Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

P. Mcmahon, removed from the State.
An attempt by the furniture manufact.
| urers of st. Louis to return to the ten-hour
| system was met by a strike of two thou
sand employees.
Governor Marmaduke has appointed
| Judge Samuel Moss curator of the State
| University, vice James s. Rollins, re-
| signed.
Fred Crosby arrived in st. Louis few
| DAYS since from England, on a visit to his
uncle, a nd although but four years of age,
he made the journey alone. He did not
lack friends on the way, however.
At the annual election of faculty in th e
| Louisiana public schools held last night,
| the result was as follows: DR.. r. D. Shan
non, superintendent; R. B. D. Simonson.
! principal of the high school; teachers.
| Misses Mollie Templeton, Ella Dawson.
| Fannie Jackson, Eva Strange, Lizzie
! Whitaker, Amelia Wehrman, Belle Her.
ring, Kate Richmond. Nellie Foster, Annie
Fletcher: music, Miss Nettie Gardener;
elocution, Miss Liska Stillman; principal
of colored school, J. 81. Fisher.
A man by the name of Parker surren-
dered himself to Deputy Sheriff Hill, in
| St. Joseph few days ago saying that he
had shot farmer by the name of David
>
Joseph. He told the sheriff that Montgom-
| ery's wounds We're not a t all serious, and
the officer permitted him to go and get his
| wounds dressed, he having a rib broken
and several cuts about the head. SUISSE
| quently me Ssengers reported that Mont
| gomery was dead, he having received
| two gun-shot wounds in the breast, and
then Parker could not be found. Mont
iS of the hiph1u
| spected farmers in Buchanan County.
The butchers barbecue at the Fair
| grounds in st. Louis last week was a
grand success. About $4,000 people were
present.
Theodore Morrison, son of the president
of Drury College, has been indicted for
| murder in killing Julia Patterson.
Missouri railroads, according to a state
ment by the State Board of Equalization,
aggregate 4, 721.57 miles in length and $1O7,-
923, in value.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
road Company has just purchased four
teen acres of land in Armourdale, a Kan
sas City suburb, from the Town Site Com
pany, which will be occupied by it's ter
minal facilities, embracing the machine
shops, round house and yards. The price
paid was $500 acre. The company
also has forty acres in the East Bottoms,
the gift of donation syndicate.
Governor Marmaduke has committed the
sentence of F. E. Griffith, convicted at the
October term, 1888, of the Circuit Court of
Usage County, of arson and grand larceny,
receiving sentence of five years in the
penitentiary for the crime of arson and
two years for larceny, to a term of five
years, with benefit of the three fourths
rule.
G. H. Mcclellan, of Blythedale, was sem
fenced to the penitentiary for three years
by Judge Arnold Krekel, of the United
States District Court at Kansas City, for
robbing the post-office at Blythedale. The
prisoner told the judge he might make it
ten years, a he wouldn't live any longer
than that. adding that if he lived to get
out he would kill every man who testified
against him.
Hiram L. Brewster, formerly postmas.
ter of Halls station, Buchanan County,
was recently sentenced to one year in the
United States District Court at Kansas
City, for stealing a letter from the State
Treasurer containing draft addressed to
the assessor of Carroll County, Misso uri,
and forc ing the latter's Endorsement, thus
obtaining the money.
Abont eighty ex-strikers held a secret
meeting in East Sedalia few DAYS ago
and not little mystery is connected with
the proceedings had. Those in attendance
positively refuse to be interviewed but
they say they expect to have their old
places back at an early day, although they
decline to say how they expect to accom-
plish this end.
Two burglars entered the house of Chris
topher Kohlmeyer in Kansas City few
nights ago. Mr.. Kohlmeyer was aroused
and had a struggle with the men in a dark
hail. during which one burglar shot the
other. Both escaped and later the wound
ed man was found lying under tree near
the house with fatal wound in his breast.
A petition signed by one hun dred voters
in Jackson County, was presented a In
dependence a few days since to have the
court order a special election to vote bonds
to the amount of $500 900, to build a new
Court house in Kansas City in place of the
one destroyed by the late cyclone.
The largest private sale of real estate
ever made in st. Louis was contaminated
a few days ago when Mr.. Charles Green,
president of the ST. Louis Agricultural and
Mechanical Association purchased the
property OF the st. Louis University on
Costly business blocks, the equal, if
not the superior of anything now stand
ing on that thoroughfare, will take the
place of the present building, and thus
another old Landmark will disappear.
At the recent Diocesan Convention in
St. Louis, when the time came for the Sc
lection of a successor to B ishop Robert
son. lately deceas ed, the choice fell, by
very large majority, upon Ri. Rev. Daniel
Sylvester futile, Missionary Bishop of
Utah and Idaho. Before the close of the
convention, however, telegram was re-
ceived from Bishop futile desiring that
the convention would fix its choice upon
some other clergyman, as he felt that he
was needed in his present field OF labor,
but the convention, by formal resolution,
declined to recede from its choice.
Frank p. Blair Post, G. A. R.. sent a
beautiful floral shield of immortelles to New
York last week to be placed among the
floral tributes on the tomb of General
Grant.
The strawberry crop is simply immense.
Kansas City is going to have still an
other big banking house The new con-
Germ is being organized. Mr.. Beals, the
millionaire cattleman, whose 5000 resi- |
dence is just being finished, will be presi- |
dent of the bank and the other stockhold- |
ers will be Fasteners. The concern will |
start with 81 ,00O,O 900 paid-up stock.
j. K. Dodson died at Blue Springs, Jack |
son County, a few days ago, from injuries |
received at the Kansas City courthouse in |
the recent hurricane bod son was a iuror |