Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-01

no means at his best. The only thing
considering the heresies to which he
gives faith-that was reprehensible il
his opponent. But John is prett,
good fellow. even during polilica
campaign.
Judge Emerson made a tremendou.
hit of ducks on Monday. The Judge is
! a fine shot. and noticing one bank OF
Sylvan Lake lined with mallards, be
rushed down, and giving his gun g
saceep side rays, (says a Garkey who
saw the facD as he banged away. so as
to scatter the shot all along the bank
! and take in the whole row of ducks.
the lake was partly filed with dead
and kicking ducks. The Judge refus.
es to tell how many he gathered up af
| ter the smoke of battle died away. be-
cause he says the other gunners would
| be envious,
the long drawn out case of State
| against Harold Bruce came to an end
| last Thursday. Bruce had, so the
evidence showed, slipped up on Phil
Rohan and assaulted him from behind
with a sledge-hammer. Rohan's skull
was fractured, and for weeks his life
hung in the balance; but the most eX-
cellent care and strong constitution
pulled him through at last. Itappears
that Rohan and Bruce's father had had
! a disagreement and quarrel, and the
| assault of the son upon his fathers enc
my was attempted to be justified in part,
on the score of filial affection. The
jury was given the case Wednesday
evening, and next day at about eleven
o'clock returned a verdict of guilty,
assessing the punishment at S175 fine
and three months in Jail.
They killed pig at Blemel's last
Wednesday-or, rather, they started
to kill one there. First, the dealer
pulled down on him with ~ revolv-
err, and hit him CHANGING shot. His
pigship squealed, broke out Of the in
closure. and ran up the alley to Pres.
Whitworth's lot, where Dave Reese let
fly at him with Winchester. This
started piggy again, and ran under
Segner's pig-pen (Which is elevated
about a foot above the ground), for
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hunt. and scared piggy out with re-
volver, and the bewildered animal ran
into the barber shop, whence he was
finally expelled into the street. A
dozen persons more Or less, there sur
rounded him with weapons of various
kinds-guns, revOlyers, axes. ETC.
and he eventually succumbed to their
united efforts. But never was sixty
pounds of pig-meat so difficult of cap
ture.
Senator Vest yesterday addressed
large assemblage of citizens at the
courthouse for the space OF about two
hours. As is always the case when
1.-The little giant" talks to the people. he
was argumentative, logical and enter
tanning. He gave very interesting
review of the legislation enacted by
the present Congress, and wildly por-
trayed the difficulties besetting its
work: the diverse interests that must
be satisfied: the narrow margin in the
Senate, and the united efforts Of deter
mined opposition. ALI these had to be
overcome. and yet decided step in
the line of tariff reform was taken.
The Senator appealed not to the pre-
JUDGES of his audience, but to their
better judgment, and gave reason
for every assertion made. He was
calm and cool in his dissection of the
ills inflicted by Republican legislation
during twenty-five years of unlimited
power. On the financial question the
speaker was in full accord with Mis-
souri's Democracy as voiced in the
State platform. He did not mince
matters, but announced himself square
ly for the free coinage of silver at 10
to /. He was honest and earnest, and
his speech bore the impress of truth
and candor. In fact he showed him
self the Geo. G.. Vest of Old-still pos
ses sed o: the characteristics which
have endeared him to the rank and
file of the Democracy of the State and
Union. Talk about looking around
for successor to such a man!
The grand jury for the October
term. 1894, of the Iron County Circuit
Court. concluded its labors last Satur-
day at noon. with the submission of
the following report: Upon eHami=
udtiOu Vi luc COuutt JAN, We louHO litC
same in good condition. except one
hinge on cell door broken. We also
found the same neat and clean, and the
prisoners we'll cared for; and in every
way we find Mr.. Fisher has fully per-
formed his duties as sheriff of said
county. We have examined the coun-
ty treasurer's book and found all ac-
counts correctly balanced, apd books
generally in first-clas5 shape. We
have also examined county clerks
books. and find them correct and they
balance with treasurer's books up to
October 10. 1894. The grand jury has
been much in.peaed in their work by
witnesses coming before them I'M
known of being subpenaed by grand
jury and not Knowing for what pur-
pose they were here. Confusion re-
suited in many cases. We believe q
list of complaints and names of wit
nesses Ga same should be furnished to
jury upon their first Day Of duty at ev-
cry circuit court, as we have mad vo.g-
| much trouble and very much time lost
in finding out for what purpose they
were before us. We feel confident
there Bss been at least 5000 unnec-
essary expense arising from said cause.
We, the grand jury of Iron county.
Mo, duly impanncled. have inquired
into the case of man found dead at Pr
lot Knob, and find from the evidence
before us that the body was robbed by