Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


a proposed railroad from Jefferson City &c
Kansas City.
Jim Cummings is said to be enjoying
himself in st. Louis
An old lady who has seen better days
was recently discovered in st. Louis on
the verge of starvation, while her daugh-
ter, the wife of prominent lawyer, is
reveling in luxury and aff1uence The
names are not given. but such unfilial con-
duct should be exposed
In the case of James s. Payton the State
Supreme Court has affirmed the decision
of the lower court and sentenced him to
be hanged January II, 1887. Payton is only
sixteen years of age.
The Buchanan County shrievalty contest
continues to worry the courts.
The jury in the VIM. Gould murder case
at Kansas City rendered verdict of MUIR
der in the second degree and fixed the
punishment at fifteen years in the peni-
tertiary.
The employees of the Sedalia Democrat,
Publishing Company recently presented
II. Fl. Allen, business manager, with
magnificent gold watch and chain, the pre-
Sentation speech being made by Frank B.
McElroy, of the local staff
Robert Emmett King, the twenty-five
year-old defaulting bookkeeper of the
Sedalia Savings Bank, whose shortage of
S4S. 900 closed the doors of the institution
and sent him to States prison in April
last for term of six years, has prepared
a statement which is addressed to the peo-
pie of Sedalia and Pettis County in which
he says he has learned that his father in
tends to circulate a petition asking the
Governor to grant him pardon.
Forty stalls at the Sedalia Driving Park
were burned few days ago, entailing
loss of over $1,000. Several of the stalls
We're occupied by blooded horses, but all
were saved, some of then, with difficulty.
The fire is supposed to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion.
Robert Grayor was hung in st. Louis on
the 10th inst, for the murder of Berry
Evans.
Annie Jahrand committed suicide in ST.
Louis a few days ago by taking Rough on
Rats
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Hill We're d.
vorced by Judge Thayer in ST. Louis few
days ago after having been married forty
four years.
Senator Vest has again seen the Presi-
dent about Colonel Benton, and it is said
the matter of his speeches will be pursued
no further.
Jacques Eugene Spuller, a prominent
member of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties, has been visiting in st. Louis re-
Gently.
W. H. Bliss will step down and out of
the district attorneys Office for the East
ern district of Missouri.
Mrs. Louisa Elizabeth Eickel died in st.
Joseph q few days ago, aged seventy-two
years. She was mother of Moses and E.
J. Eiclel, two well-known citizens of that
city She had lived in st. Joseph since
1870
Governor Marmaduke has appointed
James l.. Sheetz prosecuting attorney of
Clay County, vice Lance W. Newman, de-
ceased.
AS yet there is no clew to the murderers
of B. F. Neese, the young mechanic who
was found drugged and robbed in an alley
at ST. Joseph, recently.
Messrs. E. E. Menges and G. D. Amman
have put force of men at work on League
Park, at Kansas City, and will at once
convert it into a skating rink and tobog
gan slide for the winter months.
John Johnson, colored man, was tried
before Judge NOonan in ST. Louis few
days ago upon charge of making a cor
rupt voluntary oath, and was convicted
by jury, who fixed his punishment at six
month in Jail. johnson went into the Cir
cult Court in the Patrick child case and
swore that he had served subphoena up
on Mrs. Camilla S. MacManus, when she
was at the time in Davenport, Ia.
Alice Murrin was awarded s4999 dam
ages by jury in the United States Circuit
Court at Kansas City An electric wire of
the ST. Joseph Electric Light & Power
Company struck her in the face, causing
paralytic injuries.
Charles Gould, a shop forman employed
in one of the shops at the State peniten-
tiary, was assaulted a few days ago by an
enraged negro convict by the name of
Hughes, who is serving out a fve-year
sentence. The negro had a grudge
against Gould, and, while the latter was
off his guard, assaulted him with shoe
knife and made a five-inch cash in Gould's
neck, coming within half an inch of sever
ing the jugular vein. Hughes was imme-
diately placed in confinement.
Fire in r. S. McCurdy's laundry in Kan
sas City a few days ago caused loss ag-
gregating $500 The building belonged
to H. NJ. Northrop the Wyandotte banker,
and was damage $500. McCurdy's loss
was $1,000 The other loss is divided
among tenants above and proprietors of
ad Joining shops.
Pursuant to a previous call of Adjutant-
General Jamison, body of military men
and civilians from st. Louis and Kansas
City held a meeting at the Governors
mansion few evenings since to discuss
and revise the new Military bill prepared
by General Jarnison. The bill will be pre-
sented to the Legislature this winter. The
object of the bill is to maintain and per-
petuate the military of the State by ask
ing the Legislature to make liberal APP
preparation for its support.
Charles Moth and Thomas Shields
wrestled at Music Hall in Kansas City
few nights ago for 800 and gate receipts.
The match was a mixed one. five STYLES,
Graco-Roman, collar and elbow, catch-as-
catch-can, Cumb erland and side-hold. The
match was closely contested, and was won
by Moth, who secured three falls out of
the five.
John Adds, Jr., has peen held for the
grand jury in st. Louis in bonds of $500 for
violation of the election law in voting twice
at an election within the city
Mrs. Jennie Forgey, Mrs. Susan Swim
hardt and Mrs. Annie Swinhardt were
tried in the st. Louis Criminal Court a few
days ago on a charge of petit larceny, were
found guilty and were fined fifty dollars
each. Their offense consisted in shoplift-
ing at Barr's dry goods store.
The chief of police of ST. Louis has been
asked to investigate an alleged firm sty1-
ing itself the ''St. Louis Hotel Company
which has every appearance of being a
swindling myth.
The year is ON the wane.
The sale of the ST. James Hotel at Kan
sas City, has been consummated, the pur-
chaser being Mr. J. II. Hughes, a Boston
capitalist. The consideration was So, 900,
which embraced the furniture, fixtures
and the lease. Van Est & Graves, the
present lessees, will remain Until January
l. when the hotel will be TUNED over to
Mr.. Hughes.
: A pension check for $500. drawn at To-
pe6a by Agent Click, was raised to $1,000