Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-02-14
MISSOURI cuLLINGs.

A canning factory is under way al
Edna.
| Joplin spends s12, GOO year for fire
protection.
An ''Old Maids Club has been or
ganized at Sedalia
There We're thirty-one deaths during
January in Trenton.
Numbers are being placed on the
houses at Maryville.
A big strawberry crop is predicted
for southwest Missouri.
NJ. D. Treece. an old resident of Pop.
lar Bluff, died recently.
Higginsville citizens are proud OF
their commercial college.
J. S. Fleming, jefferson City bank.
er since 1869. has retired.
| Nevada will entertain the odd fell
lows grand lodge May %.
Local talent will present the "Chimes
OF Normandy" at Carthage.
A good many fat steers are still held
for market in Barton county.
| progressive euchre party at Lou
isiana netted $50 for the poor.
| The Trenton Provident association
has spent about $S5 this winter.
George v. Moore and Miss Etha
Stevens were married at Hannibal.
The Stanberry Normal School asso-
citation has incorporated for $4,000.
| The anti-cigNrette ordinance has no
effect on the kids of Clinton, it is
said.
Assignee Pinnell of the late Citizens
| honG IF Novo1o rsron hSc dis.
charge.
| A six-foot vein of red ground paint is
| said to underlie Barnard, Nodaway
| county.
Bud Robinson was found badly
| frozen at Gentryville, Gentry county,
| and died.
It has been decreed that Richmond
shall have an electric light and water
works plant.
At Kansas City 100 German Pythians
have withdrawn and organized German
Lodge, No. 1.
William Deane, railroad man, fell
on the pavement at Sedalia, and broke
an ankle bone.
Butler merchants and business men
have prepared an occupation tax to
help the city out.
Thomas H. Ellis, 4162 Westminster
place, st. Louis, was found dead in
bed: heart disease.
DR.. III. w. Slower was found dead by
the roadside near Kahoka, where he
had fallen out of his cart.
Rev. E. b. Shaw, formerly pastor of
the Brookfe1d Baptist church, has &C.
cepted call to Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. Ella Matteson, president of the
ladies of the G. A. r. in Hannibal, died
suddenly of heart disease, aged 40.
Mrs. Cecilia Smith, for twenty years
a teacher in the St. Louis public
schools, died after an illness of ten
days.
Kansas City is reaching out for a
presidential convention in 1896. A
mammoth convention hall will be built,
it is said.
Excelsior Springs citizens have
paying of what they claim to be un-
just tax bills.
At special election held in Windsor,
Henry county, 295 votes were polled
for and against erection of SIS, ZOO
school building.
At Linneus citizens will raise So, 600
with which to purchase machinery to
be attached to an engine of local mill
to furnish electric lights.
August Young broke into a house in
Kansas City suburb and stole jam and
canned fruit. He was given twelve
years in the penitentiary.
Cl,c.1o. D,,~1.Lo.l< o-ol &c ,..l,z 49,.
sided with his parents at 2719 North
Ninth street, st. Louis, was killed by
the bursting of an emery wheel.
Several Of the ministers of st. Charles
are contemplating issuing religious
paper, to be called the Church Bulletin
and to be devoted exclusively to church
matters.
James Mcdonnell, drunk and we'll
dressed, was arrested in Kansas City
for loud singing. AS he was carried
into the station he yelled: 'Give me a
good room, with steam heat"
Walter Hughes was fatally injured
in an explosion at the Red Cross mine,
Joplin. He put some giant powder
near the fire to thaw. Both legs were
blown off, skull fractured and his eyes
were blown out.
Martin Regain, son of Kansas City
alderman, got drunk and started out tc
corner the earth. He hammered E. G.
Albers, jeweler, until his dearest
friend would not recognize him. Re-
gan was sentenced to six months in
Jail.
Mr.. l. Newton Powell, clerk of the
board of election commissioners of the
city of Chicago, and Miss Gertrude
Hamacher were married at the Meth
odist church in Richmond, Rev. j. S.
Vanmeter, of the Presbyterian church.
officiating.
Fl. A. White, superintendent of ,the
Southwestern division of the Rock
Island railroad, died at Trenton, aged
50, after few days illness with pneu-
monia. Mr.. White had been in Tren-
ton about sixteen years, and was for
merly conductor.
The barn on the Oakdale farm. near
Sweet Springs, owned by James Evans,
was entirely destroyed by fire. Nine
hundred barrels of corn, thirty tons of
hay, farming implements. harness, ETC., 4
were also consumed. Loss, about So
900; insured for So 900.
John A. Bartchy, charged with being
an accessory to the murder of Nine.
Jane Wright, in September, 1898, was
sentenced at Kansas City to nine