Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-04
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


some meat in a st. Louis butcher-shop q
few mornings since, dropped dead from
heart disease. He was sixty one wears of
age.
The Governor is finding considerable diff
Guilty in solving the question as to who
shall be Brigadier- g eneral of the State
militia.
The coroner's jury in st. Louis held Mel.
lie Dempsey responsible for the death of
her newly born child, which it is alleged
she strangled to death January 13 at the
night refuge of st. Johns hospital.
AT the recent meeting of the State Board
OF Health at Jefferson City, Major VIM. T.
Gentry was unanimously reelected presi-
dent of the board for the ensuing year;
DIR. Holman was reelected secretary; DIR.
Albert Merrill was reelected vice-presi-
dent; DIR. Jacob Griffith was elected Treas
urer, vice James 3. Prather.
The hat of DR.. Rich mond, of st. Joseph,
was found on the river bank near the depot
a few days ago, but the doctor is still miss
ing.
William J. Whitaker, Judge of the
Wright County Probate Court, is dead. He
was one of the oldest citizens of that coun-
ty and filed many positions of honor and
trust.
urge his appointment as the successor of
Judge Arnold Krekel upon the bench of
the United States Court for the Western
district.
Kansas City has passed the cable ordi-
nance.
Governor Marmaduke refused to pardon
a Kansas City man named Foster, con-
victed of keeping poker-room.
fo ho
one hundred and nine years of age, died
at the st. Louis Poor-house recently of
apoplexy. The old mans age is certified
to by Dr.. Shrainka, the Poor house physi-
clan.
J. F. Mounts, for some months past asso-
ciated with N. o. Gray in the publication
of the Louisiana pike County, Press, has
severed his connection Herewith.
Detective John belong, of the Missouri
Pacific, took Ed Hodges, a negro, from
Sedalia to jefferson City few days ago,
where he was lodged in Jail on a charge of
hurglarizing freight cars filed with mer-
chandise at Jefferson in December last. He
has a hard name and has been in other
scrapes of a similar character.
white man named Andrew Harris,
who has been living in the neighborhood
OF Odessa, Lafayette County, for some
time, was jailed at Lexington few nights
ago on q charge of attempting an indecent
assault upon Miss Eliza Holt, with whom
be was sleigh-riding. Being unsuccessful
in his design, because of the resistance the
lady made, he forced her to leave the sleigh
and then drove away. Miss Holt was
compelled to walk three miles to reach
home.
The board OF managers of the jackson
County Reform school have fled petition
for mandamus in the Supreme Court, the
general object and nature of which is to
compel the county court of Jack on Coun-
ty to set apart $50 900 from dramshop rev.
enue for the purchase of site and erection
of a Reform school, as provided by an act
o. the last General Assembly. and which
applies solely to Kansas City. The petition
alleges that the, county court has wrong
fully refused to comply with the provisions
of this act and asks for peremptory writ
OF mandamu>.
Two farmers, named Cummings and
Kavanaugh, while on spree in East At
Gibson, Buchanan County, few nights
ago got into row with Jim Lanier, a
saloon-keeper, and stabbed him in the
back, causing wounds which may result
fatally. The two men crossed the river on
the ice and were captured by a posse and
taken to st. Joseph. After the cutting
Lanier's saloon was burgiarized by I'M
known parties to the extent of $500.
Mrs. Anna Haesl, wife of Thomas Haesl
a German laborer living in st. Louis. died
a few days since of what was pronounced
trichinosis by her physician. One leg
M certified before she died. The woman
denied at first that she had eaten any pork,
but finally admitted that she had eaten
some raw sausage, but would not say
where she got it.
E. 2. Crane, of Sedalia, bad his right
arm smashed while employed as fireman
on the Missouri Pacific railroad. about two
years ago. He brought suit against the
company in the Circuit Court of Petts
County and was awarded 5000 damages.
The case was taken to the Supreme Court
by the railroad company, and that trib-
unal has sustained his case. Half of the
amount goes to his attorney.
The Grand Army men of ST. Louis will
celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of
the capture OF C amp Jackson i'll elaborate
style on the 10th of May next. 1t will par
take of the nature OF a grand camp-f fire,
probably in Forest Park.
Mrs. Prudence Fowler died in ST. Louis
year. She was resident OF st. Louis
fifty two years, having settled in that city
on her arrival from Ireland in 1894.
A a result of the gas war in ST. Louis
citizens who live in the portion of the city
where the competition hits hardest. are
getting their gas for one dollar per thou
sand feet net.
A young Pole named Chikowsky died
in st. Louis q few days ago from peri
tonitis, caused by an injury received in
coasting.
In the Turner murder case at Kansas
City a few days ago Attorney Reebe,
counsel for the prisoner, was fined five
dollars for contempt for the offensive
manner in which he addressed Judge
White.
The wife of st. Louis baggage wagon
driver, Mrs. Mary Price, has become the
possessor of fortune of $4,000 by the
breaking of the will of Isaac Foreman by
the Supreme Court OF Illinois. The prop
erty had been devised to the American
Bible Society and the Missionary Society
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, to the
exclusion OF Mrs. Price, who was Fore
mans only child.
The crop of billiards is good.
A woman, evidently demented, walked
into the Office of the chief of police in ST.
Louis a few days ago anil requested to
be speedily hanged for the murder of her
father and mother, whom she claims to
have removed by poison in Chicago. She
was taken care OF.
The Pacific Fl otel at st. Joseph is to be
thoroughly overhauled and repaired as
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