Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02
Miscellaneous Items.

IhlsctlItheous Att"Ss
Judge Chester H. krum. the well.
known st. Louis lawyer whose mysterious
disappearance caused quite sensation i'll
that city some time since, and during whose
absence charges were made that he had
misappropriated funds belongingto a large
estate, filed his final report as administra-
tor of the estate a few days ago and re-
ceived his honorable discharge from the
Probate Court.
The jackson County Court has appro-
priated. upon the petition of citizens, So,
900 toward paying for the building of a
hundred feet wide boulevard between indie
pendence and Kansas City, to cost $4,000,
on what is known as the Blue River route.
A bridge costing $4,000 has already been
built on this route over Blue River. The
citizens propose paying the other half.
Six pairs of twins were born in Ionia
City recently in one week.
Considerable interest was manifested
at Sedalia the other day i'll the trial of
Helm & Shoemaker, charged with selling
liquor to minors at Sunday-school pic
mic, the case being the first one tried in that
city under the Downing law. The German
Evangelical Church gave a picnic and
Helm & Shoemaker had charge of the re-
freshment stands. One boy, not a member
of the Sunday school, was carried from the
ground i'll state of intoXication, which
was the immediate cause of the arrests.
They We're tried before jury i'll a Justices
Court and fined fifty dollars and costs each.
Governor Crittcnden has appointed
Ex-Governor Charles H. Hardin and Hon.
A. H. Buckner delegates to represent the
State of Missouri at the convention of the
State Central Educational Committee of
kentucky, to be held at Louisville on the
9th Of September.
1t is said the caterpillars have been
making fearful ravages among the gum
trees and orchards of Southeast Missouri
stripping trees bare.
Governor Crittenden has appointed
the following delegates to represent the
State of Missouri at the tenth annual Ma
tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rections to be held at Louisville, KY,
September 80, 1888: Bishop c. F. Robert
son, Rabbi $. H. Sonneschein, DR.. j. Y.
Wilson, DR.. W. G. Eliot, DR.. J. II. Brookes,
Hons. d. 2. Dyer and Wells II. Blodgett,
st. Louis; j. b. Denny. Cape Girardeau:
Hons. I. V. Bryant, W. NJ. Holmes and DIR.
]. P. Haley, Kansas City; Hon. j. d.
Werden, Moberly; Judge Andrew Ellison,
kmksville: Hon. T. S. Anderson, Palmyra;
Judge J. W. Henry, Hons. H. Clay Ewing
and p. T. Miller, jefferson City.
The Goth inst was the siNty-fourth
of Missouri into the Union. The act of Con-
gress authorizing the people of Missouri
Territory to form Constitution and State
ant and ba adj of cncI
State into the Union on an equal footing
with the original States, etc, was approved
March 6, 1870, and the ordinance of accept
April 10, 1920.
Charles H. Morton had an eNamina.
ton on the charge of murder III the first
degree, at St. Louis few days ago. and
was committed to jail without bail. Nor
ton is the colored man who intended to kill
another man named Sam Wilson but missed
his man and killed a man named Paul
Lasusse.
Chillicothe. Livingston County, had
d grand electric display few nj ghts ago.
A cloud exploded over that place, pro-
ducing a conclusion greater than the dis
charge of the heaviest ordnance. MANY
buildings rocked as if shaken by an earth
quake, displacing pictures and mantel
ornaments, and in some instances breaking
china and glassware. During the storm
many families in the country left their
houses and sought refuge in cellars and
caves. Two barns were burned and n num-
Der of cattle were killed by the lightning.
A man giving the name of J. O>ter-
meyer found in frightful state of in-
intoxication in North ST. Louis the other
day and was arrested by policeman and
locked up. Upon searching his pockets the
officer found $500 in gold certificates and
$15s i'll greenbacks, enough money to huy
several sections of land out West. The
man was placed in the cooler and given a
chance to sober off. He was too drunk to
give an account of himself.
St. Louis has the baseball fever
Governor Crittendcn has received
letter from Governor Ireland. of Texas. re.
GREETING his inability to accept the invita-
ton to be present at the twenty-second an
niversary o It b,tt of Wilson'S Creek on
August II. Also from Governor McEnery.
of Louisiana, and Governor Click, Of
Kansas.
The first ico-cream ever seen in st.
Louis was on the occasion OF the marriage
of Miss Louise Chouteau 20 Gabriel Paul,
ffty-nine years ago. 1t ,"as served by
New Orleans caterer, and created sensa-
ton.
4 local paper estimates the popula.
ton of Lafayette County to De 27,0O0.