Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-11
Miscellaneous Items.

A well-dressed and apparently re-
spectacle and wealthy lady with an infant
came to Kansas City the other day and regis
tered at the Delmonico Hotel as ''Mrs. j. III.
Fisher and child, Louisville, Ky" Shortly
afterward she engaged a hackman and was
driven to the st. Theresa's Convent, where
she asked permission to leave her child, but
was refused. She then went to the house OF
colored woman, who consented to care for
the babe, in consideration of receiving $25
for her services. The lady said she was 60
ing to Denver, but the hackman said she
bought ticket to st. Louis. In a few days
the child died, and an investigation Of the
matter led TO these facts becoming known.
1t is supposed the unnatural mother took
this course to rid herself of the child in or
der to hide her own shame.
Henry Diekhorner, an employee at
the st. Louis Shot tower, assembled in the
elevator with about 1000 pounds of lead to
the top of the tower. He had just reached
the summit when some part Of the ma
chinery gave way and the elevator carriage
came crashing to the ground, distance Of
156 feet. Diekhorner was crushed to an ir-
recognizable mass, nearly every bone in his
body being broken.
1tiShoio w oAohs Oh IL oSSN
40, with a wife and six children, cut his
throat at st. Louis on the 25th, while tenn
porariy insane, and it was thought would
not survive. He had been employed in the
stationery department of the Wabash Rail-
road office, and is said to have been strict
ly temperate man.
At Glendale, Jackson County, the
other day, John Matt was stabbed, probably
fatally, by Rodney Seaver. Matt had been
engaged to Sewers sister, but quarrel en-
sued and the girl sent her brother to demand
of Matt ring she had given him in their
blissful days, and which it seems he had
turned over to another girl. 1t is alleged
that on this occasion Matt spoke of Miss
Seaver in a disrespectful manner and her
brother resented the insult by striking Matt.
The latter retaliated, when Seaver drew
large pocket-knife and stabbed his antago-
mist in the abdomen, after which he fled to
escape arrest.
Albert Volkman, engineer in Poetsch
& Co.'s furniture factory on Farrar Street,
st. Louis, stepped on some loose boards ly-
ing adjacent to the fly-wheel, slipped and
fell against the wheel and was drawn into
the pit where the wheel revolves, being
crushed to death almost instantly.
Mrs. Emma G. Tuggy, an inmate of st.
Vincents Asylum for the Insane at st.
Louis, committed suicide by hanging herself
with towel. The unfortunate woman was
considered so nearly cured of her mental
malady that it was expected she would re-
join her husband, prosperous merchant at
| Denver, i'm short time.
Major LittletOn p. Younger, of the
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brothers now confined in the Minnesota PEN
| itentiary on life sentence, some months
ago came back to Missouri on a visit, and at
once set about preparing petition and
statement to present to Governor Pilsbury,
asking for mitigation Of the boys sentence.
! The other day the Major duly presented his
petition, but was instantly informed by the
Governor that he could not for a single mo-
ment entertain the propriety Of committing
the sentences passed upon the prisoners.
Two scoundrels named Tom Orchard
and VIM. Tivis visited the house of James
Heating, at Grain Valley, Jackson County,
the other night, and Mrs. Heating being
alone subjected her to the most inhuman
treatment. The wretches were subsequently
captured by posse of citizens and narrowly
escaped lynching. They are now lodged in
| Jail at Independence.
AT st. Louis, on the 26th, Joseph
Eberle, aged eighteen, angered by some
boys who were teasing him, struck John
Bahlman, aged sixteen, on the head with an
iron hinge, infliciing fatal wound.
NEAR Carthage, on the Goth, Nor
| timer, son of Col. John VI. Richardson,
| Secretary Of the State Board of Immigration,
was seriously wounded by the accidental
discharge of pistol in the hands of COM
| panion.
G. Boyce, a brakeman on the Wa
bash, was knocked from the top of car
while passing a coal-chute at Huntsville and
instantly killed. His remains were taken to
Moberly, where his parents reside.
Two brothers named McHugh, aged
| respectively 8 and IL, while bathing in the
river at st. Louis, were smothered in the
soft mud at the outlet of Mill Creek Sewer.
The younger attempted to cross the bank of
mud, which was apparently firm, but as I'M
substantial as quicksand. As he began to
sink the elder brother went to his assistance,
and both soon sank out of sight.
Capt. John r. Scott, St. Louis's old
est auctjeneer, is dead.