Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-22

| Owing 10 the yellow fever scare and
consequent quarantine regulations the
Memphis trains over the north end of
the Iron Mountain road are the only
passenger trains now allowed to enter
| Memphis without molestation.
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show will
exhibit at Poplar Bluff October 4th,
and there is some talk of running an
excursion train from Bismarck to the
Bluff on that day. Were it not that
the st. Louis Fair will be in progress
that week the excursion would do a
good business from here. Most peo-
pie who want to travel that week,
however, will go to st. Louis.
Constable Marshall Monday arrested
Bert PECK, for jumping on moving
trains. Mack Kelley was also taken
in custody on the same charge. Squire
Fairchild fined them each 81 and costs.
Peck paid but Kelley now languishes
in Jail. The practice of leaping on
and off trains as they pass the station
is dangerous one and we commend
the officials in enforcing the law against
it.
The sad news was received here last
Thursday that Mrs. Abel Lopez Caul-
field had died that morning in her
home in ST. Louis. The deceased spent
the greater portion of her life in Iron
ton and was we'll known TO the people
of the Valley. The remains were in
TERED in BelIefontaine Cemetery, St.
Louis, Friday. To the bereaEed fam
lily the REGISTER tenders assurance of
sincere sympathy.
At the recent term of the County
Court an order was made for the pur-
chase of new lot of ballot boxes of
latest improved pattern. They were
received Monday. The boxes are of
metal, cylindrical in shape, and are
provided with every facility for prop
erly guarding the ballot and preserv-
ing its secrecy. TweDty-eight of the
boxes were purchased-two for each
precinct in the county.
The following is from Weather Ser
vice Report: A rainfall of 31'76 inches
in "a hours is reported to have occur
red last December at Nedunkeni, in
the northern province of Ceylon. where
the total fall for 1897 was 1915 inch
es, although the yearly average rain is
but 64.70. Other great rainfalls on
record are 31.17 inches in % hours at
Joyense, France; 80 inches in 26 hours
at Genoa; SO inches in 26 hours at
"a inches in one night near
Bombay; and so inches on each five
successive days on the Khasia Hills in
India. The greatest annual rainfall is
600 inches, the record Of the Khasia
Hills. Frost is formed in the same
manner as dew, but at temperatures
below freezing. One inch of rain is
pounds-of water to the acre.
W. H. DELANO, Local Obs'r
.. S. Weather Bureau.
A United States law is now IN effect
which is liable to put some one in the
pen who really means no wrong. This
statute is an amendment to the general
laws governing the issuance of eX-
change of gold and silver coin in the
United States, approved March 8, 1897.
1t provides that no gold or silver
coin shall be mutilated, defaced, di-
falsitied, scaled or lightened.
This penalty for violation is years in
the penitentiary and $4,000 fine. Not
only is it a crime to pass mut1lated |
coin; but the act of mutilating itself is
made an offeuse punishable by the |
same penalty. Heretofore punched |
dollars passed for from 40 to so cents, |
but now the man who attempts to pass
such coin at any figure goes to the
for 5 years and pays a
fine of $1,000. So does the man who |
purchases it. Look out for bad coins,
for you are liable to get into trouble.