Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-13
miscellaneous Items.

Joseph M. Greene, ex-Collector of
Jackson County, who stands indicted on 165
counts, charging him with malfeasance in
office and fraud, loaning public moneys,
etc., six of which indictments charge felony,
has been granted a change of venue to La
fayette County, where his case will come up
in October. He first obtained a special
Judge on the charge that Judge White, of
the Criminal Court, was personally so hos
tile to him that fair trial would be impos-
sible, and then applied for change OF venue
on the grounds that the people Of Jackson
County were SO prejudiced against him that
he could not get fair trial there.
The Secretary of State has issued a
certificate of increase Of capital stock OF the
St. Louis Heat and Power Furnishing Com
pany from 500. 600 to 81 600. This COM
pany was organized May q, 1880, with a
capital of $4,000. half paid up. On the 7th
of November, 1881, the capital was increased
to $25, 900, and on the 9th of February, 1882,
1t was again increased to 100000, and now
to 81, 100000.
T. A. Taylor, formerly of Corners
vile, Ind, was found dead in his room at
the Pacific House, Kansas City. June 3d. He
was a graduate of Ann Arbor Law School
and was journalist by profession. A post
mortem examination revealed the fact that
he died of congestion OF the brain, superin-
duced hy excessive use of alcohol.
The Governor has commissioned the
following officers on the staff of Brig. Gen.
VIM NJ. Van CIeve. commanding military
district of North Missouri, to rank from
date: DR.. James w. Heddens, Medical Dr.
r Colo n
John Donovan, Jr., Commissary of Subsist-
ance, with rank of Major.
1t is rumored that Robert and Charles
Ford will enter college next year and take a
full course.
The cornerstone for the opera-house
and Masonic hall at Lebanon was laid the
other day with appropriate ceremonies.
Police Commissioners Cupples, Sim
mons, and Maxon, Of st. Louis, have re-
signed.
The laws of Missouri declare that a
road that has been used as public highway
for ten years needs no record to establish the
same, but the use of the road for that length
of time is sufficient for the establishment
thereof; and it further provides severe pen
alties for changing the same, except by or
der of the County Court.
Judd w. Wilson, night operator at
the C. s. A. depot at independence, is only
nine years old. His mother having died
when he was an infant he was kept by his
father in the telegraph office, and could
handle the instrument with accuracy when
he was six years old. He now receives for
his services $40 month.
The Railroad Hospital at Sedalia is
being gradually improved, and is being
made one of the handsomest, most convea-
lent and elegant establishments of the kind
in the United States. During the past few
weeks the upper ward, containing forty beds
for sick cases, has been refurnished and re-
modelled in elegant style. The room is
furnished with every convenience, is clean,
well ventilated, and handsomely adorned
throughout with pictures.
While Isaac Haas was returning home
from his place OF business in st. Joseph
early the other morning, he was met by two
burly negroes, who knocked him down and
attempted to rob him, but were frightened
away by footsteps.
The damage to the Kansas City public
school buildings by the recent storm excee ds
$1,000.
Tom O'Brien, notorious confidence
man. has been sentenced to the Penitentiagy
for twelve years for swindling farmer on
train.
Millions of watermelons are promised.
Two colored boys, Jake Swannegan
and Abe Brown, fought in a brick yard near
Sedalia, the other day. Swannegan struck
Brown vicious blow on the side of the
head with brick, crushing in the skull and
driving the bone into the brain. Brown
made his way home, and was taken with
commissions shortly after. Doctors were
called in, and six pieces of bone were ex-
tracted The injury was considered fatal.
Brown is only 10 years old.
The tobacco crop in the central coun-
ties gives most excellent promise, and pro-
ducers have no doubt of an excellent yield.
Walker is to have. a fruit canning es-
tabljshment.