Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-13
JAsPER DELAUGHrER. under arres.

JASPER DELAUGHTER, under arrest
for burglarizing the store of I. j. Wright In
the southwestern part of the Choctaw Ma
ton, was taken from the Deputy Marshal
while being conveyed to Fort Smith and
hanged by mob of masked men.
OFFICIAL notice is given that the i'm
portation into Russia of galvanic batteries,
induction coils and insulated wires will be
subject to the same rules of inspection as
the importation of arms.
HON. GEORGE w. FOSTER, Minister
to Russia, now home on a visit, has rendered
his resignation. Mr.. Foster is an ardent
Blaine man.
ANDY WRIGHT, a colored desperate,
confined in the Blakely (Ga.) Jail for hog
stealing, was taken out by mob and shot.
The Swiss town of Nyon has been
nearly destroyed by fire of an incendiary
origin.
JOHN MAGINNIs, Philadelphia coal
peddler, shot and killed his wife and moth
er-in-law because they failed to notify him
of the death of his child. The father and
mother had been separated for some time.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, on the LIST,
Charles Pierce, awaiting trial for stealing a
horse and buggy, snatched revolver from
Henry Franks, his jailer, and shot him
through the heart. A mob of some 1900
people surrounded the Jail soon after, broke
doors and windows, placed a rope about
the murderer, took him to convenient tree
and stretched his neck until life was ex-
tinct.
WHILE Mr.. S. H. Burton was irHsthe
safety deposit of Lafayette Bank, Cincin-
natl, cutting coupons from four per cent.
bonds, three men came in. One of them &C.
cupied the President of the bank, another
engaged Mr.. Burton in conversation, while
third got away with ten bonds, each Of
thousand dollars, making $4,000, and the
three men escaped Undecided.
The suspension of Preston & Nc
Henry, of Chicago, has squeezed several
grain firms. Half million dollars in mar
gins are up and $500, 600 remain due to
different houses with which trades were
had.
AT Gray's Mills, Miss, the nine-year-
old grandson of James Freeman, offended at
some action on the part of two-year-od
daughter of Allen Harris, blindfolde6 her
and threw her down a well, where she was
found dead.
HENRY METZAR was executed at
Titusville, Fla, on the LIST, for the murder
of an inoffensive old man named Moore. The
condemned confessed the crime, and said he
had killed seven men in his lifetime. He
was unrepentant to the last.
JACOB WHITMORE, a young farmer
residing near Bellefontaine, O.. recently
married 14-year- old girl. The other day
he took his wife into the woods on nutting
expedition, and while there forced her to
swallow a white powder, threatening to cut
her throat if she refused. Whitmore re-
turned home alone, but was soon followed
by his victim, suffering intensely from
cramps, from which she was relieved by
death at midnight, revealing her husbands
guilt only when assured she could not live.
A RURAL dance on the farm of Henry
Brichternicht, near Louisville, KY, wound
up with the murder of David Showers and
the mortal injury of Seula Walker. One of
these men previously insulted Dick Carico,
who on meeting them asked which was the
grabbing for revolvers, in which Carico did
the quickest and most fatal work.
In New York City, the other day,
Frederick Wagner, a saloon-keeper, quar-
relied with his wife, and, having turned
down the gaslight in his apartments, quietly
introduced a fierce and powerful blood
hound, unleashed him and set the brute on
the unfortunate woman. The dog seized her
by the neck and arms, decorating and tear
ing the flesh badly. Her cries of distress
brought a policeman, who rescued her and
shot the hound. The other was fined S..