Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-03
miscellaneous Items.

| Miscellaneous Items.
| The business men of st. Joseph art
| working to secure the location of a stove
| foundry there.
| The Northwest Missouri and Southwes,
Iowa Poultry Association will hold poul-
| try show in Maryville from December Sth
| to 18th inclusive.
A coal digger named Samuel Carlos
| while opening up coal bank on Mr.. John
| Rice's place, two or three miles from Lex
| ington, the other day, had made fall of
| coal, when a large mass of rock fell upon
| his body, from hips to shoulders. His wife
| being at the mouth of the bank heard his
| cries, and with Mr.. John r. Howe's assis-
| lance Immediately went to his relief. Car
| los directed their work for a few minutes,
| but within half hour after the accident
| he died.
Officer Paul MERCER, who was shot il
| ST. Louis recently, is improving, and very
strong hopes are now entertained of his re-
| covery. The man said to have done the
| shooting has been arrested. John Maher
and George Reed, two chums of Frank
Dunn, the man caughtrunning up the alley
| in the neighborhoud just after the shoot
were taken to the City Hospital where the
| wounded officer identified Maher as the
man who shot him.
r. d. Lancaster has received the ap.
pointment as Surveyor of Customs for the
port of St. Louis.
A little boy named Daniel Loving was
| killed by the cars at Sedalia few days
ago.
Nfok,,> HNka /
Louis, a few nights ago two persons lost
| their lives and several others were more or
less severely injured. The fire is thought
to have been of incendiary origin.
The Sedalia Trades Assembly has placed
boycott on the Kansas City Journal and
the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Joseph H. Rush, on the way from Texas
to his home in Kentucky, died at the Union
Depot in st. Louis a few days since.
There were fifty-six marriage licenses
issued at the Recorders Office in st. Louis
the day before Thanksgiving, the largest
number ever recorded in one day.
Anton Bishop, fifteen years of age, has
been missing from home in st. Louis for
several days.
An alteration occurred at Louisiana
Pike County, few nights ago, between
Dave Britt, notorious character, and
Granville Mack, tobacco roller, both col
ored, resulting in the latter barely escap-
ing instant death from too free use of
Britt's knife. Mack is laid up for repairs,
with his left arm in sling, while his face
is gashed in several places.
BENZ. Clifton, a darkey who was taken to
st. Louis from Louisiana, Pike County, on
a charge of selling liquor without license,
pleaded guilty to having liquor in his pos
session without its having been stamped,
and was fined 81 and costs in the United
States District Court.
Judge E. V. Wilson, President of the
Bank of Edna, Knox County, also for
many years prominently associated with
the bar of Northeast Missouri, having
served on the bench of the Fourth Judicial
Circuit for ten years, died at his residence
in Edna few days ago, after painful
sickness of three weeks. Judge Will
son lived in Edna since 1852,
and was engaged in the practice OF
law during that time, except the ten years
that he was Judge of the Circuit Court.
He was the oldest practitioner at the Knox
County BAR and one of the oldest and best
known citizens of the county. He had
represented the county in both branches of
the State Legislature. Judge Wilson was
successful business man, and had &C
cumulated quite a large fortune. His
death is universally regarded as a serious
loss to the community. He leaves a widow
and nine children.
The third regular meeting of the West
ern Central Missouri Millers' Association
was held in Higginsville few days ago.
Among those present were President A
w. Robinson, of Lexington; Secretary
Thomas A. Whitworth, of Odessa; -
Murphy, of Oak Grove; Philip Land, OF
Brownsville; c. H. Vanstone, of Marshall;
w. [. Sivinney, of Gillian; S. I. Wilson,
OF Malta Bend, and Messrs. s. B. Walker
and John Riderer, of the Higginsville
Mills. There was general discussion OF
the interests of the millers in the district,
and altogether, the meeting day was
pleasant and profitable one. This assoc
citation has only been OF gained two
months, but at present there are forty
four mills, representing a combined cap
ital of over 81 100000, in the organization.
Kansas City sent $1,000 to Galveston.
j. c. Minter, arrested at Chillicothe some
weeks ago for burglarizing the residence
of w. A. Lane, and who was incarcerated
in the County Jail to await the action oil
the Grand Jury, has been released on
writ of habeas corpus, brought before
Judge Davis and admitted to bail in the
sum of $500.
Henry Donnelly and Thomas Mcdonald
two Kansas City policemen. quarreled
while on their beat a few nights ago, oven
a question of authority. Both men drew
their revolvers, when Mcdonald was shot
four times by Donnelly, dying soon after
Donnelly was arrested.
Weston has made it known that she
wants the branch Penitentiary.
St. Louis has been entertaining the pas,
few days large delegation from the cattle.
raising sections of the West and South
west, assembled in their annual convention
Young America has been somewhat disap.
pointed, as there has been a marked
scarcity of the insignia of the traditional
cowboy present, the delegates all appear.
ing in tstore clothes.e
AT public meeting held in the Court
house at Independence few days ago,
resolution was passed to make an effort te
secure the location of Penitentiary No.
near that city on the river, two and a hall
miles north.
The Vulcan Iron-works at st. Louis art
running night and day.