Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
st. Louis tobacco market (Oct. 22) !;
Dark Jugs, common to good, $500 to 1925;
bright smoking, common to good, Sc. 90 to
500; dark red leaf, $3.50 to $3.50; half
bright wrappers, common to medium, $40
to $18.
The St. Louis Republican, of a recent
date, says: Mr.. P. Van Frank, civil engi-
neer of the st. Louis, Iron Mountain &
Southern Railway, has returned from max.
ing the reconnaissance for branch road
through several important counties of Mis-
souri,. The projected line starts from Iron
dale in Iron County, and runs through Iron,
Washington and Dent Counties to the south
ern line of Texas County, where it strikes
the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis
Railroad. The length of the line will be
about ITO miles, and will tap fertile and
richly timbered country, giving St. Louis
another valuable railroad tributary.
Curtis Goddard, an aged and blind
wood-sswyer Of St.Joseph, has received off,
cial notice of the allowance of q pension Of
$22 per month, with 5000 in arrears. While
in the army he contracted disease which
has not only wrecked him physically, but
his eyes soon went out. For ten years he
has made very meager living by saving
wood.
1t is understood that Allen Farmer,
.he brother in. law Of the James boys, has
dismissed his suit for $4,000 against Super
Fntendent Treat, of the United States Ex-
Press Company, and ex-Marshal Liggett.
Farmer sued for damages for false impris-
.,nment. He was arrested In Texas for par
hcipation in the Glendale affair, but was
never indicted. 1t is now stated that Par
mer has been arrested for completely in the
Winston affair.
Reuben Grigsby, youngest son of Mr..
A. W. Grigsby, an old and respected citizen
and farmer of Mississippi County, commit
ted suicide a few days ago by shooting him.
self in the center of the forehead with rifle,
which killed him instantly. 1t is said he
had been very Respondent during the week
about what he termed failure Of his corn
crop.
The St. Louis freight blockade still
continues.
A very mysterious hanging is reported
from Grain Valley, in the southwestern
part of jackson County. A farmer going
through dense woods was Mortified to find
the dead body of a man with a rope around
his neck lying on the ground under a tree,
while suspended from q limb above was an
other piece of the same rope. The farmer
Immediately gave the alarm, but all efforts
at identifying the deceased proved failure.
One theory is that he was q detective and
met his fate at the hands of the train rob-
bers; another is that he was horse thief
who met with summary punishment from
the farmers of the vicinity. The third, and
most reasonable proposition is, that the man
committed suicide.
The twenty-seventh annual session of
the Grand Lodge of /. o. G. T. of the State
of Missouri convened at St. Louis on the
18th. VIM. F. Switzler, Of Columbia, Grand
Worthy Chief Templar, presided. The re-
port of the Grand Worthy Chief Templar
showed that the organization now numbers
about $50 lodges, with an aggregate MEM
bership of %, 900 persons, and holds the po-
sition of banner Grand Lodge of the world.
A Monroe County man has trichinosis.
The Grand Jury at Independence
have indicted John Bugler, John Land and
Creed Chapman for participation in the Blue
Get train robbery on Sept. last, and their
trial has been fixed for the February term.
Sam Chapman, captured at the same time,
is held on an indictment for carrying con-
cealed weapons, and he has made a state
ment in regard to the train robbery which
will be used as testimony against the others.
The Court of Appeals has refused to
interfere in behalf of Kotovsky and Kring,
the st. Louis murderers, now under sem
tence of death.
In many orchards in Phelps County
peach trees are In full bloom.