Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-26
MISSOURI cULLlNGS.


their entire ticket.
The Howell county democrats will
nominate on June 2.
VIM. G. Golf has been appointed
postmaster of De Soto.
q The Palmyra presbytery held It's
regular session at Perry.
E. L. Cook, st. Joseph druggist,
respondent, shot himself.
Near Cedar Gap, Wright county, a
storm wrecked schoolhouse.
The Randolph county republicans
will hold their convention May 10.
The democrats of the Thirteenth con-
gressional district Will meet at De Soto,
June &c.
The Concordia Canning Co., of Con-
cordia, capital, $4,000, has been or
ganized.
The city council of Springfield wants
to assess nickel-in-the-slot machines
s25 per year.
II. F. Avery, mayor of Clinton, is the
youngest mayor of any city of the third
class in Missouri.
Alta special election the people of Cape
Girardeau Endorsed the proposition to
erect water-works.
Miss Nellie MCGUIRE, for thirteen
years popular st. Joseph teacher,
died of consumption.
Ted Ryan, a laborer, aged SO, was
killed in st. LOUIS by tank weighing
$500 pounds falling on him.
J. S. Lynch, the new United States
marshal for the eastern district, will
take charge of the Office May 1.
The late-hour law has been put in
effect in Sedalia, and many all-nighters
have been sent to the Gala boose.
At Marshall two boys and two dogs
killed $50 rats while Conway Bros.
were moving their slaughter-house.
Mrs. T. C. Buchanan, wife of a
wealthy merchant of ST. Joseph, eloped
with college student named Mason.
William Cannon, aged SO, n St.
Louis fireman. was working at fire,
kicked an electric-light wire and fell
dead.
Chas. D. Horton, cashier of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy system in
Hannibal, died very suddenly of ceryical
absceSs.
In Moniteau county there will be a
good many fall apples, cherries, plums,
pears and berries, but no peaches or
early apples.
Rev. S. H. Dana will preach the bac-
calaureate sermon before the gradual
ing class of the Hannibal high school,
Sunday, May 81.
In the circuit court of Scott county
Thomas Jones was sentenced toy three
years in the penitentiary for stealing a
horse and buggy.
The grocery store of j. Swearinger,
in East Moberly, was burned. 1t is be-
lieved that burglars robbed the store
and then applied fire.
Rev. w. L. McEvon. of the Webster
Groves Presbyterian church, has re-
ceived call to the Third Presbyterian
church of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The contract for the new courthouse
at Carthage has been let. The build
ing is to cost over 500, 900, and of this
sum Carthage voted $4,000.
The 4-year-old son of Levi Reynolds,
proprietor of a saw and grist-mill at
Forsyth, fancy county, was caught by
belt and whirled to death.
Charles Brown and George Malon,
alias Wilson, confess that they have
committed over fifty burglaries in st.
Louis in the past three months.
Thomas Grim, aged rs years, died of
consumption April II. He was a ma
tive of England, and had been resi-
dent of Louisiana for fifty years.
The public schools of Louisiana have
closed. The graduates of the high
school this year were Misses Lizzie
Anderson, Rosie Pride and Maud Bax-
ter.
John Smiley and Ben Ware, farm
hands on the farm of James Offutt,
near Bowling Green, were struck by
lightning the other day and almost
killed.
Near Summerville, Texas county, q
storm destroyed much property, and
the wife and three children of Val
Keel, an influential citizen, were in
stantly killed.
County Treasurer James c. Orr, who
had held public Office in Boone county
for thirty years, and was the best
known man in the county, died at
Colum bia, aged 10.
The Northwest Missouri district con-
vention of the Young Peoples Society,
of Christian Endeavor will meet in ST.
Joseph, May 10 and 20. About 800 dele
gates will be present.
John Hayner, charged with being an
accomplish in the attempted robbery
OF the bank in Gillian, Saline county,
in 1892, was acquitted in the Pettis
county criminal court.
George w. Seasholtz and William E.
Minton, real estate dealers of st. Jo-
seph, after a four-years' struggle in
the courts have been acquitted ON
charges of forging large number of
warranty deeds to land in Stone county.
After a three days trial in the Greene
| county criminal court A. T. Van Pelt
was acquitted of the killing of w. L..
| Cawlfeld. It was proven to the jury
that Van Pe1t's life had been repeated
ly and openly threatened by Cawlfeld.
| Rev. E. J. P. B. Williams, formerly
rector of Calvary Episcopal church. Of
| Louisiana, who, two years ago, was
| deposed from the ministry at his own
request, has been restored to the same
and has accept call to Mammoth
Springs, Ark.
| The store of Geo. w. Miller, second
hand furniture dealer and money lend
er, in ST. Louis, was burglarized, and
81, 900 in money, jewelry and diamonds
taken. The safe was opened.
The officers of the State Sunday
School association are preparing for
the house-to-house canvass of every
county and township in Missouri. The
canvass will commence Tuesday, May 8.
Ninety-three oil paintings from the