Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-29
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

covered from the river at Kansas City.
The remains were shipped to Parkville.
Mrs. Isabel Kealhofer, of st. Louis,
youngest daughter of the late Wayman F.
Grow, died few days since at W ahimgen,
Germany, of peritonitis
Vincent Scherick, a German, tried to
commit suicide in st. Louis few days
ago by shooting himself in the abdomen,
inf1icting dangerous wound.
Rev. DR.. Holland, formerly rector of st.
Georges church in st. Louis, will resume
the office at the beginning of October,
when Rev. DR.. Fulton retires.
The Knights TempIa ar Commandery in st.
Louis of which Cashier Thomson, of the
Provident Savings Bank of st. Louis, was
member, has promptly suspended him.
Lincoln Hubbard, St. Louis negro, was
killed few days ago as result of a
quarrel, his skull being fractured with a
rock in the hands of his antagonist, Theo-
dore Mitchell.
The newspaper men and the male por-
ton of Thompson's Opera Company
played game of basel ball in st. Louis a
few days ago for the benefit of Daisy Muir
dock, sick and dying actress, and Melted
nearly six hundred dollars for the benefi
ciary. 1t was "Comedy of Errors;" but
the players erred in good cause.
Hog cholera has broken out in Dover
Township, Lafayette County, where it is
raging with great violence.
Arrangements are being made for a re-
union of the Grand Council of the Amer
lean Legion of Honor, to take place at the
Fair grounds in st. Louis early in August.
Several st. Louisans recently re-
turned from Canada report seeing and
conversing with Almon B. Thomson, the
absconded cashier of the Provident Saw
ings Bank, in Montreal and Toronto.
Charles A. Davis, an attorney of st.
Louis, has been held to bail for bribing
members of the House of Delegates to
support the Park Railroad bill.
Chief of Police Speers; of Kansas City.
received a telegram from a deputy United
States marshal at Ell Paso, Texas, asking
if Orth Stein was wanted there. There is
no charge against him in Kansas City, his
latest escapade occurring in st. Louis.
The State Auditor has issued a circular
calling the attention of the county officials
to the fact the appropriation made by the
last General Assembly for the payment of
criminal costs is exhausted and that no
more costs can be paid until the next Gem
eral Assembly makes an appropriation.
A real estate exchange has been inaugu-
rated at Kansas City, for facilitating the
transaction of generalreal estate business,
and fostering manufacturing and business
interests of the city.
Charles Summer, an employee of the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Company, was fatally injured near st.
Joseph few days ago, while working
with a construc' ion train. Dirt caved in
on him, and both legs. his nose and one
arm were broken, one eye was put out,
and he was injured internally.
The jury in the case of the State VS..
David g. Parker and his son, for murder
ing David c. Montgomery, on trial at st.
Joseph, has been discharged, owing to the
illness of four of the jurors and the case
goes over until the next term of the Grim
inal Court. The defendants will probably
be admitted to bail, the father in the sum
of $1,000 and the son for $4,000
Governor Marmaduke has granted par
don to James H. Harper, convicted in
Stoddard County in 1882, of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for ten years. The pardon was
granted on account of the discovery of
new evidence of mitigating nature.
A few nights ago a two-horse wagon
containing farmer named J. r. McDan-
iels, his wife and sister in law, Miss Ce-
leste Smith, was struck by the Lexington
branch train at the crossing near George
town, Petts County. The wagon was de-
tached from the horses and hurled a dis
lance of thirty feet. The occupants were
thrown out and all were seriously injured
Miss Smiths injuries, it is thought, will
cause her death.
Mrs. Matte McAree, aged twentysix
years, jumped from third story window
in st. Louis a few nights ago to escape the
flames communicated to the premises by
a gasoline explosion Her back, both
ankles and h. right arm were broken by
the fall. The injuries were pronounced
fatal at the City Hospital, where she was
taken
John Waters and William Gartenbach,
two members of the ST. Louis House of
Delegates, who were wanted on warrants
charging them with drunkenness in office,
have given bonds in the sum of $3.50 each
for their appearance in court.
Distemper among horses in Livingston
County has become epidemic. The dis
ease is in malignant form. Mr.. H. c.
Ireland lost two valuable colts on his big
breeding farm last week. Mr.. Ireland has
over three hundred head of trotting
horses, nearly all standard red, and if the
disease should spread among them he will
suffer great loss.
A call has ben issue to the survivors
of General J. O. Shelby's brigade, c. S.
A, living in Lafayette County, to meet at
Higginsville Tuesday, August next, to
make arrangements to attend the second
annual reunion of Shelby's brigade and
Confederate soldiers, to be held at Mar
shall, August so next. The first reunion
of the brigade held at Higginsvllle, Au
gust -, 1885, was a grand success, and
strong efforts are being put forth to sur
pass it this year.
The return of the ST. Louis Gable road for
its first quarters business shows that there
Were IS, 500 trips made between the middle
of April, when the company commenced
operations, and July /, carrying 500, 1888
passengers. At the rate of three and one
half cents a passenger, which is consider
ed IA fair average, this would make the re-
ceipts of the company S31, 2S5.90.
Rain, and lots of it, is needed.
A. b. Thomson, the absconding bank
cashier of st. Louis, left a letter stating
that he had been ruined by speculation
and used the banks money to carry him.
self along until discovered. He was seen
on steamboat in Canadian waters by a
party of three acquaintance.
Governor Marmaduke, on his return to
Jefferson City from the militia encamp-
ment at Sweet Springs, expressed himself
as greatly pleased with the encampment,
a sentiment which does not produce a very
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