Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-12
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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| Gothic Brewery, died few days ago OF
hemorrhage of the lungs.
A man by the name of Robins, from Sc.
dalia, recently on visit to Kansas City,
while endeavoring to separate quarreling
combatants, died of heart disease, aged
sixty
The foot and loSsr portion of the limb
of woman was found tied up in a sack
on the street in st. Louis a few nights
ago. The coroner, wants to find the rest of
the body.
The Grand Army boys of Lexington
propose to celebrate the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the battle of Lexington next
month.
During July there were 1877 commit.
ments to and 1874 discharges from the st.
Louis jail. On August 1 there were 147
prisoners on hand.
The remains of P. Paulson, who commit
ted suicide recently by drowning himself
at st. Joseph were recovered from the
river at Leavenworth, Kas.
Miles Howell, who ran away from St.
Louis nearly tep3Sears ago poor boy, re-
Gently returned 4abm the Colorado mines
rich man, and is looking for his lost
sister.
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was buried alive in a sewer trench in st.
Joseph few days ago. The trench was
sixteen feet deep where the man was
working and the earth caved in from the
north side. Mr.. Stewart was fifty years
of age and leaves a wife and six children
living in South ST. Joseph.
st. Joseph has an Oklahoma colony. 1,
met a few nights ago and elected Louis T.
T. I'll
president.
Richard Field. of Lexington, was NOM
mated by the Democratic convention at
Sweet Springs for judge of the Sixth
judicial circuit to succeed Judge Strother.
The five-year- daughter of a farmer
named Milburn died at Sedalia a few days
ago from the effects of half box of NOR
phine pills which she swallowed.
Chas. D. LucSs, who was defeated al
Kansas City for denomination as Recorder
of Jacksonville County, had filled the
office for several terms. Mr.. Lucas and
his father together, have held the record
ship for forty years.
By September the Rock Island will have
trains running to the junction, forty miles
west of st. Joseph, at which place new
town will be located. The lines will
diverge, one going northwest, and the
other southwest.
Mr. Benjamin Lands died from con.
sumption at his residence in st. Joseph a
few days ago, after an illness of three
months. He leaves a wife and five chill
dren, all girls. Mr.. Lands was formerly
prominent merchant of st. Joseph and
was highly honored by all.
A dispatch received at Kansas City an
nounces the sudden death at Saliday,
Colo, of John T. Elkins from apoplexy.
E!kins was a native of Jackson County.
this State, aged forty-two, and brother
of Stephen B. Elkins. At the time of his
death and for the last two years he was
State Senator from the Leadville district
in the Colorado Legislature. The remains
were embalmed in Leadville and shipped
to Kansas City for interment. He leaves
a wife and three children.
Adjutant Jamison has issued
an order for the court-martial of Rollins
Bingham for insulting II. J. Julien, of the
Seventh regiment, acting officer of the
day, the offense being committed during
the encampment at Sweet Springs. This
is the outcome of the newspaper dispute
carried on ever since the encampment
A man named Isaac R. Sullivan, who
escaped from the Missouri penitentiary on
November 8 last, was captured at st. Jo-
seph few days ago after a lively chase.
Sullivan was sentenced for three years
from st. Joseph ION December ., 1883, for
stealing pair Of mules, and after having
served some time was made a trusty at
the penitentiary, in which capacity he
was acting when he escaped. He had
been working on farm south of st. Jo-
seph for some time.
State Treasurer Seibert expresses tn,
opinion that the deficiency in the appro-
priation for costs in criminal cases for the
last two years will amount to 100000
before the next appropriation is available.
This remarkable condition of affairs, Mr..
Seibert says, is partially due to the in
crease of crime, but is more largely at
trbuted to the rapid growth of the State
and the active prosecution of all classes of
criminals. Tho deficiency of two years
ago in this appropriation amounted to
only $4,000.
About forty young men of Sedalia met
few nights ago and took the initiatory
steps toward organizing a mil tary COM
pany. temporary organization was ef-
fected and a second m citing was subse-
quently held, when officers were elected
and other preliminary work disposed Of
The names enrolled embrace the leading
young business men of the city, and
c, mpany is certain to be formed that will
be credit to Sedalia and the State of
Missouri.
The steam boiler in Henry D. McCul-
1un's aXle-grease establishment in st.
Louis, went out from the second foo1
through the roof up into the air, and then
fell into about it's regular place few
evenings since. In doing so it caused
about six hundred dollars damage to the
factory. Besides George Bollman's vege-
table establishment, next door, sustained
seventy five dollars damage. George
Wagoner's furniture suffered slight dam
age. Conrad Erbool, living over the
factory, calculates that it would take two
hundred and fifty dollars to replace his
smashed and crippled property. On all of
these these is no insurance. 1t will cost
Thomas Lamber, owner of the building.
S 900 to repair it. The only one injured
was Charles Scucs, a twelve-y ear-old
boy. He had his right hand bruised by
some of the flying material, and received
a scalp wound about an inch long. The
cause of the explosion is not known.
The drought is happily past.
Governor Marmaduke, on being inter-
viewed recently, had determined to let
j ohm Smith, of Daviess County, hang.
He had examined the case, and from the
evidence before him was satisfied that
Smith should suffer the extreme pen lty
of the law.
Mr.. VIM. Long and Miss Cora Brill, an
clipping couple from st. Louis County, ar