Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-02-12
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different lodges comprising the Southeast
Missouri Association of 1. o. o. F. was held
in Bismarck last Monday for the purpose OF
determining the time and place of holding
this years convention. Ironton was chosen
and the Association convenes on the 18th
day Of April next, as the guest of Iron
Lodge, No. 107. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: F. r. Order,
President, Bismarck; W. V. Leech, Vice.
President, Cape Giraroesu; Fl. D. Ledbet-
ter, Secretary, Farmingtou; Rob't Tetley,
Treasurer, Pennington.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Geo. W. Eakle, of
st. Louis. arrived in this city last Tuesday
evening en- route to Centreville whittier he
was bound for the purpose Of arresting one
w. G. Howell, who resides on a farm q
couple of miles from the Reynolds county
seat. Mr.. Eakle next day mace the trip
overland to CentreviIle, secured his prisoner
and returned to Ironton in time to catch No.
"a Thursday for St. Louis. Howell was
wanted for robbing stage coach out near
Denver in August last and there was re-
| ward of 500 for him. He is q native of Rey-
nolds, but has spent great deal of his time
out West and had only lately returned home.
| When taken before the Federal authorities
in st. Louis Howell strongly maintained his
| innocence, and said he could easily prove an
| alibi as soon as they reached Denver. Ac-
| companied by a couple of Federal guards
the prisoner was taken West Saturday night
The disgust of the "kids" resulting upon
the recently enacted cigarette law is not con-
fined to the big cities; here in Ironton their
views are just as pronounced and their GEN.
sure as forcibly expressed. For their com
fort and encouragement we quote para
graph from that great newspaper, the New
York San: "Five thousand OF the bootblacks
and newsboys of ST. Louis sent to the Mis-
| souri, House of Representatives a remon-
| STRANGE against the bill prohibiting the sale
| OF tobacco and cigarettes to miners under II,
| but the wiseacres of the House passed the
bill all the same. The young shoe artists
| and newspaper merchants of St. Louis
| needn't despair. The New York Legislat-
| ure has been guilty of a somewhat similar
bill, but the cigarette continues to tickle the
nostrils and decorate the fingers of little
wanton boys. There are good many laws
passed for the sake of being passed, and not
with any rational expectation that they will
ever be enforced. So full of humbug is this
amusing old planet"
Mr.. Botsford, well known TO many persons
of this locality, as having bored many Of the
deep wells for the St. Louis Ore and Steel
Company at Pilot Knob, has been having a
new experience IN his line. He is now in
st. Louis. and city paper says of his recent
work: "It is not often that we'll is bored
1 no of huf hot ia w
has Just occurred at jeremiah Murphy's pork
house on Jefferson avenue and Morgan street.
There was no room on the lot for the der
rick, SO the boring apparatus. weighing
twenty tons, was hoisted to the top of the
building and the drill was sent down
through holes cut in the roof, ceilings and
floors. The we'll is 5A inches IN diameter
and 1900 feet deep from the bottom of the
cellar. The drill passed through So feet of
clay, then through 1890 feet of limestone and
shale, and last through IS feet of white sand
stone. Through this stratum the water
clear and fresh-percolates and rises to the
floor of the pork house cellar. The fact of
fresh water being obtained is the most re-
markable feature about this well, for all
other artesian wells of equal depth in st.
Louis yield sulphur water.'
Last Friday night, about zen O'Clock, Chas.
E. Dennison and Thomas Gallagher, both
from the somewhat celebrated West End. |
went into the little store owned and run by |
Mrs. N. j. Riley, near the depot, and Gala
CHER made some trifing purchase. He |
handed quarter dollar to Mrs. R., who re- |
turned him, as she claims, the correct change. |
He declared she didn't, and, he and Denni- |
son being considerably elevated through the |
cup which cheers and also inebriates, the |
deScensus into q row was as facile as the |
famed pathway leading into that abode whose |
"welcome" above the door is surmounted by |
another elegant piece of tambourwork adj |
juring the guests to eliminate from mind |
and memory that phanta>m said to spring |
eternal In the human breast. After jangling |
about this matter of "change" for few |
minutes, the men were induced to go outside |
and the proprietress shut the door and lock- |
ed it upon them. But the cooler atmosphere |
Of the outer world cleared somewhat the |
muddled senses Of Messrs. Dennison and |
Gallagher, and they came to the unanimous |
conclusion that they wouldn't give it up so, |
Mr.. Browp," and therefore determined to |
return into the house-peaceably II they |
could, forcibly if they must. A gentle knock |
on the door was unanswered, and heavier |
poundings produced no better result. Then |
they kicked the door open, entered, and in |
loud, emphatic language gave Mrs. r. their |
opinion of her and her house, and, with |
divers strange, unnatural oaths, expressed |
their determination to do certain things |
therein before exult ant Sol again kissed the |
blusbing hills and shrinking wales of Sweet |
Arcadia. Whereupon Marshal Patton was !
quietly sent for, and 10 due time came, saw, |
and took in the scene and the "bad men from |
Bitter Creek" Next day trial for disturb. |
ance of the peace was had, under the auspi- |
ces of Mayor Gay, and before jury of six |
men, viz: III. NJ Collins, Jno. Left, II. Ding |
er, Thomas Jones, Jno. Elliott and Frank |
WEIGH. Six witnesses were produced for |
the City, and about double that number for |
the defence-the latter's function being |
merely to prove the character of the pros |
ecuting witness. Prosecuting Attorney Jor- ,
dan conducted the case on behalf Of the city, |
and MIR. j. b. Walker defended the two |
detectives from Omaha" The trial began at |
two O'Clock in the afternoon, and the iron |
tongue of time tolled the eleventh hour ere |
the end was reached. The witnesses testif- |
ed-when they were allowed to-the lawyers |
auarreled, and the Mayor ruled on questions |
Nho 49, no CHARGED |