Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-18

Our representatives bill requiring
all passenger trains to stop at county
seats seems to have been lost in the
committee. It has never been report
| ed in the House so far as we have been
able to ascertain.
A Musical and Literary Entertain
ment will be given by the Colored
Public School next Thursday evening
25th inst. The patronage of the pub
lie is respectfully solicited. Program
will appear next week.
Cashier Craven is about to close a
deal with DR.. Goulding for a tract OF
land in the neighborhood of Goulding's
park and contemplates the erection
thereon of handsome residence dur
Ing the coming summer.
Mr.. D. w. Oesterle has traded his
farm for the fine brick residence be-
longing to Mr.. Watts, west of Carleton
College. Mr.. Oesterle will move to
town and Mr.. Watts will move to the
farm.-Farmington Ne1Cs.
Conductor johnson, for many years
in charge of one of the local freights
between Bismarck and Poplar Bluff.
has been transferred to the Cat"
road. Conductor Herbert succeeds
Mr.. johnson on the main line.
From the proceedings of the confer
ence of the NJ. E. church, north, held
in Nevada last week, we learn that
Rev. II. w. King is placed in charge
of the church here and at Graniteville.
Rev. Ed. Koeth is sent to Bonnie Terre.
Prof. A. B. Sloan is a candidate for
County Commissioner of the Public
Schools of Dunk!in county. His cleo
ton would prove great benefit to the
school system of our prosperous and
progressive sister cOunty.-Cape Cir
GrdeGu Gazette.
Mrs. r. F. Wingate has sold her
boarding house In St. Louis and is now
stopping at Sulphur Springs with rela-
tives. Mrs. Wingate says she will be
in the Valley before long and may
make arrangements to take boarders
during the summer.
1t is rumored that Mr.. j. S. Jor-
dan will shortly return to this city
from Corning, Arkansas, where he
has been making his home for the
past two years. The many friends of
the family will be glad to have them
become residents of the Valley again.
The Acme Concert Company of De
Soto will probably appear at the Aca-
DENY of Music next Wednesday even
ing, March oath. The company is
highly recommended, and the enter
tainments given, by it have been
highly praised by the press all over
the southeast.
The fare from Ironton TO the Union
Station is now $2.72-an increase of
seven cents on the price for years past.
A ticket to the 4th street station is
$685. Heretofore there has been no
difference made. But as there are no
trains from here running to 4th street
now all travellers from IrontOn have to
pay the extra seven cents to Union
Station.
Unusual interest was manifested To-
cally in the big prize fight at Carson
City, Wednesday. The sentiment was
about equally divided here, and when
the news came that FitzsimmOns had
won in the fourteenth round the be-
levers in the Cornishman cheered long
and loudly, and spent the remainder
of the afternoon twitting the admirers
of Corbett.
S. M. Scruggs returned from Wash
ington, ID. c., Saturday night. MIR. S.
had a short talk with the President as
we'll as with Mark Hanna, while in the
Capital, and thinks his chances for Sc
curing the post-office at Waxahachie,
Texas, good. He says. however, that it
seems to be the understanding that no
appointments will be made TO Office I'M
til the commissions of present incum-
bents expire
Recent travellers state that the track
along the river bank, this side of St.
Louis, where the recent landslides and
washouts occurred,i is yet in a very bad
condition, and for several miles the
trains have to creep along at very
slow rate of speed. For this reason
nearly all of the south-bound trains
are few minutes late these days. The
company is making extra efforts to get
the track in condition but the high
water in the Mississippi seriously re-
tards the work.
Hon. C. d. Yancey of De Soto was
in town Wednesday taking dispositions
before w. X. Edgar in a case where
Mr.. Yancey is plaintiff and the Pacific
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
California is defendant Mr.. Yancey,
a couple of months since, while out
hunting near De Soto shot off his left
hand. He held an accident policy in
the Pacific Mutual and for the loss of
a hand was entitled to $1,000. The
company has refused to make the pay
ment and Mr.. Yancey has brought suit
for the So 900.
Three tramps, all young boys, broke
into the shanty near the mail crane,
used by Bob Blanks, the mail carrier,
Tuesday night and when Bob put in an
appearance Wednesday morning the
intruders at first refused to vacate, and
the carrier says they threatened to
..bustn his head. Blanks then drew a
gun and the trio left in a hurry going
south. They were overtaken in Area
dia, brought to Ironton and taken be-
fore Squire Fa:rchild who gave them
twenty days each. The prisoners gave
their names and addresses as Clark
Page, Pennington, Geo. McIntire,
Bonnie Terre. and Frank Logan, Jeffer-
son City. The two former have only
been ION the road about a week, and