Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-26
MISSOURI STATE NEWS

MISSOURI STATE NEWS
Arthur Verbryck. a Rock Island SWITCH
man, was run over and instantly killed at
st. Joseph, a few nights ago. Verbryck
was a single man.
While at work in the wo1len mill al
Denver Worth, County, few days ago the
eighteen-year-o daughter OF Jas. Good
win was caught IN the fly wheel and
whirled around, and so fearfully mangled
that she died in few hours.
The population of the st. Louis Jail is
remarkably light.
The dead body of a man of advanced
age was found few nights ago floating
in the Missouri river, off the mouth of the
Nishhabotna river, north of st. Joseph.
in a state of partial decomposition. The
body was clad in a garb of heavy material
resembling buckskin, with heavy scarf
of the same material around the body,
fastened with shaw1-pin. The nose and
ears are missing. Taking into consider
alton the unusually heavy clothes and
wraps, it is the general opinion that the
body is that of a victim of one of last
winters billiards, carried from the Up
per Missouri by the melted snow and
heavy rains.
The gorgeous spectacle, Paine's 'L asst
Days of Pompeii,'' which created such q
sensation in st. Louis last fall, is again
being presented in that city, or rather, at
Kensington Gardens, the beautiful pleas
ure resort laid out and maintained by the
st. Louis Cable & Western Railway Com
pany for the benefit of its patrons. The
eruption of Mount Vesuvius is one of the
most realistic spectacles ever presented,
while the general ensemble and fireworks
are on a scale of magnitude difficult to
realize unless seen, and visitors to st.
Louis will miss rare treat if they fail to
see it.
Frank Parker, the negro who shot and
dangerously wounded Policeman O'Sul-
Ivan in st. Louis recently, and who was
subsequently arrested at Little Rock,
Ark, has been returned to st. Louis for
trial.
By the burning of Wolfort & Co.'s
stables in st. Louis, few night ago
eighteen head of horses and mules were
cremated.
Mrs. w. R. Bell of Fort Worth, Tex, a
passenger on a Santa Fe train. in the
Pullman car yosemite" was robbed Of
diamond brooches valued at 81, 400 few
nights ago when near Kansas City.
Judge Holmes, of Kansas City, is in
precarious condition. Owing to the cancer
in his stomach he can receive no nutri-
ment, and is slowly starving to death.
Two ten-year- old boys named James
Burns and Patrick Flemming, living in
st. Louis, were drowned in the river at
the foot of Florida street while bathing,
few days ago. The bodies were not re-
covered.
Engine No. II of the Bridge and Tunnel
Company jumped the track at the mouth
of the st. Louis tunnel, few days since,
and in the smash-up of the freight train
that followed, John F. Belcour, the fire.
man, and William Withers, the con-
ductor, were killed, their bodies being
horribly mangled.
While Bill Kennedy, notorious negro
thief, was being conveyed from the police
station at Kansas City to the county Jail,
a few days ago, he threw a handful of
pepper into the eyes of Officer Cary and
made desperate effort to escape. The
officer was game, however, and, although
nearly blinded, knocked the negro down
and held him until help arrived.
While the postmaster at independence
was absent from his office at noon, few
days since, two boys, neither of whom
could have been over ten years of age,
were seen crawling from the Office win
dow. An investigation showed that the
two had stolen stamps to the amount of
one dollar. Joe Seeker and Bob Acres,
sons Of respectable parents, were arrest
ed.
VIM. Ryan, brakeman, and Richart
Wilkins, porter, on the Lexington branch
of the Missouri Pacific were set upon by
two tramps near the Zenith mills at Kan
sas City, few nights ago, and were
badly beaten. The tramps boarded the
train and when ordered off showed fight.
They were arrested and when taken be-
fore Justice Shelley, at Independence,
gave their names as Hugh Mack and
George Gibbons. They were held on a
charge of assault with intent to kill.
The livery stable of Wallace C. Bow
man, at Sedalia, was destroyed by fire, a
quantity of hay, oats and fodder. A large
number of carriages and fine buggies.
many of them owned by private parties,
were consumed. Eighteen horses were in
the stables and eleven of the animals
were liberated and escaped. Bowman's
loss is 5000; covered by insurance. The
buildings were the property of W. B.
Riley and were uninsured.
Charles Casting and Jack Thipatten,
both colored, became engaged in a row in
St. Louis, a few nights ago, over the at
tentions of chocolate colored damsel
named Emma Ling. During the fight
Casting drew large butchers knife and
cut Thipatten's throat from ear to ear,
severing tie jugular vein. The wounded
man was taken to the City hospital. Cast
ing was arrested and locked up.
Richard Chambers, a fifteen-year -old
boy, was drowned in Big Blue river, about
two miles east of Independence, few
days ago, under peculiar circumstances.
He and a man named James CLANCY were
diving off from a spring-board upon the
bank, when Chambers, who had taken a
dive and was just coming to the surface,
was hit upon the head by CLANCY, who
sprang off the board head foremost with
out seeing the boy. Their heads met with
Terrific force, and it is supposed that
Chambers was knocked senseless. He
sank to the bottom like stone. The
body was recovered. CLANCY was IN
hurt, save long cash upon his forehead.
Thirteen horses and five mules belong
ing to F. NJ. Slutz, proprietor of the Rock
Greek dairy at Kansas City are supposed
to have been poisoned by strychnine. A
'table-man going down among the horses
1t about two O'Clock in the morning first
noticed little driving mare acting
strangely and in few moments she fell
n commissions, dying almost instantly.
Three others also died. DIR. Hunter, who
vas m6king an analysis of the contents of
,ne horses stomach. thought the symp-
oms were sure evidence of strychnine.
Judge Krekel is dead.
1t took seven men to prevent VIM. J
Sweeney from putting an end to his career
1t Kansas City by jumbing off the levee
INTO the Missouri river. Sweeny had
umped into the river and was pulled out
oy couple of men standing on some rail-
Dad ties. He fought hard to get to the
water again, but he was quickly overpow-
sred and taken to the police station.