Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-08
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
A Few Facts.


There We're S.4O9 deaths in ST. Louis
last year: 5000 in 1889 There We're 49,
900 births; IL. 1914 in 1889. In 1890 sales
OF stamps and postal cards aggregated
S9,S13. 1921. There were 13.s20.667
| pounds of mail handled, S7.S2S. % in
! ternal revenue collected. Real-estate
| transfers aggregated S44.26S, 400. and
| 20.247 deeds were filed for record: as
| sessed valuation increased $4,000, 900.
| There We're 1859 marriage licenses
| granted. There were 100000 barrels
| of beer made. and S16 900. 600 cubic feet
| of gas consumed. Over S13, 900, 900 was
| expended in new buildings, and per-
mits We're issued to erect 2.665 brick and
1929 frame structures. During 1889
value of buildings erected, 50, 900.
Went Out with the Old Year.
John \. Calvin. aged fifty, was killed
| in St Louis in very peculiar manner.
| He lived in the second story. and when
| the bells began to ring on the advent of
| the new year, he opened his window
| and leaned out. His neigh Dor. John L.
| Greasly. who lives on the first floor,
| stepped out and fired his pistol into the
| air. and the bullet struck Calvin in the
| forehead. He died within a few min
utes. The two men We're good friends,
and the killing was purely accidental.
Greasy gave himself up to the police.
Why They Struck.
| About one hundred men employed by
the Beattie Manufacturing Company of
| st. Louis. makers of hardwood ca binet
work. struck against the posting of
sign announcing that the men would be
locked for failure to appear at seven
O'Clock. They had no objection to the
rule. but objected to its being hung up
| IL. the work rooms.
| y Generous Request.
| Mr. Fayerweather. of New York. has
settled a bequest of 500 900 upon Park
| College. Platte County. under the con-
troll of the Presbyterian church. The
school was established in 1875 on small
scale. 1t now has 325 pupils enrolled,
which. with the faculty assistants. etc,
make the present number about 400.
y Fugitive's Misfortune.
Charles Bailey and iIubbell Read. who
escaped from the Boonville Reform
| School Christmas eve, We're arrested at
Sedalia and returned. Bailey and Read
had got lost in their fight from Boon
vile in a snow-storm. Bailey's feet
We're frozen so badly he could not walk,
and a1nputation will be necessary.
! Pardoned by the Governor.
Governor Francis has granted a par
don to James Griffin. on the recon-
mendation of the prison physician and
Board of Prison Inspectors. He came
from Mcdonald County in February,
1889. under sentence of ten years for
murder in the second degree. He is
nearly dead from consumption.
Fatal Curiosity.
John Murphy. farmer ten miles
north of st. Joseph. received proba bly,
! fatal in iures while riding on an electric
! car in st. Joseph. Murphy leaned out
on one side of the car to see what made
it move. and was struck by car going
in an opposite direction, thrown off and
badly injured.
Dropped Dead.
Mrs. Elenora BOuldin. well-known
cOlOred school teacher Of Sedalia. while
attending a reception at a neighbours
| house. fell dead of heart disease. She
was sister of Prof. Inman Page. prin-
cipal of Lincoln Institute. jefferson
City.
| Conference of Missouri Judges.
The annual conference of Missouri
Judges was held at jefferson City few
| DAYS ago. The conclusions arrived at
by the discussions as to merits and de-
merits and deficiencies in statutes will
De recommended to the Legislature.
Fire in a ReformatOry.
Some small buildings connected with
the st. Lous house of refuge We're de-
stroyed by fire early the other morning.
The prompt appearance of the guards
and instructors prevented a panic
among the youthful inmates.
| Death of Mrs. Fuller.
Mrs. Susan Fuller. aged eighty-two
years. died at her home in Sedalia the
other morning. Mrs. Fuller was the
mother of Lieutenant Ezra Fuller, of
the Famous Seventh Cavalry, United
| States army.
some Work of the Fish Commission.
The distributing car of the Missouri
Fish Commission few days ago depos-
tied 5000 young bass and croppie in
Black river. About 5000 young crop
pie and bass were turned loose in Cur
| rent river.
To Fight the Binder Trust.
A movement is now on foot by the
Farmers Alliance of Missouri to estab
lish a cooperative binder factory in com
petition with the $50. 000.00 CONSOLE
dated Am erican Harvester Company.
Robbers and Counterfeit Money.
hand IF nrOfaSSiODa1 robberS are nj