Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-10
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Missouri Press Association.

Missouri Press ASSOCIATION.
The Missouri Press Association will
| meet at Warrensburg Tuesday and
| Wednesday, June u and Is. Extensive
arrangements are being made for the re-
ception of the members, and an excursion
to Manitoba will follow the adjournment
| An elaborate programme has been pre-
| pared. On the first day OF the meeting,
| after the preliminary and routine bust.
ness has been transacted, Prof. J. P.
| Blanton, of Kirksville, will deliver the
| annual address, after which Miss Hattie
| Whitney, of st. Louis, will read q
| poem, and Sam B. Cook, of the Mexico
| InteligeRcer, a paper on newspaper
Piracy" The Historian, John w. Jacks,
| of the Montgomery Standard, will deliver
| an historical sketch
| On the second day papers will be read
as follows: Newspaper Legislation," J
| West Goodwin, of the Sedalia Bazoo;
''The Country Press, Its Power and Influ-
ence," d. l.. Ambrose, of the Lima Her.
| aid; "Relation of State and National Asso-
ciations," Walter Williams, of the Boon :
| vile -4drertiser. Miss Minnie Russell, of
| st. Louis, and Miss Nellie Ingram, of
| Sedalia, will favor the association with
select recitations. There will also be
several discussions on various subjects by
the members.
Miscellaneous Items.
While oiling the machinery in the
Zenith mills, in Kansas City, George
Reiman was caught by belt and drawn
into the machinery. He died almost in
stantly.
Charles Maupin has been appointed Po-
lice Commissioner for the City of st. Jo-
seph by Governor Morehouse. The APP
pointment is for term of three years.
4 Mrs. Ella Dye, a young woman about
twenty-five years of age, attempted to
commit suicide at the Queen City Hotel,
st. Joseph, a few days ago by taking q
heavy dose of morphine. Mrs. Dye is the
wife of William Dye, who has charge of
the silk department at Sampson G.
Schmechel's dry goods store. She was
mar,'''1 in st. Joseph four weeks ago.
Her I'-..ler is very wealthy, and resides in
Noah Courthouse, o. While visiting
friends at Oberlin, Kas., she met Dye,
who was clerking in store there, and,
against her parents consent, followed him
to st. Joseph and married him. Her hus-
band, it is said, is dissipated, and has
neglected her, which has so affected her
that she determined to end her existence.
The Examinations in st. Louis next fall
will be on still more elaborate scale
than ever before.
members of the firm of Montague & Co.,
st. Louis swindlers, have been held for
the grand jury on charge of using the
mails for purposes of fraud.
United States Marshal John w. Emer-
son has received and accepted an invita-
ton to deliver an address at the opening
of the Missouri School of Mines, at Rolla,
on June IA.
E. T. Parker, superintendent of the
Wells-Fargo Express Company at Kansas
City, fell dead from a chair while sitting
on the porch of his residence few even
ings since. He was we'll known through
out the West.
The ST. Louis Car Wheel Company is
turning out 200 wheels per day, and is
making arrangements to increase the out
put by an additional output of 100 per day.
A windstorm a few nights ago blew
down part of the tent used as a temper
ance tabernacle in st. Louis. Mrs. Annie
Weaver, who was attending the lecture,
had her right wrist dislocated.
All the boys employed as ''off-helpers''
in the brick-yards of Kansas City, struck
a few days ago for an advance of from
81 to $1.25 day. Their demands were &C
coded to in all but two yards, leaving
sixty of the strikers. The boys cause ed
about two hundred men to lie idle.
Rev. A. c. Dixon, pastor of Tabernacle
Baptist Church at Baltimore, Md, has de-
cided to decline the call extended with
such unanimity by the Second Baptist
Church of st. Louis.
DR.. John Councilman, a well-known
homeopathic physician and highly es-
teemed citizen of st. Louis, died a few
days since after long and painful ILL
ness. extending over period of many
months. DR.. Councilman was born at
Streichen, Wurtemberg, Germany, June
-, 1928.
Colonel Philip Gruner, Jr., president
and general manager of the Philip Gruner
& Bros.' Lumber Company, st. Louis, has
been appointed Consul to Belgium. The
appointment was received while Colonel
Gruner was in Northern Wisconsin, look
ing after his rafting interests. On his re-
turn he found the document on his desk.
Officer Dunlap, of Kansas City, few
nights ago saw small boy, perfectly
nude, dart up the pavement, and he gave
chase. The boy increased his speed as
the officer gained on him and led him q
merry chase of some ten blocks. When
the officer finally reached him he found
that the boy was asleep and had been dur
ing the entire race. He was a small news
boy, who had gone to sleep in a hallway,
and, while unconscious, had undressed
anu SldTtel Ou LIS IuL.
VIM. Straley, aged sixteen, who, with
Allen Turner, stole 1000 pounds of rail-
road iron from the Metropolitan Street
railroad in Kansas City last March, was
sentenced to two years and eight months
in the penitentiary by Judge White in the
Criminal Court. In sentencing him Judge
White SAID: ''If there was a reformatory
institution in this State, l would send you
to it, but there is none. Your father tells
me that you are incorrigible, having
been addicted to thi wing ever since you
were eight years old. The penitentiary is
the place for you, IN the absence of re-
form school,"
George Mundwiller, twenty-seven years
of age, residing with his parents in st.
Louis, attempted to commit suicide a. few
evenings since by taking dose of nitric
acid. A physician was summoned, and
after an examination of the condition of
he pronounced his injuries
very dangerous and probably of fatal
nature. 1t is said that the cause of his |
act was his troubles over his fathers ex-
cessive drinking. He told his mother the |
day previous that he would commit sui !.
eide, but no attention was paid to his |
eat, as it was supposed he was joking. |
Our naval cadetships go begging.
Three calls are now pending for the |
permanent supply of ST. Louis pulpits-
from Trinity Episcopal Church to Rev. A. |
B. Conger, of Philadelphia; from the |
Second Baptist Church to Rev. A. C. |
Dixon, of Baltimore, and from Grand /
Avenue Presbyterian Church to Rev. c. |
E. Stricken, of Louisville.
William Kaffa, a Bohemian, forty We ars |
of age, was found dead in his bed in ST.