Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-21
MISSOURI cuLLlNGS.

DIR. j. C. Lamb has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at Alton.
Arrangements have been made to give
st. Louis twenty-five additional letter
| carriers.
The governor has appointed T. ).
Barron to be inspector of oils for Cen
tralia for term of two years.
Hon. Seth Cobb has positively refused
to be again the democratic candidate
for congress in the Twelfth district.
Hooper institute, at Moniteau held
its eighteenth commencement the other
day. The town was crowded with Wis
itors.
Lawrence J. Kavanah, wel1-known
young man in ST. Louis, was killed by
the discharge of rife, it is supposed
by accident.
The commencement exercises OF
Drury college, Springfield, were the
most brilliant in the history of that
institution.
Mrs. j. S. Drummer, a bride of two
months, died suddenly at Marshall, of
congestion of the stomach, caused by
eating ice cream.
John Il. Clay has been appointed, by
the governor. presiding justice of the
county court of fancy county, vice
Thomas L. Fitch, resigned.
The twenty-third annual commence
ment of the Missouri school of mines,
at Rolla, was held the other morning
The past year has been very success
| full.
| At meeting of the city board of ed
Ication of Macon, Prof A. L. McKen-
zie was reelected superintendent of
public schools, and Prof. M. N. Matter
principal of the high school.
Lem Butts, a cattleman, lost his pock-
et-book while driving herd of cattle
| through Louisiana. It was found by a
teamster named S. NJ. Smith, who re-
| turned it to the owner. 1t contained
| 81 800.
The house passed bill for the relief
| of Wetmore brothers, of ST. Louis, pro-
| viding for payment of a fee they earned
as attorneys in the negro bounty claims,
which was enormously covered into the
treasury.
James Collins, of Randolph county,
wants $4,000 damages from William
Walton, j. L. Hines and others, claim
ing that the defendants were abetters
in tiogging which he received from
women at Higbee a year ago
The thirty-tirst commencement of the
Central Wesleyan college, Warrenton,
was held the other day. The bac-
calaureate sermon was preached Sun
day by Rev. koeneke, d. D.. of San
Jose. Ill. The class numbered nineteen.
2. W. Boyt. farmer 10 miles south
east of Dexter. was accidentally shot
while in bed by his son, Sam Boyt.
The boy was loading gun to shoot an
owl when the contents We're discharged
into his fathers breast, causing instant
death.
The safe in the Office of the II. L.
Hart Quarry Co., at Clinton, a suburb
of Louisiana, was blown open by bur-
glars the other night, but, owing to
the removal of all funds to the bank the
preceding day, the miscreants got moth
ing for their trouble.
Mrs. Fannie Osborn has filed papers
with the circuit clerk of Randolph
county in a $1,000 damage suit against
Doctors R. R. Hall, of Milton, and J.
I. Cox. of Macon. The plaintiff al
leges that she accidentally fell and
broke her right leg, and employed the
defendants to reset it, and claims that
it was improperly done.
Two suits have been filed at Nevada
against City Marshal H. c. Anderson by
F. S. Mallory and 3. A. Adams in the
sum of $4,000 each. Mallory and
Adams were arrested in Nevada May 8,
charged with peddling rugs without
licenses, and locked up about two
hours, after which they gave bond.
Later they were acquitted of the charge
lodged against them.
In the evolutionary contest for the
Wilson gold medal at the commence
ment exercises of the Southeast Mis-
souri, normal, Miss Louise Duncan, of
Poplar Bluff, carried off the prize by
her most excellent rendition of the ne
gro dialect story. ''Christmas Night in
the Quarters" Prof. r. P. Blanton, of
the state university, gave the annual
address to the students.
The Missouri river continues it's
alarming encroachments at Belmont
Bend and Winthrop, near st. Joseph.
although no damage from the overflow
has been reported. Citizens of Win
throp are moving away from the banks
and railroads are still at work pro-
tecting their tracks. The govern
ment has as yet taken no steps to pre-
vent the destruction of the farms there
and above the city.
Peter Jamison, alias Hatched-Faced
Pete, entered the drug store of Mayor
!. II. Barnhill, in Neeleyville. Butler
county, the other night, while two Gus
toners were in the store, and present.
ing two revolvers to Mr.. Barnhill's
head. demanded and received his gold
watch and all the money in the cash
drawer. The bold bandit then fed and
got out of town before his daring hold
up could become generally known.
The explosion of boiler in saw
mill 90 miles east of Dexter caused the
instant death of James and Aaron
Logue, the owners of the mill, and
badly injuring William Kemper. The
cause of the explosion was a scarcity of
water in the boiler. James Logue was
81 years of age and a widower, while
his brother, Aaron, was Al years of age
and married. The bodies of the de-
ceased were mangled beyond recogni-
ton.
YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.
During the past two weeks several
burglaries have been committed in st
Joseph that have baffied the police
The burglars We're captured at an early
hour the other morning, and their ages
range from to 10 years. Their names
are Eugene Burriss, James Watterson
and Arthur Hurd During the after