Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-12
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, STATE OF MIS-,
Miscellaneous Items.

st. Louis dramatic bulletin for week end.
| ing November 14th: Olympic Theater,
Emma Abbott; Grand Opera-house Law
renee Barrett; Pope's Theater, Louise
Balfe, in "Dagmar;'' Peoples Theater,
Chas. Gardner, in "Karl the Peddler;"
Standard Theater, Elm the Ranks;' PIANO.
rama Siege of Paris.
During her visit to st. Louis for one week
beginning Monday, November 9th, the
charming operatic artistic, Miss Emma Alb
bott, will present the following repertoire:
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights,
'The Mickado;" Tuesday night, "Norma II
| Wednesday matinee, Bohemian Girl ,.
Thursday night, "Faust;" Friday night,
"La Traviata;'' Saturday matinee, "Mig.
| non."
Lafayette County farmers report an in.
crease of about fifteen per cent. in the
acreage of wheat sown this fall.
The peach crop of Lafayette County, as
| far as heard from this season amounted to
eight peaches.
During October there were 622 deaths in
| st. Louis and SS4 births.
Gustav Graham's eighteen months old
| child died in st. Louis a few DAYS ago
from the effects of drinking concentrated
| I'VE.
A municipal census report of Kansa
City, recently completed, shows the city's
population, exclusive of Kansas City, Kas.,
and other suburbs, to be l05,042. This in
dicates gain of about fifty per cent. since
1880. The proportion between the sexes is
1000 males and $4,000 females.
A serious fire occurred at Aullville, La.
| fayette County, few nights ago, in which
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sured for 81 900 was burned, together with
a stock valued at $1,000 on which the in
surance had expired only a few days pre-
viously. The building was the property of
Mrs. b. Walker, and the merchandise be-
| Ionged to Mr.. John Donson. The POST
Office was also located in the building and
was totally destroyed, nothing but the
maii being saved. In an upper room was
the Masonic lodge room, the records of
which were lost.
G. Nj. Shelley has been appointed POST
master at Kansas City.
| The preliminary trial of Patrick McCooe
/ for being accessory to the murder of Xa-
vier Miller at Corder, Lafayette County,
on the night of October 23d last, resulted
/ in the discharge of McCooe.
| The grocery store of J. o. Stephens in
| st. Joseph was entered by burglars a few
nights ago and the safe robbed of 800.
The burglars drilled a hole near the COM
| bination, inserted punch and broke the
cast-iron box that held the combination,
causing it to fall, and removed all OBJ
| stacles to turning back the bolts and
opening the door. 1t was an excellent
piece of cracksman's work, and the police
are puzzled.
| j. o. Stevens Fish and Oyster Marlze,
at st. Joseph was entered by burglars a
few nights ago, who broke the safe open
and robbed it of 800.
The ladies of the Grand Avenue (St.
! Louis) Presbyterian Church gave an old
| fashioned quilting a few nights ago. They
were costumed in the garb of We olden
! time.
| W. Fl. Little, editor of the st. Louis
| Etening Chronicle, has been fined $3.50 and
sentenced to thirty days i'll jail for pub
! fishing criminal libel on Deputy Coroner
| Hennessey.
| Governor Marmadulze has granted par
don to Samuel Minahan, who was convict
ed at the January term, 1883 OF the Grundy
| County Circuit Court of grand larceny and
sentenced to the Penitentiary for two
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been secured showing conclusively that he
was not the guilty party, hence his par.
! don.
| a petition has been presented for the in
corporation of the Missouri Association of
| Architects.
There were over 4,00J letters delivered in
| st. Louis last month by the special imme
diate delivery system.
! Indictments have been returned by the
| Federal Grand Jury at st. Louis against
Lucius Ell. and Joseph F. White, the coun-
! terfeiters of Brazilian bank notes.
| Quite sensation has been created in Sc
dalia by Judge Ryland issuing a bench
warrant for John B. Hickman, Mayor OF
| this city, on charge Of receiving bride.
Two years ago Isaac Graham gave SD to
Hickman in consideration of his appoint
ins him Fire Engineer. Hickman made
| the appointment but the Council refused to
ratify it, and Graham demanded his money,
but Hickman refused to return it. About
four months later Graham told his wife of
the transaction, and she went to Hickman,
and 10 lacify Der, he gave her $40 and
due biz on his meat shop for So worth of
| meat. the election last spring Hickman
| Yves candidate for Mayor, and Graham
| made the charge of bribery against him.
hickman in retaliation had Graham in
dicted, and on Tickman's testimony Gra-
| ham was convicted a few days ago, and
sentenced to two years in the Peniten-
tiary. The Judge then read the Prose-
cutting Attorney lecture on his failing to
have hickman indicted also, and issued
bench warrant for the Mayor.
Thanksgiving Day November Goth.
Colonel G. III. Mansur, of Chillicothe,
who was thrown from a buggy at Kansas
City few days ago, while out riding in
company with Major A. w. Mullins, of
Linnaus, has returned home. An exami-
nation shows the acromial end of the right
shoulder blade to be broken, and his face
is considerably scratched. The Colonel is
getting along well.
DIR. Thomas Soils, very prominent
ply sician at Sedalia, died few days since
OF pneumonia. He was prominent men,
Der OF various societies and organizations,
and was well known throughout Central
Missouri
Higginsville has inaugurated monthly
stock sales.
The Board of Prison Inspectors rejected
Governor Marmaduke's request to hold the
selection of a Penitentiary site in abey-
ance, which forces him to either accept or
reject Louisiana.
During the month of October the amount
of internal revenue collected in st. Louis
was So31 .690.95, as follows: For list assess
ments, $9J.77; beer stamps, $50, 717.21; spirit
stamps, 1898 ,344.30; cigar stamps, SILL
61".05; snuff stamps, S291.76; tobacco
stamps, S196, 26O.6s; special tax stamps, 81
sos. 1S This shows an increase of $101,-