Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

ue. Ii onerS an unusual opportunlt
Saturday afternoon and selected
delegates to a county convention.
Similar meetings are supposed to
have been held in the various
townships throughout the county,
and all the delegates will meet
here in county convention, May
9Th, to nominate a county ticket.
We think it would be perfectly
safe to say that not more than
twenty-five people participated in
all the meetings held in the county
last Saturday, and yet those
twenty-five people nominate the
ticket in Iron county. And when
it is nominated the voter will be
asked to support it on the plea that
he is voting against the ring and
bossism. 1t is very doubtful if in
the past fifteen years the Repub-
licans of Iron county have ever
nominated a ticket that as many as
one hundred men have taken part
in nominating.
The following from the lastissue
of the Potosi Journal is all right:
GA young lady who has been visit
ing friends in this locality lately is
the subject of a good joke that is
receiving many feelings, and
blushingly acknowledges it when
queried as to the veracity of the
tale. One afternoon not long since,
her hostess beheld an old man at
her front door. Feeling that he
was an agent she spoke to her
guest asking her to go to the door
and say they did not care for any
of his goods. The guest went,
greeted the senile agent kindly
and was informed by him that he
was selling nursery goods. 4 am
sorry she replied, but we have
no babies here and saying good
day. closed the door. She noted
the peculiar expression of the pur-
veyor of shrubs, but not until she
had seated herself did it dawn up
on her that it was not nursing
bottles the man had"
Murphy Bryan, a railroad en-
gineer, was killed in a wreck three
miles south of Bismarck on the
Belmont branch, at 11:25 o'clock
A. M. Monday. The engine with a
caboose and one car was backing
to Cornwall, where a train had
been set out and was to be taken
north. The train men say that
they we're running about ten miles
an hour, when they struck a curve,
the engine toppled over and the
engineer was buried beneath the
wreck and scalded to death. 1t is
thought that the wreck was &C.
casioned by the fact that the tender
was overloaded with coal: there
being no coaling station between
Bismarck and Cornwall, a suffice
lent supply for the round trip had
to be loaded on before leaving Bis
marck, making the tender top
heavy. The fireman, Albert
T~rauernicht, son of Robert Trauer-
NIGHT of Irondale, jumped from the
engine and escaped with a few
bruises. The cal and caboose did
not leave the track and the other
members of the crew were unin-
jured. The train was in charge of
Conductor Walter Black and Ed,
Counts and John Stricklin were
the brakemen. The deceased en-
gineer was a son of Postmaster S.
D. Bryan of Bismarck and made
his home in that town. He was
married and his wife survives him.
Mr.. Bryan was very popular in his
home, and the news of his death
cast a gloom over the entire COM
munity.
Roger Wadlow has retired from
the ace for prosecuting attorney
in Reynolds county. His letter OF
withdrawal, which is somewhat out
of the usual order, is printed be-
low: 81 hereby serve notice to the
general public of my withdrawal
from the race for prosecuting at
torney of Reynolds county. In
doing so | wish to tender my sin
cere thanks to the many voters who
have so strongly solicited me to
make this race. (And their name
is legion.) No fears of defeat
prompt me to make this with
drawal. No scheming or willy
politicians have affected me in the
least; neither has my father asked
me to withdraw. He has had nc
word to say in it; yea nor nay.
In withdrawing, | do so of my own
volition. | am fully c%ognizant Of
the step I am taking and do it OF
my own accord. Rather than
make a house-to-house canvass
rather than be a vote beggar;'
rather than do all this, I have re-
solved to Danish all thoughts Of
ever being a political aspirant,
And | conscientiously and de-
liberately consign all such of my
ambitions to the %avaricious gods
Of destruction, hoping that they
will make short Work of the same,
Again | thank my friends for theil
interest in my behalf, but | do not
think that | can afford to enter
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