Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-14
MISSOURI cuLLiNGS.

h.l, by falling into the river.
The president has nominated John 8
Smith to be postmaster of Osceola.
Four young men were graduated g.
the Missouri Valley college, Marsha:
the other day.
John M. Klien. German farmer
who resided miles cast of Chillicothe
dropped dead of heart failure.
Thomas c. Watson committed suicide
in st. Louis by taking a dose of car
bolic acid. He was plumber.
William Taylor, one of the Linn coun
ty fugitive murderers, has forfeited {
$1,000 bond by falling to appear il
court for trial on charge of arson.
The secretary of state has received
official notice of the increase of the
capital stock of the Farmers bank Of
Charlton county from $40, 900 to $25, 600
Allen Stanton, aged 81, born and
reared in st. Louis, and said to have
been on adjutant of Gen. Winfield
Scott in the Mexican war died in st.
Louis of old age.
Rev. David VIM, who is also tin
ner, has been missing from Randolph
county since May 8. He had 500 with
him, and it is feared that he has
deserted his family.
Sheriff Lewis arrived at Fayette the
other day from Glasgow with Manuel
STREET., aged 1s, colored, who is charged
with having fatally shot Richard Carl,
a farmer near Glasgow.
New post offices: McIlroy, Riply coun-
ty, VIM. T. McIlroy, postmaster; Rose
VILE, Greene county j ohm B. Thompson,
postmaster; Shaw, Boone county,
Thornton Stewart, postmaster.
Rev. L. L. Overman, of Ohio, has ac-
cepted the call to the pastorate of
Bethany Presbyterian church, st. Louis.
Bethany church is to be known in fu-
ture as the Page boulevard church.
Mr.. w. d. Merrill, of Everett, Mass,
and Miss Minnie L. Fox, of Milan, Mo-,
were married the other day. Mr.. Mer-
rill is a travelling salesman, and Miss
Fox is a cousin to Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land.
A hose cart going to a fire in Kansas
City the other night came into collision
with a cable car, and the following per-
sons were injured: Eugene Parker,
fatally; Harry Parker, seriously;
Patrick Birmingham, fireman; Thomas
Hill, conductor.
Rev. A. A. Kendrick has resigned the
presidents chair at Shurtleff college,
Alton, ILL.,, to accept the pastorate of
Emmanuel Baptist church, st. Louis.
DR.. Kendrick has long been at the head
of Shurtleff college, and his resigna-
ton will be deeply felt.
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reports that during May there was
mailed at the ST. Louis post office ,269,
OO2 pounds of second-class matter news
papers, ETC. J, as against ,057, 291 pounds
in May, 1898, an increase of 211,711
pounds, and representing a cash in
crease of So, 117.11.
Gustav Lehman, aged 3s, unmarried,
of the wholesale tobacco firm of Lieb-
man & Dellevie, of Baltimore, and
of the branch house of the
firm, 21s Walnut street, ST. Louis, COM
mitted suicide in Baltimore, Nd, by
hanging. The cause which prompted
the man to commit the rash act is at
present yelled in mystery.
At o'clock the other morning Miss
Sallie Turner, aged % years, daugh-
ter of Ira Turner, a weu-known citizen
of Howard county, living miles north
east of franklin, committed suicide by
in the right side of the head,
just above the ear, with her fathers So
caliber revolver. ul-health and de-
spondency are given as the cause. She
died instantly.
Some of the finest strawberries mar
keted at Carthage this season were
brought in the other day by Thomas
from his garden, 2 miles
northeast of the city. Among the lot
were three boxes containing only four
teen strawberries each. They were of
the Candy variety, and several of the
berries measured six inches each. Mr..
says this beats anything
before reported.
Rev. II. c. Evans, associate editor of
the st. Louis Presbyterian, has &C
copied the call to the pastorate of the
Kirkwood Presbyterian church. MIR.
Evans is associated with the southern
branch of Presbyterianism, while the
kirkwood church is affiliated with the
northern branch, but this will be no
obstacle as Mr.. Evans will obtain let
Ter of dismissal from the one presby-
terry to the other.
A st. Joseph dispatch says: AS re-
suit of the big failure, S. A. and j. W.
Walker have given deed Of trust to
S. C. Woodson, trustee for the Schuster-
Hax bank, covering their respective
homes on Fifth street and Eighteenth
and julie streets. The deed Of trust is
subject to a prior deed, dated June 4,
in favor of Ernest Davis. They also
gave chattel mortgages on their house
hold goods, bric-a-brac, carriages,
horses, etc. The mortgages, like the
deeds of trust, are in favor of the
bank.
The twenty-first commencement of
Synodical female college of the Pres
byterian church in Fulton was held
the other night. The exercises were
musical. the essays of the grad
yates having been read previously in the
presence of select few. The adj
dress to the graduating class was made
by Rev. William r. Dobyns, of Mar
shall. The prizes and diplomas were
given by President Primrose. The
medal for the neatest
room, given by Mrs. DR.. Primrose, was
won by Miss Nora F. Pugh.
Adah Meyer was killed by her hus-
band, Louis Meyer, in their room in St
Louis. The deed was committed with
a ss-caliber bulldog revolver, the muir
aerer firing from behind the woman,
who, barred to the waist, was making
her toilet at the washstand. The bull
let struck her just below the left
shoulder blade, passed through
her hear; and lodged just be-