Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-06-05
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

| Inc salary OK Charles CoOuDSs VI SChcA
SON City, House messenger in the docu
ment room at Washington has been in
creased from s., 100 to S2,000.
| C. S. Robinson Of near Boonyille, ha'
a sample OF blue grass forty-eight inches
long.
| The report of the State Railroad Com
missioners on the business of 1888 will give
the following statistics on lines within the
State: Number of miles of railroad, 4,6lo
number tuiit in 1888, ia; gross amount o.
stock on the lines in Missouri. $1l7,.56,25o
| average per mile of road, ga ,429; gross
| amount of mortgage bonds, $106, 7oS, 5o1
average per mile of road, $24, 106; gross
amount of stock and bonds, 1921, ia, 100
| average per mile. $50 ,535; gross transports
tion earnings, $2S, 10, 335; average per mile
operated, $8,343; gross operating and gen
eral expenses, $1s, 1851; average pei
| mile, 1895; ratio of expense and earnings
63 per cent; total net earnings, $40 ,424
average per mile, s2,347; total interest
charges, SC, 5O0, 600; total surplus after pay
| ing expenses and interest, s4,127, 424.
The State Savings Bank at st. Joseph is
| making arrangements to resume.
Charles Wilson, the colored murderer
sentenced to be hanged at st. Louis June o,
has been granted a stay of execution until
June 16.
The Kansas City Times suggests that a
messenger boys Sunday-school class In
| that city would afford plentiful field Tor
evangelism.
James Zimmerman split open the head
of Matt. Gibson on board steamboat at
| the levee in st. Louis few days ago, pro-
ducing injuries likely to prove fatal.
Frank James has been visiting friends in
st. Joseph recently.
Sedalia looks well under the electric
light.
Missouri has about 40, 900 illiterate white
voters.
G. A. Mozier, of Ironton, is to be the ed
itor of the Central Missouri Republican,
the new Republican paper to be started at
Boonville about July 1st.
The members of the Missouri Press As
sociation devoured sixty gallons of straw
berries at the dinner given them by the
people of Eureka Springs, Ark.
Missouri is interested to the extent OF
100000 in the bill, reported favorably
from the United States Senate Claims
Committee, reimbursing the several States
for money loaned during the war.
The Jefferson City Gun Club will hold a
grand shooting tournament, beginning
June Is, for three days. All the clubs in
the State will be invited, and two purses,
for 500 and $50, will be gwen.
Judges Barrett and Hale of the Lafayette
County Court have been attached by the
Supreme Court for contempt in failing to
make a levy Of taxes to pay Judgment
of the United States District Court. The.
matter was under advisement.
Carey NJ. Keys and others, of ST. Louis,
have filed suit in the Circuit Court for
81, ID against the Penn Bank of Pitts
burgh, to attach funds of that institution
in the Bank of Commerce, ST. Louis.
Joseph G. Fayette was fined $500 in the
Court of Criminal Correction in st. Louis
on charge of selling lardine, represented
to be butter.
j. D. st. Maur, chief clerk in the office Of
the Solicitor of the Wabash Road at st.
Louis, recently swindled citizens of that
place out of about 900 by means of false
vouchers. His arrest was postponed on
account of the serious illness of his wife,
but he has been lodged in Jail because he
had prepared to kill himself.
August Woerner, aged twenty -foul
years, boarded a north bound Iron Noun
tain train at Montesano Springs few
nights ago. At Cliff Cane he jumped
head foremost into pile of rails,
killing himself instantly. In his pocket
letter asking that his body be shipped
to Connellsville, Ohio, was found, but nc
further clew to the dead mans identity
The Coroner held an inquest on the body
at Carondelet.
Fine weather favored the Grand Army
Posts on Decoration Day. The st. Louis
parade was a complete success, and the
trip to jefferson Barracks pleasant.
Little Daisy Dix, OF st. Louis, looked
down the barrel of pistol few days
ago, and her brother Willie accidentally
pulled the trigger. She was shot in the
nose.
At the Memorial Day services at Jeffer.
SON BarrVks General w. T. Sherman made
the following address: 'To-day is the fes-
tival of our dead. We unite to honor the
memory of our dead and our beloved; to
enrich and ennoble our lives by recalling
public heroism and a private worth that
are immortal-.o encourage by our solemn
services a more Jealous and stalwart pa
triotism. Festival of our dead! Yes, though
many eyes are clouded with tears; though
many hearts are heavy with regret; though
many lives are still desolate for the father
or brother, the husband or lover who did
not come back; though every grave which
q tender reverence or love adorns with
flowers is the shrine of sorrows, whose
influence is still potent though their first
keen poignancy is over-in spite Of ali to-
day is a festival; festival of our dead.
No less a festival because it is full of
solemnIty. And now, in the silent camp
ing ground of our dead, as with soldierly
tenderness and love we garland these pas
sionless wounds, recall those who made
their breasts the barricade between our
country and its foes, let US recall their
tolls, their sufferings, their heroism, their
supreme fidelity in camp, in prison pen,
on the battle field and in the hospital; that
the flag under which they fought, and from
the shadow of whose folds they were pro-
NOTED, may never be dishonored; that the
country, for whose union and supremacy
they surrendered life. may have the fer
vent and enthusiastic devotion of every
citizen; that as we stand by every grave,
as before an altar, we may pledge our man. !
hood that SO help us God the memory of
our dead shall encourage and strengthen
in US all more loyal patriotism.
Chiliicothe is to have "Bucket'' shop.
Michael Swan was severely injured in q
runaway at st. Joseph few days ago by
being thrown out of a wagon, in which he
was riding, over a fence, breaking his leg
and badly injuring him otherwise
A few days ago the train from Kansas
City ran over Charles Dee, half mile west
of Sedalia, and tore him all to pieces. His
head was cut off, one arm cut of, his heart
torn out, and his liver was found 900 yards