Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-28
MISSOURI cuLLiNGS.

ty is fair, despite the drought.
The state Sunday-school convention
| will be held at Chillicothe, August 8.
The prospect for oats and corn nea
Shelbina is as good as it has been TO
years.
Mrs. Belle Franklin, aged about As
fell dead at her home in Marshall iron
heart disease.
The Electric and Manufacturing Co.
capital $4,000, has been organized a
Fredericktown.
The number of st. Louisans who viii
go abroad this summer will be muci
larger than ever.
The annual meeting of the Retail
Jewellers association of Missouri wa.
held in st. Louis.
The next meeting of the Farmers
and Laborers' union will be held a
Pennington, July 6.
! Thomas Johns, of Louisiana, and Mis-:
Minnie Bailey, of Vandalia, were mar
ried at the latter place.
| The annual session of the Missouri
State Teachers association was brough,
to close at Warrensburg the Other
day.
| 1.-THE North Missouri Medical associa
ton met at Moberly, and was the best
attended meeting the association evel
| had.
Mrs. William Truitt, her husband
and two children were badly burned al
Hannibal by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
By October 1 Cape Girardeau will
have a new system of water-works, an
electric light plant and telephone ex.
change.
About 800 is still lacking of the s.,
600 needed for the erection of the Bap-
fist college at Pennington, and the
building is delayed on that account.
The sixth annual session of the
North Missouri Colored Baptist Sun
day-school convention was held in the
Bluff Street Baptist church at Fulton.
Street improvements in st. Charles
will be curtailed as much as possible,
as the city authorities say that the city
treasury is lower now than it has been
for years.
The heaviest rain of the season fell
at Macon the other afternoon, accom-
panied by hail and a very hard wind.
Corn and wheat were slightly damaged
by hail and wind, and shade trees blown
down.
Thirty-nine graduates stood before
the footlights in the Crawford opera
house, st. Joseph, the other night.
The occasion was the twenty-eighth
annual commencement of the ST. Joseph
high school.
The jewelry store of Eleazer Hart, at
915 Main street, Kansas City, was seized
by the sheriff under replevin proceed
ings instituted by Hardness & Russell,
private bankers, to cover on an alleged
debt of $1,000.
James E. Eaton, one of the most
prominent young business men of Craw-
ford county, was drowned while bath
ing in the Meramec river near the Riv-
erside mills, 4 miles south from Cuba.
He leaves a widow and one child.
Mr.. Frank Henry Cook, of London, a
Younger representative of the noted
Cook family of turist excursion fame,
and Miss Beatrice Lindell, daughter of
Mrs. Clarke Salmon, of Kansas City,
were married few evenings ago.
Elmer c. Sattley, cashier of the de-
funct Kansas City safe deposit and saw
ings bank, was arrested the other day
on four new warrants sworn out by
Prosecuting Attorney Brown, charg-
ing him with receiving deposits after
the bank was in an insolvent condition.
DR.. Howard Atkinson, brother of
Postmaster F. NJ. Atkinson, died at
Ellsworth hospital, ST. Joseph, after
1,nx
for strangulation of the bowels. DR..
Atkinson ate some cherries which
caused Inflammation, and produced
strangulation
The St. Louis and Missouri members
of the Young Peoples Society of Chris
tan Endeavor are preparing for the
thirteenth international convention to
be held at Cleveland, o., July IL to Is.
1t is expected that 300 endeavorers will
go from Missouri. A special train will
go from st. Louis at Gas p. m, Tues
day, July 10, and will arrive at Cleve-
land Wednesday evening, July II.
KILLED WITH CLUB.
John Lilly, aged so years, was killed
at Avenue City, 9 miles northeast of
st. Joseph, in Andrew coqnty, the 9TH
er night by negro miller named
Strother Beshears, fifteen years his
senior. The weapon used by Beshears
was hickory club, between three and
four feet long and from three-fourths
to two and half inches in circumfer-
ence. The negro gave himself up and
was taken to Savannah and locked in
Jail. Lilly had been drinking, it is said,
and picked a quarrel.
sLUM WORK.
Maj. Emma Bowens, of New York, at
the head of the slum-work department
of the Salvation Army, will arrive in
st. Louis in few days, and will confer
with the local officers touching the
establishment of a slum post in the
city. She will be accompanied by the
two young women who are to be the
garrison of the slum post The slum
sisters hope to be as leaven, working
quietly upon the moral characters OF
the submerged tenth. They will com.
pei their neighbors to respect Them and
in time follow in their footsteps.
PROBABLY SUICIDE.
The body of young woman, aged
about Is years, was found in the
Meramec river by Charles Breaker, near
Valley Park, ST. Louis county. a few
days ago. It is supposed to be that
of young girl named Manning,
who formerly lived in that
part of the county, but who
had recently been living in st.
Louis. The young girl went to Valley
Park on Frisco train from ST. Louis,
left her valise at the Valley Park de.
not and went riphf from, tho .do,1oA + n