Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-08-09
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Louis. with appropriate ceremonies,
few days ago.
Superintendent Coleman has completed
the forty-tnird annual apportionmant or
school money among the various counties
of the State. The following is the emu
meration of each county and the amount
due from the State:
Thomas Turner, aged nineteen, son of a
Christian preacher at Greenwood, was
placed in Jail at Kansas City, few days
ago, for stealing watch. On the way to
the station Turner said he would rather
be killed than be thrown in prison.
John Winants, young farmer living
norti, OF st. Joseph, was sunstruck few
days ago and died. He had been married
but Il few weeks.
The thermometer broke the record for
the season at st. Joseph on July 80 and
registered III degrees. There was one
case of sunstroke reported, that of Henry
Hoy, a man employed in shoveling dirt
for an ice pond.
Two packing house employees living in
a suburb of Kansas City, quarreled, a
few days ago, about a woman, when one
of them drew knife and slashed the
other eight times, infiicting probably
fatal wounds.
A delegate from Pike was in st. Louis,
few days ago, and allowed a CITY friend
10 steer MIN OUT TO CQ9 -'LdSG lay Oh
Pompeii" at Kensington. At the con-
clusion of the spectacle he declared that
he had all along known that St. Louis was
just sheol when she set out to be, but was
not aware that it was located so near the
mandatory.
While at work on the excavation for q
building in ST. Joseph. few days ago,
Chas. Aston, a Swede. fifty years of age,
was Frustrated by the heat and died
from the effects.
Abraham Loughton, a brakeman, fell
under the wheels of a car in thu termi-
nal yards at 81. Joe, few days ago. and
was killed.
George W Gilman, twelve years old, who
lived with his parents in st. Louis. was
drowned in the river, few days ago,
while bathing. The body had not been
recovered.
William Heuer, a merchant tailor Hv-
ing and carrying on his business in st.
Louis, committed suicide, few days ago,
by jumping into the river.
While violent storm was in progress
in st. Louis, a few days since, John Gard
ner. who was working in Lafayette Park,
was struck by lightning aud instantly
killed. He was a married man, about
thirty years Of age, Bohemian by birth.
Seth A. Pease, a contractor. aged thirty
three, committed suicide at Kansas City,
a few days ago, by shooting himself in
the head. The coroner decided an in
quest unnecessary. Pease leaves wife.
Dependency was the cause.
Mrs. Thomas Hart, wife of a well-known
Democratic politician and member. of
the Buchanan County bar died a! few
days ago quite suddenly. She leaves her
husband and two grown sons.
Tue dead body of a fifteen-year-old
white erir1 fnr1nI in ba ,ivar. of loft
son City, a few nights ago. No marks Of
foul play were discovered by Coroner De
Wy1. The body was unidentified.
The story about a bomb having been
found in the Commercial Bank at st.
Joseph seems to be canard invented by
some parties who wanted to play joke.
The bomb was piece of gas pipe plugged
at both ends with cork, and absolutely
harmless.
So far as heard from there have been
eight deaths and over forty serious cases
of sunstroke at Kansas City as the resul t
of the recent intense heat. The weather
has been something terrible ands the
suns rays have not been interrupted for
q moment by the smallest kind of a
cloul.
The st. Louis mail carriers report for
July, shows, in letters delivered, increases
over July, 1887. as follows: Register ed
letters, 455; mail letters, S15,627; mail
postal cards. 23), 740; local letters, 457, $50;
local postal cards, 3oS, 70l; newspapers
and circulars, 776, III, and i'll letters col
lected, 26i,26); in newspapers and circu-
lars collected, 2S2,655.
The village of Centertown, Cole County,
was visited by disastrous confagration
a few days ago. The fire originated in
vacant building north of the depot, and
consumed four or five buildings, entailing
loss of $4,000. The hotel, large
structure, and Flesse's large Touring mill
We're saved from destruction by fort
innate shifting of the wind
William K unz, for the past eight years
superintendent of the ST. Louis Work. |
house, died a few days ago. He was
forty five years old at the time of his
death, and had served the city as police
officer, and afterward as sergeant before |
his appointment to the position he heli
at the time of his death.
Jack Myott, a plasterer, who had been |
there but few Gays, was found dead in
bed at Lexington, few mornings since. |
He went to the hotel and said he wanted |
room alone. as he needed a good nights |
sleep, having big days work to do on
the morrow. In the morning when the |
porter went to call him there was no re-
Spouse. The door was forced open and |
All wv SoI PSC "dS Aouuo. IL Is Sthiu ny /
some that it was a case of suicide, but |
Coroner Mcdonald says that death was
caused by heart disease.
About seventy horses dropped dead in
various parts of st. Louis during the hot
weather of last week. 1t was the hardest |
time on horses this year, and many OWL
ers took their teams off the streets during |
the hottest part Of the day. The de I'D ami
NAL contractors wagon was kept busy,
aud while at work one of the mules at
tached to the wagon dropped dead in the /
street. He was hauled away by his sur
viving companion.
Officer Patrick Maloney, who, with
numbers of others, was fatally overcome
by heat, died at his home in st. Louis
last week, never having recovered con-
seriousness. He was appointed patrol
man August p, 1877, and was thirty two
years of age aud a very well-liked and
efficient officer. He patroled the rather
dangerous beats between Eighth street
and the Levee, Cass avenue and Biddle
street. He was married only about ten
days before his death.
Maxwell is to be hanged on the 10th.
just what punishment ought, in justice,
10 be melted out to Lawrence Russell, of
Springfield. is q question. He has been
arrested for shutting up his ten-year- old
boy in q box four feet high and making
him stand bent over in it for five hours;
also for tying the boy to q plank and
smearing molasses over his face so as to
attract flies to torture him.
The negro janitor of the new CONNER
cial Bank building, at st. Joseph, just
completed, found a loaded dynamite
bomb in the basement of the building |
few mornings since. How it came there
is 4 great mystery. There is q great deal