Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-12-27
miscellaneous State Items.

| arson. Their names are Dug Hayes. Jas.
| Hayes, Bob Aldridge and J. p. Thomas.
| The prosecuting witness, Mrs. Nancy Pu-
laski, alleges that they burned her small
dwelling house at North Springfield.
| At Kansas City NJ. V. Jones was re-
Gently acquitted on a third trial for lead
| ing mob which lynched an innocent man
| three years ago.
| In the La Fayette County Circuit
| Court recently Judge Strotner declared to
| be nullity the ordinance adopted by the
Lexington City Council in April last re-
! straining hogs from running at large, and
| there is much rejoicing, particularly among
| the poorer classes. All fees collected by
| the officers and money derived from the
sale of impounded hogs under the provi-
| sions of the ordinance must be returned.
| As an evidence that the breeding OF
| Short horn cattle is profitable business, it
| is stated that Jas. T. Phelps, a Clinton
County farmer, bought in 1870 a Short-horn
COW, Moss Rose 10th, for $500. Her first
| calf was a heller and it was the only heifer
calf she brought him until the last one he
| got from her. From this one COW and her
produce he last Tuesday sold at public sale
$4,000 worth of cattle and had previously
sold $1,000 worth at private sale, making
| ST 900 realized from the investment of $500
| in thirteen years.
| Recent advices from Springfield noted
the mysterious disappearance of the wife
of Charles Slaughter (colored) of that city.
| She had not been seen since the night of
| the LIST inst. She has a daughter living at
| Ozark, and letter sent to her inqhlr-
| ing if her mother was there, but the daugh-
| ter went to Springfield in great alarm to
report that she had not been at Ozark. The
neighbors of Mr.. Slaughter say that they
heard disturbance, fighting and scream
ing at his house the night on which the wo-
| man was last seen. Dilgent search has
been made for the missing woman, in
| which her husband has actively partici-
pated.
Rev. Barton Robinson, divine we'll
known throughout Central Missouri, has
| been missing since December ., and his
| friends fear he has been foully dealt with.
Henry Diegler, Deputy City Marshal
of Concordia, Lafayette County, was re-
| Gently fined 500 for undue violence in max
| ing an arrest.
So great is the proportion of Episco-
palians in the community of Odessa, La
| Fayet,e County, that it is proposed to es-
| tablish there a new church of that denOm-
| nation.
James Jarboe, who lately cut and, it
was thought, fatally injured A. G. Barry,
at Lexing' on, has been acquitted.
The trial of John Gemienhardt for
| the murder of DIR. Montezuma Hemstreet,
| on the Sd of September, 1881, which was
Gently held in the Circuit Court at Jeffer-
son City, terminated in a verdict of acquit-
| tai, the jury being out only half an hour.
The defense succeeded in proving an alibi
| by several witnesses.
Nearly one hundred passenger trains
| leave st. Louis daily.
| Frank James liberty on bail was
very brief, as he was Immediately rearrest-
| ed for the Sheets murder at Gallatin in
1868, and papers in other were ready
| for service.
| New Madrid County is to have Poor
Farm.
| Rickert, the St. Louis counterfeiter,
was sentenced by Judge Treat to three
years. Imprisonment.
Miss Jenni, Squires recently recov-
cred in court % ,0S3 from the town of Chilli
cothe, for injuries sustained from defeo-
| tive sidewalk.
st. Louis reports the expenditure of
$1O,5 $50 this year in building improve
| ments.
The Governor has appointed T. w.
| Cavanaugh Commissioner of Deeds for
Missouri at Topeka, Kas. Mr.. Cavanaugh
| is Assistant Secretary of State of Kansas.
Judge White, of Kansas City, who
ordered recently that recess until half
past one be taken and admonished all to be
| promptly on hand at that time, failed to
| ssget thar" himself at the required time
and came an hour late, whereupon he di-
rec.ed the Deputy Clerk to enter a fine of
ten dollars against the Judge (himself) for
| contempt, because of hardness. The inn
pending case then proceeded.
A pair of apparently green uns'
took in Officer Mundinger at the st. Louis
Union Depot few evenings ago. One of
them displayed what appeared to be fine
| gold watch, and the officer Immediately
| grew anxious to become it's possessor.
He proposed a trade for his $50 silver time
| piece, which was finally effected and the
| "green uns" left outgoing train.
Later the officer discovered that his prize
more at present.
Frank James is out on bail. ~
Orth Stein, a reporter, who is now
serving a term of twenty-five Yeas for
killing George Frederick, in Kansas City,
has been granted new trial by the Su.
preme Court.
The Governor has committed the sem
tence of Richard Gale, OF Kansas City,
from eight years in the Penitentiary to a
term of two years from February, 1882.
Gale was convicted in the criminal court
of jackson County of obtaining the sum Of
$40 from one Fred Miller, by means of q
bogus check, and received sentence of
eight years.
The National Association of Mexican
Veterans will meet next year in st. Louis.