Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


at Uhrig's Cave and Thomas at Schnai.
der's Garden, and the panorama of the
Siege of Paris, always open. Visitors to
the Future Great" can enjoy the summer
evenings very pleasantly.
David Slinker is in Jail at Jackson,
charged with brutality assaulting Mrs.
Murphy.
CampbelPs store and the Post -office at
Rosedale, suburb OF Kansas City, were
entered by burglars few nights ago and
robbed of goods, money and stamps.
VIM. Mcdonald, brother of the slayer
OF Gray at Lisbonville, has been arrested
as accessory.
Ira Barager was fatally injured by a
fall from building at Sedalia a few days
ago, where he was at work.
j. Sanborn, Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture, furnishes the following
summary of his June report of crops in
Missouri: The estimated yield of wheat is
Z $40 bushels an acre, or total II, 23i |, $40
bushels. The condition of corn is 81. 5;
oats, 92.6; hay, sS.s; spring wheat, GA. 7.
Wheat is generally well-filled and of good
quality, though injured somewhat by ex-
cessive rain and rust.
James H. Pratt, who shot Alex. Green,
at st. Joseph a few days ago. was ar
raigned in the Circuit Court and held in
$1,000 bonds to answer to the Indictment
found against him by the Grand Jury. He
pleaded not guilty. It is understood that
Green will make statement exculpating
Pratt
Mrs. AL Tucker, the wife of a hotel
keeper at Cole Camp, Benton County, shot
herself and afterward took laudanum a
few nights ago, with suicidal intent. The
cause of the rash act was domestic in
felicity. It was thought the woman would
recover.
A ten-year old boy named Samuel Frey
was drowned in the Morgan Street est.
LOUSY Swimming School few days ago.
The lad could not swim, but in company
with number of others entered the sh al
low water. When the teacher IS back was
turned, he stepped into the deep water
and sank without giving an alarm. He
was not missed until few minutes later,
and then, when the body was recovered,
life was found to be extinct.
The quarterly statement of the st. Louis
Post office shows the expenses for clerk
hire and all other items, except carriers,
were but $41 900; the carriers cost little
over S37, 900. After all the expenses have
been paid q balance of 100000 is due the
Government for the worst three months of
the year. This is the net profit of the
office, but it will readily be consumed in
the payment of railroads and other gen.
eral expenses of the department..
Henry Willie, st. Louis carpenter, met
with instant death few days ago. Will
lie tied a rope to railing at the top of one
of the bins of the new elevator, where he
was working, and was descending the rope
when the railing gave way and he fell
headlong to the ground, a distance of six
ty two feet. Hewas picked up stone dead.
He was married man.
]. P. Bartholow, manager of the Stod-
dard Coal and Wood Depot in st. Louis,
committed suicide few days ago by
shooting himself through the head. Add
ed to what is supposed to be a family pre-
disposition to insanity, he had been lately
greatly depressed by business troubles,
and it is said was drinking slightly on the
day of the tragedy. He was fifty two
years old and had a mother and seven
childr en- dependent upon him.
The wheat crop of Lafayette County,
which is now being harvested, is variously
estimated at from Is 900 to 100000 bushels.
The assessed valuation of land by the
State Board of Equalization places a
higher valuation in only two counties over
that put on Lafay ette-St Louis and jack
son-which virtually acknowledges the
soil of that county to be the best and the
richest. The valuation in st. Louis Coun-
ty is $53 per acre; in Jackson, So. %, and
in Lafayette, $i3 sc. Besides these three
counties there re only eleven others in
which the valuation exceeds $40 per acre.
The enfor cement of the Sunday law at
St. Joseph is meeting with some opposi-
tion. The base ball people object to clos
ing up on Sunday and the Grand Jury in
dicted the manager. The Mayor states
that the law shall apply to all if enforced
in one direction, and he will close the
offices, livery stables, etc. The
street cars will also be stopped.
At the annual meeting of the State
Dental Association, recently held at
Sweet Springs, DR.. A. j. Prosser, of st.
Louis, was elected President for the en-
suing year and DIR. Conrad First Vice.
President. The next meeting will be held
at Sweet Springs.
The State Board of Pharmacy met at
Jefferson City a few days ago and passed
fifteen applicants for examination. The
Board will meet again in st. Louis the
first Monday in October.
The Globe Hotel at Louisiana burned a
few nights ago. 1t was insured for So, 900
on furniture, and $1,000 on building. DIR.
Lonergan, occupying a third story room,
jumped to the street, and is reported to be
seriously Injured.
John Grady, a steamboat cook, was
found dead on the levee at st. Louis few
mornings since. His death, it is pre-
sumed was caused by alcoholism, as he
had been drinking very heavily.
The appointment of d. Walker Wear as
Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park
creates vacancy in the Thir5eth Sena-
torial Dis trict which must be filled at the
next general election.
The st. Louis Light Cavalry, with
section of artillery, are on their mar Oh
through Southeast Missouri.
The display at the st. Louis Exposition
the coming fall will far exceed that of last
y ear. Nearly all the available space is
already engaged.
The Fourth was very generally cele.
brated throughout the State, but the list |
Of resultant casualties is smaller than on
any similar occasion within our recollec-
ton.
Heavy floods in the southwest.
Henry johnson (colored), who was
hanged at Alma, Lafayette County, sew .
eral nights ago, to force an admission |
from him of his guilt in stealing horses
from man named Anderson Yates, has |
been placed in Jail at Lexington. He inn |
pilcates In the crime man named Turner, |
who he says assisted in disposing of the
stolen animals, which were sold in Kansas.
Charley, the three-year-old son of Mary
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