Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FRANCIS &. PEASE, aged %, residing
in Boston, and recently from Rockland, Me-,
shot dead his wife, aged Is, and then put
several bullets through his own head.
BENJAMIN ISRAEL BUTLER, eldest son
Of Gen. B. F. Butler, is dead, aged p. He
was graduated at West Point and served a
year as Lieutenant OF the Ninth Cavalry, in
Texas, but subsequently resigned and enter
ed upon the profession of law. He was a
young man Of high promise and genial ma
ture.
Two men were killed by the explosion
Of benzine tank in fertilizing factory in
New York City on the LIST.
A PARTY of boys at Shiloh, O., were
returning from cunning expedition, when
Lester Uher, one of the number, playfully
pointed his fowling- piece at companion,
Irwin Rase, and pulled the trigger, sending
a full charge of shot through the latter's
head. He died without struggle. It is
perhaps unnecessary to add that young
Uhler ''did not know it was loaded.''
A MEETING of leading distillers was
held at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 1st The
proceedings were secret, but it, is under
stood general understanding was
reached that the distilleries be run on half
time, the price of corn being so high as to
render it impossible for them to compete
with the import trade when running to their
full capacity.
The strike on the part of the Associ-
ated Cotton Laborers of New Orleans caused
temporary stoppage of the cotton presses,
but new men were procured from Mobile
and elsewhere to supply the places. of the
strikers, and work was partially resumed on
the LIST.
AN explosion in the gas-house of ho-
tel at Grand Haven, Mith., tore the build
ing to atoms and probably fatally injured
Chas. Cutler. Two others were badly hurt.
VIM. NYE, of Lebanon, Conn.,, at
| tempted to murder his wife and mother in
| law, but his pistol was out of order. He
succeeded, however, in killing himself.
SIERRAvILLE, CAL, has been almost
entirely destroyed by fire. The total loss is
placed at SIC, 900.
FOUR young men of a party from
Terre Haute, Ind, who were SEEMING for
fish in the river about twenty miles below
the city, got into deep water and were
drowned. The names were Emory Gillespie,
James Rudesell, Henry Bucaw and Marshall
Terrell.
EUGENE WEBB, an assignee in charge
| of store at Silent Shade landing, Holmes
| County, Miss, shot and killed Arthur Bee
man, claiming that he did it in self-defense.
A DISPATCH from Salem, ILL.,, reports
a terrible accident in Fayette County, west
| of Patoka, caused by the explosion Of q
| steam boiler attached to separator. Six
| men and one woman were killed.
WILLIAM F. MARTIN, a condemned
murderer, who escaped from the Lebanon
| (Mo.) Jail in November last, through the
connivance of the Sheriff's niece who accom-
| panied him in his flight, has been recap
| tured in Sullivan County, Tenn, and taken
back to his former quarters. His compan-
| ion, whom he claims to have subsequently
| married, has stuck to him to the last and re-
turns with him to her old home.
While en- route from St. Louis to Lebanon
Martin effected his escape by jumping from
the car window. It was believed he would
be recaptured.
AT West Gloucester, Mass, James F.
Jeffs was shot and probably instantly killed
by his wife, who had armed herself with a
from her husband, who attempted to cut
/ d
der arrest.
| GEORGE w. KNOwLTON, with several
aliases, noted gambler and confidence OPP
orator, has been arrested at Chicago on a
charge of numbering one David Rauck at
| Fort Pierre, in Dakota, in 1878. Knowlton
was confined in the Atchison Jail, from
which he escaped about year ago.
HENRY LAWSON, colored, was hanged
at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the Cd. His Of
| tense was an outrageous assault upon a
! white woman.
HON. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, for sew
eral terms Democratic Representative in
District, died at his residence in Wilkes
barre on the I'd, aged 70.
THE Georgia Legislature has defeated
the bill appropriating $4,000, 900, for the erec-
tion of new Capitol.
FRANK JONES and Henry McKibbins
| met with a terrible death while cleaning a
we'll on the farm of Widow NIcKibbins,
near Zaliski, O. McKibbins went down into
| the we'll and was overcome by damps. Jones
had the courage to go down and to save his
friend, but he had scarcely reached the bot
! tom before he, too, was stricken down.
| DESTRUCTIVE forest fires are raging
in various parts of Ontario, and many farm
buildings, crops, ETC., have been swept
away. The prolonged drought has rendered
every infammable thing as dry as finder,
and there is no water with which to fight the
fire. Several people have persisted in the
| flames.
A PARTY engaged in raiding for arms
in Cork, Ireland, encountered a police pa
troll, and in the conflict ensuing a farmers
| son named Hickie was shot dead and three
other raiders and policemen wounded.
THE residence of Mr.. Edward Cherry
at Charleston, s. c., was burglarized the
other day by negroes, who commenced al
| infamous outrage on Miss Cherry. Her
brother Drained one Of the brutes with al
| AK.
AT Chicago, on the I'd, John c. Nea1
suddenly jumped out Of bed with wild yell
and shot David Fagin, a room mate, in the
head. Rushing down stairs he fired shot
into VIM. Springcord. He then jumped out
| xx,;rao.xy ,pd rar, down Clark Street