Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-13

Through the efforts Of Postmaster
Albert, Madison county bids fair to
have a rural free delivery route in a
short time. Last Saturday Mr.. Albert
received notice to secure three appli-
cants for the position Of carrier and to
forward them to the p~ostofice depart
ment. At an early date an inspector
will be sent here to examine the ap-
plicants and to complete arrangements
for the establishment of the proposed
route. The following applications
have already been filed: Ed. Simmons,
Joe Alumbaugh and Chss. Graham.
The route will probably be as follows:
From Fredericktown south to Ed.
Perringer's place, thence out on Trace
Creek road around by John Turner's
place until the Ironton road is reached,
thence east around by James Thomp-
cons place, then up Slater creek to
Creek Nation, thence down Mill creek
to Mill creek ford, thence past Henry
Belken's place via the Brewlngton
Mill road to Fredericktown. The
route will about twenty-three
miles. -FredericktoUn Tribune.
The following is from the Poplar
Bluff Citizen: "Ben Deeriug, the
evangelist, is in the city looking for
lost souls and life insurance. He rep
resents the National Life and Trust
Co., OF Des Moines, that for a small
guarantee will see that you do not die
at a personal loss, while his Great
Salvation Company, of New Jerusalem,
takes up the thread where the other
ends, and by the ''on the level" and
no premium plan reads your title clear
to mansions in the skies. Ben is q
very engaging speaker. When you
hear him talk insurance you want to
live forever for the mere joy of paying
your dues into such benevolent con
Germ, but when he talks religion you
want to cash in your policy right away
and sample the delights of the better
world, where insurance agents eas
from troubling and tontine policies are
at rest. He has got you coming or
going, the only sovereign remedy for
the quick and the dead, a great, grand
and comprehensive trust on the pro-
blem of the future, how to live, how
to die and how to leave enough for
your wife to get a better husband"
The grounding ventured out and saw his
shadow,
Then ~straightway sought his hole once
more;
And so we're doomed to six weeks wintry
Just like the weather gone before!
o grounding sage, why leave you not to
Hyatt
The regulation of this thing;
Why not enjoy your cosy quarters quiet,
And free the way to Gentle SPRING.
But so it always is: some pesky meddler
Upsets our dearest hopes and brings
To naught our best-laid plans built on the
future,
And causes US to cuss, by jings!
When next convenes our august legislature
Well have a bill put briskly through
To make the grounding and his shade illegal,
An house him in his hole, perdu!
Beyond our Solons' power9 Don'tyou think
it!
They regulate all other things
Our births, our deaths, our food, our physic-
Why not the coming Of our springs?
So, if they turn their guns on Mr.. Grounding,
His day will soon be past and gone
He'll quickly scuttle to his hole and stay
there,
An" leave Sweet Spring henceforth alonel
The following from Tuesdays Globe
Democrat tells of a wreck on the Iron
Mountain Railroad In St. Louis last
Monday: 1.-TWO men narrowly escaped
death in a rear-end collision between
two freight trains at Robert Avenue
and the Iron Mountain tracks early
yesterday morning. Freight train II,
a through train, and train 81, a local.
were both south bound on the tracks.
At Robert avenue train II, which vas
ahead of No. 81, stopped for orders
There is a sharp curve at this point,
and train 81, in charge of Engineer
Edward Walters aud Fireman Martin
Robinson, swept around the curve at
full speed. They were Mortified to see
the rear end of the train, which they
supposed to be several miles ahead OF
them, standing on the tracks. Wal
ters called to his fireman to leap, and,
after closing the throttle and putting
on the air brake, he jumped. The
speed was too great, however, and a
moment later the engine crashed into
the caboose Of train II. The caboose
was split in twain and the engine
plowed through three empty stock cars,
the ~wreckage being piled in a heap.
The engine did not leave the tracks,
and was finally brought to a stand by
a fiat car coupled to the stock cars and
loaded with pig iron. The fire from
the stove In the caboose set fire 10 the
wreckage, and 1t was necessary tc
sound a fire alarm. The department
responded promptly, but the caboose
and three stock cars were entirely con-
sumed, though the remainder OF the
cars were u%nlnjured. The damage tc
the rolling stock is estimated at aboul
$2500. The cars which we're com
pletely destroyed were valued at about
$500 each, while the engine OF train 81
was damaged about $1,000. Walters
and Robinson escaped injury
A few days ago the editor went t6
Bismarck. He is interested in thai
town because OF the calamity which Q
few months ago devasted it by fire,
!, Its rebuilding is an evidence Of itf
vitality BY reason Of Its position and
surroundings. Substantial brick struc'
tnraa are akinn thu nlana of tha frailai