Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-10-04
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

q Ahc INoftuW6Sl MlSSOur1 Medical Col
lege has purchased grounds in st. Joseph,
and VIII at once commence the erection
OF handsome college building. It will
be tour stories high and cost S41, 900.
Governor Morehouse has granted par
don to William Silvers, convicted in Ben
ton County in 1886 of felonious assault,
ana sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years. The pardon was granted on &C.
count of the prisoners exemplary be-
hhvior.
st. Louis offers some fine dramatic and
musical attractions during the fall festal
season, as the following lists OF engage
ments will show: The "Pearl OF Pekinn
remains another week at the Olympic, and
then come Mantel in ssMonbars,o and
.Harbor Lights" Booth and Barrett fol :
low, October 81, for one week, and then
the Carleton Opsra Company. in ssMyn-
heer JAM" by the composer of Err
mimic" At the Grand, Hallen & Hart are
followed by 'sHeId by the Enemy" Slavin
& Johnson's Minstre1s, tsLttle Tycoon"
and Nat Goodwin. At Pope's, Han1on,s
sFantasma" follows "Two Old Cronies;"
then come "White Slave" Milton Mobiles,
Jacques Krugers's new play, His Royal
Highness;" "Lost ia New York" aud Nc
Kee Rankin's new drama, "The Runaway
Wife," AT the Peoples s'Monte Cristo"
will be followed by ssZozo," Lizzie Evans
in ''The Buckeye" twelve Tempta-
tions" and Beacon Lights"
William n. DAWSON, son Of ex Senator
DAVIDSON. of st. Louis. was released from
| the city Jail recently on a pardon from
Governor Morehouse. DAWSON, it will
be remembered, is the youth who in jan
uary, 1887, shot and wounded his little
sweetheart, Lizzie Croghan.
| A pair of co1ored viragoes got into a
dispute in ST. Louis over a dusky lover,
and the result was that one of them is
minus half an inch of nose, slashed off
with a razor by her antagonist.
Charles Craft, who was supposed to be
drowned at ST. Joe, and for the re-
covery of whose body a lake was dragged,
has been found in Kansas City. It has also
been discovered that he stole $3.50 from
| his father. He had run away with va
riety theater actress. Only $416 Of the
money was recovered.
The date of the unva1ling of the Grant
monument in ST Louis has been post
poned to October 20, at which time it is
expected General Sherman will be able to
| be present. There will be a grand mill
| tary parade IN honor of the event
The Office of the deputy internal rev.
| enue collector at st. Joseph was robbed
of 81, 900 worth of internal revenue stamps
| a few evenings since. The haul is abso-
| lutely useless. as no dealer or handler of
cigars, tobacco, or liquor would dare
| touch the stamps.
Samuel w. Barley, second baseman of
the Kansas City Base Ball Club, was mar
| ried to Miss Flora B. Feldman, of Chi
cago. The CEREMONY was performed by
City Recorder Davenport, of Kansas City,
at his home, in the presence of a very few,
friends.
John Helgoth committed suicide at his
residence in st. Louis, a few days ago, by
hanging himself. Conrad Smith testified
at the inquest that the deceased was
seventy-two years of age, a German, and
that he had been suffering for three years
with disease of the bladder which was
incurable.
Joseph Gillieani. residing in ST. Louis.
entered his home, few nights ago, to be
horribly surprised by finding his wife
lying on the bed and apparently dead
A physician was called in, who pro-
nounced her to be in comatose state.
Other physicians were summoned, but all
efforts to revive her proved futile until
the next day. The woman appeared to be
in a trance, or overcome by condition
of coma from which she could not be
aroused.
Henry Kolbeck, four year. old son of
J. II. Kolbeck, living in Kansas City, was
run over by a grip-car on the Brooklyn
Avenue Cable line {. few evenings since
and received injuries from which he
afterwards died. TIL, train passed over
his body, breaking his right arm and cut
ting off both legs.
Kahn & Furst wholesale dealers in
laces and gents furnishing at st Joseph,
have closed their doors, and trustee for
local creditors has charge Of the stock. |
Their liabilities are about $75. 1000, of
which So, GOD is held by c. F. Burns and
Saxton National Bank Of st. Joseph, both |
OF whom are secured. Their assets are
reckpned at $4,000
The st. Louis Polytechnic building, in
which is the Public Library, narrowly es-
capped destruction by fire few evenings
since. The loss will reach S., 000 The
valuable library was saved intact. There |
were some thrilling escapes of persons |
employed in the building, notably Miss |
Meyer, in charge of the reading-room,
who was carried down ladder by fire. |
man.
V. c. Yantis. private secretary of Gov |
ernor Morehouse, received q telegram T
from Senator Vest few days ago, to the I
effect that he has been appointed assayer t
of the st. Louis Mint,a a salary of 81, 500 |
a year. The appointment was a great sur |
prise to Mr.. Yantis, rs he was not an ap. |
plicant. He has gone to st. Louis to in |
vestigate the duties of his office.
Fire broke out in the livery stables of /
Rose & Goodwin, at Kansas City, few |
nights ago. Forty horses, forty two car
riages, 800 bushels of oats and forty tons
of hay were burned. The total loss will |
reach $4,000. OF this amount not more /
than 81, 500 will arise from damage to the
building. .
The Mississippi Valley Medical Assoc
citation, at its recent meeting in st. Louis, +
elected the following officers: President,
George j. Cook, M. D.. of Indianapolis; I
first vice-president j. d. Griffith, Nj. D.,
of Kansas City; second vice president, ).
A. Larrabee, NJ. D., of Louisville; secre-
tary, r. L. Thompson, NJ. D., of St Louis;
treasurer, w. c. Chapman. NJ. D., of To-
ledo. o.; chairman of the committee OF
arrangements, A. NJ. Owen. III. D., of
Evansville. For the judicial committee
j. L. Gray. NJ. D., of Illinois; William
M. D., of Pennsylvania. For the COM
mittee on credentials-C. &. Bond, M. D.,
Indiana; A. W. McAIister, NJ D., Mis-
souri,; L. s. McMurtrie, NJ. D.. Kentucky;
c. S. Comegys. If. D., Ohio: D. S. Booth,
u. D., Illinois.
St Louis fair begins October /.
Willie Noble, the fourteen-y year old St
Louis boy who was recently seized with
genuine attack Of hydrophobia, was up
and around the next day to the surprise
of q number Of physicians. The case APP
pears TO be puzzler to the medical fra
ternity, as the boy on the frst day showed
every symptom OF hydrophobia.
John Fl. Martling was arraigned few
days since in the Criminal Court at Kan-
sas City and pleaded not guilty to the
charge OF murder in the first degree. His
bail was fixed at 5000. The sureties on
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