Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-23
Miscellaneous Items.

Nearly all the prizes IN Gne recent Snafp-
shooters tournament at Highland, ILL.,,
were captured by st. Louisans.
D. r. Barclay, an old citizen of ST. Louis.
formerly proprietor of the Dispatch, died
few days ago.
John Leonard, a boiler maker, while at
work at the Fairbanks Soap Factory, in
st. Louis, few days ago fell into vat
of boiling I've and was badly, if not dan
gerously, scalded.
Mathews Otto, a coal teamster, while
driving coal team in st. Louis few
days ago was thrown from the wagon by
his horse becoming frightened. The
wheels of the wagon passed over his body.
He was picked up by some citizens, but
before medical aid could be secured he
died. The dead man was fifty-six years
oil and leaves wife and children.
Tommy Ward, fifteen years of age, met
with horrible accident in st. Louis few
days ago. He was working at the Hurst
Packing Company's establishment, and by
some means caught i'll the belting of
the machinery. Before he could be re-
leased he had both l gs broken above the
thigh, and his right arm broken at the
wrist. He was taken to his home, and
surgeon pronounced him seriously, per-
haps fatally. injured.
1t is expected there will be at least
enty-fve thousand people on the st. Louis
Fair grounds on the 22d, on the occasion of
the monster charity concert by all the
sembled bands at the Knights Templar
Conclave. Nearly three thousand musi-
clans playing grand, familiar music as
one band, with battery of artillery to
give full bass effect, and all under the di-
rection of the renowned Patrick Gilmore,
of Boston Peace Jubilee fame, is some-
thing not to be heard again perhaps in
lifetime.
James Murray, fagman on the st. Louis
cable road, was killed few nights ago at
one of the curves of the road through the
carelessness of gripman. who did not
heed his signal to stop and allow a train
running in the opposite direction to round
the curve first. Murray was badly man.
gled.
Thomas Rhodes of Pettis County was
convicted in the Federal court at Jeffer-
son City of making false affidavits in
pension case.
Some workmen employed at StifePs
quarry, in st. Louis few days since.
found a human foot in lot of old rubbish.
The police took charge of it, and are look
ing for the bo"y belonging to it.
Mr.. James Herman, of the old and we'll
known ST. Louis printing house of Wood
ward & Herman, was found dead in his
bed few mornings since at his resiienc
For three years he had never been sick
day until the evening before his death.
The judicial Convention in the Twenty
ninth Circuit nominated Judge Henry S.
Kelly, of Savanna, Andrew County, the
z-lx4 fri
ana ular one AMI very bitter. Much inter-
est was taken IN it.
The st. Louis Exposition is booming.
Squire Thomas j. Powell, of Lexington,
has deposited in the IatejligeRcer Office of
TINT city the last two links of the tail of
the petrified lizard mentioned few weeks
ago. each link about a foot long. This
makes the entire reptile measure five feet
th ~ee:inches.
The Kansas City, Independence & Park
Railway Company of Kansas City has
fi.e in the Department of State notice
thai the gauge of that road will shortly
be changed from narrow to standard, in
accordance with the action taken by the
B ard of Directors of the company at a
recent meeting.
james Buford, mayor of Chillicothe, has
resigned and gone to Kansas City.
Edward Myers, of ST. Louis, who stole
s. 800 from his employer and fed to
Hamilton, Ontario, has been sentenced to
six months Imprisonment for carrying
stolen money into Canada.
A letter has been received from United
States Senator P. B. Plumb, of Kansas,
that he will attend the reunion at Lexing-
ton from the 21st to the 23d, and deliver an
address.
Henry Van Austin and John Mccarthy
attempted to burglarize Jim Marsball's
saloon. at Kansas City a few nights ago,
and the result was that Van Austin was
sh and both were arrested.
Gilmore begins at the st. Louis EXPOSE
ticn on thL Goth.