Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


John Wood. workman at the ARM
strong Cement Works at Kansas City,
was killed a few evenings since, and two
others We're fatally injured, by the explo-
sion of key of powder.
Mr.. John r. Triplett. secretary of the
Episcopal diocesan convention, is now
mailing the journal of the Forty ninth
convention, pamphlet of 100 pages, to
members and others. He got it out in
twenty-five days, said to be the quickest
service of the kind in the history of the
church.
A Baptist publication house in st. Louis
has a small barrel filed with mutilated
silver, nickel and copper coins, which
came into its custody through Sunday
school collections. There are some des-
perate- looking currency yagabonds in the
collection.
Abner Hart, sixty five years old. and
quite wealthy, was fatally injured few
days ago, at his home, ten miles above
st. Joseph. He was putting halter on a
colt and in some way became entangled
in the rope. The colt taking fright ran
away, dragging Mr.. Hart all over the
farm, up and down rocky hills, over fresh
ground, through corn fields, creeks, over
piles of lumber and through fences. The
unconscious body was not found for six
hours.
Alice, the twelve-year-old daughter of
James W. Dunn, of Bloomfield, fell into a
well few days ago, during an epileptic
fit, and was drowned.
Judge Slower, at Kansas City, recently
rendered decision in the case of Henry
G. Carpenter against Charles Cotton and
Clayton Maltby, in which he determined
that a certificate of deposit given in a
M ho oh oH hyya
cent holder.
Arthur Stewart, working at brick-kiln
at Kansas City, was caught beneath an
iron beam and huge pile of brick, few
days since, by the collapse of kiln, and
it was eight hours before he was rescued.
Though horribly mangled he was still
conscious, and it was thought that he
would recover.
David Allen pleaded guilty in the Grim
inal Court at St Louis to having embez-
zled $1,047 from Charles F. Vogel, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years. Allen was in the employ of Mr..
Vogel in the capacity of book-keeper at
the time he took the money.
A motion for new trial in the case of
D. s. Fotheringham VS.. the Adams Ex-
press Company was submitted in the
United States Circuit Court at st. Louis,
a few days since, on briefs to be filed.
The defendant was allowed to September
] to file its briefs and the plaintiff to Sep
TENDER 10 to file briefs in reply. There
was no argument,
John Hogue, a prominent farmer of
Pike County, living near Paynesville, was
found dead at the side of the road, near
his residence, few days ago. He had
been in bad health for long time. 1t is
supposed he fell from his horse, as the
a mol oil
about forty-five years old. and leaves a
family.
Mr.. R. d. Lancaster's attorneys have
filed a motion for new trial and a mo-
ton in arrest of judgment in Judge VAL
Hant's court in st. Louis. The reasons
set forth for the motion in arrest is that
the plea of Mr.. Glover to certain charges
in different counts of the petition do not
constitute an offense, and that the plaint-
if was entitled to judgment.
1t trans pires that Mashal McGowan of
Kansas City, when he searched the cell of
Jack Keith, who has been styled 'King of
the Footpads," in the county Jail recently.
found thirty-seven small steel saws
wrapped in four different packages, any
of which could be slowed away in a vest
pocket without the slightest inconven-
fence. Keith was at once taken to the
penitentiary.
George Burt, negro living in Kansas
City. was shot at five times by Lafayette
Jones, also a negro, a few days ago.
Three of the shots took effect. One bullet
passed through his right arm near the
shoulder and another entered his right
arm near the elbow.
A proposition looking to the establish.
ment Of an electric light plant at Lexing-
ton. although the city enjoys a splendid
system of gas works, has been submitted
to the City Council by Ed w. Abendrath,
proprietor of the Lexington Water
works. No bonus is asked from the city
or citizens, Mr.. Abendrath only asking
permission to erect the poles and string
the wires about through the city.
The first damage suit arising out of the
Midland Hotel disaster at Kansas City,
has been filed in the Circuit Court by Hat
tie T. Edison, the wife of Frank Lee Ed.
son, who was killed February 80 by the
falling of the walls. Mrs. Edison alleges
that by reason of defective construction
the walls fell down and her husband was
mortally wounded and covered by bricks,
mortar and debris, whereby he was suf-
located. She asks for $1,000 damages.
Considerable excitement was caused al
the Regina Mills, in st. Louis, few days
since, by the cylinder head Of the boiler
d
The entire neigh borhood fiocked to the
mill, being under the impression that
number of lives had been lost, as portion
of the building had been torn away by tn.
flying fragments of the cyllnder-head
There were no fatalities, however, as the
employees of the mill were all out for their
dinners. The damage done is placed at
81 900.
The body of an unknown white man,
about fifty years old, was found on the
river bank at 81. Louis, few days since.
The body was lying on the bank, while the
feet were in the water. 1t is supposed tc
be case Of suicide, as near the body was
found a paper that contained paris green,
and large amount of it also was found
about his clothes and on the face and in
the mouth. The body, which was dressed
like that of laborer, was removed to the
Morgue for Identification.
The attorneys for Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias
Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, at ST.
Louis, received cablegram few days
since. stating that the mother and sister
of Maxwell sailed from Liverpool for
America on the Goth. They expect to ar
rive in St Louis on the first day of July,
and all other influence possible will be
brought to bear to save the life of the lit
tie chloroformer.
The strawberry season was short.
Joseph Weuger went out upon the roof !
of his home in St Louis, a few nights
ago, to clear the water conductors during |
a heavy storm. He missed his footing
and fell headlong to the ground, his skull |
being crushed by contact with the brick
pavement. He leaves a wife and three |
children.
A st. Louis man applied to the chief of |
police to have an Off ;er stationed at his /
house To see that his wife did not 90 ont |