Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03
RRRsoNAL AND GENERAL.

fkRS0NAL AND GENERAL.
T AE Coroner's Jury, at Philadelphia,
ho' ding an inquest upon the bodies of the
Ane persons who lost their lives by the
burning Of the Randolph Mills, charge the
disaster to the owners Of the mills, In not
providing proper safeguards against fires
nor means of escape. The city authorities
are censured for not enforcing the laws.
A DARING robbery was committed at
Fieldon, Jersey County, Ill.,, on the 10th.
About O'Clock p. m. two men entered the
clearinghouse of w. p. Parks & Son, and
with reyolvers drawn threw down and Sc
cured the elder Parks, while the younger
| one was compelled to open the safe and de-
liver over the contents, consisting of
81 900 in gold and 81, 800 in currency.
The robbers then mounted their horses at
the door and rode of, receiving as they went
volley from the old gentleman's revolver
which killed one of their horses and COM
PEELED them to pursue their journey on sim
gle animal. They went toward the Macoupin
bottom, pursued at no great distance by q
posse Of citizens. It is said the robbers were
identified by DIR. Parks as two young men
named Charles H. Clay and James Bunnis,
who had for some weeks previous been
hanging around the vicinity.
AT Bunker Hill, Smith County, Miss,
in an alteration, Dan Hawthorne shot and
killed 81. o. Eaton, and was himself shot
and instantly killed by Dick Yawn, q friend
Of the murdered man.
THE mail coach from Gainesville to
Henrietta, Texas, was again overhauled by
robbers the other night and the mail bags
Quilted.
A BROKEN rail on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railroad, near Pewaun-
kee, west of Milwaukee, caused a passenger
coach to roll down a twenty foot embank-
persons were injured, three seriously.
REV. ABIJAH GREEN, q venerable
Presbyterian clergyman, living at Highland
Falls, n. Y, who was In New York City at
tending the session of the Presbyterian SYM
cd, was suffocated in his room at hotel by
blowing out the gas instead of turning it of.
ENOCH MEGRUE, for over twenty
years Chief Of the Cincinnati Fire Depart
ment, died from injuries received while on
duty.
AT Prescott, Arizona, on the Goth,
Deputy Sheriff Briant was killed by a des-
perado named Miller. The murderer es-
capped.
HERBERT THEIRS, a prominent bust
ness man and we'll known citizen of Keno.
sha, Wis.,, has committed forgeries to the
amount of $6O, 900 and over and absconded.
HIGH water in the Upper Mississippi
has again caused great destruction of prop
erty.
FIVE men were killed and two others
injured by collision at Mckinney Station
on the Cincinnati Southern Railway, said to
have been caused by drunken engineer.
THE stage between Alma and Fay
etteville, Ark, while descending the Frog
Mountains, came to grief, the team running
away through the carelessness Of a drunken
driver, who paid for 1t with his life. j.
Brown, passenger, was dashed to death
and several others were severely injured.
JABEz SMITH, mail agent on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road, was
drowned at Sabula, Iowa, in attempting to
cross from the Illinois shore. The boat
struck the bridge and was capsized.
NEAR Jackson, Almador County, Cal,
the dwelling of Nicholas Jelletich, an old and
respected Austrian, was destroyed by fire.
Jelletich, his wife and two children were
burned to death.
D. L. LOVE, reporter for the Vicks-
burg press, was shot and instantly killed at
Greenville, Miss, on the 21st, by Mr..
Lanier, who had recently married young
lady to whom Love claimed to have been
engaged. The provocation in the case was
an alleged publication by Love rejecting
upon the BRIDES character. Lanier was
placed under arrest. His father-in-law ac-
campanied him to Greenville and witnessed
tie shooting, but took no part in the affair.
The aeronauts, King and Hashagen,
who made a balloon ascension from Chica-
go, landed Is miles above Chippewa Falls,
Wis, and were five days getting out of the
wilderness.
THE Dutch steamer Komgderneder-
lander, from Batavia for Amsterdam, found
cred at sea, and the passengers and crew,
175 in number, put to sea in six open boats.
1t was feared many lives would be lost
The project of the Worlds Fair in
New York in 1888 has been revived.
WHILE E. P. Ferry and wife were
horseback riding near Park City, Summit
County, Utah, Mrs. Ferry's horse fell and
rolled over, crushing her so that she died
while being brought in on q litter. Mr..
Ferry Is brother of Senator Ferry of Mich
igan.
JAMES FINNEY, q prominent and
wealthy farmer residing near Wallace, Blu.
chanan County, Mo-, some fifteen miles from
St. Joseph, was assassinated on the evening
of the 22d while sitting at the supper-table
with his wife. A load of buckshot, fred
through the window, took effect in the back
of his head, causing death almost immedi-
ately. His wife, who was holding her babe
in her arms, was wounded by stray shot.
Finney recently figured in a breach of
promise suit, which was settled by his mar
rying the plaintiff, hi servant girl, now his
widow. Since then two of his lawyers had
begun suit against him to recover fees in
Cured In the previous suit. Deceased was
about As years of age, and his property is
estimated to be worth from $4,000 to
$75,0
FRANK HoPPING, a Cincinnati saloon
keeper, shot and instantly killed William II.
Iuken. a painter, with q double. barreled