Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-22
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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railroad.
General Jackson L. Smith, of jefferson
City, has withdrawn from the Congress
sional race.
Hon. j. g. Blair, ex-member of Congress
of the Missouri Local Option and Submits
sion Association.
President Cleveland has been invited to
the st. Louis carnival next fall, and says
he would like very much to come.
Only five ex-mayors of st. Louis are now
living: Chauncey I. Filley, Nathan Cole,
Joseph Brown, Henry Overstolz and VIM.
L. Ewing.
Peter Mccoy and Robin Hood, Modoc
Indians, who were serving a term in the
penitentiary, have been pardoned by Gov
ernor Marmaduke.
Habeas corpus proceedings resulted in
the discharge of the nine East ST. Louis
deputy sheriffs, but they were immediate
ly rearre sted as fug itives from justice.
An unknown German, aged about thirty
of medium stature and weight, sandy
beard and light brown hair, dropped dead
in a Kansas City saloon few days ago,
it was supposed from starvation.
The st. Louis police are making life
wearisome for crap-rollers.
A woman named Martin discharged the
contents of a shotgun at Deputy Sheriff
Hogan, who was doing guard duty near
the Missouri Pacific shops in Sedalia, few
days ago. She failed to bring down her
game. The woman claims that Hogan
visited her house and grossly insulted her,
and she resolved to kill him. The irate
female was not arrested.
The st. Louis fall carnival will last six
weeks.
The National Butchers convention will
be held in st. Louis, May %. A grand
barbecue will be one of the features.
Mrs. F. A. Hatch, wife of the secretary
of the Y. M. G. A., at Kansas City, died a
few days ago, of heart disease.
George Leeds and Henry Wishem have
been pardoned out of the penitentiary by
Governor Marmaduke.
The committee on public buildings at
Washington has recommended an appro-
priation of $4,000 for Sed ALA.
A sale of Hereford cattle took place at
Riverview Park, Kansas City, a few days
ago, attended by buyers from half dozen
States. Forty animals sold at an average
of $3.50 to $780,. Other sales will follow.
A trackman on the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, north of Wyandotte, found a stick of
dynamite inserted in frog a few days
ago. The discovery was made fortuna te
ly a few minutes before the arrival of a
passenger train.
Fred d. FIVE, manager of the Freeman
Manufacturing Company, at Louisiana,
Pike County, and boy named Robert
Stewart were struck by lightning during
a storm few days ago. Mr.. Flye was
standing on a log raft near the mills when
he was struck, and he fell unconscious
with his head under the water. For sew
eral hours he was in critical condition,
but it was thought that he would recover.
The boy was standing on the river bank
when the lightning struck him on the head
and passed down his left side, killing him
Charles Hobbs, while engaged in dig.
ging foundation for a building in st.
Louis recently struck a fine vein of mould
er's sand. which he proceeded to dispose
of to a foundry firm, and in his eagerness
to make the most of it he undermined a
heavy bank of clay which fell and crushed
him to death beneath it. He leaves a wife
and four children.
There are strong probabilities that the
State convention will be held
this summer at Sweet Springs.
P aul Belize, while unloading stone from
a wagon in ST. Louis few days ago, was
crushed to death by pile of heavy stones
falling over upon him.
The La Crosse Lumber Company, of
presented the fire department
of that city with $3.50 for services in the
recent fire.
Charles Young was killed by the cars at
st. Joseph few days ago.
Ex-Mayor Hickman of Sedalia was re-
Gently placed on trial, charged with ac-
cepting a bride. The man who did the
bribing is serving a two years. sentence
for the crime.
Fire broke out few evenings since in the
basement of w. w. Morgan & Co.'s large
clothing house, at Kansas City. The
1ames soon communicated with the sales
'oom on the second floor. and serious
conflagration seemed imminent. By
prompt work the flames were soon under
control, but water and smoke had about
completed the ruin of the stock begun by
he fire. The stock was valued at 5000,
IN which there was an insurance of $50, 900,
which will about make good the damage.
The building was only slightly damaged.
Mirt Gamble, the thirteen year old son of
John Gamble, of Louisiana, distinguished |
himself the other day by a swift flight to
mother earth. When the alarm was
sounded for the La Crosse Lumber Com |
,any's confiagration he was in his class on |
he third floor of the public school building. |
md being denied by his teacher the priv
of n ha tlo |
md grasping the lightning rod rapidly |
descended without harm other than pair |
# hands somewhat lacerated.
John Donovan while engaged in digging |
sewer in st. Louis few days ago, and |
while at the bottom of the excavation
some ten feet deep-was buried under
mass of earth which caved in on him, and |
Y hen he was taken out short time after
yard was quite dead.
At a sale of unclaimed express packages
IN Kansas City few days ago, one of the
buyers purchased a small box, which,
When opened, was found to contain the
emains of an infant. The box had been
n the office for some time, and had been
hipped from Cameron, Mo. The box and
ontents were turned over to the coroner.
The strike is slowly but surely dying.
1t is stated, on what is considered good
uthority, that the Missouri Pacific Rail-
ray Company will erect a new union de-
OF at Sedalia on the site of the present |
ne early this summer. The building will
e of brick, two stories high, with offices
yer the depot proper, and will cost $780,
90.
Fred Page, chairman of the local execu-
i've board of Sedalia WAS arrested a few |