Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Two men were killed and three others
terribly mutilated by the explosion of q dry
| Ing cylinder in Staten Island IN. W dye
ing establishment on the 18th.
The passenger coach of a train on the
New Jersey Southern Road jumped the track
| approaching the bridge over Corasly's Lake,
and, dashing against it, demolished the
structure and pitched into the water. A mum
| Der OF persons were seriously injured.
| THE recent unparalleled rise in the
Iowa River caused great destruction OF
property in various localities.
Two missing whaling vessels, the
Vigilant and Mount Mallarston, have been
discovered by the Indians near East Cape, in
the Arctic regions. Three corpses were on
board the VigiIant. From their appearance
it was evident that they had died in the first
year of the captivity in the ice. No one,
dead or alive, was found on the Mount Nal
larston. The revenue cutter Corwin has
sent a sledge party after the Indians to re-
cover the articles named and obtain further
information. No news from the Jeanette.
MAUD s. trotted mile at Pittsburgh,
on the 18th, in 2:1O 1-2, beating her own
| time and all previous records by one-quar-
ter of a second.
| THREE fatal cases of sunstroke occur
red at picnic at Elgin, ILL.,, on the 18th.
| The victims were young men named Ham,
mond, Botsford and Richards.
THE toy pistol got in its work with
such good effect in st. Louis on the Fourth,
that three boys have since died in single
day from lockjaw, caused by wounds received
from this source.
/ 7 a on
| ing matters, was drowned at Rockaway
| Beach, Long Island, on the 18th. He went
in bathing at an early hour and was seized
| with cramps.
THE Right Rev. John Barrett Ker-
foot, d. D. LII. D., protestant EpiscopaD
Bishop of Pittsburgh, is dead.
THE works of the Excelsior Manufac-
turing Company, at St. Louis, Mo-, burned
on the 18th. Losses estimated at $o50, 900.
The Company announce that most of their
patterns and machinery were saved and
work will be resumed at once.
JOHN A. APPLETON, of the New York
publishing house, is dead.
A NUMBER of gambling houses at Hot
Springs, Ark, have been broken up by the
authorities, and their gambling implements,
furniture, etc., were publicly burned.
AT Jerseyville, H., on the 18th, Jo-
seph Voorhees, shot and instantly killed Tru
man Landon. The murderer gave himself
up voluntarily. Landon was the uncle of
Voorhees, wife. Both men were about so
years of age, and of good standing Landon
was unmarried. A family difficulty led to
the shooting, the particulars of which had
not been made public. Mrs. Voorhees, had
recently made an Intellectual attempt to COM
NIT suicide.
THE Siberian plague has made its ap-
pearance in the environs of st. Petersburgh,
and is spreading with alarming rapiditys
Horses are dying by scores and many per-
sons are afflicted. The local authorities are
helpless, owing to the want of efficient doc
tors and the fact that the peasants sell the
skins of the beasts which have died of the
disease.
THE Cincinnati Board of Health re-
corded 365 deaths from heat during the
week ended July 18th.
KRING, the murderer of Mrs. Dora
Broemser in St. Louis, sentenced to be
hanged on the 18th of July for crime COM
mitted nearly eight years ago, has again es
capped the gallows through the Intervention
Of the State Supreme Court, Chief-Justice
Sherwood having at nearly the last hour
granted supersedeas in his case.
DR.. w. D. CUBAGE was killed by one
Burnett, near Silver City, Montgomery
County, Ark, for undue familiarity with the
wife Of the latter.
THE Wabash has established new
line from st. Louis to New York, via Tole-
do, the Lake Shore and New York Central
Railroads.
ALLAN RUTHERFORD, lately employed
in the City Stables, Toronto, has been in
formed by letter from Scotland that he is
Earl of Teviot and master of rent roll Of
eco, 200 per annum.
GREAT damage was occasioned in
Swift County, Mlnn., by tornado which
occurred on the 18th. In Mayer Township
a bridge, church, and a number of houses
were destroyed, and several persons badly
injured, some of whom can not survive.
WHILE funeral services were pro-
crossing in a Greenvile IN. J.) church, the
other day, thunderbolt fell within few
feet of the building and shook it to its foun-
dalton. A panic ensued, but no one was
hurt. Another bolt struck the pole of a car
rage outside the church and knocked the
horses down.
The Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville and
the springfield & Northwestern Railways
passed into possession of the Wabash on the
18th.
GEN. JOHN G. PEMBERTON, comman-
der of Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Miss,
during the war, died at Penn Yam, n. Y,
on the 18th, aged GA.
MRS. REvAN and her daughter, aged
II, were killed by lightning stroke in Spar
tanburg, S. c. Mr.. Rowan, who was in an
other part of the town during the storm, was
also struck by the same flash which proved
so fatal to his wife and daughter, and was
injured very seriously.
AT Rockport, Me-, Willie Cain, aged
10. was drowned by Ralph Richards and Ed
ward T. Gross, aged IA and 10 years, to
whom he refused to give up % cents.
WILLIAM DoDsON, Pleasant Adams,
Richard Bates and Joe Fenton, colored, con-
victed of burning the Academy of Music at
Greenvile, S. c., December Z, 1879, have
been sentenced tn he hanged.