Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-07-30
Among the Brethren.

Fredericktown NelCS: ''On last Sat
urday night during the heavy rain and
wind storm the barn of Mr.. James
Hicks, living on Castor. was struck by
lightning and one horse killed. The
barn and lot of feed was burned"
The Alton South MSsOurian gives in
the following short item a glimpse of
ever prevalent human suffering and
sorrow: "A mother with nine children
| passed through here en- route to Spring
field, the home OF her childhood, Tues
day. She had gone with her husband
to Black river bottom, when he was
| taken down with swamp malaria and
called beyond. They had a diIapidat-
ed wagon, an old mule and pony to
make the journey with. Were out of
money and provisions. Our citizens
made up a small purse for them and
started them on rejoicing"
Pennington Times: The third burg
lar connected with the robbery of the
Libertyville Post Office has been bagg-
ed and was brought here last Saturday
and lodged in Jail to await the United
States Marshal. Me ssrs John Gibson,
H. NJ. Sebastian, Thomas McCarver
and Rev. +. A. S. Tetley vert to Per-
ryville in quest of him, and there with
the assistance Of eX-Sheriff Anderson
succeeded in finding and capturing
him. He had a few of the coppers
taken from the Post Office, but his
idenity was made certain oy the cloth
ing he stole from the store and which
be had on"
Dunklin Democrat: "Houck is still in
luck. The State Supreme Court de-
MED a rehearing in both the Merriam
and Kerfoot cases, and in the latter Or
dered Receiver Fordyce to comply with
its judgment of June 80 and pay over
all funds received on account of the
Kennett road in ten days or writ of
attachment will be issued against him.
1t is said that the United States Court
has made a similar order"
We find this pointer" floating on
the placid bosom of the Eminence Cur
rent WaUe: David Bales this week
wrote a letter to Chas. Klepzig, chair
man OF the Shannon county Republi-
can central committee, resigning as
central committeeman of Eminence
township. The reason given by Mr.
Bales for so doing, put in his own
words, is as follows: Il intend to align
myself in the future with a party
which, according to its latest national
platform, favors legislation in the in
terests of the classes-i. e., the Dem
ocratic party We welcome Dave in
to the fold and extent to him the right
hand of fellowship"
Without vouching for the infallibili-
ty of the remedy we reproduce the fol-
lowing contributed by farmer to an
Oregon exchange: Every year hear
Of caterpillars destroying whole or
chards and there is nothing that can
be disposed of more easily. | bore a
hole in the tree deep enough to reach
the sap, fill it with sulphur and then
plug it. The result is is magical. Sap
takes the sulphur to every branch and
twig, and the caterpillars at once die.
l gather the insects up by the pint un-
der the trees that have been infested
with them before | knew it, and de-
strOyed them. | have never known
this remedy to fail, and / have pursued
this course for years"
The GreenvilIe journal gives an ac-
count of recent jail-breaking in that
town: The number of occupants in
Jail is now reduced to three. Though
small in number still they are plucky.
On Monday afternoon the jailer, Uncle
Steve Carson, returned to the Jail to
find an opening made through the floor
and the Jail birds almost ready to
make their flight, but seeing that they
were caught they at once abandoned
their project The work of making
the hole through the floor had been in
progress for week. Their tools con-
sisted of a wrench made of the handle
of small shovel, an iron bar which
they had pried off the banister and a
piece of scantling which had been
brought into the Jail by the boy pris-
oner. They loosened the sheet iron
floor and then bursted the ceiling loose
below. They had raised the sheet
iron floor and bursted enough Of the
ceiling off to let a small person through,
when accidentally they let the iron
bar fall through. They were letting
boy through to recover the bar when
they espied Uncle Steve coming. They
knew they were caught so they ceased
their work. 1t was their intention to
get down through the hole, conceal