Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-12
MISSOURI olEANlnos.

The revival meetings held by Elder
j. w. Henson, of the East Moberly
Christian church, have been very sue
cessful, many being brought to repent
ance.
Gov. Stone mas appointed French
Strother school commissioner of Au-
drain county, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of C. j. Settle.
DR. Burton L Thorpe, of Billings,
and Miss Roberta Scott, of Gallatin,
were married at the Baptist church.
IN Gallatin. a few days ago, DIR. Pope
Yeaman officiating.
Fanny Phillips. daughter of Judge
J. c. Phillips. of Butler, took Rough
on Rats" and died from the effects
She was 10 years old. Her parents OBJ
jected to her marrying.
Clarence T. Evans, deaf mute.
aged %. was struck by train on the
ST. Louis. Keokuk & Northwestern
about a mile above Hannibal and in
stantly killed. The deceased resided
in Hannibal with his parents
A special election held at Holden to
decide whether the city charter should
be changed from a village to that of a
third-ciass city, resulted in favor of
the latter proposition, the vote stand
ing 223 for and 35 against Less than
half the vote was polled.
One of the attractive exhibits at the
meeting of the State Horticultural So
ciety at Neosho was an orange tree
full of oranges. The tree is a Neosho
product. belonging to Mrs. Charles
Lewis. is seventeen years old, and this
is the fifteenth crop of fruit. The
oranges are of fair size and well coll
ored
Congressman Bartholdt has intro
duced bill to enable the secretary of
war to continue the reconstruction OF
the military post at jefferson barracks,
St Louis. 1t provides that 5000, O000
be appropriated. Mr.. Bartholdt has
received assurances that the Fifty
fourth congress will be more liberal
toward the post.
A special election was held in Cole
county the other day to vote on a prop
osition to issue $4,000 of per cent.
bonds for the purpose of building
new courthouse. Two-thirds of all the
votes cast were necessary to carry the
proposition, and they were secured.
OF the 1,644 votes cast in Jefferson City
only 10 were against.
Rollin McNama, who has been
brought into prominence lately by the
number Of times he has been arrested
on the charge of swindling, was held
in default of $500 bail at Mexico on
the charge of having defrauded Bar
ney Fennewald, of Martinsburg, out
of over So. 900 worth of cattle. McNama
could not find bondsman, and he was
remanded to jail.
The secretary of the treasury at
Washington has sent a fitting letter
to the widow of Assistant Comptroller
Mansur. conveying to her a beautiful
volume of the embossed resolutions
passed by the officials of the treasury
department at the time of Col. Man
sur's death. The volume is bound in
handsome morocco and contains, be-
sides the beautifully engrossed resolu-
lions, a large picture of Col. Mansur.
The state board of railway and ware
aouse commissioners the other day
made an order requiring the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. to
deliver grain shipped over its lines
destined to elevators on the tracks Of
the Chicago Great Western, at St
Joseph. For some reason, not appa-
rent, the Rock Island refused to deliv-
err the grain, which is a violation of
the statutes regulating the inter
change of traffic and the orders of the
board issued on that point about q
year ago.
Senator CoclSreIl has undertaken to
help the members of the various Mis-
souri, militia organizations get pay for
ha
during the civil war. BY an agreement
between President Lincoln and Gov.
Gamble in November, 1861, it was ar
ranged that the militia should be
called out whenever needed for service
in the state to help in preventing con-
federate raids and suppressing the
rebellion. Many of the members fur
nished their own arms, horses and
equipments, and lost them through no
fault of their own.
Representative BarthoIdt put in his
bill the other day for the appointment
of commission to investigate the pol
luton of water supplies where such
pollution affects or threatens to affect
the sanitary condition of the people of
more than one state. This is the bill
which. if enacted, will lead to a very
thorough inquiry of the probable effect
of the big Chicago drainage canal upon
the water of the Illinois and Missis-
sippi rivers. 1t provides for three COM
missioners. to be appointed by the pres
ident, to serve for $40 a day and ex-
penses. The commission is to report
to congress the results of the investi-
cation.
TIE annual meeting OF the State
Horticultural society was held at Ne
osho. Among the interesting papers
read was one by j. Nj. Purdie, of Neo-
sho, on "How to Take Care of Apples"
Mr.. Purdie showed by his simple meth
cd of constructing cold storage houses
that there was no use of any great ex-
pense. Frank Hammond, of Amoret,
one of the new orchard towns on the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf rail-
road, read a paper on THE Prepara-
ton of Ground and Planting an Or
chard,' after which general discus
sion on the question was held. Secre-
tary Goodman read a paper prepared
by Paul Eavens. of the Olden Fruit
Farm. on spraying.
Louis Bauer has sued the Marion
Sims College of Medicine at ST. Louis
to replevin lot of physiological and
anatomical specimens. which he values
at $500. He presents catalogue OF
the goods wanted. Among the things
wanted is a defective larynx, girls