Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-13
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

that city. They ranged from three to six
years old and averaged $50 pounds.
Fritz Spilker, a St. Louis saloon-keep-
er, shot and killed his partner. Ernst Korn-
hard, a few days ago because the latter ih-
sisted on going behind the bar. Spilker
has only been few months in the country.
The Supreme Court recently rendered
q decision affirming the sentence Of death
against William Fox, convicted of the
murder of w. T. Howard in Vernon
County.
Aug Schuester, wealthy citizen OF
Savannah, Andrew County, recently sus-
tanned very serious injuries by being
thrown from his buggy beneath his horses
feet. 4
Ephraim Hepshire and Fred Holman
ger, two farm hands working near Platts-
burg, Clinton County, were arrested re-
Gently charged with stealing a mule from
Rolla Morgan. The mule was found in st.
Joseph, and when. confronted by the party
to whom they attempted to sell they broke
down and made a. confession, duplicating
st. Joseph parties. They were sent to Jail
in default of bail, to await the action Of the
Grand Jury. - >
A Mrs. Thompson, of st. Louis, was
recently robbed of $1,000 in nav twenty
dollar bills.
Lawrence Stauffer, an employe at
the State Insane Asyiu1n, was killed a few
days ago by falling down a flight of stairs.
1t is alleged that Coroner and Mar
shall visiting the scene of the suicide of
Mrs. E. Mason, near Chillicothe, few
days since, were both 40 intoxicated that
they were una Bile. to perform their duties.
An explosion occurred recently in the
basemenbof Meyer Bros.' drug house, Kan
sas City. Fire followed and the building
and contents burned Loss, 200 900. 80
The Governor. has pardoned Fritz
Fetterer of Phelps County, sentenced fAu-
gust IS, 1916, TO thirty5years in the penftens
tiary for murder in the second degree. Fet-
terer was convicted of killing one Martin
Hayerty, commonly known as "Peg Leg"
who seduced Fetterer's daughter. The kill
ing was done at Fetterer's house, and the
body was placed on the railroad track,
where the mangled remains were found a
few days afterward.i Haverty, after
seducing the girl, and after she had given
birth to q child, refused to marry her, and
the killing is claimed to have been done by
Fetterer out of revenge. The application for
pardon was signed by the Judge of the trial
torney and nearly all the prominent officers
of the county and many influential citizens.
A warrant was issued few days ago
against Fritz Spilker, charging him with
murder in the first degree in killing
Ernst Kornhardt at their saloon,
corner of Sixteenth street and Clark
avenue, st. Louis. Since the murder
Spilker had been confined in the Gen.
trail district police station, but has now
been transferred to the jail and given cell
in ''Murderers' Row." As he was about to
be taken to Jail a note was handed to him,
written in German, and carrying to him the
intelligence that his intended wife would
arrive in the city from Germany that night.
1t is said that Spilker was engaged to the
young lady before he left Germany, and
that after he had established the saloon
where the murder was committed he sent
for her to come to him, intending to make
her his wife and go housekeeping at once.
She has no relatives in this country, but
has gone to the home of one of Spilker's
friends, where she will await the result of
the trial.
Herbert E. Comstock, proprietor OF
the Brunswick Coffee Restaurant in Chilli
cothe, formerly of New York, committed sui
eide few evenings since by shooting him
self through the head with 44-caliber re-.
volver. The act was fully premeditated.
Financial embarrassment and disease is
assigned the. cause Deceased was about
thirty-three years old. > - =
Red granite stone of superior quality
has been discovered on a sixty acre tract of
land one mile southeast of Chillicothe.
There are 1887 ex- prisoners of war OF
the rebellion III the Staae.
Gov. Crittenden received telegram
afew days ago announcing the sudden death
of Mrs. Ann T. Jackson, the, mother of Mrs.
Crirtenden, at Springfield, Ill. Mrs. Jack
son was eighty five years of age and her
home was at Lexington, KY, but recently
she had been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Nuckols of Springfield, Ill. 81, s5f,'} , =
A certificate of corporate existence
has been issued by the Secretary of State
to the ,Jeacish. Tribune Publishing Com
pany, St. Louis; capital 5000, half paid
| up. Max c. Refer, J. E. Lawton, and S.
H. Sonneschein incorporators. &.'~--.#
The Weiddell & Wirthlin Manufac
tnring Company of ST. Louis has filed with
| the Secretary of State an affidavit OF
| change of name to Southern jCooperage
Company.
Bears are getting to be quite numer
| Gus and little too demonstrative in Howell
| county. Two hogs were killed by them
| two miles north of West Plains a'few nights
ago, and B. F. Olden, Esq, hearing hog
! saueal near his house, went out and gave
| battle to big black object that was killing
the hog, and drove it off. The hog, which
| would weigh 800 pounds, was so badly in
| jured that it died.
In Shannon County Judge Keele this
year raised six bushels of fine potatoes,
| Pennsylvania Fluke variety, from three
murphies cut into seventy-five pieces and
| planted last spring. y
| Shelton Wilkerson, an estimable
! farmer residing near Darlington, Galloway
| county, dropped dead a few days ago while
| gathering corn in his field.
The Governor has issued pardon to
| Timothy Haira nj Jackson county. sem