Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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THOs. THOMPSON, Superintendent of
The Chicago S Rock Island Stock yards. vas
killed at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 18th, an
his body.
Mrs. M. MUTT, residing q few miles
northwest of Camden, Ark, in fit of tenn.
porary insanity, drowned five of her children
in well near her residence. The eldest was
y years Of age, the youngest IL months.
Miss Lou RAMEY, a Rome (Ga.)
belle, died recently from the effects OF swal
lowing g sprig of cedar, which penetrated to
her lung and caused hemorrhage, accom-
panied by intense pain. ~ 81.
A ROUGH named Black quarreled with
boy passenger on an emigrant train near
Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. Evan Lewis, Of
Dodgevile, Wis.,. went to protect the boy,
when Black stabbed him fatally with dirk
knife. The murderer then jumped off the
train, and at last accounts the passengers
were in pursuit of him.
THE Van Buren, House, the First Ma
and Presbyterian Churches at Governeur,
n. Y, were burned on the 18th. SIS
Two coiored children locked up by
their parents at Evanston, Ill.,, We're burned
to death on the 10Th, the house having taken
fire and burned to the ground.
PALMER & SULLIVAN, the American
contractors, have acquired the franchise of
the proposed road from Matamoras to Mon
terey, in Mexico, and have already COM
menced operations toward its completion.
A BLOCK of the principal business
houses Of Meridian, Miss, burned on the
18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $685. eco.
Incendiary.
A SHOOTING affray at Uvalde, Texas,
on the 10th, in which Gen. John r. Bayler
and son and Mr.. Giflhirst and two sons were
the principal actors, resulted in the death of
the elder Gillhirst and fatal injuries to one
son, the other escaping with his skin filed
with shot. Young Bayler was slightly
wounded in the side and had his right arm
graZed by bullet.
A PUBLIC subscription is being made
in San Francisco for the relief of the widow
of Old John Brown.
AT Troy, n. Y, on the 18th, crowd
of roughs assaulted Police Officer Reynolds
and his two brothers. Pistols were free
ly used on both sides, the officer receiy-
ing dangerous wound and killing Michael
Quinn. John Mackey and another assailant
were fatally shot and two were wounded.
LEWIS AULDJos, cashier of the Hud-
son Bay Company. has become a defaulter
to the extent of $4,000 to $40, 900 and has
fed.
AN unknown man rode up to the resi-
dence of Nelson Melton, near Buena Vista,
Ga. on the 10Th, called him out and shot
him through the abdomen and rode off at
full speed. c. p. Jones, with whom Melton
had diff ulty over ayear ago, was arrested
on suspicion.
GEN. MCDOWELL McCooK, for the
last four years on Gen. Sherman's staff, will
soon leave to take charge of army matters at
the White River Agency.
THE King of Abyssinia is dead and has
been succeeded by his son Michael.
No male Russian, between the ages of
10 and IS, will be allowed to go abroad with
out permission of the Government.
FIVE hundred Pittsburgh boiler-mak-
ers are on strike for higher wages.
The st. Louis street-car conductors
and drivers have organized a strike to en-
force their demands for shorter hours of
work.
In the Senate, on the Goth, Messrs.
Burnside, Frye and Butler Is. CO. were the
principal disputants, the former excitedly
declaring, in response to some remarks by
Mr.. Butler, that ''any man who says there
was bargain on this side of the chamber
says what is false."s Great confusion reigned
in the galleries and applause and Kisses told
how much interested the spectators were.
PETER McENrEE, aged 20. was killed
near Bath, Steuben County, n. Y, on the
10Th, by his nephew, John McEntee, aged
II, who says the old man treated him badly.
THE insurgent natives of the Zooloo
Isles attempted to surprise the Spanish
'orces, but were repulsed with loss of 100
killed.
THE town of San Marcial, for several
months past the terminal station of the
Atchisoa, Topeka g. Santa Fe Railway, was
almost totally destroyed by fire on the 18th.
THE Rock River flood has caused in
,alculable losses. The lower part of Ster- |
ing, Ill.,, including the Fair Grounds, is |
and the distilleries, with hum !
lreds Of cattle, are on an island, the water |
dangerously on all sides. The |
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad track for |
i've miles is completely covered with water |
md much of it is washed away. Two iron !
bridges at Elgin City have been swept away, |
he ice-gorge in the Fox River having broken |
md carried away the dams at Carpenters
lille and Dundee.
THE business part of Bound Brook
Z. j., burned on the 10Th. Forty families |
re homeless. Loss, 100000 partly in
ured.
AT South Bend, Ind, on the Goth,
Matthew Lutzanovitch cut his wife's head /
pen with an ak and fatally injured her. He |
8 believed to be insane.
THE unprecedented rise in the Des-
,laines River caused the breaking of the
anal and the inundation Of the entire dis
riot along Archer and Blue Island Avenues,
chicago. A similar state Of affairs exists in
Toliet and other towns along the canal. The
osses, both to the State and to individuals,
re very serious.
De JARNErTE, who shot and killed
lis sister in house of ll-fame at Danyille,
"a, has been acquitted on the ground ofin-
anity.
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