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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
TO DISSOLVE THE BEEF TRUST.
United States District Attorney Said to
Have Been Ordered from WASH
ington to Take Action.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 1.-THE
Journal says:
According to a dispatch from WASH
ington, Maj. William Warner, United
States district attorney, has been in
structed by the attorney general to
Immediately take steps to dissolve the
so-called Beef trust. A federal grand
jury will be ordered this week to
commence it's session next Monday.
Maj. Warner yesterday positively de-
clined to make any statement what
ever regarding the matter.
81 have not a word to say" he de-
clared when asked about the order
from Washington.
Nothing so important to the entire
people has occurred in years as the
ordering of this investigation, if it
should transpire to be the fact, as it
is believed to be. In the past year,
but notably in the past six months
the price of meat has gone up in an
alarming way.
The attorney for one of the largest
packers in Kansas City, after hearing
the dispatch to theJournal read, said:
1--WE anticipated some such move as
this. Two weeks ago the journal had
a dispatch from Washington indicat-
ing that President Roosevelt would
personally order an investigation. We
scarcely thought that it would go to
the length of having the district at
torney summon a grand jury, as [
understand Maj. Warner has arranged
to do. AS to the merits or demerits
of the case, I have nothing to SAY.
Of course, all agree that meats are
up. So are cattle"
A large retail dealer said:
"We think this is a trust. No butch
er is allowed to slaughter his own
cattle. If he does there will be a
butcher shop start up next door to
him, and he will find himself under
sold on everything he offers for sale.
1t is this treatment which compels all
of us to buy from the packers and
all packers charge the same price"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
Gallant Speeches.

American have not the reputation
OF Europeans for gallant speeches,
yet there are many occasions when
they earn the envy of people who are
more given to saying pretty things.
AT a recent private dinner at which
Seth Low and his wife were guests
one of the diners said to the new
mayor:
You must be proud to be the hus-
band of the first lady in New York"
Il am proud" said the mayor gal
lantly, as he glanced tenderly at his
wife, "to be the husband of Mrs.
Low"
On a similar occasion recently the
American ambassador to the court of
st. James paid a graceful compliment
to his wife.
1t was at an informal dinner. at
which the guests were intimate
friends. Someone proposed that each
IN turn should answer the question:
IF you were dead and could come
back to this world in another BODY,
who would you prefer to come as p,
When it came to Mr.. Choate's turn.
he said: Il would prefer to come as
Mrs. Choate's second husband."-N.
Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
Wireless Telegraphy.

Benjamin Franklin leaned pensively
on the shelving shore and tossed bits
of birthstone into the Styx.
wireless ~telegraphy," he observed,
land they say it is a modern inven-
ton. Rot!"
He sent a fiat stone hurting out
owe the %wavelets, and it skipped
eight times before it finally plunged
beneath the surface.
"Rot," he continued, rot! We're
there any wires about my kites?
Didn't l telegraph to the skies with
out the aid or consent of any wire
trust on earth? These fellows are
always claiming originality for what
they do" And again he heaved a
chunk of birthstone viciously at the
unoffending waves.
But, after ALL" he added, thought
fully, 81 don't know as I have any
right to thank God that I am not as
modern men. My predecessors gave
me a great deal of assistance with
my original sayings in Poor Richards
Almanac" And rising with n grunt
he busted off his long tailed coat,
lighted his pipe on the atmosphere
and trudged putting up the bank
Portland Oregonian.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
GEN. WADE HAMPTON DEAD.
Full OF Years and
General sorrow.

Columbia, s. c., April l2.-Gen
Wade Hampton died yesterday morn
ing at nine O'Clock from valvular dis
east of the heart, having been I'M
conscious for several hours.
The general had just passed his
eighty-fourth birthday. Twice this
winter he had sustained attacks that
had greatly weakened him, but he
rallied wonderfully. He was out
driving a week ago, but it was evil
dent his strength was deserving him.
No arrangements have been made
for the funeral except that it will be,
at the generals expressed wish, with
out pomp of any sort, and will take
place this afternoon.
The governor issued this proclama.
ton:
whereas, Hon. Wade Hampton. a
former governor of South Carolina,
and United States senator, died at
his home in Columbia this morning,
full of years and of honor, therefore,
I, NJ. b. insolvency, governor of
South Carolina, in recognition of his
distinguished services to his people
and his country, throughout his long
and honored career, and in further
recognition of his broad. statesman
ship and true nobility of character
and his high patriotism and devotion
to duty and his state, do request
that on tomorrow, Saturday, all
public offices in the state of South
Carolina be closed; and as a further
testimonial to his worth, that the
flags of the state and of the United
States be put at half-mast on the cap
itol and all other public buildings in
the state, and remain in that position
until the funeral services are held"
The family of Gen. Hampton OBJ.
jected to a state funeral. Bells were
tolled yesterday in all towns of the
state, when the news was received
and many schools were closed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
PRoUDEsT COON In NEW YORK.
He Carries a Handsome Gold Watch
and Chain Given Him by
Prince Henry.

New York, April 12.-The proudest
passenger to walk down the gang
plank of the Deutschland when she
made her dock was Herbert Cum
mings, a young mulatto, who was
sent over on the same steamer by a
local florist to decorate the cabin of
Prince Henry on his return voyage
from this country.
The lad was detailed to attend to
the floral decorations on board EN-
peror Williams yatch H~ohenzollern
while she was in port, and the prince
liked him so well that he asked that
he be sent to Bremen when he sailed
on the Deutschland.
At the end of the voyage Prince
Henry presented him with a hand
some gold watch and chain, and gave
him an autograph letter of recommen-
dation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
ROOSEVELT NOT MEDDLING.
President Says He Hasn't Time
to MeddIe with the Illinois
Senatorial Contest.

Washington, April Ex-senator Ma
son was among the presidents call
ers, Friday, and during the confer
ence the president authorized the
statement that he was taking no
part whatever in the Illinois senatori-
al contest. His relations with SEN
ator Mason, Representative Hopkins
and Mr.. Dawes were alike most friend
ly, and he had done and would do
nothing that could possibly be con
strued into an evidence of PARTIAL
ty for either of the candidates. my
time is altogether too much occupied
with being president" said Mr.. Roose-
welt, "to admit of my taking any part
in the senatorial contest in Illinois,"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
A T IN HIS BACK.

Palmer, Oregon, April 14th.-W. J.
%Uppendahl of this place has had a great
deal of trouble recently with his back.
Every time he went to do the least bit
of lifting he used to have what he
called "a catch" in his back. He says:
SIT did not have to be very hard work
to give me such a severe pain that I
could not move.
81 suffered quite a long time before
l heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. I used
four boxes and now l can work as hard
as any one and my back is as stout and
strong as it ever was.
"My wife used some of the pills too
and she thinks there is nothing that
beats them.
II can positively recommend Dodd's
Kidney Pills to anyone who has a pain
in his back for I know they will
cure IT,"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
THE TALMAGE OBsEQUIEs.
Arrangements Completed for simple Cers-
monies Personal Friends will
Participate.

Washington, April 14~.-Arrange-
ments were completed yesterday for
the funeral services i'm this city over
the remains of Rev. L. Dewitt Tai
mage. The funeral will take place at
four o'clock Tuesday afternoon from
the Church of the Covenant. The
services will be very simple. There
will be no funeral ceremony, but
short addresses concerning the life
and works of DR.. Talmage will be
made by men who have been inti-
mately associated with him.. DR..
Teunis S. Hamlin, the pastor of the
church, and DR.. Thomas Chalmers
Easton, of the Eastern Presbyterian
church of Washington, will both as
sist in the services. Dr.. Samuel j.
Niccolls, of st. Louis, a lifelong
friend, will make an address, and DR..
E. P. Tervne, of New Jersey; DR.. How
ard Suydam, of Reinbeck, N. Y, and
school friends of the deceased, have
been asked to assist.
Music will be furnished by the male
quartette of the Church of the Cow
enant.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morning
the interment will take place in the
family lot at Greenwood cemetery,
Brooklyn.
Silent tribute to the memory of DR..
Talmage vas paid yesterday by thou
sands of people who walked past the
residence on Massachusetts avenue,
where the visit of death was marked
by a cluster of violets tied with a
streamer of black hanging at the
right of the entrance.
Many intimate friends. including
the pastors of most of the Presby-
terrain churches of the city, were
among those who called at the house.
Messages of sympathy from nearly
every state in the Union and from
England, Russia and other European
countries, came to the family during
the day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
A Dishonest Timekeeper,

Omaha. Neb., April 14.-Martin s.
Rowley, head time-keeper of the Ar
mour Packing Co.. at South Omaha,
was arrested, early yesterday,
charged with the enlightenment of
$4,000. 1t is charged that Rowley,
who was authorized to issue time
checks to employees who quit before
the end of the week, issued checks to
fictitious persons, and appropriated
the proceeds to himself. The inves-
tigation vas started through the sus-
picions ola foreman, and the arrest
followed. Rowley's family was prom
inent in this city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
"FIGHTING JOE" MARTIN.
He Creates n Characteristic Diver
sion In the British Column
bia Legislature.

Victoria, B. G., April 12.-"Fighting
joe Martin upheld his right to his
title in the legislature, Thursday, hav-
ing two wordy wars with members.
In one case he invited Capt. Tatlow,
member for Vancouver, to come out
side and repeat your words" and in
another he called down Mr.. Kidd, of
Richmond, for saying that he MAR
TIM had made a statement, knowing
it to be untrue. Martin said:
81 might have lied, but you have no
right to call me a liar" The little
passage at arms was smoothed over.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
REPORT VAS PREMATURE.
Rumor That the Beers Had 40
cepted the British Peace Terms
Proves Unfounded.
There are Several Points on which
the Boe Representatives VIII
Hold Out, Particularly of the
Status of the Cape Rebels-Ths
Gathering mt KIerksdOrp.

London, April 12.-Frederick Ruth
the British Chartered South Africa
Co., was asked this morning at his
residence, Llangibly castle, Usk, Mon
monthshire. if he had received a tele-
graph announcing that the Boer lead
ers had accepted the British terms.
Mr.. Harris replied hat the rumor
was entirely without foundation.
A similar report of the alleged
agreement was carried by the Central
News and published by some of the
morning papers, which issued extra
editions. 1t appears to have original
ed in the town of Rontypool, ada
cent to Llangibly castle.
The dispatch appearing in the
Financier and B%ullionist is not o
firmed from any other quarter, The
editor of the paper says several
words of the code message received
were vague but he believes his gen.
eral Interpretation of the dispatch
to be correct.
From government sources it is
learned that the peace negotiations
are not expected to come to a con
clusion so quickly as the premature
reports indicated. The belief that
there will be considerable parleying
also exists in circles intimate with
the Boer leaders on the continent,
who maintain that no peace can be
arrived at unless the British grant
some concession form of amnesty to
the Cape rebels. Whether this con
tention will prove well founded or
otherwise is only a matter of con-
lecture, but it appears certain that
the Beers will hold out till all eX-
pedients of negotiation are exhaust.
ed, in an endeavor to gain this point,
Some of those who are in close touch
with South Africa believe than ten
days may elapse before a definite
conclusion is reached. In the mean
while, the presence of such repre-
sentative Beers at Kierksdorp, and
other factors, create an all-round
hopeful feeling. This was reflected
on the stock exchange, in the adj
vances of consols and kaflirs.
Up to 1880 a. m. the government
had received no official news bearing
out the statement that peace had
been arranged.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
RANDOM NOTES.

Ivory may be rendered flexible by
sleeping it in a solution of hydrochlor-
ic acid.
China is geologically a part of the
North American continent, but not ge-
geographically.
Joseph J. Mcintyre, of Brooklyn,
has invented a destructive war rocket.
1t is fired by dynamite and the bomb
scatters steel bullets among the en-
envy and is calculated to dislodge any
opposing forces who ara in conceal
ment.
A Baltimore lady donned an $1s new
hat for a promenade and wondered
why the first admiring glances on the
street were changed to stares.
Eventually she found that the new hat
had dropped off and a search for it
proved vain.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
GATHERED AT kLERKSDORP.
Arrival of President Steyn and Gem
era De Wet and DeIarey.

Klerksdorp, Transvaal CWednes-
day), April 9.-The approach of Pres
ident Steyn and Generals Dewet and
Delarey, with their stats, who ar
rived here at noon to-day, was sig
nalized at II a. m. by the arrival of
a flag of truce at an outpost. An of
ficer, with an escort, was sent out
and the president and the two gen
erals rode into Klerksdorp in Cape
carts. The Orange Free State ENJOYS
were accompanied by Judge Hertzog,
Commandant Olivier and six other
persons. With Gen. Delarey were his
secretary and a dozen Beers. The
Free State representatives were
quartered in the old town. Gen,
Delarey joined the Transvaal party
In the new town. A conference tent
was pitched midway between the two
towns and free communication was
permitted the Boer delegates but
they were suitably guarded.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17

to try Perune Edward Laws.
A Prominent Singer Saved From Loss OF
Voice.
Mr. Julian Weisslitz, 176 Seneca street,
Buffalo, N. Y, is corresponding secre-
tary of The Sangerlust, of New York; is
the leading second bass of the Sanger
lust, the largest German singing society
of New York, and also the oldest.
In 1899 the Sangerlust celebrated its
iftieth anniversary with a large cele-
bration in New York City. The follow
ing is his testimony:
about two years ago / caught a
severe cold while travelling and which
settled into catarrh of the bronchial
tubes, and so affected my voice that I
was obliged to cancel my engagements.
In distress, l was advised totry Peruna,
and although l had never used a patent
medicine before, l sent for a bottle.
Words but lily describe my surprise
to find that within a few days l was
greatly relieved, and within three
weeks I was entirely recovered. l am
never without it now, and take an oc-
casional dose when l feel run down.
Julian Weisslitz."
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17
Authoritatively Denied.

Bristol, Tenn, April 12.-The re-
ported battle in Scott county, Va,
Thursday night, between Jim Wright,
wanted in Hancock county, Tennes-
see, upon the charge of murder, and
his associates and a sheriff's posse,
in which five officers were killed and
two wounded, is authoritatively de-
MED. A telephone message to-
night from Church Hill, near
where the battle is said to have oc-
Cured, states that no such fight took
place. A posse is searching for
Wright, but it seems that he has not
been located yet.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17

"The republicans insist, however,
that the democratic plurality for
governor has not been so large as
this. This is very true, but it is also
true that a comparison of the vote
on governor for the years given
shows a greater increase in plurality
than on that of secretary of state.
SIN 1884, the democratic plurality
for governor was 10,946, and the ma
jority AT.
"In 1888 the plurality on governor
was 1922, with an opposition ma
jority of 1851.
in 1892 the plurality on governor
was 29,661, while the combined oppo-
sition had a majority of 11,15S.
"In 1896, when the populists with
drew their candidate for governor
and supported the democratic candi-
date for that Office, the majority was
3S.15S.
"In 1900, when the populists had a
candidate for governor, and with
three other candidates in the field be-
sides the democratic and republican,
the democrats had a majority over all
of 1896, and n plurality of 32,140.
S'The talk of the democratic candi-
date for governor having been in dam
ger of defeat but for the heavy re-
duction in the republican majority
in the city of St. Louis is simply RI
diculous in the face of the actual re-
suit. Gov. Dockery could have been
beaten 10000 in St. Louis, and still
had a larger plurality than that re-
ceived by Gov. Francis IA years ago,
and he could have been beaten $4,000
in st. Louis and still had a larger plu-
rality than that received by Gov. Mar
maduke IS years ago.
"And so it is with all the profes.
sions of the Missouri republican par
ty leaders. They are not candid, they
are not honest with their own people.
For years they have been doping
their followers with grossly eXag-
gerated claims of party gains. based
solely on the accession to their ranks
of a handful of democratic deserters,
who, when they could no longer keep
both feet in the public trough, made
haste for other fields and pastures
green.
"The democratic party has never
been weakened in the slightest way
by the desertion of these self-consti-
tuted leaders. The official figures have
clearly demonstrated that whenever
the republican party managers have
secured the services of this class of
democrats they have invariably
bought a gold brick.
Missouri democracy made The hest
showing in the 1900 campaign of any
state in the Union. There was no
backward step, 40 faltering, but in
stead there was a resolute lining-up
of democratic forces which makes
Missouri the commanding democratic
state of the Union.
"The city elections this spring have
demonstrated anew the stalwart
character of the democratic supreme
cy.
"The INSCRIPTIONS attack of the
republican partizan press on the DEM
ocratic management of state affairs
has served to put the democratic old
guard on its mettle, and all the COM
binations, copartnerships, alliances,
which the republicans can make with
the political adventurers of the state
will not prevent the old common
wealth from recording in November
an increased democratic majority"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17

IF there is any comfort in these
figures for Missouri republicans then
there is sore need in this state for
an asylum for the gullible.
with the single exception of 1885,
which was a republican year through
out the country, the democratic mar
gin was materially increased at each
election over that of 1884. The plu-
rality of 1892, which was the big dem
ocratic year everywhere, was slight
ly above that of 1900, but the MAORI
ty of 1900 was very much above that
of ten years ago. 1t will be seen from
the figures given that while the demo-
Gratis had a slightly greater plurality
in 1892 than in 1900, they had no ma
jority at all in the former year. The
combined opposition vote exceeded the
democratic vote by 5,O76 while in 1900
the democratic vote over all was 81
GIG.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-04-17

Jefferson City, Mo-, April 10.-The
following chapter from Secretary of
State Sam b. Cooks political hand
book shows by a comparison of the
election returns of the past twenty
years how absurd are the republican
claims of future party success:
CHAPTER ".
"With the usual biennial vehemence,
republican campaign managers and
the republican press have for months
been proclaiming their u~nbounded
confidence in capturing Missouri at
the coming election. 1t has come to
be a sort of second nature with the
republican party managers in this
state to claim after each election that
the democratic plurality has been
greatly reduced, and that a CORE
spending republican gain at the sue
ceeding election would mean a sweep
ing republican victory.
For several days after the election
in 1900, the leading republican organ
of Missouri, with it's usual reckless
disregard for the truth, claimed that
the election of governor was in doubt,
and so juggled it's election tables so
as to make it appear that the state
was really close, when, as a matter
of fact, there was no time when the
returns indicated that the democrat
ic plurality for the head of the state
ticket could possibly fall below 80, 900.
This policy of doping the deluded
is still being worked by the republican
party press with absolute contempt
for the intelligence of the republican
voters.
A a matter Of fact, the result of
the last election in Missouri was the
most satisfactory, from a democratic
standpoint, of any that has been held
during the last twenty years. Let us
take the official figures for the past
five presidential elections, during
which time, according to the republic
an newspapers, they have each four
years played such fearful havoc with
democratic plurality as to make re-
publican success at the succeeding
election a mere matter of time.
IN order that we may present the
relative strength of the two political
parties fairly, we will take the vote
on secretary of state, as there has
been on fusion to affect the vote on
that office as there was on president
or governor. The official returns for
the years 1884 to 1900, inclusive, are
as follows: