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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

The Russian minister of commerce
is named Shipoff. 1t is to be hoped
for the trade of the country that he
lives up to it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

Rats no longer are worn in the
hair" says a woman's magazine. No,
they seem to have been suppIanted
by those little rows of mice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

Kerr Hardie advises Americans to
go into politics. They do. But not
like a flock of silly sheep with some
agitator for beIl-wether.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

We are worried about where they
are going to put the gasoline stations
for these new air NOTWITHSTANDING
Constitution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

No n objects to the directoire
gown provided it does not look as il
the lower part of it had caught on a
nail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

No woman who wears a rat shall
become my wife" says an Ohio col.
iege professor. Rough on rats, for
sure.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

The cza is said to have a dozen
rowns His head lies uneasy enough
with one.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

Many changes in the diplomatic
corps at Washington are imminent
and a general shieft of foreign ENJOYS
may result from the presidential
election.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

Gov. Hughes Of New York finishes
his Kansas and Missouri tour and,
with a trip through Illinois ends his
swing in West.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

Chicago Record-Herald: Ambassa,
dor Hill will continue to ambsss.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15
pRAes YoU DOWN.
Baekaehe and Kidney Trouble Slowly.
Wear One Out.

Mrs. R. Grouse, Fayette St., Man
chester, Ia, says: For two years my
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-15

Hearst reads two more STANDARD
Oil letters before big San Francisco
crowd.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
BOOSTS FOR The
PARCELS POST PLAN
Assistant Postmaster General
Tells of the Need OF Citi-
zens in Country.

Washington, u. c.. dec. a~.--Touching the
heart of the agricultural communities in
every state In the inion. the annual re-
port or the fourth assistant postmaster
general. T. v. De Grow. announces in
creased usefulness of the rural free deliv-
cry service and the unprecedented bring
ing or the work of the bureau up 10 date
and rural delivery of pack
ages of eleven pounds maximum at a
special postage, and the uniforming of
rural carriers. The package provision sue-
Sested requires congressional legislation
and Is designed to be effective between the
distributing postofhce and the patrons OF
any rural route emanating from such
postoff1ce.
Such a service, according to the report.
would benefit alike the rural delivery
patrons and local merchants without in
curing or competing with any other ser
vice. 1T can be given" says DeGraw,
with The facilities now employed and
would materially increase the revenues
OF the department. A special reduced ratio
pr postage for merchandise carried only
by rural carrier would unquestionably be
or material value to the retail merchants
on rural routes and at rural delivery dis
tributing c%enters, as well as enhance the
til1uence or the rural service in making
ME IN the country more attractive"
The rural carriers in the service, OF
which Mr.. De Graw is the head, daily pass
6.9OO.OW homes, and he recommends once
more the adoption of a uniform suitable
to the conditions under which they must
work as undoubtedly adding to the dignity
and efficiency of the rural service. Their
nigh STANDARD OF efficiency is attested by
the fact that only 1855 carriers out of a
total number OF 39.143 were dismissed for
cause during the past year.
Scope Of Delivery.
Rural delivery Is now In operation on
P4s.0S7 miles OF road. over which carriers
are required to travel daily. OF these
roads $1,000 miles are macadam, the re-
Mainder being earth, sand or gravel. Since
the service was first established $40, 632, 132
mas been expended on road traversed by
rural carriers. Road officials and patrons
are notified whenever repairs are neces-
hary on rural routes. More work has been
done on such public highways and more
expenditures made in their Improvement
nuring the past year than IN any previous
year In the history of rural delivery, and
n official reports received clearly indi-
cate that interest in road Improvement is
being generally manifested throughout
b country.
The estimate of appropriations neces-
sAfy for this service for the next fiscal
year. ~ submitted by Assistant Postmas-
ter General De Graw is $36. 246. 600, an In
crease of 167s. 900 over the current appro,
priation.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
Taft so LUCKY
he FEARS SOME
GREAT DISASTER
IF l Had Not Gone to the Pha.
ippines, l Should Not Now
Be President Elect"

Hot Springs. S. d.. Dec. William
II. Taft. sitting IN a swing on the porch
OF his bungalow, said:
When ! consider all that has come
to me / wonder. With trembling. If
there is not to be some great misfor-
tune to offset it all. We have our
health and our children. with never a
loss of a child. MY parents are dead.
'bu they lived to a honorcd and a
peaceful old age. l have not had any
.grtevous SORROW.
Then, politically. there We're he
Philippines; it was the turn of the
hand whether | should go there. If 1
had not gone / do not suppose that T
should be the president-eiect at this
time. 1t might be said that opportu-
nifty comes to every man, and that Il,
is to the credit of the man that he
seizes it. Yet, looking back, | cannot
see that l exercised any shrewd dis
elimination. l cannot persuade NV
sell that 1t was my own wisdom thai
led me into the work.
"Afterward calne the offer of a place
on the supreme court bench. This offer.
was repeated later. My inclination was
to accept 1t. 1t vas not due. really. to
my w judgment that | did not ac-
cept.
Il have UGH for which to be thank
fui. INC | cannot help Wondering If
there is not to be some compensatorv
Sorrow.'
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
my TROUBLES IN
SPENDING ALL MY
MONEY"-BY JNO. D.


New York, Dec. 1.-That a man with
vast wealth has grave trouble of his
own in the serious difficulty of devising.
ways to get rid of the money, is he
view Of John d. Rockefeller. He finds
there is a limit to what one can spend on
food. wearing apparel and home and
he sees little but harm to the recipient
in giving away honey to those who
have not earned it.
The result of Mr.. Rockefeller's de-
auctions is that a rich man is doomed
to keep in his own name practically all
his money n work it for the public
good through safe investments, letting
1t reach the people through pay en-
velopes or benefit them in gifts dis
pensed in an organized. we'll planned
manner.
These views of Mr.. Rockefeller are
related in a third installment OF his
own life story.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
300 PENNSYLVANIA
MINERS CAUGHT IN
A BLAZING SHAFT
Most of the Doomed Men Are
Americans-A Model
Town.

Pittsburg. Pa. Dec. 1.-Short-
!y after . o'clock word was re-
ceived that the rescue party had
succeeded in entering the mine. The
rescuers were able to advance but
IL little way. however, and are at
tempting TO force their way
through the debris to where the
miners are caught.
Pittsburg, Pa. Nov. est is
reported the mime of the Pitts
burg-Buffalo Coal company at
Mariana, near here. is on fire as
II result of AN explosion. Between,
200 and 300 miners are said to be-
IN the mine. >
At l o'clock. an hour and a half
after the accident. dense clouds of
smoke We're pouring from the
shafts. but not q sign OF a miner
had been seen.
\ majority of the miners are
Americans. Their families are at.
The mouth of the mine in a state
of frenzy.
Marianne was built recently by
he Pittsburg-Butfalo Coal com
pany and is said to be the most
perfect mining town in the world.
Little Hope for Men.
But little home is entertained for the,
men who are as the fan house
.,-., ,,r-tl,, l~,,~l;~l,-l o,1l tl@ r~--
stopped for over an hour. With the
deadly gases generated by the explo-
sion 1t is hardly thought possible the
miners could survive.
Reports from Marianne say there
We're between 200 and 800 men in the
company in this city, it is said only
about 100 men were in the mine.
Rushing as fast as steam can carry
them. special trains from this city and
~Monongahela are bound for the scens
OF the disaster. On them are the Off.
prominent miners who are considered
experts in the work OF rescue.
Latest appliances from the new
United States laboratory in this city.
which We're recently tested before the
foreign and American experts for saw
ing life in min explosions, have been
hurried to the Seems.
Just Inspected.
According to officials of the coal com.
panS, State Mine Inspector Louttit and
hin Foreman Kennedy had Just COM
pleted a two days examination OF the
mine and had come from the mine only
three minutes before the explosion oc-
:urred. h surprise of these two men
was beyond description.
The force of the explosion can be
imagined when it is known tina the
heavy iron cage which carried the men
from the surface to the workings was
blown 300 feet away from the mouth
OF the shaft.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
ODD FELLOWS PREPARE
FOR BIG GATHERING

On he evening of December 9 there
will be a great interstate rally of Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs in Sioux City
All the lodges for miles around, in
Iowa. Nebraska and South Dakota have
been invited and a large general COM
mittee is at work preparing plans for
the event. Many men who rank high
In h order will be present and the
list of speakers who are expected to
address the assembly includes grand
and past grand officers Of Iowa, South
Dakota and Minnesota. Deputy Grand
Sire Kirkendell. of Wyoming. is also
counted upon. On the evening before
a similar meeting Is to be held in Sioux
Falls. On Tuesday evening, December
9 the united degree team puts on the
new first degree In Western Star lodge,
No. 2S2. in Sioux City and as usual
the work will attract many from near
by towns. many Of whom will %undoubt-
eddy stay over for the big rally on
Wednesday evening.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
AUSTRIAN TROOPS
ROUTED BY NJ

Belgrade. Dec. IA Servian Off
:ial news agency has circulated an ex-
traordinnry story from Cettinje. Mon
"negro. setting forth an alleged panic
and flight of a body of Austrian troops
that was stationed near the Montene-
grin frontier.
According to this recital. which per
haps for the condition OF
panic observed Yesterday on the
bourses of Vienna and Budapest, the
export was suddenly spread among the
Austrian forces to the effect that tina
Austrian posts on the M~ontenegriE,
frontier had been attacked and routed
The Austrian garrison at Avtovao
and Gazko, totalling some $4,000 men,
were at once thrown into a state Of
panic. Officers and men lost their
heads and fed in terror in the direction
of Nevesing. abandoning their artillery,
ammunition and provisions.
The following day, according to the
news agency the falsity of the reported
attack and the out on the frontier was
shown, the panic allayed and the troops
returned to their posts.
1t is added that two generals in
command OF troops had been summarily
retired.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
HIS SON GIVES AWAY
CoUNTERFEITER's SNAP

Hazleton. Pa, Dec. 1.-Chief of Po-
lice Turnbach. Deputy Sheriff Guscott.
and United States Deputy Marshall
Walsh, of Scranton, have ~unearthed
one Of the most dangerous counterfeit
ing dens in years.
The owner is Wasil Kalma. a miner
employed by the Black Ridge Coal COM
pany, and did his work at night.
For weeks the adjacent valleys have
been flooded with spurious nickels,
aimss' ana other CONS; and kalnaa
Indefinitely had 1T not been for his s.
year-old son, who on Monday handed
John Daubert, a playmate, a handful OF
nickels, innocently saying:
My father makes these, and we have
plenty"
The boy told his father of his good
but the elder Daubert COM
PEELED him to return the money, and
Informed the police.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
LAMPHERE FOUND
GUILTY OF ARSON
Mrs. Guinness Hired Man Sent
to Prison for Not More
Than 81 Years.

La Port. Ind. Nov. 3o.-Ray Lam
phcre, charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Belle Guinness and her three chill
dren by setting fire to the Guinness
house April IS. was found guilty of
arson by the jury.
Within five minutes after the verdict
was reported, Judge Richter had SER
fenced the defendant to the state pen
itentiary at Michigan City for an in
d~eter1Einate term OF from two to II
Years.
Judge Richter expressed his thanks
to the jury for its careful and con-
.sclentious consideration of the case.
Prosecutor Smith also hanked the
jury.
Following the withdrawal of the
jurors. Judge Richter Instructed Lam
phere to stand up. The prisoners face
still locke haggard and his eyes We're
downcast. He held his hands before
him. and then, just as the church bells
IN the city were ringing, Judge Richter
give why sentence should not be pro-
bounced. He replied slowly. but dis
tinctlS: Il have none"
With that, Judge Richter sentenced
him to the state prison in Michigan
City for an indeterminate term OF
from two TO 81 years, fined him
$4,000 and d~isfranchised him for
five years. The court then Instructed
the sheriff to return him to his cell.
Mrs. Guinness Dead.
All the members of the jury made
the following signed statement:
We, the undersigned jurors, impan-
eled and sworn in the case of the state
of Indiana VS.. Ray Lamphere, hereby
say that it was our judgment in the
consideration of this case that the
adult body found in the ruins of the
fire was that of Mrs. Belle Guinness,
and that the case was decided by us
on an entirely different proposition
> LaPorte, Ind. Nov. 3o.-Before Ray
;Lamphere, under sentence from two to
81 years, today was taken to the states
prison in Michigan City, to begin his
term, he received "a visit from his aged
mother. Though not with him during
the trial. she came here from South
Bend this morning In order to say
good bye to him and to cheer him up.
The meeting Of mother and son was
a pathetic one, the mother breaking
down and crying as she clasped her
son IN her arms. The prisoner bore up
Wen, though there was q mistiness
about the eyes which he could not keep
back.
Attorney Worden announced this
morning he would make a motion Mon
before Judge Richter for a new
,trlal, and upon the same being denied.
he expected to perfect an appeal.
Inc transcript alone in the case will,
cost over 5000, and as La1nphere's fam,
.lly mas nc means. his friends bJ sub
nave provided his defense.
The general opinion is thai tho appeal
will never be perfected.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
ONE MARRIAGE OUT
OF EACH DOZEN ENDS
IN DIVORCE COURT

Washington, Nov. 3o.-one marriage
out Of every - in the United States
terminates in the divorce court.
Divorce is two ana one-half times
as common In this colntry MS it was
40 years ago.
Illinois grants more divorces than
any other state in the union.
. These are three chief facts set forth
in a compendium of statistics Of mar
riage and divorce which have just been
issued by the bureau OF census, de-
%part1nent of and labor. The
statistics are the result of a full gath
ering of figures in every state in he
union. h period covered being from
1887 to 1906.
The total number of marriages re-
corded for the 20-year Period from 1887
to 1906 was l., $50. 044. The total number
Of divorces for the period was y4a, 62a.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
WARSHIP FLEET is
HOMEWARD BOUND

Manila, Dec. with no ceremonies
other than the cheers of thousands of
people thronging the water front mark
Ing the departure. and accompanied by
launches from Manila to exchange final
farewell salutes. the Atlantic battle
ship fleet, under the command of Rear
Admira Sperry. promptly at S o'cloc
this morning started on its homeward
Journey and sailed for Colombo. Cey-
Ion, the first port that the fleet will
stop at on the second half of the
worlds encircling voyage.
Shortly before 8 O'Clock the is big
white and buff floating fortresses be-
gan to weigh anchor, and on the stroke
OF the hour the flagship Connecticut.
the commander-in-chief, moved out.
from the anchorage in Cavite harbor
and headed down the bay, and n little
later the fleet. in double column for
nation, with each battleship in perfect
alignment. steamed down the main
roadstead toward Corrig1dor island.
Floating across the water from the
shore came cheer after cheer, which
were answered by the bluejackets on
each ship, and the water front was
af1utter with thousands of handker..
chiefs waving farewell and %godspeed,
to the feet now homeward bound. until
1t disappeared down the bay in a mist
OF rain which soon scattered the
crowds that began assembling at &
O'Clock to get their last glimpse of the
big ships which came from the other
side of the globe. .
Practically no ceremonies preceded
departure. There was the Anal leave
taking of some officers and their fami-,
lies. who had come all the way from
the Atlantic coast to the orient to be
with them for q short time. /,
The fleet will arrive at Colombo in
two weeks, where it will stay for six
days and then proceed to Suez with
out stopping.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
ANNA GOULD SAYS
CHARGES ARE LIES

Paris, Dec. being asked what be
had to say OF various charges made bv
Coun Roni, Prince de Sagan replied:
I'm a French court a l~ong-winded'
lawyer can get up and say anythinr
he pleases. He can make all sorts Of
charges and paint you as the BLACKLIST
villain alive, but what he merely say.
Is never part Of a judgment. ONLY what
he proves counts. just wait till next
week, We will show them some things
they don't suspect exist"
Yes" broke in the princess. "the
whole thing Is a lot Of lies-absolute
lies. The point was raised that T
left my children without a nurse, They
not only had a nurse, but a priest.
also"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
PRESIDENT FAURE
VICTIM OF POISON?
Paris, Dec. 1.-The prevailing
belief in Paris today Is that
Madame Steinheil deliberately
had her husband and mother as
sassinated.


Paris. Dec. Paris. with Nine.
,Steinheil's confession ! n connection
with the mudrer OF her husband and
Nine. Japy, is in the maelstrom Of a
national political and social scandal
more exciting to the volatile populace
than the Humbert, Dreyfus and syve-
ton affairs combined.
The mysterious death Of a president
of the republic, the late Felix Faure,
Parisians believe, is about to be solved,
high government officials tremble lest
the new day reveal them stripped OF
the last official shred of responsibility.
prey for the tongues of France.
President Faure died suddenly In the
house of NJ. n Nine. Steinheil, Feb
made. Late Sunday night, May 30.
1905, Adolph E. steinheil, a rich and
famous painter, and his highly re-
spected and esteemed mo%therinlaw,
Nine. Japy, were strangled to death.
The artists beautiful and accomplished
wife in the next room escaped un-
harmed.
AT least one newspaper In Paris open
ly accused Nine. Steinheil with admin
istering poison to President Faure.
One man in Paris, high in the conf
dence of the government officials, gives
a story Of President Taure's death
hitherto untold. This man said Presi-
dent Faure visited Nine. Stetnheil Sc
cretly on the afternoon of February is.
1899. at her home, 1853 Rue de Van
Girard, Paris.
Dead at SteinheiI Homo.
The president had an engagement for
The afternoon at the Elysee palace, and
when he did not appear, Mile. Faure,
his daughter, searched for him, finally
going to Nine. Steinheirs home in the
Rue de Van Girard. There she found
her father seated in an armchair, dead.
President Faure's hands were clutched
In Nine. Steinleils hair.
When the household had recovered
from the shock. the body of the presi-
den was conveyed from the house
through the back streets of Paris to
the Elysee palace, and there the formal
announcement was made Of death by
apoplexy.
Nine. Steinheil confessed that her at
tempt to find the assassins of her hus-
and and Nine. Japy. and the in
Vulnerable fantastic clues furnished the
police and II newspapers. We're only a
desperate farce to conceal the real au-
thor OF the crime. whom she knew.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
HUNTING WAS LESS
DEADLY THIS YEAR

Chicago. Dec. 3.-The hunting seaso:a
FOR deer. which closed today, has been
much less deadly han those of previous
years. Only forty-four persons were acci-
sAently killed this year, against seventy
two In 1907 n seventy-four in 1906.
b number OF injured also shows .
falling off. tho. number for 1905 being
fifty-seven against eighty-one In 1907 and
seventy In 1906. More thar one-half the
fatal accidents happened in the states Of
Illinois. Michigan. Minnesota and wiscon-
sin. the number in those states being
seven. i've. eight and eight respectively.
An nusua feature this year is the
killing OF two women Mrs. Jacob Gantx
of Warsaw, Ind, was killed by her hus-
band. who shot at a hawk. Mrs. Albert
Skinner Of Peru. Ind. met death at the
hands of her husband. who accidentally
shot her as he was starting on q hunting
trip.
One widely known Chicago man was a
victim. He was Sidney B. Tremble, a
Q He was shot by Frank Stuart,
his hunting companion, while in Kansas.
MI. Tremble bled to death before assist
ance could be secured.
Five Of the dead were mistaken FOR deer
and ten were drowned.
This 10 the list:
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
CAPITAL POLICE
HAVE SECRET

Washington. %. c., Dec. 3.-The
Washington police department on
terned itself today in a lively manner
I'm an effort to ascertain the name Of
person supposed to be an attache Of the
Foreign legation and the wife of an
Pnicer Of the United States army, who
figured in h mysterious shooting of
William Sykes. a negro. Saturday night
In q fashionable residence part of the
city. The police disclose nothing and
maintain that the identity OF the well
dressed couple has not been learned.
There is good authority for believ-
ing, however, that they are simply
waiting for definite Information as to
whether the egro will live. That the
names of the couple he encountered on
b street are known to the police. and
that an investigation will not go SO
Tar to reach the public II the colored
man dies.
In certain quarters it is known pos
ltively who the people are. The fact
that 1he man is attached to the dip
lomatic corps and the woman we'll and
1avorably known in the army, has
served to keen their names secret
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-04
mILLlonAIRE's SON Llcks eJlLv

Cincinnati. Nov. S.-Arthur Witt. son OF
Walter Witt. a wealthy manufacturer
who has been at the training school for
yeoman at Norfolk, Va. for six months.
came home on a furlough. Glenn Core.
son Of a millionaire hotel proprietor who
enlisted several weeks ago, is Wits
ounky at Norfolk. Core has won his
spurs among his comrades, Witt saws. be-
cause he beat a bully to a 'frazzle" Corr.
when hazed objected to Ice water being
thrown down his Jack and he was called
q "Nss.' He gave his chief tormentor
q beating. and he did the lob so well, b
won eNeryt"ds's respect" Witt say.