Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

On Feb. the last spike necessary to
complete the branch of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad to Santa Fe was
driven by Gov. Wallace, of New Mexico.
Gen. Hatch and staff, the members Of the
Legislature and other notables attended.
There was much rejoicing at Santa Fe.
| Talbott's Block, corner of Market and
Pennsylvania Streets, Indianapolis, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on the morning of the
10th. The Indiana Medical College and the
knights of Pythias Hall were completely
burned out.
A later report from Dublin says one
woman and seven men were killed and IL
workmen and firemen seriously injured by
the burning of the Theater Royal.
The City-hall at Albany, N. Y, was
burned on the morning of the 10th, together
with large number of records and other
valuable papers. Seven firemen We're
crushed by the falling dome, one of whom
died within a short time, and two or three
others were thought to be fatally injured.
Two men were killed and three others
probably fatally injured by an explosion in
the Canada Paper Company's Mill at Wind
sor, Quebec, on the 10th.
At Peoria, ILL.,, on the 10th, Luther b.
Mckinney twice shot and almost instantly
killed his wife's step-father, Jacob Frye, a
well known cattle dealer. Mrs. Mckinney
was prosecuting suit for divorce, on the
grounds of i'll treatment, and Mr.. Frye had
| warmly espOused her case, which brought
upon him the enmity of Mckinney. The
| shooting took place in the street and was
without any immediate provocation. After
I, 4 he
| volver and got in two shots in return, but
without effect. The murderer was arrested.
Mardi Gras was publicly celebrated,
with more or less display, at New Orleans,
Mobile, Galveston, Little Rock, and many
other cities and towns of the South and
West.
The California State Normal School
building at San Jose burned to the ground
on the morning of the 10th. II cost $780,
600 and was insured for 5000. -
Burglars visited Westport, Conn.,, on
the night of the 10th, gagged the village
Waterman, carried him to the National
Bank, the doors of which were forced, and
locked him in a closet. They then blew open
the door of the vault, but the explosion was
so violent that the plate-glass front of the
bank was blown into the street. The viii
layers were aroused and the burglars fled
with So, 500 cash.
A company of the Tenth Cavalry re-
Gently had sharp brush near Fort Keogh,
Mont, with party of Sioux Indians, sup
posed to belong to Sitting Bulbs band. One
soldier was killed and one wounded, and
two Indians were killed and three taken
prisoners.
Douglas & Stewards new elevator
building, near Dearborn and State Streets
Chicago, was completely wrecked on the
morning of the 18th by the heavy weight of
grain contained in it-about $4,000 bushels
of wheat. The loss is estimated at from $3.50,
600 to $4,000.
Nashville, Tenn, was visited by ter
rife hurricane about midnight on the 10Th.
The spires Of the First Colored Baptist, ST..
Johns Colored, and st. Paul's Colored
Churches were blown down; the inside
brick wall of the new Custom house was de-
molished, and number of buildings I'M
rooted.
1t is said that an entire family of nine,
| women and children, whose house stood
upon the bank of Mayfield Greek, near May
| field, KY, were drowned during freshet
on the 18th. The house was washed away.
The Empire Storage Warehouse, 19S-
204 South Market Street, Chicago, burned
on the night of the 18th, with all its valua-
BILE contents, consisting Of liquors, dry
goods, fruits, etc., vauled at $472,0OO, most
of which was covered by insurance.
Rev. Andrew Andreen, for ten years
past pastor of Swedish Lutheran Churches
at Berlin and Swedana, Henry County, ILL.,,
hung himself at Rock Island on the 14th,
while temporarily insane.
A Tucson (Nev.) dispatch of the 9th
says that Captain Rucker, of the Ninth Cav
airy, commanding one Of the columns pur-
suing the hostile Indians, had been routed
by the latter and forced to retreat, with the
loss of several men and horses and all his IA
tions.
At Syracuse, n. Y, on the night OF
the 18th, Amelia Mantz shot and killed her
cousin and lover, Julius c. Mantz, a well
known musician, and then committed sui
eide. The parties had maintained an illicit
relationship for some years, and the shoot
ing was in consequence of the mans refusal
to marry the woman whom he had ruined.
At cambridge, Lancaster County,
Pa, Levi Lane, aged "a, murdered his wife
and one child, consigned another infant
child to death from starvation, and then
committed suicide by taking poison. A little
boy, aged years, was for some
unaccountable reason spared the fate
OF the other members of the fam
lily. When discovered by the neighbors the
| little fellow was nearly dead from starva-
ton and cold, his feet and legs being so badly
frozen as to necessitate amputation. Lane
was lazy and worthless vagabond, who
| lived by doing odd jobs and spent the most
of his earnings for liquor. Mrs. Lane was
an intelligent woman, Of good family con-
nections, and it is said eloped from home to
! be married.