Iron County register., 1886-09-30
Miscellaneous Items.


A heavy, cold rain on the day appointed
for the Knights Templar parade in st
Louis necessitated its postponement.
On "Children's Day" at the st. Louis
! Exposition there was concert given by a
! chorus of two thousand children, under
! the direction of Prof. Froelich.
William Don ohoe, ged twenty-seven,
! of Kansas City, was stabbed to death a
| few days ago by Fred Priestly, a teamster
! of about the same age, who was calling on
! Donohoe's cousin, Jennie Hedrick, who
| lives with Donohoe's family. The two
men began quarreling in the hall while
| Priestly was leaving, with the result
| given above.
A gang of hoodlooms in st. Joseph
found man lying drunk on the street a
few nights ago, and in n spirit of devil
ishness saturated the inebriate's clothin g
and then set them on fire. The poor fell
low would have burned to death but for a
car driver who smothered the flames wi tn
rubber blanket. AS it was. he was burned
50 badly that his life is despaired of.
Tuesday, October 5. is the date for the
annual pageant of the Yelled Prophet in
S.. Louis.
One peach grower of Pike County re-
ports a crop of one peach and another a
crop of two peaches.
Mrs. Willis Wood, of Dallas County, re-
Gently presented her Iiege lord with er
twentieth baby.
Major John T. Clarke, Chief Clerk in the
Office of the State Auditor. in preparing
matter for the forthcoming Auditors re-
port, recently sent out blanks to the coun-
ty clerks for information concerning dram
shops. Up to the 21st inst. 107 counties,
including the city of ST. Louis, had re-
ported, and of this number the following
named counties have no licensed saloons
or dram-shops: Adair, Barry, Camden,
Carter, Christian, Clay, Dade, Dent, Har-
rison, Hickory, Mercer, Miller. Pemiscot,
Putnam, Rails. Reynolds, ST. Clair, Stone,
Worth, Wright and Knox.
Martin Irons, the erstwhile leader of the
Knights of Labor, was committed to Jail
in st. Louis recently, having arrived from
Kansas City in the custody of Deputy
Marshal Skdmore. The commitment is
based on the old indictment for molesting
telegraph wires. The former chief has
fallen, indeed, and there were no knights
SO humble as to do him reverence.
Justice of the Peace Purcell, of Indepen-
dence, recently issued warrant for the
wood, On a charge of criminal careless
ness. To Jameson's blunder is charged
the recent collision on the Missouri Pacif-
ic, in which the two engineers, John
Light and James Dowler, were killed, and
two wrecked freight trains burned up.
The erandest event in all Lexington's
history was the ovation rendered Mrs.
Mulligan in that city last week. In the
presence of eight thousand people she was
welcomed to the city in a brief but ad-
miral lie address by Congressman William
Warner, of Kansas City. Such shouts,
such clappng of hands were never be-
fore heard there, and such enthusiasm and
general good feeling were never before
manifested, the Blue and the Gray striv-
ing earnestly to outdo each other.
The temperance people are continuing
their crusade against whisky with una
batting vigor in Higginsvil1e. Captain
Dan K. Shields has heen lecturing, and
large hunters have signed the pledge.
great deal of interest is manifested, and
the opera-house is crowded each night to
hear Captain Shields. The saloon-keepere
are considerably alarmed, and have is
sued circular containing several affi-
davits and letters, all greatly disparaging
to Captain Shields character. Irepara-
tions have been made to carry the war in
to Africa, and Captain Shields will lecture
several nights each week to the colored
people.
Pat Gilmore is at the st. Louis Ex.
Forty-two children and youths of the
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indian tribes
passed through st. Louis few days ago
Ell route to Carlisle, Pa, where they will
be educated in the Indian Trainin 2 School.
The rowing matches recently held on the
river at Kansas City We're very one sided,
the st. Louis Modocs having a walk over
in all three races-junior double, single
scull and one-and-one- half mile cup race.
The journeymen plumbers of Kansas
City went on strike q few days ago for
three reasons, viz: A decrease of working
hours, an increaee of wages and that no
non uni on men be employed.
The State Fair opened in Sedalia on the
90 h inst.
There were nearly two hundred knights
Templar communicates in attendance al
the conclave at ST. Louis, in addition to
twenty eight grand communicates of
States and the Grand Commandery of the
United States.
Several members of the Busch Zouaves,
of st. Louis, have brought disgrace upon |
that organization by purloining wine from |
the stores of the California knights Tenn !
plar, deposited in the Armory building. |
They had taken dozen cases and on go-
ing for the unlucky thirteenth were cap /
tured. Several of the missing cases were |
were found stored in the Zouave lockers.
The st. Louis Fair opens on Monday, |
October 4.