Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT Bunker Hill, St. Clair County
ILL.,, on the 10th, Henry Cardwell, a miner
shot his wife through the head with shot.
gun and then cut his throat with razor
Both were dead when found, and as there wa.
probably no witness to the tragedy, it is only
| upon strong circumstantial evidence thai
| the theory of murder and suicide was estab.
lished. Cardwell and his wife were botf
middle aged, with family of grown-ut
children, none of whom lived at home. He
was OF Incorporate and improvident habits
and had been unusually depressed for some
months past on account of one Of his son:
having become insane.
ROBERT WILKES, a wholesale jewcler
of Toronto, his daughter, Florence, aged
| fifteen, and son, BERTHE, aged eleven, were
drowned at Sturgeon Point on the 10th.
Florence and BERTHE were bathing, and the
boy getting beyond his depth, the father
who was in boat, jumped out to save him
the daughter also went to the rescue, and
all were drowned.
JOHN G. TAYLOR, Secretary of the
| Masonic Mutual Relief Association of West
| ern Massachusetts,, and his wife were
| drowned in the Connecticut River at Spring
| field on the 10th. Mrs. Taylor leaped from
| the boat in which were her husband and two
| other women. He sprang after her, and be-
ing unable to swim, both were lost.
THE disturbed and unsatisfactory state
of Circassia is seriously occupying the minds
/ of the Russian Central authorities.
A TERRIBLE explosion of giant-pow-
der occurred at Red Hill, station ON the
Denver and South Park Railroad, about half
| way between Denver and Leadville, on the
night of the 18th. Every building In the
place, about twenty in number, was demol-
ished. G. A. Hilton, the Assistant Station
Agent, was killed, and p. j. Conway and F.
B. Collier were fatally and several others Sc
riously injured. The cause of the explosion
is not known.
THOMAS MCGRAw, one of the most
prominent business men of Detroit, Mich,
President of the Michigan Savings Bank and
also Of the Globe Tobacco Company has made
an assignment. Unfortunate real estate in
vestments and speculations in wool are the
cause of his troubles.
AT Minneapolis, on the 18th, Charles
Fl. Richmond, railroad conductor, shot and
killed his wife, from whom he had been
separated, and then put bullet through his
own head, dying instantly.
M. J. FARNswORTH, Deputy Sheriff
of Buena Vista, Colo, was shot and killed on
the night of the 18th, by Daniel Linahan, a
saloon-keeper. The latter claims to have
acted in self-defense.
H. E. PARKHURsT, a young lawyer of
Bath, N. Y, on the 14th, shot and killed
Fannie Howell, daughter of prominent
merchant, and then killed himself. Several
years ago, when both were mere children,
the parties were married at picnic. in
somewhat informal manner and partly as
joke, but they never lived together as man
and wife, as the girls parents took the mat
ter in hand and had the marriage annulled
by the courts. Since arriving at age Park
hurst has insisted upon again marrying Miss
Howell, who it seems reciprocated his pas
sion, but her parents would not consent, and
Parkhurst, becoming desperate, took to
drink, and finally wound up by enacting the
tragedy here recounted.
TwENTY-ONE persons have been tried
by eourt-martiai and convicted at Kief, Rus
sis, for political offenses. Two were sem
fenced to death, three to twenty years. inn
prisonment, and sixteen to hard labor for
terms varying from ten to fifteen years.
BILL RODIFER, notorious burglar,
recently pardoned out of the Indiana Peni-
Tertiary on account of good conduct, was
shot and killed ON the morning of the 18th
by j. c. Walker, son of DR.. Walker, of In
dianapolis. Mrs. Walker being awakened
by noise during the night, got up and
turned on the gas, which was burning low,
and while doing SO noticed man under
meath the Doctors bed. Without awaken
ing her husband or manifesting any alarm,
she quietly went into an adjoining room and
aroused her son, who seized revolver
and came upon the scene just as the burglar
was making his exit, with a drawn knife in
one hand and a revolver in the other, with
the latter of which he had fired one shot at
the Doctor, who had awakened during his
wife's absence and discovered the burglars
presence Young Walker fired twice at the
man, both shots taking effect in his breast.
Rodifer managed to get down stairs, but
fell dead just as he reached the threshold:
DIR. JOHN BUCHANAN, Dean of the
Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia,
under indictment for fraudulently issuing
medical diplomas, jumped from ferryboat
into the river and drowned himself, ON the
18th.
DURING a drunken carousal at the
house of John Kelleher, in Oakland, CAL,
dren were burned to death and third was
fatally injured. Mrs. Kelleher and another
woman, Mrs. King, were both badly burned,
and Kelleher was slightly scorched.
THE Yaeger Mill at St. Louis, the
largest Touring mill in the city, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th.
Total loss about $450,000; insurance, $780,
900.
EUREKA, Nevada, has had another
disastrous fire, which swept over about the
same ground as the fire of year ago. A
large number of business buildings and pri-
vate residences were destroyed. The losses
will aggregate nearly 100000.
SENATOR CoNKLING, it is said, is
booked for several speeches in Ohio and In
diana.
PRESIDENT HAYES will 60 on tour
to the Pacific Coast, making several speeches |
en- route.
EX-Gov. HERsCHEL V. JOHNSON, of |
Georgia, died on the 10th, at his residence in |
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