Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
MISSOURI CuLLlNGs. a
Pennington has 500 electric lights


One-half of the population of the
Missouri penitentiary is under IS years
of age.
The water supply is very low at
Mober..y
Joplin pays 50. 900 a month for school
teachers.
Springfield high school pupils are to
be uniformed.
Hog cholera is raging in Pilot Grove,
Cooper county.
Mr.. Blanchard, prominent citizen
of Deep Water, dropped dead.
r. A. Boyett and Miss Ora Amert
were married at Monroe City.
A. L. Dearman and Miss Karleen
Coleman were married at Salisbury.
A. L. Hawkins, Palmyra, has been APP
pointed mail clerk at the penitentiary.
Miss Lyde Myers, of DeSoto, and
John Bergman, of Poplar Bluff, were
married.
Joseph Forschee, one of the pioneer
settlers of Washington county. died re-
Gently, aged go.
Fire at Weatherby, Deka1b county,
destroyed the buildings on the west
side of the square.
The legislature will be asked to make
an appropriation for q state normal
school at Maryville.
Senator Vest has presented the con-
federate home at Higginsville with a
valuable set of books.
Henry Hemphill, a native of Mary
land and a member of the G. A. T.,
died at Sedalia, aged so.
A wholesale beer depot at Mexico
caught fire from spontaneous COM
bustion and was destroyed.
The Marcelline Coal Co. has bought
twenty-eight acres of land near the
city and will build reservoir.
Insurance rates have suffered another
increase at Nevada, and citizens are
wondering what will come next.
The state normal school at Cape
Girardeau is enjoying one of the most
prosperous years of its existence.
Thomas Fleming, resident of Ne
vada, died at San Antonio, Tex. The
remains were shipped to Nevada for in
terment.
Hon. Champ Clark addressed the
Philadelphia Single Tax society on
''Sir Robert Peel and the struggle for
Free Trade
Wiley Tertament, farmer of New
ton county, was thrown from his
wagon, striking on his head and dislo-
eating his neck.
The ex-confederate association of
Springfield is raising funds with
which to erect monument to the con-
federate dead.
The store of Parish & Evans. Neva-
da, was looted by burglars The work
was smoothly performed, indicating
that experts did it.
More mineral and better paying
leads are being found at Aurora now
than at any previous time in the his
tory of this great mining town.
Prot. L. E. Petre, principal of the
Norborne Carr oil county, high school,
and Miss kittie Mel, teacher in the
primary department, were married re-
Gently.
Prof. c. A. Hawkins was in Spring.
field recently working up sentiment in
favor of two more state normal schools,
one in the southeast and one in the
northeast.
The Springfield nursery and fruit
farm has fled an assignment. G. T.
Tippin, populist candidate for congress,
was manager of the firm. Liabilities,
S15, 900; assets, S2s,000
At Moberly a young man discovered
burglars in his fathers store, and he
opened fire, but the burglars escaped.
One of the shots struck his fathers
horse, from which it died.
Mrs. Noah Skies, of Potosi, was
found dead on the railway track near
Deslage, st. Francois county. She re-
Gently separated from her husband,
and it is a supposed case of suicide.
Henry Bagby, aged 10, while rabbit
hunting with q neighbor's boy, near
Adrian, Bates county, was fatally
shot. His comrade attempted to hand
him a gun, muzzle foremost, through
a hedge.
During the last eighteen months St.
Joseph has paid her policemen $74,-
1884 in salaries, and the expense of
the department was $7,545.46. During
that period 4,314 arrests were made by
the department.
State Treasurer Stephens has for
warded check for $4O9, to the
American Exchange national bank of
New York, as fiscal agent for the state,
to take up like amount of Missouri
per cent. funding bonds.
The greater proportion of the bust
ness houses of Bloomington, Henry
county. were destroyed by fire. The
total loss is about 5000 The insur-
ance is very light. D. C. Blanchard,
the heaviest loser, luckily, recently in
creased his insurance.
A. J. Testament was arrested at West
Plains, being wanted in Benton county
for a murder committed year ago.
Testament was once arrested for the
crime, and released, but of late new
evidence was discovered. it is said, and
an indictment returned.
William Trimble, a farmer near Nor
ton, Saline county, attempted suicide
by shooting through the head while
lying i'll bed. A warrant was issued
during the day for his arres. for a mis-
demeanor, and the fear of being ar
rested is the supposed cause of his rash
act.
The remaining assets of the old Citi-
zens' bank, Nevada, consisting of notes
held principally against the bank of
fcers and overdrafts for about 1925, 600,
were sold recently at public sale under
directions of the assignee. The pro-
ceeds of the entire sale amounted to
about $500. The bank failed in july.
1891, and has paid 9 cents on the dollar.
c. P. Storts, assignee for the Citi-
zens' Stock bank, Slater, that failed