Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-16
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


Wheat is said to be looking well since
| the ice melted of.
| In nearly all OF the counties of this State
| where the Local-Option law has been sub
| mitted to vote, from one-fourth to one
| half of the voters are said to have lodged
| the qaes tion by refusing to vote.
Jack Keith has been positively identi.
| fed by citizens Of Kansas City as high
| way robber, and his chances for long
| term in prison are very good.
! Chief-Justice Waite of the United
| States Supreme Court has announced
that the mandate in the Maxwell case
| will be issued February 20.
| A stakeholder of the defunct Fifth
| National Bank of st. Louis surprised
Receiver Stephens a few days ago by
handing him a check for g, 500 to cover
| probable assessment to the full amount
| of his stock in the bank.
Judge Norton has declared himself out
| of the guberna toriai race.
Judge Noonan, of ST. Louis, recently
rendered decision in the Iron Hall test
case that the State Insurance law does
not apply to social or benevolent orders.
Mayor Francis of st. Louis has ap-
| pointed a committee of prominent gem
tlemen to go to Washington and urge the
| claims of the Future Great to the honor
/ of entertaining the Democratic National
| convention.
Ferdinand Schneible a salesman en-
| ployed at Rice, Silk &c Co.'s wholesale
dry goods house in st. Louis, was ar
rested few nights ago on a charge Of
! pilferng from his employers.
A post office has Leen established in
! st. Louis County, on the Columbia bot
| tom road, and named O'Neill, in honor
! of the Representative from the Eighth
| district.
The receipts from all sources'for st. Vim
CENTS Catholic Orphan Asylum in ST.
| Louis during January amounted to ST.,
/ O76 IS, including bequest of 800. The
! project of moving the asylum to more
| spacious grounds is under discussion.
| Tobias L. Rubenstein was sentenced tic
| ten days in jail for contempt of court by
| Judge Noonan in st. Louis a few days
| ago. He crit cised the action of the court
in rather too loud tones.
| John w. Chamberlain, Of st. Louis, was
sentenced by Judge Thayer in the United
! States Court to six months in Jail and
| 500 fine for registration frauds.
There was a sudden and complete shut
| down of navigation interests again in the
| Mississ ippi last week. 1t was unexpected
| by a majority of steamboat men. The
/ prospects, however, are that the blockade
will be only of short duration.
District-Attorney Bashaw has gone to
/, Washington to look after Senator Vests
| bill regula ting salaries of his office. The
bill proposes to pay the District-attorney
$1,000, instead of 5000, and to give the
assistants $1,000, instead of $500 Mr..
Bashaw will urge the passage of the bill.
w. L. Hacomb, at a gency Ford, a small
town on the st. Joseph & st. Louis rail-
road, about twelve miles south of st.
Joseph, committed suicide a few nights
ago by taking a dose of poison. Halcomb
was wealthy, but reported to be of
melancholy disposition. He leaves wife
and several children.
Mr.. Arthur Slaughter has offered $500
and the Lafayette County Court 500 re-
ward for the detection and conviction of
the murderer of Jonah p. Arvine, which
occurred on January 6. The entire coun
try was shocked by it's brutality and eff
forts have been made to dispel the mys-
terry surrounding it. As yet no success
has been had, but this reward may
prove an incentive to greater diligence.
Charles A. Gustafson, superintendent
of construction on the Ninth Street cable
line, at Kansas City, while returning
from the Coates Opera-House few
nights ago was attacked by a footpad.
The highwayman went through the usual
formula characteristic of such occasions,
but Mr.. Gustafson, having about $500 ON
his person, was on the alert and the foot
pad found himself facing formidable
revolver. He begged off and was allowed
to DEPART.
w. E. Coleman, State Superintendent
of Schools, will this week visit schools at
places herein named and address the peo-
pie at night as follows: Sturgeon, Mon
day, 10; Wellsville, Tuesday, Is; War
renton, Wednesday, Is; Wright City,
II "a l.
spent at the teachers institute at Wentz-
vile.
The following post-offices have been dis
continued: Malcolm, Charlton County,
and Iuka Springs, st. Clair County.
Peter Fuller, ST. Louis roustabout,
while in company with John johnson,
few days since, found ten -dolla bill. of
| which Johnson claimed share. A quar-
rel ensued over Fuller's denial OF the
/ claim, which resulted in the latter shoot
| ing johnson three times. Fuller was ar
rested, and now wishes he had never seen
that bill.
Over fifty delegates, representing every
county in Missouri, assembled in Kansas
City last week to perfectithe organization
OF the Master Painters and Decorators
Association of this State.
Among the assessment insurance COM
panies that have filed their statements
with the State Insurance Department and
received their certificates, are the follow
ing: New Home Life Ass ociation, of Hi
nois; Supreme Council, Legion of Honor;
Temperance Benevolent Association, of
Troy, Mo-; National Temperance Relief
Union, of st. Joseph; Massachusetts,
Benefit Association, of Boston; Kansas
City Mutual Accident Company; Fidelity
Mutual Life Association, of Philadelphia;
Farmers and Mechanics Mutual Aid AS
ISOLATION, of st. Louis; Bankers Life AS
ISOLATION, of Des Moines; Odd Fellows
Mutual Aid Association, of st. Louis:
Chicago Guarantee Fund; Knights Tenn
plar's masonic Mutual Aid Association,
Cincinnati.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested by parties intending to visit ST.
Louis in the near future in two important
dramatic events-the appearance in sue
ceeding weeks of Mrs. James Brown
Potter and Mrs. Langtry. The former
will appear at the Olympic Theater in
repertoire of her successful plays, be-
ginning February 81, and the latter will
appear at the Grand Opera House, be-
ginning March 5, in herlatest and greatest
success: LAS in a Looking Glass"
Mrs. Senator Vest is convalescing.
Judge White, of Kansas City, recently
sentenced the following persons to the
penitentiary: Ernest Bees, robbery, ten
years; Henry Thornton, larceny, five
years; Archibald Order, enlightenment,
five years; Frank Emerson, burglary.
twenty years; James Hosel, burglary,
twenty years; John Snyder, criminal as
sault, five years.
Major Warner has secured the passage
of bill in the House of Representatives