Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-26
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

plication at the st. Joseph court for di-
vorce from his wife, Margaret Lybe, al
ieging that she was so slovenly that life
was unhearable, and that his physician ha i
ordered him to stay away from her if he
wished TO retain his health. He asserted
that he had tried to reform her for many
years, but his efforts had been productive
of no effect.
Todd Duke and James Mccormick. two
farmers of the notorious Cracker Neck
neighborhood, met in Independence few
days ago and renewed a quarrel which
they had had in reference to the rente
farm on which the latter lived AS re-
suit Duke stabbed Mccormick with his
pocket-knife. The wound is pronounce d
fatal. Duke is in jail.
A telegram was received at Kansas CITY
few DAYS since by Captain Ditsch from
the sheriff of L aadville, Col, to the effect
that efforts were being made to secure the
release of Roberts, the Pacific Mutual EN-
bezzler. upon a writ OF habeas corpus.
Captain Ditsch at once wired a reply to
hold the prisoner under all circumstances
as Mr.. Meyers would SION arrive to iden-
tify the man. Deputy Marshal Ike Jack
son left subsequently with a requisition
from the Governor.
Mamie Woo Sing, Chinese bride of four
months. died at Kansas City few days
ago, aged sixteen years.
A band contest will occur at st. Joseph
September II.
The Pope was recently presented with
Peters pence from the diocese of ST. Jo-
seph. this State.
Two DAUGHTERS OF Major VIM. Gentry
Mrs. T. w. Cloney and Mrs. J. NJ. Offield
died at Sedalia few days ago.
Judge James NJ. Davis has been nomi-
mated for judge by the Greenbackers in
convention at Chillicothe.
During the current month the average
daily consumption of water in St. Louis
has been nearly 100000 gallons, of which
fully five per cent. is attribute to willfu
waste.
Judge Sloan, of Kansas City, sustained
the habeas corpus proceedings in the case
of Lieutenant Bingham and ordered him
released from the court-martial.
VIM. Uhlin, aged twentv-four, was
killed by the fall of a derrick in Kansas
City few days ago.
John Carney, the brakeman who had
both legs broken at Hamilton a few DAYS
ing ne yer rallied from the shock.
A new Dost-office has been established
in Polk County, to be known as Gulf, five
and a half miles from Walnut Grove
Samuel D. Strain, Jr., has been appoint.
ed postmaster.
The pOst-ofIice known as Messenger, ir
Pike County, has been discontinued. Mail
will hereafter go to Anada.
There was excitement in Higginsville
few davS ago when the report was carried
to town that coal oil had been discovered
on the farm of w. w. No"thcutt, about
mile north of the city. There have been
from time to time strong surface indica-
tions of coal oil at various places near that
place, and several wells were bored in at
tempts to find oil.
Richard W. Ulrci, an old citizen of s..
Louis, died al the Southern Hotel a few
days ago. Mr.. Ulrici lived in the hotel
from the time of the reopening, and was
hoarder at the old Southern many years
before it burned. He was taken to st.
Louis by his parents in 1910 direct from
Prussia, where he was born. In 1s4S he
Miss Theresa Paul, daughter of
n wealthy st. Louisa n of those days. Mrs.
U lric died several years ago.
Henry Wolfe, of Benton County, rode
into Sedalia few days ago on a mule and
leading another. He sold the animals to
Mayor E. w. Stevens, the price paid being
$50. Wolfe was identified by n friend
and cashed his check. Subsequently
farmer named Hess put in his appearance
and claimed that the mules had been stolen
from him and Stevens was compelled to
return the animals. Wolfe can not be
found and Stevens is out his $50.
Napoleon Gynaid. aged twenty-five
years, was found dead in his b d at the
Cottage House, in Kansas City few days
where he had been employed about a
week as a cook. A post mortem eXamina-
ton of the body was held and a verdict
by the coroner of death from
heart disease. The deceased had no rela-
tives in he city, as far as known.
VIM. Ulhein, a workman employed on
the erection % a new building in Kansas
City was almost instantly killed fewIdavs
ago. He was on of two men engaged in
lowering a large stone by a derrick, when
the latter became displaced by the break
ing of jury rope and struck him with ire.
mendous force in the forehead. His skull
was crushed and he only lived a few min
utes, never recovering consciousness.
Notice is given by Commissioner Blanch.
ard of the Central Traffic Association that
exhibits dead freight and live stock for
warded to the ST. Louis Fair, to be held at
st. Louis October 8 to 10, 1856, will be
charged at tariff rates. They will be re-
turned over the roads in the association
which forwarded them, at owners risk,
free, within thirty days thereafter, to the
or ginal forwarders and points of ship
ment, when accompanied by certificate
of the proper officers of said Fair attached
to the manifest therefor that they are un-
sold exhibits thereat.
George Sugden, better known as ''Seda-
las miser," died a few days ago. His
last hours were spent in a filthy, sparsely
furnished room in the upper story of the
block owned by him. Sugden was about
seventy years old, and and came from En-
gland many years ago. He leaves prop
erty valued at $4,000 to the two children
of his only brother, who died in the Pettis
County Poorhouse one wear ago. Mary
Sugden, woman of forty years, has al
ways been supposed to be the daughter OF
the deceased, but on his death bed he
stated that she was not his daughter. By
his will she will receive twenty dollars
per month as long as she lives.
s.. Louis Exposition next month.
Mrs. Martha Terrence Hunt wife of J.
West Goodwin, editor of the Sedalia b.
zoo, died few days ago.
John Weaver, a well-known river man,
lied few nights ago at the Alaxan Bro
hers hospital in ST. Louis, after an ILL.,
ness of fourteen months of consumption.
The deceased was thirty-seven years old
and had been on the river since 1863 He
" as mate on some of the largest Steamers