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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

hers, she was the queenly leader of
Washington's social and official life.
And what was her quest? The older
generation will recall the plot and the
Interpreting of those years to make
Salmon P. Chase president of the
United States. The fact that this great
ambition of a daughter was " graf
flied was probably the precursor of
that adverse fate which has relent-
lessly pursued and gnawed the heart
of every Sprague ambition felt since
that time.
Early in her married life Kate Chase
Sprague built Canonchet, on an estate
of $50 acres at Nara gansett pier.
The house was at that time
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
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"Crunch!" That was all. It was the
sound made by Henry eating the dog.
AT $40 q monster bulldog smelled his
way into the garden to rip up a yard
Of soil among the petunias. "Ki-yi!"
"Crunchi" The bulldog had gone
hence. BY IL: &c Tenry's score stood:
One Newfoundland, one bull, four fox
terriers, an Irish setter, and two plain
dogs. Everything that came into the
yard collided with the lion and 10, it
was not. Mr.. Nelson was SO joyous
over the experiment that he could not
go to work that day, but Just sat
around and felt good. In six weeks
the dogs were either all IN or were
ayoidin the place by going two
blocks the other way. Then the cir
Gus came around and the lion was so
rat and glossy that Mr.. Nelson dis
posed of him to the menagerie depart
ment tor $327.7s-Minnaapclia l;ouv
nal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Fate's Relentless Pursuit.

Fate's Relentless Pursuit.
In the autumn of 1897 Mrs. Inez
Sprague, having studied grand opera
with some of the best French and
Italian masters, appeared in Boston
and made her debut with the Boston
Symphony orchestra. Among other
numbers she sang the suicide aria
from the opera "Gioconda." Boston
critics caused Mrs. Sprague to quit
her proposed tour and return to
France. Defeat lay in ambush wher-
ever a Sprague ventured forth. That
same year Mrs. Kate Chase died in
poverty in Washington. ]
Five years ago Gerrit s. Wheaton
died and left his large interest in
Standard Oil to his young widow, sis
ter of Mrs. Tnez Sprague, one time
wife of Willie Sprague, and mother
of Inez Sprague the second. The lat
ter was a beautiful girl. And she has
just blasted the great hopes of the
little war governor" and his wife, by
clipping with Harry Williams Stiness,
son of Chief Justice oohn H. Stiness,
Sprague's %implacable enemy in the
Rhode Island supreme court, between
whose family and the clan Sprague
a feud has existed since 1874.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Can Never Forgive Her.

He did his utmost to accomplish
my financial ruin declared William
Sprague, who was wal governor OF
Rhode Island when the north and
south decided to discuss their differ
ences at the cannoh's mouth. Il can
never forgive her"
The governor and Mrs. Sprague, his
second wife, retired to Canonchet to
make their plans. In order to gain
time they said not a word when it was
asserted that they had forgiven the
clipping bride and that she and the
bridegroom would be welcomed there,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Brilliant Kate Chase.

While United States senator he mar
ried Katherine Chase, famed as Kate
Chase, the beautiful daughter of Sal
mon P. Chase, Lincoln's secretary of
the treasury. With this brilliant mar
riage began the social career which
sent the name of Chase-Sprague to the
greater salons of Europe and America.
Kate Chase in that day was account
ed the most brilliant woman in the So
ciety of her own country. She was
beautiful, she was a diplomat of mar
velous methods, the homage of the
greatest statesmen of that time was
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

and that eventually she would inherit
the house of tragedy, the home of a
thousand memories of bygone days. {.
But their silence did not mean con
sent. For when all their plans had
been formulated, Gov. and Mrs.
Sprague instructed their lawyer,
Henry Wellington Wack, of New York,
to arrange for the sale of the historic
estate, just as it now stands, A great
inheritance has been forfeited because
a young girl saw fit to make a shop
ping trip to Providence and then sud
denly make up her mind to get mar
ried.
Fall back A years. and march along
with the events of the time, a time
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Unfortunate Willie Sprague.

After a few silent and pathetic years
down there by the sea, the household
of Sprague was again disrupted. Willie
Sprague had again come under the in
luence of his mother. He became a
reporter on a Washington paper, then
shifted to a similar position in New
York. A beautiful girl was born to his
wife-Inez Sprague-and the present
Mrs. Sprague became at once an aunt
and a grandmother.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Separated by Divorce.

Meantime, Kate Chase brought her
sensational suit for divorce. Gov.
Sprague filed counter charges. So
ciety glutted itself with gossip of the
S A compromise was finally effect
ed by which both these charges were
withdrawn and a charge of cruelty in
terposed. On May 81, 1882, Kate
Chase-Sprague got the decree divorc-
ing her and giving her the right to re-
sumo her maiden name and the Gus
tody of the three daughters, Ethel,
Portia and Kitty.
On March 8, 1888, the governor mar
ried his present wife. She was Dora
Inez Weed, of Virginia. She was then
rs and Gov. Sprague SO. They imme-
diately went to Canonchet, where Mrs.
Sprague has since reigned as its chat
elaine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

the grandest mansion on the
coast. 1t stands on the favorite
camping ground of Canonchet. chief of
the Narragansett tribe of Indians. 1t
cost a million dollars. It's furnishings
were brought from the stores Of many
countries. 1t is a palace within,
strangely, voluptuously featured, a
labyrinth of halls. hooks, salons,
chambers, towers, eerie dens, a the
alter, library-6S rooms in all.
1t had $4,000 worth Of hand carving
in the dining-room, and other appoint
ments of a similar extravaganza. 1t
stands to-day, dark but proud; heir of
it's hospitality to the distinguished
men and women of two continents.
Horace Greeley used to visit there and
toast his shins before the library
CRATE; Conkling's name is indelibly
stamped upon the place and time, and
the man whose memory goes back to
the early seventies will recall the high
jinks and the Sprague-C Conkling
episode, which eliminated in Conkling's
fight from the governors gun by way
of a window and a barred and bolted
boudoir door.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
LION CLEARED THE YARD.

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the Dogs.
Mr.. Nelson, who was much annoyed
by stray dogs burying bones in his
garden at Linden Hills, secured a lion
while he was in Europe last summer,
paying $2S7.50 for q rather weather
beaten king Of beasts, but one that
was guaranteed in every respect. The
lion became a great pet on the way
over and came to know his masters
voice and obey It. Its name was
Henry. Arrived ut Linden Hills Mr..
Nelson let Henry out into the back
yard and simply waited At 1880 on
the first morning a Newfoundland dog
as large as a small garage walked into
the yard to step on the flower beds az
usual and to tip over the garbage can.
The lion saw the dog enter the yard
and the dog lust barely saw the Hon.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07
Marriage Promised Much.

Many had courted the girl. Finally
last year, when she was 81, she be-
came engaged to young Winpenny,
member of a prominent Pennsylvania
family. By this marriage, the|
Wheaton fortune, coupled with Canof1
Chef and it's acres, might yet make the
score even between the Spragues and
their enemies.
But fate was against it.
One day last spring Miss Inez AMI
nounced the breaking of her engaged
ment to MI. Winpenny. On a day iu'
June she left Canonchet to go shopI
ping In Providence. There on Jund
II, at st. Stephens church, she mari
ried Harry Williams Stiness without
previous announcement. Rev. Herr
bert Barker performed the ceremony
w. c, Rhoades and Wurst White werd
witnesses. The spirited young lady
was not to be bothered with the form
and frills of a conventional marriage
1t is merely a matter of theory tina
the acquisition of a husband on hef
shopping tour was the item of chic.
concern to Miss Inez, There was
new hat, for instance.
And because of it Canonchet zoe
under the hammer at once. TIL
Spragues are to quit Rhode Island an
America forever.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-07

~Sprague's Business Downfall.
1t was in 1873 that the political and
social forces at work to ruin Senator
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
PATTERSON ON TILLMAN.

THERE always satisfaction in learning what prominent
the question: whether learns anything
else thereby Perhaps the lawyer instinct which enables
without disclosing the thought
sbe for the that know where place thumb
the News who recently dis
Tman the bl muck raker of his
signed editorials We Senator Patterson credit for mildly rbuk
Senator 1man well ueanc OF the Rev. Dr. Coye
Central Presbyterian church. and severely condmnng the
lack of protest the of other spokesman local and through
the North But the time reconcile these
rebuke with approval of Southern dsranchsng methods and
other which Iman Senator Pat
heretofore,
him particularly mfrendy the Negro rather
always that which to init
that he does wish positively the
by Southern political leaders And therein the
istics of the astute lawyer and politician loom
1t be regretted that of prominence and influence
like Patterson the fact that there
of the problem which political and which should
political treatment of The recognition of this
determination without lodging would
problem difficult The problem
of solution of social whose solution the aprc
where political
social fears applied Justice is the of all and
the all wisdom which just and equal in their
application fruit
tree of liberty They avail for but they will bear their
law social intimacy with the white Purely social ethics
subject legal Consequently they nothing
with politics good white people the North the
South look Senator lman political freak, remarkable for
ciples IDEAS Many good people
his ideas command North South and wisely doubt that they
should be dgnfed with constant denuncaon The he is silent
the freak regardless of the fact that he
freah popularity the lecture platform In reality Senator Till
than he the country
other who breaches the necessity of political social friction
between different elements of national citizenship whatever
tns color creed be involved And feel that
clearer than those of Senator Pat
whose general fairness and great ability respect
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
mrakttrHH nf
Orthnhnxy
By PROF. CHAS. ZUEBLIN,
University of Chicago.

relating the belief happiness will talking single
tax at funeral if asked speak few words of comfort The eerdox
always outside the camp and the saying is he against the
government But regardless of temperament business
evouons 1t is auary make examination of self before
claiming old orthodoxy if enthusiasm
ed into We may find tant of something
others-only along another line.
The orthodoxy of religion known by ydoon The orthodoxy
politics expressed loyalty The orthodoxy of the system
class The ordinary
for his devotion religious belief He orthodox it, that's ALL
thinks he believes the church dogma but he simply
In social life the orthodoxy fashion prevails Shop girls
forts of her work and Station Why should not go
dinner in his shirt sleeves instead of hammer
if he comfortable that way? it's the orthodoxy
tonaly that all subscribe Imagine asking how
feel like gentleman if he had erred the of
We hear much of the orthodoxy Of liberty Tom Paine
led all astray They thundered that agent
that true liberty We have been crying this orthodox
Think of that liberty that
starvation free agent to barter his life and
The orthodoxy of the Old English that stand
Why that old law has always tagging after industrial
Socialists don't their orthodoxy How about with
of Carl Marx declaring their bbe when they don't know
about than the other bible Examine yourself Let
believe in the brotherhood keep minds open
grow with the movement then the movement will grow
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
IS THE NEGRO PATRIoTICq

EXPRESSIONS in a studied editorial Paul Thieman of the
Denver brings this question the fore Is the Negro paoc
AT will think absurd
definition of be absurd it
The the which this
soldier the concil
the
Pacific islands, has him deserved praise and given him repua
of mixed American citizenship From the
Revolution the has made the Amer
nobody had difficulty
the cowarde backwardnes been laid his
volunteer, the Negro
ideal soldier through all the trials and that
soldier in barracks the battlefield he has bore him
self we'll But does all this patriotism? He has been loyal
without doubt and has done his whole duty far mis- intellect
and physical ability made possible.
characteristic Negroes be faithful
his In Civil War times he the faithful
families of the who fighting keep him in slavery
responsibility fell
trusted field hands their masters plantations But
the their black brothers of the North marching
ghng Union ranks down the rebellion and abolish the
slavery which its True that the united hopes
of the Negro with those whose meant their liberty but
either de under of necessity and of opposing
inrs they equally The naturally
but he naturally enthusiastic and the stir
directly his
the Negroes faithfunes soldier
people him the credit of words neither
the nation honors him according his
honor his white compatrot 1t is the story racial
will
banises the heterogeneous Republic climax
devotion that accepted for its service
glory If patriotism Glove nation
people who the country and for their institutions pride
of amagamated race then truly the really
patriotic?
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22


most puzzng problem warfare She will the unique
spectacle, when used attack of against which there
defense You pit sword against sword rifle against rifle
onclad roncad You torpedo boats
against torpedo boats and dyes against desoyer But
send nothing against the submarine boat not itself You cannot
fight submarines with submarines The fanf descriptions of the sub
marine battle of the future have defect You under water
hence cannot fight under water hence cannot defend yourself
against attack under water except by running If cannot
doomed Whae shipping at anchor the buildings in
seaport Therefore the sending submarine
against them their inevitable destruction.
No. nearly the human mind discern the submarine
boat indeed which that possess
en prevail She by anything above beneath the
destroy warves and shipping warhp WILL throw shells into the
city when suitably armed and then make her out She
lie for days at the bottom of the harbo leaving only when
used up all her stored except what required her back
to the where she the surface seck
and her She expose
than second at time during all her work of destruction the hbor
This would be when she would discharge her the city The
reco the would send her Of sight The
of hitting her would be Million if the ha floating
battery which it would not be very long while the
work Her opdoes she could discharge without coming
at all.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
AntrrtrattH SlaurH
In Onttupmttntt
By AMELIA RIVES.

find the supreme laws the big statutes of the moral code.
the spiritual order must test the validity
of actually afraid being hen
cling them like ebts in the big of experience
striking out and learning for ourselves make bodies
for the spirit
Courage faith in the Spirit that do evil
suffer- realizing that the light the spirit discovered only when
most needed darkness the the laws the big statutes the
CODE 1t suffer
ua knowledge but does Last We must not evade shadow
Of the vague panic of the for when
richer state of knowledg
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
Denver,
Say Women Cooks Are sest.

Some of the most famous diners.
of whom the late Sir Henry Thompson
was not the least, have held that o
irst-rate woman cook is the superio.
OF any chef" that ever drew his thou
sands a year. Half the nonsense that
Is talked about chefs" and half the
money that is paid them, flows from
the determination of plutocratic per-
sons to get rid of large sums in a man
ner that Is pretty sure to be talked
about.-London Daily News.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE.

EVERY Negro who reads for the of keeping abreast Of
ought
running in the American Magazine written
by Ray Baker the title of Following the Color
The April and to be thorough and
exhaustive treatise relations South and North Because the
truthful good bad
different just they they worth to the Negro whose
life best effort usually portrayal in widely
public vehicle Negroes ought buy the Aner
Magazine through this appreciation Of the good that Is
81 obanabie
news star and
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22


We Americans are we
fearless enough; aren't
we afraid of something,
after all? We are afraid
of ourselves, of each
other. How few of us
dare to live out our
primitive instincts, to
test the true ideals of
life. 1t seems To me that
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22


People are tempera-
mentally orthodox OF
heterodox in their be-
liefs, but the danger
with the orthodox man
is that when he changes
his mind he is sure to
land in some other Or
thodoxy. A man who has
dropped the orthodoxy
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
All things that are supposed to come
% him who waits are subject 10
change without notice.
Chance for PhiIanthroplst..

There is plot for summer novel
In this advertisement which recently
appeared in the Lucknow Qndia)
Daily Telegraph. "will any gentleman.
educated, European, marry (immedL
ately) young lady to save her from
hateful marriage?"
The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-22
Tfr Tutltrr uf tlrr S1thntartnr
JtttpnHHthlr tn Jt1aptttr
By JOHN p. HOLLAND.
Inventor of the Holland Type of Submarines.

HERE great future for the submarine At best it
but in the initial stage of development hard at
work plans which designing for of speed of 80
knots hour that to be 100 feet in length with beam
of ten feet and which believe maintain pace with any
feet and accompany any This vessel will be
propelled by gasoline and will be intended for work the
high seas and for coast defense.
1t is safe to say that when the first submarine torpedo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
CHANGE IN COMMERCIAL
 AGENTS OF WESTERN ROAD
w, J. Parker Comes To Montgomery From Mobile, Changing Places
 With c. K. ROdenburg.

A change in the commercial depart ments of the Western Railway of Ala bama and Atlanta. and West Point Railroad became known yesterday when W. J. Parker. of Mobile, arrived hero and took charge of the office of the Commercial Agent of the lines at Montgomery, succeeding c. E. Roden- burg.
 Mir. Rodenburg took the position heretofore held by MT. Parker in Mo bile as Commercial Agent of the West ern. MT. Rodenburg left here yester- day morning for Mobile to assume hls new duties.
 MT. Rodenburg came to Montgomery originally as local agent of the West ern, succeeding w. c. Hunter. who at that time was appointed Commercial Agent. few months ago Mr.. Hunter resumed the local agency and Mr. Ko- den berg became Commercial Agent. During his residence here Mir. Roien- berg gained a wide circle of friends. who regretted his departure.
 MT. Parker has -cn connected With the Western a number of years. He held his first commercial position with the road at Columbus. Ga, as Commer- cial Agent. and was later appointed to the commercial agency at Mobile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
REPLIES TO STATE
PUBLICATION FILED BY MOBILE
 AND OHIO.
DaiIrOaa Asserts in Federal Court Ia- junction Case That States Answer Is Uncertain, Evasives ana 1a-
 eumcient In Law.

The Mobile and Ohio Railroad yes terday filed a replication in the rail- road litigation instituted in the Feder- Ii court to enjoin the enforcement of drastic anti-railroad legislation en- acted by the Legislature.
 The replication Is a reply to the an ewer made by the State of Alabama to the original bill entered by the railroad. It is brief and of formal nature and ayers that the answer of the State in very uncertain, evasive' and insufficient in law"
 In the twelve separate bills filed in the United States Court by the diner- ent railroads doing business in Ala hama, replications have been filed by the, Western Railway of Alabama. the Alabama Great Southern. the central or Georgia Railway. the Atlantic Coast ILne Railway. and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
 The Louisville and Nashville and the aouth and North Railroad filed except ions which were in the nature or re- plications.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04

gomsry five years. having removed here from Pensacola. He was . mem. ber of the Capital City Lodge of Odd fellows. and of the Woodmen of the World.
 He is survived by his wife and mother, of Montgomery, two brothers, Joseph Howell and Jeff Howell. of Pensacola, and two sisters, Mrs. lila Anthony, of Pensacola, and Mrs Francis. of Laura Hill. Florida.
 The funeral services will be con- ducted at the residence at 10 o'clock tonight by Rev. John Bass Shelton of the Adams Street Baptist church. The remains will then be escorted to the Union Railway Station by Odd Fellows and woodmen of the World and placed in the Louisville and Nashville train to be taken to Pensacola for interment. the remains from Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
Notice Serued on Sheriffs That
 Governor WM Veto Pass BiN.

Notice has been served on the sheriffs of Alabama by Governor Conner that he will veto the Blackmon pass bill and that they are wasting time trying to get their friends in the Leg islature to vote for 1t.
 The Governor told this to 0 commit tee of the sheriffs consisting of Sheriff Irwin. of Escambia. and Sheriff Johnson, of Tallapoosa county.
 Several sheriffs have been in the city looking after legislation affect ing the office of sheriff. They were particularly interested in the Black mon bill, which gives legal authority to sheriffs to ride on passes when they were travelling on official busness. The object of the bill was to help the ad- minsitration of justice. because since the anti-pass law went into effect 1t was claimed that some prisoners were not arrested because the sheriffs could
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04

not afford to meet all the demands that were officially made upon them to pay railroad fare.
 The bill went through the Senate af- ter hot fight. Notwithstanding hot contest waged upon 1t by the admiuis- tration senators, the bill had votes to spare on it's final passage. The sheriffs were absolutely confident that the bill would pass the House. They had ample assurance of this from their friends in the house.
 The sheriffs heard, however. that the Governor would veto the bill. Sheriffs Irwin and Johnson went to see him. He told them that he would certainly veto the bill if 1t came to him. He told them further to go upstairs and spend their time on something that would do them more good, for the Blackmon bill would never become a law.
 The bill will therefor die on the call endar.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
GRAND JURY TO MEET.
Federal Body to Meet h M0n.gOu
 AmRunf I0

Federal Body to Meet h Montgomery
 August 20.
 The grand jury of the United States Court for the middle district of Ala bama will convene Tuesday, August 20, for the consideration of such matters as may properly come before such body
 ness -r the inQuisitive body will be light because of the apparently strik- ing decrease in Federal violations dur ing the past six months. The last federal grand jury met in January.
 Judge Jones has not yet announced when he will convene the United States Court for the trial of cases.