Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-01-17

lowing gentlemen delegates to represent
the State at the Convention for the Inn
provement of the Mississippi River and it's
navigable tributaries, to be held in Wash
ington City on the 9TH of February next:
John Scudder, j. G.. Prather, C. II. Wood
ward, c. P. Ellerbe, E. w. Fox, L. E.
Cooley, United States Chief Assistant En-
gineer, st. Louis; John F. Phillips, with
John B. Henderson alternate, K. T. Van
Horn and Morrison Munford, Kansas City,
and w. Fl. Biggs, Louisiana, Mo.
Henry b. shy der, a mulatto. was ar
rested in Sedalia few days ago while of
fering to pawn valise and case of dental
instruments, the property of DR.. H. N.
Griswold, of Parsons, Ks, which he had
stolen from a railway car at the station.
At independence few days ago q
train arrived with fifteen carloads OF
mules, and upon examination there during
a delay it was found that 120 of the mules
were frozen to death. The others were in
freezing condition and were eating the frozen
ones. The sight was terrible. The mules
were two years old, direct from the grHs,
and had been in the cars three days with
out food. The owner was with them, but
claims that the train would not stop to
feed them. After stopping hour the
train pulled out for the west, Kansas City
being the destination, with the mules still
dying.
At q recent meeting of the State
Board of Health Drs. Gregory, Merrell and
Hearne were appointed a committee to pre-
pare circulars on epidemic and conta gious
diseases, showing means of prevention, to
be distributed among the people of the
State. Resolutions of recognition We're
rol1
Physicians and Surgeons, and of non-rec.
ognition as regards the ST. Louis Eclectic
Medical College,, the Kansas City Hospital
College of Medicine and the American Eclec-
tic Medical College of Cincinnati. 1t is I'M
derstood that some of the medical colleges
which the Board has refused to recognize
in ends to test the matter in the courts.
The long-pending indictments against
JAS. III. Britton, President of the defunct
National Bank of the State of Missouri;
Barton Bates, Vice-President, and Edward
p. Curtis, Cashier, We're recently dismissed
in the United States Circuit Court by order
of United States District Attorney Bliss.
The Governor has RENTED the fine
of 800 assessed against A. NJ. Brownlec, of
Hickory County, in 1878, for felonious as
sault;. also the fine of forty dollars as
sessed against B. B. Fish, of Hickory Coun-
ty, in May last, for selling liquor without
license.
The Governor has pardoned Henrietta
Moore, of Mississippi County, sentenced tc
ninety days in Jail for disturbing the peace
o a colored church festival in the colored
church at Charleston on the 18th of October
last.
A few days ago q large water tank
situated in tue south part OF the city of Sc
dalia burst with tremendous force, the
ruins being distributed in all directions
Fortunately, however, no one was hurt.
and while dense volume of water was let
loose no damage was done to property in
the vicinity. The tank was erected in 1881
at cost OF 5000. The damage sustained
is about $500. The water supply of the
city will not be affected by the accident.
T. J. Epperson, an old resident of
Springfield, died suddenly few days ago
from what the physicians called ossifica ion
of the heart.
The Odd Fellows of Kansas City have |
organized an excursion, including outside |
lodges, to leave that city on the Goth and |
make Southern trip on a special train.
j. S. Crick has been elected president |
of the Kansas City Board o Trade.
Green Shepherd, who was seriously |
gashed with a knife in the hands of Lewis |
Waller, at Chillicothe, December q, died |
from the effects of his wounds.
The Commissioners of Public Printing |
have ordered printed 900 copies of the re- |
port of Major Henry A. Newman, the Com.
missioner of Labor Statistics.
During a kerry Cow performance !
at st. Joseph recently, local equine was |
employed to go through the process of be- |
ing shod, but when his services We're no |
longer needed, and his room was better |
than his company, he refused to go off the |
stage. The owners finally got him off by |
throwing him and then dragging him bod |
ly from the platform.
A great deal of curiosity was aroused |
,he other day at the Union Depot of Kansas
City by the arrival of a Chinese baby. 1t |
was about two years old and looked like
grown Chnaman, though not quite so
It's mother, accompanied by her
ashland and six other Cinnamon, were on
heir way from New York to San Fran
cisco.
Captain Robert B. Vale, of the firm
IF Bund & Wade, st. Louis, died at the
Palmer House, Chicago, few days ago.
Captain Wade was we'll known in St. Louis,
where he resided tor number of years.
He was a native OF Savannah, Ga, and
graduate of West Point.
A Frenchman named Richard
Blanche, aged about fifty, found dead
n his bed at the Watson House, St. Joseph,
few mornings since. He was from As
,inwall, Neb., from whence he had come
or treatment for lung disease. 1t was
he took too many morphine pills.
Fred Poeting, of st. Louis, who had
,een suffering some time with pneu-
nonia, committed suicide few nights ago
" hanging himself.
Richard SHOT, of Bolton, Cass Coun.
y, arrived in Independence lew days
lgo in search of his wife and child, who
lad left their home about month ago, and
lie found his child at farmhouse about
hree miles south of town. The farmer
tated that he found the boy during the
old weather wandering near his house, land
hat his hands and feet were badly frozen.
Alter finding his boy, Short continued the
earch and found his horse and buggy in a