Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


Fannie Porter, young girl living in ST
Joseph went out the other day and spent
the day with party of picnickers, and
apparently was as happy a lark. When
she was coming home in the evening she
met female Acquaintance, who gave her
some information concerning her (Fan-
nie's1 lover. What the nature of the in
formation was no one knows, but Fannie
went Immediately into a fit of jealous
rage. When she reached one of the down.
town drug-stores she bought some arsenic,
which she took when she got home and
died from it's effects.
large barn on the farm of Mr.. James
F. lies, about six miles from Lexington,
was struck by lightning few days ago.
The bolt had hardly sufficient strength tc
badly shatter the building, though it set it
on fire from the myriads of sparks which
followed it's contact with the structure.
The barn, with large lot of grain and hay
and eighty barrels of corn, besides all the
farming implements, save one wagon.
were entirely destroyed. So slow was the
progress of the fire that ten head of horses
which were in the building were got out.
but one of them Immediately dropped
dead. Messrs. James. Charles and Price
injury beyond a slight shock. Loss about
$1,000; no in urance.
Governor Marmaduke is on deck again.
having returned from his trip to New
y ork and Washington.
Rev. E. r. Hendrix, president of Contra
College, Fayette, who has been elected
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, will make Kansas City his home.
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clothing firm of j. We'll & Co., which
failed recently for over half a million dol
lars, accepted settlement at fifty cents
on the dollar.
T. D. Williamson, a work-house guard
at Kansas City, created a sensation on the
street the other day by attempting to
shoot Dan Lucas, a prominent politician,
for alleged insultto his wife. The shoots
was locked up.
A. A. Wheeler will represent Missouri.
Odd Fellows at the Sovereign Grand
Lodge meeting in Boston, September 8.
In the case of the State VS.. J. Will Rule
and VIM. Cartmill, the parties under bond
and suspected of the mu, der of Angus Of
fert on the night of February s. near the
Wootten school-house, on Mudlick prairie,
Pike County, the grand jury returned "not
known and respected citizens of Pike Coun-
ty, but unfortunately they were in the
neighhorhood on the night of Offert's sud-
den exit.
DR.. George C. Catlett, superintendent OF
State Lunatic Asylum No. ,, at St. Joseph,
died few nights ago. DIR. Catlett had
been troubled with an affection of the
bladder for more than year, but his death
diseases. He was in attendance at the
meeting of the American Medical Associa.
ton, which was held in ST. Louis recently.
and was taken seriously ill Immediately
on his return home.
Three residents of st. Joseph were ar.
rested few days ago by United States
Marshal Gates on the charge of violating
the pension laws. Their names are James
c. Bender, Harvey Davis and woman by
the name of Thomas. The two first named.
it is claimed, charged a colored woman
$500 for securing pension, while the law
does not permit any person to charge
more than twenty-five dollars for such
service. Mrs. Thomas, it is charged, has
been drawing a pension for seven years
since her second marriage.
Mrs. Charles Wakeman, of Palermo
Kas., sixteen miles west of st. Joseph, re-
ceived fatal in urieS i'll ST. Joseph few
days since from runaway team, which
was frightened at a moving train. The
wagon was overturned and Mrs. Wake
man thrown to the ground. Her right
arm was broken in two places and her
right leg in two places. and she had con-
cussion of the brain. Her left ear was cut
off. Death was expected momentarily.
Henry Jardine, five-vear- old st. Louis
boy, was drowned a few days ago while
trying to fish out some decayed fruit from
the river which had been thrown in from
one of the scavenger dumps.
Sedala will receive 1000 from the in.
surance company with which to repair the
dome of the court house which was dam
aged during the recent storms.
w. ]. Buchanan. a brakeman on the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas road, living at
Sedalia, was met by a detective from In
dianola, Ia, his former home, on his re-
turn from trip few days ago, and ar
rested on a charge of having unduly
trifed with the affections of young lady
of the latter place.
panic created in the home OF
Henry l.. Page, in st. Louis, few days
ago, by the vicious actions of large and
valued family dog, which showed unmis
taxable signs of rabies. The family fed
to the upper rooms and locked themselves
in, calling policeman, who mounted to
second-tiOor window, gained entrance and
killed the dog from an upper point of van.
tage.
The fifty-sixth General Assembly of
the Cumberland Presby terrain Church met
in Sedalia last week. Rev. S. G. Stain
back, the retiring moderator, delivered
the opening address, and Mayor Stevens
delivered the address of welcome ON be-
half of the city.
The east wing of the ST. Louis female
hospital fell a few days ago, and is a COM
plete wreck. Fortunately the unsafe con-
dition of the structure became apparent in
time for all the patients to be removed be-
fore the collapse came. 1t is estimated
that it will cost $4,000 to place the build
ing in good condition again.
The Supreme Court adjourned to June 7.
Herman Better was caught recently in
the act of stealing flowers from the graves
in Calvary cemetery, st. Louis. He was
arraigned before Judge White, and, after
the evidence had been submitted, the
judge sentenced Better to two months in
the work-house. Before pronouncing sem
tence the Court dwelt on the enormity of
the offense and promised to infiict the Sc
verest penalty on all who are brought be-
fore him on the charge and who are found
guilty.
VIM. Cruce of Vernon County, shot and
killed his brother-in-law, Charles Jackson,
q few days ago.
The st. Louis dog show had FIVE hundred
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