Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-27


Married-At Ironton, Mo-, July pc
1899, by Jno. B. Hampton, Pro5at
Judge, Chas. P. Wilson of Farming
ton, Mo-. and Miss Mamie Bradley o
Bonne Terre.
The understanding now is that Their,
will be no more troops at the riff,
range this summer. Troop &C." un
der Capt. Hardee, which was expected
next month, has been ordered to For
Meyer, Virginia. Troop *" which
spent the past month here, has beer
ordered to Manila. In the course o.
the next ten days it is said there viii
not be twenty-five soldiers left at JEFF
ferson Barracks.
The Dickey Club, a famous socia
| organization in St. Louis, has estab
lished temporary summer quarters in
Ironton at Mrs. Bradley's pleasant
home on Main street. Messrs. Ben
| Pickel and Will Denvers of ST. Louis
are in charge with Mr.. j. Lopez cast.
ing supervising eye over all details.
They are planning surprise on the
''home Office" particulars OF which
Mr.. Lopez will make public later.
When the band returned from the
| pagoda to the room last Monday even
Ing the members were agreeably sur
prised with an elegant spread of ice
cream and cake-the gift of Miss
Maude Edgar. Perhaps the boys didn' t
enjoy it that sweltering night! The
cream was the real thing. and the cake
as well needed no certificate to its ar
tistic perfection. A resolution of
thanks was unanimously voted the fair
donor.
The following is reproduced from a
late issue of the De Soto Facts: '.Rev.
Arthur Britain of Ironton preached at
Trinity Episcopal church Sunday
morning and evening. In the morn
ing the theme of the sermon was bas-
ed upon the text. .'If any man thirst
let him come unto Me and drink" The
preacher is a scholarly gentleman and
it is hoped that Trinity church may
have the pleasure of hearing him Oft
en-. A good congregation was in at
tendance at the morning service which
was followed by Holy Communion"
James Smith alias Henderson Clark,
a negro about seventy years of age,
was brought to Ironton from Freder-
icktown by U. S. Marshal Kennedy
Friday, charged with making and
causing to be made false and fictitious
claim for an invalid pension. 1t ap-
pears that Smith wanted a pension and
was informed that one Henderson
Clark was entitled to one, so Smith
made affidavit that he was Clark, and
now he's In trouble. Smith says he
made the affidavit on the advice and
suggestion of his pension agent, who
is also a minister of the gospel.
Smith will have hearing next week.
Says the last issue of the Frederick |
town DeDaOcrdt-Ne1Cs: I'VE have heard |
nothing new in the case of the preach |
er who acted as spotter for the Iron |
Mountain road and had two conductors |
on the strength of his re-
port. The alleged preacher is said to |
live at Marble Hill or near there is
well known in this city. The case re-
ported by him was for passage between |
this city and Lutesville instead of De |
Lassus. We were told that the spot /
ter secured certificate of good char
linger county, who afterwards stated |
that if they had known what the Rev.(?) |
gentleman wanted TO do with the GER
they would have refused him. |
The spotter had a case in the circuit |
court of this district for a divorce from /
his wife whom he afterwards deserted |
in St. Louis. 1t appears that the rail- |
road officials knew him so we'll that in |
addition to his sworn statement before |
a notary public, he had to produce a
certificate of good character"
A north-bouud freight train was
wrecked at the south end of the Ironton |
switch twenty minutes after midnight |
Tuesday. Four coal cars were thrown
considerable distance from the track /
and badly wrecked, while two other |
coal cars and a box car also left the |
rails. The seven cars were all loaded |
with lumber. A brakeman by the |
name of NJ. Donlin was thrown from
the train and considerably bruised but |
escaped serious injury. The wreck |
was occasioned by broken wheel and |
"a
that the wheel was broken over a half |
mile south of the wreck, but did not |
wreck the cars unfit ,the switch was |
reached. An investigation next morn |
ing revealed that that number of ties |
had been knocked out of position, and |
cross timbers in the cattle guards bro |
ken by the dragging wheel in the in |
tervening distance. Shortly after the |
accident the wrecking train arrived, |
and in tour or five hours the track was |
clear, but the train spent a good por- |
ton of the day here picking up the |
wrecked cars.
VIM. II. Webb of Belleview, this |
county, left here in March of last year |
for Kansas, where he became a mem |
Der of the Sunfiower Mining Company, |
and started for the Klondike. Moth |
ing was heard from the party after |
they left San Francisco until few days |
ago, when a letter was received from |
Mr.. Webb by some friends here saying
he was on the return trip, and after /
spending some time with relatives in
the west would be home again. The
following, telegrapbed to Mondays
Repu6l.c, from FortScott, Kansas, re-
lates the adventvres and tells of the
hard-luck that sttended the Sunfiower
COMPANY in tie Klondike: 1.-The mem
bers OF the S1nflower Mining Compa-
nv, who eft this place for Alaska
eighteen months ago, sailing in their
own steamer from San Francisco, are