Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-10

4 liz AOutucehS6 AlSSOuf1 Holiness AS
ISOLATION, a non-sectarian organization
will begin camp-meeting neal
DeLassus on the St. Francois River
August 18th, and remain in session
about two weeks. Some of the mos
noted preachers in the country will be
In attendance, and a big meeting is ex
pected
The case of State vs.. VIM. Haefne,
will be tried at the Wayne county cir
| cult court which is in session at Green
vile this week. Haefner made an as
sault on Fritz Warncke near Annapolis
about two years ago and was indicted
for an assault with intent to kill The
case was taken on change of venue to
! Wayne county.
! A. j. Zwart arrived home last week
on Il short vacation. He came direct
from Denver and gives some interest
ing facts in connection with the finan-
ciai crisis out West. From Monday
until Thursday there were thirteen
bank failures in Denver; one dry goods
house went under for $3.50, 900: two
lumber firms aggregating million;
liabilities of from s.. 900 to $4,000.
The colored people had quite q time
In Ironton on August +. The eXcur-
sion train from Poplar Bluff, composed
OF three coaches, arrived about one
O'Clock and then the grand march to
Goulding's Park commenced. The
band made music and the streets were
swarmed. The picknicking continued
all day and ball at night concluded
the festivities. The attendance was
hardly as large as had been anticipat-
ed
A deed of trust was filed in the re-
corder's Office last week giving a first
Big Muddy Coal and Iron Company,
situated in Iron, Madison, st. Francois
and Jefferson counties. The St. Louis
Trust Company is trustee and the
mortgage is to secure the payment of
100000 thirty year six per cent.
bonds. The money, it is understood
will be used in operating the coal
mines in Jackson county, Illinois.
A number of ladies from De Soto
are domiuciled in the Pike cottage
in Arcadia, and intend spending the
remainder of the heated term in
the Valley. Among the party are,
Mesdames A. H. Hinchey, VIM. Far
rar, d. Hardy, j. +. Green, Roude-
bush, j. d. Barth, and one or two 9TH
ers whose names are not learned.
The REGISTER trusts that their sojOurn
may be a most pleasant one, free from
all the annoyances and deliberations
sterner sex.
How great a summer resort the |
Valley might be made is evidenced by |
each years increasing request by city |
residents for refuge during the heated |
term. The accommodations are by 20 |
means adequate to the demand. and |
consequently hundreds of people swelt-
ering in the confines of St. Louis and |
elsewhere are forced to resort to more |
distant but not more desirable points. |
Here the air is good, the waters are
pure, and all healthful conditions
abound. IT'S pity that we can't extend |
a more general welcome to outsiders to |
come and share them.
CITY OF JEFFERSON, August l, 1898.
WIN. A. FLETCHER, Clerk County Court,
IrontOn No.:
DEAR SIR-Munceford Underwood,
convicted of the crime of manslaughter
in the second degree and sentenced to
five years Imprisonment in the State
has been found and.declar-
ed to be insane. Accordingly, under the
provisions of Section 4247, X. S., 1889,
| have directed the Warden of the PEN
itentiary to convey and delivered said
convict to the Superintendent of Lun
attic Asylum No. l, at Fulton. The
expenses of maintaining the convict in
said Asylum, you will observe by refer
ence to said section, are to be borne by
your county. Please to notify the
court accordingly.
Respectfully.
VIM. j. STONE, Governor"
The foregoing letter received by the
County Clerk last Thursday explains
itself. Underwood last winter shot a
tramp below Annapolis; when the case
came up for trial in the April term of
the circuit court Prosecuting Attorney
Jordan agreed to accept a plea of
guilty and punishment at five years in
the penitentiary, for the reason that he
did not believe Underwood of sound
mind. There was considerable COM
plant at the time from the South End
over Mr. Jordan's action, but subse-
suent events prove that he at least
saved the county the large bill of costs
consequent on a murder trial, and if the
Ease had been tried the defen 1ant's at
would certainly have establish
ed his insanity. Iron county will have
to pay Underwood's expenses at the
asylum unless it can be proven that he
was not a resident of the county ayear
previous to his arrest.
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