Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
rEksuNAL AND GENERAL.

NV WILLIAM r. w HlICdEhs pas
tor of the Matherson Street Methodist Church
IN Providence, r. l., the most fashionable
church OF that denomination in the city, has
been detected in purloining valuable old
books from various parties and has resigned
his charge and announced his intention of
severing his connection with the ministry.
Whitcher is 30 years of age, his father is
wealthy and his wife has an Independent in
come, while his own salary was $1,000 a
year. He generally mutilated the stolen
books in such a way as to destroy their iden-
tity and then sold them, although many
were still found in his possession.
The marriage is announced of Z. III.
Tibbles, the advocate of the Poncas, and
"Bright Eyes," said to be "the handsomest
and best educated Indian woman in Amer
icao
JOHN j. JENNINGS was taken from
Jail at TERRA Amanilla, N. NJ, and hanged
by mob. He was charged with the muir
der of one Lewis, and Lewis's wife, who is
suspected of criminal intimacy with her
husband's murderer, is held for completely
i'm the crime. Three fatherless children are
left without home.
THOMAS M. MAYFIELD, who killed
his father-in-law, Marshall Aday, in Stra-
horn Miss, in July, and then fled, has been
arrested at Little Rock, Ark, and taken
home for trial. Mayfield admits the killing,
but asserts that it was done in rough and
tumble fight, in which Aday was the agrees
sor.
Miss MINNIE REEVE, station agent
and operator at Minnetonka, Mimi. was
killed by railway collision near that place
on the Goth. She was most estimable young
lady, and was sister. of the Master Me-
chanic on the Iron Mountain Railroad.
NINE persons recently made their es-
cape from the Yell County Jail at Danville,
Ark. Two only had been recaptured at last
accounts.
MIDHAT PAsHA, and all others con-
victed of the murder of the late Sultan, ex-
cept the two actual assassins, have been
banished for life to Siberia.
A TELEGRAM from Tunis says 1900
Arabs have advanced to Padeuss, six kilo-
metres from Goletta. Four Europeans and
three Arabs have been murdered. There is
great excitement. The Bey has ordered the
removal of the bridge of boats between Co.
letta and Padeuss.
BLANCO FLORES, the Mexican MUIR
derer, and ex-member of the VasqueZ gang
of bandits, was recently killed near Yuma,
CAL, while attempting to escape from Gus
tody.
THE death is announced of ex-Gover-
nor Bagley, of Michigan. The deceased was
visiting California for the benefit of his
health. He was forty years of age.
THE hunt for the Williams brothers,
who killed the Coleman brothers, Deputy
Sheriffs of Dunn County, Wis.,, on the 10th
of July, still continues. The murderers
are known as desperate men, well armed
and supplied with ammunition, and thor
oughly familiar with every nook and corner
of the wilderness lying between the Menom-
once and the Mississippi, where they have
taken refuge. A pack of bloodhounds have
been called into requisition to aid in the
search, while the Governor of Wisconsin
has ordered out a battalion Of militia to as
sist in their capture should they be run to
cover.
Col. E. FREI, a member of the Ma
tional Council Of Switzerland, has been cho
sen to represent that Republic in Washing
ton.
A CABLE dispatch from Glasgow,
Scotland, reports the arrival there, in good
condition, of consignment of Minnesota
wheat which had been shipped by the barge
line to New Orleans and thence by steamer.
AT Ash Grove, Iroquois County, ILL.,,
John sampey, aged 10 years, accidentally
killed his brother William, aged II, with a
shotgun, while shooting at target. In
Kickapoo Township, Peoria County, Minnie
Walters, aged 10, was accidentally shot and
killed by her 19-year-old brother while he
was carelessly handling revolver.
The anti-Jewish crusade in Russia
has led to the destruction of thirty houses
inhabited by Jews in the villages of Borispol
and Birizan, in the Government Of POltavia.
The troops fired upon the rioters, killing
four.
EUGENE E. WIGHT, who, with an &C
complete, murdered Mr.. Carroll, wealthy
ranch owner, in Colorado, in 1875, for the
purpose of robbery, has recently been ar
rested in Massachusetts and returned to the
Colorado Penitentary, whence he escaped
after brief confinement.
THE Irish land bill passed the House
| of Commons with only IA negative votes. A
| majority OF he Conservatives and some Par
nellites, including Parnell himself, abstained
| from voting.
ANOTHER duel has been fought at
| Berlin, in which the combatants were stu
| dent and an officer of the army reserve.
| Weapons, pistols. The student was killed.
This is the fifth affair of similar character
| in Germany within a fortnight.
IT is reported that another plot against
the life Of the Gar has been discovered in
St. Petersburg, and several arrests made OF
conspirators. An ex-Nihilist who had be-
trayed his companions has been assassinated
in the outskirts of the capital.
THE persons who stole 100000 from
the Matanzas (Cuba) Bank have been cap
tured at Havana, and some of the booty has
| been recovered. Two accomplices are still
at large in Mexico, but their arrest is prob
| able.
LEADING Fenians in Ireland indig-
nantly deny that their brotherhood had any
hand in the shipping of the explosives re-
Gently discovered in Liverpool, and condemn
the resort to such diabolical stratagems.
WILLIAM r. DICKINSON and Joel
vanarsdalen, two Philadelphia lawyers,
have been convicted of forging the will OF
| Robert Whitaker that $500 900 worth OF an