Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-20
miscellaneous Items.

| of Villain Main & Co., raided several
houses at Lexington, recently, getting
more or less booty at each place.
A negro testified in st. Louis police
court the other day that while he had
good clothes to wear he preached the
Gospel, but as soon as his clothes wore
out and his money ran low he went to
work as day laborer.
Rev. William Walsh, of st. Bridget's
parish, st. Louis, celebrated the thirty
fifth anniversary of his ordination to the
priesthood and the twenty fifth ann;Tar-
sary of his pastorate of ST. Bridget'>.
His parishioners presented him with {
purse of $500.
On June 30 competitive examination
will be held at the Webster school, st.
Louis, the reward of the successful con-
testant being an appointment to the
United States Naval Academy.
Timothy NJ. Freeman, ageo seventy-six,
recently endeavored to obtain q divorce
from his wife, aged sixty, in Judge
Slover's court at Kansas City. The Judge,
however, acted as mediator. healed the
breach, and the old couple went away
promising each other to forget the past.
The State encampment CO the Sons of
Veterans, at its recent meeting i'll st.
Louis, elected the following officers:
Colonel, R. Loebenstein, of Warrens-
burg; Lieutenant-Colonel,E E. T. J. Gold
smith, of st. Joseph; Major, H. L. Ora
ham, of st. Louis, and for members of
the division council, j. Higgins, of Pal
myra, and Joseph Brennan and VIM. Nei-
bert, OF st. Louis. B. w. Frauenthal. of
st. Louis, was elected representatives
large to the National encampment to be
held at Paterson, n. j., in September,
andpH. j. Kline, of st. Joseph, and S. F.
Church, of Bethany, as delegates to the
same body.
Dean Sanborn is at last cast off by the
board of curators of the State University
and no longer has official connection With
the State Agricultural College farm.
State Auditor Seibert has been officially
notified by the executive committee of the
board to that effect, and also that the ex-
ecutive committee has been empowered
to use legal means to GUST Sanborn from
the State premises if he does not at onco
move out.
The case against O:to L. Dierberger,
who killed John Horn, an Euglishman, at
Rock Springs, on the Queens birthday,
May Is, 1888, was finally settled in the
Criminal Court at st. Louis, recently, by
his pleading guilty to manslaughter in the
fourth degree and receiving a sentence Of
one year in Jail and a fine of LOCO. The
6ne was paid Immediately and Dier-
berger went to Jail. He was tried three
times and convicted twice of murder in
the first degree and brought both times
uncomfortably close to the scaffold.
The eleven elevators in st. Louis have
been consolidated under one manage
ment. The deal represents $1,000. 900.
The quarterly reports from the G.. A. r.
posts in Missouri and Kansas for the
quarter ending March 81 have been re-
ceived, and the figures contained therein
will, no doubt, be a surprise for many
Grand Army men. 1t appears that Mis-
souri, can now boast Il, 249 members of the
G. A. R., while Kansas, heretofore in the
lead, makes showing of 1879 less.
Prof. j. L. Holloway, principal of
Broadway public schools, at Sedalia, has
rendered his resignation to accept the
principalship of the Fort Smith city
schools at a salary of 81, 800.
Among the many attractions Of great
interest in store for visitors to the st.
Louis Exposition next fall will be a ''uni-
versal electrical exhibition"
Mrs. Laura Rose, aged forty, is in Jail
for horse-stealing at st. Joseph. A few
days ago she stole horse and b,ggy in .
crowded part of town and drove away
with it. She was arrested in Sabetha,
kas. Her story is that she wished to
draw attention to herself and her mis-
fortunes.
Lieutenant Watkins, OF the Signal
Service, whose actions in connection with
Sergeant Weber, in charge OF the sta
ton at st. Louis, has called forth the
derision of press and people Of that city,
has been transferred to Cincinnati.
The Missouri Blind Asylum having
closed for the summer number of the
pupils have left for their homes in West
ern and Northwestern Missouri