Iron County register., 1886-04-29
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

cases continued to the November term.
The Tredway Rifles, of st. Louis, are to
be absorbed by the Rainwaters.
Chauncey I. Filley has resigned from
the State Republican committee.
Silver in paying quantities, it is said.
has been discovered in Dent County, on
the Current river.
H. C. Laforce, special examiner of the
Pension Department, was recently called
upon by Nelson Painter, farmer of Pettis
County, who voluntarily surrendered his
pension certificate, on which he has drawn
four dollars per month for years. He said
that he was satisfied that the disability
which had entitled him to a pension was
permanently removed, and it would not be
honest for him longer to accept the Gov
ernment's money.
Mr.. John Hamblin, an old and highly re-
spected resident and wealthy farmer of
Mooresville township, Livingston County :,
died recently of consumption. He was
forty -four years old and unmarried, and
died on the farm on which he was born.
He was soldier in the Forty fourth Mis-
souri, regiment, and was member of the
G. A. r. At the time of his death he was
justice of the peace.
Nearly five hundred employees of the
Missouri Car & Foundry Company, at st.
Louis, struck work a few days ago, as a
further effort on the part of the Knights of
Labor to cripple the Gould roads by de-
priving them of repairing facilities.
The off-bearing boys on Joseph Her
mans brick yard, at ST. Joseph, struck re-
Gently for an advance Of wages from
eighty-five cents per day to one dollar.
They did not get it.
Sarah J. Horberry has been pardoned
out of the penitentiary by Governor Mar
maduke. She, with her husband, was con-
victed of concealing the birth of child.
Arthur J. Hale a little son of Eugene
Hale, of Kansas City, while visiting with
his parents in Argentine, Kas., few days
ago, came across can of concentrated 1ye,
ate some of it, and died in great agony.
The fruit and confectionery firm of VIM.
Kneer & Co., ST. Joseph, has failed for
$4,000. The creditors are in California
and Chicago. The assets are about $40 900.
1t is one of the oldest firms in the city.
Bad debts were the cause of the failure.
Twenty four girls in the shirt factory of
r. L. Mcdonald & Co., at st. Joseph,
struck few days ago for an increase of
wages of from $1.25 per dozen shirts to
S1.75. They were only one-fifth of the
number employed and were discharged.
Colonel Corthell, who built the Louisiana
bridge, has been asked to take charge of
the Central Missouri bridge at Alton.
The body of Herman Wauschaff was
found in the Nishnabotna river near Rock
port few days ago, with a bullet-hole
through his head. He was a brother to
the cashier of the bank of Atchison Coun-
ty, and had been missing since the 18th
inst. He was demented and it is supposed
suicided.
Julius Roemer, a depraved youth, was
found guilty in ST. Louis few days ago
of assauting his mother and sister and
was fined 800 by Judge Cady.
L. B. Rogers, an attorney, threw himself
into the Missouri river at Kansas City
few days ago while despondent and partly
demented. He has relatives in Chicago.
He bore an excellent character and stood
high in his profession. He was rescued,
locked up, and friends at Solomon City.
Kas., were notified.
A railroad man named John Metz, from
Booth Station, visited Louisiana few
nights ago and proceeded to make night
of it. During his adventures he was rob-
bed of his watch and $3.50 in cash. Indigo
Bell was arrested for the robbery, pleaded
guilty and was sent to Jail.
The deadlock in the st. Joseph Common
Council still continued at last accounts.
The Council held two sessions daily, and
at each the mayor presented a number OF
names for the several appointive offices.
All were rejected.
E. P. Townsend, of the clothing firm OF
Jones, Townsend & Co., st. Joseph, acci-
dentally took dose of corrosive subli-
mate a few nights ago. He had been
taking rheumatism medicine out of
bottle of similar size, and as the room was
dark he did not discover his mistake until
he had swallowed the poison. He was re-
ported in a dangerous condition.
the Congressional convention for the
Sixth Missouri district will be held in
Sedalia August 10.
The Sedalia Criminal Court adjourned
after being in session three weeks. The
following persons were sentenced by
Judge Ryland: David Shaw and Chas.
Elder, negroes, burglars, eleven years
each; John Robinson, house breaker, four
years; Charles Watts, negro, burglar, five
years: William Mclaughlin, burglary,
five years; James Ford, grand larceny.
four years; Richard Hewitt, mansl laughter
KILLED his brother in 1879, two years;
Robert Emmett King, bank defaulter and
forger, six years.
The condition of the Episcopal Bishop
Robertson has grown worse during the
past few days, and is now considered
alarming by his family and friends. DIR.
Hughes, the attending physician, has been
constantly at the bedside of his patient
md, while admitting his condition as seri.
,us, does not anticipate any change fol
he worst, at least not for the present.
Leopold Levi was arrested in ST. Louis
ew days ago upon a charge of bigamy
md gave bond. The information upon
which Levi was arrested was subscribed
md sworn to by Mrs. Annie Goffinkel, who |
ays that she was married to Levi in |
European Russia in 1864, his name at that
ime being Goffinkel. After few years |
# married life he deserted her, she says |
md came to America, she pursuing him |
Until she recently located him here and |,
discovered that he was living with |
woman who is known as Mrs. Leopold |
levi, and is living with Levi or Goffinkel |
IS his wife.
The ST. Louis cable road is running
There is another fraud traversing the !
state who processes to cure all eye, ear and |
ead diseases by means of spectacles with !
lectric attachment for which he charges |
en- dollars, the sum of five dollars to be
aid at the time of the purchase and tha |
alance when the patient is cured. The
pectacles are worth about twenty five |
entS