Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-07

dist m mister located at Warrensburg. n.
- ~ d for some time resident Of Leaven-
WorA Kans., where under an assumed
naEAA he had been employed IS bookkeeper
va prominent business house. committed
suicide by drowning himself in the Missouri
River. Hia body was recovered at Kansas
City. About three years ago Etray's wife
was wounded by the discharge Of . revolver
In the hands Of her husband. He then shot
himself, confessedly with suicidal intent
Stray said the shooting Of his wife
was accidental, and she corroborated
his story at the time, but has since, it
is said, expressed her conviction that he in
tended to take her life, and her brother had
announced his intention of hunting
Stray out and avenging the wife's wrongs.
The church authorities investigated the
shooting and other irregularities Of an i'm
moral nature charged against Stray, and
he was expelled from the ministry.
EUGENE GUN, q wealthy young
West Virginian, was fatally stabbed on an
Ohio River steamboat by mulatto waiter
named Thomas Graves, with whom he had
an alteration about trivial matter. Guyn
first struck Graves q blow with his fist, when
the negro retaliated.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, proprietor of a
restaurant at Cleveland, O., was killed on
the 18th by William Fritch, of Columbus,
who is probably insane. Fritch says he
went to the desk to pay for some refresh
ments, and discovering that he had no money
he felt an irresistible impulse to shoot the
proprietor.
WIN. TEUTEBERG, aged 20 years, was
almost instantly killed near Steubenville,
o. He was walking on the Cleveland &
Pittsburgh track, when freight train backed
up on him, breaking his arm and leg and
MASKING hi head in.
SEVENTEEN persons were killed and
five wounded by an explosion in the Louise
Tieffan colliery, Austria. -,
FRANK BRAGA, Secretary of the
Portuguese Protective and Benevolent So
ciety, San Francisco, CAL, has absconded,
being defaulter to the amount of about
$100, 1000. ~ e. 81 ~
At Washington, ID. c., on the 25th,
j. Y. Christmas fatally shot his partner, w.
G.. Whitney. Whitney was the son of Mrs.
General Gaines by her first husband, and
Christmas her son -in-law. There had been
bad feeling between the two for some time.
WORKMEN on strike, having at
tackled the Town Hall at Dramnien, Nor
way, to release two comrades arrested, were
fired upon by troops. One man was killed
and several wounded. One officer and some
soldiers were injured.
A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico
says train on the Moreles Railway was pre-
cipitated into the San Antonio River by the
falling Of bridge. Some 200 persons were
killed or wounded, mostly soldiers.
C.P. CoYLE shot and MORALLY wound
ed Joel A. Phillips, the other day, at Jasper,
Fla. They were both from Madison, attend
ing as witnesses in the trial of Savage and
James for the murder of Frank Patterson,
in Madison, in February last, during the
taking of testimony in the Finley-Bisbee
contested election case.
AT Paterson, N. j., on the 25th, Ed
ward De Porter, the rejected sutton of Silvia
Knockardt, fatally stabbed the father Of the
girl and made murderous attack upon Ar
thur Won der Capella, her accepted sutton.
Two sons of Jared Smith, of Eden,
VT, aged and 10, were drowned while
playing upon logs, on the Goth. Louis
Maurer, Julius Michel and Willie Chouppo,
all of St. Louis, were drowned while bath
ing in the Mississippi.
SAMUEL DIsMUKE and j. r. O'Neil,
of Columbia County, Ark, while returning
home in wagon, got into a quarrel con-
corning who should shoot a bevy of par
tridges by the roadside, when O'Neil drew
from his pocket small knife and attacked
Dinsmuke, cutting his breast, arm and shoul-
der, and inficting six wounds, from which
he soon died.