Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24
:, OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
Brass Brick Sold. for Gold.

POLICE circles are convulsed over the neat
and complete manner In which one Of the
smart men of Chicago has been taken I'm BY an
old process. james b. Storey keeps pr1vate
loan and rca-estate Office In the Union Build
ing, corner of LaSalle and Washington streets-
He has always had the reputation of being
somewhat shrewd, and wa, the last person In
the world who Would be suspected Of being
soft enough to allow himself 60 be played for
q sucker" sh0rt time since Mr. Storey had
occasion to go p the Hot Springs of Arkansas,
that balmy locality where rheumatism Is sup
posed to give mp thu ghost. He took with
him q large amount Of hard cash and q
considerable sum In greenbacks, and left
q fat bank account behind him as q
reserve in case of emergency. Now it hap
pened that some of the crack crooks of the
country learned of the presence of Mr. Storey
at the Hot Springs with "a barrel of money"
They Immediately decided to work him for
all he was worth" In this undertaking they
were eminently successful. They tried the
brass brick racket" They informed Mr.. Stor-
ey that the brick in their possession was avery
valuable one. all gold, and the mysterious
manner I'm which they are said to have con-
Quoted the negotiations led Mr.. Storey to be-
heve all that they said. To make a long story
short, the gentleman Is alleged TO have parted
with $3.50 in cool cash, and to have become
the unhappy possessor OF a fine brass brick,
thus losing the entire sum invested. 1t Is said
that Nr. Storey is making every effort to re-
cover the lost money, but thus far he has not
met with any success.-Chfcdgo Journal.
The Thirteen and SeventeeE-year locusts.
PROFESSOR c. v. RILEY, Chief of the
United States chronological Commission,
who has been spending a couple OF days In
the city, left last night for Washington.
Meeting Republican reporter yesterday aft
ernoon, the Professor called his attention to a
dispatch sent out from Washington last week,
in which a statement was imputed to him
that the locusts or grasshoppers were going
to be bad the coming season. This statement,
the Professor said, was incorrect. IL was a
misapprehension of the language used by
him in the course Of some remarks
made by him before the District of
Columbia horticultural Society. His re-
marks were i'm relation TO the seventeen
year 1ocusts, more properly known as the
"cicada," totally different insect-one hav-
ing no power to do great injury. or this in
sect the Professor said there would be two
distinct broods the thirteen-year aud the sew.
enteen-year varieties, which will appear in
large portion of the country, say in about
dozen different States, including Missouri and
most OF the Mississippi Valley States. Their
appearance will be in May and June. Prof.
Riley stated that the simultaneous appearance
of the thirteen and seventeen-ycar broods had
not occurred before since the year 1900 in the
same places where they will appear this year.
The cicada are not destructive like the pests
known as grasshoppers or locusts. They have
got sucking beak and therefore cannot de-
YOUR anything. The only injury they can do
is done by the female, which has the habit Of
puncturng the twiys of fruit and forest trees,
to make holes in which TO lay her eggs.
Regarding the grasshopper proper Prof. RI
ley said the prospects as 20 injury from them
are quite favorable, as is Judged from the
observations made by the United States En-
Genealogical Commission last year. He said
he had no reason to fear any serious injury.
1t was found last summer that the eggs and
insects in the natural breeding grounds OF the
Northwest were scarce.-St. Louis Republican.