Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-08

Mr.. Gould was holding the door and laugh
a ing over the excitement Of the tanitor, wher
the latter executed his threat, firing
; through the door and instantly killing Mr.
Gould. ~ S
Ell S. M. Black, Teller of the Quebec Bank Al
' Three Rivers, Canada, committed suicide by
5 shooting himself on the 26th ult. II is re-
ported that HIS accounts with the Bank were
6 in very unsatisfactory condition.
Later reports regarding the terrible bridge
t accident in Scotland reduce the estimates OF
the number of lives lost to something less
, than 100, although the exact number
, will probably never be known. OF all
on board the ill-fated train there is not a
, single survivor to tell the story. The entire
} central portion of the bridge, comprising II
OF the longest spans, went down
, beneath the train, only the bare iron piers
remaining. The bridge was about two
miles in length and had S. spans, the widest
Of which was 245 feet. At the highest point
it was 100 feet above high water. The bridge
was only opened for traffic in May,
1873, and was considered triumph of
engineering skill. The train consisted of
one first-class, one second-class and four
third class cars, all crowded with passengers.
A heavy gale was blowing at the time of the
had fallen before the train passed upon it..
Four negroes, charged with murder, were
taken from the Jail at Amite, Tangipahoa
Parish, La, on the night Of the 2Sth ult., by
| mob of 80 men, and shot to death.
Dave Hall, John Gallagher and . man
known as "Missouri," were found on the
oath, near Young Mans Butte, 100 miles
west of Bismarck, frozen to death.
| Rosfoo on the rnOrniup of 40 TN n 11It
Mrs. Helen Josephine Ward, widow of 81,
was shot and killed by her daughter Of the
same name, aged II. The mother and daugh-
| ter lived by themselves in apartments in
Hamilton Place, and kept loaded revolver
in bed with them for their projections. The
daughter says she dreamed Of burglars in
| the night. and was first awakened by the re-
| port of the pistol which she held i'm her hand,
| and upon trying to awaken her mother found
her speechless and shot through the head.
| The daughter was arrested, and there are
circumstances in the case that warrant "a
suspicion that her story is not i'm all respects
| true.
| Charles H. Addicks, at one time success
full journalist and until recently Treasurer of
| the Grand Opera house at New Orleans.
blew out his brains on the 30th at Water
Valley, Miss, while en- route to st. Louis.
He had been for some time i'm an impover-
ished and melancholy condition. lie leaves
wife and two children.
1t was reported from Deadwood on the
3Oth that the Bismarck stage had been stop
ped and robbed by road agents near An
| teIopc Station, and that the only passenger
in the coach, a Mr.. Oates, had been shot and
| killed, presumably while resisting the rob-
| bers.
| An express train OH the Iowa and Minne-
| sofa Division Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
| st. Paul Railroad was thrown from the
| track by broken rail near st. Paul, on the
| 3lst. One of the sleepers broke its couplings
| and rolled down an embankment to the
river, distance Of 90 feet. The car was
smashed to pieces and the six passengers i'm
| it were all taken up in an insensible condi-
| tion. They were all seriously, but it was
| thought none fatally, injured.
At Burlington, Iowa, on the 31st, J. Il
Woodward, son of ex-Mayor Woodward
shot and Instantly killed his brother I'm law,
e. M. Price, and then blew out his own
brains. The tragedy was brought about by
domestic difficulties. E
At Leavenworth, Kas. ,on New Years Day,
w. w. Embry was shot and almost instantly
killed by Thos. C. Thurston. The, two men
were partners in the publication Of a Sunday
newspaper, and having quarreled, each had
the other arrested upon. a charge Of embez-
Element. Both were released upon bail.
Thurston says that Embry threatened
to club him to death the first
| time they met. On New. Years
Day Thurston was in saloon playing
cards when Embry came i'm, and as the latter
| advanced towards the card table, Thurston
drew his revolver and shot him through the
| heart. Embry will be remembered as the
man who shot Col. Anthony about four years
ago. Thurston gave himself up.
Three boys, Harry Coles, Charley Burlin
and Charley Dorman, aged from u to 15,
| were drowned on New Years Day while
skating at Alliance, O. The ice on the pond
suddenly gave way, letting eight boys down,
only five of whom were rescued.
At Cincinnati, on the 1st, Col. L. A.
Harris, ex-Mayer, shot w. II. Adams, in
an alteration growing out Of business
transaction. The wound was supposed to
be fatal.
A strange and most stterrible affair occurred
on the Sd at Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y.
Miss M. Frances Hovey, young and intel
ligent lady, while caressfng her father,
Hiram Hovey, in an apparently affectionate
manner, suddenly placed the muzzle Of a
pistol to the back Of his head
and shot him dead almost instantly.
She then went to another room, and with
the same weapon blew out her own brains,
her aim being directed unerringly by the
aid of a little hand mirror which she held
in her left hand. Miss Hovey had some
time previous been engaged to be married
| !, ,od ElrO Rai
father opposed their marriage, but sub
sequently reented and the day was fixed
for the wedding. Young Rains meanwhile
committed suicide in Louisiana, and this so
affected Miss Hovey that she became par
tial monomaniac, although she had never
previously exhibited any disposition to harm
either herself or others.
Eugene L. Sloan, aged 30, recently con-
nected with the Marshall (TeXas) Weekly
Herald, committed suicide on the Sd by
shooting himself through the head. No
cause is assigned for the act other than tenn
pOrary insanity.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An official dispatch from Gen. Roberts to
the viceroy of India announces the defeat
and dispersion, ON the 23d ult., of the enemy
around Cabul. The fight was brought ON by
an attack from the Afghans, 6,OOO strong.
Gen. Roberts made a counter attack, charg-
ing with his cavalry and artillery and rOut-
ing the enemy in one quarter, while Gen.
Cough, who had opportunely arrived with his
reinforcements, held them in check else
where. The Bala Hissar and the city of Ca
bul were subsequently occupied by the
British troops. The battle field was COW
cred with the corpses of the slain.
Genonsmo, the Apache Chief, with SO Of
his band of Indians, has surrendered to the
military authorities at Fort Rucker and will
be sent to San Carlos Indian Reservation.
This is the band which has been depredating
for some months past along the border, and
did much Of the work credited to Victoria's
band. This virtually wipes out all renegade
Indians in Arizona and on the borders.