Iron County register., 1900-03-08
MISSOURI ITEMS CONDENSED.

oOIne republicans III oC. AOuIS arc
urging ex-Secretary of the Interior
John W. Noble for governor.
The chief of police, Lee Carver, of
Nevada, was stabbed three times with
knife while trying to arrest three
men who were intoxicated. The men
are under arrest.
Albert Hoskins, convicted of ''hold-
ing up" street car conductor at the
end of the Prospect avenue line in
Kansas City, was sentenced to 20 years
in the penitentiary.
S. r. Byars, a young man of Rush
vile, this state, tried to commit sui
eide in a Kansas City hotel the other
night but doctors rescued him. He
said he was tired of life.
Gov. Stephens has appointed Mrs. S.
NJ. Gamble, of ST. Louis, and Father
Francis Graham, of ST. Joseph, who,
with Goldman King, of ST. Louis, will
represent Missouri at the Paris ex-
position.
Charles McGrail started from his
Linn county home few days ago for
the Annapolis naval academy, having
won the appointment in Judge Ruck-
er's district in recent competitive
examination.
Simpson Pennell, who stole horse
from DIR. Ellis at Auxvasse and was
arrested two days later at Santa Fe,
was apprehended as an eX-convict who
had served a term for a theft COM
mitted in Monroe county.
G. M. Lindsey, aged 45 years, living
at Centralia, was found dead along
side the Burlington track near Ana
bel, Macon county. The indications
are that he had fallen from train
and frozen to death.
The democratic national convention
will be the biggest and most impor-
tant gathering Kansas City has ever
had. 1t will bring probably $4,000
people to that city-possibly more.
These visitors will spend between $4,-
OO0, 900 and $5,0OO,0OO there.
The editor of the Joplin Globe sent
S83 to Gov. Stephens as a contribu-
ton from Joplin people toward
monument to the late William E. Goe-
bel at Frankfort, Ky. Gov. Stephens
added SIT, making the amount an even
500, and forwarded it to Frankfort.
Andrew Carnegie has made a prop
osition to jefferson City to give the
city $1,000 for the establishment of
library that is to be free, and steps
are being taken there to take adj
vantage of the offer. The conditions,
are that the city must furnish site
for the library and create fund of
90, fNr ho mt
of the library.
Oscar Ramsey, an expert counter
feiter, war arrested at Joplin by
deputy marshals. He was caught
melting bullion and pouring it into
molds The dollars were perfect. Ram
sey said he had been making silver
dollars for ten years. His profit lay
in purchasing silver at its market
value and coming it into dollars worth
about twice the bullion value.
At Joplin recently the jury in
the notorious Thornton trial brought
in verdict of guilty and assessed
Mrs. Ida Thornton's punishment at
ten years in the penitentiary for ac-
cessory before and after the fact in
the murder of her husband at Pros
perity, Mo-, last faH. Mrs. Thornton
induced George Ray, a half-witted
boarder, to kill her husband while he
was working at mine near Pros
perity.
Judge T. j. C. Fagg, postmaster at
Louisiana, is the patriarch of Mis-
souri, postmasters. He came with his
family to Missouri in the early sos.
He has served in the Missouri legisla-
ture and in other official positions and
in 1866, by appointment of Gov.
Fletcher, he became a judge of the
Missouri supreme court. Judge
Fagg's first law partner at Louisiana
was the late James O. Broadhead,
afterwards minister to Switzerland,
and his last one ex-senator D. A. Ball.
The A. o. q. w. grand lodge at Sc
dalia last week voted to establish
headquarters for two years at ST.
Louis. The revised laws provides for
only two grand lodge deputies in
stead of five as formerly at salary of
SIS per month and expenses, instead
of 500 as formerly. The grand lodge,
however, offers a commission of So
for every new member brought into
the order by workman and this will
increase the income of the deputy to
larger figure than he formerly re-
ceived.
The Missouri Postmasters' associa-
ton was formed at ST. Louis
with the following officers: Pres
ident, F. w. Baumhoff, ST. Louis;
vice presidents, F. NJ. Atkinson, ST.
Joseph; T. S. Kelly, Moberly; G. W.
Shoemaker, Albany; J. H. Miller,
Ava; secretary, E. M. Rowe, St.
Charles. The meetings will be held
each year on Washington's birthday
anniversary. Every postmaster in
the state is eligible to membership
Among the resolutions adopted was
one urging congress to increase the
of fourth-class post
masters and another demanding that
the star route system be reformed. |
The next meeting will be held at Kan
sas City.
3he proposition to build new Jail |
in Clay county was defeated at a |
special election last week, 43O votes |
for so 1,44s against.
One of the largest Touring mills in |
Jasper county was burned in Joplin |
the other night 1t was known as
the Glove Touring mills.
Burglars entered the store of Henry
Wear at Blendville, a surburb of Jop-
lin, and blowing open the safe Sc
cured $500 in cash and escaped.
Prof. W III. Lynch, of Mountain