Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-12-23
Miscellaneous Items.

uOt Idll 10 come. w. T.. COLEMAN,
Chairman.
Miscellaneous Items.
The Kansas City Court of Appeals has
| adjourned till the second Monday in Jan
| uary, 1887.
One Edward Phillips, of Kansas City,
who was to have been tried for criminal
assault upon young Swede girl, commit
ted suicide in Jail He leaves wife.
Mrs. George Gresham was suddenly
stricken with paralysis at Missouri City
few days ago. The use of her limbs is
entirely lost and her power of speech is
gone. No hopes of her recovery are enter
tanned.
The motion for new trial was granted
to Dorm G. Parker, the murderer of David
G. Montgomery, who was found guilty of
murder in the second degree in the Grim
inal Court and sentenced to five years. i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. The case
will not come up for trial again until the
March term.
In the United States District Court at
Kansas City, Thomas Dale, a colored resi-
dent of Gallatin, was recently convicted Of
attempting to pass a counterfeit half dol
lar upon keeper of a lemonade stand at a
church picnic, and was sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary. Mike Nevill,
also Gallatinite, was given two years in
the same institution for having in his pos
session, when arrested, several well-exe-
cuted limitations of the ''daddy dollar.''
The Klein-Valliant contest in st. Louis
recently assumed very definite shape be-
fore Judge W. W. Edwards, of the Circuit
Court of St Louis County, who orders the
opening of the ballot-boxes.
Rev. Father Francis W. Graham, pastor
of st. Patrick's Church, in st. Joseph, and
one of the best known and most able
&c in, ln Of
reported lying at the point of death at his
home in that city, from an acute attack of
congestion of the lungs. He was attacked
very suddenly. The physicians enter
tanned little hope of his recovery.
Mrs. Mary Donovan, a woman about
eighty-five years of age, residing in ST.
Louis, while taking some clothes off line
a few nights ago, fell over the banisters of
a second story porch, a distance of twelve
Or fourteen feet, and was picked up dead.
Governor Marmaduke has pardoned
Charles Logan who was sentenced from
Greene County in May, 1888, for five
years, for burglary and larceny. The
pardon was granted on the recommends
ton of the warden and inspectors of the
penitentiary who asked it for the cour-
ageous conduct displayed by Logan in de-
Tense of Foreman Gould of the Giesiecke
Boot and Shoe Company, who was at
tackled by a murderous convict, and would
have been killed but for the interference
of Logan.
A meeting of the Fund Commissioners
was held at jefferson City few days ago,
and in addition to making an order for the
transmission Of the January interest on
State bonds to the National Bank of Com
MERGE, New York, it was decided to issue
S1,5UG00 of three and one-half per cent
funding bonds for sale on the 9th of next
February, as provided by an act of the
Legislature of 1885. During the past gear
two sales of State bonds occurred and the
premiums bid reduced the interest prac-
tically to three per cent. per annum, one
half less than the old rate of interest.
Darius Carries Parker, who was con-
victed at the November term of court at
st. Joseph of the murder of David s.
Montgomery, has been granted new
trial.
Mrs. Eliza Houston, colored lady, said
to be over one hundred years old, died in
st. Louis recently She was born slave
on the plantation of Mr.. Pernell, in Vir-
ginia, and afterward became the property
of Mr.. Houston. She located in st. Louis
many years ago, and it is said of her that
on one occasion she became totally blind,
and about year afterward recovered her
sight completely. She died in a rocking
chair, rather Unexpectedly, remarklng to
her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Smith, when the
fatal shock came, 81 am going to die" and
fell back corpse. She was strong and
hearty up to the time of her death.
The second annual exhibition of the
Mississippi Valley Poultry Club, held in
the st. Louis Exposition building last
week, was pronounced success, there
being over two thousand chickens in the
exhibition and in competition.
Mrs. Frank Nelson was fatally burned a
few days ago, near Rosedale, a suburb OF
Kansas City. She had attempted to ac-
celerate the kindling of fire with coal
Oil. when her clothes took fire, and she
was burned in a most frightful manner,
and survived only a few hours.
Has any one seen 'tJim Cumm ings?"
At a recent mass Sunday-school service
in the great Music Hall of the st. Louis
Exposition building there were nearly ten
thousand adults and children packed in
the hall and upon the stage, and an over
flow meeting had to be held in Entertain
ment Hall in the same building. The song
service is described as having been partic-
ularly inspiring, and requests have been
made for its repetition.
John Sullivan, better known as "En-
glsh jack who was suspected of being
implicated in a recent jewelry robbery,
was fatally shot in Kansas City a few
nights ago by officers Gilley and Kersey
Wnllo resisting arrest.
The Sedalia saloons are now closed or
Sundays-ostensibly SO.
II enry Hecks, John Mcdonald and Thos.
Meenan, were en- gagged at the Western Steel
works in st. Louis a few days ago in
cleaning the lining of a steel vessel. Sud |
denly the lining gave way and all three !
men were thrown violently to the ground.
Hecks was killed outright, while Melon
aid and Meenan were very badly in |
jured.
There were 277 births and 15S deaths in |
St. Louis last week, twenty of the deaths |
being from diphtheria. /
Everybody in st. Louis wants the ele- |,
waited, rapid-transit railway except those
upon whose property the proposed route
abuts.
The Kansas City Post (German) has sus-
pended.