Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-06
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

The bill to remove the charge of de-
sertion from the military record OF per-
sons who served during the late war as
members of the Twenty first Regiment,
Missouri Infantry Volunteers, favorabiy re-
ported in the House of Representatives,
authorizes the Secretary of War to issue an
honorable discharge to VIM. A. Ashbury,
Company A; John S. Pendricks, Henry
Hubble, James Curbow, VIM. Kellm, j.
Longfellow, Samuel II. Phillips, Lewis S.
Barr, M. Livingston, James Faha and Ches-
ter p. Fetters, Company d: Isaac Hensley,
Jasper Booker, VIM. Cox, Geo. A. Charl-
ton, VIM. Wood, Agatha Barnes, VIM. II.
Barnes. Joseph Boone, David j. Hamlin
and David Minus, Company F.; Isaac
Thacker, James A. Scarlet, Lewis Scarlet,
James L. Homes, Joseph z. Parker, Benz.
Moody, Jonathan Paddock, Marshall Brew
er, Albert w. Britton, James Cottingham,
Albert Carson, Isaac Duncan, C:N. Englin,
+. n. Morrissey. VIM. Ray, Herman
Slower, L. G.. Vancamp and John W.
Winkler, Company F; Martin w. Bates,
Alfred L. Harper, Jacob Glessmer, Isaac
Longeor, Matthew Munich, &C. Davis, John
Greathouse, Theodore Harrison, Matthew
Woodruff, Alonzo Cummings, James Ames,
Samuel Lee, John Springer and David w.
White, Company G.; Chestly w. Jones, Eli
jah H. Spencer, VIM. Cink, Henry Flick,
John Ell. Fowler, William d. Gorgas, Zack
knight, Thomas j. Stuart and Samuel
Sheets, Company II; Alfred Pinney, Grand
ison Bryan, Samuel Roberts, VIM. H. Amer
mon, John A. Edwards, Riley Freeman,
Frederick Fincher, Albert Anderson, Ar
thur Green, Jacob Putwieer and VIM. B.
Wilson, Company I; Stephen Pool, Thomas
Hopson, James Clark and VIM. W. Wagon
er, Company X. All are entitled to such
pay and bounty as they would have been
entitled to under the law had such charge OF
desertion never existed.
Mr.. M. B. Gilbert, formerly Superin-
tendent of the st. Louis Ne,cs Company who
mysteriously disappeared from his family
and business haunts in September of last
year, while in state of mental alteration,
the result OF protracted spree, has, after
seven months wandering in the Southwest,
been returned to his family, apparently
sound in mind and body. When he left home
he proceeded direct to Denver, where he was
seen by friend who put him aboard OF a
train bound for the East. At the junction
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee Railroad he
got on the wrong train and brought up at
Albuquerque. New Mexico, and has been in
that country ever since. Although he had
plenty of money and property in st. Louis,
he made no attempt to realize upon either.
At Albuquerque he was seen by J. Fl. Par
sons, travelling agent of the Republican,
who afterward saw an advertisement in the
commercial travellers newspaper offering
$50 reward for information regarding the
missing NJ. B. Gilbert, inserted by w. j.
Gilbert, his brother. He at once wrote to
the family and claimed the reward, which
was paid him. The wife of the wanderer.
by Parsons, went to Albu-
querque and found the lost one.
The Kansas City Times says the As
SCISSORS books indicate great increase in
the material wealth of the city as having
taken place within the twelve months inter-
vening between January /, 1881, and the
date in 1882. The returns
this year are as follows:
900 o,o