Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-06-13

DIR. Strong at this place, died at hi.
| home near Bismarck one day las
week. from lockjaw. Ten days prio
to his death. while engaged in remov
ing some rubbish from the foundation:
of the Dr.'s new building, Robert rar
nail into his foot. He at first refus.
ed to permit the Doctor to examine it,
but later the wound was dressed an6
| appeared to be healing. A day ortwe
after this he left for home, where, q
| week later, the hurt grew rapidly
worse and death from tetanus resulted,
as stated above. With those who knew
him here, it is difficult to realize that
he is gone beyond the vale of mortal
ken, and our heartiest sympathies are
extended to his bereaved relatives.
Section 6S99, Rev. Statutes of 1899,
has been amended by Act of March I'd.
1898, to require merchants to file their
statements with the assessor, instead of
the county clerk; the assessor to enter
such statements in separate book pre-
pared for that purpose and return said
book to the county board of equaliza-
ton, which will meet on the first Mon
day in September. The Act OF March
I'd, 1895. has no emergency clause,
but the State Auditor, after comforting
with the Attorney-General, is of the
opinion that that part of the law fixing
the date for filing merchants state
ments is merely directory, and that
such statements should be filed with
the assessor this year. so that the
ntaf pnnIy-T ,r-f1l no do
and returned to the county board of
equalization on the first Monday in
next September as required by law.
Last Sunday evening. about seven
o'clock, there were probably fifty
children standing in the street and on
the sidewalks near the Presbyterian
church, awaiting the hour for begin
ming Children's Day services. just
then one of Collins livery horses came
running down the street at breakneck
speed, followed a few moments later
by another. There was a hurried
scramble for the sidewalk by the chill
dren on the street, but even there they
were in a moment of imminent danger;
for the horses felt themselves as free
of the sidewalk as of the street, and
confined themselves to neither. For
tunately nothing more than general
scare and several narrow escapes from
being run over resulted to the child
rem. We submit that if incorporation
has any use protection to life and limb
in the event of such gatherings is its
chiefest. And we further submit it to
owners of horses that-ordiuance or no
ordinance-their turning their horses
to gallop at large through the streets
and over the sidewalks of this town
smacks little of civilized usage or care
for the safety of the little ones who at
all hours of the day and evening are
thus exposed to inexcusable peril.
MARRIED-At the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Oesterle, OF
Middleorbok, Mo, on the Sd inst, Mr.
FIR,IAN S. BRECKENRIDGE of Caledonia,
and Miss ANNA f. OEsTERLE. Mr..
Breckenridge is one of the rising young
farmers of Beileview Valley, who has
a very bright future before him. Miss
Oesterle has been for five consecutive
years a very successful teacher in the
Public School and had the
position rendered her again; but she
seemed to think that one student was
better than a hundred. The couple
were married in the upstairs parlor of
the brides home, under a beautiful
arch of roses, an old boyhood friend of
the groom, Rev. j. B. White of Mid
dletown, Mo. officiating. The bride was
Hastily dressed in white nuns yelling,
trimmed In white satin. Her hair
was neatly dressed ir white roses, and
they each wore bouquet OF the same.
The supper was very nice, indeed. and
the numerous friends and relatives
present, together with the writer, did
Justice TO its dainties. The reception
at the groom'S home was attended by
the neighbors and friends OF the groom
and his excellent young wife. and was
a very enjoyable day. We all join In
hearty congratulations and extend our
very best wishes for their future sue
cess and happiness. j. b. w.
A sad accident occurred at Doe Run
shaft number two, on Thursday last,
about nine o'clock in the morning.
when two miners were killed and one
seriously hurt, the latter dying about
five hours after he was brought out OF
the mine. One laborer was also hurt,
but will no doubt recover. 1t appears
that the superintendent had given in
structions TO blast down a piece of roof
rock that had become loose, but no one
thought it to BE very dangerous.
While the miners were setting up a
drilling machine to blast it down, the
roof fell, bringing with it a portion OF
the roof over the men and where they
stood. There were in the group two
brothers by the name OF Penberthy;
one of these stepped back short dis
lance to get drink of water. and
while in the act of drinking the roof
fell with the result stated above. If
he had not stepped back he would have
been killed with the others. The
laborer, Tom Dean, was pushing in the
car to loac up rock when it fell. The
Doe Run Company has been very I'M
fortunate in the development Of their
mining property on Flat River. Shalt
number one became flooded with an
underground stream of water when the
men had scarcely time enough to get
out tools aud mules from the mine.
This shaft had to be Abandoned Now
they have large streams OF water TO
contend with, but they have the water
under control at number two. The
above accident.was a sad affair. It ap-
pears to be one of those unforeseen &C
lat ha