Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
GEN. SHERMAN denies the report that
he will ask to be put on the retired list, and
Secretary Sherman says he will not remain
in the new Cabinet, but will make canvass
in Ohio to succeed Garfield in the Senate.
THE Tammany Hall Committee have
issued an address to the Democracy of the
country, charging that the result of the
Presidential election was "due to fraud, in
timidation, and the use of enormous sums Of
money by the Republicans"
The new Oklahoma invasion it is
said will be participated in by about 5000
persons. They expect to be able to stake
off their claims before they are interrupted,
and then if they are driven off by the Gov
eminent, they will claim a presumption of
the land as soon as it is opened up for set
Element.
A. ALBERT MITCHELL, colored, was
| hanged at Louisa Court house, Va, on the
9Th, for the murder of Charles X. Walton,
white, in March, 1879.
JOHN GARRISON, aged 81, and Robt.
Dunn, aged %, were killed by an explosion
| in Latin & Rand's powder mill, at Pater-
! son, n. j.
AT Mona, in Belgium, thirteen men
were precipitated to the bottom of the col
liery shaft and killed, by the breaking of the
hosting apparatus.
A RAILWAY collision occurred on the
passenger and u freight train. David Quack-
enbush, engineer, and Garrett Voorhees,,
fireman, were both instantly killed. Several
passengers were injured.
Two freight trains on the Marietta
and Cincinnati Railroad collided near Noon
vile, on the 4th, killing Frank Lewhead,
engineer, and Charles Krick, fireman, and
injuring six of the crew, none fatally.
THE dead and partially decomposed
body Of woman known as Dora Clarence
was found in closet in disreputable lodg-
ing house in Chicago, on the 9th. Her muir
derer turned out to be notorious woman
named Eva Lloyd, who had occupied the
same room with her, and who confessed hav-
ing killed her companion in drunken quar-
rel. The murdered girl is said to have come
from Bloomington, Ill.
THE completion of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad to the Montana line, AS miles
west of Bismarck, was celebrated on the
10th with great festivities by the citizens of
both Dakota and Montana. The rails that
cross the dividing line of the two Territories
were spiked with silver spikes.
THE population of Texas, as compiled
from unofficial sources, is 1,5G5, 433, a gain of
TAG, S44 since 1870.
The schooner Norway, from Bucks
Island, foundered during the recent storm
on Lake Ontario, and all on board, eight in
number were drowned.
FIVE men were killed by the explosion
of boiler in an oil mill at Bryan, Texas.
AT Philadelphia, on the 7th, John
Voitz, German tanner, shot his wife and
then himself, both probably fatally. Whis-
ky was what caused the tragedy.
w. STAFFORD and Charles Miller
have been arrested at Chicago for counter
feiting coupon tickets on the Canada South
ern Railway.
N. B. HARDWOOD, the leading whole
sale dry-goods dealer in Minneapolis, and
one Of the largest in the Northwest, has
failed.
GEORGE ToURRoN, engineer, and
Zeph. Hascomb, fireman, were instantly
killed, and Clay Ross, engineer, fatally in
jured, by collision of freight trains on the
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, on the
9th.
AT Green Springs, in Loudon County,
Va, on the 9Th, Merrell Mott killed his wife's
sister, with whom he had quarreled, and
then took his own life.
Col. LUCIEN B. CAUSE, for six years
Representative in Congress from the Sixth
Arkansas District, died on the 9Th at Jack
sonport.
RowELL won the Ashley belt at the
recent London contest, making 566 miles in
six days, beating by one mile the record of
Hart, the Boston colored boy. Littlewood
made 470 miles, and Dobler 40.
Mr.. j. G. ALDEN, his wife and niece,
were crossing the Illinois Central track at
Woodford Station, on the Sth, when their
wagon was struck by locomotive and
dashed to pieces, all three of them being
thrown under the wheels. The two ladies
were instantly killed, being literally cut to
that he died the same day.
PETER CAvANAGH, engineer, was in
stantly killed, and VIM. Hopping, fireman,
fatally injured, by the ditching Of coal
train on the Norris and Essex Railroad at
Jersey City on the sth.
THREE thousand Jews have left Rou-
mania for America, via Bremen.
THE 7-year-old daughter of L. A.
Desvoiness, of Mendon, Mich, while play
ing with revolver, accidentally discharged |
it, the contents taking effect in her head, |
causing death.