Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT Rochester, N. Y, on the 25th,
Mary O'Connor, servant, aged forty five,
attempted to kindle the kitchen fire with
kerosene. An explosion occurred, covering
her with the burning oil, and she ran wildly
into the street, tanning it into flames. The
i flesh was literally roasted upon her lower
limbs and dropped of in shreds.
AN extensive oil fire occurred in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the morning of the 26th.
Several men were badly injured by the ex-
plosion Of an oil tank.
JOEL FERGUSON, Town Marshal of
Murray, Galloway County, KY, was shot
and killed on the oath by Dan F. Jones, a
saloon keeper.
A DUEL has been fought at Pesth,
Hungary, between Count Zinchy and Count
Stephen Karolyi, in which the former was
wounded, it was thought fatally.
A. II. LITTLEFIELD has been elected
Governor, and II. III. Fay Lieutenant Gov
ernor, of Rhode Island, by the General As
sembly.
THE boat-race between Hanlan and
Riley, which was rowed on the Potomac at
Washington on the Goth, was easily won by
the former.
THOMAS 0. THURsTON, who shot and
killed his partner, W. W. Embry, at Leav-
enworth, Kas. +, on last New Years Day, and
who was acquitted on the ground of self
defense, on the Goth attempted to shoot Mr..
D. r. Anthony, editor of the Times, as the
latter was passing along the crowded street
at MONDAY. Thurston fired twice, both
shots missing his intended victim,
but both taking effect upon other
parties. Lucien Baker, a young attorney,
was pierced through the body by one Of the
bullets, and very dangerously, if not fatally,
wounded, and John P. Douglas, advertising
solicitor of the Times; was slightly wounded
in the head. Thurston was arrested, and
for fear that he would be lynched was taken
to Fort Leavenworth and thence to Atchi-
son, where he is now imprisoned. Baker
was attorney for Thurston in his recent trial
and secured his discharge.
GEORGE W. PICKENs, an old settler
of Butler County, Kas., on the Odd was suf-
located in well which he had been blasting
on his farm in Benton Township. Frank
Waite, neighbours son, went down in the
well to the assistance of Pickens, and he too
was overcome by the deadly gas and fell
from the bucket to the bottom, fracturing
his skull.
ROBERT T. GRAY, a commercial trav
eler from st. Joseph, Mo-, committed suicide
in Kansas City on the Goth. His parents re-
side at Normal, Ill.
JOHN EICHBERG, a prominent citizen
of Memphis, either jumped or fell overheard
from the steamer Hard Cash and was
drowned, on the 25th.
THE employees of the Philadelphia
Rolling-mill, 1900 in number, have struck
for higher wages.
A SEASON of most intense heat, &C
companied by long-continued drouth, has
prevailed throughout New York, New Jer-
sey and the New England States. On May
q the thermometer in New York
City and vicinity ranged from
ninety-two degrees to one hundred degrees
in the shade. The police report for twenty
four hours showed thirty -two cases Of sun
stroke in New York and Brooklyn, six Of
which were fatal. Vegetation of all kinds
was nearly burned up. On the 2Sth there
were twelve deaths from sunstroke in New
York and Brooklyn.
SOME 1900 miners have struck work
at Leadville, demanding an advance from
three dollars to four dollars per day. They
have compelled miners who did not volun-
tarily join in the strike to quit work.
Trouble is apprehended.
The spring meeting of the St. Louis
Jockey Club will open on Tuesday, June 8.
continuing until the following Monday, the
14th. On each of the six days there will be
a number of spirited races, commencing
promptly at p. m. All railroad and steam
boat lines give reduced rates Of fare to st.
Louis during the races.
Mr.. H. PLEMs, an ex-Alderman of
Dubuque, Iowa, committed suicide on the
26th by shooting himself through the head.
Family troubles.
DENNIS KEARNEY has been released
from the San Francisco House Of Correc
ton.
The President has signed the Carlisle
bill, amending the Internal Revenue law in
reference to distilled spirits.
THE Senate has rejected the nomina
ton Of s. Newton Pettis, of Pennsylvania, to
be Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court
for the Territory of New Mexico.
Two executions took place in Ar
kansas on the 2Sth. Thomas B. Edwards |
was hanged at Ozark, Franklin County, for |
the murder Of Julia Alsobrooks, his para
mour, in johnson County, in July, 1878,
and L. l.. Ford was hanged at Marion, Crit
tenden County, for completely in the muir
der of John Broadway, in October last. On
the same day Peter King was hanged at
w oodsfield, o., for the murder of David
Trembly in September last; Charles Balling,
a colored youth of sixteen, was hanged at
Hanover c. H., Va, for an assault upon a
white woman; and Henry Hamlin was
hanged at Hartford, Conn.,, for shooting
Waterman Shipman while the latter was
Trying to prevent his escape from the State
prison in September, 1877.
AT Buena Vista, Colo, on the 28th,
James Reed and James Edwards had shoot
ing bout in which both were killed.
BILL DELANEY, noted desperate of
Farley, Dubuque County, Iowa, was shot
and killed on the 26th by Byron Reynolds,
with whom he had provoked aquarrel. De-
ancy had been arrested for DEMONSTRATING,
arson, incendiarism and murder, but always
escaped any severe punishment.
THE Vulcan Iron and Nail Works of