Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-18
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

St. Louis offers the following amuse-
ments for visitors for the week ending
June Goth: Mexican Band, three concerts
at Exposition building, 10Th and 10Th;
Standard Theater, Uncle Toms Cabin;
Uhrig's Cave, Ford's Opera Company ir
'Fra Diavalo.n
The Kansas City Board of Trade recent.
iy b d the honor of receiving Senator
Bayard, Senators Vest and Cockreh, and
Governor Marmaduke, each of whom
spoke briefly.
Prof. ]. w. Sanborn, Dean of the Agri.
| cultural College and Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, publishes the fol-
lowing facts in his monthly crop report:
The area of standing wheat is 1859 ,0Sa
| acres, with present condition at so 2-1O OF
an average crop, or 500 bushels, giving q
total outlook for wheat of over 100000
bushels, which is much less than required
for home needs. Corn acreage, 9S.5;
termination, 77.5. Apples, So; peaches,
40; spring grain, 81, as the present condi-
| ton of each. Area of potatoes, &C. Pas
lures, good. Glover little less than an
average. Cattle, 80. Drought is prevail
ing in the southeast part of the State and
| an excess of rain on the western border.
| Excepting wheat, the outlook is not I'M
| promising for farmers, as grass, hay and
| stock, our most important interests, are
| fourishing.
| Detective Tracy, with Officer Badger, OF
the st. Louis police, sailed on the 9th inst,
from San Francisco, on the steamship
| Zelandia, for Auckland, New Zealand, to
bring back the murderer Maxwell.
Since March LIST st. Louis has packed
5000 hogs and Kansas City, 236,015.
Articles of Association have been filed at
| jefferson City of the Electric Aurophone
| Company of st. Louis.
A check for $40, 800 to pay interest on
| State bonds was forwarded from Jefer-
son City to New York few days ago.
Ameeting will be held at Jeff erson City
| on the 23d inst, of the railway freight
managers of the State.
The city authorities of Marshall have
| provided lot of stone for the exercise of
| the muscles of impecunious offenders
against the city ordinances, and all who
| are fined and unable to pay out will have
the opportunity to work out.
The interest in the revival of the Meth
| odist Episcopal Church South. is in
| creasing at Huntsville Though the meet
ing has been in progress nearly six weeks,
and nearly one hundred persons havepro-
fessed religion, there seems not to be the
slightest indication of abatement.
Samuel Arbuckle was taken to Sedalia
few nights ago from Parsons, Kas., and
admitted to the hospital with a broken
leg, caused by falling from the cars and
the train passing over him.
A tramp, whose name could not be
learned, was instantly killed at Usage
City few days ago. He attempted to
I. - D.
engine at that place, and, falling off, was
run over and his body cut in two pieces.
Louisa Butt cker, eighteen years old,
made an attempt to commit suicide by
jumping from raft into the river at st.
Louis. She was prevented from taking
the leap by a man named Jeffries, who
took her in charge and turned her over to
the police.
The fund commissioners held a meeting
in jefferson City few days ago and ap-
pointed Hon. Wallace P. johnson as spe-
cial counsel for the State in the Hanni-
bal & st. Joseph bond suit. It is quite
likely that Messrs. Shields and Hender-
son will also be retained The last Cen
eral Assembly appropriated 10000 for at
torney's fees in this case.
The Branch Guards and the Busch Zou
aves went to Roodhouse, ILL.,, where they
took part in the competitive drill at that
place last week. The zouaves merely gave
an exhibition drill but the Branch Guards
took part in the competition and carried
off the big prize.
The Missouri Wool Growers Association
will hold its annual meeting and election
at Sedalia on June 18th inst. In 1884 Mis-
souri, had 1880 sheepmen, owners of
], 439 ,3So sheep, valued at s., 1878. 760. Con-
sequent upon the depr ession in 1884 these
grand fiocks were reduced ten per cent. in
number and twenty per cent. in value as
early as January of the current year.
Some of the best racing ever seen in st.
Louis was had there last week at the in
augural Spring meeting on the Fair As
sociation's new track. The attendance
was not quite what was expected, cool,
threatening weather and high admission
prices combining to chill the enthusi as m
of many turf patrons.
Williams, the murderer OF Moran in st.
Louis, is still at large, the police of that
city seeming to be entirely at fault in To-
locating him or eve en- obtaining clew to
his whereabouts.
John Jones, the suspected burglar
taken to Sedalia from Warrensburg, was
arraigned before Justice Halstead, but
there being no evidence to show that he
was connected with the gang, he was re-
leased, and left for Kansas City. He
claims to be lead miner and smelter
from Joplin, and stated that, being short
of cash, he left the train at Sedalia the
day before the attempted safe-blowing,
and that he slept near the SWITCH some
100 yards north of the scene of the shoot
ing, of which he heard or knew nothing
until he arrived at Dresden at
10 6. m. next day. There he purchas ed
a ticket to Kansas City, and was arrested
and held at Warrensburg. Nothing def
mite had been learned OF the dead bur glar,
but a clew is believed to have been found,
through letter, as to his identity. All
traces of his accomplices have been lost.
Officer Fifer, who was shot by the burg
lar, is recovering slowly. His jaw is
much swollen and very painful. The ball
has been located at the base of the jaw,
but can not be removed until the intiam-
nation subsidies. A subscription has been
raised for him amounting to several hum
dred dollars, which was to be presented to
him, together with gold badge bearing
suitable ms cri ptions on Saturday last.
Cape Girardeau gets the Penitentiary.
TIE Wentworth Male Academy held its
closing exercises at Hagen's Opera house,
Lexington. There were only two grad
yates, the fir st the school has ever had,
Messrs. Lee Davis and Jesse Cranshaw,
both of Lexington. Medals were awarded
h,- lob Inc Taf,