Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-01
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

For the week ending October Sd visitor.
to St Louis will be able to take theil
choice of the following theatrical attrac
tions: Grand Opera House, DenmaI
Thompson, in Joshua Whitcomb;" Olym'
pic Theater, NJ. B. Curtis in samuel o.
Posen;" Pope's Theater, Lester & Aliens
Minstrels, with John L. Sullivan in classic
poses; Peoples Theater, Powers ivy
Leaf" Company; Standard Theater, ow.
ing to unparalleled success the Meadel
Opera Company will continue to product
Gilbert & Sullivan's latest production,
"The Mikado."
Forty thosand bushels of wheat were
| posted as weevily in st. Louis a few days
| ago. k-.
Hon. Waller Young has declined the
Postmastership at ST. Joseph. He points,
as his reason, to the fate of half dozen ex-
Postmasters who went into the office
with money in their pockets and left it
without prospects and without reward.
Miss Mary Wohl committed suicide in
St Louis a few days ago by taking two
ounces of carbolic acid. The rash act fol-
| lowed a quarrel with her brother.
j. L. Wallace for passing counterfeit
money, was sentenced to Jail for one year.
at Jefferson City.
Edward Wills, of Greene County, was
released from the LETTERS on Penitentiary
on writ of habeas corpus, he being I'M
der age when convicted.
| The tent erected for the Sam Jones
| camp-meeting, which opened at st Jo-
seph on the 25th, is 15) feet wide and $50
feet long, and will seat 10,00) people, 1t
is lighted with electric light and has
1 plank floor in it. 1t is seated with chairs,
| g. 900 of these having already been pur-
| chased.
| There are 1891 patients in the various
| public institutions of st. Louis. They are
distributed as follows: City Hospital, 357 !;
Female Hospital, 26s; Insane Asylum,
| 1893; insane and at the Poor House, 419;
paupers. 81
The United States Court at Jefferson
| City has adjourned to the 10th of October.
Congressman Heard has gone to the Pa
| cific coast for a m onth's rest.
A list of the Grand Jury has been pre-
| sented to Brooks, alias Maxwell" for his
| approval
Governor Marmaduke pardoned Henry
Young of Dallas County, under sentence
| to the Penitentiary for grand larceny.
The Prison Inspectors presented to Gov.
ernor Marmaduke their report, selecting
B oonville as site for the branch Peni-
Tertiary. The Governor took it under adj
visement and is unders TODD to be opposed
to the location.
A young farmer named Kimball, living
three miles south of Sedala, placed his
right hand over the muZzle of a loaded
shotgun few days ago, when it was ac-
cidentally discharged, tearing his hand
off close to the wrist.
Co1o Of nvford
Miss, who has been rendered the position
of Chief of Inspectors of the POST office
Department at Washington, was until
three years ago a member of the whole
sale grocery house of Houston, West &
Co., st. Louis, and stands high in the
mercantile world.
G. W. Churchill, the Missouri Pacific
mail agent who was taken to jefferson
City recently for stealing money letters,
asked for transfer to St Louis, and the
same was denied by Judge KrekeL
Churchill's bond was fixed at So 900, and
failing to furnish the same he was sent
to the County Jail.
Mr.. P. S. Gilmore, who, with his famous
Dand, is giving daily concerts in the
Grand Music Hall of the st. Louis Expo
sition, says of the hall: SIT is acoustical-
Iy perfect. tell you I never played in
such hall before. My wife and daugh-
ter, whoiare here with me, and have trav-
eled every where with me, say the same
thing. I told them to go to all points in
the hall, and they did. They say there is
not a hall in Europe or America superior
to it. I am sur prised and delighted"
The Trades Display Association of st.
Louis has contracted with the Topeka
(Kas.) Flambeau Club to visit st. Louis
and participate in the Grand Trades Dis
play on the evening of o 'tober 9Th, when
they will give one of their unequaled fam
beau and pyrotechnic displays.
Peter Brangan, aged twenty seven, of
the firm of Willy & Branigan, st. Louis,
is missing.
There is on exhibition in st. Louis
restaurant window pumpkin which tips
the scales ut AS pounds and measur es six
feet nine inches in circumference.
An illuminated elephant is coming from
New Orleans to st. louis to participate in
the Trades pageant October Sth.
The ecclesiastical trial of Rsv. E. H.
Prosser, pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, of Independence, re-
suited in a vindicatien of the charge of
drunkenness preferred against him by
some members of his lock.
st. Joseph was Overlooking with people
last week attending the Veterans reun-
ion, which was a most notable success in
every particular.
The Sedalia Board of Trade recently
appointed a committee to go to jeff erson
City to ay the claims of Sedalia before
the branch Penitentiary Commits sioners.
This action is said to be contrary to the
direct wishes of the citizens of Sedalia,
who do not want the Penitentiary.
j. w. Baxter, hailing from Chicago
was locked up at the Kansas City Police
Station few days ago on the charge of
being insane. After he had been locked
up for some time he attempted to commit
suicide by tearing his clothes in strips
and hanging himself to the ceiling. He
was discovered before he succeeded in
harming himself.
The grocery store of James E. McCor-
mick at Sedalia was burglariz ID a few
nights ago and 500 in cash and several
boxes of cigars were carried away.
James Larkin, of Sedalia, had valua-
BILE horse stolen few nights ago by one
of the gang of horse-thieves that have
been engaged in running off horses and
mules from the farmers in Pettis and ad-
joining counties for the past month.
Excursions to St. Louis are all the rage
Arthur Hubb ard, the thirteen year old
son of James Hubbard of st. Joseph, met
with an accident a few days ago which
amputation of the right leg.
He was walking north of the city and in
pulling single barrel 4S-caliber revolver
from his pocket it was accidentally dis
charged. The bullet took effect in the