Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
miscellaneous Items

| miscellaneous Items
The investigation of the Mormon manu-
| script, which was to have taken place at
| Richmond on the 1st inst, has been post
| poned for a short time, owing to the ina
| bility of Elder Pond, one of the Mormon
| Committee, to be present.
A few nights ago BARLEY Connors, aged
| thirteen years, living in st. Louis, fell
| from frame building, breaking his neck
| The boy died instantly and was removed
to the morgue. He was playing with a
! number of other boys at the time the acct
| dent occurred.
| S. Smith, employed as driver of team
| by VIM. Tetherow, at st. Joseph, has dis
| appeared, taking with him about 500. He
| collected several bills for his employer and
left the city with the money.
| In the Circuit Court at jefferson City q
| few days since indictments were returned
against Thomas Swift, VIM. Despard,
Henry Magnus and Thomas Conner for
burglary and larceny. All but Swift
pleaded guilty. The above parties are
tramps who recently broke open and bur-
glarized Missouri Pacific freight car.
The first accident in connection with
the building of the Pettis County Court
house occurred a few days ago. Peter
Meyer, aged about twenty, brick
mason, fell backward to the ground,
some twenty feet below. He was picked
up unconscious, aud it was found that
his right arm and leg We're broken. His
home is in Quincy, ILL.,, where he was
taken.
Irving Andrews, charged with murder
in the first degree, was acquitted in the
Circuit Court at st. Joseph, the jury
being out only twenty minutes and ar
irving at the verdict on the first ballot. In
February last Andrews and Isaac Cathey
We're engaged in a saloon business at
Winthrop. A dispute arose, when Cathey
seized a poker and endeavored to brain
Andrews, who drew a revolver and fired,
killing Cathey instantly. Defendant had
previously borne a good character,
while Cathey was recognized as a rough.
The rolling stock has been removed from
the st. Joseph Branch Road between North
Lexington and the junction. This will
necesstate the running of hack line be-
tween these two points and will reduce
travel over the Wabash from Lexington,
particularly during wintry weather. This
is done by order of the receiver of the
Wabash, and the trains will sooner or
later be replaced.
A little daughter of Mr.. John Engel-
brecht, living near Russellville, Cole
County, was accidentally shot and danger
ously wounded a few days ago by the dis
charge of gun in the hands of Emanuel
Taylor, who, in passing out of a room,
struck the gun against a door-j jam, which
discharged the contents into the breast of
the child sitting across the room, the shot
passing through the left lung and out near
the spinal column between the shoulders,
creating serious and painful wound.
Louis Silverman, a merchant who mys-
teriously disappeared from st. Joseph re-
Gently, has returned. He says he proposes
to face his accusers and has no doubt of
acquittal. He emphatically denies that he
offered several hundred dollars to effect
compromise, and says he will spend every
dollar he is worth in preference to giving
up cent.
A few days ago Richard Gaffney, Irish,
fifty three years of age, plasterer by occu-
patton, was found lying at an entrance to
an alley in st. Louis with an empty box
labeled Rough on Rats" by his side. He
said that he tad taken the contents with
suicidal intent. AT the Dispensary he was
treated by DR.. Epstein, but the poison had
taken effect and the doctor had no hopes
Whatever OIL saving HIS tllS.
d. D. Rose, of Troy, Kas., went to st.
Joseph recently and disposed of load of
potatoes, after which he disappeared and
was first supposed to have been foully
dealt with, but subsequently he was
thought to have decamped owing to the fact
that he was heavily i'll debt. He returned
home few days since in demented con-
dition. He has no recollection of leaving
Troy, and can give no account of his wan
behring's, but talks necessarily of st. Joseph
and people residing there. Rose is one of
the best known men in the State, and was
for five years Superintendent of Instruc-
ton of Doniphan County, but is now en-
gagged in farming.
The trouble at Clinton, between the Mis-
souri, Pacific and Kansas City & Southern
Road in regard to the crossing is about
settled. Mr.. Vandyne, Superintendent for
the Missouri Pacific, states that the diff
Guilty grew out of the fact that the location
of the crossing had been made at the top
OF grade of fifty-two feet six inches to
the mile, and that it would have been i'm
possible for trains on the <. & T. division
to have come to full stop as required by
law before the crossing on such grade.
and to have again started. 1t is understood
Tue iAdESaS olby Will
the K. & T. grade at their own expense,
and the crossing will then be permitted by
taat road.
The peanut experiment promises well.
John Mason, negro, was arrested few
days since, charged with robbing the safe
at the Missouri Pacific Hospital, in Sedalia
on October list Mason was a porter at
the hospital at the time.
Peter Hayden, formerly Treasurer of /
the Oklahoma Society of Kansas City, |
states that the death of Captain Payne,
though matter for sorrow among his |
co-workers, will not interrupt the prog |
ress OF the colonization scheme. He |
ton of Congress in this matter, and a. /
soon as we hear definitely from that
quarter we shall push forward
There We're $50 births in st. Louis during /
November.
Douglas, alias Hayes, a negro, supposed /
to be from Kansas City, was arrested in |
Sedalia a few days ago for obtaining $50 /
from r. C. Sneed by means of bogus
check on bank at Lexington. The fellow |
is slick one and refuses to talk to Off GERS
Or reporters.
Geo. Graves, convict at the State Peni- T
Tertiary, cut his throat few nights
ago with shoe-knife from the effects OF
which he can not recover. He was sent
from Jasper County for grand larceny,
and was serving second term. He was
considered insane, and had been in hos.