Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Carr. PAUL BoYToN has started to
swim down the Mississippi from st. Paul to
St. Louis.
JOHN F. FITZPATRICK and E. T.
King. recently in the employ Of the Iron
Mountain Railway Company, the former as
express messenger and the latter as brake
man, are under arrest for having in their
possession several valuable medals belonging
to Gen. Grant and supposed to have been
stolen from his trunks, which were broken
open while the General was en- route to Mex
leo about April LIST. The two men got on a
spree and indiscreetly displayed the glitter
ing badges attached to their lapels, which
led to their arrest by detectives employed
by the Railway Company. It is not known
that Gen. Grant had ever discovered his
loss.
A DARING and successful robbery oc-
Cured at Nortonville, a small railway sta
ton between Topeka and Atchison, in JEFF
ferson County, Kans., on the night OF the
30th. About 10 O'Clock, as c. C. Mccarthy,
Postmaster and dealer in general merchant
disc, was preparing to close up his store,
three masked men entered the establish
ment, and covering Mr.. Mccarthy and his
clerk with their revolvers helped them
selves to the money in the safe and on the
counter, where Mr.. Mccarthy had just
laid the days funds, securing in
all about 81 200, all Of which, with the ex-
ception of about 5000 United States money,
belonged to the firm of Messrs. Mccarthy &
Layson. The work was quickly and quietly
done by two of the men, the third standing
rd nj ho ~ ho Of Mrc Nc.
earthly and two other ladies were present at
the time, but the fellow at the door pre-
vented their escape or the giving of the
alarm, and when they had completed their
work they quietly walked OF, and it is be-
lieved took the train South. The telegraph
was put in requisition to effect their capture,
but the rascals made good their escape.
The American horse Iroquois, owned
by Mr.. Lorillard, won the great Derby race
at EPSON on the list. Peregrine, the favor
ite, came in second. This is the first time
the Derby was ever won by an American.
AT Seguin, Texas, Miss Knight, II
years old, kindling fire with kerosene, was
burned to death by the explosion of the can.
SOME forty persons were more or less
burned by explosions of gasoline during
fire at Springfield, Mass.
A GAINESVILLE TEX. dispatch says:
John Thompson shot and killed Deputy
Sheriffs Charles and Sam Meredith and L.
Krilht, who attempted his arrest upon a
warrant for carrying concealed weapons.
Thompson escaped into the Territory.
BURGLARS entered the store of A. II.
& ]. T. Major, at Aulville, Mo-, on the
morning of the 1st, and blew open the safe.
The explosion set fire to the store and the
flames communicated to adjoining build
ings, nine in all being destroyed.
Two men were killed and number
of others injured by boiler explosion at
Philadelphia, Pa.
CARELESS craftsmanship during a
shooting tournament at Denison, Texas, re-
suited in serious injuries to five little boys.
THE failure is announced of the Old
| Pioneer Mail Company, A. Arnot, of st.
Louis, NO., President.
THE ring-leader of the anti-Jewish
! riots at Kief has been sentenced to three and
half years penal seryitude and the loss of
! his civil rights. His most active accOmplices
| have been sentenced to eighteen months,
and twelve others to short terms of i'm
prisonment.
ADELBERTUs MILCHUzNEY, an ex-
communicated Catholic priest of Chicago,
was found dead in his room on the I'd under
circumstances which strongly point to foul
play. His housekeeper, a woman named
Julia Angeleske, went out ON an errand about
noon, and upon her retdrn found him lying
dead, covered with blood, and the room
| showing evidences of desperate struggle.
A gold watch and some other valuable prop
! erty was missing. The priest had been eX-
communicated for alleged immortality, and
there was bitter feeling against him on The
| part of some of his former congregation, be-
| cause he refused to give possession Of Trini-
| ty Church, of which he had charge.
NEAR Fidelity, Jersey County, ILL.,, a
| few days ago, lightning struck carriage
| containing Mrs. Grain, her two daughters
and little granddaughter. Mrs. Grain was
instantly killed, and her two daughters were
both rendered insensible, one of them, Mrs.
| Corney, having since died flom the effects OF
the shock. The other was paralyzed, and
win probably never fully.recover. The little
girl escaped unframed.
AT Senatobia, Miss, on the I'd, Press
McCracken, Deputy Chancery Clerk Of Tate
County, and a barber named Blount, had an
encounter which resulted in the killing of
MCCFaCken anu TIC luOTtai WOuuUluS VI
| Blount.
THos. NORTH, in the employ of the
Mexican National Railway Com pany, was
| killed by policeman at New Laredo, Mex
| leo, and the Mexican authorities refuse to
| give up his body. Great feeling is said to
| prevail.
AT Leadville, Colo, Walter and Lot
| tie Smith, aged and respectively, found
| giant cartridge and attempted to break it
| open to see what was inside, when it eX
| ploded, throwing them several yards, badly
mutilating both. The boys hands were both
blown off and his eyes blown out.
Mrs. THOMAS MCGRow, highly re-
spected widow, residing in Detroit, was
strangled to death in a elevator by means of
which she sought access to her room when
locked out by sleepy servants.
j. STANLEY Brown, the Presidents
Private Secretary, has been dispatched to
| Europe on public service business. During
his absence o. L. Pruden will fill the posi-
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