Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-09
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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Of bicycles on the streets of that city. HI
will have to fight the League of American
Wheelmen.
I General Albert Pike, Grand Commands
of the Supreme Council of Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite, southern jurisdic
ton of the United States, visited Kansas
City a few days ago and conferred thu
thirty third degree upon number of can
didates. It was an interesting Masoni,
gathering.
The cornerstone for q new German
Catholic church has been laid in st Louis
Chinese emissaries are doing their leve
best to tamper with the witnesses in tn,
cases growing out of the murder of Lot
johnson in st. Louis.
Civil Service Commissioner Gregory
will hold an examination in st. Louis
July 18th, of applicants for federal posi-
| tions.
Alice R. Frankie (Trinkle) and her hus.
band, William, clairvoyants, formerly o.
st. Louis, are now behind the bars in New
| York at the instance of the woman'i
maid, who tells a strange story of some
body's hus band and dose of rat poison
| The coal miners trouble at Lexington
| is in course of settlement by arbitration.
| A ST. Louis man named Patrick Nc
Carly had his daughter and her husband
arrested because the daughter appropri .
ated some of her dead mothers clothes
and trinkets, and was quite indignant be-
cause he could not have them sent to the
Penitentiary. Judge Noonan gave him q
wholesome lecture.
Governor Marmakuke has pardoned
Henry Elliott, sent to the Penitentiary
| from st. Louis.
The st. Louis Exposition will be open
this y ear from September 9th to October
oath, except Sundays.
The result of the recent election in Lex
| ington on the compromise of Lexington
| Township bonded indebtedness shows
| that the compromise was carried.
Samuel G. Shaffer, land speculator in
Kansas City, has been indicted on a
charge of embezzlement of $4,000 from
John L. Blair, New Jersey capitalist.
Shaffer gave bond and the case was con.
tinued until November.
| The report of the State Treasurer makes
| the following showing of the condition of
the States finances: Balance in Treasury
June l, $3.50, 800 SO; receipts during June,
SS7 301. 10; disbursements during June,
S49), 1862; balance July l, S452, 5o4 %
Charles Rose, twice convicted of the
has been sentenced by Judge Van Wag-
oner to fifty years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary in accordance with the YER
dict of the jury. Rose stabbed and killed
Ingram in a bar-room in April, 1881. On
the first trial he was found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree and sentenced to be
hanged. The fury in the second trial re.
turned the above verdict.
Gaparo1 ba ruact of
Governor Marmaduke at jefferson City
last week.
The Future City Oil Works in st. Louis
burned few nights ago, involving loss
approximating $780, 700.
Governor Marmaduke has pardoned
Samuel Dunnig, who was convicted in
January of the present year in Atchison
County ofiassaurt with intent to commit
rape. New facts in the case recently de-
veloped, showed him to be innocent of the
alleged crime.
The State Board of Health has organ
lied by the election of the following Of
fcers: President, Maj VIM. T. Gentry;
Secretary, DR.. George Homan; Treasurer,
J. B. Prather. Auditing Committee: DR..
George Holman, DIR. Griffith and j. B
Prather.
The Mackerel Brigade has been reorgan-
lied in st. Louis for the season and have
selected the following officers: The Hon.
S. s. Bass was made Royal Mackerel;"
Sam Mason, "Royal Sardine;" D. F.
Beebe, "Holy Red-Snapper;" C. F.
D'ArchamDle, "Royal Cod;" John A.
Rohlf, "Roy al Mud -Sucker;" e. o. Peck
ering, "Royal Gold Fish," j. F. Farrell,
of East st. Louis. Royal Pilot Fish;
John W. Lloyd, "Worthy Whale;" George
Schuster. "Worthy Cat Fish," and w. N.
Bell, "Worthy Dog-F.sh." The Mack
erels will take another cruise in the fall.
A party of vigilantes, masked and
mounted, visited Winthrop. Buchanan
County, few nights ago and promulgat-
ed long threatened warning upon some
of the desperadoes that have long infest-
ed the place. They served notice on Ben
Holland, Hugh Corrigan and other noto-
rious character to leave town within
certain time, bringing ropes, revolvers
and other ms ruments Of lynch law into
play to indicate the tena city of their pur-
pose of enforcing order. All those motif
fed have left the place, and the reign of
terror is said to approach its termination.
A distressing accident occurred at Page
City. Lafayette County, few days ago,
in which John, aged about nine years, son
of Captain J. P. Ardinger, of that city
lost his life by the accidental discharge OF
a shotgun with which his father had been
hunting, and which he picked up from the
ground while his father was temporarily
absent. The report of the gun caused his
father to rush to the scene, only to find
the little fellow dying, his stomach hav-
ing been torn away.
A few days since Sebastian WEIGH,
resident of St. Louis, had a chance OF
buying a remarkably fine black horse for
$50 from Matthew A. Berry. Berry told
WEIGH a nice story, which WEIGH was not
inclined to believe. He tod Berry to
come back after the banks had open ed and
he would pay him. Berry went away,
and in the meantime the police were in.
formed. At noon Berry eturned and was
promptly arrested. He stated at first tn at
he had bought the horse, but his story
was contradictory in many respects.
Finally he confessed that he had stolen
the animal from Mr.. Rowden, of Pacific,
Mo-, and had ridden it to the city. The
police notified Mr.. Rowden and Berry
was locked up.
Postage is now two cents an ounce.
A dispatch from London says that by
the last New Zealand mail important evi.
dencs was sent to Auckland of the guilt
Ter, at st. Louis. 1t consists of sworn
descriptions by E. Preller, brother of
the victim, of clothes, coins, trinkets,
books and music which were in the posses
sion of Preller when killed, and samples
of cloth and buttons supplied to him by
London taiiors, all found in Maxwelps