Iron County register., 1897-12-09

side of the Knob hill will be put to
work in the spring.
A very fattering letter was received
by Baldwin Bros. q few days ago from
Cooper, wagon manufactures of Du-
ouque. Iowa. He spoke highly of. the
hubs sent from their factory. pro-
nouncing the whole article excellent,
and the mortising perfect. Report
has it that Mr.. Cooper is not easily
pleased, either. which fact gives added
weight to the commendation.
| Lizzie Wong pleaded guilty to muir
der in the second degree in the St.
Louis circuit court Tuesday and was
| sentenced to fifteen years in the peni-
tentiary. On April 2jth, last, the
Wong woman and Mary Jones. of Pilot
| Knob. became involved in a brutal fight
in den in Hop Alley, St. Louis. In
the row Lizzie shot Mary. the latter
| dying in three days. Lizzie has since
| been confined in the st. LOus Jail. Her
trial came up Tuesday with the result
above noted.
E. H. Sawyer & Son, OF Wayne
county, have purchased from the Big
Muddy Coal & Iron Company the tim
Der on 1000 acres of land in the viciu-
ity of Hogan, this county, and have
located a saw mill at Hogan for the
purpose of saving the timber. The
Messrs. Sawyer come to this county
highly recommended and We have no
doubt will make d success Of their ven
ture. They want it understood that
they will prosecute, to the full extent
of the law all parties cutting timber on
their recent purchase.
A correspondent from Graniteville
writes: "a young man from Arcadia
Valley came out here Sunday to pay
his best girl a visit. While he was
making his call a pair of hoOdlums
rocked the house. The young man
from the Valley went out to see what
was the cause of the disturbance; the
marauders ran and the young man af-
ter them. Finally the two in front
stopped running and the young man
came up. He asked a couple of ques-
tious that evidently displeased the two
rock throwers, who promptly knocked
the young man down. So ended the
discussion. No arrests. Why not?
ENQUIRER"
The REGISTER is indebted to Mr.. A.
j. Laugdon for a copy of The Sports
mans Paradise on the Buffalo Island
Route, Arkansas pamphlet of forty
pages devoted chiefly to the fishing and
hunting resources of northern Arkan-
sas and the extreme southeast Mis-
souri,. The illustrations are frst-class
and the little book is really a work of
art, and the stories it tells make the
nimrOd and angler long for q trip to
that section. Mr.. Langdon is now To-
Gated at Hornersville in Dunklin cOun-
ty in the general merchandise business.
A railroad has recently been built
through there and the town is imprOv-
ing rapidly. Bert has our wishes for
the greatest success.
j. J. Hourihahn, who has charge of
O'Keefe's saw mill on Tom-Sauk about
seven miles west of here, came to
town last Sunday, having in charge
Henry Hawks, a boy about seventeen
years of age, and turned him over to
Sheriff O'Neal. The Thursday night
before, it seems, Hawks had entered
Hourihahn's stable and taken a mule.
The latter traced the thief and the
mule to a place near Piedmont, where
he secured both and brought them
back here. Hawks, however, had
traded off the mule for a horse and
sold the horse before he was appre
hended. He had a preliminary exam
ination before Squire Fairchild Mon
day, who bound him over to await the
action of the next grand jury.
The following course of study for
the Ironton Grammar and High Schools
was adopted by the board Wednesday
night, Nov. so, 1897:
SeUentb Year or "C'' CldSS.-First
four months: Geography, English
Grammar and Composition, Mental
and Practical Arithmetic, Reading and
Spelling, Penmanship. Second four
months, the same.
Etqhth Year or "B" ClaSs.-First
four months: L. S. History, English
Grammar and Composition, Mental
and Practical Arithmetic, Algebra,
Penmanship. Second four months: U.
S. History, Physiology, Mental and
Practical Arithmetic, Algebra, Pen
mauship.
Ninth Year or ~" CEasS-First four
months: Civil Government. Rhetoric.
Etymology, Algebra, General History.
Second four months: Physical Geog
raphy, Philosophy. American Litera-
ture. Algebra, General History.
Willie, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A g.
Smith, died at the home of his parents
in Graniteville on Friday evening.
December Sd, 1897, at 5:45 o'clock,
aged six years and SIX months. The
circumstances connected with little
Wiuie's sudden death are somewhat
singular. The boy. on coming home
the Wednesday evening before, com
planned to his mother that he had fall
len on the railroad turn-table and that
his side was hurting him. He ate his
supper and went to bed, however, ap-
pareutly feeling very well. Early
next morning, though, the child be-
gan vomiting, which was followed by
spasm after spasm. A physician was
summoned but could give no relief.
The unfortunate child continued in this
condition until Friday e-euing, when
death came; the little body. tortured
and racked with pain, was freed from
anguish and suffering and his pure
and unsullied soul waited to the skies
The funeral occurred Sunday and the