Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-04
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

week enulng June btn: standard, lneaGer
"Manette," the new opera by Mrs. Pitt
man and Prof. Robyn, Of st. Louis; PEG.
pies Theater, "The Danites;" Urig's
Cave, Summer theater, Mexican Typical
Orchestra, from New Orleans Exposition;
Panorama of the Siege of Paris.
The new Grand Opera-house in st. Louis
which is rising from the ashes of the fer.
mer structure, burned last November, will
be handsome building, and is already
announced to be opened September 18th.
Prof. Ralph E. Oldham has been elected
Superintendent of the Jefferson City pub.
lie schools.
Commissioners have been selected by
Governor Marmaduke for Lunatic Asylum
No. 8.
The forty sixth annual diocesan con
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church convened in Christ Church, St
Louis, on the 9th.
The wife of Tom Kelly, the st. Louis
pugilist, has been granted a divorce and
81, 800 alimony for brutal treatment
The Bus ch Zouaves have received fron
New Orleans the handsome flag won by
them at the recent tournament in that
city.
John Begley, sixty years of age, was
arrested in st. Louis few nights ago fol
disturbing the peace. After being placed
in cell at the station the sergeant in
charge heard suspicious sounds coming
from the cell, and upon investigation
found the old man trying to beat his
brains out by butting his head against the
floor.
VIM. Vein berg, at work in Greenfelder's
pork-h in st. Louis, fell in pit con-
tanning hot water and grease a few days
since, and was very seriously scalded.
There was a wholesale Jail delivery in
st. Joseph few nights ago. The Gala
boose and City Work House are combined.
At night the prisoners who have been at
work all day on the streets and rock quar-
ries are lodged in the calaboose. On the
night in question the bars were removed
from one of the windows of the prison,
while the guard slept, and seventeen sue
ceeded in making their escape.
1t has been developed in Sedalia tn at
there is man named J. G. Cameron, rep
resenting that he is the agent of a news
paper in that city, known as the Cottage
and Artisan, and taking subscriptions for
the same. About fifty letters and postal
cards have been received at the Sedalia
The Post-office authorities think that
Cameron has several agents at work else
where. He has operated at Alton, IL, in
Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. There is
no such paper published in Sedalia, and no
such man as j. 6. Cameron known there.
VIM. Huxton. aged forty four, and
Harvey D. Fisher, aged twenty six, have
both mysteriously disappeared from their
homes in ST. Louis.
Louis Reingruber, German artist, who
resided in st. Louis, committed suicide a
few nights ago by hanging, which he sup
plemented with bullet through his head.
When his remains were found he had been
dead several hours. He leaves a wife and
one child in reduced circumstances.
The German citizens of Kansas City are
terribly indignant over the recent murder
of their fellow -countryman, Gottleib Wei
land, and are taking concerted measures
to see that the murderer does not escape
punishment for his crime through any i'm
provised loop hole of the law.
Chief of Police Harrigan of st. Louis
has been suspended pending the investi-
cation of charges preferred against him
by ex-Police Captain Price, of Caronde-
let. Captain Heubler is acting chief
James Murphy, a bar-keeper, fatally
wounded Gott1ieb Weiland at Kansas City
a few days ago.
Mrs. A. NJ. Cochran, near Lathrop, re-
Gently gave birth to three children, two
girls and one boy, each weighing five
pounds. All are doing well.
An applicant for appointment on the
Kansas City police force received a blank
to fill out, one of the questions being,
"What is the general state of your
health?" To this he appended s'Ms
souri,"
Fisherman for some time past have
been seining fish in Lake Contrary, five
miles below ST. Joseph, in open VIOLA
ton of law. A war against the fisher
men was inaugurated not long since by
Sheriff Carr, and the result is that six of
the law-breakers are now in Jail. The re-
suit of the war is almost a complete
up of the gang that for years
has made its living in the lake The hauls
in some instances have been 1000 pounds
a day. and, as the State has long been en-
deavoring to stock the lake with German
carp, until now it has been throwing away
time and money.
A sensational episode CROWN out of the
late arrest of j. D. Goodfellow, the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad agent at Houstonia,
for the embezzlement of $215 of the COM
pany's money, transpired recently. AT the
time of the arrest of young Goodfellw, he
confessed to his crime, and gave as the
in citing cause thereto that he had been led
into it by gamblers of Houstonia, whose
names The gave to the Prosecuting Attor-
ney. His statement was that they had
enticed him into playing poker, and
afterward kept him in a state of
with the view and intent
Of inducing him, while his mind was
thus clouded, to appropriate the pro-
ceeds of his Office to his own use in order
TO Gamble with it, and that, having sue
ceeded, they swindled him out of tho
money with cards and kept it. At the
time of this confession the matter was
Kept quiet in order to take the necessary
steps to apprehend the parties charged
with the crime, and few days since Con-
stable Carnes proceeded to Houstonia with
duly signed warrants for the arrest of
Buck Berry. j. 7. Dereiux and j. c. Lon
gan, whom he took to Sedalia, where they
gave bond in the sum of 500 to appear be-
lore Justice Halstead for a hearing June
I'd, at which time Goodfellow, who is out
IN bail, will appear in behalf of the State
to testify against them.
The ricnic season has arrived.
The Zoe Clayton Mazeppa combination
AN aground at Sedalia and had great diff
iculty in getting away; a Wild West
roupe at sthe same town had the same
uck
Governor Marmaduke has granted par
don to Mrs. Catherine Brewer. who was
convicted at the April term, 1883, of the
Perry County Circuit Court of concealng
he birth of child, and sentenced to the
oenitentiary for three years. The woman