Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-06
Miscellaneous Items.

warden of the Missouri penitentiary to sell and
convey certain real estate in the City of Jeffer.
| son.
Miscellaneous Items.
At st. Louis. a few days ago, H. Wink
Ter, bricklayer, met with almost instant
death by falling from a building. His
neck was broken.
Levi C1owdis, an old and wealthy farm
er of Livingston County, was induced to
draw 81, 500 from bank several days ago
by two strangers, who pretended to be
looking for purchaser of farm land. On
the way home he was persuaded to take a
drink which was drugged and the
| swindlers secured the money. Clowdis
has often boosted that he had not taken a
newspaper for fifty years, and he says
! that the drink he took was the first one in
| thirty years.
| Rabbi S. H. Sonneschein, of st. Louis,
is to leave in a short time for Europe, his
special objective point being Hungary,
where he goes to visit his mother, who
still survives at the age of eighty eight.
The reverend gentleman has not seen
| her for eight years.
The st. Louis Post-Office Inspectors
have been advised by telegraph that the
postmaster at Coffeysburg had departed
| suddenly and unannounced.
|
Missouri is said to have been the heaviest
continuous rain since 1874. Thousands Of
acres of growing crops are inundated and
| the rivers in many places have over
| flowed their banks.
At st. Joseph, recently, burglars blew
open the safes of the Badger Lumber
! Company, Patrick Morley, the Dougherty-
Moss Lumber Company and F. G. Hop
kins' oal-yard, all in the southern part
of the city, and all on one street. The
only booty obtained was $40 in money
and twenty cents in postal cards. The
| safes were badly damaged. No c1ew had
| been obtained of the robbers.
| Charles H. Grasty, managing editor Of
the Kansas City Times, and Mrs. Otie
| Perrin were married at the residence Of
| the BRIDES brother. II. III. Tootle, in st.
| Joseph, recently. Rev. nj. NJ. Goode, of
| the Christian Church, performed the cere-
| mony in the presence of only the immedi-
| ate relatives. Mr.. and Mrs. Grasty left
| Immediately for Kansas City.
Detective McGrath, of st. Louis, has
returned from Kansas City, where he went
| to identify man who was supposed to be
Matt Kelly, wanted in st. Louis on
,harge of murder, having, with three
others, killed ex-Private Waterman Fur
long. He was not Kelly. While in
ceeded in placing behind the bars the no.
torious colored burglar, Frank Bracey.
For weeks the police of Kansas City were
trying to run down the burglar, who was
committing robberies almost every night.
McGrath, hearing that Bracey had been
in Kansas City, started out on search
and found him.
The Savings Bank of Savannah, An
drew County, made an assignment re-
Gently to Gilbert Mcdaniel and Hender-
son Edwards. The bank began business
in 1865, and was chartered at 500, 900, and
had real estate worth $4,000. The depos-
its now are about $50, 90. The directors of
the bank are John Mclean, LATE Mclean,
A. F. Daily and two others. John Nc
Lean is president. Two years ago he lost
large sums of money in paying security
debts, and this was the cause of suspen-
sion. The Burnes Bank in st. Joseph had
been its correspondent, but gave up the
position several weeks ago.
Rev. s. P. Anderson, co1ored Baptist
preacher, was lodged in Jail at st. Louis,
recently, on a warrant charging him with
forgery. Anderson had been the pastor
of the Central Baptist Church, Twenty
third and Morgan streets, for more than
twenty years. A few weeks ago he sud-
denly decamped, taking with him, so it
HoS CudI SCu, dpOut VI Tic cuuTCnS
money. The bulk of this money had been
in the Boatmen's Bank, and for Ander-
son to obtain it he had to forge the name
of j. III. NJ. Stokes, the clerk of the
church, whose name, Anderson's and the
seal of the church had to appear on each
check before the cashier of the bank
would honor it. and that was the UNDER
standing with the church trustees.
Willie P. Brockmann, said to be only
seventeen years of age, residing in st.
Louis, recently became infatuated with
domestic in his parents family named
Elizabeth Weidman, reputed to be thirty
years old, and eloped with her to the
friendly precincts of Edwardsville, ILL.,,
where they were married. Willie's moth
er is frantic, and dire punishment is said
to be hanging over the heads Of the errat-
ic couple.
On the recommendation of the judge
who tried the case Governor Francis
granted Communication of sentence in the
case of Geo. Simpson, sentenced to the
penitentiary from Green County in July,
1858, for two years for criminal assault.
The communication cuts off year of Simp-
sons time.
In st. Louis, few days since, motion
for new trial in the case of Henry Mas
er. convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, having STABBED TO death his wife,
was overruled.
A young man calling himself NJ. R
refft, of Chicago, is under arrest in st.
Louis for drugging and robbing travel
ing man named A. B. Brown, of Hartford,
Conn.
Howard r. Hettrick, veteran newspa-
per man of st. Joseph, has fallen heir to
$1,000 by the death of an uncle in the East.
Hettrick is an old timer, and has worked
in every city Of importance in the United
States. For year past he has been in
st. Joseph.
Solomon Wagner, u wealthy cattleman
OF Jackson County, went down to the
Greek Nation several weeks ago with
$500 with which to buy cattle. His body
was found in the Arkansas river few
days ago. The money was gone, and it is
supposed that he was murdered.
Two men. John Jones and Joseph Fer
guson, *ere buried under bank of dirt
while excavating, at st. Joseph, recently. |
Both were badly hurt, and Jones viii die |