Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-02
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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mitted suicide few days ago with dose
of hydrocvanic acid.
! Postmaster Hvdo Of st. Louis states,
for the information Of the public, that
| the postal laws relative to permissible
writing and printing on mail matter other
| than first class have been so amended as
| to remove all res trictions as to printing
| on third and fourth class matter, except
| that space must be reserved for super.
scription and postage stamps. In all cases
| direction for transit. delivery, forwarding
or return are deemed part of the address.
While the members of the Young Mems
Christian Association at Kansas City
were holding an after meeting a few
nights ago, Assistant Secretary Darby
left the money-box unguarded for few
moments, and on his return found that
some one had pocketed the collection, con.
sisting of fifty dollars in cash and check
| for seventy-five dol lars. The room was
! full of people at the time, but no one saw
/ the theft.
Mike Mccormack, who claims Clinton.
Ia, Us his home, was arrested in Kan
sas City a few days ago for passing
counterfeit money on John Morrissey.
| The latter keeps a cigar store. McCor-
mack purchased a cigar from him,
handed him what he supposed was sill
YER dollar and received ninety-five cents
i'll change. After he hau left, Morrissey
/ examined the coin and found that it was
made of lead and was a very poor imi-
| tation. Morrissey then caused McCor
mack's arrest.
| The two Sans, Revs. Jones and Small,
are billed for a star engagement at Elk.
position Hail. st. Louis, for one week, be.
ginning March 1, in the interests of the
| local option committee.
IT.
Met Murphy, Kansas City saloon keep
| glide over the frozen Missouri river. He
| skated into q hole and was fshed out
| dead.
The county clerk has completed his
! statement of the total expenditures of
! Buchanan County for the past year, as
shown by the warrants drawn. The ac-
counts include the certified crimi nal cash
bills, road improvements, the expenses of
the county poor farm, and all others, the
| total expenses am ounting to S107, 279.13.
! James Foley, collector for the Kan sas
CITY Builders and Traders Exchange
and for The Builder and architect, was
arrested a few days ago on the charge of
embezzl ement. Foley has been in con-
nection with the establishment for five
months, and it is supposed his pecula-
tons will amount to several thousand
dollars.
The heaviest punishment ever given for
burglary in the Criminal Court at Kansas
City was imposed by the Jury upon Frank
! Emerson a few days ago. He had broken
into a house, and, after stealing $125
made his escape by threatening the
owners life. The jury was out three
minutes, and assessed the punishment al
twenty years in the penitentiary.
Swada 0aO,a6 TaOSaO of
the coal mine at Lexington, has mysteri-
ously disappeared from his home at
Riverton, three miles below town. He
was last seen on the last pay day. He
was Of good habits, and as he had no
cause to absent himself fears of foul
play are entertained. He is about forty
years old, nearly six feet tall and
weighed $50 pounds. The neighborhood
has been overrun with tramps, and the
impression prevails that he has been
murdered by them and the body secreted.
A small-sized sensation was created at
Jefferson City, few days ago, by the
discovery of the body of negro man in
warehouse. When the discovery was
first made it was thought the "stiff" was
the corpse of tramp who had frozen to
death, but soon it leaked out that it was
the body of Jack Johnson, convict who
died recently in the Penitentiary hos
pital.
Thornton H. Cooper, of Independence,
is wanted for forging the name of his
father t o several small checks. He passed
the checks upon merchants, securing some
money, clothing and revolver. He is
thought to have gone either to Denver or
Salt Lake City. Officers are after him.
John Murray, wanted in this State for
burglary but who had kept across the
Kansas line, visited Kansas City few
nights ago, to meet friend, and was re-
turning through the railroad yards when
an officer spied him. Murray started to
run when the officer, jumping on switch
engine, put on full head of steam and
caught his man just this side of the State
line.
Mr.. p. w. Fauntleroy, one of the at
torneys for Maxwell, the st. Louis trunk
murderer, has received a cablegram
from Mr.. Brooks, Maxwell's father, say
ing he would sail for this country on the
2S.h. This cablegram was in reply to one
sent by Mr.. Fauntleroy announcing the
deci sion of the United States Supreme
Court. Mr.. Brooks particular mission
will be the circulation of petitions to the
Governor for Communication of the death
sentence of his son.
Frank Wright was arrested near May
view few days ago by an officer from
Benton County on a charge or horSe-
stealing. Wright was ON a visit to his
brother, Riley Wright, farm hand in the
neighborho A few hours after this
Riley Wright and horse belonging to a
farmer named Meyers disappeared in
sudden and my sterious manner.
There is sadness at the home of A. j.
Ellis, living at Kansas City. A few morn
ings since Mrs Ellis woke up to find her
two children, boy and girl, dead by
her side. They were twins and month
old. The little cnes were all right at
eleven O'Clock the previous night. Cor
oner Ellston decided that the children
were accidentally smothered in bed.
Aunt Sylvie, probably the best-known
stewardess on the Upper Mississippi, died
recently at Louisiana, Pike County. Her
age was somewhat blematica, but
ranged between ninety and a hundred
and ten years. In 1855, while on board
the old steamer Hannibal City, Captain
Matson, she frequently said she was
SINGH ON to eighty years. All the river
men from ST. Louis to Keokuk knew and
respected Aunt Sylvie, and as a resident
of Louis lana, nothing but good of the
aged woman is spoken.
Again, Maxwell must hang.
A few days since sixty three dollars
was stolen from the desk of Mrs. Davis, a
teacher of the Benton school, at Kansas
City, during school hours. Principal
Davis received the salaries of all the
subordinate teachers, and handed Mrs.
Davis her money. She placed it in her
desk in the presence of all the scholars
During recess, Mrs. Davis left the room,
and when she returned the money was