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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
HARDSHIP MADE HER THIEF.
Foster Niece Of General Bragg Wins
Compassion in Court.

Chicago--Mrs. Josephine Osborn, rs
years old, pleaded guilty to a charge
of stealing $56 worth of postage
stamps from the Great Northern Man.
ufacturing Co., which employed her.
Driven to desperation by want,
abandoned by her husband and com.
PEELED to support herself and a 6-year.
old child on 81 a week, Mrs. Osborn,
who said she was a niece of General
Bragg of civil war fame, told the court
despair had caused her to commit her
first act of dishonesty.
Judge Newcomer said: IT will sen.
tence you to 60 days in the county
Jail and have the sentence expire at
the end of n day"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
IN HONOR
OF M'kINLEY
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES AT uN.
YELLING OF MONUMENT
AT CANTON, o.
ROOSEVELT MAKES ADDRESS
Home of Martyred President Thronged
With Thousands of Visitors
Four States Contributed
to Monument.

Canton, O.-An address by President
Roosevelt and a poem written for the
occasion and recited by James Whit
comb Riley, dedicated here the $780,
600 Mckinley memorial monument
built by a countrywide popular sub
%scription of 1900 900 small contribu-
tons.
The crowd in Canton numbered
100, 900. Special trains brought nearly
$4,000 people from western Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio.
Two thousand regulars and 1000 of
the Ohio national guard protected
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
COUNTESS WILL DEFEND RIGHTS.
Divorced Wife Of saxony's King VIII
Cling to Daughter, Princess Anne.

Florence--Enrico Toselli, who last
week married the Countess Montig-
noso in London, in an interview con-
flymed the reports that it was his in
tention to make an American tour as
a singer, but declined to give any de-
tails concerning 1t, He declared that
his wife would defend her rights as a
mother for the care of her daughter,
the Princess Anne Monica Pia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
NEWS OF MISSOURI
Protests Against Local option.

jefferson City-The validity of the
adoption Of local option in Christian
county is to be brought before the
supreme court for adjudication when
that tribunal meets next month.
There are two sections of the law,
which, it is argued. are in conflict.
One Of them requires that the peti-
lions submitted to the county court,
praying it to submit the local option
question to a popular vote, must be
signed by t~axpaying citizens. The
other simply provides that these petit
tons bear the signatures of citizens.
This is the point at issue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
ExpIosion Wrecks ereenhouss.

Pleasant Hill-A boiler exploded in
the Conservatives of George M. KEEL
logg, florist, three miles from 4-sre,
partially destroying the plant and
causing damage estimated at $4,000.
Over one-half of the plant was saved.
The Conservatives are among the
largest in the west.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Former Banker lie Jailed.

Oregon-Benjamin Austin, formerly
cashier of the Bank of Forrest City
in this Holt county, was brought here
by Deputy Sheriff George G. Gelvin
from Grant, Ore, and placed in Jail on
the charge of obtaining money under
false ~pretenses by getting George H.
Minton, Charles o. Van Camp and
Albert o. Swope, all well-to-do farm
ers of this county, to sign a note for
him to the Bank of st. Joseph for the
sum of $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Every now and then some dress re-
former starts a crusade against the
wearing Of corsets. This has made
little difference in actual practice,
and is not likely to as long as
the ladies' have their own wey and
fashion prescribes the use of the ar
ticle. And occasionally the ladies'
get a chance to hit back. One Of
them vas driving lei Oxford, N. j..
when she was struck by a stray shot
fired by boys who were playing with a
rifle. Fortunately the ball hit the steel
of the lady's corsets and she was un-
injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

German ship are urging the
construction of a ship canal between
Bremen and Hamburg, a distance OF
about rs miles. Ships now have to
go down the Elbe and up the Weser
to get from Hamburg to Bremen.
whereas the proposed canal, using the
river Wumme as part of it, would
make direct communication possible,
saving much time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Farmer Ends Life with Dynamite.

Lexington, Ky.-Samlel Bagge, a
farmer residing in Bourbon county,
blew his head off with a stick of
dynamite. Bagge owned a 40acre
farm. But had been Respondent for
some time and had threatened to take
his W life. He wrote his will be-
fore striking the cap. The dynamite
was procured from d nearby rock
quarry. He was S. years old and I'm.
married. His father made a fortune
importing Shetland ponies and Cots
void sheep. He was for three years
an inmate Of the insane asylum here
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Lines Stop Issuance of Passes.

Jefferson City-Atty. Gen. Hadley
heard from the Missouri Pacific and
Frisco railroads to the effect that they
would comply with the request to stop
issuing passes to employees, and that
they would cancel all existing passes.
These two roads were the last to com
ply with the request made some time
ago, giving the reason for the delay an
impression that their general solicitors
had already issued the request.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Americans Shoot Bandit.

Durango, Mexico. = A party of
American mining men were attacked
by Julian Reyes, the notorious bandit,
and his men in the mountains of this
state. The Americans resisted with
rifles and pistols and fatally wounded
Reyes. No Americans were wounded.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

At the national rifle shooting match
at Camp Perry in Ohio it was at first
proposed to leave the navy unrepre-
sented, because of a failure to provide
money for the transportation of the
team. The army was to do all the
shooting. On second thought, how
ever, it was decided to send a naval
representation, and the boys OIL the
sea have carried away the champion
ship. When 1t comes to men behind
the guns, says Troy Times, the man.
of-warsman can do some shooting on
land as well as ON the water.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
$50 LIVES LOST IN FLOOD.
King Alfonso Hastens to Aid Of Starr.
ing Thousands.

Malagna, Spain. = The latest
reports place the number drowned
by cloudburst and flood in Ma
laga and neighboring towns at $50.
Thousands are homeless and destitute
and a famine is threatened. The dam
age is placed at nearly a million dol
lars. King Alfonso is on his way to
the scene,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Bruce Murder Case Up.

st. Joseph-The trial of DR.. Bert B.
Bruce, charged with the murder OF his
f~ather-in-law, Ernest j.. Geisler, was
called in the criminal court. The de-
PENDANT is the son of j. w. Bruce, a
lumber dealer in Dearborn, Mo. He is
accused of substituting arsenic for 9TH
er drugs when filling a prescription.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

The name of Michael Scott is the
earliest among the Scotch poets, but
the oldest fragments of Scottish
poetry now known to exist consist of
a few lines of lamentation on the
death of Alexander III. of Scotland,
which took place in 1886.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

A macadamized road between st.
Louis and Kansas City will be COM
pleted within two years. Construc-
ton work will be begun next spring.
The Missouri legislature appropriated
100000 for the purpose at it's last
session. The read will be go feet
wide. On its completion another, ex-
tending from north to south through
the state, will be undertaken,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
st. Joseph Comptroller Outs.

st. Joseph-Hiram H. Barnes, city
comptroller, resigned to engage in 9TH
er pursuits. He has not fully perfect
ed his plans. but will probably engage
in business in st. Louis. H. B.. Har-
ris. an insurance agent, was appoint
ed to succeed Barnes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Joplin to Decorate for Miners.

Joplin--In honor Of the approaching
American Mining Congress, which is
to be held in this city in October.
Joplin citizens are making extensive
arrangements for the entertainment Of
the visitors, the principal movement
thus far being q plan to light the city
with millions Of incandescent bulbs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
FARMER Shot BY Unknown Party.

st. James-Oliver Deletrolz, a
~Frenchman, living west of here, was
shot in the head by an unknown party,
and is not expected to live. He was
walking along the road when shot and
accidentally found his way to a farm
house, where Q physician had been
called, who attended him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Not to be outdone by the submarine
exploit of the president of the United
States, M. Clemenceau, the French
premier, made an ascent in Paris the
other day in a Siderable war balloon.
During the trip a pipe burst. and the
premier was splashed with hot water.
1t took 20 minutes to make the needed
repairs, and during this time the bal
loon remained stationary above the
city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Grand Duke Reported pylna,

Constance, Grand Duchy Of Barren
Grand Duke Frederick, who has been
suffering from intestinal inflammation
for a week or more, is rapidly grow
ing worse and is hardly expected TO
survive.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Walter Page remarks that the
worst written books year after year
are written by our scholars and
academic men" This is a painful and
abrupt way of putting it, but, says the
Chicago News, it is a true word never
theless.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Find Bodies q Yachts Wreck.

Callipolis, O.-Three of the fohr vic.
Tins Of yacht disaster at Gallipolis
island have been recovered. Search.
found the body OF Postmaster j..
Willis Fiddler Of Harrisville, w. va,
floating near Grown City.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

When you remember that II took
the British parliament nearly 500
years to pass the o laws its ac-
ton in deyoting scarcely a century to
the consideration Of the deceased
wife's sister" bill seems hasty and i'm
pulsive In the extreme.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Lieutenant Tires Of Armv.

Fort Leavenworth, K~as.--Second
Lieutenant w. F. Kutz of the Eight.
eenth infantry, which has been or
dered to the Philippines. has resigned
He was secretly married to a girl in
Independence, Mo-, three months &
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

1t IL highly characteristic OF the
Hub Of the Universe, says the SYRIA
cuse Post-standard, that the news
boys union located there should be
supplying n Of its members with
the necessary funds for d course In
Harvard university.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Phone Men Given Short Notice.

Boonville, Mo.-The city council or
dered the Cumberland Telephone and
Telegraph Co. to remove its poles from
the city limits within thirty days. The
company has no franchise, and tho
action is the result OF several months
~wrangling on account Of rates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
People Flee Before Flames.

Kansas City-Fire that started from
unknown causes destroyed the sixth
floor of the Altman building, Eleventh
and Walnut streets. A number of peo-
pie. asleep in the upper floors were
driven into the street in their night
clothes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Scholar ends lite Nv poison

Laporte, Ind.--Alexander Gueskin, a
graduate Of a college in Germany and
9 Of q professor Or Latin, commit
ted suicide by taking paris green. He
was Respondent over Ill health and
lack Of WORT
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Saws Roosevelt 4 SINCERE.

Little Rock, Ark.-Elihu Root, sec
rotary Of state, spent a short time
here en- route to the City OF Mexico.
He said President Roosevelt was alb
solutely sincere in his refusal to again
be a presidential candidate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Liberty, the bronze lady in New
York harbor, will be q years old In
October. The government, as if to
celebrate her birthday, is putting an
elevator into her torch-bearing arm.
repairing her pedestal and cleaning
her dusky skin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Buried PCS Feet peep: Lives.

Duluth, Minn.-Paul Meliege, 40
years old, was rescued at Chisholm
from a mine chamber 265 feet below
the surface, upon which there had
been a sinking depression. When
found Meliege was in an exhausted
condition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Four Killed in Wreck.

Moberly-Two freight trains on the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas collided
head-on on a sharp curve one and one
half miles east of Moberly, due to a
mistaken order at Paris. Four men
were killed outright. The dead ire:
Engineers Bledsoe and Winniger, Con-
ductor Milkerson and Brakeman Ach-
roeder, all of Hannibal. Both trains
were badly wrecked.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
MIlltarx camn Rurna.

Fort Reno, okla.--A prairie fire de-
stroyed the summer camp Of the Ok
lahoma national guard or the military
reservation at this place, Just as the
troops we're preparing to break camr
and start on a march. LOSS $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Snake Trial Erets DEPUTIES.

st. Louis-Deputies Constable Will
liam Barth and William Canty of
Justice Spalding's court, are much
worried over the outcome of a case
pending in the court regarding snakes.
If the plaintiff wins the suit the con-
stables will be required to remove sew
eral reptiles from a house on Olive
street, hear T~wenty-irst street, and
deliver them to the defendant.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Wouldn't STAY Saved.

Savannah, Ga.--Half an hour after
being rescued from the river in an
unconscious condition, Joseph Bassett,
IA years old, went back in swimming
and was almost immediately drowned.
His body has not been recovered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

1t is estimated that the people OF
Chicago spend 100000 annually in
getting their shoes polished, but that
is not a drop in the bucket compared
to what they spend in getting other
shines.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Washiugton-Mrs. Carrie Nation, ~,
Gently committed to the workhouCe
for disorderly conduct, has been rel
leased, her fine having been paid By =
friend.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

An Aurora man has been arrested
for doing his own plumbing. Perhaps
he charged himself less for it than
the constitution provides in such
cases.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Girl cies Of HYdrAphobla.

Baraboo, Wis.-Hazel Loomis, IL
years old, died Of hydrophobia. She
was bitten by a dog four weeks ago.
Her brother Howard, s years old, was
bitten at the same time. He will be
taken to Chicago for treatment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

More than 1000, 900 microbes, it is
officially reported, were found in one
spoonful Of a recently analysed sam.
pie Of milk. These milkmen should
be obliged to boil the water.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Sheriff Facea Murder charna.

Jackson, Ky.--Former Sheriff Ed
Callihan surrendered to Sheriff Craw.
ford on a warrant charging him with
completely in the murder Of DR.. B. n,
Cox three years ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Those seven children who YER
born on a steamer that was crossing
the Atlantic can amuse themselves all
their lives writing to the papers to
ask what nationality they are.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
DAMAGED Ships Return to Quebec.

Halifax, N. S.-The Allen Line
steamer Monaghan, which was in col
lision with the steamer Hurons, was
SO seriously injured that she is COM
PEELED to return at slow speed to
Quebec with her $50 passengers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Missouri Brakeman Int,,raa

Floris, Ia.-Lewis Fesher, a Rock
Island brakeman, living at Trenton,
Mo-, fell from Q caboose here, receiv-
ing probably fatal injuries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Naturally it will be gratifying to
the daring explorer who first reaches
the north pole to find that all winds
will watt him southwark.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Surprise is expressed when a won.
an burglar is caught that she should
be stylishly dressed. That is what
she steals for.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Fine for flirting" says a headline
in a Montana paper. Police court or
moonlight on the lake?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Japan appears to be going ahead
on the theory that Korea is not yet
q years of age.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

New RattleshIp to Be North Dakota.
Washington-North Dakota will be
the name of battleship No. 23, one OF
the new 20, 000-ton vessels. Utah now
10 the only one Of the states after
which no war vessel has been named.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

A goat may not be much for milk.
but as the butter he is in class A.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Arsenic Mioht Have KiIlea

st. Joseph-Expert witnesses were
placed upon the stand in the Bert B.
Bruce murder trial. Dr.. Paul Schwitz-
81. chemist and member Of the fac
ulty Of the Missouri university. testi-
fed that q sufficient amount Of white
arsenic had been found in the stom-
achs Of Ernest J. oe' 'er and James s.
Self to have killed them.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

A low-lying country does not need
to have low-lying people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
SHIFTS COAL DEAL
METcALF poDeEs RESPONSIBLE.
lTY FOR $2o,5oo,ooo OUTLAW
LEGAL QUESTION is INVOLVED
Yankee Shippers Challenge the Gov
ernment's Right to Use Alien
Vessels.

Washington, D. Gas nearly as
possible Secretary Metcalf, of the
navy department is going to place the
responsibility for spending the $780,
600 for coal for the Pacific cruise Of
the ~battleship feet upon the shoulders
of President Roosevelt. He said
that owing to the important legal and
political questions involved he will not
act until after consultation with the
president.
The political question is, whether
congress will 81 quietly by and see
what one of the naval journals char
acterizes as a display of cheap poll
tics and ill-advised vainglory."
The legal question is, whether the
proposed employment of foreign regis
tered ships in the transportation Of
coal from II American port to an
other, in apparent violation of the
coastwise navigation laws, is really
setting the laws OF congress in con
tempt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
BY ELI 0. K

A man isn't necessarily bald be-
cause he has no heir.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03

Bismarck William Sandman. ga
years old, fell dead here. He was
apparently in good health.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-03
Must Use Foreign Ships.

lHS dulllulSlTdllUH Has uStI dU-
Vised by Attorney General Bonaparte
that the discretion vested in the presi-
dent for using foreign bottoms, if he
thinks the rates made by American
ships r too high, absolves him from
the obligation in the coastwise law.
But If foreign ships are used it will
not be a question of rates, but of suffi-
cient tonnage and promptness.
If the feet is to go to the Pacific for
eign ships must be employed to carry
coal. The cruise must be postponed,
otherwise, until such time as the lin
ited American shipping facilities can
move the coal.
The courts will not intervene in any
case where discretion is vested in an
administrative officer, unless it is
charged that he is influenced by cor
ruption or other fraudulent motives.
None of the protesting American ship
owner go as far IS that.
Admiral Cowles, chief of the bureau
Of equipment, said today that from a
cursory examination of the Bids it is
evident that not a pound of Welsh
coal will be used, because of the low
bids for carrying American coal in for
eign bottoms.
Calls 1t an Outrage.
W. L. Marvin, a representative OF
American shipping interests, gave out
a statement in which he said
the proposed award to foreign ships is
an outrage against American ship own
ers and American sailors and Amer
lean laborers, because it deprive3 them
of the benefits of the protective policy
which this government applies to
every other American industry.
He contends that the employment
American shipping make the cost Of
operating an American ship so high
that it requires $4,000 a year more to
operate an American steam collier
than a British ship of the same ca.
pacity.
He contends that the employment
of foreign ships would be as fragrant
q violation of law as that committed
by the Standard Oil Co.