Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-21
Miscellaneous Items.

| Miscellaneous Items.
The Democratic State Convention nomi
mated w. T. Downing, of Scotland County,
for Railroad Commissioner, and Henry c.
| Brokmeyer, of St. Louis, and General
James Craig, of st. Joseph, for Presiden.
| tial e.ectors-at-large.
The di, position of the reward for the
ca ture of Prentice Tiller, the st. Louis
Express robber, and recovery of the mon.
ey, has finally been effected. Doc
| ley and Jettes, the Milwaukee trunk
store clerks received 5000 be-
tween them, and the balance was. di-
vided between the police who made the ar
rest and one or two detectives interested.
A prince of the tribe of Timmanee, a
Il-blooded African from Sierra Leone,
Africa, accompanied by his son, has been
visiting ST. Louis recently. He has been
travelling in this country since 1876, when
he came over TO attend the Philadelphia
Exposition.
The latest sensation in st. Louis is the
escape of twelve-foot boa-constrictor
from one of the museums, and at last &C.
coun,s it was still at large.
During an alteration in the notorious
''Clabber All "" st. Louis, few days
ago, William Hardin shot and killed
Henry Smith, who was about to assault
Linn with an ugly-looking knife. Hardin
was arrested. A woman was at the bot
tom of the trouble. Ali colored.
One of the Georgia electric girls has
recently been mys,i flying the people of
st. Loaass-6g ler astonishing manifesto
tions of hidden power.
John Halcomb, alias Riley, one. of the
most noted goid-brick .swindlers in the
West was arrested in st. Louis, a few
days ago, together with a lot of bogus
money and other paraphernalia of his
business.
In Southeast NJ ssouri corn is good but
is suffering for rain. Wheat is excellent
b 9TH III quality and quantity. aa 4
Four st. Louis sportsmen were recently
fined twenty dollars eac and cosss for
shooting prairie chickens out of season.
On the afternoon of the 18th Archbishop
Ryan was rendered banquet at st.
Johns Hall, st. Louis. A dozen or more
leading priests OF Pa ladelphia were pres
ent, and will return to thai city with the
Archbishop.
A prominent saloon-keeper of Kansas
CT advertised recently that his saloon
would be kept open Sunday. It is expect
ed that others will follow suit, and that
the Downing law will receive its first black
eye in Kansas City.
Mr.. James Edeten was kicked by mule
at Lexington few days ago, the animals
heels striking him in the side of the stom=
ach and cracking several of his ribs.
He is also supposed to be hurt internally.
His watch " as broken to pieces.
John Mitchaels, who claims to be a farm
Land, stole a horse few nights ago be-
longing to John Harris, farmer who
lives tour niles from st. Joseph, on the
Roches ter road, and was arrested at Inde-
pend ence and taken to st. Joseph by the
Marsh al of that place, together with the
ssolen horse.
A lew days ago John Joyce, while fish
ing in a skiff in the Missouri River, fell
overheard and was drowned. Joyce for
merly resided at Eastport, Ia, and he has
friends now living there.
jonathan Liddell has discovered at Ul-
mons Ridge, Miller County, some of the
bones OF a colossal extinct animal. The
largest tooth weighs over five pounds, is
twelve inches long aud four and one-half
inches in diameter. An enormous hip
b ne was also found.
+. john Ryan and Charles Dott, who were !
lodged in jail at St Joseph few days ago
for beng involved in bar-room shooting
scrape. have been identified as the men
VINO recently robbed Veach & Kearney's
hardware store, at Verdon, Neb., Of lot
of knives and pistols.
TIE Democrats nominated Marmaduke.
Mrs. Mary Castt was arrested near In
dependence a few days ago on a warrant
sworn out by ]. w. Kygar and Mrs. Emma
Ashby, charging her with abducting two
Children of james Ashby, the crazy man
who murdered old man Hess at Holden on
the 9th. The children were restored and
the case dismissed.
Frank s. Carton jumped from moving
train at the Union Depot at ST. Joseph a
few days ago, and was thrown under the
wheels and seriously. injured. His arm
was fractured, finger cut OF and his
back injured. He was taken to the hospi-
tai.
jeff Wilson, who killed his mistress at
Lexington, will plead self-defense.
Returns of correspondents to the State
Board of Agriculture represent that the
weather has been generally bad for har-
vesting and threshing wheat, except in
some counties south Of the Missouri River.
It is Estimated that the yiela for the State
will be about g, doc 200 bushels.
The Missourians aSEthe Confederate re-
union in Dallas. Texas, recently, appointed
committee to mamorialize the next Leg
stature to bring the bodies of General Par |
sons and his squat from Mexico TO Ms |
souri, soil. Gensehl John S. Marmaduke |
vas elected yice-President Of the john /