Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-29
Miscellaneous Items.


St. Louis tobacco market (Sept. 1g:
Dark Tugs, common to good, $3.50 to $3.50;
bright smoking, common to good, 5000 TO
$500; dark red leaf, 500 to 5000; half
bright wrappers, common TO medium, $40
to SIS.
Buglar, Greed Chapman and Ryan,
suspected train robbers, have been taken 10
Kansas City for safc-keeping, It having
been observed that number OF their friends
were suspiciously hanging around the jail
mt Independence. A Kansas City detective
Is OF the opinion that old railroad men were
engaged in the affair. They knew the en-
gineer, Foote, and addressed him Familiarity
as "Chuclly" or "Choky," his railroad nick
name. After the engineer had been away
from his engine twenty minutes, they asked
him, "Don't your engine need aitentiony'
and made other remarks showing them IN be
well up In railroad matters. IL is now known
that a portion of the property stolen from
the passengers has been recovered, and SUI
perintendent Vaughan wants everyone who
was subjected to searching on the night
the train was robbed to at once send de-
scription Of their losses to him.
A party of roughs disturbed we'd
ding, near Kansas City, on the 18th. They
stoned the house, injuring some OF the in
mates. J. ID. Jones, armed with a pistol,
went out to demonstrate, and fred ut a
young man named Deroy wiltfoug. who was
in the act OF throwing rock az him. The
bullet penetrated Wiltfong's head, with IA
tai effect.
A ''crank" recently presented him.
self at the Executive Mansion in jefferson
City and announced himself as Gov. Crit
tenden's son-in-law. As the Governors
eldest daughter Is only about seven years
old, the porter would not recognize his
claim to relationship and refused him adj
mittance. The fellow persisted In seeking
an entrance to the house, Mt the same time
displaying two revolvers buckled around his
waist. He was finally arrested by the City
Marshal and taken to the City Jail, where
he was disarmed. He was identified by pa-
pers found upon his person as II. T.. w.
Huddleston, Of Danvile, Montgomery coun.
ty, and there being no doubt Of his insanity.
a telegram was sent to his relatives to take
care of him.
Water works are to be constructed
for the use Of the Pententiary at Jefferson
City.
Two sons of the Widow Campbell, OF
Barry County, were recently drowned while
bathing in Flat Creek.
A little SON of James Brokaw. Of
Harrisonville. fell into an open cistern and
was dead when discovered.
The Missouri Baptist Association
will meet at the Third Baptist Church in st.
Louis on Tuesday, the 18Th OF October.
Harry Clark, Of Bonnot's Mills, near
Jefferson City, was run over and killed nv n
Missouri Pacific freight train. Clark IL re-
ported ms having been drinking man, and
It is supposed he was intoxicated when he
met his death.
James Bishop, young farmer living
four miles southwest Of Independence, in
company with a neighpor was returning
from Kansas City on horseback, when In go
ing down rocky hill the horse stumbled.
throwing him over her head and breaking
his neck. He died almost Immediately. lie.
leaves a family.
The st. Louis Zoo has new elephant.
Bernard Behr, a German resident of
st. Louis, whose fondness for whisky made
him poor, dressed himself in his best clothes
the other afternoon, babe his wife good-by.
went into the garnet Of his house, put one
foot in a bucket Of water. cut the calf OF his
leg, and sat there until he bied TO DEATH
The famous Carter-Dickey breach-of-
promise suit at Kansas. City has been CON-
promised, the fair plaintiff receiving hand
some cash soliatum Of several thousand dol
lars. 2"
Sedalia is talking. of sinking an ar
tesian well. 'r' 0r hih-
Scdalia's new jail is ready for occu-
pancy. nll,s