Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

GOVERNOR SHELDON is preparing to
break up the cowboy and ''rustler'' element
in Southern New Mexico. This lawless
element is said to number about $50 persons.
They infest the southern part of Grant
County, and have their principal camps at
San Simon, Cloverdale and Cairsealillo
Springs. Their leaders are Russian Bill.
Curly Bill and Chris Moesner. Something
like 800 horses and l 200 head of cattle have
been stolen during the last nine months
and driven to Texas and Arizona and there
sold. Horses and cattle stolen in
Arizona and Texas are run to New Mexico
and sold. The southeastern portion Of Ari-
IONA is completely under the heel Of these
rustlers. Governor Sheldon intends to pro-
| cure indictments, offer rewards, and then
send armed and mounted militia companies,
from fifty TO one hundred men strong, with
the Sheriffs of bona Ana, Lincoln and Grant
Counties, to execute writs. Matters are
now being put into shape for the movement.
W. H. GURNEY, a prominent attorney
of Buffalo, n. Y, committed suicide by
drowning. He had been for some weeks in
| an unsound state OF mind.
EMMA BECKMAN, aged twenty-five
years, jumped from fourth-story window,
in Columbus, O., and sustained injuries
which will no doubt prove fatal.
MISS JESSIE RICE, of Newark, Ohio,
driving ACROSS the track in buggy, was
killed by Panhandle express train.
JOHN DAVIS was fatally and David
Griffiths seriously injured by the explosion
Of boiler near Cotton, Jackson County,O.
IT is estimated that the recent over
q Joy,
between Keokuk, Ia, and Louisiana, Mo-,
on both sides of the river, amounting to
$2,930,000
Col. G.. M. MURPHY, a leading attor-
ney of Hot Springs, Ark, shot George
Sader four times, inhicting fatal wounds.
Murphy was one of the principal attor-
neys in the prosecution of Sadler in his
recent trial for the murder Of DR.. Lyon
| in December last, which is said to have
aroused in him great antipathy toward Muir
ply, and it is alleged he had threatened to
kill him.
HERR j. Won SCHOONER, at present
Diplomatic Agent and Consul General of
Austria at Alexandria, has been appointed
Austrian Minister at Washington.
FLOODS in Dalmatia and Croatia
caused the River Keika to burst its bounds.
Houses are inundated, crops damaged, roads
submerged and postal communication sus-
pended.
The Nihilists threaten to prevent the
Cars coronation unless he grants specific
concessions.
INVESTIGATION into the affairs of the
Mechanics National Bank of Newark, N.
j., so hopelessly wrecked by Cashier Bald
win, discloses the fact that some two years
ago Henry p. Marchbank, at that time en-
gagged as corresponding clerk of the bank,
got away with SOC, 900 of it's funds, which
has never been recovered. Marchbank
was retired, but the matter was not made
public, it is supposed on account OF the
clerks too intimate knowledge of the CASH
ier's own and much more extensive defalca-
ton. Marchbank has now been arrested.
He is man of some property, and like
Baldwin, has heretofore been esteemed as
an estmable and upright gentleman.
FRED. MININGKA, an estimable young
farmer residing near Clifton, Washington
County, Kans., was shot and killed the other
night by Fred. Niphnon, with whom he had
previously had some difficulty, growing out
of Niphnon's attentions to Miningka's sister.
The murderer then committed suicide.
Niphnon was a young man OF bad habits,
and had sworn to have vengeance for Min
ingka's interference in behalf of his sister.
The murdered man leaves a wife and one
child.
CHARLES MADDEN shot and killed Miss
Phoebe Bernard at Tifin, O., because she
would not marry him. Both were young
people of the best standing in the COM
munity. The murderer was arrested, and
there were strong threats made Of lvnching
him.
MRS. SARAH WoLCOTT, of Brown
Township, Madison County, o., lost her
life by the explosion of can of coal oil
which was accidentally overturned and ig-
nited.
A FIRE at Clean, NY, destroyed the
American House and five small buildings.
George Brooks and wife, in jumping from
one of the buildings, each had a log broken,
and Mrs. BROOKS was injured internally, and
| it is thought fatally.
DURING storm at Manzanillo, Mex
leo, recently, four large vessels and all small
craft in the harbor were wrecked, and sew
eral stores, the Custom house, and other
buildings were demolished.
SMALLPOX IS epidemic in Stearns
COuuCy,s MILL, anu tuc physicians VI Tue
State Board of Health are bending all their
energies to confne it to districts now infected
and to eventually root it out altogether.
They encounter considerable difficulty on
account of the ignorance of the Inhabitants,
| who look ON the disease as a visitation of
Providence.
HENRY KING, who murdered Michael
Hugelin in Clinton Prison last July, was
| hanged at Plattsburg, n. Y, on the 4th.
| Henry Lovett and Tom Belts were legally
strangled on the same day-.he former at
| Wilmington, N. c., and the latter at Jones'
boro, Ga.
CHRIS. PRYOR, farmer and stock
raiser, was killed in saloon brawl at Web
! ster, Ohio.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the
| leading miIlers of the country to shut down
| all operations for thirty days. 1t is claimed
| that wheat is now held at speculative prices,
and also that the supply of -four on hand
largely exceeds the demand, both of which
wrongs, in the view of the millers, can be
| righted by the temporary suspension of