoa,
is of secret composition, but resembles
clay or putty, and is made in three va
~rieties, differing in hardness, the me-
dunn, No. 2, being fittest for impress
sions of fossils. Plastiline can be soft
ened with vaseline or sweet oil. The
modelling tools of sculptors are en-
ployed with it; and otherwise it is very
convenient. Plaster casts can be made
from tn. Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
CONGRESSMAN BARTHOLDT.
Using His influence in Germany in
Favor of the ST. Louis
Worlds Fair.

Berlin, Aug. 9.-Congressman Rich
ard Bartholdt and j. Brucker have be-
gun work here in the interest of the
St. Louis exposition of 1908. They
will see the officials and leading edi-
tors and explain the plans and scope
of the undertaking. 1t is believed
that the Germans will take a great
er interest in this exposition than
they took in the one held in Chicago,
owing to the immense development
of trade between Germany and the
United States since 1898. Mr.. Bar
tholdt asserts that delegations will
be sent to Europe to invite all the
governments to participate in the ex-
position, and he has already seen
most of the Americans in diplomatic
and consular circles in Austria-Hun-
gary, Italy and Germany in refer
ence to the matter. He will return to
the United States on the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
POWER BEING URp
laws of h Land Dictated Instead
of Recommended by President
Mckinley.

The Capitalization of power by the
federal government, which is reach
ing such extraordinary lengths under
President Mckinley, is being copied
by republican governors in some of
the states. The persistent effort of
the president and these mimic gov
errors to encroach upon the domain
OF h legislative department, dictat-
ing instead of recommending the laws
that should be enacted and the still
greater evil of interpreting the laws
to suit themselves or the trusts and
corporations that are back of them.
1t is only a few months ago that the
a~nti-canteen law was set aside by the
administration, and it has become the
common custom for the president to
urge members of congress 10 pass or
defeat legislation and even to reward
with patronage and power those who
obey his demands. The president
originates legislation, as with the bill
for the increase of the army, the Phil
ippine legislation and the Cuban
amendment and used all the in1u-
ence at his command to put them
through.
It is not to be wondered at that re-
publican governors with this example
before them are equally aggressive.
More than one governor, says the
Washington Post, has called an extra
session of a legislature to do work
which at it's regular session it had de-
clined to do. only a few months ago
the governor of a western state,
after having failed to induce the
out in an official deliverance in which
he scolded the lawmakers as if they
were ins~ubordinate boys who had be-
come consigned to his care. A few
days ago the governor of Pennsyl-
vania, acting under the most re-
markable decision ever rendered by
a state supreme court, went over the
appropriation bills, amending various
items in order to bring the total
down to the estimated income. The
constitution gives him authority to
veto any item in an appropriation bill.
The supreme court has amended that
provision so as to allow him to trim
any or all items. No more radical de-
parture from sound principles, no
more dangerous precedent, has ever
been seer in any American common
wealth.
New York has a new constitution
intended to illustrate all that is best
in government. Under that instru-
ment, however, we still find the gov
ernor all powerful as a promoter OF
legislation. But it is a fac that in
the Empire state the governor is re-
lied upon to act as captain and pilot
for the legislative craft.
To a greater or less extent, in a ma
iority of the states, the drift is to-
ward the one-man power in making
laws. This is partly due to executive
aggression, but chiefly to lack OF
pride on the part of legislatures. 1t
may sometimes happen hat a gov
ernor is right and a majority OF the
lawmakers wrong in their views of a
measure. But the governor who IS
not content with the exercise Of his
constitutional rights of recommends
ton and veto may well be sat down
upon for obtrusion into legislative
domain,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
THEIR DEMANDS GRANTED.
The Ferguson Foundry Co., at Chi
caGo, Grants the De-
mands and Work is Resumed.

Chicago, Aug. 10.-Iron molders
state that the Ferguson Foundry Co,
has granted the strikers demands.
William Ferguson is n of the oldest
members of the National Founders
association, and his surrender to the
strikers is considered by them the
greatest victory they have won. AT
the headquarters of the Ferguson
Foundry Co., the representatives
would not talk of the surrender or
give the terms of agreement.
1.-The men have returned to work."
said one, land the foundry is in full
operation again"
The Ferguson Foundry Co. is the
twenty-ifth firm to sign an agree
ment since the molders struck on
July Is
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
STOLE HER MOTHERS MONEY.
Swears She was Compelled to Do it
by Her Lover, With Whom
She EIoped.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 9.-Daisy
Wheeler, 16 years old, yesterday, in
police court, confessed to stealing ST.
200 from her mother, Mrs. Mary
Wheeler, widow of a civil war veteran.
1t was pension money and had been
placed in a bureau drawer by Mrs.
Wheeler, because she feared to de-
post it in a bank. The girl confessed
to stealing the money on July 4 and
to having given it to her sweetheart,
Walter Cavanaugh, with whom she
eloped to Chicago. The couple were
arrested in that city and brought
back for trial. The girl yesterday
took the stand against Cavanaugh, de-
claring that he compelled her to steal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
STEEL TRUST STRIKES HARD.
McKeespnrt, Pa, to suffer for Its sympathy
with the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 9.-There were
gravely important developments in
the strike situation to-day. The Unit
ed States Steel corporation moved de-
cisively in its strike campaign with a
peremptory order directing that the
great Devices Wood plant at McKees-
port be dismantled and removed to
the Kiskimenetas valley.
The o1iit iai announcement Of the
order to diSmantle the Devices Wood
plant came This afternoon toward the
close of an otherwise u~neve1tful day,
and its -muC rtance was such that 1t
claimed the serious consideration on
either side of the great industrial
conflict now being waged here. Per
sifer r. Smith, district manager Tor
the American Sheet Steel Co., made
the formal announcement in the fol-
lowing statement:
81 have orders from President Nc
Murty of the American Sheet Steel
Co. to at once tear down the Devices
Wood plant at McKeesport and re-
move same to Kiskimenetas valley.
This l shall proceed to do Immediate
ly."
The publication of the order was
a great surprise, and McKeesport re-
ceiyed it at first with doubt. Actual
preparations were made later in the
day for the ~dismantling of the mill,
and there is little room for doubt
that it will be torn down and taken
apart, piece by piece.
III z41-- o--l = -
spirit of defiance. They simply said
that it showed the steel corporation
was convinced that it could not re-
open the plant in the face of the OPP
position of the Amalgamated asso-
citation. Strike leaders here said that
the order vas a bluff that had been
worked unsuccessfully before, and
declined to take it seriously. A rep
resentative of the press showed Dis
trict Manager Smiths statement to
President Shaffer, but after reading
it he declined to talk about it.
81 have nothing to say about this
order to dismantle the Devices Wood
plant" was all that he would say.
The steel officials declined to give
any S for the order, but it is
openly stated here hat the pro-
nounced sympathy of citizens and
city officials at McKeesport with the
strikers is responsible for it.
The Devices Wood plant was found
ed about forty years ago, and is one
of the best-known plants in Pennsyl-
vania. Its yards and mills cover be-
tween IL and IA acres; it has en-
r1o-al I Onn ,oo- - - 100000 49,
and its cost is placed at $4,000, 900 by
officials of the steel corporation.
Many of the company officials here
are inclined to believe that Mayor
Blacks utterances are responsible for
the move made by the head of the
combine
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
THE ACCOMPLISH OF BREsCI.
He Admits Having Started a Street
Row While Bresci Killed
King Humbert.

Paris, Aug. 1O.-A dispatch to the
Fatrie from Rome says the Anarchist
Luigi Gianotti, who is charged, at
Milan, with being an accomplish of
Bresci, in the assassination of King
Humbert, has confessed to his COM
plicity in the crime. He admits hat
he left Paterson, n. J., in company
with Bresci, and that they went to-
eether to Monza, near Milan. Clan
otti started a street row at Monza the
day of them urder, in order to dis
tract the attention of the police, while
Bresci attacked the king.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
THEY WILL WEAR SILKS,
Fea Imports OF manufactures
of Silks Into the Philippine


Washington, Aug. "a comparative
statement giving the imports of ~iiz
manufactures into the Philippines
during the year 1900 amounted to
SSe5,9s4, as against $1s3,OO0 for 1899,
an increase in favor of 1900 of III
per cent.
The imports of this commodity
from the United tSates, while COM
paratively small, increased from
$3e1 in, 1899 to $1,140 in I9U1. or PIC
per cent,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
Against Law and Evidence.

Fort Scott, Kas., Aug. "a jury OF
prominent men in a justice court here
yesterday found Rev. Price, presiding
elder of the Methodist. church in this
city, guilty of malicious prosecution
in a liquor case. The defendant was
acquitted and the costs were assessed
against the clergyman. The defend
ant was the keeper of a saloon that
has been running wide open, and sew.
eral witnesses readily admitted hav-
Ing bought liquor at the place Rev.
Prizes lad bought some for the pur-
pose of getting direct testimony.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
A STRUGGLE.
ing For in the Strike at
San Francisco.

San Francisco, Aug. 9.-Although
the Municipal league has not ADAM
doned its attempt to have the labor
troubles in this city settled by a ON
premise, both sides are preparing for
a protracted struggle. The labor
leaders r holding almost CONT lu-
Gus sessions for the purpose of get
ting their forces in readiness to meet
every move of the opposition, and the
employers are bending every energy
to get men to take the places vacat.
ed by the strikers
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15

Petty Crime Increasing I'm England.
The British home Office report for
1897 shows that while serious crimes
tend to diminish in England, there is
a great increase of minor offenses. BY
far the larger number of criminals con-
victed during the year have been con
victed of some crime before-a fact that
led the home Office to conclude shat
neither penal servitude nor imprison-
mentserves to deter the habitual offend
err from reverting to crime, and it is the
habitual offender who forms the bulk
of the prison population."-Chicago
Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
Fifteen Mills Absorbed.

New York, Aug. cit is announced
here that the United States Steel cor
poration has obtained control of the
Shelby tube works, "a corporation
with Is mills in various parts of the
country producing tubes of all kinds,
but principally of the higher grades.
The principal mills owned by it are
located at Shelby, o.; Greenvilte, Pa;
Elwood City, Pa; Toledo, o.; New
castle, Pa; Hartford, Conn: Albany,
Ind; Auburn, Pa; Beaver Falls. Pa;
Garwood, N. j.; Mansfield, o. and
Cuyahoga Falls, q.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
GOMPERS PROMISES AID.
After Hearing One side of the Case
Pledges the Federation to Sup
port the Association.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 10.-President
Samuel Gompers has pledged the
American Federation of Labor to the
support of the Amalgamated associa-
ton. After a conference with Presi-
dent Shaffer lasting for the greater
Part of two days, he issued a state
ment last night specifically upholding
the position of the Am~algamated as
sociation and pledging the moral and
financial support of the federation in
the strike now in progress against
the United States Steel corporation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
Panic at the Girls umm Camp
Wholesale Poisoning.

Catskill, N. Y, Aug. 1o.-The girls
summer camp here was thrown in a
panic. Sixty young women, mostly
residents of Albany and Poughkeep-
sic, were suddenly taken i'll, display
ing symptoms of poisoning.
On inquiry it vas found that the
girls had partaken of corned beef,
not the canned variety, however,
Physicians say they will recover Ths
camp was established here two years
ago by Mrs. Harriet Christie, Of AL
banx. for working girls.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-15
He ALMOST SUCCEEDED.
M. Santos Dumont Barely Escaped
Winning the Hundred Thou
sand Franc Prize.
AsUST OF WIND PROVED HIS UNDOlHG.
He Had the Eifel Tower
With His DfrigibIe Balloon and
was Headed for st. Loud ON His
Return When Disaster Overlook
Him.

Paris Aug. an. Santos-DumOnt
started in his balloon from the Pare
de ST. Loud at 6:10 a. M, amid hearty
cheers. His initial movements were
promising, as the balloon turned
around the Eiffel tower Q minutes
and "a seconds after starting and re-
headed for ST. Loud. Just over the
Avenue Henri Marcen, however, a
strong gust of wind struck the
aerostat, which veered violently to
one side, almost simultaneously
bounding backwards a distance of Sc
yards. The hydrogen gas was forced
from the front to the back part OF
the balloon, creating a sudden eN.
papsion which caused the machine to
dip.
The Steel Cords Broken.
Her screw touched the steel cords
and broke them. NJ. Santos-Dun,ont
Immediately stopped the motor, and
the balloon began to descend. Unfor-
tunately the cover of the aerostat
struck the corner of a siX-story build
ing. A report like the shot OF a al
non followed. The balloon collapsed
and fell rapidly. Luckily the frame
caught on the coping of the building,
and the balloon remained suspended,
otherwise Santos-Dumont would have
been killed. AS it was, the aeronaut
hung in a most dangerous position in
midair for half IN hour, until by II
great effort he succeeded in catching
the iron bar of a window, to which he
chung until rescued with some diff
Guilty by the use of ropes.
Escaped without n Scratch.
The balloonist escaped without u
scratch, however. The explosion of
the balloon attracted enormous
crowds. and the reception of NJ. San
tos-Dumont on reaching the street
was most enthusiastic, many ladies
clipging to his neck and kissing MIN
repeatedly.
As NJ. Santos-Dumont superintend-
ed the removal of the machine, he
said he was quite ready to recon-
mence operations.
NJ. Deutsch Was Affected.
NJ. Deutsch, who offered the prize
of $1,000 francs for the rounding of
Fife! tower, and the return to the
starting point within a given period
of time, was so affected by the dan
get that Santos-Dumont had passed
through, that he told him ne woclG
rather present him with the prize at
once than to see him kill himself
with his experiments, but the balloon
ist replied hat he had rounded Eff
fel tower in such n short period IF
time hat he considered the result TOO
satisfactory to permit the relinquish-
ment of his attempts in the future.