Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-10
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
A Priest Arrested.


Father Wagner. ST. Joseph priest.
was arrested in that city. Miss Maud
Steidel, aged Is, disappeared from st.
convent, and it is claimed that Father
Wagner was the cause of her leaving
home. Ugly charges are made, but
Father Wagner stoutly maintains his
innocence, and asserts that it is plot
to ruin him. He was held for the
grand jury.
WANTS TO MARRY HER
A dispatch from st. Joseph says that
Father Wagner has agreed to transfer
all his property and money. amounting
to about SIC, 900, to the girl. and marry
her. if the prosecution will be dropped.
1t is also claimed that the priest has
confessed that the girls story is true.
A Boy Tired of Life.
Richard F1uhr, aged Is, committed
suicide at Herman by shooting. He
had been working in st. Louis, but re-
turned at night, and without stopping
at the home of his parents, went to
the baseball park and shot himself
His body was found next morning.
In his pockets was found a card on the
back of which was written the follow
ing note to his parents:
/ came back tonight. am tired of this life
RICHARD FLUHR
Result of a Crossing Accident.
Suit has been fled at Nevada by at
torneys for Mrs. Sarah B. Kelsey
against the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Co. for $685. 900. Mrs. Kelsey was driv-
ing across the Missouri Pacific track
near Nevada, September Is, 1892, when
| passenger train struck her. She was
badly hurt, her horse being killed and
| the buggy smashed to pieces. She
first sued for $1,000 and was given a
| verdict by the circuit court. The case
was taken to the state supreme court,
where it was remanded.
Kansas City Carnival
The festivities attending the Kansas
| City carnival began with an immense
parade of bicyclists. headed by pla-
toon of mounted police. Several hun
dred riders, men and women, boys and
girls, each vieing with the other in the
| grotesqueness of costume, scurried
| through the principal streets, which
| were crowded by thousands of specta-
tors. At night the annual ball of the
| Priests of Pallas was held, and proved
to be the most successful in the city's
history.
Bank at Creighton.
| The Farmers and Merchants bank
of Creighton. Cass county, has made an
| assignment for the benefit of credit
| ors. The statement fled shows assets
to the amount of S124, 900 and liabili-
ties amounting to $780, mostly in
| real estate paper. The officers of the
institution say that the suspension is
only temporary, and that depositors
| will be paid in full. The cashier of the
bank, D. 3. Wallis, was designated as
| assignee
State Christian Endeavor Convention
The ninth annual convention of the
Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor of Missouri will be held at
Hannibal. October IS, 26 and 81. The
| railroads have made rate of one and
one-third fare for the round trip, and
it is expected that one thousand dele
gates will attend this annual gather
ing. Board and room at the hotels
can be had at 81. so per day, and in pri-
vate families at 81. 90 per day.
Missouri Finances.
During September Secretary of State
Lesueur received and paid into the
state treasury fees as follows: Notaries
public, S2s5; miscellaneous fees, 1929. 65
land department fees, $50. rs; corpora
ton tax. 4,s75; endowment tax iron
scholarship, S740; total, So, $50.
| John T. Tee1.
Ex-Representative John T. Tee1. OF
Lawrence county, died at the Nevads
asylum for the insane. He was a mem
Der of the legislature which located
the asylum at Nevada, and often re
ferred to this act while an inmate O.
the institution.
| Pettis County Fair.
| The Pettis county fair continuing