Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-09-24
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

For the week ending September Goth the
| following theatrical attractions will claim
the attention of visitors to St Louis
| Standard Theater, Meader & Collins
| Comic Opera Company in 1.-THE Mikado;'
Grand Opera House, Slavin & Johnson
Minstrels; Olympic Theater, My-a Good
win, in isis" Peoples Theater, Flort
Moore, in "A Drummsr in Petticoats;'
Pope's Theater, ''Devil's Auction" st
Louis Exposition, open day and evening
Panorama. 'Siege of Paris"
Christopher Opperman, aged twenty
ne years, committed suicide in St Louis
few days ago by holding his head in a
tub of water.
Thomas Holey was burned to death in
st. Louis a few days ago by some gaSo.
line, which he was assisting to transfer
from a barrel to tank, taking fire from a
piece of lighted paper with which it came
in contact.
Business has been resumed by the St
Louis and the Great Western Glass
works.
Mrs. Josephine Bromley, who made her.
self conspicuous in the detective line in st.
Louis about year ago, has been arrested
for fraud.
months Governor John S. Phelps was able
to leave his room at the Planters House
in ST. Louis a few days since, taking a
short walk.
The st. Joseph Gazette dema nds to know
by what authority the Supreme Court
judges take three months vacation
every year when the docket is three years
behind.
tod nf In,
1885, and sentenced to five years. impris-
onment, has been pardoned by Governor
Marmaduke.
Judge Moxley was the first Judge OF
Probate of Lincoln County. He is yet
living and is in the enjoyme nt of good
health.
Assistant County Assessor CIR imp of
Jackson County was married to Miss Co.
retta Long on the pu bile highway by a JUS
tice of the Peace, few days ago. Both
parents had objected to the match.
The new Grand Opera house in st. Louis
is one of the handsomest theaters in the
country.
Ex- Confederate soldiers will hold re-
union at Louisiana in October.
The corn crop of Missouri will be some
what below the average for the past five
years, which has been ISL 900, 600 bushels.
The Sedalia Fair Association has in
creased it's stock s., 900 and off paid the
premiums in full.
An election will be held in Davies
County on the first Tuesday in October to
vote on the proposition to issue bonds to
the amount of so, 900 to build Court
house and Jail in Gallatin.
George Robertson had seven head of
fine cattle killed by lightning recently in
Saline County. They were all within a
few feet of each other.
Carr Stein, a travelling man for the
clothing house of Joseph Kahn & Co.,
Kansas City, was arrested in st. Joseph
f,w nights ago on a telegram from the
house, charging him with ENLIGHTENMENT.
He denies any knowledge of the matter.
Senator Vest has donated one volume of
Agricultural Department reports to the
Natural History Society of Sedalia.
A passenger train on the Hannibal &,
st. Joseph Road colIided with special
engine and way car near st. Joseph few
days ago. Both engines and the baggage
car were com pletely wrecked. Supply
Agent Hamilton, of the Rock Island Road,
on board the special, had his right leg
broken. Engineer Black, of the special
engine, was badly scalded, and may die.
The accident was cause1 by a mistake in
orders.
Henry Despair has been held for trial
at Sedalia on charge of bigamy, and the
case promises to be one of peculiar inter-
est, inasmuch as Despair claims that he
was never married to the woman who
for seven years passed as his wife and
bore him children, and that the woman
he married recently is his only lawful
wife. Judge O'Brien held him under the
cohabitation act, but his attorneys ex-
press th emselves as conf lent they will
clear him in the Circuit Court. In case
they do not they declare they will carry
it to the Supreme Court as a test case, in
which event it will become cause celebre
a a case establishing and defining the
scope and extent of the cob abitation
law.
G. A. Hoffman, State Missionary OF
the Christian Church, urges the commit
tees in the State conve ntion to make their
reports business papers, and not essays.
Captain Joseph NJ. Woods died few
days since at his residen in st. Louis, at
the advanced age of seventy -four years,
after an illness of several months. Cap
tain Woods was native of Virginia, but
had lived in this State and in ST. Louis
for many years. He was an active steam
boatman for nearly fifty years, and num-
bered among his friends and acquaint-
ances nearly every officer that ever ran on
the great rivers of the Southwest.
James Gilbert, a man who broke Jail at
Boonvile on the 7th of last July. where
he was held for burglary, was arrested "a
few days since at the Union Depot in st.
Louis, and turned over to Sheriff Glenn,
of B Jonville.
Jas. Gruve, a Wabash section foreman,
the body of a dead man ly ing
on the track near St. Louis. a few days
ago. The body was frightfully tern and
mu Hated and had evidently teen run
over by the south bound express. Both
legs were cut off and the head was ba lily |
crushed. The remains proved to be those |
of Edwin Knevett, husband of q so called |
of st. Louis.
Preparations for the Yelled Prophets |
pageant in st. Louis October 9th, are |
being made on a most elaborate scale |
A Grand ball in the Chamber of Commerce |
will close the evenings festivities The |
trades' display on the Sth. two days later, |
will be on a much larger and more elab- |
crate scale than ever.
The corn crop is rich in promise.
The st. Louis school children were ad
mitted to the Exposition for the nominal
admission fee of five cents, and the man
agement were given abundant cause for |
by reason of their rudeness and |
vandalism. OF course there were excep-
lions, but they caused more work, trouble
and annoyance to exhibitors than ten