Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-24
. MISSOURI STATE 4ENs.

Il tarys Of sthe Seats Board Of Equalization
shows pkstty onclpsively that there is in
Hrea losSys sof railroad taxation.
I From this statement it appears that, owing
to a change in the law made in 1872, the
property owned by railroads in 1872 was
assessed in 1872 and collected in 1872, and
kthatpwned in 1874 was assessed in 1874 and
| collected in 1874, and so on for the succeed
| ing years. The idea that year had not
kbeep assessed fpr.against railroad property
seeihsto have grown out of the fact that all
tsosher property owned in the State in~1S7a
was not assessed until 1878, there being no
/ authority of law SO far as concefned this
| other property for assessment for 1872 un-
| til 1878, SO the statement, taken as a whole,
shows ten regular assessments OF railroad
and of other property up to 1882.
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It is claimed by st. Louis paper that
st. Louis has the largest Poor-house to be
found in the United States. The inn,Ates
! now number 722, of whom 1913 are classed
| as 'insane paupers' and $40 as 'paupers"
| simply. Sixty-nine officers and employees
are required TO attend these unfortunates.
Major Frederick w. Smith died at
| st. Joseph a few days ago at the age of
sixty-eight years. He was the first post
| master ever appointed in st. Joe, and had
often said that housed to carry the mail
around on his hat. Major Smith had occu-
| pied several important public positions,
|. having served astern in 1861 as Mayor of
| ;,,1 , 81,
County Court. sfist ~. %tsa#ts*s.sE
John W. Jones, hard citizen of Ash
Hill, near Poplar Bluff, Butler County,
created disturbance in saloon at that
town the other night, and was shot and
| killed by Joseph H. Alsman, the bartender,
whom Jones assaulted with knife. -
+ Ascension Day was quite generally
observed in the Catholic and Episcopal
churches in Kansas City, special services
commemorative of the day. being held in all
of them. There was no observance of the
day ON the part of the Knights Templars
orders, the absence of the commandery off,
GERS rendering it impossible to hold the
usual services.
Is Wilhelm onrees a coIored boy, born in
E st. Louis, and aged fourteen, attracts much
lsatt4ntion ON the streets of that city as he
plies his avocation of boot-biack, by the
phenomenal size Of his head, which at the
hat-band line measures twenty eight inches
around. He is victim of hydrocephalus.
Heis fairly bright and intelligent and suf-
fers no Inconvenience by reason, of the abb
normal formation of his head. '*&
Lyle F. Beach, son of exp ostmaster
j gmesE Beach, Of st. joseph, was arrested
Il fo1.
pearance atgthe next criminal term Of the.
Circuit Court, TO answer the charge OF
burglary and larceny. 4 He was, formerly
'employedsby the Mcdonald Lumber Conn
pany, who recently sold out to Green e.
Fuuerton, who dispensed with his services
- Thomas McCaffrey aiand MEX En-
right, of Poplar Bluff were conveyed to
jail for safe Keeping o few days ago until
trial on a charge Of forgery. Warrants
We're sworn out by the officials of the Iron
Mountain Hallway They were charged
with forging letters over signature and
stamp of the Superintendent Of the rail-
way, by which means passes, and accom-
modations were extended to them on other
roads. s7afs @gsgs3. 90 t4seis,.d p! a.
In the cases against the nickel
gilders, in the United States Circuit Court
at ST, Louis, the other day, the indictment
was quashed as to William edward who
escaped from a Deputy Marshal, while be-
ing. brought from, Nashville, Tenn, but
Steigers and Williamson. were, brought to
trial, and the case Of the Government rre-
ssented.- The defense raised the point that
the gliding of the nickels did not constitute
the act of counterfeiting or make them
scounterfeit coins, but Judge Treat held,
with the District Attorney, that the "simil-
itude" clause of the statutes was sufficient
to make out the crime. II, 4-.t
Governor Crittenden the other after
noon pardened William Anderson, con-
yicted of petty larceny in lShelby County
in July, 1882, and sentenced to Jail for one
year.
Owing to the overflow and continued
rains, Mississippi County farmers are con-
gsiderably behind with their %z 4
At recent sale made in Cream Ridge
Township, Livingston County,. articles.
sold brought the following prices: One
gray mare, blind in {one. eye, with mule
colt, $151; one mare in foal, $164;
one three-year-old plug pony, bind ln~one
eye, forty dollars; hogs about six and one
half cents per pound; -~springers-cows-~
aseiaStu uOlluTS, pWo-yeaF-O1u
heffers, twenty-five dollars ;asyearling heif-
ers, ifteenSd SHarss prh III shuck, twenty
eight cents; oats, twenty five cents,.ggsssss
Al d9grfaneier, says that there are
more ffr1e~ahd blooded CANNES in Kansas
City than any place west Of the Mississippi.
There are several men of means there who
have something of a crank on the subject,
and haye q fpe lot of dogs.
/ Horace Greeley has been appointed.
ON the Kansas City police force. - e
The champion butcher of the, world,
PATRICK Sullivan, ofStssss I,ouis,s who has
alaughtsred and prepafed for market q bull
lock in three minutes and f1fty-fve seconds,
died the other day at his residence III go
The School Board has decided 10 have
homsh fhblie exhibitions at tie close Of
the Lexington public schools.
flames A.Lee. a wellsk nown hfissis-
sippi .Caunty farmer, has in his. possessions.
forty-gallon iron Kettle and a hickory
frame chair bagia wntz are d. pa