Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

press train. The sleigh was knocked into
fragments, one OF the two men, Cerwin b.
Manning, was instantly killed, and the 9TH
er, VIM. r. Schofield, dangerously hurt,
while the horse was horribly mutilated.
THE Scoville Manufacturing Compa-
ny's button shop, at Waterbury, Conn.,,
burned on the 18th. Loss, SOC, 600; insur-
| ance, $125, 600. Over 200 hands are thrown
out of work.
The number of immigrants arriving
in this country during January was 15,2 24.
CHRISTIAN MARRGAET and wife were
suffocated at Milwaukee by gas from coal
stove.
"DA1sY DEANE," a variety actress at
Kansas City, wandered from her room while
4 insane from fever, on the night of the 18th,
| and died from exposure during the night,
her lifeless body beiAg found by her friends
| after an all-night search. She was the wife
of Billy Deane, a song-and-dance man.
| - F. A. MCCLAIN, in the employ of the
Roberts Torpedo Company, was driving
along the highway, fifteen miles southeast of
| Bradford, Pa, in sleigh, with 200 pounds
of nitro glycerine. The horses became
! frightened and ran against bewlder, caus-
| ing an explosion. McClain was torn to
mince- meat, both horses were killed, and no
evidences of the sleigh could be found.
THERE was an immense anti-coercion
meeting held in Hyde Park, London, on
Sunday, the 18th, which was addressed by
several prominent Home Rulers.
The Lancashire Eng.) golfers are
on strike.
HANLoN easily beat Laycock on the
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England.
| SAMUEL BUCHANAN, living on Foote' g
Prairie, near Fort Coville, Wash
ington Territory, shot and killed Louis
Fenwick, a nephew of Indian Agent
Simms, wounded Miss Mary King in the
arm and back, shot at James O'Neill, and
then shot himself through the heart. The
| parties shot were dining when Buchanan
| called. The cause was disappointed affec-
| ton.
EIGHT men employed in gathering
turpentine in Moore County, Va, were roast
| ed to death the other night. Their cabin,
the roof of which was heavily weighted with
| earth and rocks, was blown down and its
| sleeping occupants were buried in the ruins,
| which caught fire and burned up. Only two
out of ten escaped.
THE night express train on the ST..
| Louis division of the Chicago, Burlington &
| Quincy Railroad was thrown from the track
| by broken rail at Cedar Greek, near Mon
| mouth, ILL.,, on the morning of the 14th. The
| baggage-car one day-coach and sleeper
went down fifty-foot embankment, turn
| ing completely over. Fortunately there
were but few passengers on board. The in
jured number ten or twelve, two or three of
whom it was thought might not recover.
LIEUT.. PERCY ROPER, Royal Engi-
neers, was found shot dead in Brompton
Barracks. A revolver was found lying some
distance away. The murder is believed to
have been committed by Fenian.
| THREE steamers have been chartered
to convey British troops to South Africa.
OF q crew of eighteen men of the ship
Neomanton, lost on the coast of Newfound-
land, only the Chief Mate, McCreechy, and
Seaman Dooley were saved.
| AT Lee Mines, Colo, giant-powder
cartridge laid under the stove exploded.
Four men were injured.
THE smallpox is said to be spreading
| badly in Chicago.
GEORGE M. RoUsH, wealthy stock
raiser, living near Bloomington, ILL.,, died
about three years ago, of what was thought
to be heart disease. 1t is now reported that
Peter, the second son of deceased, died re-
Gently in northern Iowa, after making the
confession that he murdered his father by
putting poison in glass of water standing
at his bedside. a
THIRTEEN more Socialists have I'M
dergone trial at Vienna. One was con-
- !, ;<~l~ 4
years imprisonment, another to six months
confinement, and eleven were acquitted.
ALL branches of labor in the mills at
Fall River, Mass, have voted to strike, the
date to be kept secret.
The Bayou Lafourche packet As
sumption exploded her donkey boiler at New
Orleans on the 18th, killing negro laborer
and seriously injuring several other persons.
THREE children were fatally burned
at Danielsonvillc, Conn.,, while kindling the
fire with kerosene. Their mother was badly
burned in trying to extinguish the flames.
l. AT Robinson's Camp, near Leadville,
Colo. on the 18th, Jack McIlhaney, po-
liceman, shot and killed George Harbor, a
miner, and was himself shot and mortally
wounded some time later by an unknown
assassin, doubtless in revenge for killing
Harbor, which the latter's friends claim was
entirely without justification. There was
great excitement throughout the camp,
which was heightened by the influx OF num-
Der of armed men from Kokomo, an adjoin-
ing town, some of whom were friends of the
miners and others in sympathy with the So
called ''law and order" party. serious
collision seemed likely to occur between the
opposing factions.
THE st. Louis police imbroglio has
been settled by the deposition of Boland as
Vice President of the Board of Commission
ers and the reappointment of McDonough as
Chief, with plenary powers.
SEVERAL cases of trichinosis have oc-
Cured at Rondout, n. Y.
EIGHT Indians lost their lives by the
recent floods in the neighborhood of Ilges'
camp at Poplar River.
THE boiler in Bush's mill, in Isabella
County, Mich, exploded on the 10th, kill
ing Andrew Gearheart and wounding four
others.
THE United States National Bank of