Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Gen. Swaine, one of President Gar
fields intimate friends, has recently been In
Kansas City looking for fine pair of car
riage horses and also q saddle horse for the
use Of the President.
At Aullville, in Lafayette County, at
an early hour on the morning Of the LIST, the
general merchandise establishment of A. II.
& J. T. Major was entered by burglars, who
blew open a safe therein. The explosion was
heard throughout the village, and it set fire
to the store, which was soon all in a blaze.
The noise of the explosion brought the peo-
pie from their beds. They labored faithfully
to subdue the flames. Before they succeed
ed nine buildings had been laid waste. The
following parties are the sufferers, but their
loss is on stock alone, as the buildings were
not owned by them: John Tucker, restaur.
ant, 81, 900, no insurance; E. L. Welburn,
drugs, $1,000, no Insurance.: A. II. & j. L.
Major, general merchandise, 5000, insured
for II 500; j. j. Cooksy, meat shop, $500,
insured for 5000; Hendrix & Schwitzer,
boots, shoes and harness, saved most Of their
stock, losing $3.50, on which there was no in
surance; Mrs. Elliott, millinery, $50, no in
surance; James Wiley, saloon, $3.50, no in
surance; Howell Avitt, $1,000, partly in
sured; Shackelford & Eek, grocers, 81, $50.
insured for $500. OF the nine buildings
burned five were owned by Robert Graham.
Great excitement prevailed, and should the
guilty parties be apprehended they would
certainly stretch hemp.
Detective Erskine, of St. Louis, re.
Gently arrested w. H. Hargis for placing
oh he c.,
track between Exeter and Washburn, and
delivered him to the Barry County Sheriff
for safe keeping.
A jury at st. Joseph has given $1,000
damages to Mary Griffen, young servant
girl who was betrayed by James Finney, her
employer, under promise of marriage. Fin
ney is an old bachelor and reputed to he
worth 100000. The verdict seems to give
universal satisfaction.
Joseph Mansure, colored, has been
sentenced at Kansas City to five years in the
Penitentary for committing an assault up
on a white girl.
Railroad communication with Clay
ton, the county-se of st. Louis County, is
to be had by branch road leaving Wabash
at Forsyth Junction. The road will be COM
pleted about August 1.
Utica, in Livingston County, is just
now excited over the discovery of a mineral
well, which their citizens claim to be the
biggest thing yet unearthed. The water has
a peculiar smoky taste, similar to that of
burnt powder.
At called meeting of the Missouri
State Temperance Alliance, held in Mexico,
May 81, the following was agreed upon, and
the Secretary authorized to cause the same
to be published:
]. As there seems from communications be-
fore us to be some misunderstanding as to
the time of holding the Prohibition Conven.
ton, We take this method of informing all
concerned that the Convention is called to
meet in Moberly. Mo-, on June 81, 1881.
.. AS the Convention will partake largely of
the nature of a mass convention, no creden-
tails will be required.
3. Temperance men of all organizations and
parties are earnestly solicited to be present
4. The citizens of Moberly, with commcnda-
BILE hberality, are providing as far they
can free entertainment tor delegates.
5. The Executive Committee do not feel au-
thorized to publish programme, but will Sc
cure number of competent speakers. who
will address the Convention.
6. 1t is expected that Ex-Governor b. GratZ
Brown, w. F. Switzler, j. j. Hickman, G. W:
Hughey, w. Pope Yeaman, John A. Brooks T.
j. Gooch and j. j. Bentley will address the
Convention. L. j. WHEAT, Secretary.
A. B. Wakefield, a former well-known
citizen of st. Louis OF somewhat unsavory
reputation, has been sent to the Penitentiary
for two years, upon a conviction of perjury,
the Supreme Court having affirmed the de-
cision of the Court of Appeals. Wakefield
was witness before the Grand Jury inves-
tigating the charges against certain Police
Commissioners of st. Louis, charged with
receiving brides from gambling houses for
information concerning proposed raids,
Wakefield himself being the supposed go
between through whose hands the money
passed. He swore he received the money as
an attorney, and not for any purpose Of
bribery. Several of the gamblers then came
forward and testified point blank that they
paid Wakefield with the express UNDER
standing that it was for information con-
corning police raids, and upon this evidence
Wakefield was convicted. For two years
Wakefield has been running a farm near
Atchison, Kansas.
The State Auditor has issued circu-
lar to County Assessors instructing them
that the date of assessment has been changed
from August o June; that real estate is only
to be assessed every two years hereafter;
that the listing Of dogs will be made this
year under the old law, the new act not tax.
ing effect until the Goth of June; that the
act of last winter requiring personal prop
erty to be assessed in the county wherein
the owner resides, no matter where such
property is situated, does not go into effect
in time for the present assessment, there
being no emergency clause to the act.
John Burkett, employed as mail
carrier, at HarvilIe, Butler County, is
charged with cutting open pouch contain
ing registered letters. Burkett carried the
mail pouch from the Post office to the Iron
Mountain Depot, and according to his own
statement got drunk and has no knowledge
of the transaction. He was locked up to
await examination.
Col. Frank M. Tracy, publisher of the
Herald, has been appointed Postmaster at
St. Joseph.
John l.. Bittinger, late editor of the
ST Joseph Herald will take Col r, T. Van