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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
MORE BONDS OR MORE TAX
Roosevelt's Method of Conducting the
Affairs Of the United States
Government.

The declaration by President Roose-
welt that he will conduct the govern
ment in the future as in the past, is as
much as to say that there will be no eff
fort to reduce taxation. With the mill
tary expenses alone increasing $13, OOO,-
900 during July and August and the re-
ceipts of the treasury running behind
$24, 900, 900 during the same two months.
and although Secretary Shaw by post
poning payments and juggling the fig
ures made a little better showing for
September, how does President Roose-
welt propose to raise the money to pay
the greatly increased expenses? So far,
October shows a deficit, in spite of all
the treasury officials could do.
Will the republicans issue bonds to
meet the growing deficit, or will they
reimpose the war taxes, or have they
become reckless expecting the demo-
Gratis to win, and expect to hand over
the job Of making both ends meet to
Judge Parker, as Harrison did to Cleye-
land?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
JAPS MADE A RICH HAUL
tMikado's Men Captured a Shipload
of Two Million Pounds of Beef
OF Japanese Coast.

Sioux City, Ia, Oct. 29.-Intended
for the use of the Russian soldiers
fighting in the trenches of Manchuria, a
shipload of 100000 pounds of beef Zone
fourth of which was shipped from the
Sioux City plant of the Cudahy Pack
ing Co., was captured by the Japanese
off the coast of Japan.
The order was received by the
Cudahy Packing Co. from the Russian
government late in the summer, and
the 100000 pounds was prepared by
the three branches of the plant of the
company at Omaha, Kansas City and
Sioux City. The value of the cargo
was close to 5000, 900.
Undaunted by the fate of the first
cargo of beef, the Russian government
has placed a second order, and a larg
err one, at that, for 100000 pounds OF
beef. The value of the beef is be,
tween 5000, 900 and $3.50, 900. The meat
must be on it's way within the next 40
days.
The big order has been divided
among the three plants of the com
pany at Omaha, Kansas City and Sioux
City.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
TANNING OF ROOSEVELT.
Trust-Busting President Succumbs to
the Power of Protective
Interests.

When Attorney General Knox, the
great trust lawyer, undertook to prose
cute the beef trust and the railroad mer-
ger. every one, but the combine mag
mates, was delighted and praising Mr..
Roosevelt for doing something. When
the injunction was obtained against the
beef trust magnates, Armour ct al, COM
handing them not to disobey the law,
and the order of the court to the North
ern Securities company to disband that
unholy alliance, unthinking people said
that trusts had at last found their mas
ter; but as the months rolled around
these combines still continued to do
business at the old stands, and when Mr..
Knox told the people that there would
be mo running amuck against the
trusts" there began TO be doubts in
many minds of the outcome.
When congress ordered the secretary
of commerce and labor to fully investi-
gate the beef combine, and the president
ordered the bad trusts to be investigated
SO that publicity" of their doings would
warn the public whom to beware of, the
hopes of the people revived. The trust
magnates became FESTIVE and threatened
to defeat Roosevelt for election. The
magnates of the protected industries
also threatened to defeat him unless he
declared for protection and stood pat"
like Hanna, instead of urging real reci-
procity like Mckinley.
The fate of Mr.. Roosevelt and the re-
publican party in the coming election
hung in the balance for weeks. On one
side was the trusts with the money bags
oil the other the people. What hap
pened? Slowly, but surely, the trust
side became the heavier. The trust
buster had succumbed to the threats of
the corporation and combine magnates
and the dial of progress was turned
backward. THE assistant trust-buster,
Cortelyou, was made chairman of the re-
publican national committee, redolent
with the perfume of trust secrets and
anxious for the promised trust contri-
buttons to debauch the people who still
were inn%ocently believing the day of
their salvation from the trust plumber
ers was at hand.
Roosevelt, the arrogant, had chosen.
He is O as docile and cooling as the
proverbial sucking dove. The big stick
is laid away in cotton batting. The re-
publican candidate for president is
tanned and the trusts hold the whip
hand until the ides of March. If Mr..
Roosevelt is elected, the trusts will have
free sailing for four years and the trusts
high prices will continue. The people
must decide their own salvation at the
coming election.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

TRUSTS OR THE PEOPLE.
Main Issue Of the Campaign Which
the Voters Are to Decide
Upon,

There are enough democratic and in.
/ dependent voters in all the doubtful
states to elect Parker and Davis If they
register and vote. Those voters who be-
lieve in stopping frauds and grating,
who feel that the protective tariff is
robbing them and enriching the trusts,
who would stop government extrava-
gance, can do themselves and their
country a service by registering and
voting and see that their neighbors do
likewise. The democrats cannot draw
upon the trusts and corporations for
funds to pay their workers like the
republicans, but must rely upon volun-
teers to labor for the cause of good gov
eminent. Remember that every voter
is equal, when he exercises the highest
right of an American citizen, and moth
ing should swerve him from casting his
ballot without fear or favor. The issue
in this campaign is, shall the trusts rule
the country and wax more fat at the
expense of the people, or shall the gov
eminent be economically administered
in the interests Of all the people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
THE CoMIAG MOTIVE POWER
Electricity Will Yet Supplant Steam
As a Motive Power.
An Interesting Test Of Electric En-
sines at Schenectady, N. Y.--speed
of Sixty Miles an Hour shown.

Schenectady, N. Y, Oct. 29.-Speed.
ing along at a rate of from fifty-ive to
sixty miles an hour, while scores OF
men prominent in railroad and cleo.
trical circles stood by the electrical
locomotive which was built by the Gen
sral Electric and American Locomotive
companies of this city for the New
York Central terminal service in New
York city, thoroughly demonstrated
that 1t will ultimately provide high
speed motive power for railroad traf.
dc. 1t is expected to develop a speed
Of 100 miles an hour.
In the cab of the locomotive when
it left its shed were w. X. Vanderbilt,
w. ]. Wilgus, e. B. HATTIE, P. P. Spaul-
ding, an engine driver, Hinsdil Par.
sons, president of the Schenectady
Railway company; w. B. Potter, su.
p%erintendent of the railway depart.
ment of the General Electric company,
and F, F. Eisenmenger, mayor OF
Schenectady.
A short run was made down the
track at about forty miles an hour,
and then the private car which
brought the New York Central officials
to the scene was coupled on, and with
Mr.. Vanderbilt at the controller, the
full four miles Of track vas %traversed,
With his hand on the controller Mr..
Vanderbilt was in his element and
he threw back the lever another notch,
letting the engine forge ahead at sixty
miles an hour.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
''ELllAH' DOWIE SAYS NO
Will Not Allow Democratic Chal-
lengers at the Polls.
The "Restorer' Claims No Democrat
lie Votes Will Be Cast, Hence Chal-
lengers are Unnecessary.

Chicago, Oct. 29.-John Alexander
Dowie, who styles himself John Alex
Rnder, the first apostle. and who is the
temporal and religious ruler of Zion
City, ILL.,, has provoked a struggle with
the democratic party by announcing
that he will allow no democratic chal-
lengers at the polls in Zion City on
election day.
Under the state law, every candidate
is entitled to a challenger at the polls
on election day, and the democratic
leaders in Lake county, in which Zion
City is situated, declare that the party
can not be deprived of it's representa-
tives at the polls. The state central
committee has been called on to aid
the democrats OF Lake county.
Dowie, on the other hand, declares
the democratic challengers useless, for
the reason, he says, that no democratic
votes will be cast. The legal question
as to whether a challenger may be Sc
lected from outside the township in
which Zion City is situated is also
involved in the dispute.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
GUESTS NARROWLY ESCAPE
Hotel Rush to the Street
Through Flames.

st. Louis, Oct. 29.-Twenty guests at
the Worlds Fair hotel, ITO and 112
North Broadway, had narrow escapes
in a fire which wrecked the A. B. G.
saloon and "The Maine," a ticket
brokers' office under the hotel, about
1890 o'clock Friday night. Those hav-
ing the closest calls were Mrs. Eugene
Warren, her son Raymond, aged u
years; her daughter Lillian, aged nine,
and DR.. J.. H. Smith and wife, all of
Hannibal, Mo-, who have been in the
city several days visiting the exposi-
ton.
All were aroused by the arrival Of
the fire department and rushed from
their rooms, thinly clad, to find that
the stairway leading to the street and
the entrance to the hotel were ablaze.
They, with persons who were assisting
them, then made a dash through the
flames and succeeded in reaching the
street, but their clothing was on fire
when they reached the sidewalk.
These flames, however, were extin-
guished before anybody had been bad
ly burned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
IROQUOIS PANIC RECALLED
Fierce Fire, Accompanied. With
Loss of Life In u Chicago
Concert Hall.

Chicago, Oct. 29.-The failure of the
asbestos curtain to work and the lack
Of fire protection and Of the proper
number of exists in Fewer's concert
hall, West Madison street, resulted in
a panic, Thursday night, when a fire
broke out in the rea of the stage,
causing the death of one man the prob
able death of another, and the total de-
struction of the building.
The ~Iroquois horror was enacted on
a smaller scale. The fire started in the
rear of the stage, and the fall of the as
bestos curtain was checked as in the
catastrophe of last December.
Henry Schlater was suffocated and
his body burned to a crisp. Michael
Burns and Charles Frair were badly
burned, and the former will die. There
was no attempt at rescue, and women
were trampled by the men in their des-
perate attempts to crowd through the
one door to the place.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
ONE OF THE TRIO HAS DIED
r. w. kirkpatrick Dead at st. Louis
as the Result of Inha1ing IL
Illuminating Gas.

st. Louis, Oct. 29.-T. W. Kirkpat-
rick, rs years old, stockman, from
Greenville, Mo-, who, with John Cat
iron, of Taskee, and A. J. Seabaugh, of
Greenville, we're found overcome by
gas in a room at a hotel, at noon Tues
day, died at six o'clock Friday morn
ing at the city hospital.
1t was thought that kirkpatrick
would recover, as he was the first OF
the three men to regain consciousness,
but Thursday he suffered a relapse.
C~attron.and Seabaugh, who are still
at the city hospital, will recover, it is
thought.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
The Realities of Protection

The republican tariff is worth some
thing to the manufacturers Of steel
rails. 1t is known of all men that the
United States has more miles Of rail-
way than any other nation, and thatth
market for the product of the steel rail
mills is the greatest in the world. BY
reason of a tariff duty amounting to
nearly eight dollars a ton American
manufacturers r able to monopolize
the home market and sell their rails
here at $28 a ton. At the same time they
have shipped them into Canada and
sold them for $3.50 a ton. Charles M.
Schwab says that rails, can be sold at
SIG a ton with a nice margin" Thus
are the beauties of protection constantly
Observation-Disclosures State Sentinel
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
PORT ARTHUR'S
SORRY PLIGHT
According to Private Advices the
Garrison is in Hard Straits.
1HEF0RCE REDUCED 0NE-HALf
Gen. simonoff, 1t Is Said, Would Sur
render, But Gen. Stoessel Prefers
to Fight 1T Out to h
Bitter End.

Shanghai, Oct. ga private letter
from Port Arthur, dated October q,
received here to-day, says:
Gen. Stoessel has instilled the gar
lison Of the beleaguered fortress with
the spirit that to court a glorious death
is preferable to capitulation.
THE Japanese shells are inficting
great damage to the Russian feet in
the harbor and to the Notifications.
1.-THE arsenal with its contents OF
ammunition and small arms has been
destroyed, and preparations are being
made for the last deadly struggle at
close quarters.
"The water supply having been cut
off, wells are being sunk.
Provisions are scarce and only
timed meats being left. The soldiers
hold gala feasts on horses killed by
the shells.
Gen. Simonoff, it is said, would sur
render, but is overruled by Gen. Stoes-
sci
Certain troops included in the gar
rison have to be closely watched at
present for fear of desertion or treach-
cry.
'The field and naval hospitals are
crowded, and hygienic conditions are
becoming desperate. The lombard
ment at times is so incessant that il
is impossible to bury the dead to any
depth.
"Over one-half of the original gar
rison is dead, wounded or sick.
1.-THE high angle at which their ar
tillery fire is directed by the Japanese
has practically destroyed the new
town.
"When the fleet attempted to break
through the blockade some time ago
the garrison was to have made a des-
perate sortie and inlict as much dam
age as possible and, if necessary, capt.
rlate. The failure of the fleet to es-
cape frustrated this plan.
"The besiegers are pressing closer
daily, and it is hard to say how long
we can hold out. When the end comes
there will be a desperate fight and
surprise. Thousands of the enemy
will perish, as everything is mined"
This letter was intrusted to a ma
tive boatman who ran the blockade
and mailed it at Che Foo.
The recipient is a prominent con
tinental business man of this city, with
a branch house at Port Arthur.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Down come wages in the billion
trusts mills another notch or two. Such
is republican prosperity up to date
Wheeling Register.
THE trusts are going to experience
trouble in selling the public another job
lot of life preservers stuffed with ole
iron.--The Commoner.
The fact that Panama is not be-
ing fairly dealt with by the administra-
ton puts her in the same class as Column
bia and the United ates.-Houston
(Tex.) Post.
The Buffalo Commercial claims that
"all the confidence is monopolized by
the republicans" The republican party
always was the monopoly party
Brooklyn Eagle.
The republicans still declare that
Indiana is doubtful, but what causes the
capillary %appendages of George Cortel-
you to get silvery is that she doesn't
seem to be Observation-Disclosures
Times.
az iopb GNNodAIo SAQIo II Vi
banks was in Montana discussing the
tariff on wool. 1t is not probable, how
ever, that he succeeded in pulling the
wool over the eyes of Montana ranchers.
Los Angeles Herald.
Abiding to the payment of $780,
900, 900 for the Philippines, Secretary
Taft remarked that 1t had been
charged by democrats that souls were
bought at the rate Of 50 apiece. He
was thinking, of course, Of Speaker
Reeds biting characterization of the
Philippine transaction at the time 1t
occurred. in 1S9S.-Hartford Times
(Ind. Dem.).
When Roosevelt succeeded Nc
Kinley there was a. surplus in the
treasury amounting to near 800, 000,-
900. In 1908 1t had dropped to 1884,.
100000. In 1904, at the end Of the
fiscal year, June 80, there was a deficit
of SAL, 000, 900. The deficit for the fiscal
year 1905 will be something enormous
| While the taxes intended to produce
government revenue are higher than
ever before, the people may as well
prepare for an increase IL Roosevelt Il
elected. He would accept his electicr
as an approval OF bis extravaganza
, indianapolis sentinel
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
ARE MAKING BINDING TWlNE
The binding Irvine Plant In the Mis-
souri, Penitentiary Has he
gun Operations.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Oct. 23.-Worl1
was begun, Thursday, in the Irvine
factory plant at the penitentiary, but
no finished product was turned out un
til Friday. The capacity of the plant
will be 10000 pounds of Irvine daily.
The last legislature appropriated for
the factory $4,000 for the building and
equipment, and also a revolving fund
Of 100000. It is stated that the out
put will be sold only to farmers resi-.
dent in the state and at the actual cost
of manufacture.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
GERMANY'S CHIME OF BELLS
They Have Been Purchased As q
Gift to the Catholic Church at
Reading, Pa.

st. Louis, Oct. 29.-The cast-steel
bells in the dome of the German ma
tional pavilion at the Worlds fair,
which were manufactured and are ex.
hibited by the "Bochum Verein fuer
Bergbau und DISQUALIFICATION" will
remain in the United States. A wealthy
merchant of Reading. Pa, has pur-
chased them and will donate the bells
to the Catholic church of his town.
The name of the purchaser is being
withheld. ,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
INDIANA WOMAN INJURED.
Mrs. Wm. d. Mclean, of F~reepOrt,
Ind, Probably Fatally Injured by
n st. Louis Automobile.

st. Louis, Oct. 29.-In an attempt to
recover her hat which lad blown from
her head, Mrs. William D. MCLEAN, of
Freeport, Ind, a Worlds fair visitor,
was run over by an automobile at
Twenty-eighth and Locust streets Fri
day morning, and it is thought sus-
tanned fatal injuries.
Mrs. MCLEAN was picked up uncon-
scious and had not regained a normal
state when she reached the city hospi-
toll
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
IDENTIFIED As A CROOK.
Lawrence Raynor," of Colorado
Shot In st. Louis, Thursday, Ii
Robert r. Cannon. q

st. Louis, Oct. 29.-Lawrence Raynor
Of Colorado, who was shot by Police
nan Thomas White of the Eighth dis
trict, Thursday, while resisting arrest,
has been identified by Detective Lee
Killian as Robert p. Cannon. He is
wanted in Newark, N. j., and is a part
ner of William A. Morris, who is under
arrest there for various crimes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
U |
Trial Of Rioters Reuino.

Gomel, Oct. 29.-The trial of those
alleged to be responsible for the anti
Jewish riots in September, 1908, is pro-
ceeding. Thirty witnesses for the pros
ecution have so far been examined.
The fact of the attack on Jews has not
yet been established.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
The Conscientious Murderer.

1t was fine sense of the conscientious
that led the Rhode Island murderer ac-
cused OF killing a woman with an ak to
plead mot guilty with the ak" and
stterward to confess that he had done
the deed with q club. Though he had
committed murder he could not stoop to
the telliag Of q lie
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
Motion to Advance Denied.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Oct 29.-In the
Missouri supreme court,sitting In banc,
the motion Of Attorney General Grow
to advance his case against tanty and
Others interested in conducting ball
fights in st. Louis county was denied
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
DESPERATE ATTACK BEGUN.
Japanese Making Desperate Attacks
on Port Arthur Defenses.

Toxic, Oct. 28.-4:30 p. NIT is re-
ported that the Japanese opened a
desperate attack on the eastern forts
Of the Keekwan group, north of Port
Arthur, during the morning of Octo-
Der rs, and silenced the Russian bat
teries. A shell exploded the Russian
magazines.
simultaneously the Japanese at
tackled the forts on Rihlung mountain
and Straightforward mountain, silenced
the Russian batteries and stormed and
occupied the forts in front of these
mountains. On the night of October &c
there vas a confagration in Old Port
Arthur, and on October u a shell hit
the Russian battleship Sevastopol and
two Russian steamers were sunk.
Official confirmation of the above is
lacking, but the reports are believed
to be true.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 29.-William
Peddicord, o farmer living about eight
miles southwest of Perry, attacked his
wifeswith a club, Friday morning, in
flicting injuries from which she can not
recover, and then killed himself.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
Peoria Newspaper SOLD.

Peoria, ILL.,, Oct. 30.-Charles H. May
and Francis H. Sisson, formerly own
ers Of the Galesburg (lil.) Mail, have
purchased a majority interest in the
Peoria Herald Transcript. +. G. Rem
nick, will continue the management
Cor the present.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
The vatican Would Participate,

Rome, Oct. 29.-The, vatican is sound
ing different powers on the subject Of
admitting its representative at the pro-
posed second The Hague conference on
the same ground as the suggested adj
mission Of the South American re-
publics.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

st. Louis, Oct. 29.-While his com.
pany was responding to an Gnneces-
sary alarm Of fire, Thursday, Fireman
Charles Miller was thrown from the
hose reel, OF which he was driver, run
over and killed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

Warships Finish COaIing.

Yigo, Spain, Oct. 29.-The Russian
warships finished coaling Friday, but
no preparations for their departure are
visible. 1t is reported that Admiral
Rojestvensky has received an impor-
tant cipher message from st. Peters,
burg.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

Chicago, Oct. so.-A comprehensive
subway system for Chicago will be
started before April, 1906, according
to Alderman Milton ]. Foreman, chair
man Of the transportation COMMITTEES
Of the city council.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

London, Oct. 31.-According to a
Tangier dispatch to the Times an
American gentlemen and two German
sailors, while boating On the Laraiche
river, were fired at. Their fate is I'M
known.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

Seattle, Wash, Oct. 2S.--The Pacific
coast steamship Mainlander collided in
q tor ear West Point light with the
tug Sea Lion. The Mainlander sank in
deep water. It Is reported that ill
hands were saved.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

Gutherie, Okla, Oct. 29.--After main
tanning his innocence for two years,
Silas Hunsker, al ex-Missouri preach
er, pleaded guilty at South McAlister
to numbering his wife. He received a
life Eentence.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03
Archbishop Elder Dying.

Cincinnati, Oct. 3O.-Archbishop
William Henry Elder was taken sud-
denly Ill, Friday, and has been sinking
so rapidly that the communion and last
sacra.nents were administered shortly
before midnight.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

Petersburg, ILL.,, Oct. 29.-The annual
reunion Of the Curry family was held
at the Williamson house in this city
Thursday. About sixty relatives gath
cred to celebrate the event, which was
first observed ten years ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-11-03

COrfeIyOu TO Speak IN New York,
New York, Oct. 29.--George B. Cor
telyou, chairman of the republican ma
tional committee, will speak in New
York city next Friday evening under
the auspices of the West Side Republi-
can club. "