Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-09-25
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The j. W. Bailey Mercantile Company.
of st. Joseph. has made an assignment.
D. L. Chaney's clothing house at Sedalia
was damaged by fire few days ago to the
extent of $500.
Mitchell M. hampton has been appoint
ed Inspector of Oils at Sedalia, vice Ira
Barnes, deceased.
The Richmond Land and Cattle Com.
pany, Of Kansas City, has been incorpo
rated with capital of 100000.
Burglars have been on the rampage in
North st. Louis recently. They entered
several houses and in one dwelling shot at
girl. .
Earnest Steinmann, st. Louis lemon
peddler, who disappeared recently, was
found dead in his room at GA South
Second lstreet. He committed suicide by
hanging himself.
MIR. S. NJ. Yeaman, Special Commits
sioner for the New Orleans Exposition,
visited Kansas City a few days ago.
where he succeeded in arousing consider.
able interest in the Missouri exhibit.
Mrs. Jane McElroy, of st. Louis, was
found dead in well at her residence a
few days ago. It is not known whether
the act was suicidal or accidental. ..
Over 1000 people attended the inter-
State fair at Kansas City on the 18th.
Ben Shackelford, a convict in the Mis-.
souri, Penitentiary, tried to escape from
the brickyard few days ago, and was
shot seriously by guard and taken back.
He was sent up from Monroe County.
In consequence of the rumors Of pleuro-
pneumonia, the Directors of the st. Louis
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from the coming exhibition. -s.-
Foreigners are now making application
in large numbers for naturalization papers
to the Clerks of the Criminal Court and
Court of Correction in st. Louis. About
day recently.
A st. Louis ship carpenter bought part
of a lottery ticket q short time since, which
section in the same ticket and shared in
the same good fortune.
A car containing sixteen persons was de-
rallied at the roller coasting rink at Kansas
City a few nights ago. The car crashed
over the side and fell a distance of nine
feet, alighting on the border of a shallow
pond A Miss TaRy suffered a fracture OF
the arm. VIM. Taylor's should II was dis
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full injuries.
People living in the neighborhood of For
est Park, St. Louis, have recently been ex-
cited over q monster serpent which a boy
claims to have seen, and many are pre-
pared to kill the reptile should it again ap-
pear. In addition to this flock of one
hundred cranes appeared over the lake III
the park. Superstitious people cannot
sleep at night.
The Governor has issued a pardon to
VIM 2. Bruce, of Marshall, Saline Coun'
ty, convicted last March of the crime OF
keeping and permitting q gambling house,
and sentenced to one year III jail. HE
pardon was granted upon the recommen
dation of Judge John E. Ryland. before
whom the case was tried; James Cooney,
Prosecuting Attorney; DR.. VIM. Harrison
and large number of prominent citizens.
Thieves forced an entrance into Mr..
Young Hicklin's barn, near Lexington, a
few nights ago, stealinga half-rigged Tex
as saddle, valued at $50, and mule De-
longing to guest of Mr.. Hicklin's. From
Mr. Hicklin's they went to Dover, some
ten miles distant, where they broke open
a blacksmith shop, and with the tools Sc
cured burglarized Hickam's grocery store,
obtaining some $50 in cash, which was In
the money-drawer. The safe was TAM
pered with, but the burglars did not sue
coed in opening it. Mex. Valengen's nv
cry stable was visited, where entrance
was effected, and hitching fine young
sorrel horse to an open-top buggy, drove
away, leaving behind them the mule taken
from Mr.. Hicklin's barn.
Al. Ind near
Mooresville, Livingston County, was re.
Gently found in the bed of creek, buried
j in blue clay under stratum OF sandstone
and one of coal, portion OF what appears
to be section of huge tusk OF an ANIMAL
three inches in diameter and two ana one
half feet long; weight fifty-six pounds
Some theoretical calculators have com
puted that, according to due proportions
the tusk must have been ten feet long, ana
| its weight go or 800 pounds.
| Crowds attend the st. Louis Exposition
| Hog chol ara is reported as doing de
| structive work in Clay Township, Lafay
| cite County, and hogs belonging to Messrs
| Gibson, Simmonds and Cooper, farmers
| living in other parts of the county, nav
been afflicted with it, 1t was not very VIC
lent, however, and many of the animals
| recovered.
| The body OF man, supposed TO o.
Mathew Clementson, was found floating II
the Missouri at St. Joseph a few days ago
The body was unrecognizahle, but mort
gage and other papers found in the pocket
furnished evidence of the mans identity
| Clementson hailed from Troy, Kansas.
John Combs, the engineer who was re
Gently injured at Glasgow. is dead.
The young man who was bitten by
mad dog at West Plains and tried th'
maidstone at Kansas City has SO IA
shown no signs of hydrophobia, though
| over two months have elapsed.
Christopher Mann, of Independence, re
Gently celebrated his 10th birthday
Mann is the father Of twenty-five children
seventy-one grand children, one hundre'
and sixty-four great grandchildren, an
seventeen great-great-grandch n
is in splendid health generally, thong
his eye-sight and hearing are slightly i'm
paired. His oldest child is eighty -seve
years old.
Canada thistles are reported to be grow
ing thickly in St Charles County.