Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-12-20
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

6rlHSatIu against the Adams EXPIRES
Company for unwarranted Imprisonment
has been compromised and settled. TIL
company paid the ex-messenger $500 ami
his costs.
DIR. j. A. C. Brown, one of the leadinl
citizens of Pettis County, died at his hoIn
in Dresden, few days ago, of consump
ton. The deceased was North Caro-
linian by birth, served with distinction II
the Confederate army and filed man.
positions of honor and trust in Pett1
County. He was about fifty-five years O.
age and popular with all classes.
Mrs. Lydie C. Jones, wife OF Colone
Charles Ell. Jones, editor OF the st. Louis
Republic, died recently after painful i'll
ness of long duration, aged forty years
The deceased was an estimable lady, OF
an amiable and charitable disposition
and her death will be sincerely mournet
by her many warm and devoted friends.
The annual election for thirteen direc.
tors of the st. Louis Fair Association was
held a few days since, and the following
gentlemen were chosen: Charles Green
Alvah Mansur, John NJ. Sellers. l.. M
Rumsey, A. B. Ewing, VIM. W. Withheld
John Scullin, W. R. Allen, Richard G.
Kerens, Rolla Wells, James Green, Soc
rates Newman. G.. D. Mcclure.
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are at present considering removing to OF
building branch establishments at Kansas
City, and promoters who have them in
charge are each confident that he will Sc
cure the location Of the particular factory
he is figuring on.
The material and good will of the Sc
dalia Democrat Newspaper Company was
sold at trustees sale, a few days ago, I'M
der four deeds of trust, for 81, 900.
The post-ofice at Mitchellville, Harri-
son County, has been discontinued; mail
to Bethany.
John H. Dorman committed suicide in
st. Louis, few days ago, by shooting
himself with shotgun. He was sixty
nine years of age.
Charles Warner, of Kansas City, made
a second attempt recently to commit sui
eide while at Wichita. Kas., because his
wife was unfaithful to him and was living
in disreputable house.
John McCabe, a switchman, employed
in the Wabash yards at st. Louis, fell
from car, few days ago, and sustained
severe internal injuries which may prove
fatal. McCabe is forty-two years of age
and has wife and several children.
Robert Guerke, Michael Engelkraut and
Edward Burke are charged, in warrant
SWOIL out DIT 81 Louis, VIII assault TO 90
great bodily harm. They are the three
dog catchers who were accused of han
ding Willie Maier SO brutally. The boy
appeared at the Four Courts and swore to
the information. He is IN pitiable con-
dition.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch poor chill
dren's Christmas Tree boom is growing
to mammoth proportions, the fund being
well on the way to $1,000. Prominent
citizens have been enlisted in the scheme,
and it promises to be one of the most
popular charities ever INDUCED in by the
charitable of that city. The children of
all classes seem to be enthusiastic over it.
Governor Morehouse has issued a COM
mutation to Lewis Willers, negro, sem
fenced from Livingston County IN 1884. to
the penitentiary for ninety mine years for
murder in the second degree. The sem
tence is cut down to ten years, with bene-
fits of the three-fourths rule. The SEN
tence was considered unreasoaably Sc
we're and would have been reduced by the
Judge of the trial court had not the case
been appealed and thus removed from his
Only four of the Missourians voted for
the Direct-Tax bill on its final passage in
the House of Representatives at WASH
ington. They were the two Republicans,
Wade and Warner, and two Democrats,
and Heard. Four members of the
delegation were absent. They were O'Neil,
Glover, Stone and Burnes. The others
voted against the bill. The amount with
which Missouri is credited, and which
amount will be returned to the State in
the event that the bill becomes law, is
S761 1913.
1irin in
washing some clothes in her room, O few
lays ago, and her son Charles, eighteen
months old, was playing on a sofa. She
eft the room for few minutes and on re-
turning found the dead body of her baby
10Y in the tub of water she had just left.
It seems that i'll climbing on the sofa he
slipped off and fell into the tub and was
drowned before his mother returned.
The bodies of two men were found hang
ng to a tree at a pointne school-house
six miles south of Westport, Jackson
County, few days ago. The supposition
s that the bodies were those of horse
thieves who had been lynched by farmers.
In making an estimate of what will be
he population of Missouri January 1, 1899,
Secretary of State McGrath figures that it
will only fall short of 5000, 1000 by $4,000
This result is reached by estimating the
lumber of voters in the State at 551 900
md multiplying it by five, which is con-
;idered q fair ratio. According to this
estimate the population of the State in
$40 will exceed 100000 and the increase
n the ten years from 1880 to 1880 will be
slightly above 80 per cent. In the estimate
or next year he gives st. Louis 10000,
md for 1890 100000, placing the other large
titles in the State as follows: Kansas City,
IN 900. ST IoSanh * 900. Snri1,pfial6
1000, and Hannibal, $4,000.
1t may seem very odd that man can
commit suicide while there is police Off
.er sitting next to his side. Still such was
he case in st. Louis, a few evenings since,
when man, supposed to be A. Gansowski,
sent a bullet through the center of his
head while the ambulance was carrying
lim en- route to the city dispensary, with
Police officer Fuqua by his side.
A scene which is not witnessed very
occurred in City Counselor
Bells Office in st. Louis, a few days ago.
1t was the destruction by fire of city
ponds, which, if signed and executed,
would have been worth So, 900. There
we're 30 bonds in all of the denomination
If 300 each. They were left over from
he issue of 1886, bearing interest at 1865
per cent, and were not executed.
St Louis has ghost sensation.
Harry Chapman, one of Sam Jones,
who has been serving a SEN
ence in the Jackson County Jail for peti
arceny, was discharged a few days ago.
He was Immediately taken before Justice
Maybury, charged with being one of the
luartette of pickpockets who piled their
7rade at the Log Cabin about election
line. He was bound over to the grand