Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


Cave, st. Louis. and Manager Hanert,
proposes to produce it at Schnaider's Gar
den next week with Thompson's Oper'
Company, who will return from Milwau
kee for the purpose.
Work has been resumed at all the Goa
mines operated by the Lexington Goa
e Mining Company.
Since July 1st, when the high licens
law took. effect, 25J wine and beer saloon
in st. Louis have been closed.
Governor Marmaduke has pardoned w
T. Hoffman, who was serving a two
years. sentence for :felonious assault.
Grand preparations are being made TO
the soldiers reunion at Higgin sville, il
August.
A dozen poker-players were fined 5
each by the Police Judge at Kansas Cit,
a few days ago. j. P. Hamm, the keepe
of the place, was fined S2S and costs.
Thomas Sullivan, twelve years old
while bathing in the river at st. Louis
few days ago, was drowned. The Dody
was recovered.
Messrs. Richard Sanders and James
Buchanan, represent farmers O.
Washington Township, Lafayette County
say that a new pest is doing much dam
age to the corn in their neighborhood
The stalks on which the worms gather
drop off and rot rapidly.
Mrs. Criswell, wife of Kansas City
coal dealer, is looking for her husband.
He left home several days ago, taking
she says, two or three thousand dollars
with him. Miss Ash, a young lady &C.
quaintance, is also missing, and the wife
has concluded that the pair have eloped.
Joe Kist jumped, or rather, took a dive
from the St. Louis bridge few days ago
and bobbed up serenely after a sojourn OF
eighteen seconds under water.
The annual session of the Grand Lodge
of Missouri, /. o. G. T.. has adjourned.
The next annual session will be held at
Upton.
The charges of crookedness against
Blum, the st. Joseph Workhouse-keeper,
have been partially sustained.
The Savings Bank at Sedalia, which
suffered serious losses by its dishonest
bookkeeper, has gore into voluntary
liquidation, and is paying all depositors
on demand. 1t is an old institution, and
had the confidence of the con- -nunity.
Henry Schooler, one of the oldest citi-
zens in Pike County, died recently at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. j. W. Stark,
in GAINESVILLE. Mr.. Schooler was born on
the 25th day of July, 1799 in Fayette
County, Kentucky. HIS father was pres
ent at Yorktown, and witnessed the sur
render of Lord CORVALLIS to General
George Washington.
Midsh ipman r. w. Barley, of Chilli
Gothic, has received an honorable dis
charge from the United States navy, on
account of physical disability arising from
an injury to his eyesight, caused by hard
and close application to study. Mr.. Bark
ley graduated with honor No. 13 in his
class.
The mercury reached 100 degrees in Sc
dalia nearly every day during the past
week. There was considerable sickness,
but no sunstrokes have been reported.
Business was almost at a standstill, and
most of those having the means have left
for the various watering places.
Prof. A. Hatch of Strout, ILL.,, who fol
several days had been sojourning at the
Central House, in Louisiana, in his hurry
to catch train a few days ago, left I'M
der the pillow of his bed his wallet, con-
tanning between $500 and $500. Fortu-
was found by Mr.. Edwards, the proprie-
Friday, July oath, was the S5th BIRTH
day of Henry Shaw, of st. Louis, and he
number of friends at bis resi-
dence.
All bids for the publication of the Mis-
souri, Supreme and Appellate Court re-
ports have been rel ected.
Rev. D. c. Browne, a Methodist minister
of Sedalia, has been arrested for assault
ing Hebrew dry goods clerk.
Henry F. Crabb shot himself mortally
at St. Joseph few days ago.
Mayor Francis of st. Louis has reque est
ed, by proclamation, that all business be
in the city on the day of Cen
oral Grants funeral
Governor Marmaduke has declined to
pardon Henry Doz, convicted for selling
intoxicating liquors without license.
The flags on all public and large num-
bers of private buildings throughout the
State are hanging at half-mast, and will
remain so until after the funeral Of Gen.
eral Grant.
In the Sedalia Savings Bank defalca-
lion the total deficit is placed at about
$40, 600. The bank is paying its deposit
5ors in full as fast as they can be induced
to call for their money! but up to latest
advices only about $40, 600 out of $4,000
nave been withdrawn. The preliminary
of young King will come ur
ibis week.
The ST. Louis Cavalry Company have
home from their march
through the southeastern part of the
State. They presented rather jaded
md worn appearance as they returned to
heir quarters, but all profess to have en-
dyed the trip.
At a meeting of the Board of Prison In.
pectors at Jefferson City Auditor Walker
made report of the result of his trip to
Kansas City to select grounds for a site
or the branch prison. He laid before the
BOARD abstracts of title, surveys, ETC., the
Iced being held in escrow, to be delivered
when the money is paid over. After a
ession of several hours and a full dis GUS
ion of the matter, the board resolved to
receipt and adopt his report and to take
he land known as the Collins tract, being
wenty acres, situated about two miles
vest of Kansas City. The price is $1,000
yer acre. Auditor Walker says the sale 1
O the State will be approved by the Gov
rnor. the money paid over and the deed
to the Inspectors.
Maxwell has sailed from Auckland.
Scherr's triplets, whose entrance into
his world at Kansas City was elabor-
tely written up last fall, have all died.
hey fell victims to summer complaints
hat carry away SO many children. A
und of about $500 was raised by popu-
alton subscription at the time of their
firth, to assist the parents, who were very
TO- r.
Emmett King, a clerk in sthe Seda1ia
savings Bank has been arrested charged
,;tb tho loroanu Of Gin mn Of tho no nL,s