Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-27

JOurn TO meet at JeuefSOn C1ty on anQarI
| 10 next.
miscellaneous Items.
Captain Comiskey, the st. Louis Browns
| great general, met President Won der Abe
| by appointment few days ago, ant
| placed his name to a contract to com.
| mand the Browns for the season of 1889
He is the first of the champions to sign
The Lire Stock Journal and Reporter is
the name of a new daily paper which will
make its appearance at ST. Joseph, jan
| uary 1.
The Episcopal parish Of the Holy Trim
ity, in st. Joseph, Rev. George E. Gard.
ner, rector, is to erect at once $15,00(
house of worship on the site of the pres.
ent building. The parish was only or.
| ganized about three years ago, and its
| growth has been phenomenal.
Detectives Baldwin and Larver, of the
Kansas City force, returned few days
! ago from Louisburg, Kas., with John
Brooks, an aged and crippled horse-thief
who was captured after a chase of fifty
six miles. He served term for horse
stealing several years ago, and at that
time gave his age as eighty. He now says
he is seventy eight years old. He stole
the rig belonging to DR.. Tyree and got to
Louisburg before being captured.
Hon. Meyer Friede, late Charity Com
missioner of ST. Louis, died few even
ings since at lis residence, in that city, OF
heart failure, after an illness of ten days.
He was born September g. 1921, at Schenk-
lengsfeldt, near Cassel, Germany. He
received his education at the Samson
school at W olfenbuettel. celebrated for its
roll of distinguished alumni He played
a conspicuous part in the great fire at
Hamburg in 1888, saving many lives by his
bravery.
The name Of the post-office at Critics,
Carter County, has been changed to Ellis
more.
Colonel R. T. Van Horn, of Kansas City,
has been in Washington recently and Sc
cured quarters for the Tippecanoe Club of
Kansas City. Fifty members have signi-
fed their intention of going to the inaugu-
ration.
Ralph BARLEY, fifteen years old, en-
ployed at the carpet store of Trorlicht &
Duncker, st. Louis, fell through the eleva-
tor hole from the third floor to the base
ment, few days ago, and received inju-
ries that are likely 20 prove fatal.
Walter Williams, president of the Mis-
souri, Press Association, has issued call
for meeting of the executive committee
of the association at Jefferson City, Tues
day, January 8, 1889. At this meeting
some matters of great interest to the fra
ternity will be discussed, and the time
and place of the next meeting of the assoc
citation determined upon.
Mr.. F. A. Kowalski, for more thar
twenty years compositor ON the Ms
souri, Republican and afterwards on the
Republic, died a Few days since of dropsy.
The State Insurance Department has
received letters of inquiry regarding the
Peoples Mutual livestock Society of
Chicago, which is soliciting business in
different parts of the State. The superin-
tendent says there is no such company
licensed to do business in the State, and
he fails to find any record of such COM
pany in the insurance report of Illinois.
Manager James A. Cudworth of the
Lowell tMass.) Baseball Club has signed
with the st. Louis Browns. He will prob
ably play center field.
A mad dog came near playing havoc in
st. Louis, few days ago. The animal
ran up stairway and bit at every one
that it came in contact with. Officer
Burke was called in, who shot and killed
the animal, but not before it had made an
attempt to bite him.
Photographic apparatus has been sent
from the observatory in Washington to
Washington University in st. Louis for
the purpose of taking views of the total
eclipse of the sun on January 1. The in
strument has a six-inch camera, and is
supported by an iron column weighing
600 pounds. 1t is the same used by the
United States party in New Zealand at
the transit of Venus.
A very curious relic of the late war is in
the possession of Mr.. c. H. Coggeshall,
liquidating clerk in the Office of the col
lector of customs at st. Louis. 1t is con-
bod ne ,SaIL
up on the field of battle at Gettysburg,
and bears the date of the engagement
stamped on its iron side. The shell forms
the bowl of lamp and through the fuse
hole the wick extends. while for its base it
has curiously-wrought design of iron.
The lamp is not a success an illuminat-
ing agency, but for its historic worth it's
owner prizes it very highly.
The new State Capitol is completed.
Four well-dressed men crowded around
Dane Hurley, q brickmaker, in the door
way of the Bank of Commerce in Kansas
City few days ago, and picked his pocket
of $3.50 and check for 800. They were
out of sight in moment later, when
Hurley found he had been robbed. They
are supposed to be gang who have got
ten away with over 5000 in the past three
months.
Architects have submitted plans to the
Buchanan County Court for a new Jail, to
cost $4,000. 1t will accommodate $50
prisoners and will be 63x11S feet The
sheriff's residence, which is included in
the plans, will cost $1,000.
The St Joseph Flambeau Club will go
to Washington Inauguration week.
A syndicate, headed by C. B. Holmes
and L. B. Hutchinson, of Chicago, has
purchased the controlling interest in the
Citizens Northern Central, Union and
Cass Avenue street-car lines in ST. Louis,
paying therefor 81, SOC, 900.
Rev. Albert Bushnell, formerly of the
Congregational Church at Geneseo. ILL.,.
has been called to the St Joseph Church,
vice Rev. F. s. Hayden, who resigned
some weeks ago to accept the pastOrate at
Jacksonville, Ill.
Acknowledgement Jamison has accept
ed his appointment as member of the
committee for President Harri- |
sons inauguration.
The Hale Zouaves, of Kansas City, will |
attend President Harrison's Inauguration.