Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-06-17
Among Our NeIghbors.

1 Pony" Allen despite the interdlct-
has just received a long-delayed strok
of good fortune. We congratulate
him. Says the Fredericktown Neocs
Judge Allen this week served notIc
on his old friends that in future it wa
to be, Napoleon not 'Poney,' whei
addressing him. He has received 1
check from the United States treasury
for the damages he suffered during th'
war"
Salem Monitor: Fred Jacobs is in
jail charged with rape. The informa-
tion on which the waTant for his ar
rest was issued was fled by Artie
Smith. whose daughter, under IA year:
of age, Jacobs is charged with having
assaulted. The preliminary trial will
be had before Squire Hogle probably
on next Monday. The question o.
bond will also be considered. There
is some doubt about the case being
baiIable, as the punishment on con
viction, under Missouri law, is death,
or imprisonment in the penitentiary
for not less than years, at the discre-
tion of the jury"
Mr.. A. F. Abbott, of Knob Lick, and
who made the race for the Democratic
nomination for Congress last fall, de-
liyered the annual address at the COM
mencement exercises of Marvin Col
legiate Institute. and in referring to
his address the Fredericktown Demo-
crGt has the following to say: "Gov.
Stephens had agreed to perform that
duty but declined at the last minute.
The people who attended are to be
congratulated that events shaped them
selves as they did. Mr.. Abbott is so
well known that any comment on his
address would not do it justice. We
have heard Carlisle, Blackburn, Vor-
hees, Cullum, Vest, Cockrell, Francis,
Stone, Hardin, Benton, Bourke Coch-
ran and a host of lesser lights, and A.
f. Abbott is the peer of any OF them.
John Doris. aged ten, was drowned
in Current river on the Sd inst, near
Van Buren, and the body was not re-
covered until six days later, despite
every effort on the part of sympathiz-
ing neighbors.
The midnight assassin-with plen-
ty of Ill desire and no good marksman-
ship-seems to be prowling the capital
of Madison. Says the Fredericktown
NeaUS: "a mysterious shot was fired
in this city last Saturday night. Les
lie Jones was writing in Hon. B. B.
Cahoon's law Office about II o'clock.
He states he had the front door closed
and Z back door open when some
one fired shot from the back door;
the bullet went through the stove pipe
and buried itself in the window casing;
from the position in which he states
he was sitting the bullet missed his
head only a few inches. Mr.. Jones
says he has no enemies that he knows
of. The affair IS shrouded in mys-
terry"
The Ste. Genevieve Herald tells of
novice in bee-hunting who didn't ''get
there, Eli:''
The other day Eli Zerwig found a
swarm of bees hanging to a twig of a
tree and, of course wished to secure
them. So he brought box and got
somebody to help put them in. 1t tseems
to have been his first attempt at bee
hunting, for he began to wipe the bees
off the twig with his hands. Aminute
later he was literally covered with the
enraged insects and in his agony rolled
on the ground to get rid of them, but
without avail. Then he thought quick
and remembered that there was thick
cedar bush behind the house. He ran
there and crept throught the thickest
of the cedar, which at last freed him
from his tormeCtors. Eye witnesses
declare that Eli by that time had ma
terially increased in flesh, especially
about the hands and face, and that his
eyes were scarcely visible. 1t was e
hard lesson for beginner In bee-hunt-
ing, but the average man has to learn
it.
Are our local fishermen heedful of
the dangers they run in brake and
felde Let them read this from the
Ste. Geuevieve Fair Play, and never
henceforth set out unprepared: while
out fishing last Saturday in the Lick
Hills Frank Norris was bitten or the
ankle by o snake. Luckily the fishing
party had enough snake cure on hand
and the snake poison was soon killed.
The following, taken from an ex-
treme Southeast paper, is, we take it,
only one of many instanees-were the
truth known-where the world would
be enlightened If the woman had the
spunk to publicly state her side OF the
case:
An ad was put in newspaper which
read: ''Notice-My wife, Della Stacy.
having left my bed and board, / will
not be responsible for any debts she
may contract after this date. John
Stacy" In the next issue of the same