Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
James Shumate, an old resident OF Lewis
County, struck 81, 900 bonanza recently in
mime speculation in Colorado. He has re-
turned to Lewis County and will put his
money where it will do the most good.
The Democratic State Central Committee
met at the Laclede Hotel, st. Louis, on the
10th, for the purpose of selecting place and
appointing time for holding a convention
for the appointment of delegates to the Ma
tional Democratic Convention to be held at
Cincinnati June %, also to agree to basis OF
representation, and also for selecting the
place and time for State Convention for the
nomination Of candidates for State offices.
The Chairman, Col. John O'Day, stated the
object of the meeting, and Secretary W. h.
Mayo called the roll, which was responded
to as follows: W. 81. Clopton, First District;
j. G. Prather, Second District; E. A. Moo
nan, Third District; j. P. Walker, Fourth
District; II. 8. Herbert, Fifth District; John
O'Day, Sixth District; E. A. Nickerson,
Seventh District; A. c. Briant, Eighth Dis
trict; Joseph Truck, Ninth District; II. A.
Newman, Tenth District; Thomas s. Car
ter (proxy for s. C. Douglass), Elev-
enth District; Major Gillespie, Twelfth
District; B. F. Dobyns (proxy for
s. M. Edwards), Thirteenth District.
The first business before the meeting was
the hearing of members as to the claims Of
different cities for the honor of being Sc
lected as the places for holding the conven-
tions. Kansas City presented her claim
through Mr.. Ezra Hickman, Jefferson City
A. Do1 aI, >1ol;
Hon. John T. Hurd, Moberly through Mr..
w. H. Newman, and Springfield through
Mr.. D. G. Kennedy. An informal ballot
was taken, and the meeting adjourned for
dinner. At the reassembling in the after
noon, the first question called was the time
to be fixed upon for the delegate convention,
and it was decided that it should be
the 26th of May. A vote was then taken as
to where the convention should be held.
The ballot resulted as follows: Jefferson
City, l.; Sedalia, l.; St. Louis, r.; Moberly,
8. Kansas City did not enter the contest.
And so May 26 was declared the time and
Moberly the place for holding the delegate
convention. On the question of place and
time for the nominating convention, the
final ballot resulted as follows: Kansas
City, A.; Jefferson City, s; and the time was
set as July 81. The basis of representation
was next discussed. 1t was decided to post
pone the matter so far as the Jefferson City
convention was concerned until the meeting
at Moberly on the Goth of May. For the
Moberly convention the question was set
tied by the following resolution: THAT
the ratio of representation in the
State Convention to nominate delegates
to the National Convention shall
be three delegates to each representative
district, and one delegate for every 500
excess of 25O cast at the last general election
for Democratic candidate for President,
except in the City and County Of st. Louis,
which shall be entitled to three delegates for
each representative and one for each 500
votes or fraction thereof in excess of $50 cast
in each representative district at the last an
nual election for Democratic candidate for
Supreme Judge" The exception was nee
essary in the case Of the County and the City
of St. Louis, because no presidential election
has occurred since the separation of the city
and the county. A motion was carried in
structing the Chairman of county commit
tees to call either delegate or mass meeting
in their respective counties, Saturday, Odd
day of May, to select delegates to the Mober-
ly Convention. Adjourned.
In the latter part of December, the G. B.
and Q. Railway made Bethany proposition
to build a railway to that point for con-
sideration Of $4O,O 900, the company agreeing
to build the road by Novem-
Der 1, 1880. Messrs. Baldwin, attor-
ney, and Mcclure, chief engineer of the
road, have selected location for the depot,
but want to have the time extended
until January 1, 1881. The money is raised.
John T. Coates has been appointed by
Gov. Phelps Judge of the County Court OF
Randolph County, vice Thomas P. White,
deceased.
The twelfth session of the M. E. Confer
ence met in Sedalia on the 10th, under the
presidency of Bishop r. S. Foster, of Bos-
ton, Mass.
St. Patrick's Day was not allowed to pass
at st. Louis without most brutal murder.
just before IL o'clock at night three young
Irishmen, James Gordon, Anthony Gahen,
and Ed. Barrett, went into Raymond Trox-
ler's saloon, on Twenty second and Wash
Streets, and engaged in game Of fifteen
ball pool. They became very boisterous, and
Troxler took the balls away from them. He
also refused them liquor. At this they be-
came much excited, and while one held the
door of the room open Gordon, leader of the
gang sprang upon Troxler. Before the other
occupants of the saloon could interfere, the
rough drew large butcher knife, and, strik-
ing terrible blow, drove the blade through
Troxler's skull and several inches into the
brain. The saloon-keeper fell dead, and the
roughs made their escape. A little earlier
than this an ARRAY occurred only two blocks
away, in which John Cunningham, bar
keeper, shot John German an Dan Heffer-
man, not fatally.
On the 18th twenty mounted men, Of des-
perate appearance, encamped between
Moberly and Higbee, taking a position such
that by rapid ride they could reach the
track of either the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, Chicago and Alton, or North Mis-
souri, Roads, and it was surmised that they
intended a raid on train. There was much
agitation among railroad officials.
The Governor on the 10Th received check
for 81 ,534.3 from the United States Govern
ment in favor of Cedar County, on swamp