Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Important to Fislermcp.

MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Important to Fishermen.
II JEFFERSON CRY. March 2o.-The ser
ate has passed the house bill to proven
the destruction of fish with explosive,
II Inc senate added an amendment permittiu
persons to take fish for their own families wit
seins or box-nets from waters upon or adioi,
tne tneir land, and this amendment was col
CURED In by the house. The bill is regarded q
very strong one, and it Is believed that
VIII prevent the wholesale Destruction Of f1s
by the use OF dynamite Dealers i'm exnlosive
are required to obtain q permit to sell explt
slves and make afidavit not to sell the sam
Ior the purpose of killing fssi,, and like anlds
VII Is required from persons who purchase ex
poslVes. violation OF the law is made
ielony, punishable by from thirty DAYS. lail sen
tence to two years Imprisonment In the peni
Tertiary. f---
Cochran's Election Bill Passes the House
JEFFERSON CITY, March Ex-senator
Cochran's bill to prevent corruption
ana oribing at elections has passed the
| house.
| The bin only requires the signature Of the
governor TO become law. The act was care
iuiiy prepared, and 1t passed both houses by
practlcally unanimous vote. It is similar in ali
important respects to the New York bill.
Inose who took SO much interest in advocating
bribery ana corruption in the matter of cleo.
lions ana go o long way toward purifying poll.
tics. 1t is not doubted but what the governor
win sign the bill.
State Prison Fuel Contracts.
The board of prison inspectors has
awarded contracts for furnishing the
prison with coal and wood for the en-
suing year.
The T.eY
was awarded the coal contract at q. 40 per tom
Inc wood contract for Is, 600 cords was award.
cd 70 John Marshall, OF Usage City, Cole couu.
", at $2.s4 per cord.
Three Important House Me.aur.e.
JEFFERSON CITY. March 1s.-Gov.
Stone has approved three important
measures
One provides for o constitutional amendment
TO empower county courts to levy fifteen cents
on the &lOO valuation for road purposes The
amendment Is to be voted upon next Noyem
Der Another is the firemen's BILL and the
third is Speaker Mabrey's bill for the regula.
ZION OF the Charges of express companies
Vetoed by the Governor.
Gov. Stone has returned to the house
without his approval the bill repeating
the township organization law.
The law is now in force in sixteen counties
me message Is quite lengthy The governo,
objects to the bill chiefly because the counties
can dispose OF the law without aid from the
legislature at any time.
A Postmistress' Trouble.
Postmistress Mahala Medley, of Lo-
"a, Jefferson county, was arrested and
AIKEN to st. Louis by United States
Oeputy Marshal Williams on the charge
II opening and reading letter written
" Hugh R. Lloyd. a school-teacher, &c
young lady in the vicinity.
Found a "Fence."
The Kansas City police have un-
arthed big fence" and the value of 3
tolen property unearthed can only be
stimated; it runs into the thousands. :
everal arrests have been made. The
hieves had agents on The road selling r
heir plumber p
Death of an Old Citizen. n
Gen. j. A. Graham, aged 81 years.
led at Lexington the other day. Z,
zen. Graham was born In New York but re. Il
owed to Lafayette county in 1929 He was a T
emher OF the party who laid out Lexington c,
TO lots In 1884 and was the Oldest resident of IL
lafayette county. *
Want to be District Attorney. 81
So far as heard from there are TWEEN. in
-one candidates for the appointment Pr
district attorney for the Western a,
strict of Missouri, and twentv-seyen
r the Eastern. ye
Fear Leprosy. pc
Hop Lee, proprietor of Chinese en- en-
lndry in Kansas City, lies at the "a
int of death in his misera BILE apart ap
.nts, and the neighbors think he has tic
,rosy. WI
May They be Happy. 10
1mmet Bouldin, wealthy young j
'mer of Pettis county, was welded of
, other day to Miss Sallie ID. Smith, ere
aghter of James d. Smith, of Nelson, gu
pa
Entombed Almost n Year. VI
he body of James Hamlin. entombed to
a cavern in the Carterville mines. of
ro ,th.,., =: bal
= W. o'nerS remain IN the mines. list
Barn aud Contents Consumed w..
t an early hour the other morning J
barn of A. F. McCray, 5 miles north So
OF Cowgirl, Caldwell county, was Io1
troyed by fire with all its contents, an an
Electricity Will Kill. nnS
ott1ieb Lemp, of st. Louis. while St
ing to start an electric light near the
home. which had gone out, touched gar ean
We wire and was instantly killed. for
To Break Her Mothers VIII. sta,
RS Meta Knecht has begun suit in pre-
sas City to break her mothers will. and
Knecht's mother disinherited her, ys,
ing an estate valued at IS 5000. tryi
for
Be St0ckman Browns Murdorers | nre,
ne St Louis police have arrested plos
e men on suspicion of being con- sve
ed with the murder of Stockman vat
vn. Two have been identified. pal
lie
Mr.. Tarsnev's Health. HI
March 15-Representa- nc
Tarsney. of Missouri, has SO far re- itenr
red that he is able to be about, and pen,
soon be able to leave the city. sess
hold
Death of Missouris Oiae.t sT., and
| hons