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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-04

May 5-Britt knocks
out White at San Francisco.
S0-American schooner Atlanta wins race
across ocean for Kaiser's cup, setting new
mark.
Jun. fiddle Eanlon whips Young Corbett
in 20-round bout in Frisco.
2-American yachts win Kid races.
28-Coruell wins four-oared varsity race at
~Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
29-Yale wins .four-mile race from Harvard.
Jul. 3-Marvin Hart whips Root for cham.
pionship of world, title conceded by JEFF
fries,
NV. j. Glover, Jr., and c. D.. Graham,
successfully swim lower Niagara rapids;
time, 26 minutes.
21-Britt whips kid" Sullivan at San
Francisco. NJ
Aug. 6-World's quarter-mile swimming
record broken by B. B. Kieran, at South
port, Eng. New mark, 5:22:2.
17-Walter Simpson, well-known sporting
authority dies at Cambridge, Mass.
21-Thos. Curtis, first president American
bowling congress, dies at Brooklyn.
31-Beals Wright, Boston, defeats Ward,
Orange, N. j., winning national tennis
championship.
Sept. 9-Batrling Nelson, Chicago, knocked
out "Jimmy" Britt, San Francisco, in
18th at Colma, Cal.
1S-Columbus wins American Baseball
Association pennant.
Oct. S-Dan Patch lowered worlds record
Lexington, Ky.
15-New York National League baseball
team wins worlds championship from
Philadelphia Americans. ... Hemery wins
23S- mile auto race on Long Island for
Vanderbilt cup.
1S-McGovern whips Murphy at Philadel-
phia in I'd.
Nov. a-.Dan. Patch equals worlds pacing
record; mile, 1:59A.
12-Dan Patch sets new worlds pacing
record: mile, lbs.
30--Chicago university defeats Michigan
at football, score 2 to O.. winning cham
pionship Of the west.
Dec. 11-Eckersall elected captain Chicago
university football team for 1906 .... Curtis
elected captain Of Michigan for 1906.
20-Jack O,Brien defeats Bob Fitzsim-
mons in 13 rounds at san Francisco.
26-Jack O'Brien challenges Jemes ]
Jeffries to Drht
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Jan. 9-First national bank of Faribault,
Mimi, closed; receiver appointed.
9-Brott cotton mills, Massachusetts, capt.
tai ST. 0 900.
23-Strauss-Green Co., Toledo, o.; liabilities
Sis, 900, assets 500, 900.
N-Standard RoSe & Irvine Co., N. Y, for
$12, 000, 900.
29-Pan-Ametican bank, Chicago; assets
ST., 200, liabilities $75, 800.
Mar. ARNOLD Brewing Co, Saulte st.
Marie, Mich; liabilities $S5, 600; assets $780,
900.
6-Spartansburg. Pa. bank; capital, SIS, 100.
7-Coe Co., Minneapolis; liabilities, 5000, 600.
S1-Citizens' bank, Lorain, O., as result OF
defalcation.
Apr, 3-Ladoga, Ind, bank; assets $4,000
liabilities $109, 900.
16-Owosso, Mich. private bank closes.
23-Merchants Trust Co., New York, closed.
ton, Okla, First national bank fails.
26-Barberton, O., First national bank
27-R. H. York & Co.. old Cleveland, O.,
brokers; liabilities, $4,000.
Jun. 2Ladysmith, Wis, First national!
bank closed.
19-Fyfe & Munson, Chicago, placed in re-
ceiver's hands.
2l--City Trust Co., Philadelphia, closes
doors.
2s-vicksburg, Mich, exchange bank.
26-knight. Donnelly & Co, Chicago.
2S-Terre Haute, Ind, national bank closed
doors.
Jul. o-Sprlng valley, H., and Toluca, H.,
national banks close.
6-Hagerstown, Ind, Commercial bank; LA
bilities. S125, 900. |
E1s-Citizens' bank, yellow Springs, O.; liza
bilities, $50,000.
19-Spring Valley, o., bank closes.
2o-City national bank, Kansas City, Mo.
Aug. 3-West Liberty, Ky, bank closes.
10-Four Denver, Col, Western bank Off
Gals arrested on fraud charge.
21-Western bank, Louisville, Ky; due to
overloans.
Sep 1s-Minot. S. D.. national bank closes
H-Johnson & Sloan, Minneapolis, MINI;
liabilities, $500, 600. . g. First national bank,
Orville, o., closes doors.
Oct. 6-Peoria Qll.) national bank closes be-
cause of Dougherty indictments.
Nov. 1-Kingfsher (Okla.) national tank
closed by comptroller of currency.
Dec. 1S-John X. walsh's three banks in
Chicago. Chicago National, Home Saw
ings and Equitable company in liquida-
tion. Local clearing house guarantees
payment of $4,000, O0O. Public and
private a%ccounts involved.
27-Merchants Trust Ameri-
can Savings bank and Mechanics
Savings bank, Memphis, Tenn, close
doors; first named in liquidation.
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2i-Johann Hoch, Chicago, again escapes
gallows; supersedeas granted.
Sep. Parker, Sherman n johnson found
guilty Of murder at Detroit. Mich. SEN
fenced 10 life term....R. d. Chas kills
Alice Watson and self at Tonopah, New.
Zl-Geo. Ford, Switzerland, Co., Ind, Gre
mated wife and three children. "a Chi
cago packers fined $4,000 for accepting
railroad rebates.
3~o-Andover, H., mother kills Z children
and self; husband commits suicide. st.
Louis, No., man kills son and self with
poison.
Oct. 2-Harry Leonard, New York, con-
fesses 70 S359.OO0 bank swindle.
On. G.. Dougherty, Peoria, Ill, indicted for
school fund speculations.
SEred Feerer, st. Joseph, Mich, killed
Viola Lonsdale and self.
lV-Chicago negro kills police sergeant,
laIally shoots two others, staying self.
~L-Captain and four of crew on Philadel-
phla vessel, slain by mutineers.
io-E; H barrow kills sons wife and self
h.Wm. Tubbs, Coshocton, O., kills wife
ls-harry McGlasson, F%rakerville, Ia, kills
WIFE, daughter, sister-in-law and self.
ls-E, G.. Cunliffe. Pittsburg, Pa, who
stole Sl0l,0O0 from Adams Express, cap
tured at Bridgeport, Pa.
zzdGhicago bride and groom commit sui
blow safe of Ridgeville (Ind.)
80 NRaVOVss Hill ~
Vile, Ill. found guilty of murder.
@'NNWm LIE Due, at Chenoa, Ill, kills Chas.
Nickel, mayor, and H. D. Jones; attempts
10 ROD pank and deies capture for six
hours... VIM. c. Croker, Richmond, Va,
Kills VIE, 2 children, a neighbor and self.
NOV. I'm. F. Andrews, murderer. Stays
paramour and self, ~
mrs. Chadwick refused new trial.
iT.E: e. Cuniiffe, who stole slOl, OOO. sem
,tenced to 6 years.
1o-oGTanton, Pa, man kills wife and self.
I'll. a.. Leonard, who stole 1859, 900, SEN
.enced 10 IA months IN jail.
l'-b' Rodhaubt kills sweetheart and self.
"4.Wm. McWinia'as, independence, IA,
Kills wife and 8 chiIdr IN. Five convIcts.
JEFFERSON City (sic.) prison, kill guards
ana escape -. Newton G.. Dougherty
pleads guilty; So ntenced 10 jail from
Peoria, Ill.
oec. I-Brookls IN. W pharmacist kills
vile and motner-in-law
mrs. Mary Rogers hanged in Windsor
Svt2 prison for Staying husband. -. VIM.
McWllliams. who killed wife and 5 chill
aren, sentenced to death at 1ndepen-
iS-lllinnis supreme court denies new
trial to Johann Hoch, Chicago wife
murderer; hangs Feb. 20.
l71State bank. Colby, Wis, robbed of
$4,000: robber captured, money re-
turned.
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MiceHaneous

JAM. l-Louis Allwhite, alleged murderer
lynched at Newport, Ark.
Feb. 211Two more Indictments against
Mrs. Chadwick, making7.
Mar. -Ronce Gwynn, negro, lynched at
Tullahoma, Tenn.
22-Loss in Pittsburg, Pa, flood over 81 ,000,-
900,
2S-Rosseau, Tombs prisoner. says he made
bomb which blew up battleship Maine.
Apr. 9-Jaques Faure sails over English
channel in balloon.
14-Body of John Paul Jones found in
Paris cemetery.
2o1Mrs. Mclean, N, y. elected head of
2s.J. W, Gates, Chicago, loses $40, Ooo, 900 in
29-Dr. d. X. Pearsons, Chicago, gives $685..
0W to southern colleges. Andrew Car
negie gives SlO,0 900 for aged college pro-
fesSorS.
May 81. N. Perry, Chicago, acquitted Of
GIGANTIC arson charge.
l2mNan PATTERSON freed of charge Of killing
~kidnaping at Belmont, Mo.
zsMMahlladeIphia gas gang surrendeTs to
mayor Weaver. ..Mexilla valley flood
causes $500, 600 loss.
Jun. 6-Wisconsin storms cause $500, 900 loss.
T Morton. ex-Sec. of Navy, elected
chairman of Equitable society.
a2.Yellow fever deaths In one day number
r.. Battleship Kansas launched at Cam
den. N. j..
lo-odinuel GIeaSon, acquitted or EDWARDS
murder. at Reading, Pa.
y Normandy, KY, negro lynched for
Aug, 1-Dr. Koch acquitted of charge Of
Killing Dr.. Gebhardt at New Ulm, MINI.
ZIegler, pol.-seeking expeditions,
lost for over two years. rescued.
2Sn1I1Yellow fever reported IN Brownsville,
Ill, and Ottawa county, Mich.
25-Presioent Roosevelt submerged 80 min
utes In submarine torpedo BOAT Plunger
IN Long Island sound.
S0-Yellow fever breaks out in Florida.
sep. S-TWo Silver City, Miss, negroes
iynched for assault.
SO-Battleship Mississippi launched at Phil
Oct. S-Mob of colored citizens near Balm
bridge, Ga, lynch negro for assault.
H@American bankers hold session in
Washington; John L. Hamilton. Hopes
ton, H., elected president.
12-Henderson, Tex, mob lynches 8 negroes
for murder.
lS-Capt., Taggart granted absolute d.
v9rce from wife at Wooster. o.
l5--Ex-Alderman O'Neill, Chicago, loses
breach of promise suit for SIS, 600.
injured.
1s-Terrihc gale on great lakes kills "a.
26IPresident Roosevelt ends southern tour
H.President narrowly escapes death in
Mississippi river collision.
2S-Terr1hc gale on great lakes wrecks II
vessels, causing loss of 20 lives and prop.
erty loss of 81, 900, 900.
29-Bainbridge, Ga, mob lynches negro
who killed woman and shot sheriff.
30-Rear Admiral Train and son attacked
by Chinese natives; latter held as hostage.
President Roosevelt reaches Wash
ington.
Dec; 9.Battleship Idaho launched at Phila-
delphia, Pa.
13-Chas. A. Peabody elected president Mu-
tual Life Insurance company Geo. w.
Perkins resigns office In New York Life;
succeeded by A. E. Or.
17-Edward S. Dreye-, Chicago bank
err, paroled: had served over two
years. sentence at, Joliet, Ill. for
Misrepresentation OF $316, 600 Chica-
go park board fgres.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-04
NATIONAL SCANDAL RIFE.
Nearly All Republican Leaders
Seem to Be Out for
Graft.

The life insurance scandals being, in
vestigated in New York have already
disrupted the state Republican organi-
cation. 1t also appears that evidence
is forthcoming that will prove equal
ly disastrous to the Republican nation
al organization and expose the graft
ing propensities of its highest officials.
Charles E. Hughes, counsel to the
legislative committee investigating the
insurance scandal at New York, has re-
ceived an inside tip from a reliable
financial source from which a reporter
for the New York World obtained the
following information:
"That during the months Of Sep
TENDER and October, 1904, IL corpora
lions doing business in that state sub
scribed to a fund a~ggregating $225, 600.
"That of this amount the Equitable
Life Assurance society contributed $685..
QUO.
THAT the arrangements for a num-
Der of subscriptions, including the
S25, 900 donated by the Equitable, were
made by George B. Cortelyou, then
chairman of the Republican national
committee.
THAT all of the contributions we're
made upon the representations of vari-
u persons, including Mr.. Cortelyou,
Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-Gov. Odell, Sen
ator Platt and Senator Depew, that ad-
ditional money was needed to insure
the election of Theodore Roosevelt as
president.
"Tb"t the money was subscribed
solely upon the representation that the
Republican national ticket was in dan.
ger of defeat.
"That of the amount collected less
than five per cent, or, to be exact, $10,-
500, found its way into the state cam
paign to help the candidacy of Frank
W.. Higgins, Republican candidate for
governor"
The question is not where did they
get it, but what did they do with it?
The New York Republican leaders EVIL
IDENTIFY do not intend to quietly be
made the scapegoats of the insurance
scandal, but will drag into the mess
the national Republican officials to
show they are not the only boodlers
and grafters, but that other Repub-
lican leaders are tarred with the same
brush. Where will these Republican
scandals end?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-04

urated. Illinois legislature convenes.
o~-Douglas, Massachusetts, inauguratea
governor.
S-Adams declared governor of Colorado by
legislature.
eDeneen, Illinois; Hanly, Indiana; Folk,
Missouri, and Hoch, Kansas, izaugurated
governors.
1o-Adams ~inaugurated governor of Colo
rado....La Toilette gains control Of Wis.,
consin legislature by organization.
lip. G, Knox elected to United States SEN
atorship to succeed Quay....E. c. Stokes
inaugurated governor of New Jersey.
ia, G. Stewart, Iowa, appointed attorney
general of Porto Rico.
A1Gov. La Toilette, Wis, elected U. S. SEN
ator.
Feb. !7.statehood bill, admitting Oklahoma
ana New Mexico, passes national senate.
@Representative Comerford expelled from
X Illinois legislature, Failed to prove cor
ruption charges.
1S-U. S. Senator Mitchell, Williamson and
Hermann again indicted in Oregon land
fraud case.
2S-President calls special session Of con-
gress. -. Judge Swayne acquitted of
charges by U. s. senate =. Senators
Bunkers, Emmons, Wright and French
expelled from California senate on brib-
cry charges. Naval appropriation bill
of 800, 300, 600 passed by U. S. senate.
Mar, Especial session of national senate
opens.
7-Cortelyou becomes postmaster general.
GT-SoStio 1ibsC5 iCdu
claims, defying United States.
H-Gov. Frazier CTenn.) resigns to be-
come IT. s. senator. &
31-"Fighting Bob Evans takes command
of North Atlantic fleet.
Apr. 2-T. p. Shonts, Chicago, appointed
head of Panama canal commission.
3-Judge Moore reelected Michigan SUI
preme court Judge.
4-Iowa supreme court calls biennial cleo
ton amendment to state constitution
valid.
13-Sen. Burton, Kansas, reindicted for ac-
cepting fees from grain firm.
S0--Bowen, U. 8. minister, ordered to WASH
ington.
May Illinois legislature adjourns.
18-La Toilette railroad rate bill passes
Wisconsin legislature.
Jun. 20-U. 8. invited to Moroccan confer
ence. Minister Bowen dismissed.
28-Pattison nominated as democratic Sc
lection for governorship Of Ohio.
29-Wallace, Panama canal engineer.
ousted from office.
SO--J. f.. Stevens, Chicago, appointed to
succeed Wallace.
Jul. 1-Five packing corporations indicted
by federal Jury at Chicago.
a-.U. 8. Senator Mitchell (Ore.) convicted Of
tSa3ticing law during term.
L tn N2A KIN Hr MAM AM LL"IA
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Fires

Jan. lin Chicago, three buildings de-
stroyed. IL injured; loss. s525, 900.
lin Arispe, Ia, business section de-
stroyed; incendiary.
16-Business section Leland, ILL.,, wiped out:
loss, 500, 900.
22-Brookfeid, Wis, wiped out by fire.
29-Omaha wholesale district swept; loss,
$500, 600.
Feb. s-Half business district, Burr Oak.
Mich, destroyed,
Pin Chicago wholesale district; loss,
$1,000 300.
ls-in indianapolis wholesale district; loss.
2O-At Charlestown, Mass, piers and ships
destroyed; loss, 81. 900, 900.
fiat Hot Springs. Ark; 8 lives lost, 1000
homeless; loss s., 600 900. A New Or
destroyed; loss, 5000. 900.
Mar. TAT Cedar Rapids, Ia, two killed;
loss, 81, 1000.
G-Business portion Faunsdale, Ala. wiped
AR ". 1saflre DESTROYED haif Of clendennin'
May fire practically destroys Home
s-Business district of Flora, ILL.,. wiped out.
Jun. Effort Francis, Ont, practically de-
etroyed.
Jul. 9-Business and residence blocks Of
Goldfeld. New, burn.
1o-Entire Gridley. Cal. business section de-
stroyed.
24-In Humble, Tex, oil fields FIRE. 10 perish
100000 barrels Of oil destroyed.
Aug. 7-Hoboken, N. j.. docks, depot. train
sheds, two ferry boats and buildings
burned; loss. $500, 900.
2+-Buslness section, stevenville. Mont,
swept by fire. 1917
25--Business section Lofts, Ia, DESTROYED.
Sep. 1-Almost entire business section Tlem-
ington, KY, destroyed. ~
14-Business section. G~rangeville, Idaho, de-
stroyed. WINK
rs-Almost entire business section La Porte
Cal, destroyed.
24--At Butte, Mont, ~fercest fire in its his
tory; loss. $1,000, 900. ~
T-Rof. !. r.. business block destroyed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-04

&Elihu Root appointed secretary OF state.
3-New York legislature orders an insur-
ance investigation.
Aug. 22-E. II. Conger DAD resigns as
Mexican ambassador.
Sep. I'D. E. sherrick. Indiana auditor.
ousted from office by Gov. Hanly. because
of alleged graft.
15-Sherrick formally arrested or embez-
element charge.
2S-Sherrick indicted fer embezzlement,
Oct. sMissoun threatens to Gust New
York Life Insurance company.
n-U. S. Judge Baker, of Indiana, charged
with levying campaign contributions on
H-President Roosevelt issues order that
civil service employees may be summary
dismissed without trial when superior so
decides.
Nov. 1-Prince Louis of Battenberg. with
special message from Edward TO Presi-
dent Roosevelt arrives in America.
7-McClellan wins in New York mayoralty
election; Republicans sweep country.
-...Pattison, democrat, elected governor
S-Wm. r. Hearst protests McClellan's
election, charging fraud.
lo-New York grand jury indicts u for
election frauds.
12-Gov. ~Pennypacker (Pa.) calls special
legislative session to discuss reform.
21-Gov. La Toilette (Wis.) calls special
session of legislature.
26ASen. Burton CKan.) indicted for violat-
ing federal statute.
29-H. G. Squiers. minister to Cuba, re-
signs; E. ]. Morgan given post.
Dec. S-Midshipman Meriwether acquitted
on charge of killing marine in boxing
bout.
5-President Roosevelt delivers message to
congress....Gov Ia Toilette (Wis.) de-
livers message to legislature and accepts
United States senatorship.
13-John NJ. Gearin selected to succeed
Senator Mitchell, deceased to United
States senatorship from Oregon.
Gov. La Toilette. Wis, resigns to
accept U. S. senatorship.
22-Herbert PIERCE, Sd asst. sec. of
state, selected by president as list
American minister to Norway.
Chas. DENLY. chief clerk, as success
Sor to Peirce.
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ID Il y n II pIuleelS
BARON kOMURA. with France
against sheltering
Russian fleet.
2A-Futile attempts in United States to Sc
cure peace,
May 4--Typhoon damages Russian Pacific
squadron.
ls-Russia warns United States that Japan
seeks to abduct Korean emperor.
2S-Rojestvens ky' 81 feet almost annihilated
In Battle of the Sea of Japan by Ad-
miral Togo. Admirals Rojestvensky and
Enquist captured.
Jun, ll-Russia and Japan agree to Roose-
vets plan to discuss peace.
-l6-Gen Linevitch practically surrounded
by japanese.
2G-Witte and Rosen, Komura and Taxa
hira selected by Russia and Japan, re-
spectlvely, as peace plenipotentiaries. Au-
gust selected for time; Portsmouth, N.
H, as place.
Jul ~9-Japanese capture Sakhalin island.
&-Czar and kaiser confer in Finnish
Aug. &Negotiations begin at Portsmouth,
10-Baron Komura presents terms of peace.
HIN. Witte, refuses indemnity and ces-
sion of Sakhalin.
14-Break in peace negotiations narrowly
22,President Roosevelt intervenes in peace
breach.
N-Czar approves presidents plan.
declared between Japan and
Russia. Japan comedies all disputed
points, waving indemnity and ceding
Russia northern half of SakhaIin. Arm
istice agreed to, ending war.
Sep. 1-Armistice signed, ending open hos
~tilities.
Oct. 4-Peace treaty passes Japanese privy
council.
14-Czar and mikado sign treaty of peace,
officially ending war.
16-Peace officially announced by both gov
ernments.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-04
TARIFF OBJECT LESSON.
Introduction of a Bill That Is More
Than Pretense on Part of
Advocates.

AS an object lesson to the voters,
Representative John Sharp Williams,
the Democratic leader in congress, has
introduced a bill to amend the tariff
law that would reduce the duties on
all articles wherever in the aggregate
they amount to more than 100 per
cent. Of that figure. He was asked
his motive in doing SO, and If he had
any real idea that the bill could pass.
THE president of the United States,
as / understand it," he said, puts his
advocacy Of protectionism upon the
ground that it is right and proper that
there should be a duty on importe I
articles sufficient to make up the &
ference between the scale On Aneisus
labor and a right American waaa
standard. AS this is the last difcl,
I thought l would see by the intro
duction Of a bill in this congress
whether or motif was a p~retense or a
real conviction upon the part of those
who use it as an argument.
ut strikes me that the labor cost Of
no article will or a ever exceed its
entire cost. l don't believe that any
one will deny that proposition. I
have therefore introduced a bill to
reduce the tariff duty wherever it is
over 100 per cent. to 100 per cent,
thus leaving a taxation condition I'M
der which undoubtedly not only the
whole difference between American
labor and foreign labor has been made
up by a tax upon the consumer, but
where the entire labor cost has been
taxed to the consumer"
Mr.. Williams seems to think that
a republican who is sincere in his adj
vocacy of the tariff upon the idea that
1t really does benefit labor, and that
the justification for its existence is the
benefit to labor, must be satisfied
with a tax which includes the entire
labor cost of articles imported un-
taxed.
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strike.
2s-Chicago strikers enjoined from interfer-
ence. nHaa H Il
3O-Grand jury indicts 70 labor leaders on
conspiracy charge.
May 2-Fierce Chicago strike riots; / killed,
several fatally injured. Many negroes
imported.
s-World's. railway appliance exhibit opens
at Washington.
4-Seventh session, international railway
congress opens in Washington. ~. Chicago
employers ask militia to quell strikers;
Deneen refuses. 49,. Strike causes business
mistake.
10-Chicago deputy kills u~nionist who
jeered him. =. Roosevelt receives strike
committee in Chicago; tells them to up-
hold law or grave results will follow.
16-National Assn of Manufacturers meets.
25-Thebes, ILL.,, bridge across Mississippi,
gateway to southwest, opened. "
2S-President Shea deposed as Chicago
strike leader.
Jun. 4-Shea arrested on libel charge
Grand jury indicts labor leaders for con-
spiracy, at Chicago.
Zone killed, two : injured in Saginaw.
Mich, strike riots.
Jul. 20-Chicago Transfers strike declared
off.
Aug. l-Western railroad telegraphers
strike for better wages.
5-Attorney General Moody asks probe az
~telegraphers' strike. 4
&c. p. Shea reelected president of Inter
national teamsters' union at philadelphia.
Sep 1S-Threatened Chicago freight hand
lers strike collapses.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-01-04
LATE POLITICAL OPINION,

Secretary Shaw has been deliv-
ering an address at Yale. Catching
EN- when they are young?-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
Those who suspect an undue po-
litical intimacy between Odell and
Hearst will notice that the Hearst pa
pers are booming a petition to force
Platt and Depew to .resign.-Albany
Argus.
The tariff stand-patters are con-
siderably Jared by the recent export
totals, which show that the year saw
over a billion dollars worth Of goods
go out of the United States for sale
In free trade nations.-Seattle Times.
Preserving the gold standard"
Is too good a phrase to be lost; we
should incorporate 1t permanently in
our political vocabulary. In 1896 the
big insurance companies we're paying
$4,000 each to the Republican cam
paign fund in order to preserve the
gold standard. In 1900 the standard
still seemed to be in danger. In 1904
ordinary men ceased to have apprehen.
sions; but fa~r-sighted presidents of
our insurance companies continued to
see the menace on the distant horizon
and cheerfully handed out the $50, 900
taken, as usual, from the pockets
Of the policy holders.-N. Y. Post,
The tariff question is one which
the president considers Of secondary
Importance or too delicate for discus
sion. Last year he was on the verge
Of saying something on the subject,
but changed his mind. The "stlnd-
patters' and the tariff revisionists
have been at a loss to know where he
stood and which side could claim Fin.
Perhaps it is the highest prudence for
the executive to keep out Of such
strife and to leave the subject to be
iealt with by the unaided wisdom 81
congress" About all he has to say
Is that congress should consider wheth-
er 1t is Oh Is not desirable that .he
tariff laws should provide for maxi
mum and minimum rates.-Chicagn
! Tribune.