Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-31
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

A gang of professional burglars arr
getting in their work pretty lively in st
| Louis.
Sam Jones has concluded his labors IL
st. Louis for the present and has departed
| for his home in Georgia to spend the holi
day season. He will afterward attack Gin.
| cinnati.
| Geo. Quigley, while burglarizing store
in st. Louis few nights ago was shot by
| Officer Fitzgerald.
Three double dwellings,, two-s story
frame, in Kansas City, all owned by
| Messrs. B. F. and John Dukes, burned q
| few days ago. Loss estimated at $1,000
The buildings were fully insured, the con.
tents more than half.
James Hamilton, whose home was in
Rockport, Atchison County, was found
dead at Forbes Station a few nights ago.
having been run over by a train and cut in
| two.
A committee of citizens of Lexington
net the citizens and business men of st.
Joseph few days ago to confer in refer.
ence to aid in the project to take the old
st. Louis & st. Joseph line from st. Joseph
to Lexington, about to be relinquished
from lease by the Wabash, and build q
bridge over the river at Lexington The
idea is to build a line with the Chicago &
Alton from Lexington for st. Joseph. The
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy propose
running line from Carrollton southwest
through Lexington and these two roads are
expected to aid in building the bridge.
The line southwest of Lexington will make
connection with the st. Louis & st. Joseph,
giving the latter place new connection with
the Texas system.
Charles Baird and Lewis Crow, wanteo
at Sterling, ILL.,, for theft of herd of cat.
tie, were captured at Warsaw, Benton
County, few days ago. They expressed
their willingness to go with the officers
without a requisition and were taken to
Sterling to answer the charge preferred
against them.
Charles Elder, a notorious negro thief
was released from the Pettis County Jail a
few days ago. At ten O'Clock the same
night Officer Mooney discovered him at
tempting to effect an entrance into a store
in Sedalla in company with an accomplice.
The burglars fed, but Elder surrendered
after the officer had discharged his gun at
him several times. The other rascal es-
capped. Elder acknowledges his guilt, and
says he has had hand in the many burg
laries which have taken place in Sedalia
this winter.
G. F. Williamson, until recently re-
garded as one of the leading men of Wind
sor, Henry County, has fallen from grace.
A few days ago he was in Sedalia and bor-
rowed $500 from his partner in the cattle
business, Captain Albert Parker, to de-
fray the expenses of feeding the stock. He
then secured $500 by giving mortgage on
forty head of cattle owned by a citizen of
Henry County, and after securing several
other small loans fed the country. His eff
fects were seized by the Sheriff, but they
are valueless. Williamson is highly con-
nected, his father being one of the most
prominent cattlemen in Central Missouri,
and much surprise is expressed over his
criminal conduct and sudden flight.
The sudden but not unexpected death of
Mr.. James A. Carson occurred at his resi-
dence on the Natural Bridge road, near
Normandy, st. Louis County, few days
ago. Mr.. Carson was taken sick some two
weeks previously with what his physicians
termed pneumonia, but not until within the
last two or three days of his life was any
thing serious anticipated. Mr. Carson was
a resident of Missouri for more than thirty
years, having lived prior to the war in
Washington County, moving to st. Louis
about six years ago. He was member of
DR.. Brank's Presby terrain Church.
On Christmas Eve Ed Pendegrast, while
in Independence drinking, got into sa-
loon row and was struck twice on the head
with a shovel in the hands of Thomas
Mohan. Pendegrast afterward was taken
home by his companions, and Immediately
went off into drunken stupor, from which
he never awakened. Christmas morning
he was found in terrible commissions, and
he died at about noon. The doctor in at
tendance stated, curiously enough, that
Pendegrast died with every symptom of
having been poisoned with strychnine, and
that the wounds on the head would have
resulted in nothing dangerous. The Coro-
her returned verdict in accordance with
the doctors testimony, and officers are at
work to ferret out the mystery.
Three cowboys, names unknown, made
it rather interesting for couple of Ger
mans just south of Sedalia a few nights
ago. They halted them on the public road
and forced them to dance and sing for up
wards of an hour. Six-shooters were the
arguments used, and the poor Germans
were nearly dead with exhaustion when
permitted to pass on. The Sheriff and
posse started in pursuit of the festive cow
boys, but they made good their escape.
There are but two convicts confined in
the Missouri State Prison for breach of
trust, one of whom ad National reputa-
ton for the few days that he was able to
dodge the detectives. These two men are
Prentice Tiller and George H. Kelly, the
one an express agents clerk, and the other
a whilom editor and County Clerk.
In the Criminal Court at st. Joseph q
few days ago Nathan Partlow was found |
guilty of murder in the first degree and
his punishment assessed at ten years il |
the Penitentiary.
About 1000 head of hogs have been |
at the packing-house of Chris |
Boehner in Chillicothe the past year.
Title Morganstein, a domestic employed |
by Charles Thuener, in st. Louis, was |
polishing stove few days ago with |
gasoline mixture, when the compound |
caught fire and the flames spread to her |
clothing, which had been partially satur |
ated with the liquid. Crazy with pain |
she ran through the kitchen, and while |
stepping over fourteen months old child |
that was playing on the floor, it's clothing |
caught the blaze and was quickly envel-
oped by the flames. Tillie was fatally |
burned and the baby badly scorched.
The State Supreme Court is in session.
Patrick Connolly died in the st. Louis
City Hospital few days ago from the
effects of a blow on the head inflicted by |
Henry Peters. The latter is held for
murder.
Sam Jones went to Louisiana few
Burnett Opera House before an audience
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