Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Visitors to ST. Louis will now find the
theaters open. For the week ending Sep
Der 9th the following attra ctions are un-
1erlined: Olympic, Tony Pastors Spe-
cialty Combn alton; Peoples, Burr
Oaks;" Pope's, ''The Professors" Uhrig's
Cave, "La Grande Duchess" by Ford's
Opera Company; Siege of Paris Piano.
rama, Washington avenue. The weeks
performance at Uhrig's Cave is for the
benefit of the Sisters of the Good Shop
herd.
The Internal Revenue Office at Kansas
City has been transferred to its new quar-
ters in the Custom-house
The morbidly curious people of st. Louis
have made such 'lion" of Maxwell, the
alleged Southern Hotel murderer, since
his return from New Zealand that the Jail
officials have become sick of it, and ex-
press their intention to give him the same
treatment in future as other prisoners.
The st. Joseph Fair opens on the a1st.
lasting six days.
William o. Gelvin, young man, living
with his brother George in Kansas City,
committed suicide few days ago. George
had accused William of being crimnally
intimate with his wife. William denied
it and called his brother liar. A terri
BILE fight then ensued, after which George
ordered his brother to pack up and get
out. William went into the next room
and shot himself in the head, dying in
stantly.
The Prohibitionists of st. Louis are TAX
ing steps to test the right of the City Col
lector to issue dramshop license for the
Exposition building.
A gigantic scheme for the counterfeit
ing of Brazilian treasury notes in this
country has been unearthed by Govern
ment deta ctives. Lucus White, the sup
posed prime mover, is in Jail at st. Louis,
and several alleged confederates have
been arrested at other points. They are
supposed to have allies in Brazil who were
to put the bogus money in circulation.
Missouri coal miners held secret ses.
sion at Sedalia a few days ago for the
purpose of forming State organization
to be under the jurisdiction of the Knights
of Labor.
Provisional Judge Fauntleroy, of the st.
Louis Court of Criminal Correction has
decided that petit larceny is crime
against the State, and that the city ordi-
nance known as the "pilfering act" is in
valid
Admiral c. NJ. Buckler, of Her Majesty's
navy, was in st. Louis recently. He is
making a tour of the country, but for
what purpose could not be learned.
Thomas Heenihan, an ex-policeman of
st. Joseph, was almost instantly kill ed by
a passenger train on the Kansas City, st.
Joe & Council Bluffs Railroad, in st. 10.
seph few evenings since.
VIM. Davidson, the Southern Hotel bell
boy, who acted so queerly att the Preller
inquest, has left st. Louis, and there is
rumor af1oat that he was induced to go in
order to evade being summoned as wit
ness against Maxwell. This is denied by
his friends, who say he left simply be-
cause he thought he could do better some-
where else.
George N. Blossom, proprietor of the
Union Depot Hotel at Kansas City, and
one of the best known men in the State,
died few nights ago of brain trouble,
after brief illness. He was a man of
large means and prominently identified
w tn local interests. He leaves vile
and one daughter, Mrs. Fred Daggett.
Major John N. Edwards, who fell sense
less at Higginsville after 1.-The recent re-
union, with what was thought to be apo
plexy, has almost entirely recovered.
The doctors who waited upon him state
was due to over exertion, the Major hav-
ing made the entire march, distance of
about one and a half miles.
Warren Ballows, an old and respected
citizen of st. Joseph, father-in-law of T.
F. Ind ermill, wholes picture dealer,
shot himself through the head few
nights ago by placing a revolver in his
mouth and discharging it. The shot was
baord nv, Mrs Tudarrnill hO haStane ed
inso the room where he had gone after
dinner and found him lying on sofa.
bleeding and unconscious. Medical aid
was summoned, but no hopes of his re-
covery were entertained, nor is it known
why he committed the act.
The State Journal Printing Company, a,
Jefferson City has sold the State Journal to
the Jeffer son Printing Company, to whom
a certificate of incorporation has been
issued by the Secretary of State The
new company has capital stock of
So, 900, one-half pail up, and the incor-
porators are James E. McHenry, A. c.
Lennon and A. NJ. Hough. Mr.. McHenry
owns all but 500 of the stock. He will be
the editor aud manager of the paper, the
politics of which will be Democratic. 1t
has been a Republican paper heretofore.
there were but three interments in the
Chillicothe cemetery-two in fants and one
adult. What other town of 5000 inhabi-
tants can show as low a death rate for
two of the hottest months in the year?
Congressman O'Neill. of st. Louis, has
secured at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for
the st. Louis Exposition the relics of the
Greeley expedition, embracing every
10 al of ha
ton, and in addition had taken from the
masthead of the Thetis the crows nest
from which the survivors were discov-
cred, which together with the steam
laun CHI used in their rescue will be sent to
S.. Louis. The collection, some three car
loads, was expected to arrive in St. Louis
on Wednesday, September I'd. This action
was in accordance with instructions from
Acting Secretary OF the Navy, Commodore
Harmony.
Lodge of Colored Masons was in session
at independence last week. The lodges
OF Kansas City, Lexington, Miami and
other cities were present on the last day
and a parade was had, headed by the
Lexington Band. The whole conclud ed
at night with the installation of State
officers
Trenton now has a population of 5,014.
Governor Marmaduke has appointed
George W. McCaskell County Treasurer
of Shannon unity, to fill vacancy.
The St Louis Exposition is being rap.
idly put in shape for the formal opening
o. its second season September 9th. Ex-
hititors are busy arranging tLeir displays,
while Secretary johnson and his assist
ants are "a busv as beayerS everywhere.