Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-05
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The w. C. T. q.

During the session of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union which closed
at Kansas City few days ago resolutions
were adopted: t
| TO the State Constitution; g, deplorng the
prevalence of high license sentiment and de-
/ nouncing it as injurious to the cause; 3,
urging upon local unions the importance of
| weekly prayer-meeting; 4, recommending a
| systematic circulation of temperance litera-
ture; S. urging upon members more diligence
n newspapers: 8. pFedging support to the
| Z, pledging endeavors to secure practical
i temperance teaching in public school educa-
forts in behalf Of fallen Women; 8, recon-
mending semi-annnai district and county
conventions; 10, pledging cooperation with
all other temperance organizations; Il, resolv-
ing on the appointment by the State society
| of a committee upon legislative and petit
| ton work to take up the national plan of
work as laid down in Mrs. Fosters constitu-
tional amendment and registry book, and
pressing this work by all lawful and wise
| means; IL, since the. abolition of the liquor
traffic must be accomplished by votes, deplore
that we can not now protect our homes and
| and we believe that the brightest surest road
| to prohibition lies in this direction, our enc
mics themselves being the judges; Is, recon-
mending to members the urgency for the
practice of total abstinence as pledged to the
society and a strict regard of this pledge
throughout their daily life.
| kots LOUIS " as ScIcCUcu dS Gue pidCC III
holding the annual meeting in June, 1884.
Miscellaneous Items.
The case of murder against Charles
| Phillips, in the Criminal Court at ST Louis,
was nolle pressed the other day, and the
defendant was discharged from custody.
He was aecused.of killing Joseph Buehler
at picnic in August, 1880. The defendant
| and a number of others were alleged to
have taken possession of a wagon driven
| by Buehler, and when the latter endeav
ored to stop the team they drove the horses
over him, inficting injuries that proved
fatal. The State could not prove Phillips
| guilty and the case nolle pressed.
A string of wagons-twenty- il
number-all loaded with wool, was one of
the features of the streets of Chillicothe one
day recently.
The first annual session of the Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union of the
State of Missouri opened at Kansas City
| few days ago, Mrs. Clara Hoffman, Presi-
dent of the State Association, in the chair.
| The object of the convention was the out
| lining of plans for the coming year. The
membership of the w. c. T. U. in the State
| i 800; number of unions seventy. The fol.
s
| year: President, Mrs Clara Hoffman, of
Kansas City; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
S. NJ. Trumbull, Sedalia; Corresponding
Secretary, Miss Rose Phillips, Kansas City.
| Fourteen Vice-Presidents were elected.
| The State Fund Commissioners, un,
der the authority given them by the act of
March, 1881, have decided to issue a certifi.
cate of indebtedness chargeable to the State
Seminary Fund for the sum of $4,000 or
Whereabouts, representing the amount re-
| ceived by the State University from the
sale of agricultural college lands. The
certificate draws five per cent. interest, land
is to run for twenty four years.
A local paper says the creamery re-
Gently started at Independence promises to,
be immensely profitable, not only to the
| owners but to all their patrons. It gives the
prices realized by some of the farmers for
their cream. One received S91.38 for the
cream from four cows for 100 days; anoth-
er 1882 from four cows, 50 days; and SO on
at about that ratio.
The State Treasurer, upon the order
of the Fund Commissioners, the other day
forwarded to the National Pank of Com
merce, New York, $315, 900, to meet interest
due the first of July on State bonds other
than Hannibal & st. Joseph bonds.
While public sale was in progress
at the residence of r. S. Slight, near Ra-
wanna, Mercer County, the other day, a
heavy thunder storm came up. About thirty
men took refuge in large barn. The
building was struck by lightning and John
Bowers, James Berry and George Wyatt
were killed, and two or three others in
jured.
Details of the cyclone in the south
west part of Livingston County on the
night of June 20 show the destruction of
buildings, fencing and crops was beyond
description in the track of the storm. The
storm commenced about nine O'Clock and
ragged with great fury for about two hours.
/ Its general course was from west to east,
but nearly all the buildings destroyed were
thrown to the south and scattered in that
direction. The fields were strewn with
household goods and debris of all de.
scriptions Stately farm houses were
crushed to splinters and swept like
chaff before the wind; men, women and
children torn and bleeding lay helpless I'M
til help could come. The cyclone seemed
to have started near the west line of Blue
Mound Township and to have exhausted
itself near the eastern line, a distance of
five or six miles. The width of the storms
tracktvaried from one-half to three-fourths
of a mile, and was sharply defined all
along. Two persons were killed outright
and sixteen others were badly injured,
some of whom it was thought would die.
A new horse stealing swindle is
being worked in Buchanan County. Two
fellows watch the columns of the news
papers for eStray notices. As soon as thew
learn that the farmer has taken up an
animal, one of them visits the place, ex-
amines the horse infinitely, and says it
isn't his. The other pal, being posted by
the first then goes to the farmer and de-
scribes the animal he has lost, which de-
scription TALES so exactly with the one
the farmer has takenup that he thinks the
stranger must be the owner, and gives it
up without further proof Then the sup
posed owner talks about the distance to his
home, ETC., and finally offers to sell it at
about half it's value. The farmer often
bites at The opportunity, and after he has