Iron County register., 1882-03-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

have been issued by the Secretary Of State
Is the following corporations: st. Louis
Jockey Club Company; capital, So, 1000, all
paid up. The stockholders are John NJ.
Harney, Julius S. Walsh, Jos. B. McCullagh,
Edwin Harrison, FL. L. Dousman, Ellis
Wainwright, VIM. Patrick and Charles B.
Greeley, who each subscribe for one share
of stock, and Samuel Ecker, who subscribes
for 242 shares of stock. Object, the improv-
ing of breed of running horses, training
horses and developing their speed, the CIV
ing of public exhibitions on trials of speed,
awarding purses, stakes and premiums, etc.
Smith-Davis Manufacturing Company, St.
Louis; capital, $25, 900. Central Dispatch
Company, Arrow Rock; capital, 10000;
business, constructing and operating tele-
phone and telegraph lines. Lindell Hotel
Associations; capital, 100000, all paid up.
Chas. A. scudder, Henry Ames, VIM. T.
Haines, incorporators.
Hendrix Moxley, bill clerk in the Pa
cifc freight depot at Sedalia, was recently
arrested on a charge Of murder, committed
at Owensville, KY, seventeen years ago. He
hasbeen in Missouri eighteen months, in the
employ of the railroad at Chamois, at which
place he was married nine months ago. He
has been tried twice on the charge of muir
der, and both times the jury failed to find a
verdict. He has twice broken Jail. Once
he was arrested in Bath County, KY, and
this is his second arrest after breaking out.
His appearance is not that of q murderer,
and he has the sympathy Of his colaborers.
Three masked men entered the resi-
dence of George Kahrs, German grocer, at
Sedalia, the other night, and with drawn
pistols demanded that the keys Of the store
be given up, together with that of the safe.
The request was complied with, and while
one of the robbers remained as guard the
other two visited the store and endeavored
to unlock the safe. Owing to its peculiar
make they were unable to accomplish their
object. so returned to the house and COM
PEELED Mr.. Kahrs to accompany them in his
night clothes and unlock the safe for them.
They secured $500 and a silver watch, but
left checks amounting to $135 and $15 in
change. After securing their booty they
beat hasty retreat.
At recent meeting of members of
the old Thirty third Missouri Regiment in
st. Louis, an executive board of seven MEM
bera was then elected for the purpose of
looking after the interests of the organiza-
tion and transacting routine business. An
election for officers resulted in the choice of
III. S. Carroll, President; George Ralston,
Comrades Klein and Ripley, Vice-Presi-
dents. William Waters was reelected Sec
retary and Treasurer; John Ball, Sergeant
alarms, and Chas. E. Miller, temporary
historian. Old times were revived at ban
quet in the evening, and a general reunion
in the near future was advocated.
The Governor has remitted the fine
assessed against Henry Klein, Of Clinton
County, at the April term Of the Circuit
Court, on four indictments for violation of
the Liquor law.
A farmer of Rushville, near St. Jo-
seph, claims to have discovered in the shift
ing sands the location of a wreck, supposed
to be that of steamboat which struck
snag and sank thirty years ago. The cargo
is estimated at $3.50, 200 in value now, and
the alleged discovery has set the people in
that vicinity in a perfect whirl of excite
ment.
A colored woman at Kansas City re-
Gently tried to sell at auction a white child
which was left to her care by man who
failed to make remittances.
John T. Norris, one of the Missouri
who was out on bail at Steu
o., has been surrendered by his
bondsmen and lodged in Jail.
The St. Louis police recently found
the dead body of a man on the bank of
pond on Prairie avenue, it being partially
nude and frozen stiff. 1t is supposed the
wandered into the pond, and after
getting out he took off his clothes for the
purpose of wringng them, and while thus
exposed he died from chills.
The floods are still causing extensive
In Mississippi County an immense
district is under water and they are build
ing large numbers Of skiffs in the towns to
send out into the country to bring in the
farmers.
st. Louis claims negro 20 years old
who has 81 children and the youngest two
years old.
A committee of seventeen prominent
members of the St. Louis Exchange have
been appointed by President Slayback to
solicit aid for sufferers by the overflow OF
he Mississippi River.
Samuel G. Polk, an estimable citizen
If Plattsburg, by occupation an architect
md builder, has just been placed in the St.
Joseph Insane Asylum, as private patient.
His arrangement was first observed about
he beginning of the year, which developed
nto melancholy with suicidal tendency.
The first post-office in Southwest Mis-
ouri was established in 1888.
Maggie Wilson, who helped the MUIR
lerer, William Martin, to escape from the
4aclede County Jail, and afterward married
him in West Virginia, has been indicted for |
Issisting Martin TO escape.
James Ballard and wife, living near
Xearney, Clay County, recently returned |
rom church to find their house wrapped in !
lanes, and too late to rescue their three |
title children.
Clay County has over forty thousand
cres of workable coal lands.
Sedalia wants wood pavements.
The Governor has appointed Robert
!. Wilson, of Independence, Collector OF
Jackson County until the next general elec.
ion, vice Chas. A. Chase, resigned.
Appleton City is to have a new na-