Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-19
miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items. ..
Quite a crowd of interested spectators
gathered around a big stove that stands in
the hall of the Capitol at Jefferson City,
the other day, and watched the burning of
$685., .14.43 of State warrants for the
years of 1881 and 1882. The burning OF. these
warrants and vouchers was. in accordance
with the law which requires the special
committee appointed to settle with the Au-
ditor and Treasurer to personally superin-
tend their destruction. ! "-
The subscribers to the ST. Louis En-
tors a few days ago. + - 7 f.,gf,
| The Government river Improvements
at Lexington were suspended recently for
lack of funds. The Missouri River had cut
away its bank for half a mile, leaving Lex
ington in the lurch.f 80
AT three o'clock the other afternoon
the Saunders House, in st. Joseph, was dis
covered to be on fire. The flames were ex-
tinguished, but not without great damage
to building and contents.
Farmers say they arc a month behind
on account of the backwardness of the sea-
son, but most of the oats has been sown
south of the Missouri River.
The Poplar Bluff pottery was reported
meeting with fiattering success recently
and would greatly enlarge its facilities and
operations.
The State Association Of Short-Horn
Breeders concluded a two days session at
Sedalia afew days ago. A resolution was
passed appropriating $50 prizes to be
awarded at the Kansas City Fat Stock
Show in November. The following officers
of the association We're elected: G.. E.
Leonard, of Cooper County, President; Fl.
B. Scott, of Pettis County, Vice President;
Major William Gentry, of Pettis County,
Treasurer; Phil Chew, of St.yLouis, Score
tarv. .. -.E
In the Police Court at.St. Joseph the
other morning George Crowther was fined
seventy-five dollars and costs for assault.
ing City Counselor Pike as he was casting
his ballot in the recent city election. He
was very indignant, but as-he had pleaded
guilty could not appeal and paid the fine.
The contract for tile work on the st.
Louis public buildings has been awarded to
the United States Encaustic Tile Company
of indianapolis, Ind.
The Governor has accepted the resig-
nation of Colonel George J. Chapman and
Lieutenant Colonel Leland F. Prince, of
the First Regiment, n. G. NJ, to take effect
at once. -''
3 "A prisoner who pleaded guilty at St.
Louis the other day to charge of~rolihing
a man of sixty cents on the highway was
sentenced to the Penitentiary for ten years
by Judge Van Wagner.
i Farmers are calling attention to the
tn
will probably be used for seed. The corn
is generally plump in grain, the ears large
and we'll filled and make excellent feed, but
on close examination of the cob it does
not appear to have thoroughly ripened, and
the heart or germ of the grain in many in
stances indicates an unhealthy state, SO
much so that the careful farmer will hest
tate to plant It. :.yFtt. "a ....
The general appropriation bill as
amended and passed by the Legislature ap-
propriates the sum OF Sc, l34 ,301. The special
appropriations amount to 500 900, which
make a total of So, tiSts301. This exceeds the
last appropriation $500 900, and according
to the Auditors estimates is in excess of
the revenue S969,301. ~t f,s 81
The Board of Directors of the St.
Louis Merchants Exchange have agreed OH
d uniform rate of sixty pounds tare per car
on corn and ninety pounds on wheat
A petition containing over fifty sigma
lures of the students was presented to the
faculty of the RoIla School of Mines
Gently, asking that drill and military tao
tics DC again Introduced i'll the school. a..
Articles of consolidation of the Kansas
City, Springfield & Memphis Railroad Com
panv of Missouri. and the Springfield 6,
Memphis Railroad Company of Arkansas,
have been fled with the Secretary of State.
The name of the consolidated company. is
Kansas City. Springfield & Memphis Rail
road Company. The capital stock OF the
Observation-Disclosures is S9,0oo,03o.
q f. B. Ne61y was reelected Superin-
tendent of St. JOSEPH, schools the other. day
for his twentieth term.
: Phelps County complains of ''itch."
A new plan of prohibition agitation
in Missouri consists in the incorporation of
a Mutual Benefit Association, to which total
abstainers only shall be eligible. An or.
ganizer was to be appointed in every ward
and township, 20 he paid by q pei. centage
Of the initiation fees. : fttEtSsk t
\ fire broke out in the tailor shop OF
II SuhIer. at Sedalia, the other morning,
and soon spread south, partially destroy
ing the confectionery establishment OF J.
n. Wilson and damaging the gun shoI, OF
William Matthews, next adjoining. The
loss on buildings was about 81 900.
Eight wolves were killei in Shannon
County recently.