Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


insured. Jas. Lynch, engineer, was badly
burned, and Andrew McShane, fireman, fell
through a hatchway and was very seriously
| injured. Spontaneous combustion.
The wheat fields in Ohio are being
devastated by the Hessian fly. So destruc.
tive is their work that many farmers ara
blowing up their fields.
ALBERT FLETCHER, an Adventist
minister of Pomeroy, Iowa, blew out hi:
brains while temporarily deranged.
DIR. HALL, prominent physician Of
Davisburg, Oakland County, Mich, has
| been found guilty Of the crime of numbering
his wife by poison last spring. InfatuatioI
for another woman was the cause of the ter.
rible crime.
| EZRA P. Cook and wife, an old
couple living by themselves at Bellows Falls
VT, were both found dead. Mrs. Cook was
partially insane, and it is believed she poi
sOned her husband and then took her own
| life.
| DAWSON, Treasurer of Beaver Coun-
| ty, Pa, was knocked down in the Court
| house and robbed of $4,000.
| j. HINCKLEY, agent of the Union Pa
cific Railway Company at Franklin, Utah,
| was shot and killed by two masked men,
whose purpose, it is presumed, was to rob
| the station. They got frightened and ran,
however, without accomplishing their de-
sign.
THE Warren Memorial Tabernacle,
| Presbyterian, at Fourth and Broadway,
Louisville, was destroyed by fire On the
night of the 2Sth. This was the finest
church edifice in the city. 1t was but re-
Gently completed and cost 500, 200. It was
insured for $4,000.
MUNCIE BURNS, q well-known St.
Louis sneak-thief, burglar and general des-
perado, was shot and killed by an officer the
other night while endeavoring to escape ar
rest.
ALLEN JOHNSON, colored, was hanged
at Charlotte, n. c., on the 2Sth, for the
murder of an old and blind negro named
Crump. Jack Post, one of the murderers
of j. b. McDermott, was executed at Ora
ham, Texas, on the same day.
LORD & WILLIAMS, heavy banking
and contracting firm at Tucson, Nevada,
have failed for large amount, but profess
their ability to meet all claims against them
in little while.
The British steamer Calliope, from
Odessa for Bremen, was totally lost on the
Spanish coast. Only one person saved.
The Walaczyska court-martial at St.
Petersburg sentenced two leaders of the
anti-Jewish riots in June last to ten years.
exile in Siberia.
The boiler of a steam thresher ex-
ploded at Norway Lake, near Wilmar,
Mimi, killing Aufin Strand and seriously
ipinrinO I,ri. al
So complete was the destruction that no
where it stood before the explosion. The
cause of explosion is unknown.
NELSON T. DAVIS, late Tax Collector
for Harris County, Texas, who got away
with $3.50, 200 belonging to the State and
county and was indicted by the Grand Jury
for embezziement, forgery and perjury, fed
before he could be arrested.
DELL LOCKHART, Kid Coulter, and a
man known as "Slim," were lynched at
TERRA Amarillo, New Mexico, on the 9th.
Lockhart and s'Slim" were arrested a few
weeks ago for horse stealing. Coulter was
imprisoned for a murder committed at
Chama, nine months ago. The immediate
cause of the lynching was the discovery of
Coulter's plan to kill the guard and escape.
In the Washington Criminal Court
on the 2Sth, Capt. Howgate was arragned,
and pleaded not guilty to the indictment for
forgery. He was then formally surrendered
by his bondsmen.
NEAR Bennettsville, Marlboro Coun-
ty, s. c., the wife of a planter named Smith
was set upon and horribly maltreated by
negro while returning home from neigh
boris. Her husband pursued the brute and
shot him dead in his tracks.
MRS. LUCINDA TUCKLEY, aged 50, a
widow lady residing near Albany,
Athens County, O.. was horribly maltreated
by a negro. Her skull was fractured and she
received other injuries which it was thought
might prove fatal. Her assaiant was cap
tured and locked up, and the neighbors |
threatened to lynch him.
AT Halifax, N. S., while Mrs. Bethane |
was attending to q stove her dress caught |
fire. She rolled herself on the floor, at |
tempting to extinguish the flames. A child |
crawling toward her caught fire from the |
burning carpets. Both were burned to
death.
A STEAM boiler connected with a |
machine exploded at Marlville, N. |
Y, on the 2Sth. Frank Millman was killed |
and eight others injured. Millman was COM
pletely disembowled, and died in half an |
hour.
The steamer Calcutta foundered at |
sea during gale. All on board, twenty
two persons, persisted. The British ship |
Omba, from Victoria for Melbourne, found |
cred. All hands lost.
APACHEs have made their appear
ance in Sonora, killing family near Rancho |
Santa Cruz, beyond Magdalena, and running
off stock. Gen. Ottero, in command Of the |
troops, has sent force to cooperate with |
American soldiers, who are supposed to be
in pursuit Of them.
THE delegates of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Convention called on the
President on the Goth. Mrs. Willard, Pres
ident of the Convention, made short ad-
dress, asking the political and moral aid of
the President to the object of the conven-
ton. The President replied briefly that he
was in earnest sympathy with the movement