Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-23
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

Ike Recorder of Kansas CITY the
other day fined Charley Ford $500 for car
rying revolver without proper authority,
although the Chief of Police swore that ne
believed such protection to be necessary
! since the killing of Jesse James.
The annual meeting OF the Harugai.i
Society of Missouri began at st. Louis a
few days ago. 1t was reported that the or
der in Missouri numbered ,557, an increase
of ISL over last year. The capital of the
subordinate lodges amounts TO S24 1855; ;
the capital of the two degree lodges is
SS06. 40; grand lodge $261.10: reserve fund
| for the mutual benefit, ST., 4S4.17. The total
is $t3,03G22. The disbursements to the
needy and sick during the year amounted
| to So, $3.50. 4
While St. Louis policeman named
Godfrey was patroling his beat in that city
the other evening he was passed by three
| youths who appeared to have something
under their coats and acted suspiciously.
| He called upon them to halt, and upon
their starting to run away instead, he fired
three shots after them, one of the shots
| passing through William Snyder's body,
| from which he died next day. Godfrey
| was arrested and placed under - 800 bonds
| The District Temperance Association,
which includes the seven central counties
| of the State, held their annual picnic at
Browns Springs, five miles from Sedalia, a
| few DAYS ago. There were delegates pres
! ent from numerous lodges il the district,
| and a general attendance Of about 1000
people. The Sedalia Band furnished music.
Rev. John A. Brooks, President ofthe State
Brown, of Sedalia, delivered addresses. h
Among the patents lately issued from
the Patent Office at Washington were the
following to Missouri inventors: David T.
Burck, Marionville, churn; Christopher j.
Grellner, st. Louis, hammer; Theodore
Hunt, st. Louis, composition for water
proofng and preserving walls of buildings;
Martin V. Racer and W. K. Kriz, St. Louis,
magazine fire-arm; Patrick J. Kelley, st.
Louis, continuous batting press; David G.
Lee, st. Louis, wheel hoe: Abraham j.
Nanny, st. Louis, cane-mill; Frederick
Pommer, Charleston, needle-threader for
sewing machines; Richard C.. Pope, St.
Louis, curtain loop; John n. Renfro,
Ebenezer, churn; Andrew Stetson,
Florida, car coupling; Hugh NJ.
Thomas, st. Louis, amalgamator;
James "A. Alien, 81 LOUIS, cOlnDlnaClOn
lock; Aaron Cole, Fillmore, curtain
fixtures; Edward +. Cosby, ST. Louis,
vapor burner; Almerino Hotchkiss, ST.
Louis, device for cresting fences: Peyton
S. Keele, Summerville, agricultural nipple
ment; John Keller. ST. Louis, feed water
heater: James II. Mclean, st. Louis, car
fridge machine gun and breach-loading
composite gun: John Resor, Jet chimney
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cutting and spreading machine; Waldo A.
Stearns, st. Joseph, wheeled scraper;
Daniel B. Taylor, st. Louis, ventilator;
Bradford H. Trip, Gallatin, shock-hauler:
Frederick A. Easterbrook, st. Louis, ship
ping can; John Wilson, Carthage, writer's
hand-relief; James K. Worthington, Kirk
wood, bundle carrier and dropper for
harvesters Aaron B. Yoder and A.
Schwenk, Kansas City, apparatus for lay
ing and stretching carpets; Southern Cal
ender Clock Company, st. Louis, trade.
mark for clocks.
\ young couple from St. Louis got
married in the surf at Ocean City, n. j.,
the other day. They marched into the sea
together, standing in water to the depth of
the brides shoulders. The bathers had
withdrawn, and the bridal party had the
at the edge of the white sand, when the
clergyman stepped in and did his best to
tie the knot i'll Jack Tar style.
Governor Crittenden, interviewed by
a newspaper correspondent at San Fran
cisco, Cal, the other morning, emphatic
ally denied a statement telegraphed from
Kansas City that he promised Bob Ford
$4,000 reward if he brought in Jesse James
oil nd 900 If Ha ha
not know that Charlie Ford had any con-
nection with the Blue Cut robbery until af-
ter the robbery was perpetrated. 1t was
absolutely untrue that protection was Of
fered Ford prior to the robbery. He FIRE.
quently saw Bob Ford, but refused to make
any arrangement other than announced in
the proclamation offering $4,000 for the
arrest and conviction of each of the James
boys.
The nine-year-old daughter of John
Dittman, living four miles west of hide
pendence, died few days ago of hydro
phobia. The little girl was bitten by dog
July 3, and mad stone applied and
stuck, but she died in all the agonies of n.y.
drophobia.
Andrew Miller, John H. Davis and
john Duval, all OF st. Clair County, had a
preliminary examination at Sedalia the
other afternoon, before United States
Commissioner H. c. Scott, on the charge
of making and passing counterfeit silver
dollars. Miller was discharged. Davis
and Duval were held to answer the charge
at the next term of the United States
District Court at Jefferson City, and in de-
fault of $500 bail each were committed to
the Cole County Jail.
In the United States Circuit Count
at Kansas City recently, the hearing of
objections in the case Of Joseph Teal &
Co. against j. S. Bilby was continued till
next term. The matter in dispute origi-
mated about some extensive cattle transac-
tions, to ratify which, according to the
plaintiffs ideas, two suits were instituted
one for So, $50 and the other for about |
$3.50 Both cases were tried together,
but not consolidated, and, on January 3,
Judgment in favor of the defendant, in all |
fo, a hi Of !,