Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-09

American people, hoping all lovers of free
dom will assist the agitation now going on
in Ireland, which will secure a radical set
Element of the land question. 'rs, .Bf
FIVE miners, en- route from George
town, Colo, to North Park, were buried I'M
der an avalanche while crossing the divide.
C. Fl. Eaton and Thomas Gray were killed |;
the other three, Frazer, Nelson and Sander,
escaped with some broken bones and bruises.
The party had been out in the storm five
days and were nearly fsmished when the ac-
cident occurred.
CHARLES WEIGH, noted desperate,
who is said to have committed two or three
murders, was shot and killed at Enterprise,
Ark, on the Goth, by an officer, while resist
ing arrest. J.. - " s.f
THE ship Johanna Heinrich, from
Hamburg for San Francisco, toundered at
sea. The officers and crew abandoned the
sinking vessel in two boats, one of which,
containing the Captain and five others, ar
rived at San Diego, CAL, OH the 9th. The
other boat, also containing six persons, is
thought to be lost.
THE house of George Mallory, cot
ton planter of Laurinburg, N. c., burned on
the night of the Goth, and his two young
children, left alone in the house, persisted in
the flames.
THE boiler in Andrew Moore's found
ry at Charlotte, Mich, exploded on the 9th,
demolishing the building. George Moore,
his son and another man were killed and
four others were seriously injured.
FIVE freight cars and caboose were
thrown down an embankment 20 feet high,
on the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia
Railroad, near Buffalo, on the 9th. The
cars made a complete revolution in 60
ing down the embankment, and rolled
right among a crew of section men who were
at work, badly injuring five of the number,
three without doubt fatally. The occupants
of the caboose escaped with comparatively
slight injuries.
The steamer Simcoe has been lost on
Lake Ontario, it is believed with all on
board, eleven in number.
BROCKwAY, Owens and Smyth, the
alleged counterfeiters arrested in Brook
Ign in connection with Doyle, who had been
taken into custody at Chicago, have been re-
leased for lack of evidence connecting them
with any crime.
DICKHAN, engineer, and Masurette,
fireman, of the Denver and Rio Grande,
were DO tn killed by the ditching of their
train, between Pueblo and Colorado Springs,
on the 2Sth.
ONE of the murderers of Charles
Brown and his clerk, James Heck, in Haw-
kins County, Tenn, has been captured and
lodged in Jail at Rogersville. He had in his
possession Browns pocket-book containing
1925 and other valuable papers. The muir
derer's name is Harris. Threats Of lynch
ing him were freely made.
SENATOR GROVER, of Oregon, is liv-
ing at Wilmington, Del, under treatment
for spinal irritation. He will go to Wash
ington soon, to remain, if his strength per-
mits, through the winter.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Georgia Central Railroad, on the 2Sth,
caused by the breaking in two of a passen-
ger train, the rear section of which
was run into by a freight train,
the locomotive crushing half way through
the sleeper. The engineer Of the freight
train, Crosby, was killed at his post. Sew
eral passengers in the sleeper were injured,
but none fatally.
Mrs. LITTLEFIELD, an insane woman
of East Stoughton, Mass. poisoned her hus-
band and son and then shot herself. The
husband died; the son will recover.
FRANCIS HoTCHKIss, a retired mer-
chant and banker of New Haven, Conn.,,
died suddenly on the Goth. His wife, upon
being informed that her husband was dying,
dropped tot he floor dead.
AT Muncie, Ind, VIM. A. Burress,
while drunk, shot and killed his wife, Mag
gle. sS.'F "tSs&
OLIVER PERRIN, wealthy resident
of Cincinnati, President of the Third Ma
tional Bank, dropped dead while attending
to business on the Goth.
CURRENT political rumor is to the eff
feet that movement is on foot in Pennsyl
vania for electing Gen. Grant United States
Senator from that State, as successor to SEN
ator Wallace. 1t is said that the strong OPP
position developed to Quay, the Cameron
bids fair to result in the election
Of Galusha A. Grow, and that the name Of
Gen. Grant will be brought forward in the
feat Grow.
The Missouri Supreme Court has
rendered decision in the Ford Craig Con-
gressional contest in the Ninth District,
the County Clerk of Ray
county 10 certLy up 10 the Secre-
tary of State the vote Of Ray
County as it appears on the poll-books of
the different precints Of the county. This
gives Ford q majority of two votes, and en-
titles him to the certificate of election. 1t is
said that Craig will make no contest.
The consolidation of the Missouri Pa
cific and Missouri, Kansas g. Texas Railroads
went into effect on the LIST. The combined
lines will henceforth be designated as the |
Missouri Pacific, and the NJ, X. & T. be
known as the Kansas and Texas Division. |
Mr.. A. A. Talmage is the General Manager,
and the old Missouri Pacific officials gener-
ally are continued with extended jurisdic- |
ton. -
AGNES Brown, colored, aged 12O,
was buried at Bronson, O., on the goth ult., !
and her funeral sermon was preached by /
a minister from Xenia who is in his one |
hundredth year, and in the seventy ninth |
year of his ministry.