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

| Miss Bertha Belle Westbrook, the
beautiful and talented young American
actress, Is coming to Ironton mex,
wednesday evening. the 14th inst,
when she will appear at the Opera
house In a new comedy. entitled 1.-The
Professors Love Story" Miss West
brook is on her second tour In this sec
tion of the State this season. When
she was this way before her manager
did not stop at Ironton. In all the
other cities and towns where she APP
peared in the Southeast she met with
great success, and the press and public
with one accord declared that her COM
pasy was the best organization of the
| kind that had ever visited them
Miss Westbrook is now supported by
a strong company of musical artists,
including Mr.. Hal Reid, the author
and actor; Miss Edith Mccoy, the
charming banjo player and songstress,
| and little Dave Thompson, the wonder
full child vocalist. Our citizens should
| encourage such first class entertain
ment by giving them crowded house.
Reserved Seats are now on sale at
Blemel's.
List OF letters remaining in the Post
Office at Ironton. Mo-. for the month
ending Jan. 31st, 1894. If not called
for within thirty days, they will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office:
Biges Henry Mr. Miner Mary Miss
Crosby James Mr. Phillips Chas Mrs
Heaton C. f Rev Ruff Annie Mrs
Henson Robert Sebastion SUIT
Holder A Mrs Sutton Walter Mr.
Horn Mark Truth
Kinder G. Agt
When calling for these letters please
say advertised. A. P. VANCE. 2. Nj.
The first heavy snow storm of the
winter fell last Saturday afternoon and
night. When the flakes first began to
fall about noon the ground was warm
and wet and the snow disappeared as
fast as it touched the earth. Toward
evening, however, the ..Aeecy" COM
menced to find footing. and the
ground gradually whitened; as nights
shadows lowered, the snow came down
in almost binding fury. 1t continued
this way most of the night and the
next morning mother earth was COW
cred to the depth of several inches.
The sun was warm, though, and the
thaw soon began.
Thos Johnson, a weIl-known farm
err, living about a mile east of the city
limits, cut his throat very severely
with butcher knife just before noon
last Thursday; the gashes are nearly
four inches in length and one of them
barely missed the jugular vein; Mr..
johnson has not been in good health |
for several months past; on the morn |
ing of that day he left the house taking |
with him a large butcher knife. After
several hours he came to the house |
with the two gashes in his throat. His
clothes were drenching wet and it was
thought he had also tried to take his
life by drowning. A surgeon was sum-
mOned, the wounds dressed, and the
patient is now improving. Mr.. john
son has always been a hard working |
citizen, but. at times, suffers from men
tai disorders, and is then wholly ire
sponsible and at times acts very queer
ly.
Last Saturday morning as VIM Lam
woods, about two miles east of that
station. he discovered the body of
man lying in the leaves; on examine
ton he found that life was extinct. and
that the face was that of a stranger.
The officers were informed and Squire
Hampton held an inquest. The APP
pearances were that death had probably
occurred ten days previous. and the
body seemed to have been frozen, and
then thawed out after the warmer
weather. The deceased was apparent
ly man about forty years of age, a
German, and clad in good, comfortable
clothes. A subscription receipt given
to Fred Alfred, dated, Hillsboro, De-
cember 23d. and signed by Chas. Mil
Ter, special agent of the Westliche Post,
st. Louis, was the only paper found on
his person. Whether it was Hillsboro,
Ills, or Mo-. cannot be definitely
stated, but it was probably the former.
for none of the readers of the WeStt.che
Post in this section can recall Mr.. Mil
ler's name, but they do remember 9th
err agents of that paper. How he came
to his death so far from the railroad
and in such an out of the way place is
difficult to determine. 1t will be re-
membered. though. that just about ten
days previous to the date of finding
the body blizzard swept through this
section. 1t may have been that he
was travelling alone lost his way and
succumbed to the bitter cold. That is
the only theory advanced, unless 1t be
a case of suicide. There were no
bruises or marks of violence on the
body at all, however. The subscrip-
ton receipt referred to, though, may
be the means of establishing the I'M
fortunate mans identity.