Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-07-07

. A special term of County Court will
be held next Monday to make inquir,
as to the sanity OF Mrs. Sarah Lewis
of Sabula.
Miss Minnie Jordan. aged twent.
years, OF Thomaston, Maine, died a
the Arcadia House Monday, of con
sumption. The remains were sen
east on the evening train Tuesday.
The details of the Santiago engage
ment and the sinking of the Spanish
fleet are given on the inside pages o.
this paper. Since then the destruction
OF the Reina Mercedes and the Alphon.
so XII. has been reported-the latter
being sunk as she attempted to get out
of-Hayana harbor.
We see that our friends, the school
teachers OF Iron county, are, par erceI-
tence, in favor of two propositions. viz:
first, compulsory education; second,
that the teacher who underbids shall
be bOycotted. A hard-and-fast Double
Rule of Three which. strictly observed,
is bound TO sesult in the greatest good
to the greatest number-of school
teachers.
The third cavalry was engaged in
the fight at Santiago last Saturday, and
several officers in the troops which
have been located at the rifle range
here the past two years are reported
wounded, among whom are Capts.
Hunter and Morgan. The extent of
their Injuries has not been announced,
and the many friends of both gentle
men hope they will not prove serious.
One of the cannons in the courthouse
yard was blown to atoms last Monday
morning. 1t had been heavily loaded
and tamped with mud. The explosion
was terrific, and the pieces Of iron
went flying in every direction. There
were probably fifty boys, young and
old, in the courthouse yard at the
time, and We can't help but believe
that it was owing more to luck than
discretion that no one was injured.
A party of young people drove to
the Iron Mountain dam last Friday
evening. had lunch by the lakeside,
and made the journey home in the
light of the lovely summer moon. The
event was given in honor of Misses
Hedrick and Flemming, guests OF Mrs.
A. +. Bond. Those present were
Mesdames Lucas. John II. Jones and
X. Delano; Misses Ida Hedrick, Flem-
ming, Lucille Moore, Mary Myers and
Ella Halter; and Messrs. Britain, Lo-
pei, Kindell, Fletcher, Brierton and
AXE.
The rain on the morning of the
fourth interfered materially with the
picnics and celebrations that had been
planned for the day. Toward the noon
hour, however, the SIX les cleared and
the remainder of the day was as pleas
ant as could be. In the Valley the
picnics at Hancock's Grove aud at
Brady's south of Arcadia, were both
fairly well attended in the afternoon
and the crowds remained on the
grounds until late in the night. The
picnic at Belleview is also reported as
a success. While the bad weather re-
duced the attendance yet fair crowd
was present. Addresses were deliv-
cred by Hon. o. L. Munger OF Carter
county, and Prof. Smith of Caledonia.
Mrs. Clara Hoffman, the w. c. T.
u. d u
weeks since, seems 10 have INDUCED
in some severe criticisms on a recent
visit to Fredericktown. The following
is taken from the DemOcrdt-Ne1Os pub
lished there: I'VE have heard some
murmurings in church circles in re-
gard to some remarks said to have
been made by Mrs. Hoffman in her
lecture here before the w. c. L. L. |
society. Some of the really pure said
she attacked the church. Now would |
it not be we'll to inquire whether she |
did really attack the church or was it
only an attack on the wolves in the |
church? In the latter she was per-
fectly justifiable and further, if speak
ing the truth is an attack on the |
church, then the church is in a bad |
way and ought to be attacked"
Watson Decker of Ripley county, |
charged with cOunterfeiting, was plac-
ed In Jail here last week to be confined |
until the meeting of the federal grand |
jury. The following in relation to the
arrest is taken from the Doniphan |
Prospect NeCS: limited States Mar
shals Fox and Fitzgerald visited this
county last week on the hunt of some |
counterfeiters. They located a man |
named Watson Decker, in a cabin |
about seven miles north of Naylor, |
and took him along. They claimed to
have found lot of counterfeit coin, |
with mould and material for making |
same, and that there were two others, |
brothers, engaged with Decker in
making and passing the stuff. The
officers say that the bogus stuff was the
incest stuff they ever saw and was liza
BILE to fool any one, not an expert.
They say also that lot of the stuff has
been passed on the people about Nay
lor and in other towns in that section"
Deputy Sheriff Flanagan of Butler
county arrived here on the noon train
Saturday, having in charge one A.
Sanders, charged with shooting and |
fatally wouuding a man by the name
of Dacus in Poplar Bluff that morning.
1t seems that the excitement in Poplar
Bluff over the tragedy was intense and
the prisoner was brought to this place,
for fear that if he was kept there a
mob might minister to him speedy |
Justice. The injured man died the |
following Monday. From all reports
the murder was cowardly and unpro-
voked, and Sanders Should be given