Iron County register., 1888-11-22
MiScelIanoous Tfauz

l. Governor
/ Miscellaneous Items.
| Governor Morehouse has appointed the
following COMMITTEES to visit the various
eleemosynary and educational institu-
! tions of the State aud suomit a report
| concerning the same to the new General
| Assembly: Senator Johnson, Of Madison,
and Representatives joan F. Morton, OF
Ray, and s. X. Crawford, of Benton. The
above committee will meet at Jefferson
/ City on the 10 h inst, and organize by
electiug clerk and naming dates for
visiting the Institutions designated.
| By the terms Of an election bet prom
| inent Kansas City confectioner, who lost,
| is compelled to wear wooden shoes foI
! two weeks.
1t is announced that Secretary John
| ston of the St. Louis Expos tion and
| Music Hall Association will shortly re-
| sign his position.
The police OF st. Joseph, a few days
since, arrested D. c. Baker, reporter on
! the Daily Herald, on suspicion that he
was Tascott, the supposed murderer of
Mill onaire Smell in Chicago. Baker was
| detained almost three hours at head
| quarters and was at last disc harged.
The funeral of Colonel John Knapp in
| St Louis was attended by great many
of the earlier settlers of the city, we'll
as by numerous acquaintances of the de-
| ceased st. Louisan and the employees of
the Republic.
The Thirty fifth General Assembly Will
be divided as follows: Sanate-Demo-
Gratis. 21; Republicans a,ll Opposition,
10. House-Democrats, rs; Republicans
and Opposition, g.
DR.. F. F. Zeller, aged sixty-seven, and
for over twenty years resident of
Carondelet was found dead in stable in
the rear of his residence, few nights
ago. The doctor was highly respected,
both in his private life and profession,
very temperate in personal habits, and
has left large family.
An indictment against Anton Newberg
for sending lottery advertis ements
through the mails was returned in the
United States District Court in st. Louis,
few days since, by the grand jury. The
specific charge against him is for sending
out circulars for Austrian Govern ment
bonds, such as have been extensively ad-
vertised in the United States for the past
several years.
Charles Fl. Mitchell, of Athens, Pa,
brother of W. G. Mitchell, the convicted
murderer of Michael Kilrisky, or "Voice-
less Nike" has written to the county
marshal of Jackson County, expressing
his inability, on account Of poverty, to
render any assistan ce to the doomed man.
The writer had appealed in vain to his
parents, and, therefore, he left his brother
to the mercy of the court. The prisoner
is one of the most cheerful men in the
Kansas City Jail, and seems to have no
care for the future.
The Tippecanoe Club of Kansas City
has wound up its affairs and donated its
log cabin to the use Of the Proyident AS
sociatiou as win ter refuge for the uu-
fortunate. The club will be represented
next March at the Inauguration of Mr..
Harrison, and as preliminary thereto
had its picture taken, copies of which
will be sent to Brother Ben" and Mr..
Cleveland.
General James Harding has been re-
ported as being an applicant for the posi-
lion of Adjutant- General under Governor
Francis administration. There is no
foundation for this rumor, however. for
it has been settled for some time past
that General Harding is to be appointed
secretary of the Board of Railway Com
missioners at the expiration of his term
Of office as O. member OF the board on
January 1.
Princs Alexander, a colored voudoo ex-
pert, received six months sentence 10
the workhouse in the st. Louis Court of
Criminal Correction recently. He had
charged a negro named Aaron Docklns
the modest sum of $3.50 for certain
charmed amulets of coal, whelewith
Do, kins was to win back his white wife,
who had deserted him some weeks ago.
The charms failed to produce the. woman,
but reacted on Alexander with the force
Of boomerang, consigning him to dur
ance vile.
At a recent meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Kansas City Exposition
Victor Buck presented his resignation as
president. No one can be elected to sue
ceed him until the annual stockholders
meeting next January. In the meantime
GEORGE Holmes, the vice. president of the
company, will act as president The
matter of putting the building to some
use during the winter was discussed, but
no action was taken.
John McNeely, the fifteen-year old son
of j. d. McNeeley. wholesale grocer of
ST. Joseph, was stabbed few days ago
by another boy of the same age named
Quinovau, while on their way home from
the Christian Brothers College. The two
boys Lad been quarreling for some time.
The weapon used was a small penknife,
and McNeely was cut just above the
heart.
Another gas we'll was struck on the
property of Mr.. j. F. Marks at Kansas
a ed 400 feet from the other Well, on the
property OF the same man, which has
been in operation for some time, but the
dow of gas is much larger than from the
old we'll. The gas was struck at depth
of 495 feet, and the drilling had been i'll
progress twenty days. The flow is
stronger than any well yet struck in the
county, but the flow from the old we'll
has not diminished any since the new one
was struck.
A st. Louis man has two pet wolves.
Miss Clara kinziie, compositor, sew
en- cen years old. and young lady Of
irreproachahle character, committed sui
eide in st. Louis, a few nights ago by
herself through the heart in
her room, where she boarded, with Mrs.
j. C. Brennan. She had been out of
work three weeks, and owed six dollars
for board and one dollar for Washing,
over which she brooded all the time.
William Walker, chief of the Christian
County Bald Knobbers, was sentenced by
the Supreme Court at Jefferson City to be
hanged December %, 1888 The decision
was rendered by Judge Black and afirms
the conviction secured in the lower court.
Representative Glover has been arrest
ed IN Washington for false swearing.
st. Joseph was virtually cut off from
the outside world recently for upwards of
twenty four hours by a snow storm which
fell eight inches deep. .prostrating all the
telephone and telegraph wires. Trains
were delayed from four to six hours on
all roads entering the city from the north
and west.
Judoo Pv1and of fha Pettis Cauuty