Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-02
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


before assistance reached him. The body
was taken to the morgue. Schultz was
about forty five years of age.
Ed T. holland, who succeeds DR.. Mum
ford as the Kansas City member of the
Democratic State central committee is
chief clerk of the treasury department at
jefferson City. He was a prominent can.
didate for Treasurer in 1880, he having
then served four years as chief clerk under
Colonel Elijah Gates.
Four prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at Independence a few nights ago
through a hole made in the window graft
ing with burglars saws. They were
Walter Koontz and Phil Keller, await
ing trial for highway robbery, and JAS
W. Beatty, under sentence OF seven years
to the penitentiary for stealing, and Mike
Foley, alias Flynn, alias Dutch Charley,
charged with highway robbery and at
tempted murder.
Mrs. T. W. Cloney and Mrs. J. NJ Offield.
daughters of Major VIM. Gentry, were
buried at Seda1ia few days ago with
the funeral rites of the Episcopal church.
The funeral cortege was the largest ever
witnessed in Central Missouri, being over
one mile long. Business was entirely sus-
pended, the business men closing their
stores as mark of respect to the depart.
ed ones. The floral offerings were many
and mag nificent, and the graves were
literally covered with flowers. Governor
Marnaduke and other distinguished
friends of the family were present, the
chief executive being one of the pail
bearers.
William Hike, tailor, was frightfully
gored in st. Louis few days ago by
mad COW. The animal was shot by the
police.
E. A. Sternberg, of st. Louis, is charged
with emhezzlng funds of the knights and
Ladies of Honor.
The st. Louis courthouse is to be hand
somely decorated on the day of the
knights Templar parade IN September.
The State Insurance Commissioner is
going to drop the agents of wildcat in
surance companies and make war on the
companies themselves.
The st. Louis police took Jimmie Carroll
and R. A. Simpson into custody a few
nj gifts ago. They are said to be noted
crooks and were planning big robbery.
The body of Aleck Delisle, steamboat
mate, was found in the river at st. Louis
q few days ago.
Dan Lucitt, of West Kansas City, was
fatally injured few days,ago in a quar-
rel with a neighbor named Rule. The as
sailant escaped. Lucitt is an old citizen
and well off.
Blind Tom, familiar character on the
streets of Kansas City for several years,
died a few days since.
Mrs. Belle Palmer, of st. Joseph, was
arrested few days ago for carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Charles A. Poskey wound up his career
in ST. Louis few days ago in blaze of
glory by smashing up the furniture in
house of i'll repute and taking a dose of
Rough on Rats. He died in cell at the
Four Courts.
A young man named S. S. Collins, en-
gagged in roof painting at Oh illicothe, was
| arrested a few days ago by Deputy
United States Marshal and taken to Kansas
City on a charge of sending obscene mat
ter through the mails. The charges were
| from n neighboring town, and it was al
! legged that the obscene letter complained
| of was written to a married woman.
j. NJ. Beatty, alias Curly" one of the
men who recently escaped from the Jail at
, Independence, made his way to Kansas
| City and there made murderous assault
upon Edward Farrell, who had been the
| cause of his incarceration. Beatty was
| arrested and lodged in Jail, as was also
man named Foster, who was with him at
! the time of the assault.
| Gilbert S. Bennett, recently appointed
cashier at Whitman, Cray & Kaminski's,
in st. Louis, emptied out the cash drawer
a few DAYS ago, taking about fifty dollars,
and vanished. Two years ago he was en-
| ployed by the firm as collector, and had
! good character.
! Peter de Carne, an alleged physician,
| gave the two children of Nicholas Nasch-
| weiz mix ure containing cantharides
few days since, and came very near kill
I ing them. He has been locked up on
charge of practicing medicine without
| license.
Mrs. Aurelia Schultz celebrated her
! fiftieth birthday in st. Louis few days
since, and among the refreshments served
| were cakes and wine, after partaking OF
which Mrs. Schultz and her two sons were
taken violently ill with unmistakable
symptoms of poisoning. The cakes were
made by Mrs. Title Heinburger and all
were at a loss to divine what the offend
ing substance could be. The patient.
were in fair way to recovery.
| Louis Fair the int rest grows apace. TIL.
secretary and his clerks are Lusy day ane
| night mailing premium lists to persons al
over the country. The space in the me-
chanical department is now almost al
taken up and Secretary Wade speak.
ing of this part of the display tt
reporter, said: "We always have had
superior display in the mechanical
exhibit but every indication this year
goes to show that it will be still better
Several of the largest exhibitors have
erected new buildings and are taking ar
extraordinary interest in their exhibits
am more than ple ased with the outlook
in that DEPARTMENT. OF course the
Geological garden will be one of the great
est features of this years fair, as it is
larger now than it ever has been, several
interesting and valuable additions having
been recently made to it for the purpose OF
making it unusually attractive to visitors.
y couple of fine grizzly bears arrived from
New York recently and were temporarily
placed in the lion-house
County fairs are ripenine.
Jefferson County has a mad-dog scare.
John p. Sebree, the new secretary of the
Democratic State central committee, il
the revenue clerk of the State Auditors
office, Jefferson City, but citizen OF
Howard County. He is son of ex-War-
den Sebree and a brother of Uriel II.
Sebree, of the United States navy, who
went in search of the Greedy party.
" arrants have been sworn out in St
Louis against "Cuckoo'' Quinn and "Doc'
Kern charging them with swindling Lew