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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
FAV0RS POSTAL VOTE PLAN U.S.. EXPRESS CO. TO QUIT
$4,000 MEN WILL BE THROWN
OUT OF WORK.
Hartman Estate, Controlling One
Fifth, May Transfer Contracts
to Wells Fargo Company.

New York.-Directors Of the
United States Express company,
which employs $4,000 persons and has
a pay roll of $6,0 5000 a year, voted
unanimously to liqlidate its affairs
and dissolve it in the shortest possible
time.
There are outstanding 100, 900
shares of United States Express stock
and these are in comparatively few
hands. The Hartman estate is be-
liaved to hold about one-ifth Of the
whole, which the late E. H. Hartman
acquired from the American and
Adams Express companies for $780,
000.
The express company at n time
had contracts covering $4,000 miles
with the leading railroads of the coun
try. In part these contracts have ex-
pired, but the remaining ones are said
to be of potential value and it is as
sumed that they will be transferred
to one of the company's former COM
petitors, probably Well Fargo & Co.,
in which the Hartman interests have
large holdings.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
ELEANOR WILL WED M'ADOO
Second Marriage in President Wilson's
Family Is Expested to Take
Place in June.

Washington, d. C.-"President and
Mrs. Wilson announce the engage
ment of their younest daughter, Flea
nor Randolph Wilson to the Hon.
William Gibbs McAdoo."
This brief statement issued at the
White House, confirmed rumors in
circulation several days. The publica-
ton Of these reports fastened the
announcement.
Mrs. Wilson, it is understood, OPP
posed the match. She did not want
her daughter to marry a man twice
her age and a grandfather. That is
assigned as a reason for the delay in
making the official announcement Of
the engagement.
Mr.. McAdoo is secretary of the
treasury and is SO years old, a widow
err with six children. Miss Wilson is
"a years old.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
BRYAN SAYS WILSON ENDORSES
MAIL BALLOTS.
ton Days Should Have Right
to Send Their Vote.

Annapolis, Md.-Secretary of State
Bryan said he hoped that not only
would this country borrow the initi-
alive and referendum, as it had Dor
rowed the Australian ballot, but that
in time it would adopt the postal vote.
The postal vote of New Zealond
allows a citizen, though away from
home, to cast his vote at an cleo
ton and have it counted.
The occasion of Secretary Bryan's
statement vas an address he made on
the initiative and referendum before
the Maryland legislature. A bill pro-
Viding for the measure is pending.
you need not be afraid to change
your opinion on the question of the
initiative and referendum" the secre-
ltary concluded. President Wilson
changed his opinion and was not
ashamed. He said he had been teach
ing the students at Princeton that the
initiative and referendum was wrong,
but when he found he was wrong he
was not ashamed to say So"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Juvenile Court Attacked.

Jefferson City.--The constitutional
ity of the juvenile court law enacted
by the Forty-Sixth General Assembly
for the care and control of delin-
quent and neglected children In st.
Louis and all counties having 10000
population or more, is assaileG upon
many grounds in prohibition proceed
ingE instituted by Morris Kelley OF
Springfield against Judge GUY Kirby,
Judge OF the Juvenile court of Greene
county. The law is attacked as fol-
lows: That the title of the act is de.
fective; that 1t violates the bill of
rights and the federal constitution;
that 1t is special legislation affecting
counties having population of $4,000
or more.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
is or 20 DEAD IDENTIFIED
Scraps Of Bones and Flesh So Ter
ribIy Burned in M. A. C. Fire
They Cannot Be Placed.

st. Louis.--Out Of a total of 90 bod
les recovered from the M. A. c. ruins,
IS have been identified.
BY far the most grewsome evidence
of the wholesale death and d%estruc-
ton wrought by the flames in the
M. A. G. building reached the morgue
shortly before 6 o'clock last night in
the shape of several human bones and
flesh so terribly burned and broken
as to make it almost impossible to
determine what portion of the human
frame they had formed.
There were six portions, the longest
of which was not more than IS inches.
The bones were splintered and broken
and the flesh cooked to a hardness oF
leather.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
SLEEPWALKER SLEW FRIEND
~Ranchman's Plea He Did Not Know
What He Had Done Until Awak-
ened After Shooting.

Alton, Moon the plea that
he is a somnambulist, and that
he did not know what he had done
until he was awakened, Lee Cousins,
a ranchman. was acquitted in the
Oregon county circuit court here of
the murder of VIII Hilton.
Cousins at his trial maintained he
had been dreaming a burglas was in
the room and was not aware he had
shot Hilton until he was awakened by
McWilliams. His wife testified he
was subject to spells Of walking in his
sleep.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
500 Trapped in Mine.

AS a result of the earthquake a cop
per mine at Tsunmdato collapsed. The
fate of the 800 workmen in the mine
is unknown, Simultaneous with the
earthquake came terrific explosions
and the bursting of flames from the
volcano Asama-Yama.
Akita is a garrison town on the sea
of Japan and has a population Of
about 10000.
Asama-Yama is the largest active
volcano in Japan. It's last great erup-
ton was in 1888, when several villages
on the north side of the mountain
were %obliterated by huge streams OF
lava.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
GIRL, L., GETS s5,l0l,000'
VANDERBILT LEFT cA3H IN.
TRUST FOR DAUGHTER.
Viii Also eivss Her Famous Estate
IN North Carolina; His Widow
Gets q Large SUM-.

New York.-The win Of George w.
Vanderbilt, as filed for probate here,
leaves his entire estate. estimated at
$4,000, 900, to his widow and only
daughter, Cornelia.
Minor requests providing annuities
aggregating $500 a year are made
in favor of certain relatives. There
are no public requests.
Biltmore, Mr.. Vanderiblt's world.
famous estate in North Carolina, is
left to his daughter. Cornelia, who is
now IL years old. She also receives
$4,000, 900 in cash and is made residu-
airy legatee.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, the widow, re-
ceiyes the estate at Bar Harbor, Me-;
the Vanderbilt home in Washington,
$250,000 in cash, a life interest in a
trust fund of s1,000,O00 which she
may dispose of at her death as she
sees fit and part of the real estate in
North Carolina, known as Pisgah
Forest, containing about $4,000 acres,
together with the contracts for the
sale of timber therefrom, estimated
to produce about $4,000 a year.
These requests to Mrs. Vanderbilt are
made in lieu of a dover.
Five million dollars which goes to
Cornelia, the daughter, is. the princi-
pal of a trust fund held by George
W. Vanderbilt under the will of his
father, the late William Fl. Wander
bilt. The will provides that the ex-
ecutors shall hold the daughters es-
tate in trust until she becomes IS
years of age. Until she is 81 she will
receive only so much of the income
as the executors deem proper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
WORK ON ROADS
DONE BY C0NV|cTs
COUNTY WHICH HIRES THEM
MUST BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
FOOD AND SHELTER.
ANY COUNTY CAN HAVE THEM
Livingston Will Probably Be First to
Make Experiment, and VIII
Use Between rs and 100
Prisoners.

Jefferson City.-The board of pris-
on inspectors will meet with w. II.
Lamson of Utica, Livingston county,
TO arrange for letting Livingston
county have between rs and 100 con-
victs for use upon the public roads.
Under the law which abolishes the
manufacturing establishments long
maintained at the Missouri peniten-
tiary, 1t will be necessary for the
prison officials to seek some method
OF keeping the convicts at more or
less profitable labor, and all seem to
agree that road work will be of bene-
fit to the entire commonwealth.
There are many acquisitions for
%conyicts, and the board has decided
to permit the experiment in road
building with convict labor. The
county will furnish food and shelter
and pay the guards.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Mother kidnaps Two.

Laddonia.-Mrs. Ollie Mclean Of
Springfield, Mo-, came to Martins
burg, drove to the school house and
wrote a note asking that Grace and
Roy jenkins be excused. The note
was signed Josh Jenkins and Miss
Lydia Hatton, the teacher, excused
the children. They are the children
OF Mrs, Mclean, but the children were
taken away from her and sent to their
grandfather, The kidnaper drove to
Rush Hill and took the w~estbound
Chicago & Alton train for Kansas
City.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
2e Bodies Taken From Ruins.

st. Louis.-The ruins of the Mis<
souri, Athletic club gave UP the bodies
Of Joseph E. Chasnoff, manager of the
advertising promotion department of
The Republic; Allen R. Hancock OF
4141 Cook avenue, and a third man
believed to have been Marx HAM
mer, president Of the Neuteter Cloak
and Suit company. Twenty-Five bodies
have been recovered, of which q
have been identified positively by rel
atives, friends, dentists or physicians.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
EACH FOR FIRE VICTIMS
Administrators of Estates of % Who
Perished in New York Factory
Blaze Make Settlement.

New York.--After a legal bat
tie Of nearly three years, admin
~istrators of the estates Of 20 of the
victims of the Triangle shirtwaist fac
tory fire settled on the basis Of SIS
each. e
These amounts will not be paid by
Harris and Blanck, proprietors of the
factory, or by Joseph b. Asch, owner
of the building in which 148 employees
were burned to death, but by an en-
ployers' liability company.
1t is understood many other cases
of the 14S victims OF the disaster
also have been settled out of court.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
UNLUCKY DAY FOR TRUANTS
10 Chicago Husbands Arrested on Fri
day, the 18th; One Is Ordered to
Pay His Wife $13 Weekly.

Chicago, Ill,-Friday, the 18th
was unlucky for truant husbands
in Chicago, Thirteen women appear.
ed before the clerk of the court OF
domestic relations and swore out 10
warrants for 10 husbands on 10
charges of Abandonment. The war
rants were sent to 10 police stations.
Andrew Higginson, the thirteenth
defendant on the docket, charged with
abandonment, was ordered to pay his
wife $13 a week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Commercial Clubs Rap Parcel Post.

Commercial Clubs Rap Parcel Post.
Jefferson City.-The rehabilitation
of the country church, the improve
ment of the rural schools, the curtail-
ment OF the mail-order business fos-
tered by the parcel post, and the en-
actnlent of a law requiring the facts
about Missouri's natural to
be taught in the public schools, are
some of the subjects which are up
for discussion in the convention of
the Missouri Federation of CONNER
cial Clubs, which is in session in JEFF
ferson City.
But >the subjects are not the only
ones which the convention is consid-
ering. The subject Of emigration and
immigration has been taken up. How
to keep people and capital in Missouri
and how to bring more people and in
vestments into the state is receiving
attention from the convention.
Professional men in attendance are
handling the country church and little
red schoolhouse problems. Banker
delegates are suggesting the best
methods of Turing capital and people
into the state and keeping them here.
They are also expected to give the
convention advice upon the best meth
cd of preventing the exodus of Missou-
rians with their money to other states.
How to cultivate greater pride in
Missouri" is on the boards for discus
sion. Missourians don't toot their own
horn enough is the intimation carried
in a circular widely distributed by
Rev. Al N. Lindsay Of Clinton, .secre-
tary of the federation.
Following this intimation, Mr.. Lind.
say suggests the preparation of a text
book setting up all the facts about
Missouri and requiring this book to
be taught in the public schools.
A condemnation of tie parcel post
is expected from the convention in it's
resolutions. Secretary Lindsay sug-
gests in circulars that steps be taken
at this convention to clip the wings
of the mail order business and keep
the farmers money at home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Ste. oenevleve Stone May Be Used.

~
Jefferson City.-If K. +. ell, con
tractor at the new capitol can demons
trate within a reasonable time to the
capitol commission that Ste. Gene
We've limestone fully meets the archi-
tect's specifications, and that there is
enough to build the capitol, the quarry
win be approved.
"The commission wants the verv
best stone to be found in the state"
Alfred A. Speer, vice chairman of the
commission, said. 1T will accept no
other.
THE commission is not concerned
about the locality of the quarry, ard
wherever the best stone, and plenty
of it, is found, whether it be at Ste.
~Genevieve, Carthage, Cassville or
Phoenix, we win approve it. We are
waiting now for Mr.. Gill to submit a
quarry. When he does we will deter.
mine whether it comes up to specih-
cations.
"Tgle necessity for stone is not
pressing. take it that none will
be needed before June l, and by &hat
time am convinced this seeiiiing
controversy between the commission
and the contractor win be ironed out
satisfactorily.
THE commission wants it under
stood in this connection that Mr.. Gill
is developing the Ste. Genevleve
quarry on his own responsibilities and
without u sanction"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
COAL RATE DECISION SOON
Commerce Commission Prepares Opin-
ion in Transportation Case In
Volving Illinois Product.

Washington, D. C.-The inter
state commerce commission Is ex-
pected to hand down its decision in
the st. Louis coal rate case within
the next week or 10 days.
While the members of that body
refuse to give out any information
which will lead to a conclusion in
regard to it's opinion, from the best
information obtainable, and from the
testimony taken before the commits
sion, 1t is believed by many here that
the decision will be in favor of st.
Louis as against East st. Louis on the
question of the rates on bituminous
coal, transported from points in Hi
nois and transhipped to St. Louis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Mayor Only User Of Phone.

Jefferson City,. w. Gleed, attor-
ney for the Missouri & Kansas Tele.
phone company, has filed an applica-
ton with the state public service com.
mission for. permission on the part of
the company to close its exchange in
Carterville, Jasper county. The rea-
son assigned is that the mayor Of the
town is the only person in the city
who has n of the company's tele-
phones in his office.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19

Jefferson City.-The women of Har-
.risonville have asked the public serv-
Ice commission for an order to COM
pei the four railroads here to build a
union station. Some business men
are opposing a union station. 1t would
injure the transfer business and pre-
ven many travellers from making pur-
chases as they ross the town from
mi depot to another and the proba-
BILE establishment Of a lunch room at
the station would injure the hotel
business, they say. Others contend
several persons would lose their po-
sitions by the consolidation and would
have to leave town to procure work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
MILITANT VANDAL TO PRISON
May Richardson Is Arrested, Indicted
and Tried in Two Days for
SIashing Painting.

2 London, EngIand.-Miss May Rich
ardson, the militant suffragist who on
Tuesday hacked Valequez's "Rokeby
Venus" famous painting in the Ma
tional Gallery, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment.
The case against Miss Richardson
was disposed Of in record time. She
was arrested on March 10, taken to
the Bow Street police court and com
rnitted for trial by the magistrate on
the same day; the grand jury We'd
nesday returned a true bill against
her and Thursday she was tried and
convicted by a jury at the London
sessions.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
WILSON SIGNS ALASKAN BILL
President Uses Two Pens in Making
Measure to Construct Govern
ment Railroad a Law.

Washington, d. president viii.
o made the Alaska government
railroad an assured fact. He signed
The bill appropriating $35, 900, 900 for
construction by the government Of
such a carrier, which is expected to
open. up the vast mineral resources
OF TIE territory.
The president used two pens in
signing the measure-one of ivory and
gold and the other of silver.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
SCORES KILLED IN
JAP EARTHQUAKES
CITY OF 10000 IMPERlLED AS
GREAT VOLCANO ON AKITA
ISLAND Eau9Ts.
VILLAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE
Three Hundred Men Trapped in Mine,
Their Fate Observation-Disclosures
cation Interrupted and De-
tails Are Lacking.

Toxic, March ia serious earth.
quake occurred in the prefecture of
the Akita island of Hendo. A number
Of persons in both Akita and Kowa-
kubi were killed, and many houses
destroyed or damaged.
The volcano Asama-Yama, 80 miles
northwest of Toxic, is in eruption.
Full details of the disaster have not
been received owing to the Interrupt
.tion of communication. Sixty bodies
were found in the basin of the Omono
river, where 800 houses were Destroy
ed. The village of Kitameno was
burned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
To Hold Horse Show.

Jefferson City.-The state fair
which is an annual event at Sedalia
has fixed Sept. rs to Oct. 3 as the
dates for this year. 1t was decided to
have horse shows on the nights of
Sept. %, 20 and 80 and Oct. /. Purses
are to be increased in the speed ring
and also the premiums in several de-
partments. Balloon ascensions, auto
mobile races and vaudeville will be
features.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Gas Raise Denied.

Jefferson City.-The Missouri pub
lie service commission has ruled that
the new schedule of prices whereby
the st. Joseph Gas company would
charge 81 a 1000 cubic feet had never
been filed, and the company is pre-
vented from charging more than 40
cents. This will mean a loss Of
S1O,640 to the company on the Feb
ruary bills alone.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Carload Of eanut

st. Charles.-George Ruenzi, tobac.
co merchant. was surprised when an
agent notified him that a carload of
peanuts for him had arrived at the
depot. The carload of peanuts con
sisted of 300 sacks weighing 1O5
pounds each. A clerk had made an
error which cost his company SS5.
charges for the a here and back to
st. Louis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Advice for the 0irls.

After an examination at a training
college for ONE teachers at Arms.
berg, Prussia, the examiner. address
ing the So girl candidates, said: "You
have all done very well and passed
the examination. Now try to win a
husband, which is far better, for the
outlook for women teachers is very
bad"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
NAV Vote on Bonds.

Chillicothe.-A bill for an ordinance
providing for a special election to vote
on the question whether the city Of
Chillicothe shall issue 100000 in 5
per cent bonds to buy or build a wa
ter plant, was presented to the city
council by F. l.. Maxwell, councilman
from the First ward.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
College Girls TO Spell.

jefferson City.-A spelling match
for the girls now at Stephens college,
Columbia, and for former students is
being arranged by Superintendent of
Education ]. e. Mcpherson. E. b.
C%authorn, principal Of the high
school, will pronounce the words from
the spelling books now used in the
grade schools of Columbia.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19

Jefferson City.-The state public
service commission will be in St.
Louis all this week listening to COM
plants and applications which have
been dbcketed. The telephone com.
pany desires to raise rates for serv-
ice and action has been postponed re-
peatedly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Wants $4,000 from sutton.

Joplin.-Frank Thompson, a Car
thage merchant, has filed suit for s25,
900 against Wiley Jones Of Carthage,
alleging malicious prosecution. Re-
Gently Jones filed suit against Thomp-
son, alleging he had been the cause
of breaking of an engagement between
Jones and Miss Martha Clark, but
he case was dismissed, and it is on
this that Thompson bases his suit for
damages.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Short Course for phvsioIans

Columbia.-The University of Mis-.
souri, will offer a short course in med
icine for practicing physicians in the
spring. A months instruction in tho
preparation of antitoxins and the sew
eral bacterial vaccines will begin
April rs. Prof. D. H. Dolley and Prof.
0. w. H. Mitchell will be in charge
of the work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
EvIdantIv soewhat Annoved.

A dispatch from Paterson, N. J., r
fers to a marriage by the informal
southern ceremony Of Jumping over a
There never was any
such southern marriage ceremony.
Paterson should confine herself to
anarchists-a subject with which she
10 familiar -Florida Times-Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
sedaIia Wants open.AIr school.

Sedalia.-The Pettis County Anti
tuberculosis Association has re-
ceived a letter from Or. Walter Nc
Nab in which he says that Sedalia's
contemplated open-air school can be
properly carried on as a municipal
institution.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Workers victimized.

Kansas City.-Through a chain Of
labor agencies and their allies thou
sands of dollars are annually extort-
ed from laborers shipped out on rail
road construction work, according to
James J. Barrett. deputy state labor
commissioner, who has completed a
statewide investigation, Mr.. Barrett's
information vas CLEANED while work
ing under the guise of a laborer in
many OF the railroad camps OF the
state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Moonshlnina Suspected.

Jefferson City. - Rumors reached
here from Milan in Sullivan county
that whisky was being made in illicit
stills in three sections of that county.
Reports are that the federal gov
eminent has revenue officers trying
to find the moonshiners.
The moonshiners are reported to
have pickets out SO that they are
warned at the first approach OF stran-
gers. They often are requested to
move on when they come in certain
neighborhoods, it is reported.
An underground still is said to be
in operation near Scottsville. | en-
trance is so covered with brush and
rubbish that it looks not unlike many
other places in the broken districts
of that neighborhood.
A still in the Buckalew mountains,
near Pennville, is reported to lie the
best guarded of all.
A moonshine factory. on Snake Hill
on Big creek is declared to be the
most widely patronized. 1t is said
bottles of white whisky are frequent
ly seen around Milan.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
School to Train nlrIs

Observation-Disclosures, the n city
In the United States with the g
viable record Of one divorce for every
four marriages annually, now is teach
ing its little girls how to be ideal
wives some years hence.