Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-07
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Missouri Board of Equalization.

Missouri Board of Equalization.
The state board of equalization met
in jefferson City the other day. The
board is composed of the governor.
auditor, secretary of state, treasurer
and atto,rney-general. Gov. Stone was
elected president, Secretary of State
Lesue-dr, vice-president, and Auditor
Seibe,rt, secretary. The board met for
the purpose of equalizing and ad just
ing the assessment and valuation of
real and personal property, and will
meet in April to assess the railroad,
bridge and telegraph property of the
state.
The board will be in session from
day to day until March 20, and all
parties interested in the equalization
of the values of real and personal prop
erty as assessed for the taxes of 1895
will be given a hearing at any time
prior to that date. The board, as usual,
finds many inequalities in the average
values of real and personal property as
fixed by the various county assessors.
For instance. in some counties the
| average assessed value of horses is as
low as S16.66, while in other counties
| the average assessed value goes up as
high as S56.T4 per head. The average
| assessed value of mules ranges from
| S17.60 to S45. So per head; cattle from
| S5.4S to $50. &c per head, and hogs from
81 to S.. 81 per head. The inequalities
| in the average value of land per acre
is even more conspicuous.
They Marked Him Voted.
The St Louis Globe-Democrat re.
Gently published the following: Pow.
| ers, O'Donnell, Maroney and others
| under indictment for election frauds,
| are getting deeper into the mire. II
has developed that the name of -
| Heckelstein was voted in precinct /,
| First ward, at the fall election. Heckel
| stein had been dead a year and eight
months on the day of the election
John P. Collins held the poll-book and
| marked the name voted Maroney
and O'Donnell were judges at the same
| polling place, and must have seen the
repeater who voted on Heckelstein's
| name. The dead man lived at 221
| Clark avenue. John p. Collins, who
marked the name voted. is an under
| taker, and buried Heckelstein. Ma
| roney, Powers and George Seibert are
| said to have laid the dead man out, ano
the whole crowd attended the funeral
| SO me of them acting as pall-bearers
These facts will be laid before the
March grand jury.
| He Roped in Greenies.
| X. L. May was arrested in St Louis
| the other day for using the mails in a
| scheme to defraud. He answered ad
| vertisements in matrimonial papers
| pretending that he was a woman anx
ious to marry. He would write to the
wife seeker that he was "a girl, II
strong and healty, 5 feet inches
sweet disposition" This caught
every time, and the next mail would
bring SIS to pay the ''fair ones railway
passage. May is very bunny looking
He is about 40, has strawberry nose
blear eyes, and if the 'wife hunters
could see him their infatuation fo
their flowing little friend" would b,
| cured
Mistaken for a Burglar.
Miss Mildred Wise, young lady O
Il. who lives with her sister, Mrs
Robert S Craig, at 1901 Powell street
st. Joseph, was shot and dangerousl,
wounded by her brother-in-law abou
9 o'clock the other morning, VIII,
thought she was burglar Mrs. Craig
was awakened at that hour by
mysterious noise in the hallway ad
joining her bed chamber. She though
there was a burglar in the house, ant
screamed at the top of her voice. He
cries not only awoke.her husband. VIII
was sleeping by her side. but also Mis-
Wise, who occupied an adjoining room
The girl started to enter her sister,
room and was shot by Craig.
| Bad Fire In St. Louis.
The seven-story stone-front buildin,
at 901 to 900 Washington avenue, ST
Louis, occupied by Friedman Bros.
Schafer, manufacturers of boots an
shoes, and CHASER Bros, wholesale i'm
porters and jobbers of ladies' AM
gentlemen's furnishing goods, and tw,
other firms, was damaged So, 500 by fir
at TAO o'clock the other evening. TIL
damage to the stock of both firms will
probably aggregate $4,000.
| Attempted Murder and Suicide.
| George Weaver, colored youth Q
st. Joseph, was drunk, and because hi
mother would not give him money t.
buy suit of clothes he took shot a
her with a revolver and then sho
himself three times in the breast. FL
will die.
| Wires Acquitted.
j. NJ. Wires, who killed Deny Shaw
at Stotts City, Lawrence county, i
June, 1894, with knife, was acquitte
in the circuit court at Lamar, to whicl
place the case syvas taken on a chang
of venue. He pleaded self-defense.
| Denton Gets Eighteen Years.
At Ozark the jury in the Denton cas-
returned a verdict of murder in tn
first degree, and gave the negro eigh
teen years in the penitentiary. Thre
of the jury held out for the dealt
penalty all night.
| First Payment of Income Tax.
The first payment in ST. Louis of tn
income tax was made by a woman
who is going to Europe. and she di'
not care to be annoyed about the col
lection at the regular time OF payment
She paid $50.