Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
DIR. WAsH1NaroN Z. HARBiAUe

on the evening of the 10Th shot his wife
through the head with revolver, killing
her almost instantly. He then with shot.
gun blew off the top Of his own head. DR..
Harbaugh was about 40 years of age. For
some time past he had been addicted to
drink and when under its influence was eX-
tremely quarrelsome. He had several times
beaten his wife, who was a most estimable
woman. Only few months ago she was
compelled to hide for nearly week to es-
cape from her brutal husband. Three young
children are left orphans by this tragic oc-
currence. -s
THE brothers Albert 2. and Charles
E. Talbot have been found guilty of the
murder of their father, at Maryville, NOda-
| way County. No.. in September last, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 25th day OF
March next. The scene in court following
| the Judges sentence was most distressing,
the mother, sisters and other relatives of
| the doomed men being present and express
| ing their grief in the most heart-rending
manner.
A PASSENGER train on the Sunbury &
| Lewiston Railroad ran off the track near
Middlebury, Pa, on the, 10Th. Two cars
| were overturned and took fire and the pas
| sengers were rescued with great difficulty.
! Fifteen persons were injured, five seriously.
T. LOUIS GRUMME, Chicago soap
manufacturer, was most determined sui
eide. He first took poison, then opened the
veins of his wrist with pocket-knife, and
finally hung himself. 1t is perhaps need
less to add that he was dead when cut down.
He was about So years of age, unmarried,
and prosperous in his business, so that no
cause for the act can be assigned unless it
be insanity.
THE propeller St. Adams, while en-
route from Milwaukee to Ludington, on the
Goth, was so badly injured by the ice that it
was found necessary to abandon her. The
twenty-five persons on board took to the
boats, and after many hours of extreme hard
ship and peril Succeeded in getting back to
Milwaukee. There We're several ladies
among the passengers.
: Two boys, named Rogers and Greer,
while coasting at Freedom, Pa, ran into a
passing freight train and were so terribly
mangled that they can not recover.
CONDUCTOR HALsEY and Fireman
Harding were killed, and Engineer Murphy
badly injured by railroad accident near
Gibsonville, n. G..
THERE have been sixty cases of
smallpox among the Canadian immigrants
in Union County, Dakota, one-half of which
have terminated fatally. The Legislature
has authorized rigid quarantine.
The business portion of Plymouth,
Washington County, n. c.. was burned on
the night Of the 31st, caused by O. kerosene
explosion. Thirtythree buildings, includ-
ing the Courthouse and Episcopal Church,
and 400 bales of cotton were destroyed.
Losses foot up $127, 900, with but small in
surance. -
AT Decatur, H., on the list, John A.
Hornstein, aged IS. married to girl only
10 years old, attempted to beat his wife's
brains out with an iron kettle and then
stabbed her several times in the throat,
after which he committed suicide by shoot
ing himself twice through the head. The
ill-assorted pair had never lived harmoni-
ously together, the husband being jealous of
the wife, and for some time past they had
been separated.
ANOTHER severe snow storm occurred
on the 31st, seriously impeding railroad
traffic throughout the Eastern, Northern
and Northwestern States.
THREE men in jail at Albuquerque,
n. NJ, charged with the murder of Col.
Charles Potter, some months ago, were
hanged by mob ON the night of the 3fst.
They were Escatastico Pera, Miguel Barrera
and "California joe"
Mrs. STEHHEN u. LEWIS, of Helena,
Ark, was burned to death by the explosion
of glass kerosene lamp. Her husband was
badly burned while trying to extirguish the
flames.
JOHANNA CALLAHAN and her son
William were burned to death in her dwell
ling at Dorchester, Mass.
THREE children of Rev. Manning
Hunter, colored, in Sumter County, s. c.,
were burned to death by lamp explosion
during the absence of their parents.
Mrs. GEORGE STONE and her daugh-
ter and son persisted in the flames at the
burning OF a shoe-shop, at Union, Conn.
THE mail stage between San Antonio
and Ell Paso, Texas, was robbed on the night
of the LIST. The mail-bags were ripped open
and relieved of their most valuable contents.
FRANKTowN, Nevada, has been
swept away by the breaking of a reservoir
dam. The inhabitants vacated their houses
in time to escape the coming flood.
A PAssENGER-CAR on the Fergus Falls
Division Of the St. Paul, Minnesota & Mani
toba Railroad, on the Cd, near Elk River,
was thrown from the track and rolled down
an embankment sixty feet high. Many of
the passengers were badly injured, one or
more it was thought fatally.
THE house of Tobias o. Chesner, at.
Audubon, Mimi, burned ON the I'd, and
Mrs. Chesner and two children persisted in
the flames. The fire was caused by kero-
sene explosion. @
ABE TwIGGs, colored, whose brother
was recently hanged for murder in Burrell
County, Ga, has been lynched, it is said by
negroes, because he testified against his
brother.
THE steam yacht Carrie, of Philadel-
phia, exploded her boiler at Baltimore, kill
ing four men.
EIGHT Cinnamon engaged in cutting
timber fourteen miles from Santa Cruz, CAL,
were buried alive by a landslide.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
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