Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-04-19
MISSOURI CULLINGS.

Tie MOberly fair will begin August
81 this year and continue five days.
Mrs. N. Fl. Williams, an estimable
woman of Hannibal, died recently.
The Kansas City Commercial club,
100 strong, recently visited Brunswick.
Thomas incl. wealthy citizen OF
st. Joseph, was seriously injured by
foot-pad
coin county, asks to have its charter
| annuled.
Julius Marchidowski, Of St. Louis,
| had his son arrested for stealing suit
| of his clothes.
The business men of St. Charles are
| endeavoring to secure the location of
| shoe factory there.
The primary convocation OF the
Episcopal archdeacons of the north
and midwest was held in Kansas City.
John T. Davis, of Samuel c. Davis &
| Co., wholesale dry goods, St Louis, the
richest man in Missouri, died on the
18th.
The st. Louis Presbyterian mission
airy convention was held at Carondelet
| Presby church, beginning the
18th. Il 10 .zoiJ
Rev. P. NJ. Fishburn, of Illinois, has
been engaged by the Christian de-
| nomination to do Stun work in st.
Louis. 1o'-a".
Money has been raised to improve
| Stephens college, Columbia, and Rev.
S. F. Taylor has accepted the presi-
| deney.
Charles Wisdom, colored, a murderer,
| was hanged in st. Louis on the 18th.
He cursed the sheriff on the way to the
galIows.
James Walton, aged 16, confessed to
having committed burglary in st.
Joseph. His mother is almost insane
from grief.
Edward Pratt was recently arrested
| at La Plata on the charge of stealing
| two horses from a widow at Bucklin,
Linn county.
Gov. w. ]. Stone, having gone to Hot
| Springs for a rest, Lieut.-GoV. }. Is.
O'Meara has been in charge of the
| executive Office.
The Kansas City cable companies
have consolidated under the name OF
the Kansas City Cable Railway Co. with
| capital stock of s4,3OO,000.
The Pettis county grand jury recon-
| mended that a proposition be submit
ted at the fall election to build a new
Jail, at a cost not to exceed $4,000.
At La Plata the prisoners in the
county Jail placed an iron rod in the
stove, and heating it red hot, set fire
to the jail and broke out through the
flames.
Louis Nehring, IS years old, died at
the st. Louis city hospital from the
effects of fractured skull, sustained
at the hands of his elder brother,
George.
Rev. S. T. Ruffner, pastor of the
Pennington Presby terrain church, was
elected a delegate to the general as
sembly, which meets at Nashville,
Tenn. in May.
Edwin Harbaugh and Albert Lind
say were arrested at st. Joseph charged
with being members of a gang that had
stolen 1000 chickens during the past
three months.
John Amick, aged 50 years, died at
his home near Fayette. Mr.. Amick
was one of the first settles of the Boon's
Lick country and spent his whole life
in the same neighborhood.
Joseph Rhoades, a notorious safe
blower, has been arrested in st. Louis,
where he is said to have been selling
postage stamps, fact which will direct
Uncle Sans attention to him.
Rev. George D. Watson, the famous
southern evangelist, is assisting in
revival services at the First M. E.
church, south, in st. Louis. The meet
ings will continue through April.
William Skrainka, prominent con-
tractor for public works, died in St
Louis, after short illness, of Bright's
disease. aged 70 years. He was native
of Austria. His remains were cremated.
A great sensation has been caused at
Platt City by the grand jury returning
indictments against forty of the lead
ing ladies and gentlemen for playing
progressive euchre. 1t is declared to
be gambling.
Death relieved the sufferings of John
w. Lewis of ST. Louis, who was found
at the Union depot, Cleveland, O., the
other day, arrested as tramp and
afterward sent to the infirmary hospi-
pital with pneumonia.
House committee on war claims has
agreed in accordance with the recon-
mendations Of Secretary Hoke Smith
to report a bill authorizing the pay
ment to Representative Heard, of Mis-
souri,, $4,000 for services rendered the
old settlers or western Cherokee In
dams in their claim against the United
States.
The workmen employed at the ship
ping depot of the Klausman Brewing
Co., st. Louis, were much surprised the
other morning on opening a sealed re-
frigerator car which contained empty
kegs to discover three tramps in the
car The men had been locked in with
out food for sixty hours and were near
ly famished. They got into the car at
DeSoto, thinking that as it contained
nothing but empty kegs it would not
be sealed. But it was side-tracked for
two days before being delivered to the
brewery people. The poor fellows
were nearly famished.
One of the principal objects of the
council of officers of the Salvation
Army, held in st. Louis several weeks
ago, was to arrange for slum crusade
in the city. Plans were laid, which
are now being worked out. Gen. Bal
lington Booth, at the head of the Sal.
walton Army, and his wife will be in
st. Louis May and 2, with a staff of
high officers. Their coming will mark
the Inauguration of the crusade. The
organization, which will scour the pur-
lieus of ST. Louis, will be called
'sSlum post the members of which
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