Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-13
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Judge Valiant, of the st. Louis Circuit
Court, overruled the motion for new trial
and in arrest of the one-cent Judgment
filed by r. d. Lancaster's attorneys in the
suit of Lancaster against Congressman
John III. Glover for libel.
The vicious effects of pool-room gam
bling have had another illustration in
Kansas City. Robert Bartholomew, the
head book-keeper for Dayton & Trufant,
who do grain commission business in
the Board of Trade building, has left for
parts unknown, leaving deficit in his ac-
counts of several hundred dollars.
There has been a great awakening
among Sunday-school workers in st. Jo-
seph, and a call has been made for con-
vention of the Sunday-school workers OF
the city and county, to be held in the
Christian Church, in that city, on Tues
day, December IL, and Wednesday, De-
cember II, for the purpose of organizing
a county Sunday-school association and
for considering questions for the further
ance of the Sunday-school cause.
The following posts of the G. A. r. In
this State have been suspended on account
of having failed to report for more than
two quarters: General Ord Post, No. 80,
Richwoods, E. c. Baugher, P. c.; Elwell
Post, No. 40, Ridgeway, Jas. T. Ander-
son, P c.; Akron Post, No. 147, Akron, II.
c. LESLEY, P. c.; Indian Springs Post,
No. 176, Indian Springs, r. w. Williams,
P. c.; John Workman Post, No. 191, Tus-
cumbia, T. B. Robinson, P. c.; Albert
Thompson Post, No. 275, Gainesville, j. N.
Murphy, P. c.; Warren Post, No. 2S7,
Rockville, j. M. Boreing, P. c.; John A.
Andrew Post, No. 357, Marshall, Albert
Williams, P. G..
The st. Louis, Quincy, Omaha & Sioux
City Railroad Company was organized
recently in st. Louis, and has added its
name to the long list of railroad COM
panies whose lines run or will run into
that city.
Unless the well-matured plans of GER
tain prominent merchants of Kansas
City come to nothing, the Missouri river
will be travelled next spring by regular
line of steamers plying between Kansas
City and st. Louis.
At meeting of the directors of the
Missouri State Fair Association, held in
Sedalia, last week, the following officers
were elected to serve the ensuing year:
N. H. Gentry, president; Chris Hye, first
vice president; A. L. Burr, secretary; G.
D. Minter, treasurer. The next meeting
of the association will begin August 10,
1889, and continue five days.
The recent death in st. Louis of G. D.
Drake, treasurer of the st. Louis, Arkan-
sas & Texas railroad, following close upon
the death of his beautiful son, and follow
ed by the death OF his four-year-
daughter, presents q very distressing
story, which is sorrowful in the extreme.
The wife and mother was lying very low.
The marriage of Miss Louise Quarles
Scott and Judge James A. Seldom was one
of the st. Louis events last week. Both
the contracting parties are prominent
members of the highest social set of the
city, both popular and admired, the lady
for her social graces, the judge for all
that goes to make man honored and be-
loved in the community.
The directors of the Kansas City Mining
Exchange, at recent meeting, discussed
plans for increasing public interest in the
and for broadening it's scope.
1t was decided to enlarge the membership
limit from 20 to 100 or $50, but final action
was deferred until the next meeting. The
fee was reduced from 500 to
$25, and the dues from $40 to S. quarter.
The Visitation Convent in st. Louis was
the scene of a beautiful and impressive
ceremony, few days ago, in the recep-
ton of Misses Mamie Atwater, of Kirk
wood, and Della O'Connor, of Chicago,
into the religious life. Bishop Hennes-
sey, assisted by Fathers Bond, Tuohy,
Than, Walsh, Mcdonald and Hetty Of
6ciated.
VIM. Quincy, a colored man who reg
istered illegally at Kansas City, was found
guilty of illegal registration and sem
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Louisa Wagner, German widow,
fifty-four years old, residing with her son,
julius, in st. Louis, shot herself twice,
with suicidal intent, with a revolver, few
nights ago, and died the following after
noon. The woman was in bed when she
shot herself. Both bullets entered just
below the left breast, passing through the
body. Sickness was the cause of the sui
eide, as the deceased had been suffering
for a long time with cancer.
The dead body of Jack Nevins, fore
man in rock quarry at Liberty Landing,
Clay County, was found. few days since,
four miles east of there, at Clay switch,
by the side of the track of the Wabash
ELL from train, though some thought he
was murdered. He formerly lived at st.
Charles. He was about thirty-two years
of age and leaves a wife.
NJ. Louis Seguenot, who succeeds NJ.
Emile Karst as consular agent of the
French Republic in ST. Louis, has been
resident of the city since 1865.
Lexington recently lost one of its pio-
neer citizens, whose memory will not soon
be forgotten. DIR. j. B. Alexander, ap-
parently hale and hearty, died suddenly
few days ago. He was man of unusually
brilliant attainments, and skilled men,
Der of his profession. Though in his sixty
fifth year, he was possessed of all his fac
ulties, though his sight was, failing. He
was postmaster under Lincoln's admins
tration, but since that time had never
cast a vote at any election. For nearly
fifty years, without the loss of day, he
kept systematic weather report, which
was marked throughout for it's minute
ness of detail and the rainfall, snowfall,
the EXTREMIST heat or cold reached for any
lay in all those years can easily be ascer-
famed from his record.
Mr.. j. H. JOHNSON will retire from the
Office of the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton on January L, and Mr.. Davies, the
assistant secretary, will be promoted to
ill the vacancy. Mr.. George Mills, the
present superintendent of the art depart
nent, will be made general superin-
.endent.
ST. Louis is rapid transit crazy.
Henry Brose, well-to-do farmer, who
lived about FIVE miles south of Jackson,
vent to Gordonville a few days ago, and
while returning home in wagon, and |
when within about one hundred yards of |
his home his wagon upset, the wagon-bed |
md the flour sacks falling upon him, caus-
ng instant death.
David Price, st. Louis boy, four years |
Did, had a large part of his right ear
Kicked off, a few days ago, by a mule. He |
vas rubbing the mules legs when he was
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