Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-26
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

| few nights a2o.
! Governor Merehoase comalutsd to life
| imprisonment the death sentence OF john
| E. Bryant of Clark County.
George L. Ritter has been arrested or
charge of embezz ing 500 from the VIM.
Barr Dry Goods Company of S.. Louis.
st. Joseph is being invaded by part
/ of the gang of highway robbers, thieves
| AMI Migrants that have been driven out
OF Kansas City and Omaha.
Mrs. Barbara Todd, wife of Rev. Joseph
! H. Todd, former pastor of the Centenary
/ n. E. Church South, in st. Joseph, now OF
! Carthage, died at their residence recent Y
| after a protracted illness, of typhoid
! pneumonia. Mrs. Todd was q sister tC
| Rev. John and Robert Carlton and VIM.
/ Graham, of ST. Joseph. where she had
| lived for several years. She was MARI &c
little more than year ago to Mr.. Todd
Judge John F. Long. one of the best.
/ known residents of st. Louis, died recent
| " of asthma at his homs in that city
| after an illness extending over period
| of nearly eight years. Judge Long was &
! grandson of Captain John Long, one OF
the first settlers of St. Louis, and a son of
| VIM. S. Long. who loca ted the White
| Haven farm, known as the General Grant
| place, and on which Judge Long was born
| seventy.two years ago.
Governor Nor ehouse recently received
| and accepted the resignation of Hon. j.
| NJ. Proctor, State Senator from the Ninth
district, composed of the counties OF
| Boone, Howard and Audrain. No reason
| is given by the Senator for the resigna-
/ ton, but ii is understood that it is caused
/ by the fact that he has accepted a lucra-
/ tive position with the Miss ouri Pacific in
| the material and supply department. Nc
| special election will be ordered.
Mrs. Margaret j. White died in Jeffer.
| son City, few nights ago, at the resi-
/ dence of her SON. in-law, Adjutan teen.
| eral Jamlson.
| Mrs. Dolly Miller, of st. Joseph, died at
| San Diego, CAL, few days since, where
| she went q short time ago in the hopes Ct
| regaining her failing health.
| Three footpads named James McPher-
| son, Thomas Male and John Jourden,
were recently sentenced by Judge White
! at Kansas City to fifteen years in the peni-
/ Tertiary for holding up and robbing ].
| Davis, December 6.
| Patrick McCarty, a track walker on the
| Iron Mountain railroad at ST. Louis, was
| struck by north bound train few days
ago, sustaining injuries which resulted in
his death a few minutes later.
A recent meeting of the directors OF
the ST. Joseph Fair Association the old
officers We're reelected by reclamation.
They are II. R. W. Hartwig, presidents; D.
D. Burnes, vice-president; B. F. Buzzard,
treasurer; Charles F. Ernst, secretary.
These officers have served cont inuously
since 1884.
An immense bob-sled, containing fifty
two persons, collided with another sled
| while descending the Broadway hill at
Kansas City, few nights ago, and was
overturned. Seventeen of the occupants
sustained injuries, three of them being
seriously hurt. They were Maud McDon-
aid, Maud Wolseey and Jennie Tracey.
The st. Louis grand jury for the January
term made their final report to Judge
/ NOrmile in the Criminal Court last week,
and were discharged from further serv-
ice. They were in session eight days,
and during that time took eighty cases,
out of which they returned sixty-one in.
dictments, eighteen ignored bills, and
continued one case for lack of evidence.
There has been q needless scarlet fever
scare in some of the public schools at
Kansas City, recently. and in some dis
tricts parents refused to send their chill
dren to school. The scare was most harm
ful in the Morse school district. and was
due to the discovery of mild case of
scarlet fever in the ianitor's family. Prof
McNeill dismissed the school and circu-
lars were sent out to PARENTS explaining
the matter. There is said to be no danger
from the disease in that or any other
district in the city, as physicians are
taking extra precautions to avoid any
spread of the disease.
Charles Myers, who was arrested at Fort
Leavenworth, Kas., charged with the
murder Of James Weir, was taken to
Kansas City and locked up. Weir, while
waiting for train in the Missouri Pacific
depot, fell asleep and when the depot
master found him his head was smashed
into jelly. John Bogard, boy sixteen
years of age, was arrested. and confessed
that Myers had killed Weir, and given
him twenty dollars as his share of the
money taken from the dead man. Henry
Schneider, the Leavenworth correspond
ent of the Kansas City Tunes, while at
the fort. recognized Myers from descrip-
ton. Myers had enlisted in the band at
the fort. He was at once arrested and
the boy sent for. He fully identified
Myers. Both Bocard and Myers are
tramps. Weir was wealthy farmer.
Some curious developments occurred in
the recent trial of David Wilson in the
Grim inal Court at Kansas City. Wilson
was arrested for burglarizing the house of
his broth err in-law, Matthew Waite, on
December 26, 1887. Wilson claimed that
this charge was trumped up by George
Waite, a brother of his wife, to put him
in the penitentiary, Wilson having re-
qured him to leave his house. at which
he was staying. refusing longer to sup
port him. After George Waite had tes-
titled Judge White dismissed the jury,
recalled Waite and in terrogated him
farther as to where he was on the night
of the burglary. Waite failed to give
salts factory explanation, and the court
instructed the marshal to place Waite in
custody to await the action of the grand
jury, remarkiny to Major Woodson that
the State was prose cutting the wrong man,
and that the guilty man was Waite.
Waite was placed in custody.
+. NJ. Grant, of the livery firm OF
Baker & Grant, of st. Joseph, was struck
by a runaway horse q few days ago and
injured so badly that he died soon after.
When struck he had just started from
the stable door, and thu horse, which be-
longed at the barn, came dashing down
the street and tried to enter, striking
Mr.. Grant full in the forehead and throw
ing him violently against the sidewalk.
Maxwell still hangs on the tenter- hooks.
Martin Cook. about fifty years old, fell
dead in a Kansas City saloon a few days
ago. He was noticed STOPPING over a
bucket, with blood flowing freely from
his nose and mouth, and five minutes
later he died from hemorrhage of the
ungs.
Forty Migrants were arrested in Kansas
City few days since as a result of the
reign of terror inaugurated by the foot
pads. They We're found loafing around
saloons and dives, and were unable to ac-