Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-04
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Craycroft Said to Be in Mexico.

Craycroft Said to Be in Mexico.
Ex-Mayor Frank Craycroft, who fled
from Sedalia seven years ago, with a
shortage of several thousand dollars,
due the Mccormick Harvesting Co., for
which he was general western agent,
and who has been missing since, was
seen and recognized and talked with in
Austin. Tex. recently, by Hugh Fitz-
gerald, a former Sedalia newspaper
man. who had been intimately ac-
quainted with Craycroft for years.
Many believed that Craycroft had COM
mitted suicide, but the belief now is
that he has been engaged in mining in
Old Mexico, and has prospered. His
family has resided in north Missouri,
with relatives, ever since his departure.
A Hard Man to Hold.
Says a dispatch sent from Dexter:
Sherman Woodrey, who escaped from
the Bloomfield Jail Sunday night and
was caught Monday afternoon and re-
placed in Jail, escaped again Tuesday
night. He pretended to be sick, and
when the jailer opened his cell in the
morning a dummy was found in Wood
rey's bed. Woodrey, after placing it
in his bed, concealed himself in an I'M
used cell. After the jailer locked up
the dummy Woodrey picked the cor
ridor lock and crawled out through
the hole he had made in the wall Sun
day night. He is charged with having
robbed jewelry store in Dexter of
sixty-six watches.
Silas Durham Pardoned.
The governor pardoned Silas, the las,
of the famous Durham gang of outlaws
to leave the states prison. He was
convicted at the March term, 1855, of
the Lafayette county criminal court,
with his four brothers. Plus, Pres,
Amos and William, of burglary and
larceny, and sentenced to fifteen years.
The other brothers got shorter terms,
and have all served their terms and
gone out. The governor says that there
is no reason why Silas should suffer
more than the others, and, inasmuch
as he has been an exceptionally good
convict, he grants the pardon.
Murder and Arson.
Seven miles south Of Cuba the par
TALLY charred body of David Hilder-
brand, farmer On the Meramec river.
was found in the ruins of his burned
house. 1t is evident that he was muir
dered and then thrown into the build
ing and the house burned In the up
per part of the trunk buckshot were
found, showing that he had first been
shot and then his throat cut. Bloody
clothing was found, and tracks of his
murderers discovered. The verdict of
the coroner's jury was murdered by
parties unknown.
Injured in q Runaway.
A horse ran off with buggy at
Nevada in which were seated Bert
Kinney and Misses Mamie Kinney,
Josie Greenstreet and Maud Watt. All
of the occupants were thrown out.
Miss Watts right leg was broken be.
tween the knee and hip. Miss Green
street suffered a sprained wrist, and
Miss Kinney was hurt about the head
and back.
Chose a Horrible Death.
Sam Reed, son of Rev. William Reed,
who died suddenly at Trenton, burned
himself to death in building he &C.
cupied within 100 feet of the family
residence, where the body Of his dead
sister lay. He had not slept for sew
eral nights, and was proba bly, insane.
His mother, aunt and two sisters were
at the point of death.
Bound Over for Assault.
The preliminary trial of Emmett
Switzer and Ora Boone, at Excelsior
Springs, charged with assaulting B. L.
Morton, teamster, who died as a re-
suit of the wound, came up the other
day. Boone was acquitted and Switze1
held in $4,000 bonds to await the action
of the grand jury in June.
A Monster Dynamo.
A st. Louis street railway company
has con tracted for a mammoth gener.
ator or dynamo. Total weight, $780,.
600 pounds; weight of armature, $4,000
pounds. Cost, about, $4,000.
Courtney-Hancock.
Miss Eta Hancock. who was recent
ly awarded Judgment for $500
against Prof. Blackwell for SANDER.
was married in Charlton county te
Mr.. NJ. F. Courtney.
Abandoned the Courthouse.
The Ray county courthouse has be
come unsafe, and the sheriff has or.
dered all officers to vacate. The build
ing is Of brick, and was erected forty
years ago
E. G. Meacham.
E. c. Meacham, president of the
Meacham Arms Co., st. Louis, died re-
Gently, aged so. He was born in Mas
sachusetts and settled in ST. Louis in
1866.
Hanged Himself.
John T. Wolff, a cigar-maker, aged
42, who resided at $3.50 Iowa avenue,
ST. Louis, hanged himself with
clothes line. He was found by his
wife.
Won First Honors.
Thomas L. Anderson, of Louisiana,
representing Central college at Fayette,
won first honors in the Misso uri inter.
collegiate oratorical co ntest at Kansas
City.
Groom, IS; Bride, 16.
VIM. Sweeney, aged 76, of Falkland,
1. T., and Miss Zena Taylor, aged Id,
of Southwest City, were married at Ne
csho. The groom is reported rich.
Cut on His Head.
Willie McGrath, aged 4, so1 of
Walter McGrath 4O6 North Eleventh