Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
MISSOURI, STATE NEWS.

"A warrant mas been issued In st. LOUIS
charging Samuel and Joseph Landon with
wilfully setting fire to their bakery for the
purpose of securing the insurance.
j. X. Morrison and several members of
his family have been arrested at Rogers,
Ark, to be returned to Newton County,
No., on charge of murder.
movement is on foot among the Jewish
population of Denver to induce DIR. Some
schein, of st. Louis, to go there and take
charge of the Congregation Emanuel.
John Maddox, travelling man for the
wholesale millinery house of Englehart,
Winning & Co., st. Joseph, was found a
few days since in a field two miles from
that city in demented condition. He ar
rived at home the evening previous in
sound health and woke up in the morn
ing insane. He wandered about until he
reached the country and lacerated him
self terribly in trying to go through a
barbwire fence. He was in a critical con-
dition.
Very full reports from every section of
the State give most cheerful views of the
agricultural outlook. Wheat is 95 per
cent. of the average prospect, and i'm
proving. The stock is healthy and the
soil favorable for tillage. Wheat is fully
an average, except where the snow blew
off the ridges or on wet, undrained
prairies. Seventeen end five-tenths per
cent. of the wheat crop of 1885 remains in
the farmers hands, and 800 per cent. of
corn is in first hands. The loss of hogs for
the past year, 22.5 per cent, largely from
cholera. The amount of stock in the State
is slightly less than last April and II per
cent. less on sheep.
Active work is being done in st. Louis
in preparation for the convention of
the American Medical Association, which
meets there on May 4.
The National sheep-shearing gathering
began in st. Louis On the eth, with a large
attendance of breeders and wool men.
Mrs. Thomas Lyman was terribly
burned in st. Louis few evening since
while filling a can of gasoline, the fluid
coming in contact with lighted lamp.
There are in Missouri under Baptist aus
pieces ten schools and colleges. These own
approximately $302,000 in property, and
1872 900 in endowments. They have sew
enty five teachers and enroll about eleven
hundred students.
The people of Clay County have organ
lied committee, and are raising perma-
nent fund for the capture of horse thieves.
The plan is, that when horse is stolen,
the thief and the horse to be captured, and
the thieves sent to the penitentiary in
short order. Quite a number have already
subscribed.
Robert S. Gipson, the oldest man in the
United States, who resided near College
Mound, Macon County, died few nights
ago at the age of 100 years.
Bernhard Brockmeyer, German. sew
enty-two years old, committed suicide
few days ago by jumping into the river
from a dumpboat at st. Louis. Several
men who were at the waters edge and
witnessed the old mans leap procured
boat, but were too late to save him from
death. The body was recovered.
r. E. King, the defaulting book-keeper
of the Sedalia Savings Bank, pleaded
guilty to two charges of grand larceny and
one of forgery, in the Criminal Court.
Sentence was deferred. The remaining
cases against the prisoner were nolle
pressed by the States Attorney. As will
be remembered, King, while in the employ
of the bank, got away with about fifty
thousand dollars and fed to Canada. He
was induced to return by officers of the
bank under promise that nothing would be
said about the matter. Up to the time of
his arrest he was looked upon as most
upright young man.
Fred Spehlman was found dead on the
corner of Vandeventer avenue and Forest
park boulevard. ST. Louis, a few days ago.
The committee appointed to solicit the
of 800, 900 to make st. Joseph
the eastern terminus of the Rock Island
extension in Kansas and Nebraska have
n ar.I of |, hoy
succeeded in reaching a point where that
amount is guaranteed. 1t is now settled
fact that the road will be built from st.
Joseph.
Judge John E. RyIand will be a candi- |
late for reelection as criminal judge for
the counties of Saline Pettis, johnson and
Lafayette.
Judge E. L. Edwards, of the Cole County |
Circuit Court, granted an application for |
a writ of habeas corpus in the case of |
Frank Osborn, who was sentenced at the !
last October term of the Christian County |
Circuit Court to a term of three years inn |
prisonment in the penitentiary upon a |
charge of burglary and larceny. The |
grounds upon which the writ was asked |
was that, at the time of the sentence, Os- !
BORN was under eighteen years of age and |
entitled to the statutory provisions made |
or such cases. After hearing of the case |
n chambers, Judge Chambers ordered the |
prisoner discharged. Osborn's family re-
'ides in Milwaukee, Wis. and he owes his
discharge from prison to the ceaseless eff
orts of friend and loving mother,
who came from Milwaukee to Iberate her
.rring boy.
The residence of Jack Carroll in Soda
ia, was discovered to be on fire a few
since. The flames spread rapid
V and soon communicated to the residence
owned and occupied by Lou Crews, col
,red, and then to the residence of J. II.
Love, and in very short time all three of
he buildings We're in ashes. Everybody
to think that the building was fired
" an incendiary. Mrs. Carroll states that
she was awakened by loud noise or ex-
,losion of some kind, but as several houses
n the neighborhood had been stoned in
he early part of the night. she covered up
Ter head and was about to return to sleep,
When she was again aroused by the neigh
ors yelling fire. She and her children
ardly had time to escape from the build
ng before one of the large chimneys fell
n.
More storms and floods are predicted.
Mrs. Ella G. Glaskin. of Scanda, Kas..
wife of VIM. H. Glaskin, banker of that
lace, died a few days ago at the home of
er parents in st. Joseph. She was for
nerly Miss Ella G. Garrett. the principal
f Washington school in st. Joseph, and
ad been married only three months.
George Matthews, a young man who re-