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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
TWO BRIDGES DESTROYED
VANCOUVER, 3. c., BELIEVES
GERMANS RESPONSIBLE.
lncendiarism Follows Decision OF
Canada to Intern All
Belligerent Aliens.

Vancouver, B. German SYM
pathizers are alleged to have
fired the Granville and Connaught
bridges, main arteries of railroad
traffic southwark, near here.
The incendiarism follows closely
the Canadian governments determi-
nation to intern in detention camps
all citizens of countries at war with
the allies.
High police officials believed the
attempted destruction of the bridges
was a part of a plot to burn the en-
tire city.
The damage to the Connaught
bridge is estimated at 100000.
Thousands of persons going to work
watched the wood and tar pavement
go up in great flames and smoke. The
Granville fire also was started in the
pavement, but was eXtinguished be-
fore it made any Roadway. The
bridges connect the business and resi-
dence portions of Vancouver.
Following the recent slaughter OF
Canadians in the allied armies fight
ing in Belgium, the Vancouver Ger
mans held a big celebration at Point
Grey, a suburb. This determined the
government to send all alien enemies
into detention until the war is over,
Two prominent Germans were ar
rested and charged with high treason
| for celebrating the slaughter of Cana
dian troops in the fighting around
Ypres.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
AMERICAN SHIP
SUNK IN channel
OIL VESSEL GOES DOWN AND
THREE OF CREW
PERISH.
CREWwAs MOSTLY HOMEFoLK
Torpedoed Near Coast, and Hulk Is
lowed Into Crow Sound and
B~eached-No Government
Insurance.

London-The American oil tank
steamer Gulf Light, which sailed from
Port Arthur, Tex, April 10, for Rouen,
France. was torpedoed off the Scilly
Islands, according to a dispatch re-
ceived by the Central News Agency.
The captain of the Gulf Light, ac-
cording to the same advices, died of
heart failure as a result of the shock.
Two seamen jumped overheard and
we're drowned.
The other members of the crew
were taken off by a patrol boat and
landed. The vessel was towed into
Grow Sound and beached.
The Gulf Light was a steel vessel
of 1902 tons net, and was built at
Camden, N. j., in 1914. She was owned
by the Gulf Refining Company. The
vessel wasl3S3 feet long, 81 feet beam
and 80 feet deep. She was equipped
with wireless telegraph apparatus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
CITY Of COLON IS
SWEPT BY FLAMES
MORE THAN HALF OF CANAL,
CAPITAL is WIPED Z
OUT.
TEN PERSONS KNOWN DEAD
Property Damage to % : Blocks
Amounts to Over $2,0o0,ooo--
Fifty Per Cent of Popula-
ton Homeless

Colon-More than half the city of
Colon was swept by a disastrous fire
which started during the afternoon of
April 80.
Ten persons are known to be dead,
including two native policemen, and
several hundred persons have been
injured, while between II $1,000 and 12,-
COO others, mostly negroes, have been
rendered homeless.
The loss is estimated at about ST.
coo, 00O.
The fire destroyed % city blocks,
and was not controlled until II build
ings in its path had been destroyed.
Many arrests have been made for
footing. The town is now under the
guard of native police, and two com
panies of the United States coast ar
tillery, who aided in fighting the fire.
Half the population have lost all
/ their belongings.
The fire started in the heart of the
city and soon was beyond control OF
the native fire brigade. The cause
of the fire has not yet been learned,
and probably never will be known.
A high wind was blowing, and late
in the afternoon, when the flames
were spreading fast and sparks were
being carried in the direction Of
Christobal, fremen in the canal zone
began dynamiting buildings in the
path of the flames to form a gap tc
stop the co~nflagration.
For a time these efforts were fruit
less, but later the fire was brought I'm
der control.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
DIVORCE WORKS VENGEANCE
Kills Ex-Hushand for Lying" and
Then Tries to Commit
Suicide.

Kansas City, Missouri.-Louis G.
Schweiger was shot by his former
wife while standing in the corridor of
the county courthouse Saturday. Mrs.
Clara Schweiger, his assailant, will re-
cover from two self-inlicted bullet
wounds, physicians said.
After firing five shots into the body
of her former husband, Mrs. SchweI-
ger turned the weapon on herself.
In a statement, which he signed
just before he died, Schweiger de-
clared Mrs. Schweiger had made
threats to shoot him.
Schweiger obtained a divorce last
November and Mrs. Schweiger had
filed a petition for annulment Of the
decree.
The woman's petition was refused.
Schweiger was in court to oppose his
wife's request.
When the court was dismissed
Schweiger walked into the corridor.
His wife and a woman companion fol-
lowed.
Now I've got you for lying" she
cried. Then she turned the weapon
upon herself.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
LOAN FRAUD MEN INDICTED
Investment Company Officials Said to
Have Borrowed Million Belong
ina to Stockholders.

Los Angeles, .Cal.-Charged with
having illegally loaned themselves
$1.237, 900 belonging to $4,000 stock
holders scattered throughout the
country, Charles A. Elder and eight
other former officials of the Los An.
geles Investment Co., have been in
dicted by the county grand jury. The
16 indictments also charge that the
accused men schemed in 1912 to de-
ceive stockholders by the false state
ment that Andrew Carnegie, Charles
NJ. Schwab, former Senator W. A,
Clark of Montana and other million
aires we're negotiating to buy land
at a price which would net the invest
ment company a profit of $4,000 900.
When the indictments were re-
turned the assets Of the company,
consisting of lands and dwellings
built for sale, now estimated at 49,,
900, 200, were turned over to a new set
of officers now in control.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
convlcts Show Increase.

James A. Houchin, head Of the Star
Clothing Company, and for years larg-
est employer of convict labor at. the
state penitentiary, has moved the last
of his machinery from the prison, and
Warden D. C. McClung and other state
officials are much worried over how
they will keep the conyicts employed.
There are 2,649 convicts in the peni-
Tertiary. Some 70 of these are wo-
men. approximately 1000 of these
convicts are employed by contractors,
and for each the state receives rs.
cents a day. The rest of the inmates
are either working for the state and
bringing in no direct revenue, or they
are idle. The prison inspectors say
that between 500 and 500 able-bodied
convicts are idle because the state has
nothing for them to do.
There never were SO many ~convicts
AZ the Missouri ~penitentiary as there
are at present, and the number is not
likely to be decreased for some time
to come. While the last legislature
made provision for an intermediate
prison at Boonyiile for young often
ders, this building will not be ready
before next year, and even when it is
completed it is not expected that it
will take more than 800 convicts out
of the penitentiary. Meantime, when
the courts open in the fall, the influx
to the penitentiary will be augmented
and the prison population will in
crease until summer m again.
This has been the rule for years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
TO H%EADAMERICAN RED CROSS
New Duties of General Manager Will
Begin Today; to Have Three
Months Leave.


Washington, D. C.-Brigadier Cen
eral Carroll A. Devol of the quarter
masters department of the army will
today take up his new duties as gen
eral manager of the American Red
Cross, a newly created post to which
he has been appointed by President
Wilson as head of the Red Cross.
Secretary Garrison was expected to
give formal approval to a three
months leave of absence for Gen.
Devol.
Gen. Devol will be active head of
the Red Cross in charge of its Euro
pean relief work and of the entire
administration of its affairs.
Major General George W. Davis, re-
tired, who as chairman of the cen.
trail committee, performed most Of the
duties to be undertaken by the gen.
eral manager until i'll health inter.
vened, will continue as a member of
the committee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
CAPITOL PROGRESS
PLEASEs BUILDERS
TWO FLOORS TO BE FINISHED
WITH LIMESTONE OR
MARBLE.
COTTON ROCK" ELIMINATED
Plans for Corner Stone Laying Dis
cussed by commissicn-Hope TO
Have President Wilson as
Participant.
Jefferson CITY.

OOAAOARCA OAsJs
The capitol building Commission
has decided to have the Museum
and executive floors of the new state
house finished in Burlington limestone
or marble, instead of cement or plas-
ter.
This was made possible, it was ex-
planned by Chairman e. w. Stephens,
by the action of the general assembly
in ~reimbursing the capitol building
fund to the extent of 100000 for the
amount expended in floating the bonds
for construction. This action elimi-
mates the use of cotton rock" in any
form in the new statehouse.
Members of the commission are
greatly pleased with the progress be-
ing made on the building and with the
character of the dressed stone from
the Superior quarry at Carthage for
the exterior walls. A
At the session tentative plans for
the formal cornerstone laying were
discussed and it is likely that the date
will be determined some time this
week. 1t is possible that the date may
be arranged SO that President Wilson
may participate in the ceremonies.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Crew Largely Americans.

Boston, Mass.-The captain of the
Gulf Light was Alfred Gunther of New
York, the first mate is Ralph Smith
of Wakefield and several members of
the crew are from New England, &C
cording to information obtained from
relatives.
Capt. Gunther was commander Of
the steamship Oklahoma, which went
down in a gale in January, 1914, off
the New Jersey coast. With several
members OF the crew he escaped from
the vessel in a lifeboat and was picked
up by another steamer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Union Electric Hearing.

In an answer filed with the public
service commission, the Union Elec-'
trio Light and Power Company of st.
Louis denies all the allegations in the
complaint against it by the Engineers
l~ncitation Club.
1t is charged in the complaint OF the
club that the schedule of rates Of the
company is unfair and unreasonable
and that by a collusive contract with
the Keokuk Power Company of Keo-
kok, Ia, discrimination is practiced to
the great detriment Of some Of the
consumers.
Schumacher & Rassieur, counsel
for the company, in the answer, deny
the company has put into effect or
maintains on any of its schedules a
rate SO low as to enable it to "throt-
tie" other companies and individuals.
1t is further denied that the com
pany is giving special rates to con
sumers or has entered into a fraudu-
lent or collusive contract with respect
to the auxiliary power received by it
from the energy generated by the
Keokuk dam.
A date for taking testimony has not
yet been fixed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Allies Landing in Force.

London.-The allies attack on the
Dardanelles, both by land and sea, ap-
parently has begun in earnest, but in
the face Of strong resistance on the
part of the Turkish forces. Having
landed successfully at six different
places on the Gallipoli Peninsula, the
British and Australian troops are de-
scribed by the British war office to
have intrenched and consolidated their
positions on a line extending from the
south extremity of the peninsula to a
point almost behind the famous Turk
ish forts protecting the narrows of the
Dardanelles.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Valuation Hearings Fixed.

Dates for the hearing of the bridge,
telegraph, telephone, electric, steam
and street railway companies with ref
erence to valuation and assessment
and equalization for the taxes of 1915
have been fixed.
The proceedings will commence
with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Ry. properties on May "a, and con-
tinue uninterruptedly until May %.
County officials and all other citi-
zen who may be interested in the as
sessment, or who may have any infor-
nation pertaining to it, are requested
to appear before the board on the
dates named.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Cold Wave on Coast.

San Francisco. = Record-breaking
cold weather and high winds in half a
dozen far Western states has abated
somewhat, after causing widespread
damage. This may be increased in
fruit districts by frost. A number of
small craft were driven on to the Cali
fornia coast and many vessels at
tempting to leave the bay had to put
back.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
To Sue Saloons.

Attorney General Barker gave an
opinion in which he directed the
prosecuting attorney of Jasper county
to bring suit against about 70 saloons
in Joplin for approximately $4,000
license fees due the state. The forty.
seventh general assembly passed a
law giving the city of Joplin power,
under a special charter, to tax, regu-
late and suppress the liquor traffic.
The saloon lei of Joplin declared
the law exempted them from payment
of the $500 a year tax to the state
and have refused to pay the tax for
the past two years.
Attorney General Barker holds that
the act Of the general assembly ex-
empted them from paying a license
fee to the county court but did not
release them from payment Of the
state license.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Increased Maae Award.

Chicago.-An arbitration award ad-
vancing to some extent the rates Of
pay of $4,000 locomotive engineers,
firemen and h~ostlers employed on the
100000 miles of the line of SO western
railroads in the United States land
Canada, bounded IN the east by the
Illinois Central and the Great Lakes,
has been signed here by the arbitra-
ton board.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Deficit Of s261.oea.

Panama.-The first eight months Of
operation Of the Panama Canal have
not yielded a profit to the government,
notwithstanding the traffic has been
better than expected. From July 1,
1914, and ending March 1, 1914, the
canal showed a loss of s261,098, the
deficit being mainly due to the high
cost Of operation and upkeep.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Threatens to Execute Prisoners.

Ottawa, Ont-Gen. Hughes, minis
ter of militia announces that If the
German authorities carry out thir
sentence of death upon Private Ions
dale of Leeds for having struck a
German officer in a German prison
camp, there will be repsisals in Can
eda. Gen. Hughes stated that as soon
as he learns that the Germans have
executed Lonsdale he will order three
German prisoners at Kingston court
nlartialed and shot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Automobiles In Missourl.

There are 56,855 licensed automo-
biles in the state. At the rate these
vehicles are coming into use the state
automobile department estimates that
the total number will be about 10000
at the close of the year. There is but
n county in the state, Shannon,
without an automobile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
President Lowers Ace Limit.

Washington. President Wilson
took another step in rejuvenating the
diplomatic service by signing an ex-
ecutive order which will bar men more
than IS years old from the so-called
civil service portion of the corps,
which includes secretaries and clerks.
The age limit has been so.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
ozarks Doomed.

That the wondrous beauty of the
Ozark region of Missouri would at
tract thousands Of visitors to the state
in the vacation season If properly ex-
plotted, is the belief Of the senate COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
feasibility of purchasing a state park
and creating an immense game pre-
serve at n Of the beauty spots which
abound in this region.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06

Washington-Sixty-four vessels of
the United States navy will take part
in the naval review that will be held
at New York May is in the presence
Of President Wilson, the members Of
his cabinet and other distinguished
visitors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
British General Is Killed.

London.-Included in the latest list
of officers killed at the front are the
names Of Brigadier eneral Riddell,
commander of the Northumberland
Fnsilliers' Brigade, and Second Lieu
tenant Darwin, the grandson OF
Charles R. Darwin, the famous sci
enlist and naturalist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
RHINOCEROS KILLS q SCOUTS
Animal Attacks Men and overturns
Automobile in German
East Africa.

Capetown.-Four soldiers of a
small scouting contingent recently
sent out against the Germans on the
East African front were killed by an
Infatuated ~rhinoceros.
The scouts had gone out in motor
cars, and the leading car was attacked
without warning by the animal, which
overturned the automobile. 1t took
SO men with knives to overcome the
intruder, which put another car out
of action before it was killed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Carried No Government Insurance.

New York.-The government wal
risk breau carried no insurance on the
American oil tank steamer Gulf Light,
torpedoed off Scilly Islands, although
in the preceding trip from American
ports to Europe the steamers hull was
insured for $425, 900 with the bureau,
it was stated by William G. Delaney,
director of the bureau in Washington.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
sprouted Bean In AppendIx.

Danville, Ill.--Surgeons operating on
John Fisher, a farmland from near
st. Joseph, ILL.,, found a bean lodged
In the appendix had sprouted. His
condition is said to be very serious by
the physicians.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06

Consumers of water furnished to
various towns in st. Louis county filed
a complaint with public service com
mission that they were not all paying
the same rates. The commission ac-
countant finds rates are discrimina-
tory and unfair.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
VIII Written. Kills self.

Galesburg, nl.-After forcing a
neighbor woman to write his will,
Harvey Gilbert OF Viola, 80 years old,
shot and killed himself in the wo-
mans presence and that Of his
mother.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Rural Delivery Extensions.

The Missouri postoff1ces to which
rural delivery service has been grant
ed and the number persons served are
Rookins, $40; Perry, Ais; Dixon, $40;
Dora, 545; Brumley, 515; Campbell,
$50; Fora, $40; Oak Hill, 525; NAL
den, $40.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06

New Observation-Disclosures and alb
stainers will be out in force to hear
Secretary Of State Bryan deliver his
temperance lecture. Mrs. Bryan will.
occupy a box at Carnegie Hall, where
her husband will talk.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
InInoia offIclal Indicted.

Sprinhld, Ill, Patrick ]. Hart OF
Springfield, former secretary Of the
state board Of labor statistics, was
Indicted By the Sangamon County
grand Jury on a charge of ~embezzling
$4,000 from the state OF Illinois.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
rrawIer Held, Catch confsoated.

Rotterdam-The trawler Union
was held up in the North Sea by a
German torpedo boat and forced to
surrender 76 baskets Of fish, a result
OF three days work. The trawler was
then released.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Meaaelea EpIdemlc In CHICAGO.

Chicago.-With 200 new cases in
the last "a hours, Chicago is expert
encing one of the worst measles cpl
denies in. the history OF the city.
Health Commissioner Robertson an
nounced that there were more than
1000 cases in the city.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06

San Antonio, Tex.-Hector Ramos.
head Of Villas secret service corps,
announces that all present Mexican
consuls in the United States will be
dismissed. They will be succeeded
by Villas own choices.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Found slain in Cemetery.

Philadelphia, Pa.-The body of
Hunter Brooke, Jr, At years old. a
wealthy resident OF Garden City, Long
Island, and a member of a prominent
family, was found in a cemetery at
Media, Pa, near here.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
convicts idle.


For the first time in more than 30
years there are 500 healthy convicts
in the penitentiary in idleness. This
result was brought about by the Star
Clothing Company Withdrawing from
the prison. 1t employed approx
nlately 1000 convicts a day, some Of
these men have been taken over by
the Oberman Clothing Company.
The state is losing both ways. It
loses the labor of these men, which,
were they employed by the contrac-
tors, would bring in Is cents per day
per man., and in addition, it costs the
state approximately 81 cents per day
to keep a convict.
In this emergency, the board of
prison inspectors is making arrange
ments with all haste to engage in the
manufacture of overalls, underwear,
shoes and such clothing as can be util-
lied by the various county and city
charity institutions. These institu-
lions contain about 10000 inmates, and
it will require about 10000 pairs of
shoes and one or more suits a year to
supply them. There Is a law which
requires these institutions to purchase
from the state.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
New Deputy Marshal.

Notice has been received by former
Sheriff G. A. Smith of his appoint
ment as deputy United States Mar
shall for the Western District Of Mis-
souri,. He succeeds T. H. McKenna,
Republican, long a resident at the cap
ital.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Killed When warship Is Launched.

Bordeaux, France. Three persons
were killed here in the launching Of
the ~battleship Languedoc. The vessel
left the ways with such speed that It
stranded On the opposite shore Of the
river.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Inquiry sun on.

Washington. - Persistent reports
that parts Of submarines have been
shipped from the United States into
Canada are still under investigation.
Secretary Bryan stated that his do
partment had nothing TO report.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
presIdent to Address Financiers.

Washington. - The Pan-American
financial conference will be opened
here May "a with an address Of well
come by President Wilson, according
to an announcement made from the
treasury department.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
Canal win Soon Support SELF.

Washington.-John Carroll, formerly
of Missouri. has arrived in Washing
ton from Panama. Mr.. Carroll said
the great connecting link between the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans would be,
selfsustaining by the end Of the year.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-05-06
WrIrt yyatches Tor polloemen.

Chicago.-Chicago policemen are TO
wear wrist watches-if they care to-
according to a ruling by Charles G..
Healey, chief Of police. He said he
believed they would be more conven-
tent for uniformed men.