Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-25
MISSOURI CULLlNGS.

Zinc shingles are now mduu1dCtuIcu
by a Nevada firm.
A Charlton county man assets that
mo two negroes are the same color.
Charlie Hill, postmaster at Maiden,
is a nephew of Senator David B. Hill.
The annual meeting of the Presby-
terrain synod of Missouri was held at
Brookfeld.
The town of Ferguson, St. Louis
| county, has been incorporated as city
| of the fourth class.
The winter meeting of the Southeast
Missouri Press association will be held
at Bismarck, December 1.
The next session of the Evangelical
Lutheran synod will be held at Con.
cordia, Lafayette county.
-Four prisoners confined in the Liv-
1ngston county Jail escaped the other
night by removing large stone.
Otto Kirtley and Miss Frances
| Leonard and Richard Neale and Miss
Carrie Whaley were married at Hanni-
bal.
j. c. Starr, the official strenographer
| OF the Cherokee senate, will marry
| Miss Libby B. Zimmerman, of st. Jo-
| seph.
George Hartman, aged 81, of Tren-
ton. was buried in well by cave-in.
| He was taken out in ten minutes, but
died five minutes later from the effects
| of internal injuries.
The agents of the foreign breweries
have given up efforts to stop the beer
war in ST. Joseph, and announce they
will stay in the fight to the end. In
| the meantime beer is selling as low as
| seventy-seven cents per barrel.
At Jefferson City Frank Burton and
| c. FL. Clark were convicted of robbing
the post Office at: New Franklin,
| Howard county, and each sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary. Jennie
| Mason, implicated in the case. was
| fined $500, and sentenced to one day in
| Jail.
Without apparent provocation Rich
| ard Lehn, a wienerwurst peddler, shot
| and almost instantly killed his wife
| Matilda on the third floor of 1918 North
Seventh street, ST. Louis. The muir
| der is made the more horrible by rea-
| son of the fact that two lives were sac
| riiced.
In boat house near Boyd's Island, 5
| mills north of Louisiana, William Eben-
| ezer.shot Grant ellis, fisherman and
| trapper, the ball passing through the
| right'lung and coming out of the back.
| Glllls wife at the time was in the house
alone with Ebenezer, and refused to
| leave. ellis will surely die.
| Rosa Wolf, aged 10, committed sui
eide at the ST. Louis female hospital
t,xyf l. Il L.
window, falling 35 feet and striking on
| her head, crushing her skull. Death
| was instantaneous. She came from
| Germany about year ago, had been
| i'll most of the time since, and it is be-
| lieved that she was so homesick that
| she preferred death to life.
| George Chenness served a sentence in
| the Buchanan county Jail for larceny,
| and when he was notified that his time
| was out and he must leave he refused
| to go. He tore up his clothing and
| fought the jailer when an effort was
made to eject him. Sheriff Carson re-
| clothed the man, and he was then
| elected from the premises. Chenness
| threatened to hold up the first man he
| met in order to receive another SEN
| tence.
Columbus Hayes, the murderer of
William Sneed, escaped from the An
drew county Jail month ago, but the
| county court saw no occasion for max
| ing any great effort to capture him, SO
| far as a reward was concerned. Now
| that Hayes is probably 1000 miles from
| the scene of his crime, the court has
| offered reward of 500 for his capture.
| The state offered reward of $500 some
| time ago. Hayes is believed to be in
Texas.
Stephen T. Lupe, who shot and killed
| George w. Dixon at Sedalia, waived a
preliminary hearing, and was admitted
| to bail in the sum of $1,000. Lupe. who
| was badly wounded, consented to be
| removed to his home. His recovery is
now confidently anticipated. The grand
| jury that meets next month will pass
| upon his case, but it is not thought
| that it will be tried at that term of
court, as it is doubtful if the defendant
| will have recovered sufficiently to be
| present then. The funeral of Mr.. Dixon
| was largely attended.
The first annual field meet of the
Young Mems Christian association of
| Missouri, under Pentathlon rules, was
| held at Sedalia, and terminated in a
| manner highly satisfactory to the con-
| testants and physical directors. There
We're five events under the new rules,
| and ST. Louis won the championship.
they capturing the silk banner offered
by Sedalia and the gold medal offered
| by the state association. All of the
| contestants that averaged over 200 were
| awarded bronze medals, but not one
| reached the silver-medal average OF
| over 800.
Walter era btree, who fatally shot
William Leech at Deepwater, Henry
county, last December, and for the cap
| ture of whom Gov. Stone offered $500
| reward, walked into Sheriff Colyer's
office at Butler the other day and sur
| rendered. He was clerking in bank
| at Montrose at the time of the shoot
| ing, and had gone to Deepwater to at
tend lodge banquet. During the
| evening he visited the saloon where
Leech was barkeeper, and in the course
of disturbance shot Leech, from the
effects of which the latter died shortly
after.
During the session of the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias at Excelsior
| Springs the salary of the grand keeper
of records and seal was raised from
81, 200 to $4,000 per year. Following
| officers were elected: Grand chan
ceIlor lanes A Fripk Spr;nrfa1d.