Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-10
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
BERNARD HOOVER, son OF the late
Col. Wesley Hoover, Of Murfreesboro, Pike
County, Ark, died from hydrophobia
caused BY the bite Of rabid dog received in
last.
I j.. G. KINzER, engineer In Wool-i
worth's X handle factory twelve miles from
Bowling Green, KY, was instantly Killed by
boiler explosion. Several others were in.
jured.
Fritz w. HAAS and Catherine Hof-
fart, his alleged paramour, confined in the
Franklin County Jail at Union, Mo-, under
Indictment for the murder Of Mrs. Haas,
narrowly escaped lynching at the hands Of
an Infatuated crowd. Under cover of dark
ness the officers finally succeeded in getting
the prisoners out of the town and conveying
them to St. Louis, where they are now safe
at least from mob violence. sgts
A MEXICAN named Mario, another
Of the alleged murderers Of Col. Potter, was
forcibly taken from the Jail at Albuquerque,
N. Mexico, and hanged by the vigilantes. ri
q The Court house, at Greenwood, Sc
bastian County, Ark, and all its contents
were totally destroyed by fire on the night OF
the oath. Incendiarism is suspected.
The Catholic Orphan Asylum at
Scranton, Pa, partially burned on the night
Of the 9th, causing the death of seventeen
of the inmates, all children The victims
were locked in their rooms on the third floor,
and the dense smoke and flames rendered it
impossible for the sisters to effect their re-
1y %o,H o11 >xyf y, Aav
the others being suffocated.
u THE Nebraska Legislature adjourned
sine die on the Goth, after passing the High
License, Capitol Appropriation and Woman's
Suffrage bills.
A CALL has been issued for meeting
at Des Moines, on the 18th of March, to per-
feet the organization of the Land League in
Iowa.
MRS, DEBORAH MERRILL, aged "a,
living with her son Charles, aged %, at
Weeks Mills, in Kennebec County, Me-,
was recently murdered by the latter and her
body chopped in pieces, partially burned,
and then buried in a manure heap, where it
was found some days later. The fnhuman
son has been arrested, and is now con-
fined in Augusta Jail, where he was
taken to avoid lynching. He confesses hav-
ing killed his mother by striking her on the
head with a hammer and then disposing of
her body in the manner stated. The MUIR
derer has long borne an unenviable reputation
among his neighbors, and had frequently
quarreled with his mother, who was herself
something of virago. There is in elder
Merrill, who was absent from home, en-
gagged in cutting wood at Moosehead Lake.
The usual Mardi Gras celebrations
took place in New Orleans, Memphis and
Shreveport. The weather was fine and the
attendance unusually large, especially of
Northern visitors at New Orleans.
IT is reported that the Crow Indians
have declared war of determination against
the Flatheads and all tribes north Of the
Mussellshell, owing to raids on their terri
tory by predatory bands from these tribes.
They have appealed to the Government for
assistance, but Gen. Terry has given instruc
tions that the military of that district shall
take no further action in the controversy
than to bring about an adjustment of the
trouble, which threatens to be very serious.
A NUMBER of prominent Chicago
physicians, interviewed for the Tribune,
gave it as their opinion that the disease
known as winter cholera, which has been
prevailing to an alarming extent in that city
during the winter, is traceable to the extern
siye use of butterine. Dealers in the unsav-
DRY article are being prosecuted for selling it
without being properly labeled. 1t is said
the cheap restaurants and boarding houses
are the principal consumers of butterine.
WILL LowREY, a young man, son of
a wealthy widow residing near Bloomington,
ILL.,, was engaged in cleaning his revolver the
other day, when his sister, abeautiful young
lady of 20, passing near him, he playfully
pointed at her the supposed unloaded pistol
and pulled the trigger. To his un-
speakable horror the pistol was
discharged, and his sister fell to the floor.
Examination showed that the bullet had en-
tered beside the spinal column about eight
inches below the shoulder, ranging upward.
Surgeons were at once sent for and they pro-
nounced the wound fatal. The young man,
on learning the terrible result of his foolish
ness, declared he would kill himself, and was
only prevented from doing so by the inter-
ference Of those near him.
THE trial of the Sprague divorce suit
has begun at Providence, r. I.
GOVERNOR FOSTER committed to i'm
prisonment for life the sentence of John
Welsh, who was to have been hanged at Free
mont, O., on the 4th.
A CoLoRED woman living near Todd's
Point, Shelby County, KY, locked her three
children in the cabin and went away.
During her absence the cabin burned with
its imprisoned inmates.
A SWISS colony has purchased 10000
acres of land near London, Laurel County,
Ky. Forty families are expected immedi-
ately and they will be followed by more
when suitable locations are procured.
The Chicago boiler-makers, ship
carpenters and caulkers are still holding out
for advanced wages.
ANOTHER terrible snowstorm pre-
vailed throughout the Northwest on the
night of the I'd, completely blocking railway
traffic. 40
Mrs. ELIZABETH PERCEIVED, pro-
prietress of the English Kitchen restaurant,
New Orleans, was shot and MORALLY wound
ed by her divorced husband, Richard Ste
vens, as the Mardi Gras procession was pass