Iron County register., 1894-04-05
MISSOURI cULLlNGS.

Kenneth, Dunklin county, is to have
| . cotton-seed oil plant
| DIR. Asher Goslin, veteran of the
| Union army. died at Oregon
The cold spell has ruined two-thirds
of the fruit in Christian county.
The dwelling of Henry Heimbrook,
mile south of Salisbury, was destroyed
by fire; loss $4,000.
The democrats of the Tenth sena-
torial district will hold a convention al
Montgomery May 10.
The A. NJ. E. church and two frame
houses at Monserrat, johnson county,
were b-rned by tramps.
Gov. Stone has appointed G. c. Jones
inspector of oil for Pierce City, for a
term of two years. Jones succeeds him
self.
Pulaski county farmers report that
the peach and apple crop, and possibly
the oat crop, was destroyed by the re-
cent freeze up.
democrats (Mr. Heard's district) will
hold nominating convention at
Springfield June 5.
The democrats of the Second con-
gressional district (Mr. Halls district)
will hold nominating convention at
brunswick June 13.
Capt. w. C. Sickles, a capitalist and
n former resident of st. Louis, was
fatally injured by falling from train
near Greenville, Tex.
| Hugo, Baron Won Laudon, an Aus
trian nobleman and a political refugee,
has found a last resting place in the
potter's field at st. Louis.
| Insurance companies have suffered
so heavily by fires in Poplar Bluff that
the companies have notified their
agentsto call in their policies.
| Mann Gray, an aged colored man,
was found tangled up in a barb-wire
fence near Clifton Hill, near Moberly.
He was unconscious and soon died.
| Edward Gress, 20, living with his
parents near Lake Contrary, Buchanan
county, is charged with stealing horses
and selling them to Chicago buyers.
Ida M. Shoemaker has sued the
| Kansas & Texas Coal Co. for $4,000
damages for the loss of her husband,
who was killed in mine 43 at Bevier.
Henry Roster, w. W. Wilder and
Valentine Rottler have organized the
Brewing and Lighting association Of
Ste. Genevieve, with a capital of $780,
| 900.
John Leach, of Sedalia, has been noti-
fed that he has over S4OO coming to
him from the government for rations
wrongfully charged to him during the
war.
The historic Cole Diggs residence,
north of Danville, and which was
built about seventy years ago by the
| man whose name it bears, was burned
the other night.
! Gov. Stone has offered a reward of
$500 for the arrest and delivery to the
sheriff of Cass county of E. B. Soper.
| who is charged with killing his wife
and two children.
| L. E. Hutchison, a Joplin grocer, was
held up and robbed of s1OO and gold
watch the other night, and the resi-
dence of o. r. Moffet was entered and
valuables worth $500 stolen.
| The Hannibal board of education has
awarded the contract for the construc-
tion of two new school buildings and
instructed the secretary to advertise
| for bids for the erection of third.
Eugene Courleux was compelled to
work at the rock pile in st. Louis while
| his wife's funeral was being held. He
| had been sent to the workhouse for re-
| sisting eviction from their home while
| she was ill.
At meeting held in Fayette s3,O95
was raised to aid in building the new
| Central college. George T. Hoagland,
| of st. Joseph, has offered $40, 900 if citi-
| zens of Fayette will raise $4,000. A
| committee has been appointed to COM
plete the work of securing funds
Mr.. Nathaniel Allison. son of James
| w. Allison, of st. Louis, who has been
nominated for West Point cadetship
by Congressman Cobb, has passed a
satisfactory examination and will re-
port to West Point June IA. Mr. Alli-
son is graduate of Smith academy.
At meeting held in Palmyra, Marion
| county, it was decided to ask the coun-
ty court to call special election to
vote upon the proposition to make an
appropriation for the erection of
courthouse in Hannibal, and $40, 900 to
make necessary repairs to the court
house in Palmyra.
Swaggard's livery stable at Sweet
Springs. Saline county, was burned,
| and fifteen horses, several valuab BILE,
perished, while all of the carriages,
buggies, ETC., were also burned. John
| Bellamy's warehouse, in which 10, 900
bushels of wheat were stored, and w.
J. Jontz's hay barn, were consumed.
Total loss, $4,000.
Since the big fires of more than
year ago, when 81 200, 600 worth of
property was destroyed, the insurance
rates have been advanced in st. Jo-
seph. The agents have notified the
business men that if S25, 600 would be
Immediately spent for fire protection
rates would come down. The demands
of the insurance agents will be COM
Piled with.
Congressman Champ Clark says that
ex-Missourians fill chairs in Columb1
college, New York; Bethany college,
West Virginia; in Kentucky. Tulane,
Washington and Lee, Chicago and Vir-
ginia. Harvard universities, and in the
theological seminaries at Columbia, S.
c., and Louisville, Ky. Another still is
dean of the faculty of the agricultural
college of Utah.
o. C. Shepherd, veterinary surgeon,
was arrested at Carthage on a charge
of bigamy, preferred by wife No 2. lShe
was Miss o. J. Vail, daughter of a
farmer of McDonough county Wife
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