Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-02
MISSOURI cUlliNGS.

j. G. McCullum. an old citizen OF
| Hannibal, died the other night.
Fire starting from a locomotive spark
did 100000 damage at st. Joseph.
Higginsville is taking action to Sc
| cure the esta biishment of college.
Bert Black burn, farmer near Leb-
anon, fell from his wagon and was
| killed
B. A. Alsup, well-known citizen of
Wright county, was killed in a run
away.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone, aged 81, the
| oldest resident of Hannibal, died the
other day.
So far this season about S12. 900 has
been received at Morley for the ship
ment Of cantalopes.
The North American Turner bund
has decided to locate executive board
headquarters in ST. Louis.
1t is believed that Judge Thayer, of
| st. Louis, will get the recently -created
| judgeship in the Eighth circuit.
Ed Nelson and Froggy Ford, gam
blers, quarreled over Nelson's divorced
wife at Webb City. Frog was MORALLY
shot.
Adrain, Bates county, has erected
six brick and three iron business houses
this year, beside large number of resi-
dences.
Eldorado Springs wants dummy or
an electric line to Rich Hill, to give the
springs connection with St. Louis and
Kansas City.
Engineer John Reynolds and Fire
man William User were badly scalded
IN a collision ON the Missouri Pacific
near kirkwood
VIM. Hunneke. of Pacific, was struck
By an east-bound Frisco train between
Attention and Eureka, and his head was
badly cut and shoulder bruised.
James Murray, convicted of the muir
der of Street Car Conductor Fitzwil-
liam. in st. Louis county, has been
sentenced to be hanged September 5.
The Liebstadter Millinery Co.. capt.
tai stock 5000, has been incorporated
at Kansas City by Bernard Liebstadter,
+. bingham and John NJ. Dennhoefer.
Mrs Gus Leftwich, wife of the editor
of the Miami News, died at her home
in Miami. She was formerly a Miss
Waters, of st. Louis. She leaves five
children.
Forty-nine homestead entries, aggre-
eating 1850 acres. We're made at the
Springfield land office by Laclede coun-
ty citizens, during the fiscal year ended
June 80.
The wife of Harry Pemberton.
wealthy farmer S miles south of Hol-
den, was fatally burned while solder
ing a dish-pan over coal oil lamp.
which exploded.
The Winfrey school, Carrollton, dur
ing the last twenty years has turned
out twenty-one teachers. two lawyers.
two doctors, one preacher and some of
the best business men in the country.
OF the state officers of Missouri, Sec
rotary of State Lesueur and Railroad
Commissioner Hickman served in the
confederate army, and Railroad Com
missioner Cowgirl in the union army.
\ cave has been discovered about
miles from Hannibal which is said to
surpass the Hannibal cave. made ia
nous by Mark Twain's writing. The
aisles and chambers are much wider.
1t will be explored and opened to the
public.
Noah Weaver complained to the st.
Louis board of health that the potter's
field was so filed with graves that in
opening new ones the old ones were
broken into, and the stencil from them
was unbearable. Weaver resides in the
vicinity of the potter's field.
Suit has been brought at Nevada, by
change of venue from Bates county, by
a coal miner named Frank DeBoth,
against the Rich Hill Coal Co. for $780,
600 damages. The amount is asked or
injuries received by DeBoth in a mine
of the company in June, 1898, by the
fall of slate roof
The contract for the erection of Bap-
fist college at Pennington has been let
to Louis Miller, the contractor, who is
just completing the Odd Fellows tenn
pie. The building will not be finished
in time for the September opening. but
school will be held in the Baptist
church until the school-building is
completed,
Tie t>venty-ninth annual convention
of the Missouri Sunday-School associa-
ton will convene in Chillicothe, August
s. and will remain il session Thursday
and Friday. With the near approach
of the time for the convention, the Sun
day-school leaders of ST. Louis and the
remainder of the state are busying
themselves in preparation for the occa-
sion.
Suit to set aside the will of the late
John III. Reid, who died about year
ago leaving practically all of an estate
worth about $3.50, 900 to his half broth
er, William Reid, was fled in the jack
son circuit court by Thomas E. Flour
nov. a half brother. Joseph b. Morris
and Nellie F. Morris, daughter of Mrs.
Fannie Morris, half sister of the tes-
tator, all of whom live in Independ-
ence.
Rev. R. l. Fleming. chairman of the
st. Louis conference Epworth League
E. church, and Rev. c. W. Casely, chair
man of a similar committee in the Mis-
souri, conference, state that word has
been received from various parts of the
state indicative of a widespread de-
sire that convention be held, but
that the committee for the present
have concluded to hold the matter in
allegiance and wait for more light on
the subject.
The st. Joseph Daily News has
changed hands. Clinton NJ. Schultz,
the editor and business manager, re-
tires, having disposed of all his stock
in the company to the other stockhold-
ers, who will conduct the paper. No
one has been selected to permanently
take charge of the plant. and until
such action is taken Christopher Rutt,