Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

iAS IdtElck DOHOHue, engineer, 1nOS.
Kenvin, conductor; VIM. Ash and John
Maher, brakemen. Donohue leaves a wife
and five children; Kenvin a wife and three
children. The bodies of the men presented
sickening spectacle, being terribly man
gled. Two of the bodies were blown dis
| lance of 100 yards and when picked up were
limbless.
THE House Committee on Indian AZ
fairs have agreed to report favorably the bill
to provide for the sale of the remainder of
the reservation of the confederated Otoe and
Missouri tribes of Indians In the States of Ne
braska and Kansas. It also authorizes the
Secretary Of the Interior to locate said In
dams upon reservation lands, and to ex-
pend not exceeding Sic, 900 for their comfort
and advancement in civilization.
THE newest Canadian railway scheme
is Incorporated under the name of the Allan
| tic and Northwestern, with q capital stock
of So, O00, 900. The termini will be some
point on the Atlantic coast within the Do
minion and port on Lake Superior, by way
OF Ottawa and Montreal.
ANDERwERT, the newly elected Presi-
dent of the Swiss Confederation, committed
suicide on Christmas night in the public
promenade at Berne, by shooting himself.
No cause is assigned for his tragic taking off.
THE first spiral tunnel on the St.
Gothard line, in Switzerland, has been COM
pleted. 1t is 1000 metres in length, and was
bored through granite entirely by hand.
THE death is announced at Spottsyl-
vania, Va, of Gaspar Tochman, a leader Of
the Polish revolution and a Brigadier- Gen.
eral in the Confederate service.
Dorco~5 oh ell n
diseased cow caused the death of John c.
Allen. at North Reading, Mass. The
surgeons first amputated his fingers, then
his right hand, and finally his whole arm,
without staying the disease.
DURING quarrel at New Alexander,
o., on the oath, DR.. Schooley, of Mount
Pleasant, shot wealthy farmer named
Buckingham, and DR.. Henry attacked School,
ley with shovel. Neither is expected to
recover.
H. FITZPATRICK, City Marshal of
Clinton, Ind, was fatally stabbed on Christ
mas morning while endeavoring to quell a
disturbance at ball. G. w. Shirley is I'M
der arrest charged with the murder.
AT Napoleon, o., on Christmas morn
ing, w. g. Drury, aged %, a drug clerk, was
shot and instantly killed by General R. X.
Scott, formerly Governor of South Carolina,
but for some years resident of Napoleon.
Scott's son, in company with a party of
other young men, had been celebrating
Christmas eve in a convivial manner, and not
desiring to go home in his semi-inebriated
condition, he accepted an invitation from
Drury to share his bed in the drugstore.
Some time after midnight the elder Scott,
ascertaining his sons whereabouts, went
to the drug store. He was admitted
by the clerk, but upon attempting to enter
the bedroom Drury protested against it,
whereupon Scott drew a revolver and shot
the former through the head, killing him in
stantly. He then got his son and went to
his hotel, where he announced what he had
done, saying it was accidental. Scott was
arrested and taken to Defiance for safe keep
ing, there being some threats made oflynch-
ing him. Drury was most estimable young
man and was to have been married the fol-
lowing week.
A. M. CONKLIN, editor of the Socorro
IN. Mex.) Sun, was shot and instantly killed
on Christmas night by a young Mexican
whom he had elected from church festival
where he was an usher, for an alleged insult
to young lady present. The murderer es-
capped.
A SEVERE snOw-stOrm prevailed east
of the Alleghanies on the Goth, accompanied
by disastrous gales along the coast. Rail-
way trains were generally blockaded by
snow-drifts.
A sLEIGHING party of six, crossing
the railway track on the London, Huron
and Bruce Railway, near Claudeboy Station,
Ont, Christmas night, were struck by
train at full speed. James McGrath, his
wife, and brother Matthew, and Ellen Blake,
a cousin, were instantly killed. McGrath's
child, 13 months. old, was dangerously hurt.
but may recover. Annie McGrath saved
herself by jumping.
MISS ADA HEBDEN, aged %, daughter
of the rector of an Episcopal Church at
Hamilton, Ont, but for the past six months
visitor at the house Of her brother, Robert
Y. Hebden, at Chicago, on Christmas day
committed suicide by shooting herself
through the heart with small revolver. She
was handsome and accomplished girl, and
no cause is known for the act.
Two young negroes, named Sam and
John Campbell, were lynched near Rowlett's
Station, in Hart County, KY, for the rob-
berry and attempted murder of Esquire John
A. Gardner.
The Lockwood Hotel, at Parsons,
Kans., burned at an early hour on the
morning of the 26th. Several of the inmates
were injured, but all escaped with their
lives.
A PROVIDENCE Or. ~ dispatch says
the Sprague divorce case, which is expect
ed to come to trial in a few weeks, is caus-
ing great deal of excitement there where
all the parties are well known. Gov.
Sprague's friends say he will make vigor-
GUS defense to the suit, and there seems lit
tie doubt thst he will prefer counter
charges against his wife of similar charac-
ter to those alleged against him in her COM
plant, which, rs Is we'll known, are of a
most scandalous nature.
THE house of the Widow Anthony,
two miles from Weston, o., burned ON
Christmas eve, and her daughter, aged
and niece, aged IL, persisted in the flames.
LEE Chilians expect to attack Lima
with force of &c, coo men, who have been
given permission to pillage the city. The
PRINCIPAL families have departed. with all