Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-07
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

MISSOURI STATE NEWS. =
Erastus Williams dwelling, at indie
pendence, burned few days ago; gaso
line stove. "A "a III =
The Governor has pardonsd willifkr
Louis, convicted of N ansIaushfe IN Len
County. 81 N s
The oatl crop OF Mercer County NH
reach an. ayersge Sot thirty bushels Ii
An eight-year-old SON of James Edlin
of Lexington, fell from a stable-loft few
days ago and broke his arm SO that the
bone pretruied. - %siis9 III
William Murphy was robbed in broad
daylight on the street in st. Louis a few
days ago OF SIS and a gold watch and
| chain, the robber escaping.
Rev. DIR. sGoodell,a pastor OF Pilgrim
Church, st. Louis, is improving rapidlyzir
health at bennington, England. AZ
Squire Harrison. of Phelps County,
fined man one dollar a few days ago FOR
beating his wife. As{tt .4sS
4 A serious washout was caused by recent
rams on the Missouri Pacific track near
| Lexington, resulting in temporary stop
I page of trains. o -'''
r. Elder Thomas Smith, son of Joe Smith
the. founder of Mormonism, left fIndepen
dence a, few days ago for the Island oil
Hayti as Mormon missionary.
| One Sneed, an old Workhouse convict,
ieslot and killed Robert Doornis in a Kansas
City saloon a few nights ago. The two
j had been drinking together all day. and
the tragedy resulted from some trivial
dispute. Sneed claims the, shooting was
4 done in self-defense, but the opinion pre-
walls that it was case of deliberate muir.
i der. {!g.I IL. - g.a3s; taa4t.i Saa.i 6 -
| Counterfeit half dollars are circulating
| freely in different parts of the. State.
! APost- office has been established at Dix,
Dent County. o. @}"43R ss}sHt9a ~
= jeff Wilson, ,colored, shot and killed Jane
Sanford at lexington a few days ago.
] Cause, jealousy. .,..l, sts.-.,...,s.,l
j. W. Trotty, aged sixty, dropped dead
| at Independence few days since.
| The Alma Bank, at Alma, Lafayette
County, has been Incorporated with a
| capital of 81, O00.t ,,.f5i,u7}tf- = q4gt5
| The Lexington ghost story proves to
| have grown out of little boys joke.
| Jefferson City is threatened with a new
| Republican paper, GdtI OPT itktH
| Samuel Brown has been commissioned
| Postmaster at Rensselaer,, Rails County.
fcrty-five hogs by cholera MS
The new bank at Lexington is to have
! an iron front. .II3rp =Ho= t3st5ii
| : Twenty new brick residences are being
| built in Jefferson City. Mir, ~
Postmasters commissioned: Henry 81.
Finley, Fredericktown; John A! Norris,
| Sterling; George w. Mehr, Troy; John w.
Brown, Warrensburg; Samuel R.. Billups,
Hope; John Simpson,, Skrainka. .512y
The rural districts are rejoicing over tho
| ripening of blackberries. The crop Is
fine. ,.tt, .,-, .-,,szA3$4 10 t,sg sd
Fifty new houses will spon be built in
Heard's addition to the city of Sedalia:
average cost, Il 900. 81 btA"h -
The payroll of the Missouri Pacific for
June was $4,000 less than for the ame
month last year. AIMEE .,..,tst,j
Prof L. f. Sedan, Principal of the st.
L uis Normal School, has declined am
offer of the position of Superintendent of
Public Schools at Indianapolis, Ind. 4
The police found it necessary to break
up an organization of small boys in Jeffer-s
son City recently who had begun a system
of mischief making in imitation Of Jesse
James. Ya...tt ...5sf3 ',.s .....g .rsHY
The wife of Sedalia gamble recently
ran away with 5000 Of her husband,s
money. After hot pursuit he overlook
her at Green Ridge and recovered S7T775 OF
the money. They ale now in Sedalia.
The Spanish fever scare prevails, at
Kansas City, but all rumors of sickness
among the cattle are denied at the stock
yards. ri t-tt &Ns.ts'i. p ..=t. sJ
The following disinfectants have been
recommended by Boards of Health, which
are named in the order of excellence:
Crude carbolic acid, copperas, lime, fresh
clean earth. }.8iii--. ,'i} 4tt"}e1 !HhA
% Stonewallt jackson. a colored boy of
Lexington, was recently. rescued from
drowning and was soon afterward sent to i
the chain gang for stealing pistol. The
deed may have been q a development of
IN litary ardor born of his great name.
Mr.. Herrick, a chicken fancier of st.
j., phi, recently entered a, coop to- drive |
out u game rooster, when the bird inflicted
Fl We ugly wounds on his face.
Il Adrian Hit, the pedestrian, pa ssed
through Independence few days ago and
called on Frank James. Hit is trying to
walk from New, York to San Francisco. in
ninety days, for $4,000. He was over
200 miles ahead of time. He got the auto
graph of the border bandit and went his |
way. c..4. .uas,f.I rH,! yflu4s0iiUI" |
" AAe w ullaIu 1OCty was Cropping
sove-wood for dinner at Independence |
a few days ago, stick few up, striking |
him in the left temple, killing him instant
ly. Deceased was a prominent citizen and |
leaves wife and four children. tlss. II
The 81. Louis Fair, Ground Associati n
have purchased go yards of blue, red and |
yellow premium ribbon, at cost of SIZE.
for the coming fair. Seven hundred idi- |
plomas are also ready, and $50 gold, silver I
and bronze medals are being prepared at Il
the lhiladelphia Mint. -,...,..
Adjltant- General Waddilf issued an or.
der granting permission to the military
of other States to enter the
State Of Missouri, bearing arms. for the pur-
pose of attending the National Guard re: i
union held at Kansas City. ..,.41, 7
Frank CASTLE, OF Lexington, who hal
bee n evading the officers for some days be-
cause of his completely with the Clay
vandalism, was instantly killed
by lightning during storm a few days
ago. He was hiding under large linn
tree, having left the house about four
o'clock in the morning, and about three &
hours later, when his father went out to
the pasture to take him his breakfast, his
dead body, terribly burned by the electric
duid, was found. II A@iI hFt& 't#t -
. Weed out your cholera patches. al =
3 MIR. John Woodruff, Appointment citizen
of st. Louis, and formerly Superintendent
Of Bridge, Beach & Co.'s Stove Works,
Who has recently been visiting his daugh. |,
Ter Mrs yJehn w A11op ,r,fl C>,~n.r f.ttxr III