Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-28
miscellaneous Items.

| Miscellaneous Items.
| People who obtain marriage licenses il
st. Louis will hereafter have their age
| printed in the daily publication of license
| issued.
| A. c. Hull, ex-Chief of the st. Loui
Fire Department, is dead; aged sixty fiv,
| years.
| Cliff C. Jones, bookkeeper for the Cham
| pion Machine Company at st. Joseph i
| said to be short in his accounts between
| Sc, 900 and $4,000. He has heretofore born'
| q good reputation. He has absconded
| Poker playing is the cause of his down
| fall.
Mrs. Robert Baily was grossly insulted
| by a man named Browning at Mendoza
and resented it by shooting him dead
Larry Cunningham killed John Coleman
in st. Louis few days ago. Mrs. Cole.
man asked Cunningham to protect bel
| from the brutality of her husband. He
tried to comply with her request with the
result stated.
Sixty four head of shorthorn cattle sold
at Lees Summit, recently, for an average
of $161.50.
William Baggott has resigned the posi-
tion of Marshal of the Court of Appeals al
st. Louis. His successor has not been ap'
pointed.
An unknown man committed suicide by
jumping off the st. Louis bridge few
nights ago. He yelled Justify for help and
SWAN for life, but the waves swallowed
him up.
A verdict of suicide was rendered in the
case Of Mrs. Reynolds, whose mysterious
death in st. Louis has been recorded.
A great crowd attended the Blair Monu-
ment unwilling at Forest Park, st. Louis,
but storm interfered somewhat with the
ceremonies.
Secretary Bayard is afraid he can not
find time to keep his promise to discourse
on Thomas jefferson before the Missouri
University.
A man named Rogers fatally wounded
his brother near Sikeston a few DAYS ago.
He fed, was pursued, and refusing to sur
render was shot to death.
Lindell Post, G. A. R., of Chillicothe,
has invited all ex-Confederate soldiers to
participate in memorial services May 3oth.
The legal height of the hedge fence in
Missouri is five feet.
The Coroner's investig CATION in the mat
ter of the recently collapsed building in
st. Louis resulted in holding the contract
ors who were doing the excavating re.
sponsible for the accident.
John Burns and Thomas Doran were
killed and Thomas Killan badly hurt by
the explosion of a meter at the st. Louis
gas works few days ago.
Articles of association have been filed
with the Secretary of State and certifi-
cate issued thereon to the John A. Logan
Produce Company, st. Louis. Capital 49,
900.
Deputy County Marshal Silver, assisted
by City Marshal Liddell, arr rested twenty
nine tramps at Independence a few nights
ago who were found sleeping in box cars
at the Missouri Pacific and Chicago and
Alton depots. They were arraigned on
charge of vagrancy, and twenty two out
of the twenty-nine were convicted and
given twenty days each in the County
Jail
The formal openin, of the new Chamber
of Commerce building in st. Joseph will
take place Friday and Saturday, June 9TH
and 9th. A pubic ball, followed by a
banquet will take place Friday night, aud
on Saturday afternoon the formal dedica-
tion will occur. The affair will be very
elegant. TheIChamber of Commerce build
ing is the finest and costliest structure in
the city.
A farmer named Elijah Kinworth lost
his life few nights ago by falling over
the bluff near Marion, small town in Cole
County, on the Missouri River. He had
been drinking, and started home with his
team, which he left, and wandered away
to the bluff, at the foot of which his dead
body was found the next morning.
B. F. Jones, President, and VIM. Rem
eicke, Attorney of the National Water
works Company, of Louisville, KY, ac-
companied by Chief Engineer G. w. Pier
sons, of the Kansas City Water works,
visited Sedalia recently, their mission be-
ing to endeavor to secure the franchise
and the water-works of the City of Sc
dalia by purchase, with view to estab-
ii hing the Baker system, under the man.
agement and control of the National Wa
tes-works Company.
C.. c. Jones, the defaulting book keeper
and cashier of the Champion Machine
Company at ST. Joseph, is still missing. 1t
was thought he was lurking in the woods
between st. Joseph and the first railway
station north. ALI points were being
closely watched and hi, capture was re-
garded as almost certain. The amount of
his embezzlement is said to exceed 5000.
A grand reunion of the Alumni and
former students and of the friends of Ms
souri, State University at Columbia, will
be held from Sunday, May 31st, until
Thursday, June 4th inclusive. The baca-
laureate discourse will be delivered by
Rev. w. Pope Yeaman, D. D. : the annual
address before the literary societies, by
Hon. A. w. Terrell, of Austin, Tex, and
the Grafton before the Alumni Association
by Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, of New York.
Detect We Tracy will go for Maxwell.
Emma Baldwin, aged fifteen, and w. NJ.
Williams, nearly forty, eloped recently
from Gillespie, ILL.,, and were followed to
st. Louis by the girls father. After a
stormy scene, followed by few words in
pr vate between father and daughter, the
old gentleman consented to the marriage.
Arrangements are on foot at Higgins |
vile, Lafayette County, for the organiza-
tion of society composed of the members |
OF General 10 Shelby's brigade. A call |
has been issued for meeting to be held |
on the goth inst. at which time perma- |
nent rganization will be effected and ar
made for grand reunion.
Robert Beverly was arrested at Lexing- |
ton for forging a draft for $500.
Kinney Mari went West from Missouri |
about thirty years ago, leaving his wife
and son. He died last month, leaving a
large estate in Washington Territory, and t
his wife is called on to claim it.
The chemical examination of the stom.
ach of Mrs. Matilda Reynolds, who died
in st. Louis under suspicious cir.
disclosed about half an ounce
of arsenic
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