Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A PASSENGER train on the Ohio &
Mississippi Rat3fead ran into a construee3e
tfain near Ow1neco, Illinois, on the
Ek1llg tree afthe Morkmenaand, injuSlAe
teevefa1 d(Sers The halDes drthe kflled are
I Allen Joas, WV. Thtlock and HAcEher-
I soEs II rssidents Of he vicinity.
4 MNRTM DuSLEx and wife, Hiring Or
fBig m, nearsAWeil1l ntItt own, W., died u
Gently within afew hours of each other, In
great agony, with undieputed symptoms Of
| trichinosis. They had eaten OF raw pork .
| few days before. A portion of the meat wa:
examined, and found to contain large num-
beers of the fatal worms.
A RECENT fire at Audubon, Dakota
Territory, in which the wife and two chill
dren of Tobias Oschner were burned tc
death, while Oschner and the servant CIR
were saved, has aroused the suspicion Of
citizens, and an Investigation is being had
II appears that Oschner and the young
woman, who resided with the family, have
been on intimate terms for some time past.
It Is also shown that the girl, Annie, retired
that night with her clothes on, As did Osch-
ner, who saved the girl from the flames
though leaving his wife. and children to
burn. Oschnersis = Swiss. % years old, and
has been married i've or six years. n *gaifs /
IA CONTROVERSY over. some mining
property, ataLeadSille, czalminated In pro.
longed tight between parties Of guards num-
berfng, respectively, nine and eighteen men,
in which one was Killed and one wounded.
'SMALL-Pox has broken out in the
Cook County (Ill.) Poor house at Jefferson,
twenty eight cases being reported 80
A PARTY Of Eastern capitalists have
visited Arkansas and Texas with . view. OF
Investing largely in cotton mills should the
outlook prove favorable. a. ali ssess b.gasau.,
The people of Montgomery, Ala,
have subscribed nearlyall the money required
to build the Southern Railroad to the F1ori-
Dis line, throughea rich cotton section. avt
: At st, Louis, on the 5th, Xavier VIII
helm shot and killed his mistress, Agiae
Margot, and then committed suicide. The
parties were the keepers Of a low "dive'' on
Poplar Street. near the Leyee.
JOHN J. BERRY, late cashier of the
Bank of Bergen County, at, Haekensack, n!
j., has been sentenced to five years in State
prison for embezzlement. 20 utsta 1sa .f..ti
THE north-bound express train ON
the Texas Central RAILROAD was badly
the evening of the 9Th. The engine fell
through Cedar Creek bridge, throwing the
express, two baggage and two passenger
coaches down a fifteen foot entertainment,
bottom upwards. The sleeper kept the
track. The Strakosch 3 Hess English Opera
Troupe were among the passengers. Eight
cen persons were injured, several seriously,
but probably. not fatally. ~, s.',r
MATTHIAS SALMON, a bad character,
was lynched at Granville, New, on the 9th.
He was under arrest for killing man. 3
1T is said that orders have been given
to treat Davftt with all possible indulgence.
He occupies room apart from the convictsz
and will not be subject to ordinary prison
labor, although wearingoai convict's dress.
Ar CUSTER CRY, D. T., the other
night, Abe Barnes, freighter, was asked to
drink by James Fowler. The former de-
clined and was shot dead by Fowler, who
was taken away by yigilantes and his body
found the next morning hanging to a tree.
NEW ORLEANS suffered from an in
undation on the eth, the high water and se-
we're gale causing a break in the canal levees
by which a district comprising 100 squares
was submerged. The Mobile Railroad was
washed away in several places some miles
out Of the city, causing an entire suspension
Of traffic. '3i 80 Lew 1855 ps"3 81 a0sl
iEvERY railroad in Minnesota, with
the exception fthe Chicago through lines,
was blockaded by snow on the 7th. The
drifts were packed so solidly that they could
only be removed by s1lovelers. ss"Fs
JAMES BUTCHER and CIV. Herring
were fatally shot in quarrel over cards at
Las Animas, Colo, on the night of the 9Th.
THE Committee on Post-offices and
Post-roads have voted in favor of 81, OO0, 900
subsidy to American steamers in foreign
mail service. gtaaz sss Z as1-r s.'l.
a 4 FIRE at Walnut, Iowa, on the Rock
Island Railroad, destroyed seventeen bust
ness houses and residences, with most of
their contents. p .-" E'a " III
JosEPH w. THrBAULr was hanged
at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, on the Sth, for
the murder of Charlotte Hill in September
LAST 47f 81. 49, t......e,
j. The Spanish Ministry have resigned,
in consequence Of the Kings refusal to sane
ton certain bill in reference to the finances,
and new Cabinet has been appointed with
Sagasta as Minister of the Interior and Pres.
ident of the Council. afs.y atl I'M ..54;e
The fEe-stoEy building of the West
ern Electric Manufacturing Company, on
New Church. Street, New York, burned on
the 9th. Over 30 employees were at work
in the. building at the time the FIRE broke
out, and the flames spread so rapidlysthat it
was necessary to rescue number of the
women by means Of ladders. . s,c,.a
THE town of Pass Manchac, La, ON
Lake Ponchartrain, was demolished BY
tornado on the 9th. Every building In the
place was swept away, but no lives were
lost. bal s1i@.f agH Hssa. aT>s#a15g .tg
IsoMs CARTER and his daughter, Of the
Choctaw Nation, were drowned while at
tempting to cross the river at Fort Smith,
Arkansas. t@S.ss4 y 7tstEt8l AS1
THE steamship Josephine, from Hava-
ma to New Orleans, was wrecked on the 9th
near Ship Island. The passengers and crew
took to the boats and were picked up after
seven hours. They lost all their baggage.
THE Gum Block, at Denison, Texas,
occupied by the Daily Herald and the
wholesale grocery house OF Marx Kuehn &
IL @AvUaS h,1rnod On the morn h, N nf tho 9th