Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09

Bone, who had confessed that h.
and several other parties hat
robbed the store and had hidden
the goods in the cave near Greedy.
They found the cave and plent,
of evidence that Bone had told the
truth, but the goods had been
carted away. A pair of pants and
some tags were found where Bone
said they would be, but the goods
had been removed before the pres
emit snow and sleet fell. We have
not learned what further action
will be taken in the premises
Centreuille iejormer.
There Ire now about $40 patients
at State Hospital No. 4 for the In
sane, located at Pennington. Dur
ing the past year about one hum
dred patients were transferred to
the institution here from the asy-
lum at st. Louis. In the way of
buildings the erection of the hos
pital building was the greatest i'm
provement made during the past
year at the institution. The legis-
lature is asked to appropriate
about $3.50, 900 for contemplated
improvements and new buildings
to be erected during the next two
years. The appropriation will
likely be granted in a large degree
if not the entire amount asked.
The legislative junketing commit
tee, which was recently here, it is
said, will criticise the Institutions
buildings in its report.-Farming-
ton NeWs.
On last Saturday about $50 A.
M, the boiler of the Lost Creek
stave factory exploded, killing
four employees and injuriug four
others. The dead are, William
Wakefield, William Whitmer,
Robert Van Noy and John Scritch-
field, and the injured, Jasper
Wakefield, James Mcknight, Geo.
Shook and Roll Whitmer. The
dead were buried at their respect
i've family cemeteries, and the
wounded were taken to their homes
and getting along well. The scene
of the tragic event is known as
Shook. 1t is located on Lost
Creek a few miles from Greenville.
DR.. G. G. Sheets, coroner, held an
inquest over the bodies OF the vic
tins, and the verdict of the jury
was that they came to their death
from the explosion OF a boiler be-
longing to the Lost Creek Stave
Company and the jury further
declared That from the evidence
in the case the boiler was unsafe
Piedmont Banner, February 2.
Articles of Agreement of the
Bank of Ironton were filed with the
recorder last Saturday. The Or
ganization has been effected by H.
S. Whitener, a banker of Farming
ton. The capital stock of the new
institution is SIS, 900, half paid up.
There are one hundred and fifty
shares of stock at 500 each. OF
this amount MI. Whitener owns 81
shares or nearly two-thirds of the
entire issue. The remainder of the
stock is owned by citizens of the
county, distributed as folio VS.:
Frank Mullin, 5; John S. Benson,
5; B. B. Reagan, 5; w. T. Gay, 5;
Louis Miller, 5; R. E. Rudy, 5; j.
M. Logan, 1; j. G. Paullus, 2; R.
E. Johnston, 5; P. G.. Carly, 5;
Chris. Oesterle, 2; D. E. Fletcher,
8; J. Q. Adams, 1; B. N. Brown, 1;
G. w. Scoggin, 5; Geo. Steel, 1;
Lillian Steel, 1; Adrian Steel, 1;
H. S. Whitener, 81; L. A. Mckee,
1 and R. P. Schneider, 1. The
board of directors for the first
year are: w. T. Gay, B. B.
Reagan, Frank Mullin, John S.
Benson, R. E. Rudy, j. G. Paullus,
R. E. Johnston, G. w. Scoggin, P.
q. Carly and H. S. Whitener. The
officers have not yet been chosen,
but it is understood that Mr.. Whit
ener will be president and the
cashier has not yet been determ-
ined upon. Just where the bank
will be located has not yet been
stated, but it is said that the new
institution expects to be ready fol
business in a few weeks.
Every person who is compelled
to patronize the Pacific Express
Company will utter a most hearty
"Amen'' to the following, repro
duced from the last issue oil
the Fredericktown Democrat News
"Of all grinding, greedy, soulless
monopolies, the Pacific Express
Company that does business in
Missouri, leads the van. Last veal
this blood sucking vampire adopt
ed a new scale of charges, raising
express charges about 10 cents al
around, and very quietly the new
tariff has gone into effect; if yor
ask the agent why it costs more
now to send or receive goods by
express than it did last year, he
will tell you a new tariff ha.
been adopted and this new tariff
only affects people in small towns
For instance, the A. N. Kellogg
Newspaper Company and The
Western Newspaper Union of st
Louis have agreements with the
express companies to handle theil
express at so much per hundred
pounds for actual weight Nov
let's see what this agreemen
amounts to. About two weeks
ago we received a box of plate
matter from Kellogg, marked tt
weigh 20 pounds. The express OF
on it was 30 cents. This week W.
received a package from thu
Graham Paper Company weighing
s pounds, and paid 40 cents ex'