Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-27

The fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the first Evangelical Lutheran Church
in st. Louis, in 1889, was duly celebrated
by the various Lutheran Evangelical con-
gregations in that city few days ago.
Mr.. A. w. Waters, an investment bro
ker, room IS, New England building, Kan
sas City, was robbed, a few mornings ago,
of bonds of the value of $3.50 by an I'M
known person.
AT Lexington, few nights ago. W. T.
Mitchel's carpenter shop was entered
and brace and bit stolen, with which an
entrance was made into L. Gilen's hard
ware store and several pistols stolen.
The next night an entrance was made in
to the Missouri Pacific depot, a hole
drilled into the safe, filled with powder,
and the door blown completely out. The
burglars did not secure over twenty-five
dollars. Detective Tut. of the Missouri
Pacific railway, is working on the case,
and the proba abilities are that the raids
now being made on Lexington will soon
stop.
A few days ago two children of Edward
Bachus. farmer of Roster, small
village fifty miles south of Kansas City,
on the Kansas line, went to a creek about
a mile from home to fish. Upon their
failing to return at night, searching
parties were organized, and the next day
their bones were found near ledge that
had long been known as VOLTS den. A
band of timber wolves had used this Sec
ton for years, and it is thought the chill
dren were killed and eaten by the ami
mails. The boys were aged ten and twelve
years.
Delegates chosen from the several
townships to form a county central COM
mittee on finance and provisions prepar-
atory to the eX-Conf ederate and Mexican
veteran reunion. TO be held in
August, met at Higginsville, a
few days since. Colonel H. j. Higgins
was made president, DR.. w. c. Webb,
secretary, and Captain A. E. Asbury.
treasurer. This completes the organiza-
ton of a committee of forty in the coun-
ty, five in each of the eight townships,
whose duty it is to see that all necessary
provisions and funds are raised for the
reunion locally.
The State Pharmaceutical Association,
at its recent session at Pertle Springs,
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President, c. c. Corcoran,
Kansas City; vice -president, Otto Claus,
st. Louis; second vice president j.
Davis, Bowling Green; permanent secre-
tary, Charles Klie, st. Louis; council, Q.
w. Sennewald, st. Louis; chairman, j. l..
Davis, Bowling Green; W. E. Bord, Sc
dalia; H. A. Coffee, Carthage; F. K. DIM
NIT, Kansas City.
F. r. Hill, of st. Louis, was declared
the winner of the A. l.. P. Green medal.
for the best hymn and Scripture reading,
offered by the board of trustees of Van
derbilt University at Nashville. Tenn.
The United States grand jury returned
thirty indictments into the United States
District Court at ST. Louis in one day re-
norton of thaSQ indicfmpntE
were in what are known as the election
cases, wherein the parties are charged
with procuring false naturalization pa.
pers.
John Sharpless. a farm laborer about
twenty nine years of age, died of hydro
phobia at the City hospital at Kansas
City, recently.
A four year-ol daughter of Mike Har-
rigan, of st. Louis, fell into kettle of
boiling water a few days ago, and died
after suffering intense agony.
William La Faivre died recently after
long and wearing illness, at Vallejo, Cal.
He was formerly resident of st. Louis,
and was a native of Missouri, aged sixty
years, and an Odd Fellow. He leaves a
wife, son, and three daughters-Mrs.
and Mrs. Frank Carlton, all living in Cal
ifornia.
MIR. Coddington, Colonel S. n. Stewards
pontoon bridge foreman, arrived at
Lexington, a few days ago. and selected
the yards in which to build the boats and
unloaded the lumber for the new pontoon
bridge. Experienced workmen from
Leavenworth have also arrived. Mr.. Cod
dington says the bridge will be running
August Is.
st. Louis gives an annual industrial ex-
position that would make the people of
Chicago feel ashamed of themselves were
they able to see it alongside of the mise--
able Cheap-John show held on the lake
shore here every autumn. The fact is We
do not give an exposition at all. Were II
not for the advertising displays our meT.
chants make the thing would have played
out ten years ago.-Chicago Times.
OF the 2,sS3 prisoners who formed tbs
State prison population during the bieH-
NAL terms of 1sS5-1SS6 and 1ss7-1sSS there
were sent up for grand larceny 1,005; fol
burglary and larceny, 172; for burglary
in the second degree, 227; for larceny
from dwellings, 1872, and only 15s for az.
sault to kill