Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10
MISSOURI cULLiNGS.

MISSOURI COlIiNSS.
The oat crop is said to be almost an
entire failure in the vicinity OF Hannd'
bal.
Rev. H. T. Morton, A. NJ, d. D., has
resigned as president of ClarksburR
college.
John Brown, of Rockport, was ar
rested for the alleged burglary of sew
eral stores.
ty. and Tullvania, Macon county, have
been abolished.
B 81. Pratt, a former prominent resi-
lent of Hannibal. died in Chicago. The
remains were inferred in Hannibal.
The Pike county Sunday-school as
ISOLATION will hold its annual conven-
ton at Curryville July 81 to August Q.
Mrs. Rachel Mcfarland, 40 years old,
fell down a fight of stairs in St Louis
and was SO badly injured that she died.
The Continental national bank of St.
Louis has announced reduction of Its
capital stock from 1000, 900 to 81 900.
DOC.
The annual public exhibition of the
work of the artists and sculptors of st.
Louis opened the other evening in the
Museum of Fine Arts.
The name of ex-mayor Noonan Of
st. Louis will be brought before the
democratic convention of the Eleventh
congressional district.
The executive committee of the Jas
per county normal institute will hold
four weeks school of instruction at
Joplin. to begin July 80.
Rev. II. c. Evans, assistant editor Of
the st. Louis Presbyterian, has re-
ceived a call to the pulpit of the Kirk
wood Presbyterian church.
The entry list Of the Louisiana fair
promises to be larger than any previ-
GUS year. A trotting dog-record $50
will be one of the attractions.
It is reported that the entire Mis-
souri, delegation of democrats in con-
gress will probably attend the state
convention at Kansas City in a body.
Rev. D. T. Denman, of the Fifth
Street Baptist church, Hannibal,
preached the baccalaureate sermon be-
fore the graduates of the La Grange
college.
A. c. Staff, a well-known young man
of Cameron. who is charged with hav-
ing raised a check from 81. so to SIS, was
arrested in st. Joseph and returned to
Cameron.
Joseph Hart, travelling for the DIR. A.
P. Sawyer Medicine Co., of Kansas City,
was jailed at Sedalia for attempting to
pass what his accusers pronounce q
bogus check.
Congressman Champ Clark has Sc
the st. Charles college, asking for
remuneration for the use of the build
ing as hospital during the war.
John Helm was tried for attempting
to kill Elijah Webb near Spring Bluff,
Franklin county, last August, and
found guilty by the jury and sentenced
to three months in the county jail and
fined 500.
William Whalen, of st. Peters mine
fame, was found guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses in st.
Louis and the jury assessed his punish
ment at four years in the penitentiary.
Whalen sold worthless mining shares
Burglars entered the store of Henry
Kerstner, a prominent merchant at
Gordonville, Cape Girardeau county,
cracked his safe and stole $50 and
tried to blow second safe, but were
unsuccessful. They also entered an
other store and stole some revolvers,
etc, but were scared off.
County Attorney Hoffman of Pettis
county was notified the other day by
State Treasurer Stephens to dismiss
the suit instituted some weeks ago
with view to having the charter of
the Pettis County Investment Co. tor
feited, on the ground that it had not
complied with the law by depositing
500, 900 with the state treasurer.
In. st. Joseph, the other morning, q
residence of E. C. Bischof. There were
eight persons asleep in the house, and
had not the flames been discovered. it
is probable that some members of the
family would have persisted. The floor
of the basement, where the fire start
ed, was saturated with kerosene.
An interacademic declamatory con-
test will be held in the opera house in
Clinton, Friday night, the 18th inst
The leading academies of south Mis-
souri, will be represented, and the
honors will be hotly contested. Prof.
C. F. Lamkin, of Clinton academy, pres
ident of the association, has the matter
in hand. and expects number of good
speakers to take part.
Frank Schulong found 5-year-old
crippled girl wandering aimlessly
about Bellefontaine cemetery, st.
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not tell how she got there. Schulong
turned the girl over to Gatekeeper Will
liam Scott, who had her sent to the
city hospital, as she was in a very
starved condition. It is supposed the
girls parents abandoned her.
Louis Neubauer, a farmer near New
Madrid, was in st. Louis the other Glay,
stopping at Hurst's hotel. He called
at the four courts and reported to
Chief Desmond that he had been
robbed of s535. He said that the money
Iaust have been stolen from him. He
had the amount in bills in a long
black leather pocket-bcok in the inside
pocket of his coat. He could not re-
member the names Of several men to
whom he had tai, ed during the day.
one of whom he thinks got away with
the money. The police believe that
the job was done by an expert.
Suit for the recovery of 100 acres Of
mining land worth $500, 900 has been
brought at Carthage by Mrs. Pauline
B. Hatcher against her son. B. F..
Hatcher, and her son-in-law, Jacob
Literal The plaintiff decided the land
to defendants, as she claims, through