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

The recent Fat Stock show at Kansas
City closed with very satisfactory rec.
ord.
Partisan rancor at Sedalia led Captain
L. s. Bridges to break a cane over the
head Of Colonel Ritter. and melted street
fight between Me- jor Niles and John Con-
nor, the latter being a candidate for re-
corder.
Mrs. Doc Frame, wife of q well-known
sporting man at Kansas City, was knocked
down at her residence a few nights ago
and robbed of about 5000 worth of dia-
monds.
Mr.. Charles Russell killed red fox and
badly crippled another, on his fathers
farm near Lexington a few days ago. He
came upon several at play while he was
hunting prairie chickens, with his gun
loaded with small shot, otherwise he
thinks he could have killed all of them.
The medical fraternity of st. Louis at
its last meeting had before them singu-
lar pathological specimen in the person of
Louis Botto, who is afflicted with inability
to control his tongue, the organ continual
~ darting in and out Of his mouth like the
tongue of an excited snake.
NJ. Mccoy was accidentally shot by a
pistol in the hands of a son of A. G. Old
ham on the farm of the latter near Inde-
pendence few days ago. Mccoy was in
the act of handing the boy the weapon,
thinking it unloaded, when it was sudden
ly discharged, the ball striking Mccoy
just above the navel, and inflicting
wound which it was thought would prove
fatal.
The authorities of st. Louis are succeed
ing in checking the spread of diphtheria.
August Code was seriously, if not
fatally injured at Higginsville few days
ago by gin-pole falling upon him. His
skull was fractured, one leg broken and
is side bruised, and he sustained severe
internal inj uries.
Last spring Sedalia halter distributed
to farmers a large number of pumpkin
seed of a new and handsome variety and
at the same time offered premium for
the best and largest specimen raised from
the seed. During tue past week or two
a portion of his store-room has been con-
verted into pumpkin show and resembled
a fair department. The daddy OF all
pumpkins was a monster weighing -141
pounds.
The St. Louis jailer's monthly report
shows that there were 1854 prisoners on
hand on October /. The number COM
there were only 154 discharges there were
$50 on hand November 1. The expenditure
!! for the month was 81, 921.56.
/ Ed Speed, twice convicted of murlering
Harry Loomis in Kansas City, in July,
1884, and twice sentenced, has been granted
! another stay of execution by the Supreme
Court. He has been in Jail at In
dependence all the time, and but for the
arrival of the papers on Thursday last
would have swung on Friday.
/ A boiler in the distilling room at the
Mound City distillery, st. Louis, expl oded
few days ago, damaging the building
5000 worth. No one was hurt. No cause
could be given for the explosion.
Andrew Miller died at the s.. Louis
City hospital few days ago from COM
pound fracture of the right leg accident
ally rece ived at Pulls Brothers foundry
by casting falling on him.
! Cards are out announcing the weddin 2
! at st. Joseph, November Ii, of Graham G..
Lacy, a prominent young attorney of that
city, to Miss Ellen Belle Tootle, daughter
of Thomas E. Tootle, one of st. Joseph's
wealthiest citizens.
! The Governor has pardoned j. B. Dem
mis-, sent to the penitentiary from RAN
dolph for obtaining property upon false
pretenses. Dennis is in very bad health.
The pardon was recommended by the in
spectors and prison phy stefan.
A new camp of the military order of the
Sons of Veterans was recently instituted
in st. Louis by Louis Drechsler, and is
known as General U. S. Grant Camp. The
sons, not less than eighteen years of age,
of deceased or orably discharged SOL
diers, sailors or marines, who served in
the late Union army, are entitled to mem
bership The object is to perpetuate the
Grand Army.
Tie Campbell Mercantile Company, Oh
Sedalia, has instituted suit against Will
liam and John NJ. Curran, comprising the
late firm of Curran Brothers, for $4,000
damages. The Campbell company re-
Gently purchased the stock of dry goods
owned bv the Currans, and two weeks age
the Currans made appli cation to Judge
Strother to have the business of the Camp
bell people placed in the hands of re.
| ceiver, because of alleged false represen-
tations made by the latter in the trade
but the application was refused. The
CampbelIs claim that the mere fact OF the
application damaged them to the extent
of $4,000, for which amount they ask
Judgment. A large tract of land and sew
eral hundred head of cattle in Kansas
owned by the Currans, have been attached
by the Campbells, pending trial of the
case.
Marie Schleinger committed suicide IL
ST. Louis a few days ago by hanging
herself in the kitchen of her house. She
was discovered by neighbor. Her hus.
band testified that she was forty five
years of age; that he came to st. Louis in
1885 with his wife, five children and a
bank account. A short time afterward
his youngest child died. and he had to go
the City Hospital. The other children
were placed in an asylum, and his wife
had to do her homework. The deceased
got an idea that developed into insanity
acquiring the idea that her husband had
fallen heir TO $50 900 in Germany, and had
unknown to her, opened big business in
st. Louis. She had several times threat
ened suicide, but her husband did not
think she would do it. On the morning in
, question the husband was wakened by his
daughter, who informed him that the de.
ceased had hanged herself. He cut hel
down and call In a physician, but she was
dead.
The st. Louis Browns have disbanded.
Circuit Clerk Ingram, OF Sedalia, re-
Gently received a coin by mail which
bears the date A. D. AZ. It was sent tt
him by Robert Morris, of Louisville, KY.
Masonic explorer, who has travelled the
world DER. The coin was procured by
Mr.. Morris in Jerusalem, and was coined
in the sixth year of the reign of King