Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-08-23

started across the main track to-
ward the station Just as No. 4came
by at a sixty-mile gait. Totally
unwarned of the approaching
train, it is by good fortune only
that none of them were caught.
1t seems to me that such railroad
ing shows brutal indifference to the
safety of the people entrusted to
the care OF the trainmen. 1t ought
not to be tolerated.
Chas. Thurman and wife, N. E..
Thurman, who live about two
miles southwest of G~raniteville,
were arraigned before the U. S.
Commissioner here, last Wednes-
day, on the charge of using the
mails for the purpose Of defraud-
ing. The evidence disclosed that
the woman had for some time past
made g practice ofsordering goods
under an assumed name from some
of the cities. She would secure the
goods, sell them and then move to
another p~ost-ofice and order I'M
der another name, always failing
to pay for the goods so bought,
but gave references with her order
that would bring them. The hus-
band declared that all he had done
was to help dispose of the goods.
They were held for the federal
grand jury and in default of $500
bail will remain in the Ironton Jail
until November. 1t is said that
the man and woman had practiced
and successfully worked this
scheme in every county between
here and the river, and that they
have been bleeding their victims
for a year or more. A post-office
inspector was several weeks on the
case.
Albert Eugene DeMier, aged
twenty-six years, To- of Mr.. Cyrus
E. DeMier, of Arcadia, committed
, suicide at the family residence
Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, by
shooting himself through the head
with a revolver. EBERT" as he
was generally called, had been out
to the Sut-In swimming that after
noon and returned homo shortly
before six o'clock. After some
words he said to his mother that
he intended to kill himself. AS he
had not infrequently made the
same statement at other times,
Mrs. DeMier paid no attention to
him, but walked out in the yard.
In a few moments she heard the
report of a gun, and hurrying to
the front of the house found her
son lying dead on the porch. He
had used a revolver, the ball en-
tering the left temple and coming
out the other side Of the head.
Death was almost instantaneous,
and he never spoke after firing the
shot. Coroner Farrar held an in
quest last evening and the jury re-
ported the facts about as here
stated. The funeral occurs from
the residence at 4 o'clock P. NJ, to-
day wednesday,, and interment
will be in the K. P. cemetery. The
REGISTER extends assurance of
profound sympathetic the bereaved
and heart-broken parents in their
great sorrow.
A suit was filed this week in the
circuit court of this county for
$780, 900 against Mine La Motto
Lead and Smelling Company.
The suit is styled VIM. H. Smol-
lenger vs.. Mine La Motto Lead and
Smelling Compay. The plaintiffs
petition contains two counts. The
first that he rented and leased for
a term of forty-nine years certain
lands set out in a lease that is
made a part of the record for
which he paid $4,000 with a
further consideration of certain
, royalties. That on the second day
of April 1904, defendant delivered
! to the plaintiff the premises de-
scribed in the lease and that plain
tiff took possession of same and
5 paid to the defendant the sum OF
t $780, 900 in cash; while the plaintiff
l was in possession of said premi-
t ses under his lease, the defendant
did, on the Sth day of June 1904,
t against the will of the plaintiff.
5 cancel the said lease and did enter
: upon and evict said plaintiff and
. has since had possession of the
S premises. For this plaintiff asks
/, for $50, 200 damages together with
g interest from June 1904 and court
t costs. For the second cause OF
action the plaintiff states that he
has been deprived of the beneficial
enjoyment Of said premises for the
remainder of said lease to his
! damage in the sum of 500, 900
: The original lease that is made 6
: part of the record in this cas- is
. attached to the petition, and il
signed by A. A. Daugherty, presi.
dent, and w. D. Guilbert ,secre'
tary. There is a provision in thu
: lease that allows the Lessee to re-
. new the lease for a period of forty
: more years at the completion o
y the forty-nine year lease Tht
plaintiff in this suit, Mr.. Smelling
n er, is from G%alesburg, Illinois, ant
the lease is supposed to cover wha
- is known as the jack diggings in
Guided in the lease, which is TO
- 100 acres.--FredericktoWn Democrat,
NeWs.
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