Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-17
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

lHerS Is III Tue city treasury $3.50. ~.
There are probably warrants outstand-
ing to absorb this amount
Preaching at the Baptist church next
Sunday morning and evening by Rev.
Morton. All are cordially invited
The one-inch snow of last night glis-
tens bright and pure and beautiful un-
der this mornings golden sunbeams.
Married-Jan. 9th, 1895, at 3P. NJ,
at the Parsonage, Arcadia, Mo-, by the
Pastor. j. M. England, Judge JOHN w.
HANCOCK, of Iron county, Mo-, to
MRs. MARTHA RAMSEY, of Reynolds
county, Mo.
The members of Ironton Lodge, No.
pa, X. of P, are specially requested
to be present at called meeting. TO
he held on the evening of the 23d inst,
to work in the rank of Esquire.
ARTHUR HUFF, X. r. & S.
Services at the Presbyterian church
Sabbath morning, 10:45. Subject
.'Do l need Christ and the church, or
does Christ and the church need me?''
p. M.-..Narrowness and wilderness. "
L NJ.
H. Duty, Pastor.
The address of Pro-. D. H. Mckenzie,
School Commissioner of Iron county,
is now Louisville. KY, where he is at
tending the Kentucky School of Medi-
cine. Letters sent in care of said in
stitution will reach him promptly. He
will remain there several months.
Walter H. Fisher stands singular
and alone in having served his two
terms as sheriff and jailer with no Jail
delivery to mar the even tenor of his
official career. This is a record unpar-
alleled in this county since the build
ing of the Jail thirty years ago. We
tip our hat to ex-Sheriff and soon-to-be
Collector Fisher.
The Jail has now eleven boarders.
They numbered fourteen one day last
week, but two of them, who were held
on suspicion of being of the Salem jail
breakers. were let go after a days de-
tention, and Joe Malone was discharg-
ed Saturday, having duly served his
time. Sheriff O'Neal starts out with a
fiourishing send-off.
One Barnes of Kaolin township now
languishes in Jail, having been recent
ly arrested on an indictment found by
the last grand jury for the arson of a
schoolhouse. 1t is charged that he set
fire to it on the night of August 25th.
1894. He desired to get rid OF the
teacher. and concluded that the most
expeditions way was to fire the school
building.
In a recent issue of the REGISTER
will be found the instructions of Prose-
cutting Attorney Walker to the Justices
of the Peace of Iron county. The pol
lev that Mr.. Walker has outlined for
his official action will certainly have
the approval of every taxpayer in the
county. tits policy that should have
been carried into operation long ago.
The prosecution of criminals Is costing
us entirely too much. Every dollar of
needless expense shoulu be curtailed.
Sam Hanley of Washington county
was before the Z. S. Commissioner on
the 18th, charged with violating the
internal revenue laws. Sam said it
was a true bill, but he wanted it I'M
derstood that there was no bltters
about his offence; he never had been
a party to working off on any mans
stomach glass of bitters for drink
of whiskey. What he sold was whis-
key. Accordingly, he engaged apart
ments in the St. Louis Jail, which he
is now occupying.
Mr. Samuel DeHaven has resigned
his position as chief of one the divis-
ions in the Indian Affairs office at
Washington and has located here for
the purpose of practicing law. Mr.
DeHaven is gentleman of ability aud
as a teacher acquired distinction in
Illinois and Missouri. where he taught
previous to his appointment to office
In the Interior Department at Wash
lngton. He will make us good
neighbor and valuable citizen.-La
Grange (Ky.) New Era.
The city will have to go slow in its
expenditures this year. The treasury
is emptied, the revenues from the tax
books have been expended, and all
that remains to pay for running expen-
ses is the sum to be obtained from Ii
censes, with perhaps a small addition
from the back-tax-book. This will
about suffice to pay salaries and per
diem, with a very few dollars, perhaps.
available for street purposes. where
there is crying necessity for such ex-
penditures. We take it the African
Boulevard will remain in statu quo at
least another year.
John S. Benson of Annapolis had
business in Ironton on the 18th. IN
Gle Sam invited him to an interview
with Commissioner Fox, on account OF
a suspicion existing in the minds of the
authorities that he had been selling
..bug-juice" in violation of the Reven-
ue law. Benson came up smiling with
his license properly signed. and pen
atty receipt for failing to take it out
on July Ist, 1894. He had taken
thought for the morrow before engag-
ing in the liquor trade. and as con-
sequence he is not the party wanted.
We could have told the US. authori-
ties all this without preliminary.
Ga the night of January 9Th. three
prisoners broke Jail at Salem, for whom
reward of S75 is offered, or S25 for
either of them. They are described as
follows: Ben Coffman is about feet
10 inches high, stoop shouldered, light
eoualssion, light hair, broad face
proninsst check bones. and weighs
.7a Toe Pail ia abort & feet z