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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
SAYS EVERYONE DOES IT
Three Young St. Louis Physicians
Are Under Arrest.
They Are Charged With Approprt.
atinE Supplies From Poorhouse
Dispensary for Private Use.

st. Louis, Aug. 29.-Three young
physicians are under arrest, charged
with stealing medical supplies from
the %dispensary at the poorhouse. Alex
ander McCully and Emanuel T. Urban
were employed there as assistant ply
sicians. The third, G. F. Knapp, was in
practice, and had an office on the third
foor of the Imperial building, down
town.
For some time Supt. H. E. Hart and
Health Commissioner Simon have sus-
pected that stealing was going on, but
until Thursday no positive evidence
could be obtained.
When DR.. Knapp was arrested in his
office there was found a satchel filled
with medicines, some bearing the Ia
bells of the %poornouse. Seeing that he
was trapped, Knapp admitted his guilt.
DR.. Urban also confessed that he had
been in the conspiracy, and both the
young men seemed surprised that their
actions were considered a crime. Ev-
erybody did the same, they said. Both
Urban and Knapp were formerly en-
ployed at the female hospital, and they
stated that they thought they were en-
titled to use the city's drugs in their
private practice. When Knapp left the
city's employ and Urban was trans
ferred to the poorhouse last April, the
latter continued to furnish his friend
with medicines, he said.
Their method was a simple one
About once a week DR.. Knapp would
take dinner with the two. He would
take a satchel and when he left IL
would he fu1l
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
DOZEN PERSONS ROBBED
Six Masked Men Do q Bold Job at
Mcfarland, Kansas.
The Rock Island Station Held Up, With q
General Looting and Not
Shot Fired.

Topeka, Kas., Aug. pa special to
the State Journal from Mcfarland,
kas., says:
At one o'clock Friday morning six
masked men, heavily armed, appeared
at the Rock Island depot and started
to enter the Office door. Conductor
Monnehan of freight train No. As,
which had just pulled in, and Night
Baggageman Charles Toler saw them
and hurriedly attempted to block the
door, but The robbers forced an en-
trance and after taking their money
and watches, beat the railroad men in
to insensibility, They then. rified the
depot of its contents and going hur-
riedly to the eating house, held up and
took all the valuable from half a dozen
men on the platform employed at the
roundhouse, and a part of the train
crew. Passengers at the lunch counter
scurried up stairs and blocked the en-
trance effectively. The bandits then
looted the eating house cash register
and silverware, doing their work in a
cool and collected fashion after the
manner of veterans.
Then, apparently as a joke, they
marched and carried six of the Rock
Island employees, including the night
hostler and Baggageman Toler, and
locked them in a refrigerator car ant
disappeared in an easterly direction.
During the 30 minutes of their pres
ence, not a shot was fired and only
Monnehan and Toler were injured.
Two hours after the robbers disap'
peared, Sheriff Frey had organized I
posse, released the prisoners from thu
refrigerator car and galloped in pur
suit. The bandits were headed to-
wards Topeka.
The bandits secured eight watches
and probably $3.50 in money. They left
Mcfarland on foot. The night agen1
at PaXico, four miles east of McFar'
land, saw them pass by along thu
tracks on foot at 2:30 o'clock.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
DISPUTES OF LABOR.
Outcome of Increased Cost of Liv-
ing and No Increase of
Wages.

The Employers association, of Chi
cago, pretended to have gone TO a great
expense to try and discover what the
increase of the cost of living has been
during the last five years. They en-
ployed a corps of experts to unravel the
knotty question, who have reported that
the increase has been Is per cent. during
the time mentioned. Another corps OF
experts. employed by Dun's Mercantile
agency have for years been figuring
on the same proposition, and every
month publish the result of their inves-
legations. Over a year ago Dun's In
nounced that the cost of living had in
creased Al per cent. from the lowest
point in 1897, and as their figures are &C
cepted, the world over, as reliable, the
absurdity of the results of the Employ
ers' association experts is apparent.
Dun's figures are based upon the average
prices at certain dates of $50 articles
of consumption, with due allowance for
the relative Importance of each. Since
the highest point was reached in 1902,
there has since then been a decline of
nearly six per cent, and from August
l, 1902, to August 1, 1903, there was a res
duction of 90 per cent, which will prob
ably be again raised when the figures
are published for August of this year,
in consequence of the large advance in
the prices of cereals. Anyway, the in
crease from 1897 to the present time has
been about 35 per cent. Every pro-
wider for a household has probably dis
covered that this raise in the cost of
living has taken place. Ever since the
Dingley bill was passed in 1897, there
has been a steady Increase of prices, I'M
til the climax of 1902, when the beef
trust and the coal trust put the prices
of their products out of all reason.
AS most of the $50 articles of consump-
ton are controlled by trusts and COM
bines, it is unlikely that the price of
their products will decline until the mo-
nopoly that the tariff protection gives
the trusts is abolished or diminished.
There will be slight fluctuations as dur
ing the past year, but no great decline
until a panic causes a lack of consump-
ton of everything but the necessities, OF
the monopoly of the combines, through
the tariff, is taken from them.
The Employers association, of Chi
cago, has been fighting the demand of
the labor unions for higher wages. and
this one-sided attempt to prove that the
cost of living has only increased Is per
cent, and that, therefore, wages should
be only increased in like ratio, will hard
ly settle the dispute. Wages must keep
pace with the cost of living, or the la
borers cannot partake of the prosperity
that the trusts, combines and corpora
tons are boasting of, and to attempt to
prevent the adjustment by fictitious fig
ures is only to incite strikes and lock-
outs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
WHO TAPPED The VAULT
An Envelope Missing From a Vauh
in Minnesota State Capitol.
IL Said to Have Contained a Million
In Government Bonds and Half
ms Much in stocks.

st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 30.-An envel-
ope said to contain government bonds
and copper mining stock valued at ST.
100000 which Joseph Picard says he
placed in a vault at the state capitol,
l6 years ago, for safe keeping, can not
be found.
Picard's father, Joseph Picard, Q
wealthy Frenchthan, died in Canada IL
years ago, and, according to the story
related by the son, placed in his hand
just before his death an envelope
which he was instructed not to open
until he was 81 years old. He was then
IA, and admits that he disobeyed his
dying fathers injunction and opened
the envelope, which he found to con-
tain government bonds valued at ST..
000,0 900 and copper mining stock worth
half as much.
This envelope, Picard says, he re.
sealed and took to the capitol, where
he asked the officials to place it in i
vault for him for safekeeping. He says
his true name of Alphonse Detroy was
written upon the envelope. and that he
was told it would be safe as long as
he cared to leave it in the states care
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
AN HISTORICAL EXHIBIT.
Portraits of All the Presidents, vice.
Presidents and Cabinets For
the worlds Fair.

Washington, Aug. 29.-The most val.
liable single feature of the exhibit of
the department Of state at the st. Louis
exposition, from a historical stand
point, has just been completed. 1t
consists of a series of pictures ar
ranged in 26 panels. In the center Of
every panel is a portrait of a president
of the United States, beginning with
Washington and ending with Roose-
welt. Immediately underneath the
president is a smaller portrait of the
vice-president. Surrounding each pres
ident and vice-president are the por-
traits of all the officers Of the cabinet
belonging to the respective administra-
tons.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
NAY VISITS THE PRESIDENT,
Roosevelt Deeply in Earnest in De-
termination to see Iice-COn-
sul's AssniIant Punished.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 29.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Hay
held a conference over the "interna-
tional incident occasioned by the
attempted murder of Vice-Consul
Magelssen at Beirut. Secretary Hay
arrived on the 1890 train Friday.
The president is terribly in earn
est in his determination that Turkey
shall make amends for the out
rage, and that the would-be assassins
OF Vice-Consul Magelssen shall suffer
for their crime. If the porte shows
any ugly disposition in the matter, Adj
miral Cotton's warship may be ordered
into action and drop a few shells
among the Beirut mosques. The fleet
is expected to steam into the harbor
of that city within a week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
SIR THOMAS DlSiLLUSIONED.
He Says He Knows He is Licked
That Reliance is the Best Boat
and He's Done Enough.

New York, Aug. 29,-"I have no illu-
sions about my boat said Sir Thomas
Upton to-day. 81 know that l am
licked. Every inch that she sails is an
inch nearer defeat. was as sure as
one can be Of an uncertainty that I
should win.
Reliance is the better boat. That
1000 extra square feet Of canvas she
carries gives her the power and Sham
rock can not hold her. Reliance is O.
600 square feet of sail better than my
boat.
81 have done all that | can to lift
the cup. | have come over here three
times with the best that | could get.
7 can not design a boat myself; | can
not sail her after she is built. | am
neither a naval architect nor a racing
skipper.
81 have done all I can. l think
have done enough
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
AM ERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
officers Elected BY the American
Bar Association at It's Session
Mt Hot Springs, Va.

Hot Springs, Va, Aug. 29.-At the
morning session of the American Bar
association, Friday, the following off,
GERS were elected: James Hagerman
Missouri, president; John Hinckley
Maryland, secretary; Fred w. Wad'
hams, New York, treasurer. Among
those chosen on the executive commit
tee were Platt Rogers, of Colorado,
and Everett P. Wheeler, of New York,
chairman of the committee on inter-
national arbitration, which dealt chief
ly with the award made by arbitrators
of the Plus fund.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
High Tariff HeIped,

1t is well known in newspaper
offices, if not elsewhere, that the treas
ury bureau Of statistics is being used
by the present chief, in the most I'M
blushing manner, to promote the high
tariff propaganda. All trade figures cal
culated to show that the tariff is work
ing as theory would have it work are
promptly spread out in specially pre-
pared articles and mailed to the press
for publication On a specified day. All
other statistics are carefully kept in the
background unnoticed. These gov
eminent specials to the newspapers
are not excelled by anything the
American protective tariff league
is doing. This bureau Of statis-
tics has now been transferred to the new
department of commerce and labor, and
the report comes from Washington
that Secretary Cortelyou intends to
stop the practice. -Springfeld Mass
Republican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
INCREASE PAY FOR TRAlNMEN
Wabash Railroad Announces that ON
September 1 an Increase Will
be Given to All Employees.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Aug. 29.-General
Superintendent MCGEE of the Midland
division Of the Wabash railroad, Fri
day, issued a bulletin that on Septem-
Der l pay would be increased for all
trainmen and switchmen on Illinois
lines of the road. Those in freight and
yard service will be advanced IL per
cent. and those in passenger service
II per cent. The increase is the samG
as that recently allowed by the Illinois
Central and Chicago & Alton railroads
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
TANNERS RECORD BROKEN.
A Randolph County )MOD Insane
Man Who Has Not Tasted Food
Since July g.

Huntsville, Mo-, Aug. 3O.-On Mon
day, July 6. William Sorrel, an inmate
of the county infirmary, ate dinner.
Since that time he has refused all
nutriment, except water, and has used
that very sparingly, Fifty-four days,
nearly eight weeks have elapsed, and
he shows no disposition to partake' of
any nutriment, no matter how tempt
ingly prepared.
it is one Of the most remarkable
eases on record and beats F%anner'a
time 80 per cent, with promise of still
greater extension of the fast.
Of course, he is insane, but he OBJ
serves whatever transpires around
him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
GREATEST OF LOCOMOTIVES.
Monster Weighing $4,000 Oun
Will He Exhibited at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair.

New York, Aug. 31.-With the Amer
lean locomotive works an order for a
tandem compound" designed to be
the greatest Of locomotives, was
placed Saturday by the Baltimore &c
Ohio railroad. This giant of the rails,
when completed, will weigh 2S5, 900
pounds and surpass in weight any loco
motive ever built. 1t will be exhibited
at the st. Louis Worlds fair.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
BOYDSTOWN DAM LET GO.
Portions of Butler, Pa, and the
L~Ow-Lying Districts for Miles
Inundated. .

Butler, Pa, Aug. 29.-Boydstown
dam, seven miles north of here, burst,
Friday, inundating portions of Butler
and the low-lying districts for miles.
Great damage was done to- property,
but so far as known no lives were
lost, the residents of the flooded dis
trict abandoning their homes and flee
ing to the hills. Many culverts on the
P%ittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie rail-
road We're washed out, and a 30-foot
bridge of the Pittsburg & Western
railroad over Bear creek was swept
away.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
DR.. KRAUSE A FREE MAN.
We Was Convicted of Inciting the
Murder of John Douglas FOs-
ter in South Africa.

London, Aug. 30.-Dr. Krause, a
former govern of Johannesburg, who
was sentenced in Londan, January Is
1902, TO two years imprisonment after
of melting Cornelius B%roeckman, the
former public prosecutor of Johannes
having been convicted on the charge
burg, who was executed by the British
In South Africa, to murder Jonn Doug
las Foster, an English lawyer who was
on the staff of Lord Roberts, was re-
leased from Pentonville prison Satur'
day,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
OLDEST MAN In ILLINOIS.
Dcnth of Francis Anthony, the Old.
est Man in Illinois. at His Home
in Mclean County.

Bloomington, H., Aug. 30.-Francis
Anthony, the oldest man in Illinois,
died Saturday morning after a two
weeks illness with heart failure. He
was born May 8, 1900, in Ireland. He
emigrated to Canada in 1920 anu was
@ captain in the Canadian army dur.
ing the French rebellion of 1887. Fol
80 years he had been a resident OF
Bloomington township and his vitalit!
vas remarkable.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
Complimentary Visits.

Genoa, Italy, Aug. 29.-Complimenta,
ry visits were exchanged to-day be.
tween the local authorities and Com
mander McCrea, of the United States
gunpoat Machias. The Genoese warm
" greeted the American officers and
sailors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
RETURNING FOR REPAIRS.
Accident ON Board the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamer Neckar
CompeIs Her to Put Back.

Bremen, Aug. 29.-The North Ger
mar Neckar, bound for Baltimore,
while off Terscheling, an island in the
North sea, Thursday, burst her main
steam supply pipe, which scalded the
third and fourth engineers and seven
stokers. The vessel is returning here
for repairs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
llTHOGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT.
EmDeror William Has Had Two
Made BY the Court Portrait
Painter, Hans Fechner.

Berlin, Aug. 29.-Emperor William
met Hans Fechner, the court. portrait
painter, some days ago, and asked him
to make a Autograph drawing of Pres
ident Roosevelt, Fechner's Autograph
of the emperor having been most wide
ly circulated in Germany. Fechner did
so, and showed the result to the en-
peror, who had two copies struck off.
One of these will be sent to Mr..
Roosevelt. The emperor kept the 9th
err one for himself. No more copies
will be taken from the stone.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 29.-Senators
Dillingham; of Vermont, Burnham, Of
New Hampshire, Pattison of Colorado
and Nelson Minnesota, comprising The
senatorial party which went north two
months ago to investigate Alaska's
needs, have arrived here.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 30.-Felix
Daley, white man, who escaped from
the Mississippi penitentiary in 1881,
where he was serving a sentence for
shooting a man, was arrested here,
where he has been living for some
years and was taken back to MISSISSIPPI
ri Friday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
ansas Girl Wins Yale Scholarship

Salina, Kas., Aug. 30.-Miss Anna
Abel, graduate Of the state university,
whose home is on a farm east of S;a-
lima, is the winner Of the Bulky fell
lowship prize at Yale, which entities
her to a years tuition and $500 ir
cash.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
"A French Protest.

st. Johns, N. F., Aug. 29.--The
French commodore OH the Newfound-
land station, nas protested against the
building by an American mining COM
pany Of q shipping pier at York har-
Dor, oh the French shore, where the
company is now working a copper
mine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Harrisburg, ILL.,, Aug. 31.-The man
gled body Of an unidentified mar was
found on the Big Four tracks, n mile
north of this city, and brought here by
The south-bound passenger train. His
features are crushed beyond recogni'
ton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

THE New York Tribune commits
crates it's democratic friends who ARE
utterly at loss concerning their posi-
Bile candidate fcF the presidency" The
Tribune adds: THE republican party is
in no such quandary." No, but being
forced to nominate Roosevelt they find
themselves in a ~quandary on that ac-
count.-Utica Observer.
MIR. Roosevelt has captured the
republican state conventions, all right,
but the way he went about doing it
may cost him his election. The repub-
lican convention and the republican
heart are twp different pieces Of ma
chinerv Binghamton Leader
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Baltimore, Aug. 29.-Rev. Don Luig,
S%artoris, pastor of st. Joseph,s Roman
Catholic church, Midland, Md, and o
relative Of Pope Plus, has sent his res
ignation to Cardinal Gibbons and will
"etirA from active work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Washington, Aug. 29.-Secretary
Shaw left here, Friday, for Oyster Bay,
where he will remain we night and
then go west. The secretary, who has
engagements to make several addresses
in the middle west, will return here
about September Is.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Fort Worth, Tex, Aug. 29.-An In.
tornational Great Northern passenger
train was wrecked near Marlin, Friday
morning. Engineer Kestler was caught
under his engine and crushed to death.
AS far as is known, 10 passengers were
injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

st. Louis, Aug. 30.~-Conrad Beyerlein
and Frank LIE Page, O n of well-to-do
farmers living near Prairie du Pont,
about seven miles southeast of East
st. Louis, ILL.,, were drowned in Prairie
du Pont creek Friday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Marshall, Mo, Aug. 30.--John Moni-
cal, 10 years old, a soldier here on o
visit from Fort Leavenworth, attempt
ed suicide by taking strychnine. The
cause is supposed to be unrequited
1nvn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Guthrie, Okla, Aug. 29.-Chief JUS
tice Burford has issued an order Of re-
moval for the Groves brothers to Will
mington, N. c., where they are wanted
OF charges of moonshining and BEING
accessories to murder,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
Tornado a, McCallsburg. IL

Marshalltown, Ia, Aug. 30.-A torna-
do at McCallsburg last night did con-
siderable damage. Barns were blown
down, the timbers being carried two
blocks distant. No one was burt
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

Berlin, Aug. 29.-The automobile oil
Prince Eitel Friedrich, second son OF
Emperor William, got out of the cur-
troll of the driver near Bonn, and
started down the m~ountainside. The
prince leaped out, and the driver
stopped the machine at a -~lcighboring
village.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
Fireman's Body Blown Fifty Yard

Tucson, Ariz., Aug. ga monster
mountain engine exploded at the
Southern Pacific shops here Friday.
The mangled remains of G. G. Mayfield,
the fireman in charge of the boiler,
were found 50 yards away.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03
,7rederick L., oImstead.

Boston, Aug. 29.-Frederick L. Ohm
stead, the noted landscape architect
died to-day at Waverly, Mass, aged 81
years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-03

LeaveDworth, Kas., Aug. 30.-paul
Hampel and James Meese, two trustg
prisoners at the Kansas p%enitentiars
made their escape Friday eveline,
Guards went in pursuit Of them Oh
horseback.