Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-07
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
cut-worms and chinoh-bugs are getting

In their work in many localities.
James McManus, tramp, entered the
house of Police Officer James B. Mellow
an, at Kansas City, few nights ago, and
was met and captured by the officer, and
was sent up for six months. He said he
thought he was entering citizens house.
j. F. Willis, of the Hall & Willis Hard
ware Company, Kansas City, was arrested
few days ago by Officer Harrington on
warrant charging him with refusing to
pay the elevator inspectors fee, in ac-
cordance with the city ordinance. Mr..
Willis maintains that the ordinance IS
unconstitutional. He will make this
| test case.
| The State Teachers Association of Mis-
souri, will hold its twenty-seventh annual
session at Sweet Springs on June 10, 70
and 81. The programme is an elaborate
one, embracing wide range of subjects
for discussion and other interesting ex-
ercises. The Missouri Teachers Acad-
envy will hold its second annual session
| for three days Immediately preceding the
! State Teachers Association. Arrange
| ments have been made with all railroads
| in the State to return members of the as
sociation at one-third fare. To get the
benefit of this reduction it will be neces-
sary for persons to take receipts from the
agents from whom the tickets are bought.
June IA, and the return trip must be made
on or before June "a. and the receipt must
| be countersigned by the railroad secre-
tary of the association. In the past few
years the educational institutions of the
State have been prosperous, and progress
has been stamped on every department of
the work; yet there is much more to be
done to place Missouri where she should
be-the leading State in education. The
| foo in, oil Of cch
school officers, are not only invited, but
urged to join in efforts for their improve
ment and that of the schools.
| Judge Edward White, of st. Louis, died
a few days since of consumption. He had
| been an almost constant sufferer for over
q year. Judge White was native of Vir-
| ginia, and had received classical educa-
ton. He entered the Confederate service
| and soon rose to the rank of Captain, and
at the close of the war was Adjutant of a
North Carolina regiment. After Apo
| matox he entered the Winchester Law
School, and after admission to the bar was
| elected circuit judge. He located in st.
! Louis in 1871.
Miss Elise Clemens, of st. Louis, and
Miss Annie Smith, of Maryland, were re-
| ceived as novitiates in the Convent of the
| Sacred Heart at Maryville, a few days ago,
| with impressive ceremonies.
The name of post-office Boston, in
| Christian County, has been changed to
Aisle.
Patrick Barthen, a conductor on st.
Louis street-car line, found a pocket-book
in his car containing $685. and restored it
! to the owner.
Information mas been received of the
death of John W. Randall, late a resident
and prominent business man Of st. Louis,
| but who has for the past few years been
living in New York.
Complete official returns from Vernon
County show the Wood Local Option
amendment to have been defeated by a
majority of 10 votes.
| Mr.. Samuel Cupples, of st. Louis, has
received a letter from Paris to the effect
that w. H. Howe, the st. Louis artist who
is at present studying in Paris, has been
! awarded gold medal by the Paris salon
for his animal painting.
| The customs collections in st. Louis for
the month of May amounted to $272, 1888.
The amount collected this year up to
June l was $153 275, which more than
doubles that of the entire yea of 1885.
| The receipts of 1885 We're $351, 567; 1885,
$620,2 1887, $624, S29
A strong company of st. Jos eph capt.
talists, with Major H. B. w. Hartwig at
| the head, has purchased one hundred
acres at Lake contrary with mile of
lake IL on j, and will at once convert it into
a pleasure resort, second to none in the
West.
John Oswald, St. Louis merchant, at
tempted, few days ago, to prevent Mike
Sheely, Jack Fallon, Eenry Moore and
another boy, all lamplighters, from steal
ing strawberries from a tray which was
in front of his establishment. The boys
attacked him with their ladders, and one
of the crowd plunged a knife into the
right breast of the merchant, inf1icting
dangerous wound, as the blade penetrated
the lung. The boys were arrested.
The commencement concert of the
| Baptist Female College a Lexington was
| u brilliant event. The award of medals
was as follows: For instrumental music,
Miss Hannah Lanneau, of LIE xington; for
scholarship, Miss Anna Belle Scarce, of
Hannibal; for Latin, Miss Susie Lam
neau, of Lexington; for 'The Bible"
| Miss Anna Belle Scarce, of Hannibal;
for ''The Home" Miss Susie Brandon, of
Carroll County.
Robert Graham, a clerk, and Henry J.
Conway, an x-shoe dealer, were standing
on Main street, Kansas City, few nights
ago, talking, when Frank Blair and John
Beatty, plumber, passed them. Graham
called out that he could whip Sullivan, al
luding to an acquaintance. Beatty turned
back and asked him if he meant Sullivan,
the plumber. Graham replied in the
affirmative. and then some angry words
passed between them. They finally
clinched, and while scuf1ing Conway
stepped close to Beatty, pulled 3S-cali.
Der revolver and fred one shot at him.
Beatty fell and Conway and Graham ran
away. Beatty is seriously but not dan.
gerously wounded. Conway was captured
and locked up.
VIM. Funk was arrest led at st. Joseph,
few days ago, for disturbing the peace
and lodged in the calaboose. On the way
to the station he resisted the officers, and
it was found necessary to handle him
roughly. He was fined and sent to the
rock pile. His condition was such that he
was not able to work, and so reported to
the guard. The latter did not take his
word for it, and one of them, James Bond
went into the cell and began beating the
prisoner over the head with stout club
because he would not go to work. AS
result conclusion of the brain set in anc
Funk may die. Bond has been suspended
from duty and placed under arrest.
The rivers are falling slowly.
A. E. Richlin, employe for G. W.
Chase, wholesale confectioner and fruit
dealer at st. Joseph, attempted to JUMP
on an elevator, which was in rapid mo.
ton, a few days since, and was caught in
the elevator guard. His body was crushed
to q jelly and his neck broken. Richliu
was an old man, and had been with the
firm ten years.
The Legion of Honor of st. Louis now
numbers over 100 memb ers an increaSe