Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-04
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


81. LOUIS willygive President Hayes
reception upon his return from the Pacific
coast. ga 81. ss-e
TIE Balloon House at Denver burned
on the 25th. Loss about $50, 600.
FRANK ALLIsON, a merchant of
Woodlawn, Carroll County, Va, suspected
the fidelityef his wife, whom he learned
was very intimate with his partner, a young
man named Hawks, duringhis absence from
home on business trips, which occurred fire.
quently. A few days since Allison babe his
wife good-by, announcing his intention OF
making trip of several days. dura-
ton. Instead of doing so he secreted
himself in the woods not far from home, and
ut night returned to his.~house and sud
denly broke in upon the guilty couple, his
worst fears being realized. Drawing his re-
volver he shot Hawks three times, killing
him on the spot. and then shot his wife
twice, wounding her MORALLY. He then
went and surrendered himself to the officers.
Allison is a man of middle age and his wife
considerably younger. All were Of high So
cial standing.
THE dead body of Michael Hendricks,
said to be nephew of Gov. Hendricks of
Indiana, was recently found along the road
near Leadville, Colo. A bullet hole through
the head gave evidence Of the cause of his
death. Young Hendricks was implicated
in the shooting of a man named James Nc
Callaum, recently, but upon examination
established his innocence and was acquitted.
McCallaum's brothers, however, threatened
to kill him for his part in the affair, and as
they have since left the country, it is sup
posed they carried their threat into execu-
| ton.
THE business portion of the village OF
Augusta, Wis, has been burned.
ROBERT S. JOHNSON, for twenty-five
years editor Of the Michigan Farmer, and
widely known throughout the State, died
suddenly at his home in Detroit few days
| ago. E., -.f
RICHARD P. BUEL, formerly editor of
| newspaper at Gainesville, Ark. but who
had assumed the role Of private detective
on the lookout for some criminal in the
neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, was
recently murdered by some party unknown.
THE Post-office Department has is
sued an order forbidding the payment Of
| postal money orders and delivery of regis
| tered letters to r. C. Wintersmith, Louis
| vile, KY, or A. w. Harris & Co., New
York. agents or representatives OF the
| Frankfort School Fund Lottery.
PROF. WOODWARD, of Washington
University, has been appointed to supervise
| the taking of the new census in St. Louis.
I The Weodin Hotel at Saltwater,
| Mich, burned on the 25th. The proprietor
| is a widow, whose fve-year- old son persisted
! in the flames. She is insane with grief.
A ROW between cowboys and soldiers
| occurred in low dive at Camp Sheridan,
Neb., in which two Of the cowboys were
killed and one soldier was shot in the leg. 1t
was thought he would die.
The Ansonia Watch and Clock
Works, in Brooklyn, N. y, burned on the
morning of the 9th. Loss about 81 900 600;
insurance about $500, 900. The works were
the most extensive of the kind in this coun-
try, if not in the world, employing some
| 200 hands. The fire is supposed to have
| been caused by gas explosion.
| SARAH BERNHARDT, the famous
French actress, has arrived in New York.
E. D. MANSFIELD, a veteran newspa-
per writer, died at his home near Morrow,
! o., on the 9th.
BISHOP D. S. DAGGETT, OF the M. E.
Church, died at Richmond, Va, on the 9th.
WENDELL PHILLIPS received the
Greenback nomination for Congress in the
Fourth Massachusetts, District. ..1...
| AT West Albany, Wabash County,
Mimi, Robert Love shot and instantly killed
his wife and infant child, and afterward
blew his own brains out. Domestic trouble
was the cause of the tragedy.