Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-28
MISSOURI SrATE NEWS.
A Doaeor Protests.


who realize the danger Of cutting into the alb
dominal cavity, the largest and most vital,
sensitive OF any in the body. stand aghast witt
horror when they contemplate the fact tina
the denominations of Jack the Ripper
under the name of modern surgery, ar,
being enacted in their midst every da,
in cases, too, where neither the conditions o
the disease nor the nature OF the injuries Il
the patient justify it, and they feel assuret
that 1t requires only your attention to be draw
to this matter forcibly to convince you tina
some check must be placed ON those who, with
out the most urgent cause would have recours,
to 1t. The argument Of those who sanction tn,
operation is, that antiseptic surgery mini
mlzes the danger from it, but this argumen
is not borne out by experience, al
the deaths from cutting into the abdom
inal cavity. whether caused by the
knife of the assassin or the blade of the sur
geon. are almost equally fatal. Nature can no
stand the shock of having the important organ.
contained in the abdomen tempered with, ant
it should not be done except under the graves
circumstances. In the name, then, of humanity
we ask you to place some safeguards which
will protcct the unfortunate sufferers from the
operation, unless where recommended by two
or more physicians
[Dr. O'Reilly explains that he has no par
ticular case in mind, but that he has learned OF
various cases of laparotomy which resulted
fatally during his practice, which he could moi
give to the public without betraying private
confidence. He recommends that each physi-
clan should state in the death certificate under
what circumstances laparotomy was justified
The communication was referred to the COM
mittee on legislation and rules, with instruc-
lions to devise some means OF correcting the
evil practical
New POstmasters.
Edgar Springs. Phelps county, Matte La
mar. vice Nancy Lamar. dead
A IL
ner. vice Harry L. James, resigned.
Metz. Vernon county, G. w Petty, vice L.
W. King. resigned.
Romance. Ozark county, Victor Sears, vice
Z. w. jackson, resigned.
Thomas Hill. Randolph county, j. F. Holman,
vice w. H. Hubbard, resigned
West Liberty. Putnam county. Ira Garner,
vice j. j. Jones, resigned.
Lutte Ozark county, Aria Jones, vice L. P.
Vernon, resigned.
NEW POST OFFICES.
Fips. Howell county, Walter Farmer, post
master.
Saco, Madison county, Jefferson D. Spain.
Schwartz, Lafayette county, John T. Harness,
postmaster.
Sweet Water. Newton county, Oliver C. Bow
man. postmaster.
Duck, Cole county. Elsie c. Smith, postmas-
ter.
Bingham. Carroll county, Jonathan Hamil-
ton, postmaster.
NEW MONEY ORDER OFFICES.
Bane Hill. Camden Point Libertyville, Pa
acea, Rushville Stotesbury, Tiff City.
A sunday-School superintendent Knife.
DIR. c. F. Simmons, manufacturer of
patent medicines, and superintendent
of one of the largest Sunday-schools OF
the NJ. z. church, south. in st. Louis,
stabbed and dangerously injured his
book-keeper, John McBain. The doctor
and McBain quarreled, and the doctor
claims that the injury was an accident,
while McBain alleges the deed was COM
mitted by the doctor in moment of
passion. The doctor was arrested and
released on bond. He resigned from his
position in the Sunday-school, and his
conduct will be investigated by the
church.
Farmer Hessel's Experience.
The following lightning rod story
comes from Clay county:
Edward Hessel. of kearney, was induced by
two lightning rod men to have rods put on his
house by their offering to give him los feet free.
in order to show his neighbOrS what good job
they would do. HesSel signed a contract
thinking he had only five dollars to pay. The
next day two more men came and put up the
RODS. They wanted sos instead of five dollars
and produced the contract which called for the
former amount.
Burned Out.
The livery stable of Kelly & Sons.
Lexington, was burned. Loss, Sc, 600; nc
insurance.
Five horses and all the vehicles and harness
were consumed. Kelly & Sons had an entirely
new outfit. and had only been in business three
months. The stable was on the site of Green
g. Kelly sta bic, which burned last November
iohf l,a
An A. p. A. Sandbagged.
Alvin Reed, of st. Louis, financial
secretary of the Twenty-fifth ward
council of the A. p. A, was sandbagged
while on his way home the other night
and robbed of his books containing the
names of members of the council.
Missouri Methodist Assembly.
The Missouri Methodist assembly
will be held at Pertle Springs, July 9
to 16. Delega and visitors from all
parts of the state will attend, and the
assembly promises to be a very inter
esting one.
To Manufacture Cars.
The Williams Palace Car Co., CAPT
talized at 81. 600, 900, will begin the con-
of cars 1t ST. Joseph to COM
pete with the Pullman and Wagner
On the 243d Ballot.
H. d. Marshall, of Putnam county,
was nominated for state senator by the
democrats of the Twelfth senatorial
at Lancaster, on the 243d bal
lot.
Colored Graduates.
There We're seventeen graduates from
the St. Louis colored high school this
year. Commencement exercises were
held at the Exposition Music hall.
Took Poison.
Geo. Parker, n farmer near Tarkio,
Atchison county, committed suicide.
taking poison. He leaves a widow and
four children. No cause given.
For Breach Of Promise.
In the breach of promise suit of Lena
Leise VS.. John c. Meyer, in the circuit
court in Lexington, the jury awarded
Miss Le1se $40, 900 damages.
st. Joseph Carpenters Strike.
Carpenters in st. Joseph went on
strike few days ago as result of an
attempt to, enforce an eight-hour-day
order issued by the union.
No Camp-M Meeting.
The Southern Methodist church will
probably not hold camp-meeting near
st. Louis this year. The ministers
we're not unan imous.
For Mayhem.