Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-29
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


about completed and will be opened fol
! inspection next month.
Samuel y. Brooks, father of Hugh M
Brooks, alias Maxwell, has returned t.
England.
Michael Arnold, st. Louis laborer
fifty years of age, dropped dead few
days ago while pruning shade tree.
/ Mandamus proceedings have been COM
menced in the Supreme Court at Jeffer.
son City against NJ. K. McGrath, to test
the validity OF an act passed by the last
General Assembly exempting building
and loan associations from State and
county taxation. The various acts oil
| the Legislature are considerably mixed,
and the present proceedings are of a
| friendly nature and for the purpose of OBJ.
| tanning a jud cal construction of the
| statute.
| William Fl. H. DAWSON, found guilty oil
attempting to kill little Lizzie Croghan al
| St. Louis, was sentenced to one year in
| Jail.
The taxable valuation of Kansas City
real estate was reduced $40 00o 900 by the
Board of Equalization.
''She,' which is being presented at the
Olympic Theater, st. Louis, this week,
is the reigning dramatic sensation, and
requires nearly one hundred people for
its production.
Owing to the length of time required to
try the case of Fotheringham VS.. the
Adams Express Company, in the United
States Court at st. Louis, the hearing was
reset for April 2, commencing on Monday,
so that it may possibly be finished during
Aie week.
Samuel Carr, a native of County An
trim, Ireland, died at the residence of his
grandchildren, in st. Louis, few nights
ago, lacking one year of being centena-
rian. Ninety-nine years ago this month
he was born in the Emerald Isle.
United States Marshal Emerson, of the
Eastern district, says the appropriation
for the Department of Justice is ex-
hausted, and the Federal court expenses
are kept up by the marshal out of their
own money.
Fred d. Watkins, NJ. D., manager of the
''Laclede Medical Institute," which was
much advertised of late in st. Louis, has
skipped, and the institute" fos tered by
him is no more.
The police court proceedings of st.
Joseph reveals ths painful fact that tn g
meanest man on earth lives in that town.
He pawns his wife's cork leg to get
money to buy whisky with.
The Catholic Publishing Company, of
st. Louis, has been Incorporated with a
-.
B. Pallen holds fifty -four shares; Rev. J.
j. Tuohy, fiftv-three: Patrick Mulcahy,
five shares r. c. Kerens, ten; Rev. c.
Huffman, forty.
The State Board of Equalizatio re-
duced the valuation of Jasper County
100000. A comparison with adjoining
counties showed that Jasper was nearly
forty per cent. higher than her neigh.
bors.
A. B. Vandyke, propri etor of the Van.
dyke Transfer Company at Kansas City,
dropped dead a few days since while in
conversation at his boarding house. He
had been in excellent spirits. Heart dis
ease is given as the cause. His remains
We're shipped to louisville, KY, where
his family live.
Governor Morehouse has issued
proclamation designating Friday, April
g. as Arbor Day, and recommends that
all owners of land whe Their it be a small
town lot or an extern sive farm, make es-
pecial effort that day to plant as many
trees as practicable.
TIE committee appointed by the St Jo-
seph Board of Trade to investigate the
al Wis ability of calling an immigration
convention of the counties in Northwest
Missouri, to meet in that city, has report
ed favorably, but the date of 1.-THE conven-
ter was first agitated by the rural press.
An attempt is being made at ST. Joseph
to obtain change of venue for Louis
Bulling, who is charged with numbering
his wife. When the case was called the
Criminal courtroom was crowded. There
have been $50 witnesses subpeaned to
prove that it would be impossible for him
to get an impartial trial in Buchanan
County. A special judge has been elected
to pass on the motion for a change of
venue.
Unless all indications fail, the six hun
dred or more wagon makers employed in
the various wagon factories in st. Louis
will go out on strike. Every thing
seems ripe for it, and the men are only
for the order to throw down their
tools and inform their employers that
their demand for increased wages must
be complied with be. ore they return to
" ork.
All persons in the State of Missouri de.
string young German carp or black bass
for public waters private ponds should |
amply at once to Phil Kopplin, Jr., box !
500, st. Louis, or to Elias CottrelI, st. |
Joseph, of the Misso Fish Commission.
The person should send full address and |
the name of the nearest express office |
The cost of the can and the carriage, |
1928, must be sent in advance. A one
gallon can will ship safely thirty small |
carp.
c. r. Coleman, aged abou fifty-iye |
years, a traveller for a ST. Louis saddierv |
house, was found dead in his bed at the |
Hotel Barnum in st. Louis a few nights |
ago. He had been stopping at the Bar
lum for about month, and during that |
lime had been on a prolonged spree. |
Heart disease was ev identity the cause of
MS death.
The State Board of Equalization passed |
Upon the assessment of the personal prop
,rty of the State as returned by the sever
II counties. All the valuations were left
intact save that upon horses and mules, in
which some few changes were made, and
he valuation of neat cattle, which were
owered about eight per cent, which |
makes a total reduction of about s., 100000
lpon this class of property. In making
he reduction the board took into consid-
ra ton the extremely low market value
If cattle the first of last June, at which
ime the assessment was to have been
made.
Colonel P. B. Rife, of Sedalia, is de ad.
The Democratic central commit tee met
n st. Louis and issued calls for three
State conventions-one to be held at Sc
alia May II, to nominate delegates to the
National convention; one at Spring field,
August ID. to nominate judges of the Su-
reme Court and Courts of Appeal; and
ne at Jefferson City. August %, to nomi-
ate State ticket.
Mr.. Lewis Davis died at the residence of |
ir. A. c. Hickman, at Lebanon few
avs since, his age being ninety-six years,
even months and eleven days. Mr.. Davis
Fas born in the territory now embraced
4 the State of Tennessee Oh the 9th day
t August, 1871.