Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

family reunion was held at the residenc
of his son, Mr.. Garland Graham, witt
whom he makes his home. Genera
Graham has lived in Lexington for nearl,
sixty years.
By the death of Oliver Ditson, which
occurred recently, Mr.. Charles Balmer, o
st. Louis, becomes the oldest musi
publisher and music dealer now living
These two veterans, in their respective
! localities, have seen many ups and down:
. in the music business.
/ Ex-Captain of Police Charles Ditsch, o
| Kansas City, was found dead few day!
ago in Union Cemetery. He was lying
! on his daughters grave, with a ghastly
! bullet wound in the head, while a murder
/ ous-loOking 44-caliber revolver told the
| rest of the story. He had charge of the
i funds of the Police Relief Association
and his suicide is supposed to be due tt
! his being short il his accounts.
| Governor Morehouse has granted res.
t pites to William Walker and John Mat
! thews, the Christian County Bald Knob.
! bers sentenced by tie Supreme Court tc
/ be hanged, the first named on December
| 2s and the last January IL. The respite is
! until Friday, February L., at which time
! Wiley Matthews, another of the Bale
! knObberS, has been sentenced to hang
! Judge Hubbard, who tried the Bald Knot
! cases, asked for the respite, stating in
! his letter to the Governor that he would
! in due time seek to secure n communication
! of all these sentences to life terms in the
Penitentiary.
i Jack Wright, shiftiess negro, was ia.
! tally cut in st. Louis, few days ago, by
; his wife, whom he had been abusing.
! Myer A. Rosenblatt, a well-known St
, Louisan, died at his home in that city, a
few nights ago, aged forty seven years.
He was one of the pioneer Republican
politicians of the State.
! The secret service of the Missouri Pa
! cific system will cease to exist after Jan.
uary l, and Thomas j. Furlong will have
to seek new field of operations.
! John Knoch, a young German nineteen
years of age, living with his widowed
mother, sister and older brother in st.
Louis, was accidentally shot and fatally
wounded by his brother Fred, Il few nights
ago. The two boys were the only support
of the family, and the blow is a severe one
to them all.
Frederick Botleher, German sixty two
years of age, dropped dead in st. Louis, a
few days ago while walking along the
street. His body was picked up and re-
moved to the morgue, where it was taken
: in charge by his family. The deceased
was a shoemaker by trade.
The funeral of Police Captain Detsch,
the man who recently committed suicide
at Kansas City, on his daughters grave,
was a sad affair. The inquest developed
the fact that Detsch had squandered not
alone the bulk of the police relief fund,
but the money given him in trust by
Frank MILFORD, the Quincy imam whose
postponed marriage recently occasioned
, considerable talk.
Robert NJ VOSt for the n q two
city editor of the st. Louis Republic, has
accepted the chief clerkship under Alex.
Lassueuer, the newly elected Secretary
of State, to take effect within the next
two weeks. Mr.. YOst has been in the
newspaper profession fifteen years, and
has MANY friends in st. Louis and
throughout the State.
AS Moses Wright, a fifteen-year-o
boy, was passing the corner of Fourteenth
and Vine streets, Kansas City, on his way
home, few nights ago, man ordered
him to hold up his hands and almost i'm
mediately afterward fired at him. The
bullet entered to the right of the right eye
and came out near the ear. The wound is
not necessarily fatal. The miscreant es-
capped and the boy does not know whether
he was white man negro.
Jailer Callahan at ST. Louis furnished
the Jail prisoners with a Christmas repast
eft for the kings,'' as one of the impris-
oned law breakers put ii. The prisoners
were informed early in the day by the
guards to prepare for big dinner, and
that they prepared" was attested by the
fact that but little remained to be taken
back to the kitchen after the feast.
The Harmonic Verein, the oldest Ger
man society in Sedalia, recently celebrat-
ed the opening of its hall, built on the site
of the Opera house, which was burned on
the morning of the Sth of January last,
with dramatic representation, followed
by dance.
A heavy sleet-storm, followed by a very
cold atmosphere, few nights ago, caused
incalculable damage to the electric light
and telephone wires in and about Kansas
City.
Police Sergeant James A. Earl, of the
Second district, st. Louis, received at his
residence, a few nights ago, by mail, a
seal ring, set with seven diamonds, of the
value of $50. There was nothing to
identify the sender.
Ferdinand, the two months -Old child of
John F. NicOlay, residing in st. Louis,
was found dead in bed a few mornings
since. An inquest developed that soffo-
cation was the cause of death, the child
having evidently been smothered to death
some time during the night with the bed
clothes. A verdict IN accordance with
the above facts was rendered.
The thirty-ffth General Assembly of
Missouri will convene at Jefferson City
on Wednesday, January >, at noon.
James Mansfield was shot and killediby
John CullisOn on the steps of the Baptist
Church, two miles east of Jackson, a few
nights ago, in view of the congregation.
There had been Il Chris tmaS tree and the
sermon had just ended, when Mansfield
stepped to the door. Cullison and Jeffer-
son Taylor, who had left the building
moment before, lifted their pistols with
out word and the first one fired the ball,
striking the victim in the left breast and
seems to have failed at the last moment,
as he did not shoot. After the murder
had been committed both took to the
woods and, at last accounts, had not been
captured. An old feud existed between the
murderer and his victim, owing to some
defamatory remarks made by the first
about the latter's daughter. The murder
is regarded as cold blooded and without
Now prepare your swear-off schedule.
Judge E. N. Norton, Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court, left for his home in Platte
County to spend Christmas. He sat for
the last time on the supreme bench, as his
term of office will expire before the court
meets again.
William Woods, the negro whose SEN
tence was affirmed in the Supreme Court
a few days since, was taken from st. Louis
to Jefferson City, few days ago, to serve
his term of forty EIGHT years in the peni-
Tertiary for the murder OF Joseph Hunter
There are I.S27 convicts in the State