Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-01
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Gays ago as Tue culmlnaIlOn or q prOtract.
ed spree.
Bishop Tutt1e has intimated his accept
| ance of the decision of the late diocesan
convention, calling him from Utah to fill
| the vacancy in this State caused by the
death of Bishop Robertson.
1t requires permit from the mayor in
st. Louis to let off fireworks or discharge
firearms on the Fourth of July.
Delusional insanity, the st. Joe doctors
say. is the malady with which DIR. r ich.
mond is affected.
Mrs. Zou Kaime was recently granted
divorce, with $4,000 alimony and restora.
ton of maiden name, by st. Louis court.
Her late husband promptly drew his
check and satisfied Jud gment.
The State Supreme Court affirmed the
judgment of the court below in the case OF
the State against ohm T. Leabo, and set
Friday, July 80, as the day of execution
An eighteen m ont s'- old child of Johr
Christian, who lives at Kansas City, fell
over an embankment few days ago an6
received injuries which it is feared may
prove fatal.
A. W. Segars, glider, took his life il
st. Louis a few days ago with a dose OF
"Rough on Rats He was forty -three
years of age and had never made any
threats against his life. A verdict of sui
eide was returned.
The remains of Lena Dutruh were found
a few days since in a partially decomposed
condition at her home in st. Louis, where
she had committed suicide by poison.
Mrs. Mary A. Spencer committed suicide
at Kansas City few days since by taking
arsenic. This was her second attempt
within few days.
Clarence Kutina, Bohemian. commit
ted suicide in st. Louis few days ago by
cutting his throat with a razor in the
presence of his family.
The State Teachers Association, in ses-
sion at Sweet Springs last week, ad-
journed to meet at the same place next
year.
John Seibert, of Louisiana, Pike County,
was arrested few days ago for selling to-
bacco without license, and was taken to
st. Louis for trial.
Thirteen presidential post offices in Mis-.
souri, have shown receipts in the last year
justifying an increase in salary, while
nine will be decreased.
Robert Morehead was recently sentenced
to one year in the Holt County Jail for
slandering the daughters of A. r. Wilson,
of Craig, Holt County. The father of the
girl administered a public cowhiding to
Morehead on the streets of Craig few
days ago.
The clothing of man was found on the
river bank below st. Joseph about a mile
the other day. Later in the day it was
discovered to belong to Albert Roller, 8
young baker, who had probably gone in
bathing and had drowned. He was well
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community.
F. NJ. Burlison, a brakeman on the Santa
Fe road, was arrested in Kansas City
few days ago for tampering with tickets.
1t is charged that he would obtain punched
tickets from passengers, promising to see
| them around, and then fill up the holes
and through confederates resell the tick
cts, defrauding the company of much
money.
The Lafayette County Normal and
Teachers Institute will convene at Odessa
on July for a term of four weeks. The
course of instruction will be under the
management of Prof. ]. T. Buchanan, of
Kansas City. A number of prominent
editors will be present during the session
and deliver addresses.
A crop review, based on interviews with
farmers, puts the estimated yield of the
wheat crop for Lafayette County at
1,500, 900 bushels. which is the largest yield
since 1882, when the crop was double that
of this season. The report says the grain
is full, of good size and we'll devel oped.
Theopholus Richter, stranger, was ar.
re sted in Louisiana, Pike County, few
days ago, while endeavoring to pass three
| bogus dollars. The coins are fac -simile
ft1,. -s.l, ~,
ing of less weight. He claimed to have
received them from a merchant at Bowl
ing Green, but refused to give the name of
| the party. He was held pending the
arrival of the United States Marshal.
Chas. Hahn, who was arrested recently
| in st. Louis on two charges of forgery,
was taken suddenly sick in the hold
during the night. Sergent Schmitt gems
| summoned DR.. Priest, but the latter stated
| that the Health Commissioner had recent
| " issued orders requiring the dispensary
! physician to stay at his post. The prisoner
| was allowed to suffer.
| An unknown man committed suicide a,
| SedalIa a few evenings since by taking
morphine. He was about thirty three
! wears of age; well dressed, wore gold
trimmed spectacles, and was evidently a
| GERMAN. 1nTuy live cents WAS 1OuIfl III
| his pocket book, but not a scrap of paper
to show who he was or whence he came.
| c. E. Ballard, whose death occurred at a
| private hospital in st. Louis County, was
/ for many years one of the most prominent
| business men of Lexington, Lafayette
| county, and at one time the mayor of that
| city. He was a prominent member of a
number of secret orders. Some years ago
| his mind began to weaken. and in the past
| year it was found necessary to restrain
him to prevent his doing injury to him
| self or friends.
| VIM. Brown, young man residing in
East Sedalia, was gored by bull few
| days ago, and received injuries which, it
| was thought, would prove fatal. He was
| crossing pasture when he was attacked
| by the Infatuated animal and felled to the
| ground. He arose and ran as far as the
| fence. when the bull again overlook him.
| The animals horns entered his victim
| abdomen, inflicting a wound four inches in
| length, from which the entrails protruded
and fell upon the ground.
| The seersucker is in full bloom now.
Robert j. Holmes. aged seventy seven, a
| resident of Kansas City since ] S43, died a
| few days ago. He came from Shelby
| County, Kentucky, poor young man and
died millionaire. Property costing him
| ten dollars per acre is now worth SIC, 000
| and more per acre.
| Policeman John O'Neill, of st. Louis,
attempted to commit suicide few days
ago by plungng into the Mississippi, but
| was rescued aud suspended. He had,
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