Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-30
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

merce, and from there he viii 60 to Baiti.
more, Md, to testify in a case of the State
of Maryland against one John William Will
son, charged with fraudulent transactions in
connection with the stock of a Colorado
mining company in representing that Gov.
Crittenden was President of the company,
by which means large amount of the stock
was floated on the market. The Governor
never heard of such q company until Wilson
was arrested.
The Fund Commissioners have agreed
to accept on account of the liza
bility of the Hannibal & st. Jo-
seph Railroad to the State, for the
bonds issued under the act of 1865, the sum
of s., 900, 900, being the amount of said bonds
with interest thereon to July /, and have in
structed the State Treasurer to receive the
same from the company and notify the Gov
ern-z of the fact. This amount, when re-
ceived, will be accepted as a payment upon
account, and not as full acquittance of fur
Their liability.
The Governor has appointed Franklin
X. Tut, formerly of Lexington, coal-oil in
speetor at Kansas City for a term of two
years.
Clyde Erskine, son of a wealthy citi-
zen Of st. Louis, has been arrested on charge
of embezzling $13, 400 from the Union Depot
Street Railway Company. He was discharged
from the Secretaryship of the former COM
pany one year ago, and agreed to make good
his deficit, but failed to do so.
Hawkins NJ Hodges, while boring for
coal on his farm, near Plattsburg, Clinton
County, struck a strong vein of petroleum.
Track-laying on the Joplin branch
extension of the st. Louis q San Francisco
Railroad, to Galena, has been commenced,
and it is contemplated to have the line COM
pleted to that point by July 1.
William Brown, colored hog-thief,
was shot and fatally wounded the other
night by Constable Parker, near Oak Grove,
in jackson County. Brown had been steal
ing stock for months. The officer, heavily
armed, went to his cabin and ordered his
surrender, when the thief fired instantly
with six-shooter, and was then shot
through and through with buckshot.
Adam Eckenroth, of Jefferson City,
q man Of some property, hanged himself on
the 18th. He was addicted to drink, and his
wife had recently left him on account of i'll
treatment.
The State Convention of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, held at Kansas City,
elected P. ]. Kelly, of st. Louis, Delegate;
j. j. Granfeld, Kansas City, Secretary;
Charles Lands, Treasurer. Resolutions were
adopted expressing sympathy with the suf-
fering people of Ireland.
Hugh E. Mullen, a st. Louis Post
office clerk, has been detected in rif1ing
money letters and is under arrest. His pee
ulations had been carried on for consider
able time, and the aggregate amount stolen
is thought to be large. His family, who are
respectable and well-to-do people, have
made good his populations, so far as it has
been possible to ascertain the amount.
Official notice is published that the
office of the State Railroad Commissioners
has been removed from ST. Louis to Jeffer-
son City, in accordance with the law passed
by the late Legislature.
Miss Barbara Siska, of st. Louis, a
young woman aged %, died while under the
influence ofchloroform, administered by two
physicians preparatory to removing tumor.
The following officers of the staff of
Brig. Gen. Van Cleve, n. G.. NJ, have been
commissioned by Acting Governor Camp
bell: Geo. w. Easley, Assistant Adjutant
General, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel;
John Shepherd, Judge Advocate, with rank
of Major; John F. Williams, Jr., Abide
camp, with rank of Captain, all to date from
June 10, 1881. Henry Mulch was also COM
missioned Second Lieutenant of Company
A, Schuyler County Guards, n. G.. NJ.
The Hannibal city authorities are
about erecting their elegant water fountains,
e. l;r fnr ho 1Ola n
of both man and beast.
The st. Louis Law-school graduated
twenty five students at its recent commence
ment. At the conclusion of the exercises
Chancellor Eliot announced that he had re-
ceived SIC, 900 from friend, whose name he
had been asked to withhold, to endow the
Law Department of the University-the in
terest of which could only be used. He was
also in receipt of another $4,000 from an
other party, which was given on the condi-
ton that the sum of 800, 900 should be raised.
He said he hoped the remaining 1000
would soon be forthcoming, as the institu-
ton had many warm supporters.
Francis Borgmeyer, German farmer
residing about four miles south OF Jefferson
City, while returning home the other day
from town, was overcome by the heat and
fell from his horse in an insensible condi-
ton, from which he did not recover.
The Circuit Court at St. Joseph has
granted new trial in the case Of Margaret
E. Griffey vs.. James r. Finney. This Is
breach of promise case recently tried, in
which the Jury rendered verdict for plain
tiff for S., 500. The reasons for asking new
trial were many and well supported with
afidavits.
Nathan Shane, one of the men in
dicted for the murder of Andy Sulor at q
dance near Otterville, Cooper County, in
January, 1880, has been found guilty of MUIR
der in the second degree, and sentenced to
seventeen years in the Penitentiary.
There are now eight men in the St.
Louis Jail under sentence of death for the
highest crime known to law-that OF willful
murder. OF these eight condemned, seven
are slayers Of women. Kring, who has had
two or three trials, is sentenced to be hung
July Is.
jeremiah Holahan, an old residentof
ST Joseph n tailor nv trade was killed nv n