Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-14
Miscellaneous Items.

post in the Bank of Commerce, st. Louis.
miscellaneous Items.
The annual reunion of the Alumni
Association of the Missouri State Univer-
sity will be held at Columbia, Boone Coun-
| ty, in the University Chapel, on the even
ing of June 6, 1883. The Committee on In
vitation are c. B. Rollins, John S. Clark
son, Odon Guitar, E. w. Stephens and
Thomas j. Lowry.
| Some of our exchanges are jubilant
over the success of creameries established
and being operated in their localities. 9th
ers have heard the good news and are in
vestigating, and urging their people to
move i'll the same direction. 1t takes about
$500 to build the house and procure the
necessary machinery.
The State Board of Equalization has
reduced the assessment on seventy-two
miles of the Hannibal & st. Joe branch
lines from $4,000 to $500 mile.
A recount of the signatures to the
petitions for and against the submission of
prohibition amendment to the Constitu
ton presented to the late Legislature has
resulted: For, 26, ia; against, 1905.
j. I. Adams, well-to-do farmer
near Easton, Buchanan County, went to
ST. Joseph few days ago with about So, 900
in his possession. He disappeared mys-
teriously and it was believed he was MUIR
dered, and his body thrown into the Bl ack
Snake, a small stream traversing the
northern portion of that city, and emptying
into the Missouri River. The stream was
greatly swollen by recent rains and the
body could not be found.
A young man, for assaulting two col
ored girls in Kansas City, was fined $102
by the court few days ago.
H. 0. Weber, a discharged soldier
from Washington, was killed by switch
engine at the Union Depot in st. Louis,
few days ago.
A farmer living in Putnam County,
and who had been in the habit of raising
leaf tobacco and selling it to unauthorized
persons, was arrested recently, and after
going before several courts was fined the
small sum of one dollar and costs, which
amounted to $105.25.
At the late term of the Circuit Court
of Butler County the case of Clarency
Jackson against the railroad was tried, and
Judgment rendered for $500 in favor of the
plaintiff. The cause of action in the case
originated some three or four years ago.
Jackson one of the Corning, Ark, express
robbers, was arrested seven miles below
Dexter and was shot by w. T. Barham in
making the arrest, at that time Marshal
of Ma lden and United States detective.
Jackson was taken to Butler County and
taken from there to Corning, where he died.
Efforts were made by the friends and at
torney of Jackson to prevent those in
charge of Jackson from taking him out of
the State without requisition, and when
all other means failed to prevent those in
charge of Jackson from taking him on, the
conductor of the train was notified that if
he allowed Barham and others to take
Jackson away on his train that the COM
pany would be held responsible. The con-
ductor refused to interfere, hence the suit.
The railroad company has taken an appeal.
A society with the name of CDR. Mar
tin Luther Monument Association" has
been organized for the purpose of erecting
a statue of the great reformer in st. Louis.
The estimated cost is $1O,OOO-which 1t was
thought could be raised without difficulty.
through an energetic canvass by the young
Lutherans.
At Jefferson City the other day Judge
Edwards rendered his decision in the Pow
ell-Miller contested election case, taken
there from Miller County on change of
venue. Brinkney c.. Miller was declared
elected Collector of Miller County last
November, receiving seven majority.
William c. Powell, his opponent, con-
tested on the grounds that illegal ballots
had been counted for Miller. A number of
illegal ballots were proven on both sides,
and the Judge found for Miller, the con-
testee, deciding that he had received nine
majority.
County Courts throughout the South
west are fixing the dramshop licenses to
correspond with the new law. The mini
mum, $3.50 for six months, is the amount
generally agreed upon.
There is pigeon roost in Oregon
County three miles long and half mile
broad. The METERS catch the birds at the
rate of go dozen per day which they sell at
one dollar dozen.
A local paper of late date says: ''The
present crop outlook for Platte County, all
though far more favorable than it was a
week ago, is yet far from being as favora-
BILE as at this time of last year. We may
safely say that there can not be more than
half-if that-the wheat harvested this year
that there was last year. The average will
be very nearly, if not quite, thirty-three
per cent less in acreage, and the late
drought cut down the yield not less than
the same percentage from the growing
crop, so that favorable season from now
until harvest can not do more for US than
give us half the quantity that was given
last year" ..,...
Kansas City is to have a new theater.
In the Circuit Court at Jefferson
City the other day. the jury in the case of
Mrs. S. Stewart and others against the city
of Jefferson, for damages for the destruc-
ton of the building known to every visitor
to that city as Fort Jackson, returned a
verdict for the plaintiffs, awarding them
one dollar damages.
John w. Lair mill at Clarence, Shell
by County, was burned recently. There had
been no'fire in it for two weeks, and it was
supposed to be the work of an incendiary,
or of a crazy mans pipe. Loss over and
above insurance, s. 800.
Red foxes are reported numerous IN
the Southeast.