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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
YANKEE BOYS TRIUMPH.
MacQuiston Brothers Capture Tennis
Championship of Mexico.

Chicago, III. - Director Stage, Of
the University of Chicago, has re-
ceived word from the City of Mexico
of the victory of the MacQuiston
brothers in the tennis championship
of Mexico, recently held in the cap
ital city. Paul MacQuiston, a former
University of Chicago star, who was
the western intercollegiate champion
in 1899, won the singles, and with his
brother Harvey, who was the western
intercollegiate champion in 1898, won
the doubles. Harvey also was a noted
Maroon. Both of them won the dou.
bles in 1898.
They stated they would invade the
States next year and would play in all
the local tournaments about Chicago.
They probably will play in the ma
tional championship as well.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
STRIKE NAY spREA
swttchmen and Yardmen Of Colorado
& Southern Seek Increase.

Denver, Colo.-The strike Of the
switchmen and yardmen on the
Colorado & Southern railroad contin-
ues AMI each day the situation be-
comes more complicated.
Grievance committees for yardmen
on the Denver & Rio Grande and 9TH
er roads are in the city, and, it is said
they will present demands for an in
crease of 2 cents per hour.
There has been some talk Of Chair
man Martin A. Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission and Charles P.
Neill, commissioner of labor, coming
to the city to offer their services in
an effort to bring about a settlement,
but nothing definite in regard to this
a be learned.
1t is freely predicted that the strike
will spread to other roads in a short
time unless a settlement is effected
soon.
Many large mines have shut down
as a result of the strike and others
are preparing to do likewise If the
strike continues.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
MAY MEAN PRISON
ROCKEFELLER Is MENAcEp BY
IMPRISONMENT IN OIL FIGHT.
sll47sO.OOO in FINES POSSIBLE
Standard Is Under Indictment in Five
Federal Districts-Law Says
Imprisonment.

Washington, d. C.-With a fine Of
$29, 100000 hanging over its c%ofers,
the Standard Oil company, either by
that name or the name of n of the
many companies owned by it, is under
indictment in five federal districts, and
it is possible for judges to impose fines
amounting to STA, 760, 000-which is
more than the capital stock of the par
ent corporation. And over the head of
John D. Rockefeller hangs the menace
of Imprisonment.
John D. Rockefeller, if it can be
proved that he had anything to do with
the transactions that form the basis of
the nine indictments still pending at
Chicago, can be fined and imprisoned.
He has not had an immunity bath, so
far as those nine indictments are con-
cerned. He got immunity so far as
the one indictment and all its counts
under which Judge Lands levied the
fine of $29 ,240, 900.
If found guilty, Mr.. Rockefeller could
be fined not less than $1,000 and I'M
prisoned for whatever time the Judge
might deem sufficient punishment. But
there would have to be Imprisonment,
because the law says, land imprison
ment," not 'or Imprisonment" There
would be no discretion of the Judge.
He would have to impose imprison-
ment sentence, even if it was for only
ten minutes, as Judge Munger once
sentenced men found guilty of fencing
in the public lands.
How many indictments have been
brought under state statutes cannot pc
ascertained here, but it is believed
that the number runs into the hun
dreds. No state has provided as high
penalties as are specified in the inter-
| state m law. In nearly all
state statutes there is a provision for
bidding a company once convicted re.
naming in business within the limits
of the state. In Ohio the Valentine
antitrust law says that the company
violating it shall be dissolved.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
MENACE STANDARD
GOVERNMENT AND SIX STATES
ACT AGAINST CONCERN.
VERY HEAVY BLOW is POSSIBLE
If Found Guilty In All, Maximum
Fines Would Total Sum of
$~f2o,520,ooo.

New York-Great as the Stand.
ard Oil company is, the array of suits
pending against it is equally formil
able. The federal government has
eight suits pending against the parent
corporation for subsidiary companies
in the United States courts of ive
states-Missouri, New York, Louisi-
ana, Tennessee and Illinois.
In addition the attorney generals of
six states have brought suits against
the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey,
the parent corporation, or the particu-
lar subsidiary through which 1t does
business in the states affected, to
GUST the trust and prevent it from
hereafter doing business in those
states.
Suits of this kind are pending ia
Texas, Minnesota, Missouri, Tennes-
see; Ohio and Mississippi. In addition
to the custer suits penalties are sought
to be inflicted by some of the states.
Texas is suing to collect a lne of S.,
600, 000, and Mississippi to collect pen
alties amounting to $4S0,000.
In the federal suits the total mum
Der of counts of all the indictments
is 6,326. Were the company to be
found guilty in every case and the
maximum fine imposed, as was recent
ly done by Judge Lands, the total
amount which the company would be
called upon to pay would be $126,520,-
600. This, added to the $29, $4,000
fine inflicted a week ago, would swell
the total to $155, 760, 900, irrespective
Of the penalties which may be infict.
ed as a result of the various suits
brought by different states.
A fine of $29, $1,000 would not be a
death blow to the Standard Oil Co.
In six months its profits amount to
that sum. But if the company were
called upon to pay into the treasury
of the United States a total of 1885,
0O0,0 0 that would be a most serious
matter even for the group Of stipend.
ously rich men who compose the con-
pany.
The Standard Oil has a surplus re-
serve fund which runs into enormous
figures, Conservative estimates place
it at 5000, 600, 900, and less conserva-
tive estimates place it as high as
$500, 0 5000. What it actually is is
a secret which has been guarded with
extraordinary care, the knowledge be-
ing confined to not more than five or
six men.
With a surplus reserve fund of more
than $3.50, 000, 900, the Standard could
pay fines amounting to $685. DOC, 900,
and still be highly solvent and with a
surplus larger than that of any other
corporation in the country, but its
prestige as the dominant power in
railroading and in industrialism would
be seriously crippled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
sroRk FLYING AGAIN TO SPAIN.
Queen Victoria, Whose Boy Was Born
May 10, in Delicate Condition.

Paris-Special dispatches received
from San Sebastian, Spain, where the
seaside summer residence Of King AL
phonso and Queen Victoria is located,
state that her majesty, who gave birth
to a son May 10, is again in a delicate
state Of health. Additional precau-
tons will be taken to preserve the
queens health and preparations will
be made for the second coming of the
stork in the spring of next year.
The king and queen left Madrid for
the Chateau de la Granja a month ago,
where Alphonso posed for his picture
before Artist Sorolla in his private
park. The baby prince Of the Asturias
was with them, and a week ago the
royal family went to San Sebastian, on
the northern coast Of Spain. King AL
phonso married Princess Victoria OF
Battennburg May 81, 1906. The prin-
cess is the niece of King Edward Of
England. There was great rejoicing
throughout Spain when a son and hei:
was born May 10.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
PUTS CURB ON LIQUOR DEALERS.
Ruling in Nebraska Said to Mean Prac-
ticaI Prohibition.

Lincoln, NebI-All champagnes.
still wines and foreign liquors
must be branded to indicate the con
tents and proof of alcohol, according
to the ruling of Food Commissioner
Johnson.
The decision was in answer to a
telegram received from a Chicago firm
which declared that the state pure
food law, If enforced, would mean pro-
hibition in Nebraska. Food Commits
sioner Johnson has filed the following
telegram TO the Chicago firm:
"All liquors sold in Nebraska must
be labeled to show percentages and
proof Of alcohol and net contents. This
may be actual prohibition, but it is
the law"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
No Paw, Federal OFFICER Quits,

Tulsa, 1. T.-United States Com
missioner w. w. Hyams, of the
Fifth commissioners district in Indian
Territory, has resigned. His successor
has not been named owing to a def
cheney in the last congressional appro
priation fer federal officers in Indian
Territory. Commissioners, constables
and clerks have been serving without
pay since July 1, and the resignation
of other officials is expected.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

The first honorary degree of doctor
of medicine which Oxford university
has cver granted has just been con-
ferred upon a man who had looked for
ward to the practice of medicine in
London. He gave up the idea years
ago to devote his knowledge and his
life to the poor fisherfolk of Labrador.
The recipient of the degree is DR.,
Wilfred T. Grenfell, and the degree
itself is, with peculiar significance In
this case, 'honoris causa."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Child Seeks Police for Shelter.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Ellen Rorer,
aged 8 years, whose father resides III
New York. applied to the police here
for protection The child informed the
police that her mother was in a hospi-
tai here, and that William Sletch.
er, with whom she came here with her
mother, threatened to put her into the
street
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Protects Family; Bitten.

Sedalia-E. H. Hillyard, a we'll
known travelling salesman, while pro-
tecting his wife and little daughter
from the attack of a mad dog, which
ran upon the porch of their Quincy
avenue home, was bitten through the
index finger of his left hand. MI. Hill
yard had the wound c~auterized and
will use a maidstone.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
North Carolina Roads obey Law,

Raleigh, N. C.-Governor Glenn late
Monday afternoon received a tele-
gram from the authorities of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, saying
that they would put the IN cent state
rate into effect on August s. This is
the last road to surrender to the state
laws, and on August 5 all the roads in
North Carolina above sixty miles long
will be using the state rate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
-rwo Italians Executed.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Two Italians we're
hanged FOR the murder Of Angelo
Cappibianca, a storekeeper of Brad.
dock, Pa. The Italians confessed
they had been hired to do the killing
by a Biaddock Italian for 500. He
has disappeared. 1t is said he was al
ftmirer of Cappibianca's wife.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
celebrate Coronation q Plus K,

Rome, Italy-The anniversary of
the coronation Of Pope Plus x was
celebrated in the Sistine chapel with
deep religious solemnity, great pomp
and magnificence. All the cardinals,
the papal court and the diplomatic
corps accredited to the Vatican were
present.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

1t is almost an axiom that no strike
can succeed which has not public sym.
patty on its side. The leaders of two
recent strikes in New York must have
forgotten this, for it is hard for the
public to sympathize with men who
let the garbage of a great city rot in
the streets and breed disease, OF with
men who prevent the sufferers in the
tenement-houses from getting ice.
The wise leader is the one who first
makes sure that he has a just cause,
and then lets the public know all
about ii.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Nearly chokes on own Teeth.

Warsaw, Ind.-Charles Shelter, a
fourteen-year-old boy, at a bowling
alley here, "coughed up" his front
teeth and escaped strangulation by a
narrow margin. A careless player
scattered the pins while the boy was
still setting them up, and one hit him
in the mouth, knocking out all his
front teeth. Some went down his
throat, and only a violent fit of cough
ing saved him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

A Buffalo paper says the vacation
habit undoubtedly makes America bet
ter. That may be true on the whole,
but doesn't 1t encourage otherwise
truthful persons to magnify three
inch FISH into three-feet monsters
when they come back with a coat Of
tan thick enough to hide their
blushes?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

So many thefts and embezzlements
by employees have been committed in
New York banks and other fiduciary
institutions within the past few
months that alarm has been caused
and several of these establishments
have, says the Indianapolis Star, de-
cided to demand that every clerk give
bond whether his duties call for the
handling of cash or not. If he does
not handle funds a bond of $4,000 is
to be required, and the amount is in
creased in accordance with the re.
sponsibility.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

Mexico is falling into line with the
centennial celebration procession.
President Diaz 'is arranging to com
memorate the one hundredth ami.
versary of the beginning of the re.
volt against Spain which led ultimate
ly to the independence of the repub.
lie. The celebration will begin on
September it, 1910.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Three seek Postohice.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lyle, postmaster
here, resigned because of i'll health.
Three candidates for the position have
appeared-George Collect and William
Wright, business men, and James Min
or, a quarryman. The controversy
has been referred to former Congress
man Frank B. Fulkerson, of St. Jo-
seph.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Runaway Train Kills Four Men.

Atchison, Kas.-A Missouri Pacific
freight train ran away down Shannon
Hill here and struck the rear end of
another freight standing on the track.
F. D. Scott, a fireman; Fred Butzirus,
Hastings, Neb.; Ralph Moody, Omaha,
and an unknown mar were killed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
NEWS OF MISSOURI
Macon Bonds Realstered.

Jefferson City-State Auditor Wild.
er has registered for the City of Ma
con ten current event bonds of the
denomination of $500, bearing interest
at the rate CT 6 per cent. Auditor Wild
er also registered school district
bonds as follows: Texas county one
OF the denomination of $3.50. bearing
interest AZ the rate of 6 per cent;
Madison county, five of the denom;na'
ton of $500, bearing interest at the
rate of 6 per cent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
capt. Charles 3. Maus Dead.

Jefferson City-Capt. Charles B.
Maus, a veteran of the Mexican and
civil wars, died at his residence in this
city. He was 81 years old, and had
conducted a mercantile business in
this city in one building for more than
fifty years. Capt. Maus was born in
Germany. He came to st. Louis with
his parents when about 8 years old.
He settled here in 1874.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15

A Tribune correspondent has discov-
cred that homework is the most at.
tractive employment for women, but
that, nevertheless, they shun it. Not
being a woman, the correspondent
should know. A committee of hired
girls might view him carelessly and
decide that shoveling sand was a
more congenial occupation than writ
ing, but that would not drive him to
manual labor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Dutch Soldiers Massacred.

Amsterdam, Holland-A massacre
of Dutch soldiers has occurred
in the Dutch East Indies, ac-
cording to a dispatch received today
from Batavia, Java. The message says
48 infantrSmen were killed during a
sudden uprising of natives in the Mort
district of the Island of Celebez.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
-Four Fishermen Drown.

New York--Panic-stricken when
their fishing launch sprung a leak,
twelve men plunged into the waters of
Raritan bay, where, despite the fact
that all were excellent swimmers, four
drowned. The sloop Rand arrived In
time to save eight of the party.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Young Husband Exlled.

Trenton-Separated by the edict OF
two mothers, WILDER Newton, Of La
redo, and his pretty bride, formerly
Juanita Collier, of this city, are
doomed to live apart for three years.
or until the youthful husband attains
the age of Fl years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Missouri Miners Celebrate.

Rich Hill-A Haywood demonstra-
ton vas held at Panama, a mining
camp four miles south. All the mines
in the Rich Hill field we're closed for
The occasion. A parade in the morning
and fireworks in the evening were fea-
lures. James James, district delegates
of District IA, U. M. w. A., and Amos
Standering were speakers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Secretary Wilson III,

Portland, Ore.-Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson, who is here, is i'll
at his hotel, and declines to see any
one. Casper Wilson, the secretary's
son, said that his father contracted 4
severe cold on his trip from Puget
Sound to Portland, and that he had
passed a restless night.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Brake Fails; Brakeman Killed.

Montgomery-Bert Trawer, a brake
man, was killed by the cars near Buel,
this county, on the Burlington and AL
ton cutoff. He was riding the pilot OF
the engine when it crashed into a
string of cars. Engineer Brown says
the airbrake failed to work and he
could not stop his train in time to pre-
vent the crash. A c%oroner's jury exon
Grated the train crew.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Golden Wedding Celebrated.

Marceline-The entire neighborhood
united in celebrating the golden we'd
ding of Patrick and Margaret Carey on
the Charlton county line near this city.
The festivities closed with a big dance
at night. Mr.. and Mrs. Carey have
spent all their welded life in this
state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Bow Drowned While BATHING.

Notwithstanding Pierce Wise, the
only son Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Wise, of
this city, was drowned while in bath
ing at Minneola, sixteen miles from
here, where he went with pleasure
seekers. He was 10 years old and a
law student of the Missouri university,
where he would have graduated next
uoar ..#
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Explosion Kills Three.

New York, n. inflammation has
reached this port that 1T was an ex-
plosion in the hold OF the North Ger.
man Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II.
that caused the death Of three men
and prevented the vessel from sailing
on schedule time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Abe.inence Union Reaina Session

Cleveland, Ohio.-The t~hirty-sev-
enth annual session of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America
convened here. The opening services
consisted of a solemn pontiical mass,
at the cathedral. This was followed
by the general sessions of the conven,
tiCn.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Peacemaker Kills Disputant,

New York-Losing his temper
because his efforts as a peacemak-
or did not succeed, Edward Mulvaney
knocked down and killed his prospec-
tive fatner-in-law, Robert Sealander, a
contractor, in Brooklyn. Sealander
and his son has quarreled.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Iealousv Leads Id shootInn.

Lincoln, Neb.-Joseph Knadel, a
Havelock machinist, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Mrs. Elsie
Parsons at her home in Northeast Lin.
coin and then committed suicide. Jeal-
ousy is supposed to have led to the
shooting.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Younn Root TO Med.

New York, N. Announcement
is made Of the engagement between
Elihu Root, Jr,, eldest son of Elihu
Root, secretary of state, and Miss
Aida Livingston Stryker, eldest
daughter Of President M. Woolsey
Stryker, Of Hamilton college.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Engineer Is Drowned il Lak..

Waterloo, Ill.-William Nagel, an
engineer, was drowned while swim
ming in a small lake near Wartburg,
four miles from here. He was seized
with cramps while in about eight feet
of water and sank at once.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Teacher Killed in a Runaway.

Memphis-Okie Guy, a young school
teacher, was killed in a runaway north
Of Arbela. He tried to jump from a
buggy, when his feet became entan-
gled in the lines. He was dragged a
quarter of a mile and died two hours
after he was released from the wreck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Otdest Harvard AIlImnl,a pIee'

Boston, Mass.-Israel Munson Spell
man, the last surviving member
of the Harvard class Of 1886, and the
oldest alumnus Of the college, died at
his summer home at Marblehead at 80
years. Mr.. Spellman was president of
the Boston & Maine railroad during
the civil war. "
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
New Type of BattIeships.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-The navy
department intends in the course of
the current year to lay down two bat
tleships of a new type. Their dis
placement is to be 1890 tons, an arm
ament of ten 12-inch guns and minor
batteries, turbine engines and a speed
of 81 knots an hour.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Troops Hold Strikers Down.

Belfast, Ireland-The strikers at
tempted to renew the disturb.
ances in the neighborhood of the
docks, but a show of bayonets on the
part of troops who are policing that
part of the city quickly ended the trou.
BILE.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
prince Killed in Railway Wreck

Berlin--A passenger train was de-
rallied between 'Posen AMI Thorn.
Eleven persons were killed and
ten we're injured. Among the dead
are Prince Alexander Begotoff, two
sons of Count Keyserlingk of Mitau,
Russia, and a Russian captain who
was accompanying them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Six Frustrated In Kansas CITY

Kansas City, Mo--six persons
were FRUSTRATED by the heat here
Wednesday. The maximum tempera-
ture Of SO degrees was accompanied BY
great humidity, making this the most
uncomfortable day Of the summer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Damage at Hannibal.

Hannibal terrific rain and wind
storm swept over this city, ~unroofing
houses, uprooting trees and blowing
down fences. The roof of the chau-
tauqua pavilion was blown off ard the
tent damaged.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
Body Found in Lake,

Warsaw, Ind.-With a tifteen-pounG
stone tied about his neck with a
handkerchief, Conrad Nued, aged 90,
of Anderson, was found floating in
Eagle lake at Winona. The body had
the appearance of having been in the
Youth slain as Burglar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-08-15
ALLEGED Bank Robbers on Trial

Springfield-The trial of Ed Dubar
and William Wagner, charged with
having robbed the Bank of Aldrich, be-
gan in the circuit court at Bolivar.
Clyde Donor, who confessed, commit
ted suicide in the Polk county Jail in
June.