Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

ing as follows: 40 our wOrkmen:
Whereas, having suffered great trouble and
annoyance in consequence of some of our
employees injuring themselves by the use of
alcoholic liquors, thereby causing distress
and suffering in their families, and de-
frauding their wives and children of the
comforts of home, we hereby give notice
that any Of our employees who are seen in
or hanging around drinking saloons or
gambling houses, whether during working
hours or at any other time, or are known to
use alcoholic liquors or other Intoxicating
beverages in any form or degree, shall be
Immediately discharged by us without no.
tice."
Fire at Narbona Station, on the
Wabash Road, few miles east of Lexing-
ington, the other morning destroyed seven
stores and shops and an elevator belonging
to White Bros. Loss not known.
-, The State Board of Equalization,
which consists of the Governor, State
Auditor, State Treasurer, Secretary of
State and the Attorney General, metal JEFF
ferson City the other afternoon and organ
ICED by electing Governor Crittenden Pres
ident, and State Treasurer Chappell Vice
President. The meeting of the Board this
yearls for the assessment, adjustment and
equalization of the property of railroads,
telegraph companies and bridge companies
only, and not fer,assessing and equalizing
the valuation of real estate or personal
property, the meeting for which purpose
will not take place until next year, owing
to the changes made in the revenue law by
the last General Assembly, by which it is
contemplated to assess and equahze the
value of real and personal property bi-en-
nia1ly, on the even years. The last meet
ing of the Board for this purpose was in
1881. ~ 3.s 'f.r tHS
/. Asfew days ago j. W.. Hardin, a car
pepter and property owner of Sedalia, went
home and acted in most furious manner,
threatening to kill himself, his wife and
his five children. Friends went to see him and
got him quieted down. Next day Hardin
was examined by physicians and they found
tnat he was suffering from acute Unfair
nation of the brain and temporary ipsani-
ty. He received a terrible bullet opnd on
the head while in the Union army, and it
was supposed that this old wound was
the cause of his trouble. He was in a critf
cal condition. %. ~
J. G.. Gressen, of Cleveland, O., who
travels in Utah and Colorado for aclothing.
house of st. Joseph, was accused the other
night of embezzlementsfro from the firm. At
first it was supposed that his shortage
would amount to about S. 900, but upon in.
vestigation it was reduced to $1,200.n He
was kept in the custody of the police all
night, but finally gave obligations guaran.
teeing to refund the money, and the house,
declined to prosecute him. He acknowl-
edged his guilt, and said he lost the money
at faro banks in Denver, Las Vegas and
Salt Lake. He is. about forty-fve years
old, and has family in Cleveland.
About five o'clock the other evening
boy three years old, the son of James Me-
Bride, of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, fell
into a cstern in East Sedalia and was
drowned. A young man named Frank Cos
tigan, at the risk of his life, jumped into
the well and attempted to save the child,
but in vain.
The Presbytery of Central Missouri
of the Presbyterian Church, New School,
was in session at Sedalia few days ago,
about fifty clerical and lay delegates being
present.
Jump, the eccentric artist and carl
caturist, well-known in ST. Louis, made a
desperate attempt to kill himself in Chicago
a few days ago. t.J d ~ z
- The McClurei Bros, hear Hughesville,
Pettis County, have a threesyear-old short
horn steer which weighs $500 pounds.
They will fatten the animal for exhibition
at the Kansas City Fat-stock show ~----~
John Seiber, a well-to-do baker com
mitted suicide at st Louis the other after.
noon, putting bullet through his head.
He came home in good spirits, chatted
pleasantly with his wife, went to his room
to take nap and half an hour Latch was
found dying in the rocking-chair. He had
grieved very much over the death of his
children, and an album containing the pho
tograph of one child, deceased, was lying
open on his knees. Al
At Il recent protractedl meeting in
Charleston, Mississippi County, more than
thirty-two persons united with the church.
At the Jupiter" furnace, in Caronde-
lat, where there have lately been serious
labor troubles, one hundred and forty tons
of pig-iron of an excellent quality are be-
ing turned out daily. as,,....''-'..r., ,. tS@s'
"A. man named Haltzinger nyster-
ioalsly disappeared from near Dover, La
fayette County, several weeks ago, and
fears were entertained recently that he had
been fouily dealt with. i5T 9t7'f . a.
At Jefferson City the other afternoon
the State Auditor, in accordance with, the
provisions of the general appropriation
bill, transferred from the executors and
administrators fund to the school fund the
sum Of $4,000. There is now 81 ,o92.G 6 of
the school fund uninvested. ~.
Tho Penitentiary buildings tat Jeffer-
SON City were on fire twice in one day re.
Gently, but the fire was extinguished each
time with slight loss.
5 : 1t is said to. be only in Sphthern and
Southwestern Missouri that there has been
any talk about the failure of the wheat
crop. Some fields injured by the fly last
fall have been plowed up, but many other
fields in the same neighborhood promise
we'll, and some that looked poor. a few
weeks ago are coming out finely.
A bride and groom both under six
teen years of age We're married Il West
Plains, with the consent of parents, re-
Gently. Z
The Grand-Jurv bill has been vetoed.