Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Island, has called the General Assembly to
side.
GEN. HANCOCK will detail special
Court-martial to try Sergeant Mason, who
attempted to shoot Guiteau.
w. +. MARNEY, recently Secretary
and acting Governor of New Mexico, died
in Topeka on the 18th. He was formerly q
well-known citizen of Kansas.
BEATTY's organ factory, and also that
of the Star Parlor Company, at Washington,
N. j., have been totally destroyed by fire.
Loss 100000. Four hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
The boiler of a Missouri Pacific
freight locomotive exploded near Chetopa,
Kansas, on the 21st, killing instantly George
z. Adams, engineer; Simon Bailey, fire.
man; Jack Denny, a conductor on the San
Francisco Road, and O'Neil, a stranger,
looking for job. They were all seated in
the cab Of the engine at the time. Their
bodies were picked up at distance of 200
feet from the railroad track in horribly
mangled condition. The head of Bailey,
the fireman, was entirely blown off, and
nowhere to be found. Frank Nicholas,
head brakeman, had an arm broken and his
body badly bruised. The cause of the acct
dent is supposed to have been a shortage of
water, together with defective boiler.
The Chinese quarter of Chico, Cal,
has been destroyed by fire. Three China
| men lost their lives.
A HEAVY storm visited Danville, Va,
on the 18th. Trees and fences were blown
down, also the Confederate Military Hospi-
tai, injuring several colored people.
AT Anoka, Mimi, Charles E. Stud
ley, while insane from drink, stabbed his
wife several times, but not fatally, and then
cut himself up in shocking manner, SO that
he can not recover.
FIVE desperate men confined in Jail
at Las Vegas, New Mexico, having secured
pistol and burst the locks off their cells,
made bloody charge on three of their
guards. One of the officers blew out the
brains Of Thomas Duffy, and the others
were soon secured. The leader of the re-
volt was Dave Rudenbaugh, of the gang of
Billy the Kid.
LABOR troubles at Savannah, Ca,
have become serious. The Governor has or
dered twenty companies of State troops to
report to the municipal authorities. A pri-
vate telegram puts the strength OF the strik-
ers at 1000, and all WELL armed and defiant.
The police were repused twice while at
tempting to take a bridge held by the strik-
ers. Quite a number were killed and
| wounded.
A DUEL took place near Warrenton,
on the Goth, between two well known Vir-
ginians, Capt. Peyton Wise and T. T. Lew
is, U. S. District Attorney, both of Rich
mOnd. Gen. Wise is a brother of Hon.
George D. Wise, Congressman-elect, and
Mr.. Lewis q younger brother of John F.
Lewis, candidate on the Readjuster ticket.
The meeting was the result OF a challenge
from Lewis to Wise, on account of
some alleged libelous personal re-
marks uttered during the heat of
the political canvass. The parties fought
with dueling pistols, ten PAGES apart. Two
| shots were exchanged. Lewis had the first
fire and missed. Wise fired into the air. The
second round was repetition of the first.
Wise is said to be dead shot and could
easily have killed his adversary, but merci-
| fully spared him, as he had become cofi-
vinced before the meeting took place that he
had acted hastily in the matter, but had
gone too far to retreat. The combatants
shook hands and parted friends.
AT New York City, on the 22d, Fred
erick Lathamer, aged 26, made an attempt
to murder his wife and her father. Pauline
Lathamer is 26 years old, and her father,
Henry Miller, Sc years. The enraged man
shot both in the head with his revolver, and
then turned the weapon on himself. All
three were taken to the hospital dangerously
wounded.
FLIPPER. the colored Lieutenant, has
secured from the Court-martial in Texas a
continuance until November, to give him
time to employ counsel.
CLARE COUNTY, Mich, has been Wis
tied by terrific hurricane, accompanied by
violent thunder and lightning. 1t did great
damage to property in wide extent of
country. In the vicinity OF Atwood Station,
on the Harrison branch of the Flint & Pere
Marquette Railway, over 1000, 600 feet of
timber were blown down, and two men-
VIM. Delaine, of Canada, and Joseph Pep
per, of Bay City-were struck by falling
trees and instantly killed. Trees were snap
ped like pipe-stems, and the work of de-
struction was awful in its suddenness and
| completeness. The men who were killed
were in tent, with about twenty others,
who fled to the swamps and thus escaped
uninjured.
GEORGE HOWARD, a planter living
near Little Rock, Ark, whose crop was re-
| Gently sold under attachment, has sworn to
kill every one connected with the case. He
has left home and is hiding in the woods
preparatory to carrying out his threat.
Three men whom he singled out as the first
victims have sworn out warrants against
him, and posse, including nearly every
man in the township, is hunting for him.
A bloody encounter is expected.
A RIOT occurred at Tubercurry, Ire
land, on the occasion of rejoicings at the re-
lease of Sheridan. The police were stoned
and the Chief Constable severely injured.
The police fired upon the crowd and wound
ed several persons.
A DISPATCH from Bombay says there
has been serious rioting between Hindoos
and Mussulmans at Mooltan, in the Pun
jaub, owing to the latter slaughtering cat
tie. Military quelled the riots. Temples,