Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-06
Personal AND GENERAL

WY sjUknIy. ABOUT q year aSo DaItoH AZ
temytod to elope with Ezell's sister-in-law,
which attempt was frustrated by Ezell, and
Since that time there has been bad blood be.
tween the parties. Ezell claims that Dalton
/ threatened to kill him, and that he shot in
1 seE-defense.
! Mrs. ANNA ORMsBY, her daughter
Sallie, aged about fifteen, and her son Gus,
| young man, all of Vevay, Ind, and Mrs
| Ormsby's niece, Miss Anna Miller, ct Rising
Sun, Ind, on the 21st started in carriage
from Vevay' to attend the wedding Of Mrs
Ormsby's son Graham, who was to be mar
ried to q Miss O'Neall, residing on the
south bank Of the Kentucky River, in
! Trimble County, Ky. The carriage had
been driven upon the ferry fiat to make the
crossing, when the horses became frightened
and manageable and backed the carriage
into the river. The three ladies were
drowned, together with the team; the
young man saved his life. The in
tended bride and groom and tlheir
friends were standing in the door oppo-
site and were witnesses Of the terrible
scene.
| MAJOR MACLEAN has overtaken Vic
toria's band of Apaches in Arizona Terri
tory, and is driving them beyond the lines
into Mexico.
AT Jacksonville, Athens County, O., on
| the night of the 21st, James Fennell, local
| policeman, shot and killed Charles Cooley, a
grocer, and then committed suicide. Fen
nell claimed that Cooley had been talking
| about him, but excepting this no cause for
the tragedy is known.
FOREST CITY, Ark, had serious fire
on the morning of the 22d. 1t broke out in
the Planters Hotel, an unoccupied building,
and this, together with thirteen other build
ings, was burned. Loss about $40, 900.
THE House Committee on Agricul-
ture has recommended an appropriation of
$25, 900 to the United States chronological
Commission for the purpose of enabling
said Commission to complete the investiga-
ton in relation to the Rocky Mountain To-
Gust or Western grasshopper, the cotton
worm and other insects injurious to the cot
ton plant.
The Connecticut Prohibitionists have
nominated State ticket, headed by George
P. Rogers for Governor.
THE New York Reform League and
at Albany on the 22d, and adopted resolu-
sition to third-term nomination. 1t was
determined to send delegates to the St. Louis
Convention.
ADvICEs from Cabul state that Gen.
Stewart has entered Ghuzeni, after having
been attacked by force Of about 49, 900 Az
ghans, who were driven off with loss of
over 1000 killed. The British loss was sew
enteen men killed and fifteen wounded.
R. HoYLE, defaulting tax-colector
from Georgia, shot and killed himself in
prison cell at Los Angeles, CAL, where he
had been apprehended upon a requisition
from the Georgia authorities.
SIX members of the ife-saving crew
at Point au Barques Station, Lake Huron,
were drowned on the night Of the ed while
going to the assistance Of a stranded vessel.
BARNETTsvILLE, in Morgan County,
Mo-, about one hundred miles due north of
Marshfeld, was almost totally destroyed by
the tornado of the 18th. Seven persons
were killed and many injured.
FORSYTH, in fancy County, Mo-, also
suffered badly by the tornado, two persons
being killed and others injured. The rava-
ges Of the storm were experienced in vari-
GUS localities in nearly every county in the
southwestern portion of the State.
FAYETTEVILLE, the county seat of
Washington County, Ark, suffered severely
from the tornado of the 18th. It struck the !,
town at its southwestern part and extended
through it IN northeasterly direction,
sweeping almost every building In its path
for distance of half mile. The track Of
the tornado was about thirty feet wide. Two
persons were killed outright and a dozen
more or less injured.
A CUBAN fibustering steamer is re-
ported to have sailed from Lewes, DEL, on
the ed, ostensibly bound for Jamaica. She
is a fast-sailing clipper-built vessel, now
known as the Tropic, but formerly chris
tened the Belle, under which name
she figured as q blockade-runner during
our late war, her commander being Capt.
Hassan, of Virginia, who was killed during
a chase by Union frigate. The Tropics
cargo consisted of various warlike material,
chief of which is submarine torpedo boat,
of which marvellous performances are pre-
dicted.
PARTICULARS have been received re-
garding the capture by General Hatch's for
ces OF four hundred and sixty Apache |
warriors, with all their horses, mules, wom-
en- and children, at Mescalero Agency, on |
the 18th inst. The Indians were disarmed, |
but subsequently an attempt was made to |
escape in which sixteen of them got away |
but fourteen were killed.
EDWARD NUGENT and Henry j. Re-
demeier were hanged at St. Louis on the
23d-the latter for the murder of Franz
vosz, in June, 1878, the former for the MUIR
der Of his wife, in August, 1876.
GEN. GRANT has accepted an invita-
ton to visit Springfield, ILL.,, some time early
in May.
THE Colorado Republican Convention
to choose delegates to Chicago is called to
meet May 25.
SPENCE PErTIs, the noted forger,
hanged himself in the Concord State
prison.
Four lives were lost by the disaster In
Madison Square Garden, New York.
A BRIEF telegram from San Francis
%, 23d, stated that Charles DeYoung, Of the
San Francisco Chronicle, had been shot and
killed by I. NJ. Kalloch, son Of the Rev. 1. s.