Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-06
Miscellaneous Items.


The Chihuahuan visitors to st. Louis
have concluded their sojourn and returned
home. They all expressed themselves
highly gratified at their reception by the
st. Louisans. Some of them made heavy
purchases of merchandise during their
stay. . ,-- 4.Ets
A few evenings ago Thomas and Dan y
lei Harrington, half-brothers, had just
stepped from the door of saloon in ST.
Louis when they were attacked by two
strange young men and stabbed so serl-.
ously that the death of both will probably
efisue. The would-be murderers ran off,
and probably will never be identified.
At the session of the Grand Encamp-s
ment of Missouri, l. o. o. F., in st. Joseph,
E, NJ, Sloan was elected Grand Scribe. The
Encampment presented to Colonel john
Doniphan solid silver table set, in recog-
milton Of services rendered to the order in
it's infancy.
The police of Kansas. City have az
rested two men who slaughtereda and sold to
CITY butchers eleven head of sick or dis
abled cattle.
Jim O'Conor, living north of New
London, Rails County, while out hunting
recently succeeded in capturing bald
eagle, which measures seven feet from tip
to tip of wings. He sold it to Mr.. Neal,
who will keep it as pet. ,a1
The organization of a creamery COM
pany in Chester County bias been effected.
The gentlemen, Messrs. A. 7. Kennedy, 5.
M. Gibson, Thomas B. Jordan and others
interested, have secured the ground for
mer1y occupied by the Hunt factory; in
Huntsville, and are erecting the building
which will be forty by twenty-four feet,
with an ire-houseaattached in which there
will be storing room for butter before be-
ing sent to market, The stockholders ex-
pect to have it in operation by December
IA. - :
Livingston County is organizing a fair
association with a capital stock of 900;
1000 shares at $40 q shares
The $4,000 required to make ST.
Joseph the terminus of the Lacrosse. Iowa
& Southwestern Railroad has all been sub
scribed, and the road win strike that place.
,Peter Ryan, who smothered his wife
to death last spring, was found guilty OF
| manslaughter In the fourth degree at st,
Joseph recently, and penalty was fixed at
six months in the Penitentiary.
The Chillicothe creamery paid the
| farmers $500 in October for cream, and is
| paving twenty cents for the cream that
makes a pound of butter, and takes it at the
| farmers door. - ~ 49, =,
Elder Morgan, of the Mormon Church,
passed through Kansas City few days
ago, en- route to Salt Lake, with seventy.
eight recruits from Southern States. The
| proselytes are of the most ignorant class
| and appear to haye no idea of Mormonjsm.
They say they have been promised homee
with no restriction as to choice of religion.
| Seven citizens CT St. Louis have. OBJ
tanned at Springfield a charter. to build a
bridge across the Mississippi at Chain OF
4 Rocks alta cost of 81, eO,oUo: -
The tax list of real estate and per-
sonal property of St. Louis for the current
Wear shows valuation OF $780, 100000, an
in. crease of about $40, 100000.
Jas. Thornton and J. B. Wilson, Chi
| cago crooks, were lodged iny Jail at Lexing
ton a few days ago. by Wm.sH. Moss, OF
/ Davis Township, fof burglarizing Judge
| Harrison's store, at Corder, Lafayette
County, of knives, silk handkerchiefs
clothing and other goods to the value OF
$500. AS soon as the burglary was discov
I cred the citizens of Corder turned out en
masse and found the thieves hid in straw
| rick half mile from town and the goods
in another rick. Each of the men wore g
suit bearing the trademark of the store. II
Is supposed these are two Of three men who
srcbbed @the Grange at Hfgginsville two
years ago, as the only one of the trio cap
tured had card bearing the names of tbs
two men above mentioned.
Have YOU standard timer
Mr.. Shelton Wilkerson, farmer who
lived, near Darlington. Galloway County
was found dead in his field few days ago
He had gone out to gather load of corn
/ and not returning as soon as the family ex
pected they went i'll search of him, ane
found him dead beside his wagon, which hs
q had partially filled with corn.
/ edward Riekard, reporter in st
Louis, has been tried there three times fo'
the murder oe his landlady, Miss Selin'
j WILSON, and has been finally acquitted OF
y the ground that his pistol was accidental,
E1ischarged.
There are twenty-one inmates o
! ssMurderers' Row" in the st. Louis bastile