Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-30
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| The body of the late John d. Bell, as
| sistant caller Of the ST. Louis Merchants
Exchange, was found in the river near
The point where his gun was found Che
Coroner 3 jury found ayer1ict Of acci-
dental drowning.
A pelican was shot near Rolla w nose
w,ngs measured nine feet from tn to Up.
The corn-crusher mans again on the
rotunda. Taeir racket Is something like
thissThe advance agent for the machine
makes a contract with farmer to put a
orn-crusher on his placs merely to show
| it. giving him tsi,e farIner) the privilege
to crush all his corn for nothing. He
then gets the farmer to sign a written
i per init to place the machine on his place..
saying the company required him to do
so. Tris is the last of the advance agent.
In short time the corn-crusher arriyesN
and alse note for $50.
Deputy County Marshal Langhorne
lodged Jas. and Lane Wyatt in nil &c
Independence a few days ago. They
were arrested in the southern portion
| of jackson County on q warrant from
Madison County, KY, charging them
with waylaying and numbering Cyrus
! Young, prominent resident of Madison
/ County, on the night of February 9th
last The Wyatts came from Kentucky
several months since, and have been
! living very secluded lives since their resi-.
dence in jackson County. saa
The Governor has issued pardon ito
E. L. Richardson, who was at the August
| term, 1884, of the Circuit Court of Phelps
| County, sentenced to three months in
| jail for bigamy. The pardon was granted
| on the recommendation of the Prosecut.
| ing Attorney and number of officers and
citizens, on the ground that Richardson
| is young man of good moral charac-
| ter, whose crime was the result of ig
norance, and also that further confne.
ment would be only an expense to the
county. S5ay 80
| A special venire of 100 jury men in one
| case and seventy-fve in another were sum-
moned for the current term of the Criminal
Court at Lexington. In the cases above
alluded to, the first one. is the trial of jeff.
| Wilson, colored, against whom the Grand
| Jury returned an Indictment of murder in
| the first degree, and the other is the case
of Steve Bonnet, colored, charged with
committing an outrage upon the person of
Mrs. Montgomery, white, seventy years of
age. 1874
| st. Louis will illuminate again during
| the Cattle Convention beginning ,Novem-
| Der 7th.
The Missouri Historical Society met at
| st. Louis few nights ago at the School
| Board-room, but as Mr.. Collet, the Secre-
tary, was ill and only few members APP
peared, it was decided to adjourn without
| tiansacting any business.
| The Cabool Academy has 145 students
| in attendance.
| Albert Tucker was shot through the
! thigh a few days ago while endeavoring to
arrest horse thieves near Sedalia.
Lewis Jones, negro, was arrested in
| st. Louis a few days since on charge of
stealing two of r. G. Pate's race horses,
valued at $4,000.
A bricklayer named Wise fell from q
| building in ST. Louis a few days ago, anu
died of his injuries at the City Hospital.
A negro has been arrested in st. Louis
| for firing the grand stand and stables Oh
| the grounds of the Jockey Club, causing
| loss of 900.
| Captain S. r. Radford, of Kansas City,
graduate of the Virginia Military Ihsti-s
| tute, died few nights ago, few hours
| after being married to Miss Ragland, of
| Liberty, to whom he bequ ,athed hand
some property.
| The Grand Lodge, Knights Of Ply thias of
| Missouri, at its recent conclave in st.
Louis, elected the following officers: T. T.
| Parson, ST. Louis, Grand CHANCELLOR; M.
D. Wood, Kansas City, GranI Vlcs- Cham
cellor; Lon. Hardman, st. Joseph, Grand
| Prelate; Colonel Thos. R. Gelwicls, st.
Louis, Grand Keeper of the Records and
Seal; Adam Thies, Hanniba', G. NJ. of e.
B. F. Bufford, Chillicothe, Grand Master
| at Arms. Tue new representative to the
| Supreme Lodge is Jud &c Rober, e. Cowan,
st. Lsus. Judge Cowan is the Supreme
Keeper Of Records and Seal, and during
the session was presented with IA solid
gold watch, the git of the Grand Lodge.
The annual meeting of the State Grange,
in session recently at Carrollton, elected
as offiters for the ensuing year: Mas.
ter, Captain ]. NJ. Sneed, Sedalia; Over
seer, j. B. Shores, Howard County; Lee.
turer, e. A. Page, Bates County; Steward,
VIM Cochran, Lawrenc. County; Assist
| ant Steward, d. B. Turk, Jasper. County;
Chaplain, Rev. Cannon, Lafayette Counz
ty;, Treasurer, J. c. Evans, Clay County;
Secretary, Colonel A. M. Coffey, Knob
Noster; Gate-keeper, VIM. McCracken,
Hickory County.
lays s. nee to Peter Burke, of Clay Coun-
ty, who was at the August term, 1888, of
the Clay Circuit Court, convicted of per-
jury, and sentenced to the Penitentiary
for two years. The pardon was granted
on the recommendation of the Prosecuting
Attorney, FL. F. Simrall, and Samuel Hard
wick, Esq. Burke had been a clerk for
one Moran, and upon inquiry made by the
Grand-Jury as to the selling of whisky by
Moran, Burke swore that he knew of no h.
ing of the kind having been done. The ev-a
idence in the Moran case showed Burke
must have been aware of such sales, and
he was consequently indicted and convict
ed of perjury. .tssfz
A few evenings since Officer Hickman,
OF the st. Louis mounte police, idiscoy-
cred the dead body of man lying in a
grotto near the west side of O'Fallon Park,
with a bullet hole in the right temple. In
the dead mans hand was 3S-calibre re.
volver, with one chamber empty. The
corpse was identified as that OF William
Henry, carpenter, forty-one years of
age, whose wife and four chill dren live in
the city. He had been missing several ]
days. 1t was removed to his late home.
Financial and other troubles are supposed
to have been the cause of the act.
The summer birds are migrating.
A few nights ago Mrs. John Oliver, the
wife of prominent stockman living ten
miles south OF independence. entered a