Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-17

l0lSctIOu IN april. Mr.. Marshall has
unquestionabIy made an efficient and
faithful official and his claims are
entitled to the most favorable cousid-
GRAFTON of the voters.
The Ladies Missionary Society will
meet with Mrs Geo. Ii. Duty Friday.
February 25th. 1898. As it is the last
meeting OF the year. it is especially
desired that every member should be
present, so as to make up our yearly
dues, also for the election of officers
Tor the coming year.
Mrs Duty. President.
At the Academy of Music, Tuesday
evening, February 22d, viii be render
ed '.Our Countryr' a historical and
! spectacular representation in three
acts, by the pupils of the Ironton col
ored school, in aid of the School Ii
brary. We ask the hearty co-opera-
ton OF patrons and friends, as we are
in much need of new books
IDA b. LANDLORD, Teacher.
The ladies' Guild of St. Paul's
church is organizing an entertainment
for the evening of the 22d, Washing
toms birthday, at the Arcadia Hotel,
to raise further funds for the painting
of the chnrch. There will be vocal
and Instrumental music with reading
followed by refreshments and a novel
competition. By arrangement Mr.
Collins hack will make the round
trip from Ironton at charge of 10 cts.
After communicating with the au-
thorities in St. Louis Mr.. W. G. Per-
Kins is satisfied that the man Minis
who died in hospital there last June
is the Individual of that same name
who was here few weeks previous,
and an inquiry as to whose where
abOuts was recently received here
from Piggott, Arkansas. From the
Information received by Mr.. Perkins
from the hospital there is no question
as to the identity.
James G. HILL. a highly respected
farmer died at his home in Belleview.
last Thursday night of pneumonia after
brief illness. The remains were laid
to rest Saturday, the Masonic fraterni-
IS conducting the services. The de-
ceased was truly a good man and citi-
zen, and held in the very highest es-
TEEN by all who knew him. He leaves
two brothers and legion of friends to
mourn his demise aud revere his mem
ory. Peace to his ashes.
A Jury was empaneled in the Pro-
bate Court Monday to pass on the san
ity of Mrs. Mary E. Clarkson. Sew
erai years since Mrs. Clarkson became
deranged, but has been improving for
some time past, and the many friends
of the family will be glad to learn -
now entirely recovered from her af-
Fiction and was so declared by the
Jury. This action in the Probate
Court was necessary to place Mrs.
Clarkson in charge of her property
again.
The body Of an unknown man was
found in a coal car in the yards at Bis
marck early Wednesday morning. The
car was loaded with lumber.sand the
body was wedged in between the lum-
Der and end of the car. A crow bar
had to be used in removing the lumber |
sufficiently to release the body. At the |
time of the dircovery life was extinct
but the body was still warm. The car
was set in the yards about $3.50 o'clock |
that morning, and it is supposed that |
in placing it the lumber was jerked to-
ward the end of the car imprisoning |
the unfortunate man and crushing the |
life out of him. The deceased was a |
man about forty years of age; on his |
person was fifty-five cents and a gold |
watch and chain, but nothing to iudi- |
cate the mans name or place of resi-
dence.
A young man giving his name as
Jesse Thomas and age % years, came |
into town Monday evening shortly af- |
ter four o'clock and said that he had |
been tied to a tree and robbed of 800 |
an hour or so before. The robbery, |
he said, took place near the Claude |
Russell farm east of town. The rob- |
bers, he stated, were a white man and |
two negroes. They tied him, so he |
said, to a sapling, in order to per-
petrate the robbery, and he was
not released until a school boy came |
along an hour or so afterwards. |
After an investigation, the officers very |
much doubted the story of the robbery. |
Thomas could not explain his presence |
in that rather Out-of-the-way place for |
a stranger. neither could he sdtisfac-
torily answer other questions. He |
says he has been visiting relatives at |
Graniteville where he formerly lived |
and that his parents are now making |
their home at Graudin.
Peter Left. Arthur Spaugh and young |
Stout three Juveniles. scarcely in their
teens. started out to see the world one |
day last week, boarding north-bound |
freight train. When they reached |
Blackwell Left already mad a sufficien-
CIV of travelling, and stopped to pay a |
visit to relatives, but Spaugh and |
Stout continued on their way to St. |
Louis. Reaching the city, though,
Stout. who is by several years, the |
Younger member of the trio, says he
was quickly deserted by Spaugh. He
spent the first night in the big city on
some straw in box car, but the night |
that followed was a bitter cold one, |
aud in hunting a place to sleep was d.
rected to the station house where he
slept all night. Next morning he
told his story to the police who con-
cluded it would be best for him to re-
turn home. The boy already had |
enough of city life and readily agreed. |
so he was placed in charge of an officer
who cot him out of town the same day !
On n freicht train He reached here