Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


i alumnus.
Mrs. HOFFMAN, and her eighteen.
months-old child were run over by rail.
way train at Grant Park Station, Kankakee
County, Ill.,, on the 21st. Mrs. Holzmanr
was fatally injured and her baby instantly
killed.
THE Republicans of the Second Maine
District have renominated Representative
Frye.
Col. JOHN HANNA, of Wooster, O..
accidentally shot and killed himself while
cleaning revolver.
THE Mansion House Relief Commit.
tee OF Dublin state that their fund is only
large enough to afford three weeks supply,
and that it is only to charitable organizations
that the people can look to be saved from
starvation for the next few months.
THE Maine Republican State Conven-
ton renominated Gov. Davis.
DIR. JAMES A. MCCREA, a prominent
and wealthy resident of Philadelphia, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat while in
his bath-tub. He was a great sufferer from
dyspepsia, and this is supposed to have led
him to kill himself.
| WILLIAM RALsTON and three others
| "SAS oA CocSo eao III 0OidOO, hdHSs, Ou tuC
23d, for counterfeiting. A search of Raj
ston's house disclosed a chest full of tools,
Including dies, furnace, acids, block tin and
other apparatus for this kind of work.
THE large paper mill of the Woodsdale
Paper Company, six miles north of Hamil-
ton, O., was burned on the night Of the oath.
Loss. $4,000; insurance, So, 900. Sixty EN-
ployees are thrown out Of work.
JAMES HAYDEN BROWN was hanged
at Huntsville, Mo-, on the 25th, for the
murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Parrish,
in July, 1877. Thousands of spectators wit
messed the execution, some of whom came
hundreds of miles to crafty their morbid
curiosity. On the scaffold the condemned
man made rambling address of ten min
utes' duration, in which he spoke affectingly
of his dead wife and of his little boy. He
said that liquor was what brought him
where he was to-day, and he urged other
young men to take warning from his exam
pie. He denied that his wife committed
suicide, as reported, in accordance with a
prearranged plan with him, but admitted
that he got his poison from her. Brown was
only about "a years of age at the time of his
death. His father was also murderer, hav-
| ing killed VIM. Penny at Jacksonville, No.,
! in 1865.
THREE boy murderers were hanged
together at Canton, o., on the 25th. They
were Gustave A. Ohr, aged Is, George E..
Mann, aged IT, and John Sammett, aged IS.
| Ohr and Mann were tramps and murdered
an old man named John Watmough, a
weaver from Philadelphia, in order to secure
possession of silver watch and five dollars.
Their victim had tramped in their company
for several days, and on the night of the 9th
of June, 1879, as he lay sleeping in grove
near Alliance, they Drained him with a
coupling pin. Sammett killed Chris.
Spuhler last fall on the eve of Sammett's trial
for burglary, Spuhler being witness against
him.
REPRESENTATIVE MURCH has been
renominated by the Greenbackers of the
Fifth Maine District.
IT is estimated that the crops in
France this season will fall short at least %
per cent. of the average yield.
QUEEN VICTORIA is going to Ireland
for the first time in many years.
GREAT dissatisfaction exists in South
western New Mexico at the manner in which
Gen. Hatch has conducted the Indian cam
paign, but the Secretary of War and Gen.
Sherman assert that they have the fullest
confidence in Gen. Hatch's ability, and ap-
prove his mode of campaigning.
THE Russian troops are reported to
have been defeated with heavy loss in re-
cent encounter with the Turcsmans.
The steamer City of New York, of
the Havana line, was burned while lying at
the Brooklyn dock. She had the greater part
of a valuable cargo On board.
A REVENUE posse had a fight with
moonshiners near Red Oak, Ga, In which
one of the latter was killed and one MORALLY
wounded.
WILLIAM H. WOOD, a fireman, and
William Loseby were killed by falling walls
at the burning of building at Elizabeth, N.
J. Several others were injured.
THOMAS B. HOPPER was hanged at
Greenfield, Mo-, on the 25th, in the presence
of thousands Of spectators, for completely in
the murder of Samuel c. Ham on the night
of the 9th OF last August. He denied to the
last moment any knowledge of the murder,
and charged that he was the victim of a con-
spiracy on the part Of a vigilance committee
Of Humansville, because he would not agree
to help lynch a man.
By the explosion of a cannon at a
Democratic ratification meeting at Des
Moines, Iowa, on the night of the oath,
Jacob Miller was instantly killed; Charles
Duck had one arm torn and beth eyes de-
stroyed, and Jack McGraw had both hands
badly lacerated.
THE Wisconsin Supreme Court has
decided that option contracts, where it can
be proved that there is No intention to de-
liver the goods contracted for, are unlawful.
and fall within the provisions Of the Wis
consin Gambling act.
A LETTER has been received at Lead
vile, Colo, frem Blake Burton, well known
in that place, who with two others left last
April for the Gunnison. Burton states that
he is captive of the Utes, they having killed
his two companions. He says he has hopes
of escape, he being on good terms with sew
eral of his captors.
DURING recent storm, VIM. Prinz.
All. Jones and John Ball, all colored, work
ing on the farm of Ed. Miners, eight miles
from Louisville, KY, were killed by light