Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Albert Mcintosh, sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for fifteen years in 1887. He is
in the last sta es OF consumption.
Governor Morehouse has pavd 2nei
Albert Hawkins, serving a sixty-days'
sentence in Jackson County for receiv ing
stolen goods.
Josiah White, aged thirty five. was
working over & lard tank in Fowler's
packing-house at Kansas City. a few DAYS
ago, when his foot slipped on the oily
board and he plunged headlong into the
boiling grease. Before he could be res
cued he was dead. Every particle of
flesh on his head, arms and shoulder was
cooked off and his chest was burned
through to the lungs, the bones crum bling
away under the touch
The dead body of August Jansen, whose
mysterious disappearance created a great
stir at Lexington recently, was found
against tree on the Carroll County side
of the river below Lexington. He had
evidently wandered away while in an in :
toxicated condition, aud being overcome
by the cold, was frozen to death. The
finding of the body cle ears up the sus-
picion of murder which prevailed among
his friends.
The ST. Louis police force is at present
made up of chief, six captains, forty
five sergeauts, ten detectives, forty
mounted men and 400 footmen.
Joseph Crouch, of st. Joseph, des er ted
his wife and family recently and went to
Kansas on an evangelizing tour as Bap-
fist preacher. Mrs. Crouch was furnished
a ticket to Corning Kas., and proceeded
there to corner her recreant spouse.
The receiver of the defunct Fifth Ma
tional Bank of St. Louis is paying first
dividend of fifty per cent. to the deposit
ors of the institution.
A stranger, supposed to be Franz Muel-
Ter, from Buffalo. N. Y, committed sui
eide in st. Louis few days ago by shoot.
ing himself in the mouth with pistol.
Herman Kamp, assistant book-keeper
in Gildehaus, Wulfing & Co.'s wholesale
grocery house in st. Louis. committed sui
eide few days since by shooting himself
in the left breast. His accounts with the
firm were all right, but he had expended
$3.50 intrus ted to him to deposit for safe
keeping by a Mrs. Bamberger. in paying
his own debts. He was twenty five years
of age and unmarried, his parents living
in Germany.
The miners in the Lexington coal mines
have agreed to reduction in wages for
six months.
The name of the post office at Bradley,
Carroll County, has been changed to Bos-
worth, anu the site removed TWO anu IL
half miles southeast.
The post-cffice at Elks Grove, Caldwell
County, is discontinued, and the mail will
go to Black Oak.
The open season on quail. ruffled grouse.
prairie chickens, doves and wild turkey is
closed and it is now a violation of the
law to shoot this species of game in the
State.
At recent meeting of the Kansas City
police commissioners, Patrolmea Rade-
macher and RYAN were dismissed for
leaving their boats while on duty, and
Fitzpatrick for being found asleep on
duty.
The arrest of Mrs. Saloma Mattingly,
on a charge of poisoning two fine horses
belonging to H. C. White, has created ex-
element in Aurora and vicinity. She is
we'll known, and is the mother of an in
terestIng family and stood well in social
circles. Many believe her entirely inno-
cent.
Collector Ian ca ster of st. Louis, in his
report of customs collections for the
month of January, shows a large and
steady increase over the same month for
the past four years. In proof of this he
submitted the following figures, showing
the receipts for January since 1885: Jam
uary. 1883, $4,000; January, 1887, $780,,
139; January, 1886, 500, $40; January, 1885,
SIS 241. Increase for January, 1888, over
1887, $21,S7o.50; ov er 1886, $31, 160; over
1885, $63, 1853.
The grounding cautiously emerged
from his hole on Candlemas Day and
peered around on all sides to look for his
shadow. The obscured sun left the little
animal shadowless, so he showed his teeth,
which is his way of smiling. Finding the
sky overloaded he boldly set out on
tour of the country surrounding his hole,
and as the day wore eff and the sun failed
to put in an appearance, he gave up the
idea of going back into his retreat. 1t is,
therefore, certain that win ter is over, and
that spring will soon make it's appear
ance even before the appointed time.
The transactions of the State Treasurer
for the month ending January 81, 1888, as
reported by Treasurer J. NJ. Sebert, are as
follows: Balance on hand January 1, 1888,
$479, $50. IS; receipts during January, ST.
05f ,377.51; disbursements during January,
1927, 516.5); balance on hand February l.
1883, 81, 293, s4719. The penitentiary earn
ings during the month were $14, T23. 65, and
disbursements like amount.
The women living in the southeastern
part of ST. Joseph are circulating petit
ton to have Horoneck, the Bohemian wife.
murderer, lynched. and Bulling, the Ger
man wife murderer, with him. Mr..
Augustine, the man in whose house
Horoneck commit ted the murder, says
the women have grown weary of the de-
lay, and are trying to work up q feeling
among the sterner sex that will induce
them to take the law into their own
hands. The petition alre ady has several
hundre signatures.
The position secured for Mr.. Henry III.
Nav az l1ta hr1fhar of the 1af
of Missouri, is custodian of the vaults of
the United States Treasury. 1t is a posi-
ton of respons bility worth s., 200 year.
Mr.. Marmaduke has not entered upon the
duties, and it is q question whether he
will do SO Until his political disabilities
are removed. A bill to accomplish this is
pending, and will go through Congress as
rapidly as the formalities will permit.
Mr.. Marmaduke's disabilities were in.
Cured by his course at the outbreak of
the war, when he was a cadet in the
Naval Academy.
George Ritter, formerly in the employ
OF the William Barr Dry Goods Com
pany, of ST. LOUIS, from whom he en-
bazz ed $1,000, has been brought back
from California, whittier he had fled, and
will be prosecuted by the firm.
No more German in st. Louis schools.
J. E. Prosser, assistant foreman of the
st. Joseph Daily Neeos, went to the
river to skate few evenings since. He
was last seen on the ice skating, and the
is that he fell into an air hole
and was drowned. He was about twenty
five years of age.
Miss Arethusa Weller, adopted daugh-
ter of Mrs. Fl. B. PrindIe, of Kansas City,
who created a sensation in that city re-
Gently by her strange actions, and whose