Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-12

MISCELLANEOUS Items.
The Second Baptist Church of st. Louis
has extended call to Rev. A. C.. Dixon,
of Baltimore. Nd.
Sam Jones and Sam Small will take
part in the st. Louis local-option cam
paign.
The two-year- old child of Charles
Thompson, living at st. Joseph, while
playing in front of the st. Charles Hotel
few days ago, was run over by a street
car and horribly maEgled, so that it died
in two hours.
Mr.. William c.. Orr, president of the Orr
& Lindsey Shoe Company of st. Louis,
died at his residence a few days since, of
nervous exhaustion, caused by a severe
attack of neuralgia which had for three
weeks rendered Mr.. Orr's arm useless.
They say that Mayor Francis of st.
Louis has become the boss baby-kisser of
the West.
Recorder Hobbs of st. Louis gives it
out emphatically that the lady and gentle
man must both be present when q mar
riage license is issued.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the National Exchange Bank
of Kansas City to begin business with q
capital of $250,000.
One hundred Mormon proselytes from
Alabama and Tennessee passed through
Kansas City few days ago en- route to
Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Kearney, wife of Charles Kearney,
night clerk at the Barnum House in Kan
sas City, died at her home in that place a
few DAYS since from an overdose of NOR
phine.
The three-story building occupied as
two stores, Nos. 10 and 81 South Main
street, st. Louis, fell, few nights ago,
with a tremendous crash. The wrecked
building stood between two equally tall
buildings, and although the precipitation
spread fragments of brick, plaster and
stone about the street in a confused man
ner, it fortunately escaped the usual re-
suits of such accidents-fire and loss of
life.
James Young, a loud mouthed colored
barber, was arrested in Kansas City %
few days ago for violating the law pro-
hibiting the peddling of tickets within 200
feet of the polls. Young was peddling
tickets within fifty feet of the Second
ward polling place when arrested. The
penalty prescribed for the offense charged
against Young is fine of $500 or six
months in the county jail, or both fine and
Imprisonment.
Fire at Kansas City few days ago de-
stroyed two feed stores, containing large
quantities of grain and hay and caused
y
that general alarm was turned in. The
flames, however, were confined to the
original buildings, where about $1,000
damage was done.
An old man, named Otter, who was
about seventy years of age, dropped dead
at the table in Lexington q few days ago.
Just previous to his death he had been in
an unusually lively hunor, his flow of
spirits exciting the comment of the
family, to which he replied that he felt
jolly, being one of the cold folks at
home,' and, while singing that song, ex-
pired. He has relatives at Louisville,
KY, who are prominent people.
Roy E. Lowe, a brakeman on the Coun-
Gil Bluffs road, has been arrested on a
charge of presenting forged postal notes
to the ST. Joseph post-office for collection.
For some weeks past the post-office de-
partment at st. Joseph has been system
atically worked. Lowe was taken before
United States Commissioner Durham and
released on 81 900 bond to appear at the
next term of court. He was formerly o
substitute postal clerk.
The st. Louis nuptial market is active.
Ella Angel, patient at the insane asy-
lum at st. Joseph, broke away from her
attendant while exercising few days ago,
and running to an ice-box, jumped in
head foremost. When the body was re-
covered life was extinct. The woman had
been at the asylum about three months.
The attendants were exonerated from
anne.
Ellsworth Settler, Kansas City team
ster, fatally shot his wife and himself
few days since. He had squandered all
her property, and when she refused to
give up to him twenty dollar gold piece
sent her by a brother of her former hus-
band as a gift to her baby he shot her.
Spring snake stories are beginning to
make their appearance.
The force of bell-boys at the Linde1l
Hotel, st. Louis, struck, a few days ago,
for higher wages. The strike was on for
one hour, at the expiration of which the
hotel management, unable to stand the
execration of the porters and the righteous
cause of the boys, gave in, with raise of
five dollars per month.
The largest transaction in grain ever
made in st. Louis was the sale, a few days
since, of 100000 bushels of corn by the
Grier Commission Company.
st. Louis now claims population of
As, 100, an increase of about 10000 in the
past year. These figures are based upon
the new city directory.
Richard T. Gentry says he is not in the
race for State Treasurer of Missouri.