Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-19
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

of Mrs. \. j. Wise, which takes p ace ct
Waxahatchie, Tex. January a, at the
First Baptist Church in that city.
Two little fellows, Sammy and Willie
Baldwin, aged fourteen and twelve, re-
spectively, walked from Kearney, Mo-,
recently, TO ST. Joseph, to see their moth
err in the insane asylum, whom they had
not seen for six years. They were afraid
to ask their father to let them go, and
walked the entire one hundred miles. A
constable went after them, and found
them willing to return, they had been
successful in their mission.
The annual report of Building Commits
sioner Furong of st. Louis shows that in
1887 there were erected in the city J. S42
brick buildings, of the total value of So, =
S94,0 07; 64S frame buildings, costing 1868,
$40 in the aggregate; and that alterations
were made and additions built to the
value of $713,537. The total amount ex-
pended in this work was SIS, 100, 914. and
the whole number of structures built was
2,490
1t cost James A. Port, St Louisan,
who was arrested recently for turning in
false fire alarms, an even hundred dol
lars for his fun.
A st. Louis reporter has discovered that
some of the swell young ladies of that city
James Thompson, who keeps a stall in
the Union market at st. Louis, recently
in We sted two dollars in lottery ticket Cor
a tenth of one), and a few days later was
agreeablv surprised to find that his num-
Der had drawn the capital prize, and tha
he was 50, 99S ahead, less express charges.
The name of the man who recently COM
mitted suicide in a st. Louis street-car
stable was found, upon investigation. to
be John Herold, German. He is said to
have been on continuous spree since
Christmas.
a warrant has been issued at st. Louis
for John Botz, on charge of causing the
death of his child by scalding.
Peter Sorensen. a st. Louis letter-car-
rier, has just received notice of his par
don for desertion by the Danish Govern
ment.
A post office has been established at
Athelstane, Worth County. W it'll VIM. A.
Nighswonder as postmaster.
The name of the post-offi ce at Lee, Car
ter County, has been changed to Grandin.
Farmer NJ. H. Gladman, of Hopkins,
Nodaway County, is said to have found
seven-nch vein of backing on his
farm. 1t lies four feet under the surface,
and when moistened and rubbed on
shoes, makes fine polish.
The name of post office Ayers Vile, Put
nam County, has been changed to Pow
ersville and the site changed two miles
northeast.
James a. Wear. who was assaulted with
coupling-pin by an unknown assassin, and
was found in the Missouri Pacific depot at
Independence on the morning of January
:. died few days ago. The coroner's in
vestigation has thrown no light upon the
murder.
John Rex, one of the oldest merchants
of st. Louis, died a few days ago, aged
sixty eight years. He was born in PhiIa-
deIphia in 1920, went to California during
the gold fever of 1S49, but returned in 1851
and settled in st. Louis, where he was for
many wears connected with the firm of
Homer, Rex & Tracy, but for the last ten
years has been with the dry goods house
of Samuel c. Davis & Co.
An appeal has been made to the County
Court at ST. Joseph to make an appropri.
alton for the purpose of Kidding the
county of En- glish sparrows. 1t is claimed
that these little pests are increasing sc
rapidly in numbers that the gardeners
are fearful that the small fruit crop will
be totally DESTROYED. Last year damage
to the amount of s., 500 was done in the
county, and the question is of vital i'm
portance to frut-growers.
A young man named John Hinson, who
is said to be nephew of General Gilhall,
of New Orleans, was stopped by two high
waymen in Kansas City, a few nights
ago, and on his attempting to resist them,
he was shot in the stomach. The pistol
shot aroused the neighborhood, and Hin
son was carried to the house of a friend,
only a few doors distant. The doctor who
examined him pronounced his wound
fatal.
Marshal WEIGH, switchman employed
by the Missouri Pacific railroad. was
knocked off box car. run over and killed
a few nights ago at the west end of the
Missouri Pacific freight yards in Kansas
City. 1t was intensely dark at the time
and the last freight train was being
switched fo. the night. Owing to mis-
taken signal the tram backed up instead
of going ahead, throwing Welch upon a
fat-car, from which he rebounded and fell
between the cars, nearly the entire train
passing over his body. The body was
horribly mangled.
Lon Ricketts,, the train baggage
checker of the Union Depot Company, at
Kansas City, while on his way home, q
few nights ago, was about to turn a
corner when a man jumped upon him and
nearly knocked him down. At the same
head and began beating him. Ricketts,
struggled desperately with the robbers,
but was finally secured, thrown to the
ground, his overcoat and vest cut, and
pocketbook containing $2S and valuable
papers taken.
Captain John Tobin, the ouce-noted
frontiersman and scout, the sole survivor
of two Mormon massacres, now living at
Kansas City, almost blind, is preparing,
through several of the best LAWYERS in
that city, including Congress sman Warner,
to begin suit for eighty acres of land in
almost the center of Salt Lake City, Utah,
valued at over $4,000, 900. He saws that in
1858, while he was living in Salt Lake
City, he bought from the Ute Indians
eighty acres of ground in what was then
the suburbs, chiefly because of a medicinal
spring. The Mormon Council ratified the
purchase in the absence of a Government
land Office. He remained there until
driven away before the first Mountain
Meadow massacre, of which he was the
sole survivor. Since then he has been
collecting evidence of his claim and now
has it in good shape for action.
Ice harvesters are at work.
Harry Hall, son of prominent physi-
clan of st. Joseph, who was serving a life
sentence at the Nebraska pen itentiary for
murder, escaped recently, and, it is said,
was seen few nights ago in Kansas CITY
cutting big swell with good clothes aud
plenty of money. He has disappeared
from there, however.
John S. Gaines, who recently went to
Kansas City from Warrenton, Va, and
who is employed in the auditors office of
the Grand avenue cable line, was ''held
up" few nights ago by four men as he
was going to his lodging-house. The