Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-20
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MISSOURI STATE NEWS

The balance in the State Treasury at
the close of the month of November was
sos, GAS. 90.
81 The earnings Of the State Peniten-
tiary. for the month of November we've
$$14 $40. So and the disbursements the same
amount. M, "a s 49,
- Assistant Postmaster Ber1nettso st.
Louis, has been dismissed by Postmaster
Hayes, and the circumstance has caused
much comment on the part of business men
and politicians. x.&31 ax4Ex9
The collections in the st. Louis Gus
tom-house for November amounted to $685.
$780, fsIs
The births in St. Louis during the
week ending December l numbered 1913;
1O6 males and 81 females. There were 126
deaths during the same period.
j.. r. Barrett, of Sedalia, offers one
hundred acres of land at that place toward
securing the removal of the State Capital
to Sedalia.- sf - 81 TX
The Prohibitionists throughout the
State are organizing for an active cam
paign. -
The latest style in bonnets is the
ssMary Churchill"
Many farmers throughout the State
are mourning the loss of valuable root crops
which they had failed to secure before the
late freeze. .,,.+ 50 s. e..9s ~. .sEaa ff.=
The St. Louis conspiracy cases ended
in an acquittal under instructions of the
Court. , = - ..s-s..
John D. Higgins, prisoner in the st.
Louis Jail, has been identified as one of the
men who assaulted and stabbed the Har-
rington brothers on Washington avenues.
Louis, few weeks ago.
F Frank James case was called In
court at Kansas City few days ago. The
prisoner says he is as well as usual. He will
be tried the 14th of January. :, Charley
Ford's trial is set for the same date. Bail
for James was fixed at 1900, but his couI-
sci thought it unadvisable to offer bonds.
A party of hunters duck-shooting in
Butler County recently claim to have been
chased into . lake by a cyclone. They said
the ducks were SO frightened by the cyclone
that they came right close around them,
and they slaughtered whole boat-load..
The Governor has appointed Col. w.
J. De Gress a Commissioner of Deeds for
this State in the City of Mexico. Colonel
De Gress was a citizen of st. Louis from
1858 up to a late date, when he removed to
the CITY of Mexico, where he is at present
established and is the Consul of the Ha-
waiian Islands. - 5.s- 3
Mrs. Lizzie Lynch, of Springfield,
took a dose of morphine few days ago
with suicidal intent and died from the eff
fects. She was about eighteen years OF
age, and was married about three years
ago, but had separated from her husband.
John F. Heard, of Concordia. La
fayette County recently instituted suit
against the Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany to recover $4,000 damages for lnJu-
ries sustained from being run over by a
train, by which he lost an arm and re-
ceived other hurts. The accident occurred
in Lexington some three years ago.
At a meeting of the stock men of La
fayette County, recently held at Higgins
vile, the Lafayette County Thoroughbred
Livestock Breeders Association was or
ganjzed. Constitution and bylaws were
adopted and officers elected. The first sale
under the auspices of the organization will
be held on the Fair Grounds at Higgins
vile ON October Is and 16, 1884. The prin-
cipal object of the society is the improve
| ment of cattle breeds in this country.
A young man. Bud Cline, living two
miles south Of Independence, while hunt
| ing few evenings since, was accidentally
shot in the head, and both hands were also
mutilated. The gun was in his own hands,
and he was standing on stump. He was
| loading one barrel, when the other went
off, first tearing away two fingers OF his
| left hand, then through his right, and
striking his head and right ey7e.
A bonnie Scotch lassie, Alice Canter,
answered an advertisement for servant
girl from Willis C. Hall, in st. Louis. The
service of Alice were satisfactory until a
| few nights ago she blew out the gas in her
| room and very nearly put the family to
funeral expenses. "
In the Lafayette County Circuit Court,
at it's late session, John Poole was allowed
I 81 damages and costs against John 2. Herr,
whom he sued for $1,000, and at whose in
| stigation he was arrested while doing busi-
ness in Kansas on the charge of participat.
| ing the bus robbery of North Lexington in
| August, 1881, and for which robbery Char
| lie Ford has since been indicted. Poole
| was taken to Richmond and lodged in Jail
| by Herr on the oath of September, just one
month after the robbery, and when impris-
oned there were three other persons in the
| Jail charged with completely in the same
| robbery man named Hastings, his son
and son-inlow named Badgely. These
three were kept in Jail six months and were
| then discharged, and so was Poole. The
| defense he made in his suit against Herr
| cites that the latter is monomanlac on the
l. subject of the James gang, and labors un-
| der the impression that he has been pre-
| destined to rid the world of all the bandit
gang. Poole must pay the costs, having
refused tender of 500 from Herr to dis.
miss the suit. . .
St. Louis has an ample supply OF ice
stored tor next years requirements of the
city. Should there be no ice harvest this
Winter the price will not be oyer i've dol
lars ton next Summer. il. "a
The St. Louis Post-oIfice will not be
moved to the new Government building
until February.
The case of Joseph Baker VS.. The
Rockford Insurance, before the United