Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-07
MISSOURI cuLLINos.

Louis amounts to 1910, 341. $50.
| The Missouri Bankers association
will meet at Clinton, June IL, Is and ID
| The Wabash foundry and machine
shops in Moberly were closed few
days ago.
The military band of Warrenton Sc
| cured first honors in the tournament al
Warrensburg.
A county convention of the Christian
churches will be held at Callao, MacoI
county, June 1921.
| Representative Hatch says he will
push the anti-option bill, reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
| The school census of Sedalia shows
there are 4,O3O children of school age in
the city, $50 being colored.
The graduates this year at Elmwood
seminary, Pennington, were Misses
Belle Boyce and Laura Haw.
| DR.. BIB. Charles, of ST. Louis, de
livered the address to the graduates OF
| Woodlawn institute, at O'Fallon.
Gov. Stone has appointed J. M. Left
witch to be recorder of deeds for Scott
county until the next general election
John B. Thomas has been appointed
| by the governor, coal-oil inspector fol
| Willow Spring for a period of two years
The annual sale of Missouri thorough
bred yearlings was held at the st. Louis
fair grounds the other day, and was a
success.
Mrs. c. B. Goodall, of ST. Louis, died
in a hospital in Fort Scott, Kas., from
the effects of injuries sustained in a
railroad wreck some time ago.
The coal supply on the Iron Noun
tain is very low, and if the miners
strike continues there will be no fuel
for engines, and crews will have to be
laid off.
Frank Hruby, st. Louis boy, asked
his father for money, and was-told to
| go to work. He retaliated by shooting
his father three times, infiicting pain
full wounds.
Mrs. Annie Richards, an apparently
| respectable woman, was arrested in st.
! Louis, charged with stealing pocket
| book from a customer in one of the big
| dry goods stores.
The Woman's Missionary society of
| the st. Louis conference of the Meth
| odist Episcopal church, south, of which
| Mrs. c. L. Smith, Of ST. Paul's church.
| ST. Louis, is president, met at Farming
ton.
The large barn Of w. H. Stoddard, S
miles west of Monroe City, burned the
| other morning. It contained large
amount of hay and corn, and every
| thing was consumed. Loss about S3,-
| 900.
Gov. Stone has appointed M. Faurot,
Inspector of oils for the city of Nevada,
for term ending May z, 1886; Alfred
Mitchell, inspector of oils for the city
of Boonville, for term ending May II,
1896.
Two young men, claiming to repre-
sent clothing house in st. Joseph,
have been travelling through north
Missouri with sample books. Numer-
Gus persons have been victimized by
them.
Eugene Murray, quite aged, was
burned to death in home miles west
of Monroe City. The building took fire
in some unknown manner, and Mr..
Murray persisted while rescuing his
family.
Henry Molder attempted to commit
suicide in Oregon, Holt county, by TAX
ing morphine, but he was rescued by
the timely arrival of DIR. Thatcher, to
whom he had written a letter disclos-
ing his intentions.
Gov. Stone has pardoned George S.
Knowler. convicted of forgery in Dallas
county, April, 1898, and sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years. Knowler
has been an inmate of the hospital for
some time, and is believed to have con-
sumption.
The Central Trust Co. of St. Louis
has made an assignment, w. w. Leon
ard, secretary of the company, being
named as assignee. The business de-
preston is alleged as the cause of the
failure. Assets said to be ample to
cover liabilities.
The latest piece of rascality traced to
Cashier j. c. Thompson of the defunct
First national bank of Sedalia is the
swindling of Miss Lulu Barnes, daugh-
ter of brother mason, out of So 900, the
amount of life insurance left her by her
father upon his death.
At Maysville, early the other morn
ing, fire started on the east side of the
public square in a frame building, and
before it was under control five bust
ness houses were consumed, with a
greater part of their contents. Loss,
SIT. 800; insurance, $4,000.
While Edward Wilson, proprietor of
ST. Louis restaurant, was taking six
dollars from roll containing 1925, with
which to pay off Charles Harring, dis
satisfied cook, the latter seized Wilson,
so Wilson alleges, threw him to the
floor, grabbed the roll and escaped.
Oliver Reneer, j. b. Taylor and Ed
Russell were arrested, charged with
conspiring to dynamite the home of r.
G. Gwyne, at Seneca, Newton county.
Gwyne had received several threaten
ing letters, and the other day stick of
dynamite was exploded near his house.
VIM c. Dawson, of Louisiana, one of
the first twelve of the six-year gradu
ating class of the United States Naval
academy at Annapolis, Nd. has re-
ceived ninth place in order of qualifi-
cation, and will receive the appoint
ment of ensign. He is a son of Mrs.
J. C. Dawson. of Louisiana, and of the
late Rev. w. c. Dawson, of the Episco-
pal church.
At IL o'clock the other night burglars
entered the residence of John NJ. Rus
sell, banker of Palmyra. Mrs. Rus
sell was awakened by the noise they
made, and raising in bed, she could see.
by the aid of light burning in the
room, man crawling on the floor. She
gave an cutlery, and the burglar, rails
ing pistol, and taking deliberate aim.
shot her in the forehead between the