Iron County register., 1881-09-22

Thomas MattoX mortaliy wounded by an
accident caused by an open switch. The
wood d-passer was seriously wounded in the
head, but will recover.
ROBERT WILLIAMS, residing near
Whitmell, Va, quarreled with his wife the
other day, and she complained to a magis-
trate, who issued warrant for his arrest,
appointing Williams own son special con.
stable to execute the warrant. Arriving at
the house, young Williams found the dead
body of his father lying in the yard, the head
nearly severed from the body, and a bloody
AK beside it. Two daughters, missing when
Mrs. Williams returned, have been charged
with the crime, and warrants issued for
their arrest.
The Prefect of Constantine, Algeria,
has received dispatch announcing sixty
one persons burned to death in one day by
forest fires. Many persons were wounded,
and 6s2 dwellings destroyed. The value of
cattle, grain and other articles devOured by
the flames is 100000 francs.
THE poisoning of the O'Leary family
in Cincinnati is ascribed to the eating of
canned mackerel. It is supposed that
acetate of lead or some other salt of lead had
been formed in consequence of the mixture
of lead with tin used in manufacturing the
sheet tin from which the can was made.
A DISPATCH of the 11th in reference
to the recent Missouri train robbery says ::
The names of the parties so far
arrested are: Matt and Creed
Chapman, John Burger, VIM. Murray, An
dy Ryan, John Land, James Wilkerson,
Charles Fisk and William Stillwell.
Posses are coming in and the gen.
eral belief is that the search will be aban-
doned for the present. The prisoners stout
ly maintain their innocence and previous
reports OF confession are contradicted. A
report not authenticated prevails that some
of the missing property had been discovered
in cave near the scene of the robbery.
Land and Wilkerson are supposed to be
leaders of the gang.
THE strike of the cotton-handlers at
New Orleans eliminated in a serious riot on
the 10th. The Mayor, finding his police
force insufficient to quell the disturbance,
has called upon the Governor for troops.
REPORTS have been received of the
robbery Of the village of Bates City, seven
miles east of Blue Cut, the scene of the re-
cent train robbery on the Chicago & Alton
Railroad. Two men, heavily armed and
wearing masks, rode into the town, viii
lage of about $50 inhabitants, and drawing
and firing their weapons began an indis-
criminate pillage of the place. The inhab-
itants, it is said, offered no resistance, and
the robbers after securing their booty re-
tired.
A HEAVY storm visited Danville, Va,
on the 11th. Trees and fences were blown
down, also the Confederate Military Hospi-
tai, injuring several colored people.
Two freight trains on the Little Mia
mi Railroad collided near Cincinnati on the
10th. James Simon, fireman, was killed,
and the locomotive was badly wrecked.
A DISPATCH from Washington says:
Sergeant Mason, of Battery B, I'd Artillery,
relieving the guard at the Jail on the 18th,
shot at Guiteau through the window of his
cell and came near killing him. The ball
grazed his head and was imbedded in the
cell wall. Mason was promptly arrested,
taken to the Arsenal and incarcerated.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, the other day,
a colored boy committed an assault on Mrs. j.
w. Parker, lady nearly seventy years Of
age. He was arrested and lodged in Jail.
Next morning party of masked men re-
paired to the prison with a view of lynching
the culprit. The colored people got the news
aud were hid in the woods. AS the
masked men approached the colored men
fired upon them about one hundred shots.
A few sshots were fired at random by the
white men, who were compelled to with
draw. About one-half of the colored men
broke and ran. One white man was
wounded.