Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-26
MISSOURI cuLlINGS.

Mining operations at Rich Hill are
being extensively resumed.
Many hogs have died from cholera in
johnson county this year,
The st. Louis grand jury has taken
up the alleged election frauds.
Mr.. Dewitt was seriously shot at
Neosho by the accidental discharge of
a pistol.
Richmond has six churches of differ
emit denominations, and all are pros
porous
Miss Fannie Walters dan Frank
Smith were married at Fayette. The
bride is only IS.
The force in the Frisco shops at
Springfield is increasing, $50 men be-
ing now employees
A Bates county farmer soaks wheat
In skinned milk and feeds it. He SAYS
it fattens hogs nicely.
Warden Pace of the penitentiary is
arranging for big dinner for his
guests on Christmas day.
The expenses Of the Girls Industrial
home at Chiflicothe fell s., 600 below
the appropriation for the fiscal year.
Wiley Ellis, of Marceline. was jailed
at Linneus, charged with breaking into
and robbing the First national bank of
Marceline.
John Brockway, aged "a, was ar
rested at Marshall the other night for
passing forged checks on several mer-
chants. and was jailed.
A wolf was killed Is miles north of
Springfield, which measured feet S
inches from the tip Of his nose to the
end of his tail and stood 80 inches in
height.
At Kansas City recently wheat-fed
hogs brought cents higher figures than
the next highest sale. There were 140
in the drove, and the owner said he
cleared $3.50. on the lot.
A valuable discovery of nickel and
cobalt has been made in the property
of the Donnelly Lead Co.. in st. Fran
co.'s county, which is said by mineral
experts to be by far the richest find of
these minerals ever made in this state.
II. NJ. Snyder, well-to-do farmer,
who lived about miles south of Sails
bury, committed suicide by hanging to
rafter in the barn, and was found by
his wife. 1t is thought that some
financial trouble was the cause.
Mrs. Mary E. Harris and daughter,
Myrtle, were arrested at St. Joseph,
charged with making false affidavits in
a pension case. 1t is alleged they
swore Mrs. Annie Thompson, who is
drawing pension, had not been mar
ried since her husbands death, which
proved to be false.
At Warsaw, Benton county, Judge
w. w. Wood overruled the motion for
a new trial in the case of w. S. Brown,
convicted of the murder of his brother,
Thos. Brown, in Benton county, No
vember last, for which crime he was
sentenced to fifty years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
The third annual meeting of the
Missouri State Poultry association was
held at Macon. There were about L.
500 entries from all parts of the state,
and a number from Illinois and Kan
sas. There were $50 prominent breed
ers present, and many others repre-
sented by coops of fowls.
George II. Lewis, a contractor of
Kansas City, who was in Mexico, be-
came suddenly insane from drinking a
tea made out of loco weed, and while
in that demented condition he jumped
into the Rio Tigre and was drowned.
Lewis had been in Mexico several
and recently purchased an ex-
tensive coffee plantation near Tuxpan.
Martin Robb was arrested in How
ard county on the charge of being I'M
duly intimate with his 13-year-old
niece, but escaped punishment by re-
fusal to prosecute on the part of the
girls mother. The other night he was
taken out by dozen or more citizens
and whipped and given two days to
leave town. He says he got thirty |
Iashes with a strap, and looks badly |
used up.
j. B. Lampkin, of Kingsville, John
son county, recently took a drove of |
hogs to Kansas City. 81 fnd," said |
Mr.. Lampkin, that the farmers of |
Johnson county have come to the con-
that wheat is the proper diet |
for hogs, for iG makes them smooth |
md they fatten quicker. Twelve of |
The hogs I shipped in, and which aver
aged 2sO pounds, were May hogs, and
hey were fed on wheat.
R. D. Powell, of st. Louis, bought at
trustees sale the Joplin Electric rail-
way, for $4,000, for the Carthage,
Webb City, Joplin & Galena Railway
20. The road was bonded for S15O, 200,
held by the Union Trust Co. It is be-
ieved the new company will at once
extend to Galena, Kas., and connect
With the road soon to be built from
Carthage to Carterville and Webb City.
Says dispatch from Hannibal: The
emains of Frank Whitecotton passed
through here and were taken to Brush
Ireek cemetery, in Rails county, for
nterment. Whitecotton was convict
ID some time ago in Shelby county of
in the robbery of an old man
FAMED Leland McElroy, near Hunting
money, in 1891. He was sentenced to
i've years in the penitentiary, but was
,ranted new trial and jumped his
,ond. He was located in the state of
was arrested there for
burglary and sentenced to serve five
ears in the penitentiarv under the
lame of Fred Curtis, where he died.
G. w. Clawson. Kansas City, who re-
emily made a business trip east, said
N his return: More than one bust.
less man in the east whom met won
cred at the prices paid for cattle, be-
ause other things had fallen lower in
rice in proportion. This is one thing
hat gives the eastern men confidence
a cattle paper, which is being sold in
'oston on the same terms as other
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