Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-26
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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chants National Bank W. Coates, assignee
of the Mastin Bank. This disposes Of -
fund Of $50, 900 claimed by various partNs
holding checks at the time Of the bapk sus-
pension. The Court decides that the hold
ers of checks are entitled to the fund i'm the
order of presentation of such checks and not
in the order of the dates of those checks.
The priority of claim thus resting with the
earliest presentation, the fund will be ex-
hausted probably among five or six. A COM
mission was appointed consisting Of Lucien
Eaton and Z. Smith for the purpose Of con-
verting the property into cash, after which
the final order of distribution will be made
by the Court.
The evening Of the 9th, at st. Louis, Ed
ward Kirschner had his throat cut while be-
ing shaved in o barber-shop through the
foolishness of some young men who were
skylarking and jostled the BARRIERS arm. The
wound, however, was not fatal.
The Governor ON the 10th commissioned
Robert b. Wade of St. Louis Captain of
Company A. cavalry, N. G. NJ, to rank
from Dec. %, 1879.
At Kansas City, the night Of the 9th, II.
II. Dell, a commission merchant, went to
his store for the purpose Of ascertaining IL
every thing was safe, as he had been robbed
on two occasions within the past two weeks.
He found Steve Dederick, a colored man, in
the act Of carrying away lot Of butter.
Pursuing the thief and hallooing, he attract
ed Patrolman Flahive to the scene, who
Joined in the chase. As the thief was near
ing the levee, and about $50 feet ahead, the
officer fired a second shot, which hit Deder-
iol- in, bo hack opd rap0od unward Tho
wound was considered fatal.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Company by
its President, Jay Gould, and the Kansas
City and Eastern Railway Company by its
President, S. T. Smith, have filed in the
Office of the Secretary Of State certificates Of
the assent Of the stockholders of their re-
spective companies to the lease of the latter
road to the Missouri Pacific for a term of five
years from December Q, 1879.
Robt. b. Wade has been commissioned
Captain of Company A, N. g. NJ, st. Louis
to rank from December %, 1879.
Clarence N. Smith, clerk in the Office OF
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc Rail-
road Company, committed suicide ut Kansas
City on the 10th, by shooting himself.
Albert Beckers, aged Is, brother Of A, NJ.
Beckers, a prominent lumberman Of Jeffer-
son City, accidentally shottapd killed. him-
self on the 18th at Capt. Beckerss, some
eight miles from town. He came up from
st. Louis few days ago and went out to the
farm to work, and, i'm taking down from a
shelf loaded revolver, by some means dis
charged it, the ball penetrating his forehead,
causing instant death.
The case of Martin, charged with the MUIR
der of Miser in Lacede County, occupied the
attention of the Circuit Court ut Lebanon
during whole week, and the jury on the 18th
returned verdict of guilty as charged in the
indictment.
There is a movement on foot to construct
q 5000 telephone line from Glasgow to Fay
cite.
The Moberly Building and Loan Associa-
ton has voted an increase of its capital stock
to 100000.
On Saturday the 9TH inst, Mr.. Ausley
Erucr, son or j.. q. Elder, was instantly
killed at house raising in Laclede County.
Anderson b. Goss and Richard Pierce
were arrested in Tom Township, st. Clair
County, about two weeks ago, charged with
completely in the death of Hattie Dowell.
Two young men, Oswald Vaughan and
Ben Ford, were thrown from q horse in the
suburbs of Glasgow a few days ago. They
were both riding the same horse. Ford
was killed. Young Vaughan had seversl
ribs broken.
Mrs. Nancy Smell, the oldest citizen of
Howard County, If not of the State, died NJ
her home two and a half miles east of
Fayette on Monday morning, january 20.
Mrs. Smell was born i'm Augusta County,
Va, April 8, 1888, consequently had she
lived until the eth of April next she would |
have been one hundred and two years of
age. Her effspring-children, grandchn- |
dren, etc., number over three hundred and |
fifty.
William Jackson and David Wiburs, con-
victs in the Pmitentiary, fought on the night |
of the 18th, and jackson was badly stabbed.
Charles Reynolds, who a few weeks ago
left Madison County and moved to Pilot
Knob, met witt fatal accident. One night,
while engaged b mining in drift, blast,
which should hare been fred by previous
set of hands at 4 O'Clock, was carelessly de-
layed. At four o'clock Reynolds and two or
three other men inferred the drift just at the
fatal moment wen the blast exploded.
Reynolds was killd instantly by large rock
falling on him, magling his body in fright
Iui hanneA, anu " psncA HAL hau MS tnlgn
broken.
The fireman on the second section of
freight train No. 2 going east, met with
miraculous escaperom instant death on the
18th. While crossing Beaver Bridge, four
miles west Of Rolla and while out on the
engine tinkering with the psmp, he lost his
footing and fell oter the bridge to the
ground, distance of thirv-five feet, re-
ceiving but a few slight brises. Had the
fall been delayed ten secorls the tumble
would have been about ninty feet. How
he escaped with his I've is nracle.
There was meeting of tn stockholders
representing nearly al the stoc Of the Boom
vile Bridge Company at Booyille on the
18th, at the office d the Cerral Nationa,
Bank. The old Directors werell re -elcct-
ed, and the following officers, New York
men, were elected fG the en,ing year:
James NJ. Mclean, President; Cd. Wood,
vice-President; H. B. Henson, Sretary; j.
H. Oglebie, Treasured ,
The net earnings u the IrorMountain
Road for 1879 are said ito exceed $500. 900. :
or $500, 900 more than required, pay ali !
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