Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-03-01
MISSOURI CULLiNGS.

James M. Stone, one Of the oldest
printers in Missouri, died at Marshall.
The steamer State of Missouri sunk
| at New Madrid bend, in the Missis-
sippi.
w. X. McIntire, a boy, died at Kan.
sas City as the result of fall from a
trapeze.
The city council at West Plains has
made it misdemeanor to be tramp
| in that city.
The st. Louis Bar association held
| it's annual reunion and banquet the
other evening.
The garment makers assembly of
| st. Louis has entered into a crusade
against sweatshops.
The Temple building, a well-known
office structure in st. Louis. was
scorched the other morning.
John Brennan and Charles Duncan
are held for burglary at st. Joseph.
They are said to be a bad couple.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Kansas City pur-
poses to take hand in the coming
| election and purify Kansas City poll
| tics.
The total assessment of st. Louis is
| 1904, 1872, 80. This is about $4,000, 900
more than the total assessment for
| 1898.
The revival at the Baptist church in
Cape Girardeau resulted in eighty-two
conversions and sixty accessions to the
church.
The report of the superintendent of
| the public schools of Hannibal shows
an average attendance for the past year
OF 2,4SS.
John Honald. an employee of a pork
packing 3house in St. Louis, fell into a
caldron of boiling water and was fatal
ly scalded.
The dwelling on Honey hill. south
of Louisiana, owned by John Lancas-
ter and occupied by Mr.. X. Thurmon,
was destroyed by fire.
. A lamp exploded in the boarding
house of Mrs. Cornelius Murphy in
Hannibal. badly injuring the proprie-
tress and doing damage to house and
furniture.
The Warrensburg & Pertle Springs
Waterworks Co., with a capital stock
of $50, 900, has been incorporated by
J. II. Christopher, Marion Christopher
and w. P. Hunt.
The Greene county court has ordered
an election for March 81 to determine
whether 1000 worth of bonds shall
be issued for the purpose of building a
new courthouse.
Congressman John Allen, of Missis-
sippi, the wit of the house, has prom
ised to make speech at the banquet
of the Knights of st. Patrick in st.
Louis on March II.
Young Stanard, son of ex-Gov. STAN
ard of Missouri, who is spending the
winter at San Antonio, Tex, was
thrown from a horse and one arm shat
tered in three places.
A beautiful national flag, 20 feet long
by 10 feet wide, was raised at the st.
Louis high-school building on Washing
toms birthday. 1t was a gift from the
Junior Order of American Mechanics.
The Missouri Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution were right
royalty toasted and banqueted at the
Mercantile club, St. Loais on the even
ing of Washington's birthday. good
number were in attendance, and what
with speech and banquet song the
hours passed swiftly by.
Sheriff Pratt of Marion county pre-
vented Jail delivery by discovering in
the cell of Patrick Maloney a quantity
tools. Maloney has recently been in
the penitentiary, but was remanded to
Marion county for new trial, and it
is supposed that he brought the tools
with him from Jefferson City.
Brasuer, who was arrested, charged
with the Comstock poisoning at Ne
vada, was released on bond of $4,000,
and Justice Davis, who tried the case,
has published a statement explaining
his course, by saying that the evidence
was incomplete and that there is a
strong probability of Brasuer's inno-
cence.
The parties to the following damage
suits have settled them by compromises
at Marshall: Charles S. Buckley
against d. A. Hancock for $4,000 and
Joseph Francisco for $4,000 for malli-
cious prosecution, and for $4,000
against Larkin Hancock for SANDER.
The jury in the first case spent five
DAYS in consideration of a verdict. All
the parties live in the western part of
Saline county.
Rev. Frank G. Tyrrell, pastor of the
Central Christian church of st. Louis,
and chairman of the ST. Louis Law and
Order league. is preparing a list of all
the immoral resorts in the city, and
also the names of the owners of the
houses in which these people dwell.
He purposes to inaugurate second
Parkhurst crusade in st. Louis against
this class and place these resorts under
the ban of the law.
The 11-year-old son of HI. G. Calvert,
a farmer living near Missouri City,
Clay county, while asleep the other
night dreamed that eight Indians were
about to kill him and he jumped
through the window of the upper story
of his home. His father heard the
crash, and discovering that his boy was
gone, he started in pursuit. A quarter
of a mile away he met the little fellow
returning in an almost frozen condi-
ton. The cold weather had awakened
him. His only injuries were few
scratches.
For some time N. B. Henderson,
well-known citizen living at Twenty
second and Messanc streets, st. Jo-
seph, has been suffering with what the
physicians diagnosed as Inflammation
of the bowels. caused supposedly by
the presence of some foreign substance.
Henderson kept growing worse, and it
was decided to perform an operation.
Doctors cut into the abdomen and
found and removed an o1d-fashioned
had lacop,o ir ov,ovc4ol