Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-06-11

way and stuck in the mud back in
Jefferson county. About five
o'clock Saturday evening this car
with FIVE or six passengers, slid
through town, en- route to Ironton.
With good roads from here to st.
Louis Potosi would quickly be-
come a popular point for bicycle
and auto tourists.-PotoSi Journal.
Are you going to try and get
one of these prizes?
Hand painted sofa pillow for Fanciest
Corset Covert second prize, burnt wood
PLAGUE.
Half dozen Chinese cups and saucers for
daintiest fancy apron.
Half dozen bread ard butter plates for
most serviceable kitchen apron.
pair of embroidery scissors for best en-
broidery, from 10 TO ID years; I'd prize,
pink silk sewing bag; sd prize, emery and
needle book.
Prizes on display in a few days.
Academy of Music, June 25th.
The transfer of $500 acres OF
iron lands known as the Romine
tract, vas made Saturday by S.
M. Chapman and Ed. George to
the Missouri Iron and Steel Com
pany, of Boston, Mass, the con-
sideration being $4,000. This
deal was consummated by Mr.. j.
M. Elvins, of st. Francois county,
who has been in Poplar Bluff for
several weeks in connection with
this and other land deals. The
land sold Saturday is one-half
mile from the Frisco railroad and
ten miles east of Poplar Bluff.
We are informed that it is the pur-
pose of the Boston concern to
Immediately build a switch to their
property and erect a smelter. Mr..
Elvins tells the Citizen that this
deal is only a starter in the direc-
ton of developing the iron indus
try in this section. 1t is probable
that the Boston company, in adj
dition to their holdings in Butler
county, which amount to about
$4,000 acres, will also absorb
properties which have been offer
ed them in Cape Girardeau and
Wayne counties .-Citizen.
Some ten days ago the body of
a woman was taken from the Mis-
sissippi river at Alton, Ills. All
efforts to discover her identity
have proven in vain. An examin-
alton revealed that death had
been occasioned by a crushing
blow on the skull. The authori-
ties believe the woman was MUIR
dered, and have been endeavoring
to fathom the mystery. A feature
that gives local interest to the af-
fair is that Coroner Streeper of
Alton last Friday received a letter
signed "Rue Isaman, of Arcadia,
Mo-" The letter was in the hand
writing of a woman who pretend
ed to be a sister of the dead wom-
an. The writer of the letter said
the woman had been killed by a
kick from a mule, and the body
thrown in the river because of a
lack of funds to pay for a burial.
The coroner puts little faith in the
letter and thinks it was written to
mislead him. One thing certain;
there is no person by the name of
"Rue Isaman" living at Arcadia,
nor, so far as we have been able to
ascertain, has there aver been. So
that much of the letter, at least, is
deceptive.
Last Friday at midnight tht
special train returning from Ste
Genevieye on the Illinois Southern
from the Drummer's Convention.
passed over Harry Rapp, who was
lying asleep across the track neal
Reuters mill midway OF his body.
almost severing it and killing him
instantly. 1t appears that he and
some other young men had been
canning beer and drinking near
the saloon close to the Flat River
station of the Illinois Southern.
About ten O'Clock he and a young
man named Joe NARROW started
home and sat down on the track al
the dirt crossing near Reuters
mill and fell asleep. When the
special came along and slowed UP
at the crossing, NARROW got up il
a dazed sleepy condition just be-
fore tho train passed. After the
train passed he took hold of Har-
ry Rapp's leg and said "Get up.
Harry, let's go home," when he
discovered that Rapp had run ovel
by the train and killed. NARROW
went home, sat down on the side
of his bed with his clothes on anc
fell asleep without telling anyone
about the affair. At the coroner's
inquest the next day he said he
was with young Rapp, but didn'I
remember anything about how hs
was killed. The inquest was ad-
journed over to Tuesday morning
and on Monday he told his father
the story related above, and testi-
fed to the same before the cor
oner on Tuesday. He said hi
told the first story about not re-
membering anything of the cir
cumstances for fear that he would
be accused of being responsible,
in some way for his friend Rapp''
death-Fdrmington Times.
Liveryman Vance of Arcadia
tells us that he came very nea
losing two horses in the Shut-Il
ford Tuesday.evening of last week
He had hired a team to Messrs
Morris and Constance, a couple o