Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The Governor has refused to remove

The Governor has refused to remove
the disabilities of w. w. Blanchard, of
Clinton, CONVICTED in the Circuit Court Of
Henry County of selling beer on Sunday.
The Governor gives the following reason for
his refusal:
81 viii not grant the request / think all
men in this Christian land should observe the
sabbath day, in due Difference to the COM
mand of the law, il not reverence OF that day
itself, held in high esteem by seven eighths OF
the community in which they reside. When a
man is permitted under the law of the land to
sell liquor sax days in the week, he should be
ready of his own accord TO close up his place
of business on tae Sabbath. Mr.. Blanchard
did not, was convicted OF violating the law,
and now appeals to me to remove the dis
qualification of the law. lie knowingly vio-
lated the divine and statutory law, and must
submit to the consequences. however fncon-
venient to his situation. If the law officers of
the State and counties would more strenu-
Ously enforce the Sabbath laws upon our
statute books. there would be more general
Observance of the day. Prayer of petitioner
denied"
Col. George w. Early, on behalf of
the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad Com
pany, has made a formal demand of the
Governor to make over, assign and convey
to the trustees, under the deed of trust CIV
en- by said company to secure the 100000
of bonds issued under the act of February
20, 1855, all the first liens and mortgages
now held by the State to secure said sum, by
reason of the receipt by the State Fund
Commissioners of the sum of IS. O00, 900 and
$50, 900 interest thereon TO July l. The Gov
ernor acknowledged having received notice
of the payment of said sums to the State by
said company, but declined 10 comply with
the demand to enter satisfaction of the
States lier. Finally his exce!ltnry consented
that an agreed case i'm the nature of man
damus should be submitted to the Supreme
Court or to the Judges thereof in chambers,
at as early day as practicable, for the pur-
pose of determining the question whether or
not the company has paid n sufficient sum
to entitle it to discharge of the States lien
Governor Crittenden sent the follow
ing letter to Governor Blackburn, of Ken
lucky:
MY DEAR GOVERNOR think the President
will recover. We will hope so. As soon as il
is fully known that he will recover. would it
not be well for the Southern States to set aside
Il day of thanksgiving and rejoicing? have
written to Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, on the
subject. Suppose you write to him! will
heart is already full of JOY over the prospec-
THOs. T. CRITTESDEN.
And this to Secretary Blaine:
Kermit me. as Governor OF MlSSOllr1, to eX-
press the profound regret of our people over
the cowardly attack made on the President,
without regard to color or sex, party or relis-
patriotism of this day is softened and sadden
ed by this great national crime. Present my
regards to the President and express to Mrs.
GARFIELD the sympathies of our people. Her
THos. T. CRITTENDEN.
Charles Beasy, bright lad of Is. en-
ploved to run the elevator in the store OF r.
and w. Goldstein, No 407 North Fifth Street,
ST. Louis, met with sudden and most hor-
rible death. He was in the cellar, at the
bottom of the elevator well, when he lost his
footing and fell upon the drum in such
manner as to be caught up by the rapidly
rounding cable. He gave one shrek of ago.
ny and all was over. When employees of
the house ran to the scene they found the
mangled body of the poor lad upon one side
of the drum, with his skull crushed in and a
dozen bones broken, while the left arm had
been completely severed from the body near
the shoulder, and lay several feet distant.
1t was most horrible sight.
10. Kist, a young German, leaped
from the st. Louis bridge, on the 10th, a
distance of about 80 feet above water level.
He went down feet foremost like plummet,
and came up in few moments apparently
none the worse for his daring exploit.
Alanson S. Dickinson, a young son of
a well-known st. Louis family, was drowned
recently while bathing in Long Lake, III.
In the house occupied by William
George, arrested at st. Louis for passing
silver coin,we found furnace,
molds for running half dollars,
and materials for making bogus coins.
One of the walls of the building occu-
pied by the Mound City Paint and Color
Company, 704 and 7O6 North Second Street,
St. Louis, which had been weakened by the
of an adjoining lot, suddenly fell
on the afternoon of the 18th, burying Mr..
Girard Miller, one of the company's travel
ing statesmen, in the ruins. He was dead
when extricated. Mr.. Miller was native
of Quincy, Ill.
Joseph w. Swain, Manager of the
Tank Line, has been arrested
on a warrant sworn out by Frank X. Tut,
Coal Oil Inspector for Kansas City, charging
him with selling and disposing Of kerosene,
petroleum and gasoline which had not been
inspected, and which was not up to the
deg. proof. The additional
charge was also made that he had adulter-
ated kerosene which had already been
passed at $50 deg. until it was below 100 deg
proof, and sold it for illuminating purposes,
The latter charge being more serious and
apart from the general fight as to inspection
between the Inspector and the Tank Line
Company. Swain was bailed in the sum Of
Of $500.
A pretty little girl, not over four years
Of age, arrived at the st. Louis Union Depot
On the Vandalia train the other morning.
She had a ticket sewed upon her hat, which
read, scare of the conductor, Union De- |
pot, st. Louis" There was no one at the |
depot to receive the little one. She said that |
she was to be met there by her aunt She
did not know her own name, nor that of the |
aunt, and referred to the woman who put |
her on the train at indianapolis as ''her 9TH
er mamma" The little one was cared |
Tor all day at the Union Depot by the kind |
hearted O'Neill, the restaurant man, and i'm
he evening she was taken to the Four |
Courts. Frank ID. Turner said it would be |
shame for her to spend the night in the |