Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-08
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
Visitors to st. Louis during Fair weel
will find the following theatrical attrac
tons in addition to the other festivities:
Pope's Theater, Roland Reed; Graz
Opera house. The Hanlons, in Fan tas.
MAJ" Standard Theater, Dan Sully's
Corner Grocery" Olympic Theater, The
Sparks Company, in "a Bunch Of Keys"
Peoples Theater, Barley CampbelL's ''Si-
beria," and Buffalo Bill at Spor5sman's
Park with the ''Wid West"
The St. Louis Fair be sins the 9Th.
Persons visiting s.. Louis during carni.
val week and wishing accommodations
will find a register of the same at the
% Line ticket office, corner Broadway
and Chestnut streets.
Sam Jones is working up considerable
enthusiasm among the saints and sinners
of st. Joseph and vicinity. The meet.
ings are largely attended and are bearing
fruit.
The National Sportsmen's Assoc atior
met in st. Louis on the :9th and had al
interesting and harmonious session.
Samuel N. Brooks is about to leava En-.
gland for st. Louis to determine wheth ell
the man held for the murder of G. Arthur
Preller is his son.
An inquest was held at Lamonte, Pettis
County, a few days ago upon the body OF
an unknown man killed by the cars near
that place last week. Nothing was de.
veloped which would serve as a clew tt
his identity. The evidence showed that
he had sat down upon tie when a west
bound train was in sight, and had sal
there until struck by the ems CINE.
The week from October 9Th to 10Th will
be gala time in st. Louis, what with the
Fair, Exposition, Gilmore's Band, grand
illumination, Yelled Prophets. Trades
procession, cruise of the Mackerel Bril-
gade, Yelled Prophets Ball and reception
t. the victorious Browns of the American
Base Ball League, supplemented by dis
plays by the famous Topeka and Atchi-
son (Kas.) Flambeau CLUBS and a grand
display of fireworks at the Union Ball
Park.
The Misso uri jurisdiction of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen now reports
1900 members.
Warden Marmaduke has purchased an
electric light plant for the State Peniten-
tary.
The State University opened this yea1
with 3)2 students Last yeer it opened
with 34S and in SS3 w til sol.
Grasshoppers are said to be more nu.
merous this year in Lafayette County
than during any summer since the famous
scourge ly the pests in 1876.
The fifteenth annual session of TIE
Southwest Missouri Conference of the M.
E. Church South was in session last w eE
at Lexington. Bishop Granbery deliv.
cred the OF eui1g address.
George B Miller, City Register of JEFF
ferson City, has been appointed Assistant
Superintendent of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park by Hon. D. w. Wear, anc
will assume his new duties at once.
A farmer from johnson County went te
Frank James few days ago to Il agotiate
for the killing OF an obnoxious neighbor
James told him that his friends Were
putting up job on him, and advised hin
to go home.
The personal property and real es ate o
the late Major G. N. Bloss om, OF Kansa.
City is valued, at $3.50, 0o0 Among the
items is l. 703 acres of land in Linn County
valued at $4,000, and Hooded stock or
land appraised at S42 ,537. The balance
consists Ct personal and real estate in
Kansas City. Major Blossom formerly
kept the Blosso m House at Brookfeld
An interest ting case was decd d n the
Circuit Court at S.. Joseph recently. One
James Hubbard, the keeper of dive, made
application for a saloon license to the city,
which was granted, but the City Comp
troler, General James Craig, refused tc
81 gn it on moral grounds. Hubbard made
application for a writ of mandamus tc
compel the Comptroller to sign the license.
The case was tried before Judge Grubt
and decided in favor OF Hubbard.
Louisiana gets the branch Pen.-Next.
The stable of Mr.. Robert Smith, near
May view, lafayette County, was de-
stroyeI by fire few nights ago. con-
the origin of which nothing is
known. There were five horses in the
stale, all of which were burned to death.
The barn was filed W tn grain, and con
tain ID also thirty-fve tons of hay, which
was totally destroyed. There was only
3 Insurance..
The s Jut hern Historical Society of st.
Louis is making arrangements for an ex-
cursion to Louisiana by river to attend
the Confederate reunion to be held in that
city on the 14th inst.
The st. Louisans seem to be going wild
over Gilmore and his band.
Governor Marmaduke has committed
The sentence Of B. B. Porter to a term of
Imprisonment expiring February, 1885, |
Porter was convicted at the February
'erm, 1884 of the Lawrence County Cir.
cult Court of forgery and sente need te
,be Penitentiary for five years.
Louis Belmont, who has been the man.
ager of cigar store in Kansas City for
several years, has disappeared, and his |
accounts are found to be short about $500. |
he has been high roller and a little too |
ond of the National game of draw poker, |
md falling in with skilled players the |
;igar store funds soon changed hands.
The recent rains had dampening effect |
lpon some of the county fairs.