Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-05
Miscellaneous Items,

| The St. Louis ice pool has dissolved,
/ having become convinced that high prices
! can not be maintained in the face of the
| immense supply in sight and the pros
/ pectlve close competition.
| DR.. Charles H. Martin, who disappeared
| in a mysterious manner from his home in
De Kalb, Buchanan County, in 1884, has at
| last been located at Colby, Kas., where he
appears to be prosperously engaged in
| business as druggist, partner in real
estate concern and cashier of the First
National Bank of that place.
Mr.. Carlos S. Greedy. of ST. Louis, re-
Gently celebrated his fiftieth anniversary
in business in that city.
A brakeman on the ''Q' road was killed
at ST. Joe few days since and the yard
forces struck, attributing his death to tn e
incompetency of the engineer.
1t is said that the Congregational pastors
of st. Louis are opposed to sprinkling the
streets on Sunday, and recently adopted a
resolution protesting against such desc
Grafton of the Sabbath.
While out hunting, near Higginsville, a
few days ago, Ian Beach was accidentally
shot by Jos. Reynolds. The accident hap
pened just north of the city. Reynolds
was loading his gun, and when closing it
the breech exploded cartridge. The full
load took effect in Beach's knee, who was
standing only a few feet from Reynolds.
The knee was badly shattered and torn.
Henry Hill. youth seventeen years OF
age, was tried in a st. Louis police court,
q few days since, on q charge of beating
his mother, a grey-haired lady over sixty
years of age. The evidence showed that
he was a very wild young man and that
he had habit of whipping her. He was
fined twenty-five dollars and costs and
sent to the work-house, where he will oc-
cupy his time beating rocks until he is re-
leased.
For the fourth time in a week, an at
tempt was made few nights ago to burn
the Terminal Company's round house at
st. Joseph. The fire was kindled in the
oil-room, but was discovered by the
watchmen before serious damage was
done. The round-house is the property of
the st. Joseph & Grand Island and the ST.
Joe, ST. Louis & Santa Fe. Three watch
men have been employed to watch the
building. No cause can be assigned for
the attempted arson, and the Terminal
Company is ignorant of any grievances
against them.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Dierkes
of st. Louis has issued warrant for muir
der in the first degree against Robert
Alexander, the negro boy who shot and
instantly killed jeremiah F. Sullivan,
white man, on the evening of the 18th inst.
The Epstein Brothers, of st. Louis, are
rehearsing, with some of the best amateur
talent of the city, the pretty opera, ga
Trip to Africa" which will be presented
at the Olympic Theater May 6 to 8, in be-
half of worthy charity.
Kansas City is shipping lard to Mexico.
The recent heavy rainstorm caused a
tremendous landslide on the Bluff facing
he TT,,in at Citv which
threatens to work great injury to the prop
erty along Bluff street for three and half
squares. For 1000 feet the entire bluff
appears to have been pushed forward by
some irresistible agency, hundreds of tons
of rock and earth sliding down the steep
hillside.
News recently reached st. Louis of the
death of Mrs Mary A, widow of the late
James A. Merriman, at Yokohama, Japan.
a lady well known in the city, and a former
prominent member of the M. E. Church
South.
Forty divorces were granted in the st.
Louis courts in one day recently.
A couple of ST. Louis young ladies, a
few nights since, becoming disguised with
the action of their escorts to the opera in
going out between the acts and returning
redolent of cloves, left the theater during
one of the absences, hailed a cab and re-
turned home unescorted. Tally one for
the girls.
Frederick W. Paramore, of ST. Louis,
whose first wife was Miss Nellie Hazeltine,
the noted belle and beauty, was married
recently to Miss Harriet Howell, Of Phila-
delphia.
The master and boss stone cutters of the
Missouri valley met at Kansas City to
adopt regular scale of wages.
The local-option election in st. Louis has
been postponed till June.