Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-15
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Adam kuehner, ln6 SE. Louis WIFE,
killer, pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree and was sentenced to
ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.
A contract has been let for the construc.
ton of the Wyatt Park Cable road, five
miles in length, at st. Joseph, to cost
$735, 900. Work will commence this month.
Judge Ellison died at Clinton a few
days ago, aged eighty-fve. He was one
of the pioneers of Lewis County, and
moved there about 1880. He was for a
long time judge of the Four th district.
He leaves four sons-James, judge of the
Court of Appeals, Kansas City; Rev, a
circuit Judge of this State; William, a
prominent lawyer of Marysville, and
George, United States Commissioner at
Clinton. His death was caused by paraly.
sis.
An inquest on the remains of Mrs. Mary
Ann Gallagher, who was killed by her
husband in st. Louis, resulted in Gala
CHER being held responsible.
Harvey r. James, a veteran soldier,
died suddenly in st. Louis a few days
ago, while sitting at dinner. He was a
native of Annsville, N. V, and served in
the TWEEN tieth Illinois cavalry.
Gillette's spectacular production OF
'She," dramatized from Haggard's wierd
story, will be seen at the Olympic Thea
ter, st. Louis, before the end of this
month.
There is mighty interesting go-as-you-
please race for the nomination for Sec
rotary of State this year, and the gentle
man who gets it will have to run for it at
the top of his speed, according to the good
old Missouri custom.
The one hundred and eighth anniversary
of the birth of Ireland's martyr. Robert
ahrot tad in,
The funeral of George Watts, the en- :
gineer who was killed by Deputy Sheriff
Bostick, at Brookfield, took place in st.
Joseph Every engineer, brakeman and
conductor i'll the city was present, and
large delegations were present from Atch-
ison, Kansas City, Council Bluffs and
Brookfield. The funeral was one of the
largest ever held in ST. Joseph.
The Olive street cable road in st. L ouis
will begin operations May l.
Governor Morehouse has appointed DR..
Epperson, of Foulton, physician of the
penit entiary, vice DR.. A. d. Standish, re-
signed.
A warrant for murder in the first degree
has been issued for David G. Gallagher,
who killed his wife in st. Louis February
q.
A post office has been established at
Selkirk, in Laciede County, with Olivia L.
Pearcy as postmaster.
John Dougherty has been appointed by
the Governor judge of the Scott County
Court to fill vacancy. :.
Gustave Buecking, father of George Fl.
Buecking, died at Kansas City few
days ago, aged sixty-seven years.
Manager Johns ton of the st. Louis Ex-
position returns enthusiastic over the
success of his trip to the far West in the
interest of a mineral display next fall.
The Lafayette County Bible Society
adopted resolutions protesting against
the order forbidding the use of the Indian
language in Indian schools and missions.
James Smith, aged eighteen. who works
in the coal mines at Lexington, leaves in
a few days for Jersey City, N. j., to take
possession of legacy of S14 900 left him
by his grandmother.
The grand-jury of Lafayette County
has returned a true bill charging murder
in the first degree against Christian
Young for the killing of Steve Ferguson,
last December.
Charles Hill, who lives in Clay town
ship Lafayette County, was presented by
his wife a few days ago with trio of
well-developed and well-formed girls.
In the Criminal Court at Lexington
Jim Collins and Tom Collins pleaded
guilty to burglary. They stated that
they were respectively eighteen and sew
lived near Fulton and that their relatives
knew nothing of their troubles.
All the railroad regis tered-letter clerks
leaving Kansas City are now supplied
v i5h revolvers and ammunition, pu"sua Mt
to the order of general superin tendent of
railroad clerks. T. F. Nash.
A. Schumacher, superintendent of the
Union Street Railway Company, at 81.
Joseph, has closed a contract with the
Sprague Motor Company, of New York,
for building an electric road from New
Uim park, in North st. Joseph, to the
market square. The road will be bull by
May 10.
The State Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
which was recently burned, has been a
costly institution to the State. The last
General Assembly appropriated $4,000
for the maintenance of the institution,
$224 800 for salaries of teachers and S12 500
for repairs. The avera -e number of pupils
is about 10, a cost of over $500 per year
per pupil. When it is remembered that
each pupil is a ward of the State, and that
extreme difficulties surround the educa-
ton of such unfortunate children, an ex-
PLANTATION of the expense is readily az
forded.
st. Louis is to have a season of opera at
the Olympic Theater beginning with
Emma Abbot for one week from the 10Th,
then Cartoons compony for a week in
"Ermne," the great New York success,
and winding up with week of Duff's
Opera Company.
DIR. J. A. Gore, resident of st. Joseph
for twenty five years, and physician of
high standing, took an overdose of NOR
phine few days ago with suicidal in
tent. He is sixty-four years old, and fam.
lily trouble is given as the cause. He has
a wife in ST. Joseph and a married da ugh
ter, Mrs. John Brady, in Omaha. DIR.
Gore wrote a letter to his wife, stating
she would never see him again alive. 1t
was not thought he could recover.
A general bureau of industrial and ag-
ricultural information concerning South
east Missouri is to shortly be opened in
st. Louis. The arrangements are now in
1t is the purpose of the found
ers of the bureau to have the southeast
section of the State represented in the
Exposition this year by a magnificent
display of it's resources.
Look out for bogus silver dollars.
For the first time since Kansas City
came into existence, it has passed Sun
day with not saloon open. Two
Of all the places in the town undertook to
defy popular sentiment, but they were
promptly closed. This moral wave was
partly due to the new Law aud Order
League and partly to the fear lest re-
aewal of licenses were refused.
Solomon Brayles, Captain of the Metro
oolitan police of st. Joseph, died a few
laws ago in his forty-eighth year, after
IN illness of three days with pneumonia
and pleurisy. He had been for twelve
Years connected with the Police Depart
nent here, and for three years captain.