Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LYNN Brooks, aged 81, living near
Muncie, Ind, Tilted by his affianced because
he took another girl out riding, blew out his
brains with a revolver.
The yellow fever has assumed an epi-
demic form in some parts of Cuba. At Ha-
vana there were twenty -eight deaths from
this disease for the week ending Sept. 8.
The stages running between Cave
City on the L. and N. Railroad and the Mann
moth Cave were on the night Of the Sd stop
ped by highwaymen and the passengers rob-
bed of their money and jewelry. The brig
ands secured, it is said, cash and valuables
to the amount of 81 200.
A BOILER. in saw-mill located in
Morgan Township, sixteen miles from Gal
lipolis, o., exploded on the 9Th, killing in
stantly Wesley Donnelly, engineer, and
fatally injuring Samuel Davis Cutter, be-
sides frightfuly wounding Harrison, a
brother.
WILLIAM H. GREENWOOD, formerly
Chief Eneineer of the Denver Railroad, was
recently murdered and robbed in Mexico,
where he was engaged in making surveys for
new line. The murder occurred about
eighteen miles from the City Of Mexico. His
found by his assistant and a servant, whom
he had left but a few minutes previous.
LIGHTNING struck the house of Moses
Prewitt, four miles south of Upton, Ky. 1t
came down the chimney, bursting through
the mantelpiece, killing Mrs. James Walden
and James Prewitt and wounding Mrs.
Prewitt, the mother Of the young man. All
in the house were shocked. At the time
Mrs. Walden was killed she was holding
four-year- old girl in her lap. The child was
not injured.
THE Sioux Chief Big Road, direct from
Sitting Bulbs camp, came into Fort Keogh
with four followers and surrendered on the
9th. His entire party of 100 braves were ex-
pected to arrive day or two later.
THE British Parliament was prorogued
on the It'll. r..
MOBILE has suffered by destructive
fire which reduced to ruins and ashes sew
eral large business buildings and their con-
tents, besides damaging many more. The
loss is placed at $350, 900, and the insurance
at $3.50, 900.
BY the capsizing of boat belonging
to Prince Galitzin, off the coast of Finisterre,
Viscount Fleury, Mrs. Hennessy, an Amer
lean lady, and two English people were
drowned.
The New Hampshire Republicans
have nominated Charles C. Bell for Cover
nor.
SIX ice-houses and a portion of the
stove works of the Excelsior Manufacturing
Company at St. Louis were destroyed by fire
on the night of the 7th. Two tiremen, Mike
Lynch and Ed. Sanders, were killed, and
several others injured by falling walls. The
total loss is about $166, 900, fully covered by
insurance.
Ex-REPREsENTATIvE EUGENE HALE
has completely broken down under his la
bors in the Maine campaign.
FOURTEEN men-Of-war of various ma
tionalities which will take part in the dem
onstration against Turkey are now assembled
at the Austrian port of Ragusa.
Two children, Jesse Hill and Carrie
Beers, one aged eight and the other five,
were fatally burned at T!tusville, Pa, while
kindling fire with kerosene.
r. o. ADAMS, the defaulting Post
master of Deadwood, D. T., has been cap
tured at Fort Sully.
A GALVESTON NeUs special from
Navasota says man named Peoples, re-
turning from Mclean, where he had sold
cotton, was waylaid, killed and robbed by
negro. Taliaferro was
captured near Independence, and
while on the way back some men, dis
guised, overpowered the guard and carried
off the prisoner. 1t is supposed he was