Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-19
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
SD. Louis TOBACCO market DIAN. 81

ST. Louis tobacco market (Jan. 5)
Dark Tugs, common to good, $500 to IS. 25;
bright smoking, common to good, $500 to
$500; dark red leaf, $500 to $7.75; half
bright wrappers, common to medium, $40
to $1S.
Governor Crittenden on the Sd re-
fused to commute the sentences Of the con-
demned murderers, Ellis and Kotovsky.
Ellis case was briefly disposed of as being
a cold-blooded murder, without anything
whatever to call for clemency. In the ease
of Kotovsky the Governor gave his reasons
for declining to interfere, his conclusions
being mainly these found in the opinion OF
the Court of Appeals. He said, in SUBJ
stance, that the only defense on the trial
was insanity; that failing to establish that,
or to ask for an instruction as to murder in
the second degree, it was too late to ask for
a reversal of the verdict in the appellate
courts, because the trial court of its own
motion failed to instruct the jury for MUIR
der in the second degree. He commended
the decisions of the Court of Appeals and OF
the Supreme Court, and said those courts
had done large amount Of good work;
that the laws were being enforced and are
generally respected. He also referred t6
the frequency of the murder Of women, and
said that it Is woman's privilege to de.
eide whose attentions she shall receive, and
that, too, without her life being placed in
peril by the rejection of her suitOr. The de-
tense of insanity, he said, was becoming toe
frequent. A man shoots down a woman OF
another man to crafty his feelings of re-
venge or malice or hatred, and Immediately
sets up defense of insanity or ''crankism,"
and the whole past history of his family fol-
generations is ransacked for examples OF
insanity to sustain the defense, although
before the commission of the crime no one
ranged in the least. The defense was
1imsy one, and he was glad the courts re-
fused to sustain it. Kotovsky had a fair
trial; had exercised the right Of appeal to
the highest courts of the State, where the
testimony and findings in his case had been
thoroughly examined, and the sentence OF
the trial court affirmed. He further said
that he could discover no reasons for inter-
ference with the decisions of the courts,
supported as they are by the testimony
brought out in the trial and the sound rules
Of law laid down in the Supreme Court and
Court of Appeals decision.
j. G.. Van Blarcom, Cashier of the
Bank of Commerce, thus explains the con-
nection of the State depository with the
So, 100000 received from the Hannibal & st.
Joseph Railroad. He purchased the bonds
in which the $4,000, 900 was invested. The
bank had become the State depository by
paying three-fourths of 1 per cent. on all
fba oScoi
compelled by law to place all money re-
ceived in that bank, while the bank was
compelled to invest the So, 100000 in Mis-
souri, State or Government bonds. Mr.. Van
Blarcom went to New York and placed
s., 400 300 in Government per cents, worth
11S, and yielding per cent. Out of that the
bank pays 3-4 per cent. interest to the State,
and United States tax of 1-2 per cent,
making l IA per cent. The banks expenses
on the transaction are alleged to be 3-4 per
cent, and aside from the total of per
cent. the bank receives 1 per cent, handling
th{ ,State's exchange at par and making all
collections free. The Government bonds are
guaranteed 1 per cent. The remainder is
invested in Missouri IS, which net per
cent. at the price purchased, so that out Of
those the bank receives per cent, guaran-
teeing the bonds.
The Odd Fellows of Sedalia District,
No. 81, held grand public service on the
4th. to commemorate the death Of James l..
RenIey, Grand Secretary of the Sovereign
Lodge of Odd Fellows for forty one years.
He died recently in Baltimore, aged "a years.
The hall was beautifully decorated with
mourning emblems, and all the members
~, fx,n With
A volunteer choir, composed of some of the
finest voices, furnished the music for the
occasion. There was large attendance and
the services were very impressive. An elo
quent and able address upon the life AM
character of the venerable and honored de-
ceased was delivered by Past Grand P. H.
Sangree.
Col. W. r. Carson has been reelected
Superintendent Of the Buchanan County
Poor Farm and Insane Asylum, and DR.. j.
NJ. D. France County Physician. The an
nual report shows: Paupers admitted dur
ing the year, 55; discharged, 81; births, 3;
deaths, 9; sent to asylum, none; on hand,
January 1, 1881, 80; on hand now, 80; insane
patients in asylum January 1, 1881, %; ad
mitted during year. IA; discharged, 10:
died, 9; in asylum now, 81. Amount re-
ceived from county for support of above,
81, 266. so. This sum includes all the county
has paid for its poor and insane for the
year.
A meeting of the officers of the La
dies Memorial Home, Of st. Louis, together
with a number Of ladies interested in the
charity, was held for the purpose Of turning
into definite shape the idea held in mind
for some time of giving q grand en-
tertainment for the purpose Of raising funds
wished for to properly develop proposed
improvements and additions to the Home.
The officers are Mrs. c. r. Springer, Presi-
dent; Mrs. j. P. Fuller, ce-President;
Mrs. Joseph w. Branch, Treasurer. and
Mrs. Miles Sells, Secretary.
Isaac Lowden, a prominent and
wealthy farmer living some seven or eight
miles south of st. Joseph, recently met with
a painful accident. When about mile from
town his team became frightened and ran
away, throwing him out. He struck his
head upon q large stone, which rendered
hin, ;usensible. He was taken I'D and con-