Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Mo.
| TIE Chicago, St. Louis & New Or
leans Railroad have made all arrangement
10 change the gauge Of that road, on July 2s
from hve feet to the standard gauge of fou
leet eight and one-half inches. This is t.
obvlate change of trucks at Cairo whicl
mas been the source of great delay
AN insane man, named Daniel McNa
mara, has been arrested in Washington VIII,
says his mission is to kill Blaine. He sait
some time ago set of spiritualistic me dunn
formed plot to shoot Gen. Grant, and b.
had been selected to do the shooting. Thi
was abandoned, however, as Grant prom
ised to stand by them in a scheme they hat
formed.
AT Helena, Mason County, KY, Ber
Higgins in fit of jealousy shot his wife
through the back of the head, the ball com.
ing out at her mouth. Surprising her dead
ne placed the pistol to his own breast anG
sent two balls through his body, one above
and the other just below, the heart. There
is IL bare possibility of Mrs. Higgins recov-
cry.
AT Pickney's Landing, Ark, on the
5 h, A. J. McRae, Justice of the. Peace
was shot and killed by Bill Sims, a negro
whom he had just sentenced to jail for hog
stealing. After the shooting Sims made bis
escape.
Miss SALLIE WATSON, aged 16, the
| beautiful daughter of j. r. Watson, a
wealthy citizen Of Drew County, Ark, was
| lately missed from her home near Month
| cello, and after brief search her dead and
mutilated body was found in an adjacent
| woods. Howell Edmunds, brother in law
! of the deceased, who has heretofore borne a
| good name, was arrested on the charge of
| committing the murder, and so strong were
| the proofs against him that he narrowly es-
capped ynching.
ii. PRICE MCGRATH, the noted Ken
| lucky turfman, died at Long Branch on the
9TH, in his 6Sth year.
ISAIAH NOBLE, a farmer living near
New Holland, o., accidentally ran reaper
over his little four-year- boy, crushing
his head and instantly killing him. The
child was lying asleep in the track of the
machine.
GOVERNOR CHURCHILL has issued a
proclamation offering reward of $500 each
for the arrest and conviction of the parties
who assassnated Marshal w. D. Patton and
Deputy Sheriff John Mount at Fayetteville,
Ark, on the night of July g. The double
murder grew out of a feud of sixteen years.
standing and which thus far has resulted in
the death of six persons. All Washington
County is excited over the matter, and a
number OF arrests are likely to follow. The
State authorities are said to be determined
to put op to the vendetta.
MIKE KREIsENDORFER, a PITTSBURGH
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Kate Smith, a young woman whom he had
been visiting, and then committed suicide
Jealousy is the cause of the deed.
AT Cincinnati, on the eth, Marqua &
Sons children's carriage mandatory, the
Union Furniture Factory, and Closterman's
& Meader's furniture factory and Resorts
foundry-all five large Establishments
were totally destroyed by fire. Losses about
81 100000. Charles Peek was killed and
several others seriously injured by jumping
from windows.
"DOC." THOMAS and his brother,
Marion Thomas, have been arrested, charged
with the robbery of the stage between Selig-
man and Eureka Springs, Ark, on the night
of March TO-
JOHN BURNS, an insane printer, died
in New York asylum the other day, after
persistently refusing to eat food for twenty
three days.
THE vast comet in the northern heav-
ems which has been seen by everybody has
naturally attracted much attention, and there
have been many speculations as to who will |
receive the 5000 prize which Mr.. Ii. H. War
ner. the wellknown proprietor Of the cele-
brated Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and
founder of Warner Observatory, Rochester,
N. Y, has made. Whoever receives the |
reward, one thing is certain: the cause of |
science has received great impetus by rea.
son of this immense comet, and the int crest |
which has been taken in it.
Two children of Samuel Crippen, at |
West Troy, N. Y, were suffocated by the
burning Of some fre-crackers stored in the
room where they were sleeping.
A STOCK train on the Union Pacific
Railroad ran into freight train near Law
renee, Kansas, on the 9th, killing Christo-
pher Stark, Of Perryville, Hans, and seri-
ously injuring several others.
FRED HYLAND and Mark Folsom,
both about II years Of age, were drowned
n Coon Creek, near Des Moines, Iowa, on
he 7th.
A SUBSCRIPTION of S25O,OOO is being
'aised by the New York Chamber of Com
nerce, (which will be invest ed in United States
ponds and deposited with the United States
Treasury Trust Company, and the income
herefrom be paid to Mrs. Garfield during
Ter life and at her death be equally divided
1mong her children, in appreciation of the
loble character of the President.
THE steamship Britannia foundered
N the Irish coast. All the passengers were
afely landed and taken to Waterford.
THE German coal mines have COM
nenced conveying coal to the mouth of the
its by electric railways.
SOLOMON MERRICK, James H. White
nd James Alexander Bartum, the latter
olored, were killed outright; James Cox,
olored, MORALLY scalded; Edward Sheehan
ably, though not dangerously scalded, and
our other hands badly injured by the eX-
losion of portable engine on the farm of
.dward Sheehan, in Talbot County, Md,
n the 9th. II
THE Governor of Kentucky has an ,