Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-03-05
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
THE schools of the state celebrated
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at jefferson City has been completed.
CLARENCE HOWARD, a brakeman. was
recently killed by the cars ct Mont
gomcry City.
Mrs. LINDELL. who had resided in
st. Louis s. years. died in that city the
| other day at the age of 90 years.
JOHN w. SMITH, of Princeton, was re
Gently arrested on the charge of MAX
ing and passing counterfeit dollars
The late cycle show at ST. Louis was
| said to have been the most successful
| trades display ever held in that city.
THE Kansas City board of trade
| passed resolutions asking congress to
recognize the independence of Cuba.
The Sons of the American Revolu-
ton, recently in annual session at ST.
Louis, elected Bishop futile president
Advices from a semi-official source
state that the Missouri wheat crop
| never promised better than at present
w. j. LooNEY, merchant of White
water, Cape Girardeau county, was re-
Gently robbed and murdered in his
store.
THE trouble at the state university
has been settled by the students sign
ing pledge to obey the rules in the
future.
The wooden mill at Independence
| was burned the other morning, the
loss being estimated at SAC, 200; insur-
ance, S22. OO0
FIRE at Charleston the other day de-
stroyed the Fletcher block and other
partially insured.
south of Unionville, was recently much
excited over the discovery that eight
graves at the cemetery had been
robbed.
WHILE recently going to his home
near Houstonia, Adam Tharp, "a farmer,
was thrown from his horse, which
afterward stepped on his face, serious
~ and probably fatally iniuring him.
HENRY KAHN, proprietor of the old
est clothing store in Kansas City, re-
Gently made an assignment. Mr.. Kahn
started business in that city in 1868.
His assets are ample to pay all 1iabili-
ties.
THE grand jury at Springfield re-
Gently indicted L. o. Nieder, promi-
nent Wright county politician, for en-
bezzlement. He is charged with ap-
propriating a clients money to his own
use.
FIRE caused by the bursting of gas
pip, destroyed the large livery and sale
stable of Ducate & Grantham at St
Joseph the other night. Sixty horses
were burned. The loss was about $780,
900; insurance, $4,000.
On the Goth James Fitzgerald was
hanged at St Louis for the murder Of
his sweetheart in 1893 The hanging
was very bungling affair. At the first
trial the rope broke and it was nearly
an hour before another was secured
and the sentence successfully executed.
]. BROCK, who had served term in
the Kansas penitentiary and afterward
was admitted to the practice of law,
was recently shot and killed at Ash
Grove by a farmer named Gilmore. The
trouble was over the arrest of Brock
upon complaint of Gilmore for horse
Stealing.
Mrs. MARY KENzIE and Miss Lucy
Lusk were thrown from a wagon near
Eldorado Springs by a runaway team.
The former received broken arm and
shoulder, while Miss Lusk's collar
bone was broken and she also received
injuries about the head which may
prove fatal.
THE grand council of the Missouri
ROYAL Arcanum met at st. Louis re.
Gently. Reports showed an increase
of zoo in membership in Missouri dur.
ing the last year. Officers for the en-.
suing year were elected as follows:
Grand regent, Jere Haldeman; grand
vice regent, Ford Smith; grand orator,
William Morgan; past grand regent,
P. R. Flitcraft; grand secretary, Charles
3. Cox; grand treasurer, A. s. Robin
son. Jr., grand chaplain, r c. Parlett.
The grand jury at st. Louis re-
Gently re-indictcd ex-City Treasurer
Michael Foerstel on seven counts
charging the ENLIGHTENMENT of city
funds to the amount of SOS. 900.
Circuit Attorney Zachritz several
weeks ago nolle pressed the former
charges and, notwithstanding the fact
that he informed the grand jury that
a further prosecution would not lie,
the new indictments were handed
down. The report of the jury in re-
gard to their action says in part: SIN
view of the facts which seemed to in
3icate disposition on the part of the
quest the governor of Missouri to in
struct the Encouragement to take
charge of the prosecution of these
cases"
ACCORDING to the report of the col
iector of internal revenue, there
are in the Sixth district 2IO cigar
factories, of which about IS are
in Kansas City. and the balance
mostly 10 the larger cities in the
district, though many of the towns
have one or two dealers who manufac-
$50 men employed in the industry
in Kansas City, and perhaps as
many more in the country districts
These a1O dealers turned out during
the past year 1862, o59 cigars. TIC
make these they used 2S3, 446 pounds of
leaf tobacco. an average of 1911
pounds of tobacco to the ZOO cigars.
This is within the government limit,
which is 25 pounds per 1000 OF these
probably two-thirds were made in
Kansas City.
WILLIE JONES, ID years old, was ia.
tally shot at Fayette the other day by
Allie Collier, of the same age. The
latter was playing with an ''unloaded'
target rifle.
II. W. KNOX, a farmer, was found
dead on the road near the Grand river
bridge in Livingston county the other
dav. He had been thrown from his
horse and killed.
THE entire plant of the John Moran
Packing Co. at St. Joseph. which vent