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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

zens OF the under world, women in tights and all manner
of suggestive costumes, and men who own and frequent
the First ward resorts, crowded to the great building and
drank and caroused all night. Daylight revealed a scene
of drunken men and frazzled women lying about on floors
strewn with champagne bottles and fragments Of cos
tunes. wigs and ornaments torn away in the wild revels
of the night.
1t was the explosion at State and Congress streets,
known as Touch No. 80, partially w~recking the recruit
ing station, which started the government forces on the
track of the dynamiter. This explosion was in a hotel
district; men and women came rushing from their rooms
in the Auditorium and Annex, the Elk hotel and the five
or six other hostelries of lesser fame in the immediate
vicinity. On the southeast corner of State and Congress
streets, and on the opposite side Of Congress street, the
plate glass windows in the store of Siegel, Cooper &
Company were shattered.
Two days later, while the police were still searching
for the thrower of bomb No. 80, bomb No. 81 exploded
in the heart Of the downtown district, wrecked the rear
of the Chicago Title & Trust building, a skyscraper at
No. 100 Washington street, and damaged every structure
in the block bounded by Washington, CLARK, Madison and
Dearborn streets, and also the Boston Store, which is
bounded by Madison, Dearborn and State streets. This
explosion took place on Sunday night at IL 20 o'clock. 1t
was louder and sharper than a thunderbolt, and was
heard all over the loop district. Pedestrians were show
cred with glass, which came pouring down from the win
dows of the buildings for blocks around, and men, wom-
en- and children were hurled to the ground.
Almost before the building had ceased rocking under
the strain 100 girls in the exchange directly over the
wrecked part, cut and bleeding from flying glass, ran
through the clouds Of smoke and SCOT toward exits. Many
of the girls tainted: Some had to be carried from the
building. This bomb is said to have contained at least rs
pounds of dynamite.
The blast came from a manhole over a conduit in
Calhoun place, Familiarity known as Gambler alley 1t
is in the rear of the fourstory annex of the Chicago Ii
tie & Trust Company. Here the Central" and Ran
dolph" exchanges of the Chicago Telephone Company are
located.
Fifty cables, lying in the telephone company,s wrecked
conduit, we're stripped, broken and twisted into knots,
with the result that $4,000 telephones in the downtown
district were put out Of business.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

through the four-story building at No. Iii Madison
street the explosion swept like wind, the force taking
everything before it. The headquarters of Mont" Ten
nes' King OF the gambling clique that is now in power,
was on the second floor of this building, just above the
place where the fuse had been ignited.
Thls was Tennes' clearing house and the place from
Whlch all MS syndicate business was conducted. During
the administration of Mayor Dunno, Tennes had been
forced to move out, but after the election of Mayor Busse
ne moved back again and established a clearing house
close to his old quarters, where he previously had a sys-
TEN OF spies and guards who deied the police.
And in all the series of outrages no arrests were
made until the state of Illinois came to the city's aid.
me United States government also has taken a hand.
The few arrests that have been made all came to
nothing. Those made by the police seem to have been
purely superficial.
Who is the mysterious bomb thrower? This is the
question of the hour in Chicago.
Some say he is a fanatic reformer who has adopted
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
WOULD GET WEALTH QUICKLY
Farmer Had Nothing But Contempt
for the Moderation of the Street
Magician.

A patent medicine salesman upon
the streets of a small Maine village
was giving a free Straightforward per-
formance in order to collect a crowd.
Presently he took a handkerchief from
his pocket, held it by one extreme cor
ner, shook it, tossed it into the air,
caught it in his hand and took from
it a 25-cent piece.
There" he remarked, you see I
take this quarter from the handker-
chief, although you saw for yourself
that the handkerchief was empty. 1
can get another this way" he added,
and apparently plucked one from the
air.
GOSH" an Old farmer in the little
audience muttered; that teller must
not keer much fer money. If l could
do a thing like that, you bet 1
wouldn't stick at quarters-Id take a
half dollar every time!"-Exchange.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
OPENING OF CHEYENNE RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION.

The General Land Office at Wash
ington has designated LIE Beau and
Aberdeen, So. Oak, on the Minneapo-
lis & st. Louis r. R. as registration
points.
There will be about 1000 quarter sec
tons allotted to settlers.
Who May Secure a Homestead.
Under the homestead laws of the
United States any person, male of fe.
male, who is not the owner of more
than 160 acres of land in any state
or territory, who is a native born
citizen Of the United States, or has
been naturalized, or declared his In
tention to become a n~aturalized citizen
of the United States ii. e., one who
has taken out his first papers of citi-
zenship), who is over the age of 81
yeas or the head of a family, may
make a homestead entry of not exceed
ing 100 acres of any of the unoccu-
pied public lands Of the United
States.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

my lizards and that evening when En-
ders' chickens went to roost | cap
tured a lean and venerable rooster for
an experiment ! had in view. In the
morning, grasping the bird by the
legs. thrust 1t time and again head
first against the head of the monster,
but the latter only shrunk back and
sluggishly attempted to turn tail to
the attacks. I goaded 1t with a stick,
even switched 1t with q willow cut
ting, but nothing | did aroused Its ire.
Finally ! killed the heloderma, made
an incisicn In the ROSTERS thigh and
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

inoculated 1t with the well mixed
blood, saliva and fluid from the for
mer's mouth, throat and upper and
lower jaw.
"Pll bet that rooster'll be dead in
an hourl" exclaimed Sonora. who was
assisting in the experiment.
Il don't know about an hour. but
I'll bet he'll be dead before night"
Old Timer offered.
Three days have elapsed and except
for a slight lameness the rooster has
shown no effect Of the ordeal. AT this
moment he is scratching around at
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
consumptlves Need Not Leave Home.

consumptives Need Not Leave Home.
Consumption a be cured, or ar
rested, in any section of the United
States, and the percentage of cures in
the east and the west is nearly the
same. Any physician, therefore, who
sends a person to the southwest with
out sufficient funds, or in an advanced
or dying stage of the disease, is guilty
of cruelty to his patient. Renewed
efforts are being made to stop this
practice, and to encourage the build
ing of small local hospitals in every
city and town in the country. At
tempts are also being made in South
ern California and in Texas to ex-
clude INDECENT consumptives or to
send them back to the east.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

in-law or try to thaw out powder or
mistake cyanide Of potassium for
sugar or start off a county seat re.
moval racket. Some died Of old age,
some old partners Of Daniel Boone,
put none has ever been known to die
from physical Irregularities contract
ed In Tombstone, aside from the
above mentioned causes, and occasion
ally an abnormal tightness about the
throat, s~uperinduced by a coil Of ma
MIA rope, or from a cold caught
through . hole made by a .45..--Tomb.
stone (Ariz.) Epitaph.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
GILA MONSTER NOT HARMFUL

Sonora warned me. Many a fellow
has died by bein' bit by EN-
! asked for particulars, names of
the victims, dates and places Of their
untimely demise. writes j.. w. Schultz
in Forest and Stream. "Well, / my
self never seen any one bit by EN-"
ne answered. but I've heard Of EN-
plenty Any Mexican will tell you
that their bite kills"
used an old washtub for a pen for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

the head Of his harem and Growing
as nonchalantly as ever he did. l
have concluded that the ella monster
has no poison glands. Portions Of I'm
swallowed food may and doubtless do
ferment In its mouth at times, and
thus a person bitten by one may be
poisoned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

en- was almost entirely wrecked. AS usual, the police
denied that any gambling had been going on there, but
a bridge whist layout in one room, a lot of racing dope
and all that goes to equip a poolroom and bookmaking
establishment in another-all this on the fatal fourth
foor-proved that the bomb-planter's tip was reliable, as
1t had been scores of times before,
The above reads like the opening of a frstclass mys-
terry story, or Conan Doyle detective novelette,, does it
mot? But it is no such thing, On the contrary, it is the
literal and serious transcript of an almost every day in
,cident Of real life in Chicago since the bombthrowing
reign Of terror began, now two years ago.
More bombs have been exploded in Chicago during
these two years of Mayor Busses administration than
in ten years of st. Petersburg and Moscow combined.
Yet the bomb-thrower still goes free. Nobody has
ever been convicted of any of these dynamite outrages,
now numbering nearly a hundred. Not a single arrest
was made until the state authorities took up the matter,
Three men were rounded up on suspicion, and released
upon their readily establishing alibis.
The blasts are attended with greater property loss
than were caused by the anarchist riots in 1886, or il
the times when Lucy Parsons and the other radical ai,
tators were said to hold secret sway. Five hundred
buildings have been wrecked by SO large dynamite
bombs, the first of which was exploded soon after Mayor
Busse took Office and the word went out that Chicago
was to be an open town. Great gaps have been torn
through the brick and stone walls in the loon district
the heart of the city-by the terrific force of the explo-
sions, and streets spattered with brick, stones, glass and
timbers hurled from the ~bombarded buildings are becom-
ing common sights in the western metropolis. Scores of
people have been seriously, some fatally injured. Many
more are nervous wrecks.
The great significant fact Is that nearly all Of these
bombs have been aimed directly at gambling houses or
at property owned by or closely associated with notori-
Gus gamblers or gambling institutions. Many gambling
hells have been blown UP with dynamite, and many more
have gone out of business through fear that the bombs
Lightning might strike them next.
There Is not a district of the city that has NOT known
the destructiveness of the explosions. There is scarcely
an lnhabitant of Chicago who is not familiar with the
loud, hard, reverberating defamation peculiar to the ex-
plosion of a dynamite bomb.
On the night following the day on which Chicagoans
read of the AnniVnrS1TV enlnhrntinp In Dnn,o - A. Ir..
market riots in Chicago, a bomb was exploded and an
other gambling house was blown to ~perdtion, with great
destruction of surrounding property.
u used TO be that the mayor and the chief Of police
would give out statements to the effect that there was
not a gambling house running within the city limits Of
Chicago. But these statements have been entirely dis
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
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ordinance for the suppress
sion of vice in Chicago
will be openly violated to-
morrow night, through
the political immunity en-
joyed by Alderman John
Coughlin Oath House
john and Alderman
Michael Kenna (Hinky
Dink), the two aldermen
of the First ward, com
prising Chicago's notori
Gus Red Light District"
But for the enormous po-.
litical pull enjoyed by
these two aldermen, this
bomb would have caused
the suppression of the
Coliseum orgy. AS 1t was,
however, $4,000 people,
moatly gamblers and deni.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
Experiment Proves That Bite Of pes
ert Lizard Is Not Necessar-
lily Fatal.

The other day ! came across a fine,
large ella monster (Heloderma sus-
pectnm) waddling along a dusty trail,
noosed 1t with a piece Of string and
carried II to camp. you want to be
careful how you handle them things"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
Wasn't Settled.

Caller-Why is your servant going
about the house with her hat on?
Mistress-She only came this morn
Ing and hasn't yet made up her mind
whether she will stay or not.-Har-
per's Weekly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

mas been a heaVy
loser from the Sc
ries of explosions.
h n S and
s~witchboards a r e
part of the equip
ment of the hand
books and pool
rooms.
On the night be-
fore the great n n
al orgy known as
the First Ward ball,
a bomb exploded in
front of the Coli
scum, as If to say to
every respectable
resident in Chicago:
Here is W h e r
every law of decen-
cy and every city
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09
Tombstone Mortality.

Nobody ever dies in Tombstone un-
less they bring it within or fall
into q 6OO-foot vertical shaft or buy
an automobile or sass" their mother
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

injured b y
bomb explo-
sions" are as
suming for
midable pro-
portions, and
one or two
deaths may re-
suit from the
injuries thus
far inflicted.
More than 100
persons were
injured in the
explosion in
the rear Of
the Title and
Trust building,
one perhaps
fatally. Eight
suffered seri-
GUS injuries
from the blow
ing up of the
Ma I'm &
Bowes saloon
and gambling
house at 321
NJ
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

to the ground. The Chicago Telephone Company, which
furnishes wires to the Tennes syndicate of poolrooms,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

who controls gambling in Chica.
go? A combination controlled by one
man, who caused No. 81 to be touched
off, who has monopolized the hand
book game and put out of business
hundreds of men that have been in
the business all their lives. Can you
blame them for throwing bombs?
"One man has leased the service
wire and has whipped every one into
line, SC that if you don't send your
bets to him you can get no service,
and If you try to run independent the
dicks raid your place, while his
places run unmolested. In other words
do business with that man or quit.
Can you blame the people he put out
OF business? When that combination
is broken up the bombs will cease,
and not until then.
FROM ONE WHO KNOWS.
"P. S.-The next one that cackles,
that man will hear personally"
The Chicago outrages are not con-
fined to mountaineering, but include
incendiary fires, wrecking by impro-
vised battering-rams, cutting of tele-
phone cables and numerous other
acts of vandalism. They began with
the blowing up Of the residence of
John Hill, Jr., at the time he was
fighting racetrack gambling around
Chicago, and resulted in putting out of
business all the racetracks, many Of
the grandstands having been burned
to the ground. The Chicago Telephon'
furnishes wires to the Tennes syndic
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

Is this the City Press association Of
Chicago? Well, I've just touched off another
one at No. POI Wabash avenue. There's a
gambling place on the fourth floor there.
Listen, and you'll hear the building go up,
about ten minutes from now"
Boom! went the explosion, on time to the
very minute-so close to the time the news
paper men received the telephone message
as to prove that the mysterious dynamiter
had worked with a time fuse. The building,
a five story brick, at the precise address Civ.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-09-09

continued. They were as a red flag
to the bomb-thrower. Every time
n of them was issued the loud
voice of a bomb would answer:
Here is one," and the shattered
remains of roulette wheels, poker
tables smashed to splinters, cards,
chips and other gambling parapher-
MALTA strewn throughout the wreck
age of the building gave bountiful
evidence that the bomb spoke
truly.
The explosions are always in the
nighttime, when few people are on
the streets, and in every way the
bomb-thrower. seems to use exceed
ing care TO avoid ~inflicting personal
injury. Despite these precautions,
however, the hospital lists of the
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-18
NEGRO IS HEA RT Is
GUT OUT BY MOB

d II
was universal. His body was !. left
lying in the street until this morn
ing when it was claimed by his
father.
!, me saloons have all been closed
py order OF Governor Densen. The
governor has ordered an entire regi-
ment to the city and instructed Act.
ing Adjntant General Dickson at
Springfield to make arrangements
Tor rushing a second regiment here,
II necessary.
BY tonight eight hundred mem
pers oflthe militia will ,be In the city
and 1T Is expected that they wfii he
able to prevent any outbreak. May
or Parsons does not anticipate any
further trouble. No effort has been
made to learn the identity of tho
leaders OF the lynchers.
salzner was a white man and a
by trade who killed
MS wife last July with an axe.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-18
FOR
SICK BABIES
Is Recommended by DR.. Cool
idge in His Address at
conference Today.

3 i W
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. ~
DR.. Emelyn Lincoln Coolrldgs. for
mer resident physician and visiting
physician TO the out patient depart-
ment of the Babies Hospital of the
City OF New York, assistant physician
in the department of pediatrics and
physician In charge of the babies,
class OF the Lying-In Hospital of New
York City. presented paper on tue
care of infants who mustSbe sepa-
rated from their mothers because OF
special need on the part of the child.
at the conference on the Pre-
wilton of Infant Mortality today.
She said that 1t was a serious matter
to separate mother and child, par
ticularly II the child were breast
fed. but that 1t sometimes became
necessary. when the mother was un-
able TO care for the baby at home.
Babies hospitals arc valuable, She
said, for infants III with some acute
disease. II the baby cannot be nurs-
ed by its own mother. and there IS
difficulty in feeding 1t artificlally. IL
would be well to board the child with
a reliable wet nurse, who is under
the control of babies hospital.
Babies, sick or we'll. need individ
ual treatment as we'll as scientific
and skillful care she continued.
"There should be enough nurses In
every hospital for babies, so that
they have time to hold the patients.
at least OCCASIONALLY. giving them
the individual attention which IS
many times their salvation. The pa
tients in babies hospital should
not only be looked upon as Inter
esting cases." but as babies. al,so-
lutely dependent upon conscientious
and tender care.
In babies hospital small wards
of ten or twelve beds are desirable.
If contagion breaks out. the ward
may be isolated and the disease
checked at the start. Plenty of fresh
air and sunlight must fill all the
wards whore the babies are kept.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-18
PHYSICAL WRECK
Is Railroad Treasurer Who is
Charged with a Big
Shortage.

CINCINNATI, o.. Nov. 12-
Charles I. Warmer, the deposed To-
cal treasurer, who is charged with d
shortage OF s64S,OOO in his accounts
with the Big Four Railroad Com.
pany, is today almost physical
wreck brought on by worry over
trouble. but It is said his condition
is not serious. AT the Offices of the
Big Four, the belief is expressed
that there will be no more important
developments in the big defalcation a:
far as the Cincinnati offices are con,
cerned. and that its sequel hereafter
viii come from the general offices in
New York. -.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-18
Native of Harrison County
He Resided Near Clarks-
= burg Many Years.

Josiah w. lynch, native OF Har-
rison county and for many years a
resident near the city. is dead at his
home in Scott City, Kan.
The REV. John H. Hess, of Wes-
ton, a son-sn-law,s received a tele.
graphic message announcing that Mr..
Lynch passed away at o'clock Sat
urday morning, as the result o.
paralysis which seized him month
|ago.
Mr., Lynch was son of tIiram
and Nancy (sommerville) Lynch and
was born February 10, 1882, in this
county. He was, therefore, in his
seventy-eighth year. His parents
were prominent residents of the
county. His mother came to this
country from Ireland, when only
four years Of age. The custom then
was NOT to bring all the family at
once and 1t was planned to leave the
little girl behind until the next trip
but she slipped into the ship and hid
behind furniture until after the ship
was fairly under way.
Josiah Lynch was one OF large
family, the onl surviving
male member of which is
Peter Lynch, Of Pennsbopo.
The surviving daughters of Hiram
Lynch are Mrs. Telitha Collins, of
Pennsboro. widow of Creed Collins;
and Mrs. Mary Jane Bartlett. who is
at the home of her son. Hiram Bart
lett. at Jarvisville. The deceased
members of the Hiram Lynch family
besides Josiah w. are James. Rebec-
ca, Isaac. John p, Margaret A., Will
liam B. and Wesley c. Lynch.
The immediate surviving members
of Josiah w. Lynch's family are .he
widow, Agnes Lynch. a daughter of
David Morrison, now deceased; two
daughtcrs-Flora. wife of Chester
Proudfoot, of Scott city; and
Phoebe. wife OF the Rev. John Fl.
Hess, of Weston, and son, Peter, OF
Scott City. Another son, Robert,
died when a mere boy and was bur
ried in the family cemetery near Ad-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-11-18
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Your Door y -.

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