Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-09
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

uohCy SoihpoA Nv anu IhiIS
that an expenditure of $4,000 will be re-
quired to put the structure in shape again,
and some of the directors are said to be in
favor of abandoning the Exposition
scheme" 1t is needless to say that the
story was manufactured out of whole
cloth.
The Employees Liability Assurance Cor
poration, of London, England, has been
admitted to Missouri by the Superintend-
ent of Insurance.
The following are the collectors of in
ternal revenue in the Eastern district of
Missouri for the week ending August %:
Lists. 1856; beer, $25 544.S0; spirits. S46,-
O09.s0; cigars, S1,s92.70; snuff, 1920; to-
bacco, $50 265.16; special taxes, SAT- 80;
total, $126 201.71.
Two new mi tia companies in st. Louis
have been named in honor of Mayor
Francis and Father Eustace.
Everything indicates that on the OPEN
ing day of the st. Louis Exposition the
exhibits will all be ready.
Peter DeCarne, who poisoned the Nacht-
witch children, in st. Louis was sent to jail
for year for practicing medicine without
a license.
Acknowledgement Jamison announces
that no more military companies will be
mustered into the State service under the
present rule.
A new insurance scheme, with head
quarters at Kansas City-insuring titles to
real estate-is puzzling the Insurance De-
partment.
A fatal COW disease. resembling Texas
fever, is creating havoc among the gentle
dispensers of the tactical fluid in the south
ern portion of st. Louis.
DR.. Henry c. Dalton has been appointed
by Mayor Francis OF st. Louis as success
SCR to DR.. Dean as superintendent of the
City Hospital.
Attachments amounting to So, 900 have
been issued against the Soule & Williams
Paint and Glass Company at Kansas
City. Assets probably $os 900. Cause of
failure, slow collections.
The Democratic judicial convention on
the Eleventh circuit, held at Milan, re-
nominated G. D. Burgess, present incum-
bent, for Judge.
Hon. J. NJ. Sebert, State Treasurer ac-
companed by J. NJ. Oldham of the State
Auditors office, recently delivered to the
National Bank of Commerce in New Y ork,
$4,000 of State bonds.
The capital stock of the st. Louis Fair
Association is to be increased to $500, 900,
and 100000 is to be expended in the erec-
ton of large new exhibit building.
Collector r. D. Lancaster's report of
custom duties at the port of ST. Louis dur
ing the month of August shows a total of
S165,1 The collections for the previous
month were S1SS, 165, making the receipts
for the two months $35S ,935, or $4,000 less
than the receipts for the months of July,
August September, October and Novem-
Der of 1888. The collections of the last
month We're $S4 ,504 greater than for the
corresponding month of last year.
The nominations of the Republican
State convention at Sedalia were: J. K.
CTavens, of Kansas City, for Supreme
Judge; III. J. Warren. of Hannibal. for
Superintendent of Public Instruction; G.
W. Hitchings, of Spring field, for Railroad
Commits Toner.
Governor Marmaduke has pardoned
"Rat" Christian. who, in August. 1876,
was tried in the Boone County Circuit
Court and convicted of murder in the Sec
ond degree and sentenced for fifteen years
in the penitentiary. He kill ID a student
OF the state University in drunken
brawl and was very young when sent to
prison. The pardon was granted on a very
strong petition of very large number of
the leading citizens of Boone County.
An increase in the pride per ton paid by
the Lexington Coal Mining Company has
gone into effect, to prevail six months.
The increase is in accordance with an
agreement entered into a year ago. The
increase makes the figures 81 and 10 1-2,
the former when the company wheels the
coal and the latter when the miners
wheel it.
A weed, taken from the stomach of a
COW which died at dairy in South st.
Louis recently, enc of the victims of the
COW disease, is pronounced by ply stefan
of the Board of Health to be a deadly
poison. AS it has already been stated,
there have been large number of deaths
cmCng the cows in that part of the city.
This weed is one for which the cows have
a strong appetite, though in less than ten
hours after eating it they become sick and
die.
The attendance at the St. Joseph Expo
sition on Big Thursday was estimated at
$4,000. All the banks and business houses
were closed, and the city had a general
holiday appearance. The day was slightly
warmer than any day previous during the
week, which added considerably to the
discomfort of the many spectators.
The London agent of the firm of Mer-
rick, Walsh & Phelps, st. Louis, jewelers.,
recently sent a package of diamonds to
the firm, the package arriving on the oath
of August The agent who shipped the
diamonds sent them by registered letter
Instead of by express, as the law requires.
The regular invoice was sent to the sur
veyor of the port in due order, and the
firm notified the surveyor that they ex-
pected the arrival of the diamonds. The
precious stones arrived at the post-office
al the proper time, and We're seized by the
. nited States Marshal and held in his
possession. The packabe weighed 1i6
carats, and the trouble has caused great
embarrassment to the firm. A notice was
filed in the United States District Court
by Attorney Bliss, citing the firm to APP
pear and show why they had violated the
law. The firm gave bond for the da-
monds and obtained possession of them,
and the matter will be Strengthened out
when the court convenes in November.
st. Louis Exposition opens the 9Th.
The Colonel of one of the Kansas CITY
mi itia regiments has issued cir cular to
his men in which he states that if any
member thinks he has any rights confer
red by the decision of Judge Slower in the
Bingham case which are now denied him,
orsin any manner questions the rights of
the spite militia authorities over him. such
man can not too soon forward his resigna-
ton to headquarters.
The st. Louis amusement season has
opened, all the thea.ers being in full blast
again after the summers vacation, during
which they have been overhauIed and re-