Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-07
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


after mock auction cigar swindlers, who
have recently become numerous in that city.
Their cigars are the most worthless trash
imaginable, but are put up In very snowy
manner, and well calculated to deceive the
unwary. They employ several "cappers"as
decoYs, and manage to rope in many innocent
citizens as we'll as unsuspecting country
men.
June 10, the feast of Corpus Christi,
was celebrated at jefferson City with i'm
posing ceremonies. Statutes were fired dur
ing the morning by the battery from the
State Armory.
John Armstrong, peripatetic ped
dler Of shoe -blacking, was set upon in Frank
lin Avenue, st. Louis, the other night, by
gang Of hoodlums, and so badly injured that
he was taken to the City Hospital in an I'M
conscious condition. His injuries are seri-
GUS. but will probably not prove fatal.
John III. Carson, man canvassing
for book known as "The History of the
Bible" fell dead at the residence of farmer
named w. D. Saunders, who resides in the
neighborhood of Iatan, Platte County, the
other day. Deceased had just taken a chair
at the house, when he suddenly paled,
vanced in years and was a member of the
Presbyterian Church. 1t is supposed that
heart disease or apoplexy was the cause of
his death.
Two farmers, named Cheris Callahan
and John Lenning, residing near DeKalb,
Buchanan County, met about a mile from
the village and engaged in an alteration,
which resulted in the killing of Callahan,
who seems to have been the aggressor. The
only witness to the affair was small child.
Lenning gave himself up to the authorities,
but was released on 81, 900 bail.
The Postmaster General has appointed
Mr.. Joel w. Bowman, Of st. Louis, Post
office Inspector, with headquarters at that
city.
Several days of the session of the re.
cent st. Louis Grand Jury were devoted to
the Southeast Missouri land frauds. Thirty
five indictments have been found in all and
the papers placed in the hands of officers.
Among those indicted and under arrest are
j. F. Richards, st. Louis real-estate man,
and George L. Brown, a clerk in the office
of Lindsey, heretofore indicted. Both pro-
test their innocence.
James Carter, an old resident of the
eastern part of Jasper County, committed
suicide. His body was found in Dry Fork
with the throat cut. Dependency on ac-
count of failure of crops is supposed to have
been the cause.
The trial of John R. Poplin for the
murder of Charles NJ. Henderson, at Pop
lar Bluff, resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
Poplin killed Henderson for becoming too
intimate with his wife.
Kansas City is to have high-priced
breach-of-promise suit, $4,000 being esti-.
mated as the cash equivalent of the lacerated
affections of Miss Mollie Carter, who was
wooed and won, but not wed, by w. A.
Dickey, a rich Colorado stock man. There
are various conjectures as to the cause of
Dickey's shortcoming, and a spicy time is
anticipated.
The French citizens of St. Louis are
making elaborate preparations for celebrat-
ing the 18th of July-the French national
fete day.
Miss Corinne Belle Smucker, st,
Louis lady of rare vocal gifts, who went
to Vienna year and half ago to complete
her musical education, died there quite
suddenly, and her remains were brought
home for burial.
AT the State Temperance Convention held
at Moberly, for the special purpose of aiding
the prohibition movement'in Missouri, Rev.
DIR. Brooks, of Mexico, President of the AL
lance, delivered the opening address, and
Col. w. f. Switzler, of Columbia, also made
a lengthy argument in favor of prohibition.
The Convention was composed of earnest
men, prominent in both political parties,
who seem determined to carry prohibition
to the polls and into the State Constitution.
Henry w. Givens, the dissipated son
of wealthy st. Louis family, attempted to
commit suicide by stabbing himself in the
breast with a pocket-knife. He will re-
cover. .-( e ~
William and Charles Marriott, father
and son, the former aged so, the latter "a,
were both fatally injured by cars running
down the grade at the Joplin Whitehead
Works.
St. Louis has broken out with the ele-
waited railroad fever, no less than half-a-
dozen different projects for suburban roads
being under consideration by the Council.
Tom Hosmer, from New York City,
fell into the hands of Kansas City courte-
san named Belle Bird, and was swindled out
of So, 800. Madame Lee, keeper OF the house
where the robbery is alleged to have been
is under arrest, together with
several male confreres. r.slE 81
The stringent anti gambling law for
St. Louis passed by the last Legislature has
gone into effect, and the gambling houses
are said to have generally closed up rather
than run the risk Of prosecution. What
constitutes gambling device is set forth to
be, "any table or gambling device, common
y called A, B, c, faro banks, E, o, roulette,
equality, keno, or any kind of gambling table |
Dr. gambling device, adopted, devised and |
designed for the purpose of playing |
any game of chance for money or
It is further declared that any |
person convicted "shalI be adjudged guilty |
Of felony, and shall be punished by impris
in the Penitentiary for term of not |
ess than twoinor more than five years, or by |
in the County Jail for term
not less than six nor more than twelve |
months. :" Owners OF houses in which |
gambling is carried on also come under the |
provisions of the law, the punishment being |
in, tho Counfy To1 or yVorIy-