Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-18
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


Surveyor Lancaster, of st. Louis, re-
| ties during the first week of November.
| The collections for the corresponding
week of last year were only $S,746.
VIM. Hennessey, who stabbed and killed
James Wade in st. Louis on the evening
| of July last, pleaded guilty to man.
| slaughter in the third degree, and after
| proving his minority was sentenced to one
| year in Jail.
/ VIII Foote. aged twenty one years, son
| of c. 81. Foote, prominent citizen of st.
Joseph. was accidentally shot few days
| ago while carelessly handling a revolver
The ball, 32-caliber, passed into young
| Foote'S head at the nose and lodged at the
base of the brain. The wound is a very
dangerous one, and recovery is not thought
possible.
John O'Day, ST., father of Hon. John
O'Day, the chairman of the Democratic
State executive committee, died at Spring.
field few days ago, after protracted
illness with Bright's disease. Deceased
was eighty-fve years old and native of
Ireland. He leaves six children, four sons
and two daughters, all grown.
Walter A. Latham, of the st. L outs
Browns, arrived in Sedalia a few days
ago. To st. Louis acquaintance he
stated that he was out for a cunning ex-
petition, but he had three well-fil va
Uses, and his assertion was doubted. The
st. Louis friend gave it as his belief that
Latham was out in the capacity of COM
mercial drummer for a st. Louis house.
and did not care for any notoriety un il
he ascertained what success he is to meet
with.
Jefferson City sportsman recently
killed fifty-two quail in one afternoon.
Governor Marmaduke has issued proc
lamation setting apart November 20 as a
day of public Thanksgiving.
The $4,000 libel suit of NJ. F. Dowd,
against the publishers of the Farm Journal,
at Kansas City, was dismissed, owing to
the plaintiffs failure to secure costs.
There seems to be disagreement or
misunderstanding between Hon. J. C. Nc
Ginnis and some of the members of the
Sedalia School Board.
Charles Hudson, a convicted negro pris-
oner in the Sedalia jail, poured oil on him
self a few days ago and set it on fire with
suicidal intent. His injuries were fatal.
young Hebrew peddler named Frank
Singer was found dead in bed at ST. Jo-
seph few days ago, having taken an
overdose of morphine with suicidal intent.
He had made to previous attempts upon
his life. He was twenty-one years old
and single.
In the Criminal Court at Sedalia. Ed
ward Carp and Birdie Coleman, the latter
colored, were sentenced to three years.
Imprisonment in the penitentiary for
burglary and larceny. Carp is a circus
man, and burglarIzed several houses in
Sedalia last spring. He escaped from the
calahoose, but a few weeks later was re-
captured in Southwest Missouri and re-
turned after bitter legal fight.
E. T. Payne, a colored man, met with
his death at Helms brewery in Kansas
City few days ago. He was running a
wheelbarrow in front of him across
hatchway when be missed a step and fell
to the ground, a distance of four stories.
He was Immediately picked up and was
found to be unconscious. Payne was re-
moved by the patrol wagon to his home,
where he died few hours later.
1t has been discovered that the entir.
support of the floor in the House of Rep
resentatives at Jefferson City has become
rotten, end that any considerable weight
would cause it to fall through. The archi-
tects who recently examined it were sur
prised to think that it did not fall through
during the last session of the Legislature.
The necessary repairs will be made at
once and every thing completed before
the Legislature convenes.
Five of the six alleged Missouri Pacific
train -wreckers, Messrs. Page, Collins,
Hamilton, Neville and Mccullough, whose
cases have been continued until the next
term of Criminal Court, were committed
to Jail at Sedalia in default of bon |. Sui
sequently Page, Hamilton and Neville
succeeded in securing bondsmen and were
released, while Mccullough was given his
liberty on continued bond to arrange
for further bail. Collins is still in d. rance
vile, and it looks as though he would have
to remain behind the bars until April
next.
The following cases, growing out of the
late Southwestern strike, have been dis
posed of at Sedalia: John Collins. E |.
Howe, Eugene Kerr, Geo. Fisher, Frank
Spann and w. H. Hamilton, pleaded
guilty to obstructing the railroad tracks,
and were fined five dollars and costs.
Fred Page and Geo. Fisher were fined ten
dollars and costs for melting riot. Fred
Page and Dave Kerr were fined five dol
lars and costs for disturbing the peace.
Hugh Fitzgerald and E. A. Carpenter,
charged with criminal libel against John
De Long, operative in the special service |
department, were disposed of by n nolle |
pros. in Carpenters case, and F itz. gerald, |
who PLEADED guilty, was fined $500.
man who is believed to be Thoma, |
Cody, an ex-convict, was shot at Kansas |
City few nights ago by police officers !
Ryan and Drackelt. Ryan saw two men |
working at the back door of Jacob Fris- |
bie's grocery store, evidently with the in
tent of burglary. They were alarmed by |
his approach and began to run, when he |
ordered them to stop, and began firing
over their heads. Finding themselves
hotlv pursued, they returned the fire, and
another shot from the officers pistol
brought one of the men to the ground.
When found lying on the sidewalk he had
Two pistol, one lying by his side, the other
in his pocket. He had been shot in the
eft shoulder. He gave the name of his
as John Ryan, AMI said that
ne had never seen him until the night in
question, when Ryan suggested the rob-
berry. The wound is regarded as danger
BUS.
The express robbery plot thickens.
At meeting of st. Joseph Typograph.
cal Union, No. 40, few days ago, new
scale of prices was adopted. The price of
composite was advanced to thirty five
cents per 1000 on morning papers and
hirty cents on evening papers. Some
ROUTE is expected.
The last of the Kansas City pool rooms