Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-17
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Albert ]. Maltzahn, a st. Louis poet
| Office clerk, is under arrest on charge o!
| rihing letters.
Senator Vest announces that he will moi
be a candidate for delegate at-large to the
| Democratic National convention.
The remains of the late Mrs. John 81
| Terry were reduced to ashes by incinera
ton at the new st. Louis crematory.
The Union Labor State convention a.
Sedalia nominated a State ticket at its re
cent session. The following are the nomi.
nees: Governor, A. II. Mannering, of De
| Kalb: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Joseph S
Seaburn, of Mcdonald; Secretary of State
Boswell Fox, of Washington; Auditor, w
H. Noerr, of st. Louis; Treasurer, Warren
Vertrees, of Orange; Attorney General
L. L. Bridges, of Pettis; Railroad Com
missioner, w. H. Bell, of Nodaway; Reg
| lister of Lands, G.. B. Deberardi, of Pettis
Judge of Supreme Court, Corbin D. Jones
of Knox; Judges of the Court of Appeals
| Frank c. Richey, of st. Louis, and Paul j
| Dixon, of Chillicothe.
DIR. J. T. Kent, for several years one OF
the foremost homeopathic practitioners
| of the West, has removed from his old
| home in st. Louis to Philadelphia. DR.,
Kent has for some tyne past occupied the
chair of Materia Medica and Institutes ol
ST. Louis, and in his new field will take
the position of consulting physician OF
| the Hahnemanian Hospital, conducted
under the auspices of the Woman's
homeopathic Association of Pennsyl-
vania; manager of the postgraduate
school of Homeopathy, and teacher OF
| materia medica and philosophy. The
| doctor has an international reputation
as teacher, writer and practitioner of
| homeopathy on the strictest Hahnema-
MAN lines, and enters his present field at
| the earnest solicitation of some of Phila-
delphia's first families.
| Ascension Day was duly celebrated by
the Knights Templar of st. Louis, Ivan
hoe, st. Louis, st. Aldemar, Bernard de
| Tremely and Baldwin communicates join
| ing in the parade, which concluded, all
| attended services in st. Georges Church,
where Sir Knight DR.. r. A. Holland de-
| livered an address. The colored Knig hts
| Templar also observed the day in a SINH
! lar manner.
Secretary Johnson of the st. Louis Ex-
position thinks next falls display will
| excel all previous exhibitions.
James Coyle, bell-boy at the Hotel
Barnum, st. Louis, is missing, and so is
$500 belonging to guest, which was
placed in the hotel safe.
| Lyon Post, G.. \. R., of st. Louis, ce1e-
brated the anniversary of the capture of
| Camp Jackson by a musical entertain
ment at Koerner's Garden.
| Robert Alexander, the negro boy who
killed Jerry Sullivan in st. Louis on ST.
Patrick's Day, was held for murder in
| the first degree.
Lieutenant r. B. Watkins succeeds
Sergeant Chapel in charge of the ST.
Louis signal office.
c. H. Eidridge, aged thirty, from Sayres
kas., was fatally crushed between two
Twelfth Street cable cars in Kansas City
a few evenings since. He alighted on the
! wrong side of the car.
! The st. Joseph Council. at a recent
meeting, passed the ordinance giving the
Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas City road the
right of-way over the Chicago, Darlington
u Quincy tracks in that city.
Mrs. John Rowland, formerly a WE'LL
| known singer in st. Louis, is alleged to
have been the widow of the man who
robbed the Northampton (Mass.) Bank
| ten years ago.
| Bishop Cranberry, who resides in st.
Louis, was transferred to the Brazil
! (South America) Missionary Conference,
| by the Nashville Southern NJ E. Confer
ence.
The Social Science Club of Kansas and
Western Missouri, composed exclusively
of ladies with scientific and literary turns
of mind, held a two days session in Kan
| sas City last week. One hundred and
twenty-six ladies, some young, some mid
| dle-aged and some old, were present.
The second Incarceration at the Missouri
crematory in st. Louis took place few
days ago, when the remains of Mrs. Clara
| Olshausen were reduced to ashes. She
was the wife of MIR. Arthur OlShausen, a
director Of the Crematory Association, and
had expressed wish to have this DISPOSE
ton of her body made.
A heifer, belonging to Alfred Crowley,
who lives two miles west of Cowgirl, re-
Gently gave birth to a living calf at the
early age of fifty-one weeks, or one week
| less than year old. The calf was of fair
size and well developed, but only lived a
| few hours.
Stablemen in st. Louis are considerably
agitated over the discovery there of the
disease known as pinkeye. While the
disease has extended slowly, it's progr ess
| has been steady, while every precaution
has not proved an obstacle. The disease
has assumed an aggravated form, which
makes it still more feared, especially
among the owners of fine stock. A num-
Der of deaths have been reported, but the
death rate is not large in proportion to
the number of cases. One veterin arian
!
| treatment.
The body of j. B. Cotton, of st. Louis,
was found floating in the Tennessee river,
! just above Chattanooga, few days ago.
| The deceased had two large cuts on the
| head, but the body was in a state of fair
| preservation. On the person of the de-
ceased were found two drafts for $500
each, besides So in money. Mr.. Cotton
| was on his way to st. Louis from Florida
| a few weeks ago, and boarded q train on
| the Cincinnati Southern road at Chatta-
| nOoga for the north On the trains ar
| rival at Cincinnati he could not be found
| anywhere, and was not heard of until the
| body was found.
t The Fall festivities committee in st.
Louis are making the preparatory ar
engagements for the round of entertain
meat that will make st. Louis a very
attractive city during the coming Septem-
| Der and October. The following dates
were selected for the different features of
| the festivities: Exposition opens Sep
| TENDER and closes October 90; street
illumination, October 2, 8 and 4: Yelled
Prophets pageant, Tuesday evening, Oc-
tober .; Fair week opens October and
closes on the 9th.
The st. Louis crematory is running.
Among other sentences recently af-
firmed by the Supreme Court were those
of George Rush, of Jasper County, con-
victed of robbery in the first degree and
sentenced for ten years in the States
prison, and Frank Martin, sentenced in
Kansas City for a similar term for assault
with intent to kill.
Wednesday, May 80, is Decoration Day,
and the Grand Army posts of st. Louis,