Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-27
Miscellaneous Items.

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| Miscellaneous Items.
| Enos j. Crowther, ex-City Register
and City Attorney and present City Assess
| sor, together with man named John Cox,
| late clerk for John C. Bender, pension
agent, have been arrested on complaint of
| Mayor Posegate,. of St. Joseph, charging
| them with completely in the 100000
| bond steal. Their bonds were fixed at
$4,000 each. Crowther furnished bond with
his father, of Crowther, Rogers & Co., iron
| founders, as security. Cox went to Jail.
The arrest was made on information from
| City Marshal Richie, in New York, with the
| prisoners Scott and Irwin. The telegram
| stated that Irwin had given the facts to him,
| saying Crowther and Cox stole the bonds
| and had given them to Scott and Irwin to
sell. The arrests created profound sensa-
ton. Mayor Posegate announces his inten-
ton to suspend Register Ringo from Office
pending complete investigation. The In
ner safe Of the vault has not been used for
several months, the lock being broken. The
bonds and other valuables have been placed
in the State Savings Bank by the Mayor. A
partial investigation showed 81 900 worth of
bonds not accounted for in any way, and
5000 in cash short.
Thousands of people have visited the
premises lately occupied by Jesse James, liz
st. Joseph, an admission fee of ten cents be-
ing charged. The personal effects and
household goods of the dead outlaw were
sold at auction. About ten dollars worth
of old rubbish brought almost two hundred
dollars. The outlaws dog, a very common
animal, brought fifteen dollars. The chair
on which he was standing when shot brought
five dollars; five other plain cane chairs,
two dollars; each half dozen stone china
plates, one dollar each; half dozen sau-
GERS, fifty cents each; knives and forks, one
dollar each; an old wash basin, four dollars
and seventy-fiv cents; the buster the out
law was brushing off pictures with at the
fatal moment, five dollars; a worthless
jack knife, four dollars; an old sachel, twen-
ty -one dollars; washstand, eleven dollars;
a crippled revolver, seventeen dollars; a
pair of old mitts, two dollars, and many 9TH
er articles at similar prices.
The Governor has granted a pardon
to Eva Schellhausen, of st. Louis County.
On the 2Sth of March last she stole $40 from
Frederick Sands, for which crime she was
sentenced to sixty days in the County Jail
by Louis Strothcamp, Justice of the Peace.
The pardon was granted upon the recon-
mendation of the Prosecuting Attorney and
others, who say the girl, who is but IS years
of age, is of good family and has heretofore
borne good reputation, but is weak in
mind and not entirely capable of compre-
bending the criminal nature of her act.
They also represent that in the County Jail
there is no provision made for the proper
separation of male and female prisoners.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Arkansas Valley Smelling Com
panY, of Kansas City. The amount of the cap
ital stock of the company is 100000, divided
into so, 900 shares of $40 each. The purpose
of the company is to buy, hold, operate de-
velop and sell mining property, and to en-
gage in the business Of milling, sampfing
and smelling ores and minerals in the State
of Missouri, and elsewhere throughout the
United States. The men composing the
company are all possessed OF considerable
capital, and represent large amoun. of
wealth.
Fred Peters, who died in the Grundy
County Poor house the other day, and who
was once rich, was one Of t'Walker's men,,
was with the great ''filibuster'' in all his
campaign in Nicaragua and other Central
AIueTlCtu SUdtcSs anu was Capturcu WITH
Walker at Truxillo, Honduras, where the
latter was shot.
During a recent thunderstorm light
ming struck the residence of j. Fl. Bethune,
at Charleston, entering the family sitting
room, passing entirely around the gilt mold
ing near the ceiling and leaving traces of fire
in its track. There was no one in the room
at the time.
st. Louis received from various
sources during the past year over A. 0O0, 900
bushels of COAL.
The dog-poisoner is abroad.
No better evidence of the general
financial prosperity of the people of Rails
County could be offered than the fact that
at the recent term of the Circuit Court there
was not single execution sale, except tax
sales, and they were against non residents.
The lifeless body of Mr.. David MCGEE
was found in the house of David Strean,
Paris. Monroe County, recently. The cause
OF the suicide was domestic trouble. Mr..
MCGEE had intimated to friend a week or
so previous to his demise that il his death
should occur suddenly it need not occasion
any surprise.
Scarlet fever prevails in ST. Louis to
an unusual degree