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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Wall Street and Politics.

The steel trust is reported to have
but Sc per cent. Of the capacity of its
plants producing, and yet the shares
are constantly enhancing in price in
Wall street. The steel trust common
stock dividend for the last quarter
was one-half of n per cent. or at the
rate of two per cent. per annum. The
stock is now quoted at As, SO it pays
a little over four per cent, but
whether that dividend is now being
earned is very doubtful. The price
Of steel has been cut, but wages are
the same, so that the profits must
show a large decrease from last year,
with not much over SO per cent. Of the
business. Why does the steel stock
advance SO greatly under such circum-
stances? 1t must be caused by ma
pure and simple, and that
must be influenced by something that
Is expected to happen in the future. is
1t the promise OF the Republican lead
ers that the tariff which protects the
steel trust from foreign competition is
to be increased, instead Of revised
downward? Or will wages be put
down after election SO that the
urust can raw larecT dividends?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
PROVES NEED OF REFORM.
Protective Tariff League Provides
Argument for Democrats.

The Protective Tariff league has is
sued a bulletin asking the b~eneficiaries
Of the tariff to get to work at n C on
the scientific facts" as to the cost of
production in foreign countries, COM
pared with the cost of production in
the United States. This evidence of
cost is to be presented to the commit
tee on ways and means to show that
it would be ruination to the trusts and
manufacturers to have their tariff pro-
lection reduced and be compelled to
compete with foreign producers.
The league has given its members a
hard nut to crack, for the English,
German and French manufacturers
are not likely to furnish the secret Of
the cost Of producing their goods to
their competitors here. The real OBJ
ject of the league is to show that the
foreign manufacturer can produce
much cheaper than the American
manufacturer can, because labor is
cheaper abroad than here. And the
argument of the league is embatmed
by the stand-patters in the Republican
platform, which declares:
I'm all tariff legislation the true
principle of protection is best main
tanned by the imposition of such du-
ties as will equal the difference be-
tween the cost of production at home
and abroad, together with a reason
able profit to American industries"
There Is one serious stumbling
block to putting this standpat theory
of the differences in cost here and
abroad into practical operation, and
that Is the well-known aversion of
manufacturers to give away the
secrets Of their trade and expose their
profits. Some of our manufacturers
are declaring they must have more
protection, for instance the potters.
trust, with headquarters at Trenton,
N. j., is demanding higher tariff rates
on its products, and some Republican
congressman, including Speaker Can
non, have promised it to them. Prob
ably other trusts have been assured of
greater tarlH protection by the Re-
publican managers. if they aid lib
orally with contributions to the CAM
paign fund.
But how a the Republicans ex-
plain away the fact that many of the
protected trusts are selling abroad
cheaper than at home? To do that
successfully the labor cost here must
be eve less than the labor cost
abroad, brought about by the use OF
superior machinery and the more agile
and competent American workmen.
That is the very best evidence of
the necessity of tariff reform, for why
should not the American people have
a chance at the bargain counter which
the trusts and combines offer, as well
as foreigners?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

to be satisfied with mercerized cotton
and shoddy, with just enough wool, in
some cases, to deceive the eyes OF the
buyers. Every one would like to use,
when winter comes, clothes made of
"all wool and a yard wide," but the
tariff-protected wooden trust is pro-
tected by the tariff in not only being
able to put down the price of wool, TO
the farmer, but to keep up the price
of its products to the consumers.
The beef trust has been reducing
the price of cattle and sheep and put
ting up the price of beef and mutton,
because it is protected by the tariff in
SO doing, and in spite of the ~so-ealled
trust busting, the trust is still doing
business at the old stand and has a
virtual monopoly of the buying OF cat
tie and sheep and the sale of beef and
mutton.
And these things, and many others
like them, are all done under the
%plundering system called profession,
which Republicans declare is the
cardinal principle of their party.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
COULD HAVE FIRED SHOT.
Physicians Find stein Suicide Was
Not an lmpossibility.

Des Moines, Iowa-Morris b. P.
Stein, the young Des Moines man
who was mysteriously killed at Lou
donville, O., a week agO last Friday,
could have fired the shol which ended
his life, in the opinion Of three Des
Moines physicians, who Sunday morn
ing made a post-mortem examination
of STEMS body.
Should the autopsy over the body Of
Miss Porter at Loudonville reveal that
the same caliber bullets caused her
death, it will be settled beyond ques.
ton that the same gun was used in
the killing of both. Three chambers
Of the revolver found near the bodies
were empty. 1t is probable that should
Mrs. Stein and Mrs. Mayard be tried
at Loudonville for the murder, the por.
lions of the dead mans anatomy would
be taken there and used in the case.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

1t looks as though the potato bug,
like the elm tree beetle, the cotton
boil weeyil and the wicked flea, which
have on their backs lesser critters to
bite EN-, Is going to get his. Farmers
in Maine, which is a big potato state,
are rejoicing over the alleged dis
covery OF a parasite which is exter-
minating the potato bug, That in
sect has been for many years one of
the scourges of the country, infest-
ing every region where tubers are
raised. If the parasite proves to be
all that is claimed the days of the po-
tato bug are numbered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Auto Takes to Water.

Minot, N. D.-William H. Win.
ney and John Ginsberg were speed.
ing in Mr.. Winney's touring auto.
mobile along the Mouse river WedneS.
day, when the steering gear of the
car became u~nmanageable and the
machine headed for the 20.foot en-
bankment of the river. Both men
jumped just in time to escape being
carried over with the machine. The
automobile went to the bottom of the
river.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
ARREST IN BIG
CHICAGO STEAL
THEFT HAS BAFFLED SECRET
SERVICE MEN FOR YEAR
AND A HALF.
SUB. TREASURY LOST $173,HC0
Friend Declares George W. Fitzgerald,
Now in Custody, Is Innocent.
Was Formerly an
EmpIoye.

Chicago-The mystery of the theft
of $173, 900 from the United States
subtreasury a year and a half ago, one
of the largest losses the government
has ever suffered in this manner, is
believed to have been solved by the
arrest Sunday of George w. Fitzger-
aid. Others are believed to have been
implicated in the crime, which for
months completely bafiled government
secret service men.
Fitzgerald was an asserting teller
under Assistant United States Treas
urer William Boldenweck. Suspicion
at the time of the theft, Feb. 20, 1907,
rested on him, but so plausible was
his story and so intense his apparent
interest in discovering the real culprit
that interest ceased to center in him.
Much work was done IN the theory
that the crime had been p%erpetrated
by a negro.
Bills of Large Denomination.
Meanwhile Fitzgerald was dis
charged from the government employ
for ~culpable negligence in allowing
such a theft to be contaminated I'm.
der his eyes. The money stolen had
been used and was tied in packages,
some of which having been marked
for destruction at Washington. Any
of them would readily have passed
anywhere except for their large de-
nominations. None of the bills was
under $500 and some were of the ST.
900 and $4,000 denominations, the ST.
900 ones predominating.
Meanwhile Herbert f. Young, a for
mer Chicago newspaper reporter and
now head of the Young Secret Service
agency, became interested in the case,
at first without official connection, but
later as the agent of Mr.. Boldenweck.
1t had not been intended to arrest
Fitzgerald at this time, as further evil
dence was not only wanted against
him, but developments were expected
which would conclusively involve 9TH
ers. However, it is stated those under
suspicion had obtained an inlIling
that untoward developments were go
ing forward and it was deemed best
to lose no time in making an arrest.
The case being one properly under
federal jurisdiction, a United States
Judge was first sought, but hone could
be found. Assistant States Attorney
Barbour was next approached, and
shortly after midnight Sunday morn.
ing Judge Chetlain at his home issued
a bench warrant for the arrest of
Fitzgerald on the charge Of larceny
of $4,000 from the government
vaults.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Oklahoma Banks DenationaIizino,

Guthrie, Okla.-Eight national
banks in Oklahoma have an.
nounced that they wal denationalize
and become state banks to enable
them to take advantage of the state
banking guaranty law. The comptrol.
Ter of the currency has notified all ma
tional banks in Oklahoma that they
may not operate under this law. One
national bank has announced that it
will orgai2e a savings bank under the
guaranty law, thereby enjoying the
prestige of both a national and a
state bank.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
MOUNTAIN TOWNS IN PERIL.
Forest Fires in British Columbia Drive
Refugees to Cities.

Cranbrook, B. Gear is grow
ing that the great calamity OF
Elk Valley will be repeated in
this section any moment on account
of increasing forest fires in all direc.
lions.
The sky is o%bscuIed by smoke and
the roar of flames coming from the
neighboring hills browns all other
sounds. Kiberly, Meyer and other
small mountain towns are fighting for
their very existence. Refugees are
flocking to this city from the surround
ing fire zone
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

New York-Dr. Albert ]. Bush.
ong, famous as a baseball catch
er when a member Of the st. Louis
Browns and the Brooklyn teams, died
at his home in Brooklyn late Thursday
afternoon, Bushong was born in
Philadelphia 81 years ago and In the
SOS We'd with King" Kelly for first
honors as a backstop. He retired from
baseball in 1900, taking up dentistry.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
POSSE SAVES NEGROES.
Blacks Accused of DynamItine Ala
bama Home Roughly Handled.

Birmingham, Ala.--Only the pres
ence of a big posse of deputies
prevented the ~lynching Wednesday Of
two negro strikers who were arrested
at Pratt City for dynamiting the house
of Thomas Duggan, a prominent mine
official.
The dynamite was thrown against a
window inside of which Duggan's two
daughters were sleeping. They barely
escaped death and were badly cut by
flying glass and ~splinters of the win.
dow frame. The house Of a negro
miner, which stood nearby. was com
pletely wrecked.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Voters We. Tariff Rarons

The truth is that stand-patters have
decreed the tariff shall not be dis
turbed until they choose next year.
or some other year, to make a few
trifing concessions" to public senti-
ment.
How does this comport with the ex-
pressions Of tariff reform sentiment
throughout the nation? Are the
wishes Of constituents to be repre-.
sented by the zero mark when tariff
barons get the "a of congressman
Chicago journal (lnd.).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Ruef Held on Bride charue.

San Francisco, Cal.-After a pre-
liminary examination, the longest
in the history of the local police
court, which consumed 67 days, Abra-
ham Ruef, former political boss in this
city, was Wednesday held by Judge
Cabiniss for trial in the superior court
upon a charge of bribing former SUI
~pervisor ]. ]. Fuerey to vote for an
electric street railway franchise. Bail
was fixed at $4,000, which was prompt
" furnished.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Newest in Campaign speeches.

Washington, D. C.-Canned ora.
tory was used for the first time in the
presidential campaign at a meeting
here Thursday night by the District
Of Columbia Democratic association.
William J. Bryan's voice was repro,
duced by graphophone in a disserta.
ton on publicity in campaign contribu-
tons and the election of United
States senators by direct vote.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

There are other instances of the
evident manipulation Of the price OF
stocks in Wall street that have even
less apparent reason for advancing
just now. Is the job already put up
for a general wage reduction after
election" also an increase of railroad
rates? 1t certainly looks that way
There will be a Bryan scare due
about September 15, and stocks NAV
tumble, for the Republican managers
will need something to Brighten the
corporations into furnishing more
Doodle to finish the job of Saving the
country"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

Havana, Cuba-In consequence OF
the discovery of extensive irregu-
larities in the department of public
instruction, of which Lincoln de
Zayas is superintendent, Lieut.. Col.
Billiard has been appointed surveyor
and ordered to institute a rigid investi-
cation. 1t is alleged by the officials
of provisional government that the
payrolls have been padded and ex-
orbitant amounts charged for the rent
of the public schools.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
SEARCH FOR NEGRO
HOUSEWIFE KNOCKED DOWN
WHILE HUSBAND is ABSENT.
TIN BOX AND $50 IS MISSING
Mrs. Kennedy Fails to Identify Negro
Suspect Arrested and He is
Released.

st. Louis, Mo.-Mrs. James Ken
nedy of Dwyer, st. Louis county,
who was knocked down and assaulted
by a negro in her home, went TO Clay
ton Friday and said that William
Clemens, a KiTkwood negro locked up
there as a suspect, was not her assail-
ant. Clemens then was RELEASED.
She said the negro who followed
her into her home as she returned
from a visit to st. Louis Thursday
night was heavy set, copper colored,
weighed about $50 pounds and wore a
dark blue suit and a straw hat.
Dwyer is on the Danny road, four
miles west of Clayton. The Kennedys
live in a farm house and the husband
was away from home the early part
of Thursdy evening.
Was Expecting Husband.
Mrs. Kennedy, who is % years old
and of frail physique, was in St. Louis
Thursday afternoon with her baby,
She took a train on the Creve Occur
division Of the Missouri Pacific, ex-
pecting her husband to get on the
train at Benton station, in the city,
Kennedy failed to board the train,
and Mrs. Kennedy got off. at Emerson
station, which is a short distance from
her home. She had to carry her baby
so left two baskets at the station, and
returned there to get them, leaving
her baby at the house.
1t was after her return that the
negro entered the house and attacked
her.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Nebraska Corn Crops Assured.

Lincoln, Neb.-A heavy rain that
covered practically every section
of Nebraska fell late Tuesday
night and Wednesday. Railroad
men and crop experts say it is all that
was needed to assure a corn crop. In
some sections the rain was heavier
than desired, At Culberson there
was a flood and Burlington tracks
were washed out. At Strong and
AXtell hail fell, but little damage was
done.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Another proof of the growing

Another proof of the growing i'm.
portance of interior waterways. Traf-
fc on the Missouri river has SO in
creased that larger steamboats, and
more OF them are demanded to meet
requirements. The Missouri is a mighty
stream, 5000 miles long, though the
fortuous course and uncertain depth,
with fluctsating currents, make navi-
cation difienlt and dangerous. Never
theless there are long stretches where
boats Of considerable draft can be EN-.
pioyed, and with water transportation
for a large portion of the products Of a
bis region the gam would be great.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Has Spoken in Six States.

Eau Claire, Wis.--E. W. Cha
fin, Prohibition candidate for the
presidency, and W D. Cox, nominee
for governor of Wisconsin on the Pro-
hibition ticket, Sunday spoke here to
1000 people. Chain left for Mime
apolis Sunday night, where he will
deliver five speeches Monday. Chain
Sunday said that he had spoken in six
states already and Intended to cover
the remaining states before Novem-
Der.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

Who denies that the world is grow.
ing better? asks the Omaha Bee. A
man has been sentenced to seven
years in prison at Goldfeld, New, for
selling fake mining stock. Life is 60.
ing to lose some Of its attractiveness
in the west il it is made a crime to
fleece a tenderfoot by the mining
stock game.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Seventy-Six Miners Persisted,

Wigan-It Is now known that
rs miners have persisted in the ex-
plosion and the fire that followed it
in the Maypole mine. Finding that
1t would be impossible to recover the
bodies still in the pit, the fire having
taken such a firm hold, the directors
Thursday night decided to food the
mine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

A Chicago professor predicts thai
English will be among the dead lam
guages in the year 1000. However,
when it Is considered that the Ian
guage has been pretty we'll used and
abused without showing the wear
most persons are sanguine enough to
hope that 1t will live a little longer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

The English papers have combined
to boycott the word s~uffragette. They
discovered that its use was no assur.
ance that a circulation solicitor
wouldn't get a painful of dishwater
where he had been counting on a kind.
ly welcome.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Pravers Win Election.

Neosho, Mo.-Prohibition won in
Tuesdays local option city cleo
ton by SIS majority. A continu-
GUS prayer meeting from 5 a. m. until
7 p. m. and the ringing of church bells
at two.hour intervals were features Of
the fight made by the temperance ad-
yocates.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

One want begets another. The
harvest is uncommonly big this year,
and the demand for agricultural imple-
ments Is on a corresponding scale. In
some quarters the announcement is
that all records have been broken.
Such activity means busy times and
lots of work in the manufactures of
mowers and reapers and other up-to-
date machinery for farmers.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Memphis Has 4 s1oo.ooo Fire.

Memphis, Tenn.-Fire Quilted the
Rowena building on Main street, near
Washington, occupied by J. G. Adkins
G. Co., hardware. The estimated loss
is 100000. Braun's hotel, adjoining,
suffered a small loss.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

John Ruskin proposed old-age pen
sions more than so years ago, In his
lectures at Manchester in 1857 on
1.-THE Political Economy of Art" he
pleaded for pensions to soldiers Of
the plowshare as we'll as soldiers of
the sword"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Goodrich. Senior Rear Admiral

Washington, D. C.-The retire
ment of Rear Admiral Robley D.
Evans placed Rear Admiral Casper e.
Goodrich, c~ommandant of the navy
yard at New York, at the head of the
active list of rear admirals of the
navy. Admiral Goodrich will be re.
tired in January next.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Fund for Radium Research.

V~ienna-A friend of learning, who
wishes to remain anonymous, has Of
fered the sum Of $4,000 to the vi
emma Imperial academy of science fd
the establishment of a great institute
for radium research.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
AIk Maruelo CRITICALLY lll.

New Haven, Conn. - Donald G..
Mitchell, known in the literary world
as Tx Marvel" is critically III at the
fine old mansion lie has occupied here
for SO years, and bis physicians be-
lieYe he Is near the end
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Morocco,s sultan Prisoner,

%Tangier--lt is reported here that
the army of Abd-El-Aziz, sultan of Mo
rocco, has been routed by the forces
of his brother, Mulai Hafd, so miles
from Morocco City, and that the sui.
tan has been taken prisoner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

Wa Ting-Fang has eight ancient
rules which assure a person that he
can live for 200 years. The rules must
be the limit of unbearableness, or
somebody would have tested them by
this time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
Prisoner Jumps from Train.

Memphis, Tenn.-C. H. Doyle,
charged with passing $4,000 in checks
In GO different cities, and who was be-
ing taken from Sherman, Tex, to
Chattanooga, Tenn, escaped by jump
ing from a Rock island train.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
world,s Fair for Brussels.

Brussels-An international and uni
versal exhibition is to take place in
Brussels in 1910. The British, French,
German, Italian and American gov
ernments have announced that they
will take an active share in it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
indiana Miners strike Ends.

Terre Haute, lnd.-The strike in
the bituminous coal field is ended Of
ficially by the announcement that the
Operators association had agreed to
the demands of the United Mine
Workers of District No. II, and 49,
900 miners are at work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

Vodka" bottles in Russia carry the
imperial eagle on the labels-the
vodka" trade is a government mo
n~opoly-but a commission of the
Duma, appointed to consider the drink
evil, has lately recommended that the
eagle be removed from the label, and
a skull and crossbones be put in it's
place, with appropriate warnings
against the use of the poison.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
New Monetary system in China.

London, Eng.-A dispatch fro1
Shanghai to the Morning Post says
that 1t Is reported that China has de-
cided to adopt the Japanese monetary
system.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27
jars Rebel AGAINST RACES

San Francisco. X. Friedman, the
Chicago author, who arrived here
from Japan, predicts a revolution in
that country. Heavy taxation, he says.
is spreading a spirit Of revolt among
the people.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

A c~o.educational college in Ohio is
reported to have been responsible for
10000 weddings during its career Of so
years. This looks as if the co-educa-
tional system is not as bad as some
persons say it is.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-08-27

Tests of reinforced concrete barges
and pontoons have been conducted by
the Italian government since 1897, and
the results have been so gratifying
that several more of the strange con-
structions have been ordered.