Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-27
Miscellaneous Items.

| Miscellaneous Items.
20 the Criminal Court at Independ-
ence, on the 10th, the attorneys for William
Ryan, recently convicted of the Glendale
| train-robbery, made an amended motion
| for new trial, IN which Gov. Crittenden
was charged with appearing in court on the
last day of the trial with an armed posse,
| which had the effect of prejudicing the jury
| in the trial. This naturally created quite a
| sensation, and the attorneys, after due de-
liberation, came to the conclusion that it
would be Il very difficult charge to sustain,
and accordingly, when the case was taken
up, they made formal detraction, and SUBJ
mitted the motion without argument upon
the other grounds, viz: Incompetent in
structions, the admission of incompetent
testimony, and other stereotyped reasons.
The Court took the matter under advise
ment. There seemed to be no doubt it
would be overruled, in which event it is
said an appeal will be taken to the Supreme
Court.
Rev. DR.. j. Mcfarland, of De Soto,
minister of the NJ. E. Church South, left
home on Sept. 20 for the purpose of attend
ing the Conference at st. Louis, since which
time all trace of him is lost. He did not at
tend the Conference. There seems to be no
other way to account for his disappearance
except that he has been foully dealt with.
The missing man is described as being sixty
two years of age, having dark hair, slightly
mixed with gray, chin and side whiskers
and blue eyes. When last seen on the Iron
Mountain train he had on dark suit of
clothes and soft felt hat. He has a wife
and daughter, the latter married.
The case of w. II. Owens, of Leba-
non, plaintiff, VS.. the St. Louis & San
Francisco Railroad Company, defendant,
has just been determined in the Dallas
County Circuit Court. The case was tried
before Hon. r. w. Evan. Plaintiff was
ably represented by James p. Nixon and
w. 1. Wallace, of Lebanon, Mo-, the COM
pany by their attorney, John O'Day. The
case involved the construction of the Gran
ger act Of this State regulating railroad
freights. The Court held that all compa-
MES incorporate since the adoption of the
new Constitution are subject to the laws
regulating freights. The plaintiff recovered
judgment against the road for 1850.
Minnie Bridges, a giddy Kansas City
school girl, took dose Of morphine the other
day with suicidal intent. Her mother had
heard that she contemplated running away
to Denver with young fellow of bad re-
pute named Charley Schott, and she went to
the school-hOuse after her. There she
learned that she had taken the drug and been
carried home. Her reason for taking poison
was that she found she would be taken to the
convent. Schott was arrested, and the girls
picture and letters found in his pocket. He
denies all knowledge of an intended elope-
ment. The girl will recover.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
ran into freight locomotive at Centertown,
Cole County, on the morning of the 14th,
causing a terrible wreck. Mrs. Lash and
her cousin, of Sedaia, were seriously in.
jured. The passenger engine was thrown
down the embankment and badly broken
up. The engineer and fireman escaped al
most certain death by leaping from the loco
motive before it toppled over.
St. Louis is suffering from big
freight blockade. Some 5000 cars filed
with merchandise fill the tracks at East st.
Louis and extend for forty miles out Of the
city, and goods shipped from Eastern points
forty days ago have not arrived yet. The
difficulty seems to lie somewhere between
the Transfer Company and the Bridge Com
pany, and between the two the merchants
of St. Louis are having hard time Of it.
The Masonic Grand Lodge, at its re-
cent session at st. Louis, elected the fol-
lowing officers: A. M. Dockery, of Gala
tin, Grand Master; Rev. C. c. Woods, Of
Kansas City, Deputy Grand Master; Lee
A. Hall, of st. Louis, Senior Grand Warden;
R. F. Stevenson, of Clinton, Junior Grand
Warden; Rev. John d. Vincil, Of st. Louis,
Grand Secretary; John w. Luke, of st.
Louis, Grand Treasurer.
The st. Louis River Convention prom
ises to be largely attended.
No lack of rain now.
An old German farmer from Kansas,
named Christian o. Mann, who was going
east. from st. Joe on the Hannibal Railroad,
was s'held up" and robbed Of 500 by four
men who called him out upon the platform.
The robbers jumped off the train at Cam
eron, where two of them were subsequently
arrested and held for trial. The two arrest
ed are John Snealy and "Atchison Butch"
Andrew Roderick, foreman OF the
lard ste aiming and refining department at
the Krug packing establishment,St. Joseph,
fell into vat of boiling water and was
frightfully scalded.
The st. Louis School Board is in .
perpetual squabble-