Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Cuba have been sent to Spain.
JOHN MCGUIRE was hanged at San
Rafael. CAL, ON the 9Th, for the murder Of
[ellow-convict in the State Penitentiary.
AT Cincinnati, on the Sth, Police
Officer A. Chum!ey was shot and probably
fatally wounded by Col. Thomas E. Smell
baker, proprietor Of a variety hall known as
the Vine Street Opera house. 1t is asserted
that Snelbaker had formerly lived in init
mate relations with Emma Chumley,
daughter of Officer Chumley, whom he had
recently cast off in favor of a variety actress
known as Virgie jackson. 1t is further said
that Chumley attacked Snelbaker and that
the shooting was done in self defense.
THE engine of threshing machine
on the farm Of Elias Mccain, near Lake
land, Mimi, exploded its boiler, killing the
foreman and two men and wounding six or
seven others, some of them seriously.
The Right Reverend John A. Waiter
son, the new Catholic Bishop Of Columbus,
o., was consecrated on the Sth with great
priests were in attendance.
Ex-GOv. WILLIAM BIGLER, of Penn
sylvania, is dead, aged 81 years.
AN attempt has been made to assas-
sinate Thomas Boyd, Crown Solicitor for
County Tipperary, Ireland. He and his two
sons were fired upon by concealed parties
near New Ross, on the night of the Sth.
Boyd was severely wounded in the arm; one
of his sons was shot through the thigh, fatal
ly, and the other was slightly wounded. Six
a rests have been made of suspected parties,
one Of whom is a woman.
COTTON in Alabama has been injured
by recent rains, together with worms and
rust.
The British troop-ship Taman sailed
from Portsmouth on the Sth, with 1000 re-
Inducements for the army in Afghanistan.
JARVIS N. PHELPS, dissolute fell
low, aged 90, horse jockey by occupation,
who lived in the town OF Shutesbury,
Franklin County, Mass, on the Sth muir
dered his wife, only Is years of age, putting
four bullets through her body. He then re-
loaded his revolver, and lying down beside
his dead wife he fired seven shots
through various portions of his own body,
none of which, strange to say, proved imme-
diately fatal, as two hours afterward he
managed to make his way to neighboring
house and told the terrible story. The cou
pie had been separated for some months, the
wife refusing to live with her hus-
band on account of his i'll
treatment of her and other reasons.
On the day of the murder he went to the
place where she was working as domestic
and induced her to accompany him to their
former home, upon a promise to give UP
some of her clothing which he had detained
since she left him. Upon arriving at a
secluded portion of the road the deed
was committed in the manner related. 1t
is reported that Phelps had another wife
living, and that he was therefore never le-
gally married to the girl whom he murdered,
whose name was Sadie j. Grover, daughter
of neighboring farmer.
Ennis, Texas, says: r. L. Edwards, a Chris
tian preacher, living near Bristol, was called
out Of his house and shot dead by unknown
parties. No further particulars given.
SNELBAKER, who shot and killed Of
ficer Chumley in Cincinnati, has been released
on S., 900 bail, the charge against him being
that Of manslaughter.
THE various eXpedients undertaken
to recover the bodies of the unfortunate
workmen killed by the disaster at the Hud-
son River Tunnel in Jersey City have so far
proved futile, on account Of the difficulty in
clearing the pit OF water. More elaborate
plans have now been entered upon, which
are likely to prove successful in the end, but
which will require several weeks time to
carry to completion.
A BURNING vessel loaded with naph-
tina drifted against lumber pier at Hunters
Point, opposite New York City, causing a
terrible confagration. About half a million
dollars worth of lumber was destroyed, be-
sides several vessels and other property.
AT Montreal, Canada, from fifteen to
twenty boys, between the ages of 10 and 16,
were engaged in shoveling bran in the loft of
a two-story brick building. when one of the
walls suddenly fell outward, burying them
all in the ruins. One was dead when eXtri-
Gated and several others were badly in
jured.
EDWARD w. ROBERTSON has been re-
nominated for Congress by the Democrats of
the Sixth Louisiana District. Hon. J. S. Bill
lin, Democratic nominee for Congress, Third
Louisiana District, has, on account of dissat
isfaction, withdrawn anda new Convention
has been ordered.
REPRESENTATIVE CLARDY has been
renominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the First Missouri District.
PRESIDENT HAYES left Washington on
the 10th, to attend the Soldiers Reunion at
Columbus, o.
THE reported loss of the steamer
Jeddah, in the Red Sea, with 1000 Moham-
medan pilgrims on board, fortunately turns
out to be untrue. The vessel was aban-
doned by the Captain and principal officers,
when in a supposed sinking condition, but
was subsequently picked up and towed into
the port of Alden by passing steamer. The
cowardly officers, who reached port on the
previous day, reported that their vessel had
gone down with all on board save themselves.
THE Soldiers Reunion at Springfield,
ILL.,, began on the 18th with large attend
ance.
MEssRs. PORTER and Landers, the
Republican and Democratic nominees for
Governor of Indiana, have agreed to engage
in joint debate at some one point in each
Congressional District of the State. The
times and places have not yet been agreed on.
IT is estimated now that the British
losses in killed and missing alone by the