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

MISSOURI STEfE NEWS. ss.-ss'.-
At Kansas City, about O'Clock the morn
ing of the 18th, a man named Petell, from
Detroit, Mich, was stabbed in house on
+WyandQtte and Sixth Streets " % man
Aamed NShers Retell had become acqu aint-
ed with Makers wife, and it Is alleged had
made her drunk. He retired with her to
her bed about o'clock. Maher had
been listening at the front door, and as soon
as the couple had retired hNNept in, burst
open the bedroom door stabbed Hetsl
as he attempted to escape. The latter ran
out into the bitter cold streets with no cloth
ing on except an undershirt, and was pur-
sued fQE~ some distance by the maddened
husband N1e tognd npt fdaA gerous,
but bled AeeH tat ] fraif al blood was
left for bleM, narfins tie coufse pken by
the nakt6 fhaf. a Policeman caught Petell
three blocks from the scene Of the ARRAY,
and took him to the station, but he refused
to tell any thing, and left town by an early
train. although Petell was discovered in
/ Aea l I nude. condftiSn, isscpnpapfdn was
-Aos odd, Being too much Intoxicated, to un-
lace her shoes. Mrs. Maher is very respect
able, and it is claimed was drugged by the
aid Of woman in the house, .----.---.-----------
William Mckee, senior partner in the
Globe Democrat Company of st. Louis, died
suddenly on the Goth, OF heart disease, and
the flner3 took place on The I'D from the
family residence. He was in the 65th year
of his sage.p The stock held by theF GlolH
Company at the time Of his death was as fol-
bWs. KAHam M eIlee, S290 shares; d. II.
Houser, 145; J. B.. McCullagh, 30; Simeon
Ray, 20; Henry McKec,15.
On the 18th there were in the Penitentiary
at Jefferson City but 1878 convicts-1, 227
males and As females--a smaller number
than there has been fer some time pat. All
the prisoners mot In the hospital are an
ployed either under coptnct IRON the pub
lie works. Two hundred and onef are en-
ployed at the coal ntnes~ and 80 adaittonal
hands are requifel, buteaahst be f,fiaished
at present. - - 4
TIE Fund Commissioners have made .
requisition on the Auditor for = warrant OF,
| theyState Treas1er for $4aR,O00 tQpsy inner
est on State bondsdne JanuarY a 1SSa A
draft was drawn on the Bank Of Commerce
at st. Louis, where the State had more than
| sufficient funds to meet the claim. IS
At Chillicothe on the 21st, fire, said to
have started in Gloyd's boot and shoe store,
ued at 50, 0Q0.x The loss. fell upon Miss En-
ma Leeper AMI her brother FL ID. Leeper,
UT. Greene, Ed. Bratton, Stewart e. Ma
haffey, Brown & Leeper, J. II. Davis q Co.,
J ME-. e. B. Brono, John F.Martin. Six on
seven buildings in all were either consumed
| or crushed by falling walls. ----
An ordinance for the introduction of wa
terWorkS at ST. Joseph was submitted to
vote Of the people on the 23d, and was rati-
| fed by vote of 1850 in favor Of the water
works to only 10 against. The City Council
had already adopted the ordinance by a
| unanimous vote.
| Articles Of association have been filed with
| the Secretary Of State by the StsLouis and
New Orleans transportation Company ;1cap-
| ital, SO, 900; Henry Lowrey, w. BreeaIore
Smith, Thos. Z. Bennett, Thomas Poe Of St.
Louis, and VIM. E. Burden, Chicago, incor-
| porators. Business object, building, equip
| ping, ETC., of steamboats, and other vessels,
| and carrying on general transportation on
Mississippi River and tributaries. &
| A little over six weeks ago Mr.. Bent AM
derson put up the first telephone in Sedalia.
| Thirty telephones are now in place and in
| actual every day use. Ten more, or forty in
all, have been engaged and will be in opera
| ton in few days. Sixteen other parties
have conditionally engaged to put them up.
1t is quite probable that on the first day Of
January, 1880, there were fifty in actual use.
l.. b. Ely, Esq. financial agent of William
Jewell College, the well known Baptist in
stitution, located at Liberty, has raised sllf-
ficient means to pay the running expenses
Of the college for f1ve years, and is now Wig
orously at work iaising the endowment. The
college had 135 students last gear, 20 of
whom are candidates for the smintHyS
Mr.. Samuel Tompkins of Scott County
raised 100 acres of amber sugar cane the past
season and sent two carloads Of mOlasses to
st. Louis ae one shipment. He Proposes to
plant S0 acres next year and Will aftempt
the mann facture of sugar from this valuable.
variety of cane.
A special term of the fancy County Cir
cult Court will be held on the first Monday
in January, to try several murder cases.
Eat Jefferson CITY, on the sd, a convict
named Jamison, an eight year man, quietly
walked past the guard stationed at the rail-
road track on the levee near the Peniten-
tiary without being recognized anu made
good his escape. He was one Of gang about
to be placed at work on the river bank but
was left for a moment with others at the
spump.house by the guard in charge, where
he succeeded in getting o blue cotton over
shirt and pair of overalls, or had them be
meath his uniform, and going behind tho
house made the change. The guards In
charge Of gang at work on the sand-bar
opposite, some few hundred yards out fnthe
river, seeing a man come from behind the
house clothed in that manner, suspected
something and called to the guard on the.
track to stop him, but be did not seem to nn-
derstand, and, merely questioning Jamisen
as he came up as to WHEREAS WAS going, an
lowed him to pass. A few moments later
the guard in charge Of the gang came back
and found he was man short, but too late;
Jamison had disappeared.
Hugh Jones, a former merchant, Justice
Of the Peace and Postmaster at Dawn, in
Livingston County, was found dead Christ
mas morning under circumstances that lead
to the belief that he was foully murdered.
Dawn is located on the east side of Shoal
Creek, which is spanned by an iron bridge
40 feet above the waters Mr.. Jones lived on.
the west side of the creek. His body was
found tinder the bridge, in the creek, With
trail of blood leading from the bridge upthe
road into the town. 1t is believed he was
murdered the previous night up town, his
body dragged to the. bridge and thrown ihte
the creek.
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Ten Thousand Miles for a Husband.
From Watertown, n. Y, to Australia
is long and weary way-ten thousand
miles or mOre-but n VOlInp woman has