Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-24
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

element from the Kansas City Times, was
arrested few days ago at Las Vegas,
N. M.
Brooks, alias Maxwell, is said to have
lost some of the gaiety which character
lied his earlier days in the st. Louis Jail.
There were 143 birth and 124 deaths in
st. Louis during the seven days ended the
18th inst.
The new Third Baptist Church in st.
Louis was dedicated on the 18th inst, with
appropriate ceremonies.
Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown died at his
home in Kirkwood, a suburb of st. Louis
few days ago of pneumonia and heart
disease.
A couple of spring bed peddlers were ar
rested in Lexington few days ago by Of
ficers from a neighboring county, they
being wanted for embezzlement.
Leslie Marmaduke, who has been serious
iy i'll for some time at Kansas City, has
recovered sufficiently to return to his home
State Superintendent of Schools Cole
man has issued call for a meeting of
the County Superintendents of the State
to be held at Jefferson City on December
Slst and January 1st and I'd, and has az
ranged most excellent programme for
discussion.
Louis Criminal Court of the murder of an
Old lady named McAuliff, and has been
sentenced to be hanged on February 9Th.
The funeral of B. Crate Brown was held
at Kirkwood on the 18th inst, and was
largely attended by members of the bar
from st. Louis and other portions of the
State. Governor Marmaduke was present.
The funeral was private and wholly with
out ostentation.
The veterinary surgeons throughout the
State are taking steps to form or organiza-
tion and inaugurate war upon the quacks
in the profession.
The murderers now confined in the st.
Louis Jail have cost the city $16,6S4 in the
matter of continuances of their cases. This
may be according to law, but it still
smacks of injustice to honest Taxpayers.
Governor Marmaduke has officially de-
capitated Police Commissioner Callahan,
OF st. Louis, and has appointed William
H. Lee, President of the Midland Blast
Furnace Company, his successor.
NJ. V. Rodney has been appointed by the
Governor Judge of the County Court of
Mississippi County.
The leading men of Gatewood, Ripley
County, have signed a remonstrance
against the sale of spirituous liquor in that
town.
Sam C. Schaeffer has given bond at
Kansas City in the sum of 1000. He
will still have to give bond for two indict-
ments now against him for embezzlement
before he can be released from custody.
The hearing of his case is set by the Su-
preme Court for January 9Th.
General j. L. Smith, of Jefferson City,
n
pneumonia.
One of the largest interpretations that
has been made for some time in this State
was made a few days ago in the Orr &
Lindsey Shoe Company, of st. Louis, with
a capital stock of 100000, all paid up.
The incorporates are w. c. Orr, with 1876
shares; DeCourcey B. Lindsey, with an
equal amount, and VIM. A. Orr and G. H.
Mall with one share each.
Goodsel Buckingham, formerly a we'll
known st. Louis commission man, died at
Washington, d. c., a few days ago. He
was one of the first members of the ST.
Louis Merchants Exchange Mutual Benev-
olent Society.
In wrestling match at Kansas City a
few days ago between "Greek George"
and Owen Bailey, an Englishman, for a
purse of 5000, the "Greek'' won in three
straight falls.
Mrs. Lizzie BRENNAN, of St. Louis, COM
mitted suicide a few days ago by taking a
dose of Trough on Rats" She had only
been married fifteen months, but had been
subject to melancholia, and had declared
she was tired of living.
Mamie, the nine-year- daughter of
Mrs. Maria Baker, of ST. Louis, died hor-
rible death few days ago. While stand
ing in front of CRATE her clothing took
fire, and in few moments she was mass
of flames. She was shoclxingly burned and
death relieved her excruciatng sufferings
in few hours.
DR.. G. E. Hayden, q well known Kansas
City physician, has been indicted by The
Grand Jury for perjury. He swore in
mechanics lien suit for labor employed on
a new building that the plaintiff profess
sionally owed him SIS for nine visits. The
case was decided in favor of the plaintiff.
who had Hayden indicted for perjury on
the ground that he had only made one
visit.
The preliminary examination at Sedalia
of Richard Hewitt, charged with the muir
der of his brother, Thomas Hewitt, ten
years ago last September, in that city, was
held few days ago and resulted in Hewitt
being bound over to the Criminal Court to
answer for murder in the second degree.
In default of bail he was committed to jail.
Nearly all the witnesses of the killing are
still living at Sedalia.
1t is a settled fact that in the municipal
election, to be held in st. Joseph next
April, the question of politics will cut no
figure. The recent and continued agita-
ton of the Sunday law has affected
public sentiment that the candidates for
Mayor must announce themselves on the
question. The Herald is the champion of
the observers of the law, and the Gazette il
as pronounced ON the other side. Prom-
nent politicians of all parties admit that
the coming Mayor will not be elected on q
political issue.
The preliminary trial of DR.. Thewston,
the Pilot Grove Postmaster, arrested re-
Gently for embezzlement of Post office
funds, took place i'll Sedalia few days
ago before Commissioner Scott. There
was not particle of evidence to sustain
the charge of embezzlement, and Thews-
ton was discharged. His friends are in
dignant over his arrest, as he has been
Postmaster for eight years, and ranked
high in business and social circles.
st. Louis is enjoying gaseous time.
1t has at last been decided that the Mis-
souri, militiamen who were relieved of
their horses by Shelby's raiders during
the early days of the war shall receive
compensation for their losses.
Mrs. Anna Price obtained judgment in
thu Lafayette County Circuit Court for
800 against August Selling for having
sold her (Mrs. Price's) husband liquor
q ffo, having hean notified not to do So