Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-25
MISSOURI, STATE NEWS.

MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Areligious revival is going on in Louisa
ana, Mo.
Warren T. Pemberton, Of Sedalia, has
been appointed postal clerk. He Is the
SON of Major Wy. Pemberton, ex-secre-
tary Of the State Senate, now prosecuting
attorney Of Butte City. Mont.
w.P. Kelly. who has besn teaching
school near Lamonte, Pettis County, has
had his certificate revoked by the County
Superintendent of Schools by reason of
conduct at variance with good order and
correct morals.sA = A.
Rev DIR. Niccolls, pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, st. Louis, has been
granted an unlimited leave of absence by
his congregation, and will visit Europe in
search of renewed health and vigor.
Colonel E. D. Meier has been placed in
command of the First Brigade, N. g. III.
Lieutenant Colonel Buchanan is now in
command of the First Regiment. These
are appointments without promotion.
Four more unlicensed insurance COM
panies doing business in this State have
been discovered.
Hiram Brown, of ST. Louis, drank a pint
of whisky a few days ago and died. He
graduated from Hiram College in the same
class with the late President Garfield.
Bert Mitchell, prominent member and
treasurer of the st. Louis Union Society, a
swell colored club, and for the past
fourteen years trusted messenger of the
Missouri Pacific and Wabash railways is
in durance for having distracted 81 GOO
from package placed in his charge to ek-
press to distant point. He was in the
habit OF dealing in 'spolicy," and this,
together with expensive habits contracted
at the CLUB is supposed to have led to his
downfall.
1t has been decided to inaugurate the
carnival season in st. Louis next fall SIM
ultaneously with the opening of the Expo
sition, beginning with the Trades Display
the first week, to be followed up each week
OF the forty days by one of the gorgeous
parades for which st. Lotus has become
noted.
Maurice Rapden, the Mexican Vice. Con-
sui, at Kansas City, proposes to establish
Spanish newspaper in that city under
the title of the 1.-TWO Flags"
The greater portion of the Government
fleet which was swept away from Car
rolls Island chute during therecent break
up has been recovered at different points
down the river.
The State Encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, recently held at
Mexico, elected the following officers:
Commander, Nelson Cole, reelected !;
Senior Vice-Commander, E. c. Kimball,
Nevada, reelected: Junior Vice-Com-
mander, Hiram Smith, Cameron; Medical
Director, DIR. A. Vanmeter: Chaplain, Rev.
John S. Ferguson, reelected; National
Commander S. S. Burdett, of Washington,
d. c., was among the visitors. The next
encampment will be held at Springfield.
The State organization of the Ladies'
Relief Corps, which met at Mexico with
the G. A. R., elected the following officers:
President, Mrs. Sarah J. Martin, Brook
field: Senior Vice-President, Mrs. Agnes
Sterritt, st. Joseph; Junior Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Georgia CrandalI, Brookfield !;
Treasurer, Mrs. Alice Burton, Nevada :;
Chaplain, Mrs. Lingle, Cameron. Council
OF Administration, Mrs. Kingsbaker, St.
Joseph; Mrs. Stark, st. Louis; Mrs.
Powell, st. Louis: Mrs. Burnham, Cam
eron; Mrs. Jones, Kansas City.
Senator Vest has had a relapse, and his
condition was, at last accounts, such as to
casion much alarm among his friends.
\ fire in Sedalia a few nights ago de-
stroyed the residence of William Paggett
on Engineer street. Loss, 5000; partially
insured.
Mrs. Marcellus Herman, of ST. Louis,
sent her seven-year-oldb boy to drug store
a few evenings since for ten cents worth
OF laudanum. Mrs. Herman Immediately
swallowed the laudanum at one dose, but
ooh :al
and her life was saved.
An unknown man visited the residence
OF a woman named Warren in SedaIia a
few nights ago during her absence. and
attempted an assault on her five-year-old
daughter. The child's cries for help and
struggles compelled the fiend to desist, but
not until he had considerably injured the
little girl. He then ransacked the house,
but secured nothing of value.
Rev. William r. Lawton died recently at
his home in Sedalia. aged sixty. Rev.
Mr.. Lawton was one of the most widely
known colored men in the State. He was
buried in ST. Louis with Masonic honors,
having been Past Grand Master of the
Masonic lodge in this State.
VIM. G. McCarty has been nominated by
the President for postmaster at Jefferson
City.
A. I. Anderson, of Kildare, Tex, was
purchasing q Pullman car ticket in st.
Louis few nights ago and had his valise,
which stood on the floor at his feet, stolen
by some unknown person. The valise con-
tainted $4,000 worth of bonds of the Texas
Timber Company and also several deeds of
Texas lands, all of which are worthless to
any one except the owner. The matter
was reported to the police. but the thief,
at last accounts, had not been discovered.
Elder r. E. Swartz, pastor of the Chris
tian Church at Lexington, has resigned
and accepted call at Kingston Jamaica.
He will sail in few days for his new field
Of labor.
VIM. Alexander, a colored man, who had
been in Jail at Sedalia for a week, died a
few days ago from commissions, superin
duced by compression of the brain from
an old fracture of the skull.
The A. 0. U. w. lodges of Sedalia re-
Gently rendered a grand reception and
banquet to Mr.. il. Upchurch, the founder
OF the order. Mr.. Upchurch now resides at
Steelville, but at the time of the founding
OF the order he was resident of Sedalia.
There were about three hundred delegates
present from different parts of the State,
Including some of the most noted members
OF the order. The reception was held at the
Park Hotel.
DIR. r. Goodwin, of st. Louis, is dead.
A solemn ceremonial took place a few
days ago at the Convent of the Good Shep-
herd in st. Louis, when ten young ladies
received the holy habit and six novices
made their final vows. The galleries were
crowded with guests, and down stairs
We're great many gentlemen, relatives of