Iron County register., 1883-08-09
Miscellaneous Items.

| John n. Ienkel committed suicide
| green.
A novel suit was begun in o Kansas
| City court recently, in which G. c. Bran
ham charges Enoch Pratt with having OBJ
| tanned from him fifty cents by means of
| false pretenses. The claim Branham makes
| is that he went into the Union Avenue
| Hotel. managed by defendant, short time
| ago and paid fifty cents for nights lodg-
| ing. the defendant assuring him that he
should have good 1. When he went to
his room he found he could not sleep on the
bed given him, and he went down and de-
manded his money back. This was refused,
| and the man went elsewhere to sleep. In
order to ''get even," he then instituted his
suit.
Among the patents issued from the
Patent office at Washington recently were
the following to Missouri inventors:
George c. Busch Eureka, boot or shoe;
John Cochran, Jr., Millwood, mechanical
movement: John S. Durham, st. Louis,
confection; Alexander Handlan, Jr., st.
Louis, locomotive headlight; William Ru
dolph, Sr., st. Louis, breast-chains for har-
ness; Andrew w. Taylor, Salisbury, hay
rake; Wilbur Thorpe, st. Joseph, mechan-
ical key board attachment for musical in.
struments.
Lafayette Montgomery, of Kansas
City, after prolonged quarrel with
woman with whom he had been living,
crushed her skull the other day with
kerosene lamp. AS he ran for a mile
through the crowded streets, brandishing
a razor, he was hotly pursued by five po-
licemen, who emptied their revolvers at
him, but he escaped across the line into
Kansas.
One hundred country base ball or
CARNATIONS are playing the national game
this year in Missouri.
At Birds Point, Mississippi County,
the other night, man attacked Yard.
master Dwyer while he was asleep in bed,
and tried to kill him with large pitcher.
Failing in this, he drew dirkknife, but
before he could use it the noise brought as
sistance, and the assassin fed to Cairo in
skif. Next morning early Officer McIlgue
arrested the william, who proved to be
John Haley, whom the Sheriffs of Missis-
sippi County and Ballard County, KY,
both wanted. Some time ago Haley shot
man at Birds Point, and had been at large
since. His capture was considered sby the
officers an important one.
The State Bar Association closed an
interesting two-days' session at Sweet
Springs few days ago. John c. Gage, Of
Kansas City, was elected PRECEDENT OF the
association for the ensuing year, and
Charles E. Withrow, of st. Louis, Secre-
tary. A great many prominent judges and
attorneys were in attendance, and the
meeting is said to have been the most sue.
cessful the association ever held.
Crop prospects are frightening.
4 letter was received at the New
York Post office recently from Burlington,
the envelope Of which was badly defaced
and bruised. It bore the official indorse-
ment. - cyclone struck this town last
night. All the mails saved, but in this con-
dition."
At Sedalia. the other night. young
and intelligent Frenchman named De Leon,
a barber by profession. was arrested on a
charge of desertion from the United States
army. He was taken to Leavenw orth,
Kans., by Detective John Delong, who
made the arrest.
Another St. Louis man has been
awarded & patent on toy pistol