Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

terest of the newsboys and bootblacks.
Superintendent Kunx Of the St. Loui
Work-house reports that it costs clever
cents day to feed the prisoners
Since New Years st. Louis has averaged
. suicide q day, with an occasional murde
to vary the monotony.
Miss Mary Anderson, the distinguished
American actress, now on her first Ameri.
can tour since her recent triumphs IL
Europe, will open weeks season in the
Olympic Theater, st. Louis, on Monday
February 22d. It will be a notable en-
gagement, as Miss Anderson has very
large company, and presents her plays or
a scale of magnifcence to which the stag,
has heretofore been comparative stran.
ger,
DR.. Schmidt, of Cole Camp, Benton
County, formerly the partner of Dr. SchilI
ing, of Sedalia, dropped dead on the street
near his residence in Cole Camp, q few
evenings since of heart disease.
The youngest judge on the St. Louis
Bench is Judge Barclay, who hardly turns
more than thirty -eight years.
Hon. Phil. E. Chappell, ex-State Treas.
urer, has been elected President of the
Bank of Sedalia, and will move to that city
at once. L. e. Dawson, ex-Clerk of the
Treasury Department, has been made
cashier, with r. T. Gentry, who was can.
didate for nomination as State Treasurer
in 1880, as assistant cashier.
Prospects are good for the establishment
of mint at st. Louis.
Philip Gillaspie was arrested at Millers.
burg, Galloway County, d few days ago
on a charge. of burglarizing the Post office
at that place last July.
Seventy-one true bills were returned by
the st. Louis January Grand Jury, includ
ing seven street-car dynamiters, who are
charged with obstructing railroads and
imperiling human life.
Will Washington, q colored porter on
the Lexington & Southern Railroad, was
killed three miles south of Pleasant Hill a
few days ago. His body was terribly
mangled. He was. riding on a freight
train and was crossing from box-car to a
coal-car and fell between.
Jack O'Mara, a workman on the bridge
gang of the Kansas City, st. Joseph &
Council Bluffs Railway, and living in st.
Joseph, was shot and fatally wounded in
an ARRAY with companion a few days
ago at Iatan, a station ON the road south
of st. Joseph.
The residence of Mrs. Oscar Thomas was
totally destroyed by fire at Waverly,
Lafayette County, few days ago. But
for the prompt arrival of citizens, Mrs
Thomas, who is helpless invalid, would
have persisted in the flames, as would also
Mrs. Scribner, who lived in the house.
The latter lady saved nothing but the
clothing she wore.
Alfred Lambkin, colored, aged twenty
was accidentally killed by Oscar Collins,
aged seventeen, white, in friendly scuf.
file at Kansas City few days ago. Col.
Inns had large navy revolver in his
hand. and it was discharged. A shrek
followed the shot and Lambkin staggered
toward the door and fell dead.
While workmen were engaged i'll taking
out an old abutment preparatory to build
ing a new bridge at Fabius, on the st
Louis. Keokuk & Northwestern Railway,
few days ago, they discovered den OF
snakes, numbering several hundred, con-
sisting of rattlesnakes, moccasins, black.
snakes, blue-racers and adders, some OF
them measuring five feet, and they were
not frozen but in torpid condition. They
were promptly dispatched.
w. B. Williams. a highly respected young
man of st. Joseph, died recently of "peri.
tonitis." after a painful illne of two days,
the result of coasting. He had been coast.
ing every night since the ground was IA
vorable, using a bob-sled, and coming
down the hill lying on his abdomen. The
death is creating great deal of talk, and
measures are to be taken with regard to
the coasters.
Fire broke out few nights ago in the
rear part of the Tetail boot and shoe store
o. III.
fire got under great Roadway before the
fire department arrived at the scene, and
the flames were finally subdued before the
building suffered any great damage. The
loss on stock will amount to over So, 900.
The building is insured for $4,000.
The large brick dwelling in Louisiana,
Pike County, occupied by A. w. Boyd as a
house, was totally destroyed by
fire a few nights ago. A lamp which was
placed too close to bed occupied by Mr..
Ryan, it is supposed, ignited the bedding,
as the sleeper barely had time to flee from
the burning couch. The building was in
sured for 50, 800 and the furniture for 500.
NJ. Hulse, Deputy Marshal of jackson
County, arrested Louis L. Alexander, con-
ductor of the work train of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad at Higginsville few
days ago. The warrant,for the arrest was
sworn out by Miss Gertie Knight, of Kan
sas City, charging Alexander with crimi-
nal breach of promise. He was taken to
Kansas City and pleaded not guilty before
Justice Clayton, and in default of bail in
the sum of $500 was remanded to jail to
await an examination.
In 1879 there died at Kingston, Caldwell |
County, an old man named Illet Tobein, |
who left an estate valued at $4,000, and |
by the provisions of a will found upon his |
person half of his possessions were be- |
1ueathed the Catholic Church at Licking
ton. there being proviso that the entire |
estate was to remain vested in his wife un. !
Ill her death, after which the church was |
to secure its bequest. Bernard Tobein, a |
brother, contested the will, and the case
was taken through several terms of the |
Circuit Court, the church always gaining !
4 verdict. Finally it was taken to the Su- |
oreme Cour., and was reversed on the
ground that the church was Incorporated
and could not receive the property, but
hat By trustees it could sue for it, and on |
February 9Th the church, by its trustees,
will be given another hearing in Judge
iin's section of the Court of Appeals at
Kansas City.
The river is closed at st. Louis.
While harvesting ice for Robert Turner,
r., an ice merchant at Independece, a
Jew days ago, Henry Davis. colored, be-
;aIne enraged at his employer and struck
him in the head with his textbook, with
which he was gathering the ice. Turner's !
was critical and little hopes were
for his recovery.
Mrs. Allen, whose husband recently dis
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