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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19
ROBBERS SECURE $1,000.

Des Moines, Iowa, Nov 1.-TWO
masked men dynamited the safe of
the Bank of Alleman at Alleman, ten
miles north of Des Moines early today.
securing 1,600 in money. They es-
capped. Oficers are i'm pursuit.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19

Rear Admiral John e. PilIsbury.
Lowell. Mass. Nov. 1S.-This city
Is preparing to celebrate the home
eoming of Rear Admiral John L. Pills
pury on the anniversary of his birth,
December Is. Recently he has been
appointed a member of the Geographic
society to determine whether or not
'ne north pole was discovered prior
~ 1903. He is a graduate of the
.,"Val academy and is known all over
eie world as an expert on matters OF
seography and science. He has served
~ various capacities. which include
V"e year in the coast survey service.
a,e won fame while investigating gulf
ueam currents and observing the cur
~" with an instrument of his own
Vehtion. He established the position
.ne axis of the stream in the straits
riorida and off Cape Hatteras and
ernined many OF the laws by
"''ch Its flow is governed.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19

The women who now enjoy partial
suffrage in Kansas. are beginning
campaign for universal suffrage, such
as they have in other western states,
by capturing county and municipal Of
fees. According TO figures just COM
pletcd, there are now sixty-two coun-
ty offices in the state filled by wo-
men,
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19

Haverhill Mass, under the commits
sion plan of government. it to live
within the s12 tax limit. and to close
the books ut the end of the year with
out having to borrow cent for regu-
lar expenses.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19
SUN PUBLISHER Is DEAD.

New York. Nov. 19.-Willlam NJ.
Laffan. publisher of the New York
Sun. died today following an opera
tlon for appendicitis.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19

John Naestrom OF Calumet has re-
signed as secretary Of the Swedish
Sons Of America and the resignation
has been accepted. He Is succeeded
by q. A. Nelson Of Marquette.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19
If the Two Americans Slain We're
Spies Their Execution Was
Natural Outcome.
A TENSE SITUATION PREVAILS
limited States is investigating and IL
II is Found That Cannon and Grace
Were Acting Openly Against Nicar-
aqua That Government Will be Held
Responsible.

washington. Nov ia tense situa-
ton exists this morning as the result
of the execution of the two Americans.
Cannon and Grace i'm Nicaragua. 1t Is
fairly assumed, il the press dispatches
from Managua. are accurate, that the
men were executed after a court mar
tIal on the charge they had attempted
by use of dynamite mines to blow up
President Zelaya's troop transports. If
the state department advices confirm
this story the question at issue viii be
whether the charge against the men
justified their execution. If it should
appear that the Americans slipped
within the lines under disguise when
they planted mines they might be re-
garded as spies and so subjected to
summary execution. But If engaged in
their work openly it will probably be
held they should have been treated as
prisoners of war. In the latter case
there is no doubt Zelaya will be called
A. account and ample reparation de-
manded.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19
CONDITION is UNCHANGED.

NewYork, Nov 19.-John C. Car
isles condition remains unchanged.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19
Recalls Cuban Incidents.

Washington, Nov. 19.-The execu-
ton by order of President Zelaya. of
Nicaragua, of two Americans. Leonard
Grace and Leroy Cannon, condemned
as insurrectionists, with resulting in
ternational complications, recalls the
thrilling events of the ten-year war
in Cuba when the Spanish govern
ment executed summarly General
Ryan and a number of other Ameri
cans who were captured and charged
with being flibusterers. At that time
American feeling was wrought to a
high pitch of excitement and num-
Der OF American vessels were ordered
to Cuban waters. An immediate out
break Of war between the United
States and Spain was averted only
through the prompt apology by Spain
for the action of the Cuban captain
general and the payment of an indem-
nifty to the families of the victims.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-19

Advertising costs money but 1t
Is cheaper than going out Of
business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
Scientific Robbery.

On the last day of the tariff session
of congress Senator Dolliver made a
striking point when, in ~denouncing
the conference committee for killing
the main provision of the tariff COM
mission clause, he declared that con
gress was already served by an ex-
pert commission. He called atten-
ton to the fact that the be~neficiaries
of the respective schedules were all
expert in their own lines; that they
knew Just how proposed changes in
the duties would affect them; they
knew just how to confuse the phrase
ology so that it would to mean
what it did not mean.
And it is true that the country has
had this kind of an expert tariff COM
mission ever since the system Of pro-
lection was transformed into a sys-
TEN of graft. This commission has
represented the interests that prey
on the people. And when 1t is pro-
posed that, at least, the people should
have a commission to oppose these
selfish experts the proposition is
killed. Congress has said that it
does not desire expert information on
the side of the people. 1t is not for
a scientific tariff; it is satisfied with
scientific robbery.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
pride of CITY In Ruins.
FIVE ARE KILLED IN RIOT
Women Armed With Stones and Clubs
Make an Effectual Assault and In
cite Men to Fight.

Pittsburg, Pa.-One state trooper,
one deputy sheriff and three foreign
ers were shot and killed in a wild
riot at the Pressed Steel Car plant
in Schoenville, whose employees are
now on strike.
At least a score of persons were Sc
riously wounded, several fatally. The
rioting followed a day Of quiet, and
broke without warning.
The following partial list Of dead
and injured was made up from re-
ports from the~morgue, hospital and
several physicians offices. The dead:
John L. Williams, state trooper.
Harry Exler, deputy sheriff.
Three foreigners.
Fatally injured:
John G. Smith, state trooper.
Luce Liam Jones, state trooper.
Seven foreigners.
John Hitch and John O'Donnell,
state troopers, were seriously injured,
and one woman was shot in the neck.
During the early stage of rioting,
women were conspicuous, some were
armed and others effectually used
clubs and stones. These women, all
foreigners, insane with rage, were
mainly responsible for melting the
men to extreme measures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
FOUND DEAD UPON
EVE OF MARRIAGE
FRIENDS OF ILLINOIS FARMER
DECLARE HE WAS VICTIM
OF FOUL PLAY.
ACID BURNS UPON HIS FACE
Had Purchased Poison After Failure
to Raise Money to Buy Outfit Pre-
paratory to Farming I'M
mediately After Marriage.

Havana, Ill.-Mystery ~envelops the
death of George Edwin Tigar, a young
farmer, found dead in the bottom of
his wagon after the driverless team
reached his home. The coroner's jury
rendered a verdict that death was due
to carbolic acid poisoning.
Popular opinion is about evenly III
vided between the belief that the
mar committed suicide or was the
victim of foul play. On account of the
fact that Tigar was 500 to have mar
ried Miss Bertha Markert, daughter
of a prosperous farmer, and had ar
ranged to take charge of a splendid
farm, it seems unlikely that he
would have killed himself.
Had Purchased Poison.
When found the odor of carbolic
acid was perceptible, although the
body was cold. Investigation showed
that he had bought a two-ounce bot
tie of carbolic acid at a local drug
store in the afternoon, the druggist
who sold it supposing that he, like
other farmers, kept it to mix with
vaseline for the treating of sore
shoulders on horses. The acid had
burned both sides of the face, throat
and chest.
The relatives of the dead man
scout the theory of suicide, and claim
that the boy was murdered. They
point to the fact that the neck was
discolored, the veins swollen and the
lips tightly compressed.
Persons who met Tigar Monday
say he was in a cheerful mood. The
family will try to establish proof that
he was murdered and an autopsy may
be held. The mans financee is pro
strated. The bottle which had contain
ed the acid has not been found.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
But They Do Know.

In the new tariff act the RepubIi.
can party says to the voters of the
United States that they do not know
what they want. With this is coupled
the declaration, running all through
the bill, that if they do know what
they voted for they shan't have it.
They asked for bread and the con-
gress has given them a stone. They
asked for revision downward in the
interest of the consumer. What they
get is the Dingley act with varia-
lions, some in the higher key and
some in the lower, but the tune to
which the masses are mulcted is the
anne
The American people never vote
decisively, n way or the other, with
out knowing just what they are voting
for. Last fall they voted to u~nshackle
American industry and trade, to de,
stroy the power Of favored classes to
levy forced tribute from all other
classes, and, in tariff legislation, at
least, to return to the Democratic
principle Of equal rights to all, spe-
cial privileges to none.
They knew what they were voting
for, and they have not forgotten 1t.
Fortunately, they vote every two
years on the membership of congress
they will vote again Is months from
now.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
LITTLE FOR THE CONSUMER
Hard to See Where Republican Tar
Tiff Revision Has Benefited the
Ordinary Man. \

This much may be said of the new
tariff act. On its face the law Is
somewhat more favorable to the
American manufacturer than the
Dingley act. 1t ought to cheaper
some of the articles he uses. Finally,
some of this cheapening may filter
through to the But the
consumer directly gets very little.
1t seems probable that insofar as
the law will affect prices the adj
vances are likely to be more notice
able than the decreases.
For instance, the decreases in the
steel schedule are not likely to affect
prices. About the only goods on
which the cost might be reduced are
lumber, boots, shoes, harness and
other leather manufactures. Prices
are pretty certain to be advanced
as a result of the revision on cotton
goods, hosiery, lemons, other trop-
ical fruits, silks, chinaware and pos
sibly for a time on print paper. Ad-
vances on woolens are expected be-
cause or the increasing monopoly OF
the American Wooden Company be-
hind the tariff wall.
The Republican party pledged it.
self to a revision of the tariff "by the
imposition of such duties as will
equal the difference between the cost
Of production at home and abroad, to-
gether with a reasonable profit to
American industries"
When you think of it it is an as
founding fact that in spite of this
pledge no statement has ever been
presented to either house of congress
to show that the changes made in
the proposed law were based on the
differences in the cost of production.
The fact is that only fragmentary tes-
timony on this subject was obtained.
The elaborate report on German
wages. from abroad failed to reach
the house until after the tariff bill
had been reported and no attention
was paid to it whatever in the SEN
ate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
POSTAL CRACKSMAN SLAIN
Companions Killed Him to Avoid De-
lection, or He Preferred Suicide
to Capture.

Sumner, Ill.-A wounded safebloW-
er, whose body was found in an
alley here, after he and two other
robbers were routed from the postof-
flee by City Marshal Jesse Skaggs, is
believed to have been killed by his
companions to avoid detection, or
committed suicide rather than be
taken.
Posses with b~loodhounds are on the
trail of the two fugitives, who fled
south,
The city marshal discovered the
cracksmen at work on the ~postoffce
safe at 2 a. m. He opened fire through
the window, and one was wounded.
The robbers returned the fire as they
made a desperate effort to escape.
At dawn the body of one was found
a block from the postoffce. There was
a bullet hole in his breast and an
other in his head.
The one in his breast, which ulti-
mately would have proved fatal, is be-
sieYed to have been the one inflicted
by the marshal. The dead mar vas
SO years old, small and well dressed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
LoOTNG THE WEST
TARIFF TRlckSTERs HAVE THEIR
LINES WELL LAID.
Ship Subsidy Scheme viii Take Mil
lions From the Pockets of West
ern Farmers to Enrich New
England Capitalists.

Mock tariff revision is bad enough,
but it is only the beginning, a bare
shadow of what is to come. The west
is to be looted thoroughly.
Prominent among the schemes for
loot will be the ship subsidy. Aban-
doned shipyards line the New Eng
land coast. The high tariff which
supports the steel trust enabled the
steel trust to wipe out the ~shipyards.
The ship subsidy is expected to set
those yards once more in operation.
For 20 years the shipbuilders OF
New England will receive an annual
bonus of $4,000, 900, paid out Of west
ern pockets, for no earthly purpose
but to insure profits to eastern CAPT
talists and without the least advan-
tage to anyone else.
Great Britain's merchant navy
schedules 1~8,825,442 tons; that of the
United States 4,953,812 tons. Ameri.
can-built vessels can not compete
with British ships because the cost
of building ships in American yards
is excessively high on account of pro.
lection.
Witness the two steamers of the
Boston Transportation Company, sold
by Senator Lodge to the Panama ca.
nal. The people of the United States
paid for those two vessels, which, by
the way, they have not been able to
use, $500, 900. Ships of the same
size and of British register have re,
Gently been sold at auction on the
Pacific coast of Canada for less than
$4,000.
But, because the high first cost OF
American-built ships prevents their
competition with foreign freighters
the western workingman and farmer
are to be taxed to substitute New
England ship owners, so that they
may make low freight rates and com
pete.
This will be the first great scheme
to loot the west. The tariff tricksters
are we'll satisfied with the outcome Of
their sham revision. Watch theiI
next move to loot the great inland
states for the benefit of New England
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
SECLUDED FOR 46 YEARS
Recluse Had Not Stepped Outside His
Yard Since Day Lincoln
Freed Negroes.

Louisville, Ky.-News has come to
this city of the death at Green Brier,
Nelson county, Of Basil Hayden, who
has not stepped outside the picket
fence bounding his yard since Presi.
dent Lincoln freed the slaves. It was
not resentment at this act that caused
Hayden's seclusion, for neighborhood
tradition is that he shut himself in a
little room that day in 1863 after his
sweetheart died and looked no more
upon men.
An overseer of Hayden's estate
named Borders vas the only human
being whom the anchorite saw.
Hayden left an estate which will
amount to nearly $4,000 the money
being hidden in pillowslips and cast
off clothing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
Charged Husband With Crime.

Cairo, Hl.-Mrs. Mary Salzner, who
was assaulted with an axe six days
ago, died. In an antemortem state
ment she accused her husband, Henry
Salzner, a photographer, of the crime.
Salzner, who is in Jail here charged
with murder, claims that burglars at
tackled Mrs, Salzner. The woman's
head was nearly severed from her
shoulders and her survival of the
wounds for nearly a week astonished
the surgeons who attended her.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
TAFT DISMISSED
I ARMY CADETS
HAD HAZED BROTHER OF Of
FIcER WHOSE DEATH WAS
RECENTLY INVESTIGATED.
DISMISSAL READ At PARADE
Young Sutton Alleged He Was AS
saulted While on Guard Duty
Was Sent to Hospital for Treat
ment of Injuries Received.

West Point, N. Y.-By direction of
President Taft seven cadets were dis
missed from the United States mill
tary academy for being involved in
the hazing of Rolando Sutton.
Cadet Sutton is a brother of Lieut..
James N. Sutton. of the naval acad-
envy, whose death was investigated at
Annapolis recently.
The cadets ordered dismissed from
the service are: John j. Booker Jr. of
West Point, Ga, first class; Richard
w. Hooker, Kansas City, Mo-. third
class; Earle W. Dunmore, Utica, N. Y,
third class; Chauncey G. Devore,
Wheeling, W. Va, third class; Gordon
Lefevre, Richmond, Va, third class;
Albert E. Crane, Hawarden, Ia, third
class; Jacob S. Fortner, Dothan, Ala,
third class.
DismlssaIs Announced at Parade.
The dismissals were announced
when the cadets were paraded.
Charges were made several weeks
ago that Sutton was assaulted while
on guard duty, walking a lonely post,
and beaten down by men draped in
sheets and masked with pillow cases.
He vas sent to the hospital suffering
from severe injuries.
On account of the law passed by
congress to stop hazing at the military
academy, a rigid investigation was
made. The board which conducted the
Inquiry was composed of Lieut.. Col.
Sibley, Capt. Oscar ]. Charles of the
Seventeenth infantry, and Capt. M. q.
Smith Of the Twentieth infantry.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
EFFICIENCY OF THE DEAF
Secretary Magic Asks Competent
Mutes to Apply For Positions to
Tabulate Returns.

Washington, D. C.-Believing that
deaf mutes would make good opera
tors for the puncturing and tabu-
lating machines to be used in making
up the returns of the next census,
Secretary Nagel, of the department of
commerce and labor, is inclined to ap-
point them to such positions, if capa-
BILE mes apply for the places. This
work requires great care in it's per-
Torrance, for the reason that there is
no way to obtain a check on the re-
suit, and the secretary can see no rea-
son why a deaf person should not be
especially efficient.
A large number of puncturing and
tabulating machines will be used when
the census statistics come in.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26

The tuberculosis exhibit, with dem
o~nstrations Of the tuberculin test,
which has been determined upon by
the Wisconsin state board Of agricul-
ture as a feature Of the state fair,
will serve to present the scientific
safeguard to the farmers Of the state
under authoritative circumstances,
and thus aid in the work of mollify-
ing the opposition, says the Milwau-
kee Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one Of
the foremost dairy states Of the union
and she should occupy advanced
ground in the struggle against bovine
tuberculosis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
sl,000.000F|REL loss
THREE BUSINESS BLOCKS IN THE
HEART OF CITY DESTROYED
IN CONFEDERATION.
CITY FACES A WATER FAMINE
While Fire RACES, a Second Blaze is
Discovered in a Hotel, Creating a
Panic Among Guests-one
Fireman Injured.

Decatur, Ul.-Fire starting in the
Moorhouse & Wells Hardware store on
East Main street, caused a loss esti-
mated at 81, 0O0, 900, with insurance
about so per cen of that amount.
Following the fire, the worst in the
history of the city, Decatur faced a
water famine. 1t became necessary to
shut off the residence district, the
supply of water in the reservoir being
down to seven feet.
During the fire a blaze was discov-
cred in the engine Don of the Deca-
tur hotel, half a block west from that
which was being destroyed. There
was a panic among the guests, but
prompt work by hotel employees result
ed in extinguishing the flames in the
hotel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26

Experiments have resulted in the
production from petroleum of a brand
of butter said to be something Just
as good" as the genuine bovine ar
ticle. But it is doubtful if this sort
of near butter" will be in good odor
among those who are a little particu-
lar In such matters.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26

There was a time when the discov-
cry that worms are fond of the jack
pine would not have caused a ripple
of alarm among the owners of tim
Der. They would have taken a fresh
grip on the ak and gone to work with
added vigor among the big Norways.
But now the jack pine has come to
have value, the case is different.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
onens Door for Corruption.

"The authority of the president to
use agents to assist him in the ap-
plication Of the maximum and mini
mum section Of the statute" will sure
" give a wide latitude for the acqui-
sition Of information. It will give a
wider latitude for blackmail and
bribery on the part Of these same
agents In the arbitrary application Of
the maximum and minimum by ex-
ecutive rescript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
prudence in Their Silence.

The "contemptuous silence" with
which Republican magnates treat the
charge that the wool trust" bought
tariff immunity by a liberal contribu-
ton to the Republican campaign fund
last year may be as prudent as it is
contemptuous. A comparison Of the
tariff schedules with a list Of con-
tributions to the campaign funds
would be n Of the most instructive
studies the American voter could turn
his mind to-.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
Woman MysteriousIy Disappears.

Worcester, Mass,-Word was re.
ceived here that Mrs. A. r. Holt, who
accompanied the Worcester board of
trade excursion to Seattle, leaving
this city August 4, disappeared after
the party reached Seattle, and has
not yet been found. The party Is 10Y
in Portland, Ore.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
Danger Of cheapness AvoId,d

The tariff conferees evidently be.
lieved that Cheap shoes make a
cheap man." and they did moi propose
to have any cheap men about thia
land Of the free--except those who
YEA brogans. Meanwhile we shall
continue to cheaper European man
hood by sending u cheap shoes oyor
to them exclusively.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
Naval Resolves priIl.

L~udington, Mich.-Two thousand
naval reserves from Michigan, Ohio,
Illinois and Minnesota, constituting
practically all of the country's naval
strength on the Great Lakes, arrived
off this port aboard the six ships and
spent the day in drilling.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26
INVADING NAVY RepuIsed.

Boston, Nassau attack on Boston
was successfully repulsed in the min.
ic war maneuvers which are being
carried on at the harbor forts co.
incidentally with the war game in
the southeastern part of the state.
The attack was by army transports
representing battleships, which at.
tempted to make a landing on Nan
tasket beach. They were repulsed by
the eighty-frst corps coast artillery.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-08-26

Perhaps the lowering of cable tolls
between Great Britain and India, Aus.
tralia and South Africa is a result of
the recent colonial conference in Lon
don. However this may be, the Brit
Ssh and colonial governments have
agreed that hereafter the cable press
rate shall be only n~inepence instead
of a shilling a word between Britain
and India, Australia and South Africa.