Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-05
Among Our Nelghbors.

went from this place; the first coact
was ftted with bar and all the para
I phernalia of a saloon and any kind OF ;
drink could be bought. There ough
to be some way to reach the people
who conduct saloons on these trains
In this city saloon men are made tt
pay a big license and are forced tC
close their business on Sunday ye
these men can come through here or
Sunday. sell what they please in the
county, except when the train is al
the depot, and never pay one cent into
the city or county"
DIR. VIM. Golf, known all over this
section as an eminent physician, died al
his home in Fredericktown. Mo-, last
Friday, in list year. He was born in
Kentucky, but was a resident of Mis-
souri, for nearly sixty years. He 10,
Gated in Fredericktown in 1868.
Judge Riley is holding court for
Judge Fox in Fredericktown this week.
Will Burns. "a mean yaller niger, >
at Commerce last Saturday week, shot
and killed his wife, of whom he was
jealous. and wounded the constable,
who was present. The Ne,cS Boy says:
..Ihis occurred between S and 9 o'clock
in the morning. Soon after the muir
der the brute surrendered to Marshal
Mills. and the atmosphere echoed and
re-echoed Lynch him. Lynch him.
But there seemed TO be no one to offer
his services as leader. The negroes
were even more worked up than the
whites. but the better Judgment pre-
vailed and the brute was spirited away
to Benton Jail by Marshal Mills, f. a.
johnson, Albert Ellis and Jim Mat
thews."
Charleston Nclcs: There are two
justices of the peace in certain town
ship in this county. a few days ago a
negro appeared before one with an ap-
plicatjon for the arrest of another ne
gro on the charge of stealing. Justice
No. l refused TO issue the warrant on
the evidence furnished, so application
was made to No. ? who issued the
warrant. When the day of trial rolled
around the complaining negro filed the
affidavit alleging that Justice No. 2
was prejudiced against him and pray
ing for change of venue to Justice No.
!. Granted. Then when the trial
came on before Justice No. l, what
was the surprise of several onlOokers
to find the Justice No. 2, against whom
the charge Of prejudice had been al
legged by plaintiff, appeared before
Justice No. l as the attorney for the
plaintiff. Stranger things have hap
pened, we presume, but scarcely ever
in behalf Of Justice"
The Poplar Bluff HcraId thinks the
law, if not the proprieties, ought to be
relaxed where people OF certain cali
ings are concerned: "An Episcopal
minister down N Boston wanted to
marry, although his wife, from whom
he has been civilly divorced, was still
alive. His Bishop refused to sanction
the marriage or perform the ceremony.
The Bishop of Mississippi offered his
services and the affair came off with
great eclat. We confess we are strong
Iy inclined TO stretch the law in favor
of preachers and theatrical people.
There seems to be something in these
professions that makes the path of
matrimony very rough, with tempting
side-paths at every step.I
From the CASH Book we learn that
J. II. Russell has again .'skipped the
town" of jackson, and that ''all is
silence down at the Hornets nest.
Only the footsteps of the dutiful con-
stable and mournfuI creditor echo now
and then through the deserted cham
ber." Then the CD. gives the par
ticulars and sensibly comments as fol-
lows: HE left one night last week
about o'clock 4. IL, leaving his hotel
bill and numerous other debts in Jack
son and elsewhere unpaid. 1t is as
tonishing how people will let SCALA
wags come in and actually rob them
in a way that they can not bring the
criminal law to bear on the rascaIs.
One of the men that Russell brought
here said that he believed that in the
short time Russell was here he got as
much as $4,000 out of the people in va
rious ways. People of ordinarily good
business sense, who would probably
shy at some poor but honest fellow
whom they know If he should ask for
credit, credited this faklr or went his
security in five minutes for more than
their poor but honest friend would
probably ask for in five years or in d
/ life time. And these fellows when
they wanted a little printing done
gave at least one Of the we'll establish
/ ed offices here the cold shoulder and
rushed over to 'our friend Russell. >
Yet our heart went out for them lin a
horny when we heard that they had