Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-02-18
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Elizabeth Timborious was assaulted and
stabbed three times by an unknown man
near her home in st. Louis a few nip hts
ago.
Highwaymen boarded ST. Louis street.
car a few nights ago, but failed to find
anything in the money-bo or in the
drivers pockets.
The Independence accommodation on the
Missouri Pacific railway was thrown down
an embankment near Kansas CITY a few
days ago and fifteen persons were injured.
General Claim Agent Harry B. Kane.
and Assistant Chief Surgeon w. p. King:
also VIM. E. Jones, of st. Louis, claim add
juster, all OF the Missouri Pacific road,
were in Independence few days ago sat-
isfying the parties who were injured in
the recent accident upon the road in which
fully fifty people, mostly citizens of In
dependence, were injured. The adjusters
paid each injured person from ten to fifty
dollars. With those whose injuries were
most serious they have not yet settled.
Mr.. Charles Cameron, an old and highly
respected citizen of Chillicothe, went home
a few days ago and remarked to his wife:
81 am sick" His wife assisted him to a
bed, but he fell over, dead. The deceased
was about sixty five years of age and
leaves wife and four children He was
prominently identified with building con-
tracts in the city and had accumulated a
fair property. Heart disease was the
cause of his death.
+ The National Baseball Leage has adj
mitted the Kansas City club to member
ship.
The appointment of Major John D. Rus
sell as postmaster of Sedalia, has been re-
ceived in that city with manifestations of
popular approval.
Among the applicants for the vacant
Probate judgeship of Pettis County are
Judge John A. Lacey, Thomas P. Hoy and
David H. O'Rear.
VIM. Rogers, the man who killed Joe
Fore, has reached the penitentiary again,
having been sent up from Phelps County
for robbery.
The Grand Lodge of Missouri and Ne
braska, Ancient Order of United Work
men, was in session last week in ST. Louis,
with nearly four hundred delegates pres
ent, who represented 600 lodges and Il, 900
members
Acknowledgement O'Brien, of New York.
has given an opinion recognizing the Mis-
souri, State bonds as legal investment for
savings banks of that State.
John Burns, an employee OF the Missis-
sippi glass works, at ST. Louis, lost leg a
few days ago while unloading coal from a
car. The car was moved and in handling
the brake the wheel came off, throwing
Burns under the wheels.
A banquet was given General J. Fl. Du-
val, of Wheeling, w. Va, at the Hotel
Brunswick, Kansas City, few nights
ago by Colonel A. A. Tomlinson, an old
army conrade. There were present about
twenty of the most prominent ladies and
gentlemen in the city.
Jack Hays, the st. Louis murderer, sem
fenced to be hanged March 5th, may pos
sibIy not go to glory by the hempen route
on the day fixed by the Supreme Court.
His attorney, James Mcbride, of st. Louis,
has asked the Supreme Court for a writ of
error, and, if it is not granted, will take
the case to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Hays has been sentenced to death
four times by the lower courts and once by
the Supreme Court.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Prison inspectors, held at Jeffer-
son City recently, proposition of the
Curators of the State University to lease
the labor of from fifty to one hundred and
fifty convicts for use on the Agricultural
College farm was rejected, as was also the
of Colonel Hicks, representa-
tive of the Edison Electric Light Company
to put in plant at the penitentiary capa-
BILE of furnishing 400 lights, the State to
furnish the power, for 1000.
Our st. Louis friends are to have a rare
dramatic treat next week in the long,
visit of Mary Anderson, who,
fresh from her triumphs in England is re-
ceiving perfect ovation in her American
tour. Miss Anderson carries with her a
company of forty-fve people, and all the
special scenery for the production of her
plays, which are given with an elaboration
OF detail that adds largely to their inter-
est. This treat will doubtless be shared by |
many from the interior cities, who will !
time their visits to st. Louis so as to see |
sour Mary"
Upon affidavit of Pleasant EARLY, uncle |
Of Angus Oxford, the negro killed at Salt |
river. Pike County, Sheriff Fielder and |
Deputy Sheriff Glenn have arrested j. |
VIII Rule and W. Ell. Cartmill, two white !
men of thatneighborhood, who are charged |
with the murder.
Dudley Davis, the acting foreman of the |
Missouri Pacific yards at st. Louis. was |
crushed between two cars and instantly |
killed few days ago. Davis was twenty !
eight years old and unmarried.
Arrangements have been perfected for
a convention to be held at jefferson City |
March IS, for the purpose of taking gen.
eral action to secure from Congress an APP
preparation for the Improvement of the
Usage river. Delegates will be in attend
ance from all the cities and towns in the
Usage valley.
MIR. u. IL. Wallace, president of the Mis-
souri, Wool Growers Association, has been
IN W ashlngton lately endeavoring to ar
'ange for the holding of the annual
meeting of the National Association of
" DOL Growers at st. Louis in April next
1T the time of the National sheep shear
ng.
The loss by the recent fire at Lexington
s now estimated at $4,000. The citizens
propose to raise $1,000 to improve their
ire department.
A bill has been reported by the commit
zee on public buildings of the National
House of Representatives to appropriate
10000 for public building at Sedala.
Circuit Attorney Glover, of st. Louis,
ays Maxwell's trial can not be begun be-
ore the May term.
Lexington had 500, 900 fire.
Max Fisher, a st. Louis saloon keeper,
hot and killed a wild cat which was run
ling large few days ago. The cat was
hased for some time by police officers and
itizens, but owing to the zig-zag course
which it took the pursuers failed to run
he cat down. Finally it was cornered in
shed, and was there shot and killed.
John Mcdaniel, a farm hand, of whom
cry little is known, was found dead in his