Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-08
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

d. y. McGarry, Charles Burdett and nj. II.
Chase, prominent strikers at st. Louis,
charging them with obstructing railroad
tracks.
Elizabeth Rose, woman who rejoiced
in the titular honor of Queen of the st.
Louis Poorhouse, died few days ago,
after reign of thirty EIGHT years, at the
age of sixty -eight. She entered the in
stitution June %, 1913, and was of Ameri-
can birth. Beyond this nothing is known
of her history.
A company composed of three moneyed
| men of Independence, namely, S. K
Knox, L. P. Williams and Chas. Gudgell,
have organized and are sinking a shaft for
coal on the site of the town of Glendale,
noted as the scene of robberies on the Chi
| cago & Alton railroad. The company has
employed Mr.. j. F. Gourley, of Lawrence,
Kas., to do the prospecting, and will go as
deep as six hundred feet, if necessary.
The necessary machinery is in position,
and it is confidentially expected that a
good vein will be reached at few hundred
feet.
Cesar Van Allen, travelling man, re-
siding with his wife and two children took
a sudden leave from his house a few days
ago, but not before he had kissed his wife
and two children goodbye. From the
manner in which he acted, Mrs. Van Allen
supposed at the time that he meant sui
eide, and as he has not been seen since, it
is presumed he has taken himself off.
The Republicans of st. Joseph nominated
G. F. Englehart, of Englehart Winning g.
Co., for mayor, and the Democrats have
nominated for the same position Dr. T. H.
Doyle. The campaign was lively one.
Hexl.z
ture of Camp Jackson is to be observed in
a suitable way in st. Louis ON the 10th of
May. The surviving comrades of the diff
ferent organizations of that time are to be
invited, also Generals Schofeld and
Sweeney of the regular army, at that time
young Lieutenants and mastering officers.
VIM. Ohms committed suicide with
poison at his home in st. Louis few days
ago.
Mary Linsener, st. Louis widow, was
fined ten dollars recently for using whip
on F. Settemaier, who had s1andered her.
The tug John P. Keiser collided with one
of the piers of the big bridge at st. Louis
a few days ago, collapsed and sunk. No
lives lost.
cable road.
ing March.
Rabbi Sonneschein, of st. Louis, has
given his congregation notice of his inten-
ton to leave them on the 1st of October.
the revenue office of the Fourth Mis-
souri, district has been moved from Louisi-
ana to Hannibal
Adam Kuehner was found guilty in thu
st. Louis Criminal Court of murder in the
4 fN, L l
50, 1885.
Joseph Lawrie, formerly a prominent
st. Louis attorney, was sentenced a few
days ago by Judge Brewer to ninety days
in Jail for contempt, in failing to obey an
collected for client.
Frank Martin, the hoodlum who shot
Officer John Martin one Sunday evening
several weeks ago in Kansas City, was
given ten years in the penitentiary by
Judge White of the Criminal Court of that
city.
The subscriptions, so far, to the Lexing-
ton town clock amount to over four hum
dred dollars, leaving the sum necessary to
be raised about sixty dollars. Lexington
will doubtless have her clock.
A few weeks ago a subscription was
opened by the members of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, ST. Louis, for the
endowment of a chair at Drury College,
Sprin gfield, to be called the Goodell chair,
in memory of their late revered pastor,
DR.. c. L. Goodell. The subscriptions had
at last accounts reached the sum of $685.
600, which amount it is desired to raise to
$4,000.
Kansas City is to have new hotel, to
cost $500, 900, and to be under the manage
ment of Mr.. c. M. Hill, proprietor of the
Windsor Hotel, Topeka, Kas., and E.
Willis Howe, who was for ten years man
ager of the Palmer House, Chicago, and
who is now proprietor of the Linde1 Ho-
tel in st. Louis. Mr.. Hill is the prime
mover in the enterprise, and has been
working it up for the past few months.
few weeks ago he asked MIR. Howe to
join him in the enterprise, and the hotel is
now sure thing.
The Sedalia st. Louis & Chicago Rail-
road Company has been organized by citi-
zens of Pettis and Saline Counties, with
capital stock of ST, 100000.
A chambermaid knock several times
at the door of room in Hotel Hunt, ST.
Louis, occupied by A. E. Harlem, few
days ago, and receiving no answer, called
the proprietor, Mr.. Quinn, who ordered
the door broken down. The occupant of
the room, a young of about twenty-six
years, was found lying on the bed dead.
Two empty walls that had contained
laudanum were found on the floor, and
there was no need to inquire as to how he
came to his death. He had evidently taken
the drug and laid down composed for
the sleep that knows no wakiag. His
trunk was nicely packed and everything
indicated that he had attended to his
wardrobe before shuff1ing off. In his
pocket, Coroner Nidelet, who was called
in, found two letters. One was addressed
to NJ. w. Quinn, proprietor of the hotel.
This letter informed Mr.. Quinn that the
writer was sorry he should be the cause of
would notify NJ. Harlem, Mount Vernon,
Ind, to come here and take charge of the
body the writer's bill would be paid. He
also requested that l.. r. Strauss, of No.
1904 South Tenth street, be notified. The
second letter was addressed to his wife,
Mrs. A. E. Harlem, Mount Vernon, Ind"
The rivers show signs of food.
At dance in the French bottom, three
miles north of st. Joseph, few night ago,
during quarrel, Gilbert Dunn was stabbed
by John Kittman in seventeen places
and had his throat cut, barely missing the
jugular vein. The assault was made
through a mistake. Kittman's wife was
lnsulted by some one outside of the house,
and, under the impression that Dunn was
the guilty party, Kittman made the assault.