Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21

Chillicothe, were frozen to death a few
days ago in Clark County, Kansas.
Tho Randolph House, at Green Ridge.
Pettis County, burned a few days ago.
The loss was about s., 0G0; fully insured.
A bold thief entered the residence of
Mrs. DR.. Clark, at Sedalia, few nights
ago and carried of $500 worth of jewelry
and other valuables.
The number OF notaries public now in
commission in the State is 2,7:.O. ST. Louis
has 100; Jackson County has $50, of which
Kansas City has 291. The rest are scat
tered throughout the State.
John Bonback, who won considerable
notoriety year ago by leaving his cap
and a note on the st. Louis bridge, ndi-
eating that he had committed suicide. has
been found alive and well at Ell Paso. Tex.
Harrison Bouldin, an aged colored man,
was found dead in his cabin at Sedala a
few days ago. The Coroner's Jury re-
turned a verdict that the deceased had
been frozen to death.
The ice crop is reported good and there
is very little danger Of scarcity of the
cooling material next summer. Harvest
ing operations are going on lively.
During saloon row in the early morn
ing hours few days ago, a bartender
named Mike Gilmore shot and killed Miles
Stanton, an innocent locker on, and
wounded Tom Mooney, his intended VIC
tim.
Charles Wilson, who murdered William,
David, mate of the steamer Fannie Tatum,
at st. Louis, was hanged at the ST. Louis
Jail on the 18th inst. There were many
extenuating circumstances in his case, and
it was thought until the last moment that
his sentence might be committed.
Granny Saunders, 4 colored woman liv-
ing in st. Louis, claims to be one hundred
and eighteen years old. She is almost
blind, and few nights ago bad narrow
escape from being burned to death by the
house of her son, where she was living,
being burned.
Arrangements are being made for a con-
ference at Jefferson City of leading mer-
chants of st. Louis, Kansas City, Leaven-
worth and st. Joseph to discuss railroad
rates.
Frank Smith, aged twenty. five, was
found dead in bed at his home in st. Louis
a few days ago.
Selma Klemm, domestic in DR.. Ford's
household in st. Louis, attempted to COM
NIT suicide few evenings since by taking
chloroform. When found the girl was I'M
conscious, and under her pillow was found
an empty bottle labeled "Chloroform."
She was taken to the City Hospital in
precarious condition. The cause which
led her to make an attempt her life is
thought to be a quarrel which she had
with young man to whom she was en-
gagged to be married.
The quarterly meeting of the District
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was held recently at ST. Joseph, with good
attendance from all the Northwest coun-
ties. Three sessions were held and essays
were read and discussed by all the MEM
bers of the association. The annual meet
ing for the election of officers will be held
at the same place in April.
The first anniversary OF Governor Mar
maduke's term of office, which occurred
recently, was made the occasion of a visit
consratulation by a large number of citi
zens OF jefferson City. A complimentary
address was made by Major VIM. Gentry,
of Sedalia, to which the Governor re-
sponded, and the evening was pleasantly
spent.
Matthew Landrigan was crushed to death
in st. Louis few days ago by mass of
clay falling upon him from bank he wa:
UNDERMINING W procure iuoiuiHS sdHu.
Marshall has Board of Trade.
Captain John Mccoy, a well-known
steamboat captain, died in ST. Louis few
days ago of paralysis, at the advanced age
OF seventy years. He was highly respected
in shipping circles, and once was well-to-
do in worldly sense. His business re-
verses began about thirty years ago with
the burning of the steamer Bluff City. He
leaves a large circle ofrelatives and friends
to mourn his loss.
Ed Christopher, Tom Ryan and John Nc
Laughlin, three railroad laborers, were
killed near Independence, a few nights
ago on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, while |
walking the track, by passenger train.
The Kansas City Court OF Appeals has
al iourned to January Goth.
George SEWERS, German, fifty-three |
years of age, residing with his family in |
ST. Louis, shot his wife in the neck few |
days ago, without any apparent cause, |
and then shot himself in the head. Sewers |
wound was pronounced mortal, but it was |
thought his wife would recover.
Ellen Cannon, a servant-girl eighteen |
years Of age, recently living with a family |
named Thomas in st. Louis, mysteriously |
disappeared a few days ago. Her friends
are anxious about her, she left without !
saying anything to her mistress, and
wearing her working clothes. She had
,nly been in the city six or seven weeks.
The State Board of Health met at Jeffer-
ION City on the 18th,