Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-19

| miscellaneous Items.
Judge John Broadhurst, of Clay County,
! is dead. He a native of Clay, born
| October "a, 1926, and a prominent pol
| itician in that section. During the later
| wears of his life he served four years as
| justice of the peace and ten years as
Judge of the Clay County Court.
| A camp of Sons of Veterans was recent
| lv organized in st. Louis.
| Henry Gade, carpenter, fell from
| building in st. Louis the other day and
| was killed.
| The body of negro was found in the
| river at st. Louis few evenings since.
| John Logan, cabin boy on the steamer
| John Gilbert, is reported to have fallen
| overheard at st. Louis and drowned.
Theodore Mitchell established a clear
| case of self defense in the killing of Lin
coin Hubbard, at ST. Louis, and was dis
| charged.
Edward Colstock, switchman, and
Charles Haide, fireman, injured in the re-
cent engine explosion at Kansas City, both
died in the hospital in that city.
| Edward Corners, aged forty five, died
at the Kansas City hospital from the eff
| feet of fall from the third story window
| of a lodging house.
Henry J. Waters, of Rails County, a
| graduate of the State University, has
been appointed to a clerkship under Prof.
| Sanborn in the State Board of Agricul-
! ture.
As a summer resort st. Louis is doing
| herself proud. If there is any summer in
the country which has not resorted here
| already now is its time to subscribe.-Ee-
| publican.
bricklayer by the name of William
| DAILY, at work on the ST. Joseph Sata-
forum, was overcome by heat few days
| ago and it was thought he would die. An
old farmer named Gentry was also over
come at the same place, and his life was
| despaired of.
James R. Armstrong, the hack driver,
| who shot and killed his neighbor, John
| Wilson, at Independence, result of a
quarrel between their wives and children,
was given preliminary trial before
Squire Purcell. The squire regarded the
case as bailable and fixed bond at 5000.
1t is rumored in ST. Louis that ex-Sen-
ator D. w. Wear, superintendent of the
Yellowstone Park, will return home and
become a candidate for reelection to the
| Senate. The failure of Congress to pro-
| vide for his salary necessitates his retiring
from the Yellowstone.
The contracts for furnishing granite for
Government buildings to be erected in
| Pensacola, Fla, and Shreveport, La,
have been awarded to the Pickel Marble
| and Granite works, of st. Louis, over bid
ders from almost all sections of the coun-
try.
After numerous conferences and secret
meetings, the Sedalia Improvement Com
| pany have decided to bore for natural gas
and oil, and the initatory steps were
taken few nights ago when an organiza-
ton was effe cted by electing board of
directors to serve for the ensuing year.
Rev. S. J. Love, aged eight y- two, died
at his sons residence in Kansas City a
few days ago. He was born in Ireland;
was educated al Queens college, Belfast;
emigrated in 1885; settled at Staunton,
Va, for eighteen years; then moved to
Mississippi, and to Missouri in 1878. The
funeral conducted by Revs. Bishop
and Bonde of the Presbyteria Church,
South.
The famous divorce suit of Paul FRANKIE
VS.. Ollie FRANKIE, at st. Joseph, the filing
of which created stiff breeze in the social
world a few weeks ago, has been compro-
| missed and the papers withdrawn by the at
| torneys for the plaintiff. Nothing is known
| of the terms, but there is doubt that
Mr.. and Mrs. FRANKIE will take up the mar.
ital thread where it was broken and livt
| in harmony.
The new banking company recently or
ganized at Independence has entered into
| permanent organization with a capital
stock of $4,000. The Bank of Indepen-
dence was the name chosen for the institu-
ton. The following named are the direc-
tors: j. D. Wood, president: J. D. Cos
sett, vice-president; T. p. Muir, Horace
Shelley, John A. Sea, Fleming Pendleton
and J. P. Jones, of Independence, and w
| c. Wells, of Platte City.
heavy storm period is predicted.
terrific electrical storm passed over
the southern portion of Livingston County
a few nights ago. A nine-year- old son
of James McCleary, living nine miles
south of Chillicothe, and Miss Cynthia
Martin, a servant, seventeen years old,
| We're struck and killed by lightning.
The collections of internal revenue in
the First (St. Louis) district of Missouri
for the week ending August were $l23,-
1918. The amounts on the several
articles taxed were: Lists, 1928; beer.
S2S,523 80: spirits. $37,032.31: cigars, So
415.05; snuff, 5000: tobacco, S4, 49, So:
| special taxes, S549 b.
st. Louis is now supporting ST. patients
and paupers in the different institutions
| Fire consumed the fine barn of James
Gill, farmer living four miles from Chill
! iCothe. few nights ago. Five horses
| and a new harvesting machine were
| among the contents that went up in
| smoke with the structure. including
| trotting horse Waived at $1,000 The total
loss will reach $500; no insurance.
| The project ON behalf of the people of
| Sedalia to have the new Union epot To-
! Gated on Main street has fallen through.
1t was found impossible to purchase the
| half block of land desired, owing to de-
fective titles, and the depot will now be
| located on the present site.
| Thirty-nine bodies We're received at the
st. Louis morgue during July.