Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-14
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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| OF Saline County is estimated by some at
| 5000
| The Kansas City Railway Company has
increased its capital stock from $225, 0o0 to
s350,o0o.
Que Brown attempted TO drown herself
In the river at ST. Louis few nights ago,
Tut was rescued By a policeman.
Some Of the Missouri creameries do not
| pay on account of a scarcity of cows in the
surrounding communities.
Jen Wilson, who is in the Lexington jail
charged VITA numbering his mistress has
| confessed.
The following postmassdfs have been
| commissioned recently: George w. Ketter-
man, Heth; David C. Hilton, Salisbury.
| An office has been established at Hedrick,
Dent County.
Ambrose Botto, an Italian, sixty-four
| years of age, was found unconscious on
the street in st. Louis few days ago and
died in a few hours. As the old man was
In the habit of carrying considerable
money about him, and none being found
on his person, there were suspicious of
foul play.
During political gathering at Lexing-
ton few days ago, and which was at
tended by some 1900 persons, sudden
shower came up, causing stempede, in
the course of which a team ran away, the
vehicle to which they were attached con-
tanning six persons. Mr.. q. ID. Sanders,
the owner, had leg and thigh broken;
Mrs. Sanders, both legs broken; Miss
Sanders, leg and arm broken, and the 9TH
er three more or less injured.
On August / there were 16T prisoners in
the st. Louis Jail. The daily average for
July was 15SA.
TIE stonework on the Sedalia Court
house has begun.
The Capitol Grounds at Jefferson City
are being fixed up for the State Conven-
tion.
A Post-office has been established at
Lenox, Dent County.
Recent Missouri inventions: Philip
Hahn, Scdalia. riding saddle; James w.
Roberts, Moody, cotton cultivator and
chopper.
L. L. Coppedge, City Engineer of Soda
liza, has the contracs for laying two miles
o. sewer pipe in Holden.
Postmasters recently commissioned:
Coonard Kitchen, Lsnox: Diederick
Schwen.ker, Boeuf Creek.
Will am F. Igenfritz, prominent citi-
zen of Sedalia, dropped dead at his resi-
dence few evenings since. He had been
III excellent health up to the moment of his
death. Mr.. Ilgenfritz was one of the
earliest settlers of Sedalia and large real
estate owner.
Twenty-six years ago William McFar-
land and his wife came to st. Louis from
Pennsylvania. They were both taken sick,
and, being in want, were assisted by j. j.
Armstrong, to al stranger. Armst rong
] al n
being tie amount LIE had lent him, with
compound interest.
MIR. James Holland, of st. Louis, was &C.
cidentally shot and killed by his son Louis,
lad ten years OF age at OF near Milford,
Ia, few days age, where the family
were spending the summer. It seems that
Mr.. Holland gave his boy a gun, and the
lad generally accompanied him on hunting
and fishing expeditions. By some means
the weapon went off when the boy was
handling it, and the charge entered his
fathers body. Mr.. Holland lived only
half an hour after the accident.
Certificate of corporate existence has
been issued to the Inter-Ocean Elevator
Company, of Kansas City.
A. Springfield, United States Commits
sioner Jones bound over Martin Fox for
Webster enpty.
Fred LAWS, the center-aelder OF the st.
Louis Browns baseball club broke his leg
during game few days ago.
A bI akeman narped E. Guthridge, of So
daiia, was killed by the cars at Windsor
few days ago.
DR.. j. L. James has been appointed a
delegate from the ST. Louis Microscopica1
Soc OF tn fl,.{
meets at r ,ches5er, n. Y.
Word was received in s.. Louis few
days ago that the body of Chas. Pulte, the
bridge collector, who was drowned July
16. had been found at Greenville, Miss.
IL has been decided thas tine NOTORIOUS
CASTOR De Rohan, now in the Peniten-
tiary, is not entitled to the benefit OF the
three-fourths rule.
The premium lists for the coming st.
Louis Far have been received from the
printer. The pamphlet is said to be
great improvement over those of the past.
Edward Coleman, OF st. Louis, invoice
clerk of the Shap.eigh-Cantw Hardware
Company, committed suicide by shooting
himself a few days ago, during the absence
of the other members of the family on
days pleasure trip. No possible cause is
known Tor the rash act.
Major Ernst, of the Mississippi River
Improvement Commission, states that the
appropriation of half a million has finally
become available, and fifty men will be
pus 10 work at once. This number will be
INCREASED to 1900 by October, and the i'm.
provement will thenceforth lie rapidly adj
vanced.
The official brief announcing to Arch |
bishop Ryan his translation to Philadel- |
phia was received by him from Rome a
lew days ago. The fact was at once COM
municated by the Archbishop to Father
Phelan and by him given TO the public |
through the 1Festern Watchman. Its con.
tents, Leyond the Iac5 OF transfer, is OF |
course secret.
Mrs. Sadie Ridder of Pemiscot County, |
has Leen taken to the Lunatic Asylum. |
Sh is the daughter of Mrs. III. A. Palple, |
an estimabIe widow, and married Lafay- |
cite Rider two years ago. A year AFTER
ward their relations became unhappy. |
One day Ridder, In a passion, knocked her
insensible with a stick Of wood. He fed, |
and has not been heard of since. When
she recovered, her reason was dethroned, |
and nothing has been able to restore it.
The Platte County fair begins the 10Th.
Frank James received by express a few
days ago present of a fine buggy from
friends at Marshall; also fine saddle for
his boy. A few days before a fine horse |
was given him by a prominent banker OF
Central Missouri.
Scarcely day has passed recently but
that u burglary has been reported at Lex