Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-05-07
Among the Brethren.

Among the brethren.
! George Presgrove, late foreman o
the Kenneth Democrat. has quit the
printing business and opened a bakery
at Dexter. How easy the dscent fro N
the brain to the stomach!
New Madrid Record: 1.-The hardes,
hail storm for many years visited tbs
lower end of the county, in and round
about Portageville, last week. The
hail stones were described as large as
partridge eggs and the startling in
formation was given to a Record re-
porter that a man who was caught out
by the storm was SO terribly bruised
about the body by the heavy, falling
pellets that he was compelled to thrust
his head into a hollow log to save his
head from hard humping and him
self from imminent DEATH
Benton Nescsboy: ..Thos. Ozee, liv-
ing On the farm of Andy Fornes.
brought into the Office of the Newsboy
on last Saturday evening curiosity in
the way of a water turtle with two
perfectly formed heads. The heads
were joined just at the edge of the
shell and both were as perfect as the
heads of its natural formed brothers.
Both heads eat and when on the floor
the body seems to be guided by either.
1t was plowed up in the sand and now
Mr.. Ozee has it under his care and he
intends to try to give it its growth"
John hilbert, residing nea- Mill
post-office, Ste. Genevieve county, had
his house burnt to the ground on the
afternoon of Friday last week. The
poor man saved nothing but his cloth
ing and trunk from the wreck.
though he was in the house at the time
when the fire broke out.
The Democratic primary election for
Ste. Genevieve county will be Leld
May 3Oth.
The boys are having little political
fun over in Dent county. According
to the Monitor, .Populist Murch made
a speech at Whiteoak schoolhouse
three miles north of town last Satur-
day night to small audience which
included Squire Horner. Murch fig
ured it out on the black board that the
Government could buy all the railroads
at their actual value, with a special
issue cf greenbacks made for that pur-
pose, and carry passengers at half a
cent mile, and freight proportion
ately low and pay the employees OF
the road better wages than they now
get and pay the expenses of the gov
ernment besides, or words to that ef-
feet. After he had completed his
figuring Murch pointed TO the black
board and said defiantly: ''These are
figures, and figures won'tlie. Squire
Horner was called for at the close OF
Murch's speech, and pointing to the
black board, said that while figures
wont lie. 1t 10 also true that liars can
figure like the devil sometimes. Then
for half an hour Murch and Horner
had monkey and parrot time OF 1t,
and ~ audience was greatly amused"
Bloomfield Vindicator: 1.-THE army
worm is said to be taking the wheat
fields ana meadows. They are dead
shot on the meadows, but IL 10 said
they do not injure wheat TO any great
extent. II would be prudent however
TO make trenches and cut them off
from the fields as much as possible.
They are attacking the fields earlier
than usual and It IL possible the young
and tender wheat can not 50 well with.
stand their ravages. A trench will re-
tard their progress very much and a
log drawn up and down the trench will
destroy many"
Dave Matney, who murdered Reve-
nue. Collector Wade, at Benton some
four months ago, was tried and Benton
last week and convicted of murder in
the second degree. and was sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary.
A special from Piedmont to the Re-
public says that Martin Farley, who
killed Marshal Jones two weeks ago,
and James Lloyd, charged with holding
up an Iron Mountain passenger train
at WiIliamsville about one year ago,
were last Saturday taken to st. Louis
for safe keeping. Iron Mountain De-
tective McCabe arrested Lloyd week
ego at Van Buren. Loyd's partner is
spotted and will coon be in custody.
According to the De Soto Press,
fishing parties along Black
river are not infrequent. With Bro.
Mitchim, we hope such offenders may
get the butt-end Of the law.