Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-02
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
The State Legislature.

| bill authorizing county courts to destroy GER
tain papers after the expiration of five years.
! A resolution was adopted condemnatory of the
| Irvine Trust. The House took up the substi-
tute for the House revised bill relating to the
| driving OF stock along public highways and the
| fencing of public roads. The consider alton of
| this bill occupied the House nearly the en-
| tire morning and was further discussed
during the afternoon session. being left
| pending. The House then took up and dis
| cussed the remainder of the session. the SUBJ
| sttute for the Senate bill to revise and amend
| the revised statutes of normal schools The
chapter was amended in several minor particu-
! lars. The House refused to concur in the SEN
| ate amendment to the revised chapter allowing
| the norm al school diploma to run but two years
| before renewal. This amendment was stricken
| out and the time placed at four years. as in the
| present law. The bill was then passed by a
| vote of rs to II.
| IN the Senate, on the ED, Mr.. Moran rose to
| a question of privilege and spoke for over an
| hour to one OF the largest audiences ever
| gathered in the Senate chamber. A large num-
| Der of ladies were present and his philippe
! against the st. Louis Republic, Rev. Ben
| Deer1ng and the Republics correspondent
drew SO many members of the House to the
| Senate chamber that that body was compelled
! to adjourn for lack of a quorum. AT the con-
| clusion of Mr.. Moran's speech the Senate re-
| sumed consideration of the Pententary Re-
| vision bill in the committee of the whole. The
remainder of the session devoted to TIE
! discussion of this measure and the various
amendments offered to In the House the
! following bills were passed: Taxing foreign
! insurance companies doing business in this
! State "a per cent. on their gross premiums;
| to prevent swindling by travelling agents, sales
! men, etc, and to provide a penalty therefor;
| Champ Ciark's bill to prevent the trial of per-
/ sons while insane.
| In the Senate. on the 23d. the following bills
/ were passed: Revising and amending chapter
! % of the Revised Statutes relating to damages
! and contributions in actions of tort" to appro-
pirate $1,000 for the erection of u tomb or monu-
ment over the remains of the late Governor
! John Marmadulle; to establish a criminal court
| in Greene County; revising the law relating to
| grand and petit jurors; revising the laws re-
| lating to attachments: revising the laws re-
| lating to sheriffs and their deputies The Dram
shop bill taken up and amendment
embodying the high-lcense idea of the Deering
bill was defeated by a vote of to 1s-...In the
House the following were passed: The re-
vised chapter on "grasshorpers," the re-
vised chapter rats and the revised
chapter on gophers; to prevent the adultera
ton of beer was then taken up and passed; to
appropriate money for the support of the State
Government, educational institutions, contin-
gent expenses. printing, and for the payment
f which no appropriation has heretofore been
made for the years 1889 and 1890; providing for
the holding of four terms of the Probate Court
of Montgomery County at Montgomery City: to
prohibit the keeping of billiard tables, etc. in
saloons: substitute for the House bill to pro-
vide for the appointment Of justices OF the
peace in cities having 10000 Inhabitants The
Local Inspection bill was also passed by vote
of &c to Is.
In the Senate, on the gath, the bill revising
the laws relating to pawnbrokers was taken up
and passed: also the bill appropriating $4,000
to defray the expenses of Missouri's represent
atives at the Washington Centennial celebra-
ton. Mr. Hollands Factory Inspection bill
was taken up for passage and defeated. In
the House, after some discussion, the bill ap-
proprating $4,000 for the support of the State
University (taken up for engrossment was laid
over until the Goth. The report of the special
committee appointed to report the reductions
that could be made in the clerical force was
turned to the House. The report recommended
cutting off of sixty-eight employees in the
House. The report was debated for some time,
and finally adopted The substitute for
Senate bill 81. repeating the ST. Louis notaries
public act, passed.
THE Senate, the 18th, passed Mr. McGn-
mis- bill amending the law relating to street
railways in ST. Louis so as to make 1t appli-
cable to cable lines; also the House Milk In
spection bill also, the bill providing for the
compensation of ~ per day in addition to regu-
lar per diem for the Speaker and Speaker pro
tenn. of the House; also, bill prohibiting the
sale of Intoxicating liquors within three miles
Of Henderson College, in Webster County; also
the bill revising the laws relating to the militia.
A resolution adopted that night sessions
be held during the remainder of the session.
The night session was devoted to the read
ing and signing of enrolled bills -. In the House
Mr.. Mobiles bill to provide for bureau of
geology and mines and appropriating .O0J to
complete geological and meteorological sur
vey of the State was passed by vote OF 102 to
l6. Champ ClarlS bill to fully secure
the independence of electors and the secresy
Of the ballot (the Australian system of votlnga
was defeated by q vote of 81 to 81. Senate bill
376 introduced by Mr.. Johnson. of Madison, to
regulate railroad corporations by adding two
new sections, was passed.
Miscellaneous Items.
James Dalton was killed and Eugene
Cearbeaux seriously injured III st. Louis,
few days since while repairing cars in
the Missouri Pacific yards. An engine
struck the car on which they were work.
ing causing it to fall upon them with the
above result.
Driven to desperation by sickness and
dependency, Mrs. Catherine Lauermaun.
q widow ffty-six years of age, ended her
existence at the residence of her married
son, in St. Louis, few days since, by
taking a large quantity of paris green.
The Missouri Institute of Homeopaths
at their recent session in Springfield
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President, Moses T. Runnels,
Kansas City; vice. president, L. E. Whit
ney, Carthage; general secretary, c. J.
Luyties, st. Louis; provisional secretary,
A. G. Jones, Holden; treasurer, H. W.
Westover, st. Joe; board of censors. L.
Griswold Comstock, ST. Louis; VIM. d.
Foster, Kansas City, and S. B. Parsons,
st. Louis. The place of meeting next
year will be st. Louis.
The State Grand Council of Royal and
Select Masons, at its twenty fourth an
nual session in ST. Louis last week elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: John Jay Pierron, st. Louis, most
illustrious grand master; F. j. Tygard,
Butler, deputy master; Thomas Seal, st.
Louis, grand principal conductor of the
work; Noah NJ. Givan, Jacksonville,
grand treasurer; William II. Mayo. st.
Louis. grand recorder: Ulrich Schneider,
st. Joseph, grand captain of the guard;
Grant Wyatt, Rockport, grand conductor
of the council; Rev. c. H. Briggs, INDIE
pendence, grand chaplain; A. P. Oliver,
st. Louis. grand marshal; Edwin E. Roby, |
Harrisoville, grand steward; John w.
Owen. st. Louis, grand sentinel.
William Raney was fatally stabbed at |
st. Joseph, recently, by John Cretran, a |
French bartender. Raney followed Gre |
tran from one saloon to another, trying |
to raise fight. Cretan warned Raney to |
let him alone. but Raney persisted, when |
the enraged Frenchman turned suddenly |
on him and severed his jugular by the |
stroke of a dirk-knife.
A poor, unfortunate woman named Mrs. |
Annie Roemer, twenty-five years of age, |
who for some time had trouble with her |