Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-18
miscellaneous Items.

A Jefferson City correspondent of the
Kansas City Times says: Colonel Taylor,
who served as Quartermaster-G General on
Governor Woodson's staff, in the Governors
office the other day, stated that he was the
person through whom Frank and Jesse
James offered to surrender to the State OF
Missouri on the guarantee of fair trial with
in the State, and a further guarantee that if
acquitted they should hot be turned over to
the Executive of any other State on a
requisition. Governor Woodson re-
piled that he would guarantee them
fair trial within the State. AS
Governor of Missouri he had TO hold allie
glance to the United States, and if they were
demanded on a requisition he would, under
his oath. be obliged to make their surrer.
der. This ended the negotiations, although
Colonel Taylor is satisfied that il he could
have left his home at that time, immediately
after the Gad's Hill affair, in which he said
they were not engaged, to visit them in
Arkansas, he would undoubtedly have
brought them in and saved all the subse-
quent Imprisonment and loss of property
and life that has ensued.
James Lindsey, the victim of a shoot
ing affair at James Bayou, on Christmas
Day, died the other night from the effects
OF his wound. Ben Rushing. the alleged
murderer, was in Jail at Charleston. Rush
ing it was said, placed hi. pistol at Limbs
ley's breast and fired, the bullet hitting the
third rib on the left side, splitting it open
and badly cutting the left lung. Indigna-
ton ran high, and for time it was thought
mob violence would prevail and the MUIR
RI ha han 10 h,t 1,a oI1Sa
adroitly lodged the populace with their
prisoner and safely lodged him in the
Charleston Jail.
A shooting ARRAY occurred half .
mile northeast of New London, the other
day, in which William Farmer, an estima-
BILE young man, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by A. P. Avis, near whose
residence the shooting took place. Mr..
Farmer was shot first with a rifle, the ball
taking effect in the center of the breast, and
then with a revolver, the ball entering
above the left nipple. After the shooting
Avis went to New London and surrendered
himself to the Sheriff.
Some one in Boston audience made
q jeerng remark while the Ford brothers
were exhibiting themselves a few days ago,
and the Fords sprang from the platform
with their revolvers and made for the CEN
ter Of the hall. The spectators disappeared
like flash, and the 4 ords were arrested by
q stalwart policeman. -
Buffalo wants an ice-house.
1t was reported the other day that
cotton cultivation in Douglas County
falling off. But twenty bales will be ginned
this year against 400 in 1881. -..-s
Cameron will prospect for coal.
: The Hannibal & st. Joseph elevator
in ST. Joseph was destroyed by fire the her
1t was an immense building, six
stories high and covered from top to bottom
with slate It was built six years ago at a
cost of $780, 0J by private parties, and after
ward purchased by the Hannibal & st. Joe
Road. 1t was condemned about two years
since, and had not been used since that
time. From the elevator the FIRE spread
destroying the old passenger depot
of the Hannibal & ST. Joseph Road. two
box cars and several fiat ears iosled with
lumber and a number of frame houses.
Additional furnaces were ordered for
the new schools at Holt recently.