Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-18

missioner of Agriculture.
Resotred, That his long experience in con:
nection with agriculture, practs ally ano
theoretically, his ability as a speaker and
writer, his practice as q legislator and ex-
ecutive officer, and his high character as Q
manaand gentleman, point him out as tint
man of all others, especially in this section o.
the country, who should receive the appoint
ment.
Resolred, That the President of this society
Is hereby requested to transmit these feso'
iutiot.s 70 his Exeellency, Governor Gleve-
land, PRESIDENT elect of the United states
and as a favorable consideration of them III
his hands.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: j. c. Evans, President;
E. P. Henry, Vice Presidents; s. A. Good
man, Secretary; F. S. Raglan, Treasurer.
Miscellaneous Items.
Judge Buckner introduced bill in Con-
gress to stop the coinage of the silver dol
lar.
Morris Gloster, foreman of the st. Joseph
gas-works, while tapping main in front
of the Saunders House a few days ago,
was overpowered by escaping gas, and for
several hours his recovery was despalred
of.
A. r. Killum, an employee of the Hart
Pioneer Nursery, of Fort Scott, Kan,
was arrested in Sedalia few days ago
on a telegram from the Mayor OF Fort
Scott, which charges Killum with run
ming off with horse and buggy. Kill
lum is a resident of st. Louis and has a
family there.
j. D. johnson, the convict who set fire to
Straus' shop in the Penitentiary in Febru-
Try, 1882, pleaded guilty to arson and an
attempt to break prison in the Cole County
Circuit Court. Judge Edwards sentenced
him to ten years in the Penitentiary for
the former crime and two years for the
latter. This, added to his present term,
will give him about twenty years more OF
prison life. David Taylor, who is serving
a five-years' term, also received a similar
sentence for participating in the same
crime.
The citizens of Kansas City are Mortified
over the conviction of one butcher and the
confessions of others of the fact that sick
cattle have habitually been slaughtered
and the meat sold in that city.
The st. Louis Woman's Exchange will
have quite creditable exhibit at New Or
leans.
Major Banks, Chief Supervising Ex-
aminer of Pensions at st. Louis, has re-
ceived an addition to his force in the per-
son of Mr.. N. A. Scarce, who came from
Washington direct.
A number of young ladies at Jefferson
City have organized a cooking club. They
couldn't get along without a man around,
SO they elected one an honorary member.
John Mason, the colored man arrested
some days ago at Washington, Mo-,
charged with robbing the Missouri Pacific
hospital safe at Sedalia, stood an eXamina
ton and was bound over to appear at the
next term of the Criminal Court on 500
bond. He went to Jail.
Henry kinney o. the blacksmithing firm
of fuller & kinney, st. JOS eph, tell in fit
of apoplexy on the street a few evenings
since. He was removed to his home and
died in few hours. He was forty three
years old, AMI leaves a wife and two chill
dren,
A colored man in st. Louis, who claims
to be 104 years of age, recently obtained a
marriage license to wed woman only
forty.
Albert SwitZer, a carpenter working on
the steeple of st. Michael's Church, ST.
Louis, fell, a few days ago, through the
breaking of plank, distance OF thirty
feet. His jaw was broken and he was in
jured internally.
Lloyd Anderson, another of the convicts
who aided and assisted Johnson and others
to fire the Penitentiary in 1888, was ar
raigned in the Cole Circuit Court and
pleaded not guilty. Colonel E. S. King,
Of st. Louis, was assigned by the Court as
counsel Tor defendant.
Three cars in the west-bounl throu gh
freight train on the Missouri Pacific jump
ed the track few nights ago at Concordia,
eighteen miles from Lexinat ton. The
wreck was caused, it is supposed, by the
of the roadbed consequent
upon the recent wet weather. Consider
able merchandise was ruined and one or
two of the crew We're more or less hurt.
The well-dressed body of an unknown
man was found few days ago between
two haystaclSs, on the farm of Mrs. Nor
gan, two miles, west of independence.
was evidently about thirty years
of age. A metallic brakeman's cap badge
Of the Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fee Rail-
way was found in his pocket. 1t is be-
lieved deceased committed suicide, proba-
bly, by poison.
Mrs. Belle Cofran, of Springfield, ILL.,,
took two small children to st. Joseph
few days ago, and left them to be sent to
her husband, from whom she was divorced
last spring at Springfield. She was
awarded the custody of the Chi dren, but
becoming tired of supporting them, and
to marry again, and learning
that her ex-husband, Roy Cofran, was
in st. Joseph. took them to that place,
sent them to him, and started on her re-
urn home the same night.
The Inspectors of the Penitentiary have
appointed Judge III. A. Smith, and Mr.
VIM. G. McCarty, of jefferson City, under
Section 651, r. s., appraisers to make
Iull, accurate and complete inventory and
of the machinery, fixtures,
.ools, goods, chattels and property of
every kind and description belonging to
The State in or about the Penitentiary,
and appraise the value of the same for the
purpose OF making report thereof to the
lext General Assembly as required by
aw.
Not very wintry thus far.
The new First Congregational Church in
Kansas City was dedicated on the 7th inst.
Rev. Judson Fizworth, OF Milwaukee,
Preached the sermon. The edifice is of
tone, and was completed at cost of $780,
o0.
A frame dwelling-house, occupied by !!
a;nily of Swedes, was burned at Lexing-
on lew nights ago, the flames originate
NJ in defective flue No household |
fleets were saved. But few persons turned |
lat to answer the alarm, as the streets |
we're terribly muddy and heavy rain was |
alling. The rain, however, had but little |
fleet on the flames.
A reception of five noyitiates recently |
COX place at Ursuline Convent, st. Louis. |
The Kansas City Bar Association has |
declared itself in favor of Hon. Wash |
adams as the successor of Judge Black of |