Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-18
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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the loss of his wife and $500. His hired
man disappeared simultaneously with the
money and wife.
Leahey, whose son was killed by st.
Louis street-car.
VIM. Blair, aged seventy years, post
master at Laynesville, Saline County,
dropped dead of heart disease few DAYS
| ago.
Hon. VIM. P. Manroe, of Chillicothe, one
of the commissioners of the new insane
asylum, will remove to Nevada, as the de-
mands of his Office require his constant
presence there.
John A. Scholten, the we'll known pho
tographer of st. Louis, and one of the
leading men in the profession in the
United States, died few days ago from
an attack of pleurisy.
The st. Louis grand jury will look into
the alleged ballot box frauds in connection
with the last municipal election.
Mr.. Child has been confirmed as consul
general to Siam.
Al Daily, travelling salesman for the
Wholesale grocery house of John N. Daily,
of Sadalia, has filed a petition for divorce
from his wife, Letha, who recently e1oped
with Willard S. Burrows, a telegraph op-
orator. The clipping couple are reported
to be in Chicago.
Samuel G.. Farrand, st. Louis street car
conductor, was found dead in bed a few
days ago under circumstances which make
it probable that he committed suicide. He
has been ailing for some time, and in his
room were found quinine, choral and cap
sules containing medicine.
Since January 1 over three hundred new
assemblies of the Knights of Labor have
been organized in this State.
New and very dangerous counterfeit
two-dollar bills are said to be in circula-
ton.
The Grand Lodge of the State, knights
of Honor, will hold its annual meeting in
st. Louis on the second Tuesday in April.
It is said the money-belt cut from Prel-
Ier's body by MAXWELL" which was con-
sidered an important piece of evidence, is
missing.
f. H. Coates, who shot and killed A. B.
Keith in st. Louis, waived examination
and was held for the grand jury in bonds
OF $4,000 on a charge of murder in the
second degree.
Curtis P. Anderson, a well known Mis-
souri, printer and publisher, who has been
in the asylum at st. Joseph, since last
March, died few days ago. He was born
in Sparta. Tenn, in 1878 and came to Mis-
souri, in 1913. He established the California
(Mo.) Ne,cs and Boone County Journal. He
had been an active printer for period of
fifty two years and broke down at the case.
Mrs. Martin Irons, wife of the Chairman
OF the Executive Committee of District
Assembly No. 101, Knights of Labor, died
at her home in Sedala few days ago, af-
ter an illness of two weeks with pneumo-
MIA. When she was first taken ill her hus-
band was in Texas looking after the
trouble which was about to break out on
the Texas & Pacific, and when the strike
was ordered he remained on the field to
engineer it till called home by Mrs. Irons
serious illness. Deceased was thirty years
of age and leaves several children.
j. 7. Holland. of Abilene, Tex, who
killed the notorious ''boodle'' man, Tom
Davis, in New York, and who was acquit-
ted of the charge of murder by a New
York jury, was the center of attraction in
the Lindell Hotel, st. Louis, a few nights
ego, where he was stopping en- route to his
home.
John Dunn, blacksmith has been miss,
ing from his home in st. Louis for several
days. He had been ailing for some
months. A hat and coat which were iden-
titled as his were discovered a few days
since on the big bridge, and the presump-
ton is that Mr.. Dunn has committed sui
eide.
At the recent session of the Lafayette
County Criminal Court, the following
criminals We're booked for the peniten-
tiary: Albert Camp, white, forgery, two
four years: Ed Clark, colored, assault to
kill, two years; Andrew Harris, white,
criminal assault, two years.
1t is said that Quong Seng, the China
man upon whom the State depends for sue
cess in the prosecution of the Chinese high
binders in ST. Louis, is manifesting unmis-
taxable evidences of insanity, acting in a
very strange manner. A physician who
recently visited him is of the opinion that
he was weakening under confinement, and
it is also thought that probably he may be
suffering from the lack of the opium slim
illus SO commonly used among the Chinese.
Attorney General Boone has intimated
that he will take personal charge of the
case of Jack Hayes before the United
States Supreme Court, and will go on to
Washington to conduct the case as soon as
last chance for his neck, and on the de-
cision of the Supreme Court much depends
in relation to other convicted murderers.
Samuel c. Shaeffer. now under sentence
at Kansas City of eight years in the peni-
Tertiary for obtaining money by cheat and
fraud from John I. Blair, the New Jersey
railroad millionaire, was .arraigned a few
days ago aud bound over on an indictment
oh hi i'm, with to aSco
ate said Blair. Charles Allen, in jail at
the same time with Schaeffer, furnished
information to the effect that he had been
been employed by the latter to kill Blair,
and also VIM. Bailey, of the Kansas &
Southern, and had at several times re-
ceived sums of money to carry out the
crime.
William Lacey, a colored burglar, re.
Gently sent to prison or two years from st. |
Louis, before going to Jefferson City, cut |
off portion of one of his fingers and sent |
it. together with the ring he wore upon it, !
as keepsake to Sadie Hayes, the colored |
murderess, of whom he had become deeply |
enamored.
David Henry Sayers committed suicide |
in st. Louis a few nights ago by shooting |
himself in the temple with revolver.
These are striking times.
Last week the st. Louis inspectors con- |
demned 137 pounds of beef, So pounds of |
mutton and ducks. They inspected 431 |
meat shops, GA slaughter-h houses, IS COM
mission houses, 90 pork-houses, 90 sau-
sa lighthouses, 10 fish stands, p grocery |
stores and 2 stock yards; 1850 cattle were |
received during the week; 4,55S sheep and |
Is. 40 hogs. The inspectors found % dead |