Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13
Miscellaneous Items.

| SENATE OIL amending the law RETAILING 10
appointment of stenographerS IN St. Louis.
| Miscellaneous Items.
The Olive street cable line in ST. Louis
has been completed to Forest Park.
A. D. Goettling, a st. Louis saloon.
keeper. committed suicide by blowing his
brains out with a revolver.
George L. Bowers, bill clerk for G. A.
Murdoch & Co., Kansas City, was shot in
the left side, few mornings ago, by G
burglar whom he found in his room
When he awoke h saw the burglar going
through the window. He sprang after the
burglar, and grappled with him in the
yard. The burglar fired four shots at him
one of which took effect. He was in q
critical condition. The burglar escaped.
Ollie jenkins, the fourteen-year old
son of Thomas jenkins, living two miles
east of Longwood, Pettis County, met
with a horrible accident few days since.
He was in tree, which an older brother
was in the act of telling with an axe. Oh
lie jumped from the tree just in time to
receive a full blow from the axe on the
left shoulder blade, penetrating to the
lung. The boy was taken home and
physicians called, but there was little
hope of his recovery.
Eta Balm, aged fifteen years. and en-
ployed as a servant by William Carpen-
ter, of Avalon, attempted, it IS charged
to burn her employers house few morn
ings ago, by means of coal oil, and when
detected made a confession and then
| swallowed a big dose of carbolic acid.
| Two ounces of sweet-oil were forced down
her throat and physician called, but at
last accounts she was reported dying.
She was undoubtedly insane.
ST. Louis is going slow in the matter of
rendering aid to the stricken Pennsyl
vanians, but expects to get place in the
| column.
Frank James, the x-Missouri bandit,
| visited st. Louis and took in the races.
Judge 7. 7. CAN'T, the we'll known at
torney, and one Of st. Louis most promi-
nent citizens, is lying very sick at his
residence, 1905 Lucas Place, with the odds
of recovery, so state his friends, against
him. Judge CAN'T is we'll advanced i'll
years.
! Mrs. Julia Harry, sixty-fve years of
age. died, while on her knees praying by
her bedside, at her residence in st. Louis,
few evenings ago. The deceased was
| the mother of Rev. J. J. Harry, pastor of
! St. Leo's Church. She had been suffering
| for some time with heart disease, and
| that was the probable cause of her sud-
| den death.
The recent law passed by the Legisla-
| ture concerning trusts, combines, etc, on
all classes of goods has had the effect Of
| breaking up quite a number of associa-
| tons of Missouri river wholesalers in
different lines of business.
| While William Higgins, laborer at
| Pohlman's livery stable, in ST. Louis, was
working in the hay loft, few days ago,
he lost his balance and fell headforemost
into the alley, thirty feet, breaking his
neck and dying instantly. He was forty
five years of age and married.
While carrying lunch to John Cone,
who was working on raft in the river at
st. Louis, few days since, William
Cone, the father CT John Cone, and Fred
Cone, q son of the latter, fell into the
river. John Cone succeeded in saving his
father, but his son Fred was drowned.
Henry Messman, a carpenter, was found
dead in the rear yard at his boarding
place in st. Louis a few days ago. He
was bruised and bleeding freely, and an
investigation showed that he had fallen
from the window of his room on the
third floor. He was seen under the in
huence of liquor only two hours before he
was found.
The ST. Louis letter. carriers report
shows very large increase in the amount
of mail handled, compared with the
amount handled for the same month of
last year. The report shows an increase
of 1895, $50 in the number of letters COL
lected and an increase of S64, 006 in the
number of mail matter collected and de-
livered. The business for May this year
averaged fully one-fourth larger than the
business for May last year.
The June crop report of the State Board
of Agriculture shows that the condition
ne VIII oil o.,%r. 81,
month of May, being now 80 instead of SO
May 1. The decline in condition is prin-
cipally in Southern Miss ouri, and is due
to dry weather up to May 20 in Southeast
Missouri and the ravages of chinch- bugs,
excess of rain in Southwest Missouri,
which is causing rust. and the Hessian
fly. Chinch-bugs are very numerous
throughout large portion of the State,
but the late general rains are keeping
them in check. The condition of the oats
is 80; meadows, 95; pastures, SO. Acreage
Of corn planted, SO; cotton, 1903; fax, 90;
tobacco, 80. Condition OF apples, 20;
peaches, 95: grapes, 90; small fruits, 95
Light frosts the nights of May 80 and
81 were quite general, but did little dam
age.
Information was received recently of
the death Of Captain II. L. Aldrich, editor
and publisher of the Western Insurance
Review of st. Louis. at Hillsdale, Kas.
Captain Aldrich had been ill for more
than year, much of 1.-THE time suffering
most intensely from what was probably
cancer of the stomach.
Louis Diffenbach was shot and killed in
st. Louis, a few evenings since, by John
S. Kelley. The latter had been defaming
the character Of Mrs. Walters, a mar
ried woman, and Diffenbach was in the
act Of chastising Kelley when the tragedy
occurred.
A new post-office has been established
at Medill's. Clark County, with Ellsworth
a Toben as postm aster.
The Scottish Clans of st. Louis will give
their eleventh annual picnic and games
at the fair grounds at Belleville, ILL.,, on
Thursday, July f. They announce that
upwards of $500 will be given in prizes,
and the programme, which is a lengthy
one, includes all kids of athletic games.
Judge James E. Munford, well-known
in st. Louis for the past forty years, died
at his residence on Washington avenue, a
few days ago, very suddenly. He was in .
his seventy eighth year, and previous to
his death had enjoyed very good health
Edward Domey, wealthy farmer, aged
fifty-nine years, dropped dead at hotel
in Chillicothe, just after eating dinner.
He was stricken with paralysis a year
ago.