Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-30
miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items. @
~ While party of men were playing
| cards in saloon at ST. Louis the other day
one of them, Frank VAIL, jokingly accused
another, August bunker, of having marked
more points than be had made. A quarrel
ensued, and few moments after bunker
| went to his home and procuring revolver
| returned and shot VAIL in the bowels and
then sent bullet into his own forehead
! VAIL died next day and it was thought
| bunker could not recover.
Miss Glady Frank, handsome and
+ intelligent girl, whose father is wholesale
| grocer in Kansas City, mysteriously disap-
peared few days ago, leaving note that
| she was married in June and would spend
| the summer at some northern resort where
her friends could not find her.
| A pardon was granted by Gov
| ernor Campbell the other day to Kate Jen.
| nings, who was convicted of arson at the
| April term, 1881, of the Lafayette County
| Criminal Court, and sentenced to five years
| in the Penitentiary. The pardon was grant
ed upon he certificate of the prison physi
|. clan and the recommendations of the prison
! inspectors, the woman being sick and if
| longer imprisoned her life would be short
/ ened.- 20 .-.Gff + .psH'i-. ! II
The other evening young farmer
named Robert Vest was robbed in the East
| Sedalia car yards. AS Vest was standing
between two freight cars, two men ap-
preached him, spoke to him in friendly
manner, and suddenly sprang upon him
and caught him. by the arms. His watch
and considerable cash We're taken from
his pockets.
Four burglaries were committed at
Dresden, a village ten miles west of
Sedalia the Gother morning, the thieves
getting away with about sixty dollars in
cash and number of valuable articles.
On the day before the burglaries Mr..
McGruder drew 800 from the First Ma
tional Banl, in Sedalia, and as the money
was counted out to him he noticed two
strangers at the door of, the bank watching
him. These men went to Dresden with
| him on the same train, and were supposed
to have been professional thieves.
An effort is being made by property
owners of Kansas City to build dixie
along tho river front from the northeast
corner of the city limits clear around the
point known as East Kansas, SO as to pro-
tect the entire east bottoms from overflow.
ing. The scheme is to dedicate a strip one
hundred feet wide, and to pay an assess
ment sufficient to meet the costs of the
work, and it is stated that from the way in
which the matter is being taken hold of the
success of this important enterprise is as
sured. ~ "a ' ~ '.
The State Superintendent of Public
Schools, w. E. Coleman, has appointed an
agent in each, Congressional District to aid
the County Commissioners in working up
institutes.
Governor Campbell the other day
committed the sentence Of Frank Worthy,
of Chillicothe, to tsrenty-seven months IN
the Penitentiary from July 6, 1882. ffe
was on that date sentenced by the Circuit
Court of Livingston County to eight years
imprisonment for forgery. The communal
ton was recommended by the Prosecuting
Attorney who prosecuted the case, State
Senator Jacobs, Hon. L.. T. Collier and i.
w. Donovan, W., c. Samuels, A. T. O'Neill,
D. W. Webster and DR.. w. T. Foster, by
special letters to the Governor. Also a
large number of prominent men of Chilli
eothe, and county officers joined in a petit
ton in praying for a communication of a sen
tence which they claimed was excessive, as
it was Worthly's first offense and he had
previously borne good character.
Lightning struck the hen-house of J.
P. Fnllzerson, of Higginsville, recently and
killed forty chickens. = -ar'rt
The State Auditor has decided that
under the act of March last, increasing the
amount which clerks of courts may recsive
for deputy. hire, clerks are authorized to
pay their deputies salaries at the increased
rates for the entire year, notwithstanding
the act did not take effect until July !, ult.
The act provides for the yearly salaries of
IA - l.. ~
appropriation, the fiscal year commencing
prior to the passage of the act, hence clerks
would be authorized in making their an
nual settlement to retain from their Office
fees of the present year the pay of thek
deputies at the increased rate allowed By
the act as well for that portion of the fiscal
year prior to the passage of the act as 70,
the period subsequent. <
An enormous snake was killed re.
Gently near Easton, Buchanan County, by
Hiram c. Boone. The ''serpent" measured
thirteen feet, ''if he wasn't mistaken" ant
it is supposed he wasn't"
St. Louis has a haunted house.
Summonses were issued in the United
States Circuit Court at Kansas City the
other day in two cases against Lafayette
County on bonds and coupons issued in
July, 1870, to the Lexington, Chillicothe &
Gulf Railway Company. In the first suit
Henry Forsyth is plaintiff and the claim is
$500. while the second plaintiff, Thoma'
w. White, asks for judgment for 81, 600.
C.. F. Moore, of New Palestine, Coop
er County, recently lost a barn by fire. A
number of agricultural implements which
together with the barn were worth about
$500 were destroyed.
West Plains is said to have trebled
ger population in the last eighteen months.