Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-23

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The value Of telegraph companies have
been fixed as follows: First wire, $50 per
| mile; each additional wire, $40; batteries
and instruments, per mile, s..
| The rolling stock of the railroads has been
| fixed as follows:
Locomotives. 81 $50
Pullman palace cars. 5000
passenger cars. 2ZoO
Baggage cars. l,OW
Cabooses. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 800
Box and stock cars. Observation-Disclosures. $50
Two men named HI. B. Turner and
T. Porter, travelling in the interest Of the
| Western Medical Works of Indiana, went to
the house of VIM. c. Williams, of Yatesville,
Randolph County, and persuaded him into
| taking the agency for some patent medicine.
Williams signed a contract for $50 worth of
medicine, which it is alleged the men con-
verified into note. They were subsequently
arrested and held for trial. 1t is reported
that similar trick has been practiced upon
other parties.
A young man named A. G. Peterson,
son of a prosperous farmer living at Okla
Iona, Jefferson County, Kansas, threw him
self in front of an Iron Mountain express
train at Ivory Station, Just south of St.
Louis. and was mangled SO badly that he
died within an hour. Letters from MS ia
| Their were found upon his person, entreating
him to come home and abandon his way
ward mode of life.
R. T. Davin's fouring-mill at st.
Joseph was damaged by fire on the It'll to the
extent Of about 1000. Fully insured.
Mr.. Hilbert Garrett, a conductor for
many years employed on the Pacific Rail-
| road, committed suicide at his home in St.
| Louis, on the 9Th, by shooting himself
| through the heart. Mr.. Garrett was for
| long time conductor on the st. Louis & Kirk
| wood train, and was extremely popular.
| Ill health is supposed to have driven him, in
| fit Of dependency, to take his life.
McDonough, St. Louis Chief of Po-
lice, has resigned, and Capt. Ferd. B. Ken
nett is promoted to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. M. M. O'Sullivan, the Irish Land
League Secretary, addressed large st.
Louis audience, at Schnsider's Garden, the
other night, on "The Present Crisis in Ire
land"
Joseph Smell, young Swiss, deter
mined TO commit suicide by jumping off the
! St. Louis bridge into the Mississippi. Smell
had thrilling experience, and his escape
from a miserable death was marvellous. As
soon as he struck the water the desire for
death left him, and he determined to make
an effort to save himself. He tried to make
| the shore, but the current was too strong, SO
he floated down stream until he washed high
and 'dry" on Arsenal Island. Two colored
men, rowing in skiff, heard Snell's cries for
help, and took him on board.
Lizzie Edgington, the keeper of a dis
reputable house in st. Louis, divided her
| jewelry among the inmates of her house and
| fatally wounded herself with pistol.
Gov. Crittenden attended the races in
| st. Louis.
VIM. Van Meter, employed in rem
dering establishment at Kansas City, slipped
and fell into the boiling fat up to his hips,
| literally cooking his limbs and a portion of
| his body. His injuries were thought to be
fatal.
There is a fourishing German colony
established in Butler County, near the line of
| the Iron Mountain Road, and twenty addi-
tional families have just arrived.
The little village of Seven Star
| Springs, in the southwest part of Barry
County, was recently visited with terrific
| storm and water-spout. An eyewitness
says the clouds gathered over the valley
| where the town is situated, from three diff
ferent directions, whirled around like a cy-
clone and travelled up the valley a short dis
lance, where they broke and the rain poured
down in torrents. The electricity, it Was
remarked, did not flash at intervals, but the
whole scene was as light as day continu
| ously; ii could be felt upon the hands and
| face, causing burning sensation at times.
| In a few moments terrific noise
was heard over the town, and an alarm
| was given that the waters3were coming, and
before all who were living in houses and
| tents near the spring and below it could get
| to the hills, the valley stream was young tor
rent, sweeping everything before it-houses,
| tents, horses, mules, cattle and household
| goods. One woman and five children, the
oldest 10, were swept down the stream.
They all caught in the bushes, and after
nearly two hours were rescued. A man,
two women and two children were washed
down with the flood, and they also managed
to catch hold of bushes and were all saved.
Fortunately no lives were lost, though there
| were many narrow escapes.
Buchanan County having by q de-
cided majority defeated the scheme to fund
its bonded Indebtedness by issuing bonds to
run thirty years and to draw six per cent.
| interest, the County Court has ordered an
election to be held an the 21st Of July to vote
upon the proposition of issuing bonds to run
twenty years and bear five per cent. interest.
This will make the third proposition submit
to the people of Buchanan County within a
year, two of which have met defeat. The
bonded debt of the county is 100000 prin-
eipaI, and S225 900 interest and judgments.
William Ryan, alias Thos. Hill, who
was arrested at Nashville in March on the
charge Of having robbed A. G. Smith. a Gov
eminent officer, at Muscle Shoals, of IS, 900,
has been taken to Kansas City to answer the
charge of robbing an express train near that
point, with others, about a year ago. He is
supposed to be member Of the Jesse James
gang of outlaws.
When big fellow makes pecul-
iarly impertinent remark to you, and