Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-27
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Missouri Bankers,

| Missouri Bankers.
The Missouri Bankers association
held their annual convention at Jeffer.
SON City. Following were adopted, a
to 6:
"WHEREAs, The banks OF the state have
| their interests indissolubly connected with the
| financial prosperity of the people of the state
| whether they be farmers or manufacturers OF
| wage earners:
"Resofred, That We believe IL to be the inter-
ests OF the people OF this state to use IN theil
| business as good money as any other people in
! the world have, and that IL is against their in
| terests to use any deprecated dollar. whether
| 1t be gold, silver or paper; that we are opposed
| to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at
| the ratio of 10 to 1 unless the other leading
! nations of the earth adopt the same ratio;
| that we favor limiting the coinage OF silver SO
| that the government which issues it as money
| and receives 1t Tor public dues may be able al
! all times to maintain its parity or exchange
| ability with gold: that we favor the preServa-
| tfon OF the existing standard of values, with
| such use of full legal tender silver coins and
! paper convertible into coin on demand, as can
| be maintained without impairing or endanger-
| Ing the credit Of the government, diminish
| Ing the purchasing or debt-paying power of tho
money in the hands Of the people
| Changes In Salaries of Postmasters.
Following changes have been made
In salaries of Missouri postmasters:
Increases-Albany. 81 800 to sI.4OO Appleton
City, $1,000 to 1870; Carlifornia, 81 800 81
100; Carroliton 81 800 to 81 900: Charleston ST.
100 to 81 500 GAINESVILLE. 81 900 81 100: Cln-
ION. 81 to $1,000 Excelsior Springs 81 200 to
| 1880; Fredericktown, $1,000 to s1100; Glas-
Eow 81 200 TO 81 800: Golden City. 81 600 to ST.
.o0: Greenfield. 81 900 to 81 ,1OO Ind dependence.
| 1900 to s2,100 Keytesville, 81 900 to s1.100;
hirksville- 81 800 to 5000 La Plata. 81 100 to
h-2oo: Lathrop. 81 GOO to q. 100: Lees Summit,
H-2oo to 1890: Maryville. 1880 to 5000:
| Monet, S1.40) to $500; Monroe City.
I'll 400 to 81 500 Oregon. 81 eco to 81 1000: Os-
seola. 81 600 to 81 1Oo Palmyra. 81 400 81 500;
Lockport, 81 600 to 81 eco; Salisbury. SI.40O to
$780, Savannah. 81 200 to 81, 800: Seneca 81 900
to s1.l0o; Upton. 81 900 to sl.lO0; warrensburg,
1890 to 5000: Webster Groves. 81 200 to 81 800;
West Plains. 81 900 to sl,70o; Willow Springs,
| 81 200 to 81 800
| Decrease-Ash Grove, 81 200 to 81 100: Leba-
non. 81 80. to 81 800 Louisiana s. 400 to g. 800;
Macon VI 900 to 81 500; Montgomery City. 81 500
TO 81 800: Rich Hill, 81 800 81 200; Stanberry
tl.s0O to 81 900: Unionville, 81 600 to s, 400
kirksville, Maryville and Warrensburg are
| advanced from third to second class.
Said Her Mother Did 1t.
A strange and fatal shooting o.
| ;urred at Hannibal the other day.
In 1885 Clarence E. Todd married a grass
| widow named Bethel. who had three children
| Some time ago the youngest child died. The
| couple did not live happily, and Todd left his
Wife The stepson took the part OF his mother
while her daughter was favorable to her STEP
| father The girl who was about o years of
| age. left home, and the husband was granted q
divorce at the last term of court.
The other day the mother sent for her dauph-
ter to come to the family home for her clothes
as she intended to pack up the household goods
and quit keeping house. The daughter Hettie
old as requested but while alone in the house
the mother and daughter quarreled and three
shots were fired The daughter out OF tho
mouse, crying: You have killed me- and, fall
ing in the street. died. A post-mortem examf-
nation showed that one bullet passed through
her heart and another struck her in the abdo-
men. The mother has been arrested on the
charge OF murder in the first degree but she
claims that the daughter had the revolver in
her hand and accidentally shot herself.
No Sunday Slaves.
The law closing barber shops is be-
ing enforced in ST. Louis
The time has come when the Sunday shave
must go; the Sunday shine is doomed: the
Sunday haircut must cease: the Sunday
shampoo must perish. The edict has gone
forth. No more shall the deft razor of the
Journeyman barber travel over the face of
the worried citizen. removing whiskers that
are like SO many drops OF irritant poison.
No more shall the scent of the odorous bay
rum glide up his nostrils. setting his mind at
pcoCc Will d1l INC World NO more Shall the
soft powder beSprinkle his features, lending to
them look OF freshness they can not call
their own. and no more shall his black hair
press the red plush on the BARRIERS head rest
on Sabbath morn.
MischievOus Chill dren Cause q Tragedy.
5. ii. Neal, postmaster at San An
tonic. 10 miles east of st. Joseph, shot
and fatally wounded J. W. Taylor, a
neighbor.
The shooting was the result Of quarrel over
rhe destruction of apple trees by Meals chill
dren. During Meals absence, Taylor paid the
formers home visit and abused Mrs. Neal.
because of the conduct of her children. Neal,
when informed by his wife, armed with a TO-
volver. called on Taylor. The latter used q
shotgun in defending himself, but did not
wound his assailant. Taylor was shot three
times, one bullet breaking his backbone.
Reducing the State Deb.
The state debt will be reduced by
SD, 600 July /.
State Treasurer Lon V. Stephens the other
day forwarded to the American Exchange
bank of New York city a check for $4,000 to
take up ninety-four per cent. bonds, which
mature July 1. The treasurer also forwarded
a check to the fiscal agent for sos 915 to pay
semi-annual interest the state debt due
July ]. The retiring of this lot OF bonds will
reduce the state debt to s., 48o 600. OF this
31= per cent, and the remaining s4os00o at the
rate of per cent.
Picked the Jail Locks.
Frank Mccormack and James New
ark, confined in the Boonville Jail and
under sentence to terms in the peni-
Tertiary for burglary and larceny, es-
capped by picking locks with a wire
taken from one of the beds
A Pioneer.
Baker Fale, aged So, died at Ex-
celsior Springs He was born in Ger
many, came to this country when
young. served in the Mexican war and
went to California in 1s49
New Laws In Effect.
All laws passed by the Thirty-eighth
general assembly have gone into eff
feet Hereafter new corporations must
pay 25 cents on each 81, 600 of stock
into the state treasury.
Burglars Use n Pole.
At Centralia burglars used a pole
and fished Judge p S. Rockers cloth
ing out through an open window, Sc.
curing a gold watch and valuable pa
pers.
Boy and Widow.
Racie Campbell, aged IS, son of a
wealthy Randolph county farmer.
=loped with Mrs. Pensie Terry, the
owner of two children and farm
Sedalia School Bonds.
The city of Sedalia recentlv sold S20 .