Iron County register., 1888-10-25
MISSOURI. STATE NEWS.


is now Kansas City. He has often been
urged to accept political p-eferment as
he was man of strong individuality and
much ability, but always declined He
was an excellent representative of the old
class of men who settled that section.
Gilmore's Band gave two sacred con-
certs in St Louis for the benefit Of the
Mullanphy Hospital. which netted nearly
$1,000.
The Democratic State Committee has
sent out a circular to the chairman OF all
the county committees announcing that
the name of Mr.. Henry c. Pepper. as
Electcr, has been taken off the ticket and
that OF Mr.. James l. Rush put ON in the
Thirteenth District, and that of Thomas
r. R Ely in Fourteenth replaced by VIM.
N. Evans. The name Of Henry q. Keevil
has been substituted for Harry g. Keevil.
the name of Christopher P. Ellerbe for
Chris P. Ellerbe. and Alexander A.
Lesueur for Alex A. Lesueur.
Another man in whom implicit conf
dence was reposed. and who counted his
friends by the hundreds, has gone wrong.
Mr.. d. A. Garwood, known among his ac-
quaintances as Don" has left ST. Joseph
for parts unknown, and numerous debts
of honor remain unpaid. and the St Jo-
seph, ST. Louis & Santa Fe railroad is the
loser of upwards OF 81, 900.
Four hundred employees of the Hamii-
ton-Brown Shoe Company, of St Louis,
are idle owing to lockout occasioned
by demand of the Iasters for higher
wages.
Ollie Richmond, two AMI a half years OF
age, fell out of third = tory window of
er home in st. Louis, few days ago,
while watching the passing of fire ap-
paratus. and received injuries from
which she died in a few minutes.
The eml-centennial of the Second
Presbyterian Church of ST. Louis, one of
the wealthiest religious bodies in the city,
was celebrated last Sabbath. An elab-
crate programme of appropriate ex-
ercises was carried out, DR.. Samuel j.
Nioccolls presiding.
gang of young hoodlums in Caron-
delet caught Freddie Groman, six-year-
old boy, few days since, and attached
him by a rope to the horns of stray COW.
which they then goaded into run. The
result was that Groman was dragged over
the Dugh ground and stones for a dis
tance of two blocks, re ceiving injuries
which will undoubtedly prove fatal.
The Hannibal & st. Joe depot at Har-
lem was burned to the ground, a few days
ago. 1t was set on fire by spark from a
locomotive. The building was of wood,
and there was no means of putting out
the fire. The loss is about 81, 500.
Mrs. Lucy Pitts, colored ce centenarian,
and for over twenty years a resident of
st. Louis County, died, few days since.
The remains were inferred in Greenwood
Cemetery, at Cheltenham. 1t is said she
was over over one hundred and ten years
at the time of her death.
James A. Ford shot and almost instant
ly killed Joseph Lowensteiu, in the lat
ter's liquor store. at st. Joseph. a few
days ago. Chas. Sale, an eye witness,
says he and Ford had gone into the store
shortly before the shooting They en-
gagged in a dispute over a former business
transaction.
Superintendent of Buildings Everhart
at Kansas City has condemned the Nata-
torium building at that place, and it is
very likely that the whole structure will
have to be torn down.
The Local. Option law of De Kalb Coun-
ty has been declared void by Hon. o. NJ.
Spencer, Judge of the Circuit Court. The
case in which the ruling was made was
the case of the State against Clinton. The
defendant sold spirituous liquors for the
purpose of testing the validity of the law.
Judge Ebenezer Herring died suddenly
at his residence in Kansas City, few
days since. of paralysis of the heart He
had rested we'll during the night aud was
apparently hale and hearty when awak-
ened by his wife in the morning. She
went down stairs to assist the girl in get
ting breakfast and going to call her hus
band fifteen minutes after found him dead
on the floor, half dressed.
Julia Beck, of Kansas City, will. now
that she is dead, go into history as one OF
the most remarkable young women on
record. Good looking, admired by many,
well to do and bright, she imagined that
she was too homelv to live, and commit
ted suicide by taking three quarters of
an ounce of chloroform. She had been
afflicted ever since she was seventeen
years of age with the hallucination that
she was SO ugly as to cause comments
whenever she appeared in public.
Mrs. Emma Bevell, clerk in Chase's
candy store. at ST. Joseph, took thirty
grains of morphine with suicidal intent
a few evenings since, and died. Mrs.
Beven separated from her husband last
spring and since then had been keeping
company with Fred Buckowitz, bar
tender. A quarrel with her lover created
dependency and resulted in her deter
mination to die. After taking the drug
she sent for her sister-iu law, but did not
tell her what she hal done. Her critical
late to save her. Mrs. Bevell was hand
some girl, twenty-five years of age.
A charming ghost story was recently
exploded at Independence. Que of the
store buildings situated on the public
square for several days had the reputa-
ton of being haunted by the ghost of
good Catholic lady, who formerly ran a
millinery store there. Blue lights and
white-robed figures were said to have
been seen fitting from room to room in
the upper story, and strange noises were
heard and other queer things attributed
to a certain back room in the third story.
Finally reward was offered to the man
who would go up at a late hour at night
and return with a certain article in the
haunted chamber. Several tried it, but
we're scared, one man even tumbling
down stairs in his great haste to get away
from the fated room. At last one man
went up there alone and discovered it to
fastened strings to a piece of stove pipe
and run them through to the lower story.
When properly jerked the stove-pipe
would make the ghost-like noise.
The political agony will soon be over.
James Hardesty, of St Louis, a car
penter employed on the new Capitol
building at Jefferson City. fell distance
OF seventy feet a few days ago, and escap-
ed without fatal injuries. Strange to
say, not bone was broken. His only in
juries consisted of severe external bruises.
He was at work on top of the building
and lost his balance.
Impressive and beautiful ceremonies
were held recently in the laying of the
corner stone of the new building of the
First Presbyterian Church in St Louis.
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