Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


! the Secretary of State recently and GER
Land Company of st. Joseph, capital &c.,.
| 600, all paid up but $4,000.
The other afternoon Edward Holman
who was confined in the City Jail at st.
Louis under three-years' sentence to the
Penitentiary for burglary, was visited by
his wife, who brought him basket of deli
cacies, among them several bananas. The
guard, on inspecting the basket, discovered
that the skin of one of the bananas was
broken. Examining it still closer he found
| a small file run through the center of it.
Two files were also found in the basket.
The woman was placed under arrest and
her husband notified of the fact. Holdman
| confessed that he had been plotting to make
his escape, and produced five small saws
from his cell which his wife had struggled
to him.
A gang of cracksmen began their
regular spring work in Sedalia the other
night by committing three burglaries. In
order to furnish themselves with effective
door-breakers they first went to the tool
house of the Missouri Pacific Round house
and secured about fifty dollars worth of
tools. Among the articles taken were some
burglar. The grocery store of Ibig &
Calls was entered through a back window,
the till robbed of small amount and some
groceries taken. The wholesale liquor
house of James Glass was also robbed of
small sum. 1t was thought that the thief
gained entrance to the aforementioned place
the morning.
Tho Do IJofo1 of Observation-Disclosures
was the scene of a shooting scrape between
two young colored men-John Vanzandt
dkPorter Armstrong-the other evening,
residing in the fatal shooting of the latter.
The trouble was caused by dispute over
game of cards. The shot was from forty
four bulldog revolver, and penetrated the
groin on the right side and made circuit
coming out on the left leg. Armstrong was
still alive but could not live. After firing
the shot Vanzandt fed, but was captu1 ed
shortly afterward. He had always been a
very quiet young man, it was said, while
Armstrong was considered a rowdy. -e-
The barn of Judge V. I. Chiffon, who
resides two miles north of Shutdown,
Pettis County, was burned the other night,
consuming it's entire contents, consisting
of 800 bushels of wheat, 1900 bushels of
corn, harnesses and farming utensils. The
Ere was supposed to have been caused by
some careless colored boys.
A wild turkey gobbler engaged in Il
fight with rooster on farm in Livingston
County recently and became SO absorbed in
the battle that a little boy slipped up be-
hind and captured him.
The employees in the brickyards of ST..
Joseph were on a strike the other day, 300
of them falling into line with red hand
kerchief for flag, land visiting all the yards.
They were sober and orderly but deter
mined in demanding restoration of twen-
ty-fve cents a day, which was last year
taken from their wages. The cigar-makers
of st. Joe also struck, demanding ten cents
per 1000 increase. No trouble and but liz
tie hindrance ensued, however, as the in
crease was promptly granted by all en-
ployers.
Kansas City complains of boarding.
house thieves.
The vast pineries of Oregon County,
it is said, are being purchased by specula-
tors, and many saw-mills will soon be put
up therein. Oregon is rapidly increasing
in wealth and population.
A few days ago the children of Kill
man Kissinger, in Howell County, ''treed"
a rabbit short distance from home, and
endeavored to get their game by cutting
down the tree. They cut away upon the
oak for several hours, but getting tired they
all went to the house except the oldest boy,
lad of fourteen or fifteen years. After
waiting some time for him to come to the
house the other children went back and
were Mortified at finding his corpse and the
tree upon it. He had probably resumed
cutting on the tree when it prematurely
fell, burying him beneath its weight.
In the United States Circuit Court At
Jefferson City the other afternoon James
W. Harrison, Presiding Justice, J. A. Lock-
hart and j. A. Prather, Judges of the Lafay-
cite County Court, were ordered to Jail by
Judge kreckel for contempt of court in re-
fusing to obey the mandate of the court
issued November 30, 1882, directing them to
levy special tax of $1,000 to pay an in
stallment on a judgment obtained by Coch-
ran Fleming i'll his suit on certain bonds
issued by the county under the law author
izing cities and towns to fund their indebt-
edness. The county offered to compromise
the bonds at eighty cents on the dollar, at
which rate S1,700,O00 of its bonded debt has
dlleduy beeu CoHl pEOLulSeCl, DuU the EOiueT 4
of the Judgment refuses to take less than
100 cents on the dollar. The court ordered
the Judges to be confined in Jail until they
obey its mandate. >~ :
Samuel w. Gelsor has been appointed
Postmaster at Cherry Box, Shelby County
Prof. B. NJ. Baker, Secretary of the
Texas State Boardof Education, has offered
inducements to several leading educators
in Missouri to conduct some of the summer
Normal Institutes in the Lone Star-State -
A horrible accident occurred at St.
Louis a few days ago. Charles Klatt,
sixteen-y ear-old boy, was trying to put q
belt on machine at the Granite Iron Roll.
ing-mills when his apron caught in the belt
and he was dragged toward the shaft. He
made futile endeavors to relieve the apron, |
but was finally dashed against the ceiling
of the room and whirled around the shaft. |
The machine was stopped as soon as posi-
BILE, but when the body of the boy was re-
leased from the belt life was extinct. The |