Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-07
Personal AND GENERAL


burning paper in the hands OF little boy,
and ere the flames could be extinguished the
poor woman burned to death in the presence
Of the little ones, who were powerless to
render any assistance. The scene when the
husband and father returned to his home
was heartrending in the extreme.
SEVERAL attempts have been made
at Madrid to blow up public buildings by
the use of petards. There is very uneasy
state of feeling throughout the city.
THE Edison Electric Light Company
has been granted permission to lay tubes,
wires, conductors and insulators and erect
lamp posts in New York City, for the pur-
pose of supplying electricity for illumination.
GEN. GRANT left New York for Gal
weston ON the 2Sth, en- route for Mexico,
where he will remain until June, to look
after the railway interests with which he has
become connected. He is accompanied by
Senior Romero and U. S. Grant, DR., who
goes as his fathers private secretary.
j. w. TAYLOR, Deputy Postmaster at
Marshall, Texas, on the 26th shot and in
stantly killed VIM. Afford, son of Col. Afford,
a well-known citizen of the county. There
had been previous quarrel between the
parties, and Taylor claims to have acted in
self-defense. He was admitted to bail in
So, 600.
SERIOUS losses are reported in the
Platte Valley, Neb., caused by sudden
and almost unprecedented rise in the river.
HI. P. EPPLY has been arrested at Ell
Dorado, Saline County, Ill.,, charged with
robbing the Post office at Westfeld in De-
cember last. He has confessed the crime,
also to stealing a horse in the same neigh
borhood. Epply is bad case, and has al
ready served one term in the Pennsylvania
Penitentiary.
A YOUNG negro committed most ag-
gravated assault upon beautiful young
white girl near Sparta, Ga. The next morn
ing his body was found suspended from a
tree and riddled with bullets.
WHEELING, w. Va, suffered from
two destructive fires on the 18th, the princi-
pal losses being G.. Mendel & Co.'s furni-
ture factory, the Wheeling City Flour Mills,
Girard g. Tuttle's wire works, and B. Bach's
wagon factory.
The Saxony Wooden Mills at Colum-
bus, Ind, burned on the Goth. Loss over
$50. 600; insurance, $4,000.
THE Chicago Democrats have renoml-
mated Mayor Harrison.
Gov. ORDwAY, of Dakota, will be re-
tanned in his present position.
The manhead of pudding furnace
in Brown, Bonnell & Co.'s rolling mill at
Youngstown, o., blew up ON the 2Sth, the
escaping steam and flying debris wounding
twelve men, three seriously. Their names
are Dan. Segler, Ed. Clark and Pat Conroy.
THE Missouri Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 2Sth.
IRA MILLER and Seth Mckinney be-
came engaged in quarrel at Gilman, Ind,
and Miller shot Mckinney through the
heart, killing him instantly. Miller escaped.
He is railroad agent at Gilman. Mckinney
came from Ohio, was 80 years old, and I'M
married.
BLACK DAVIS, formerly lawyer of
Austin, Tex, but for several years engaged
in farming, was murdered and robbed four
miles from the city. His head was crushed
in and terribly mangled by being struck with
a.large stone.
CHARLES PERRY, respectable farm
err, was shot and probably MORALLY wound
ed in Pope County, Ark, by two Deputy
Sheriffs, who supposed him to be one Buck
Thomas, an escaped murderer. 1t is said
there was no reasonable ground for their sus-
picions, and the shooting is characterized as
big blunder, to use the mildest language.
MAJ. F. NJ. HANKS, who, it is alleged,
forged titles to Texas lands in Travis County
two years ago, has been captured at Men,
phis and taken back to Texas under a requi-
sition from the Governor.
THE Farmers Alliance of the State of
Wisconsin is political, but proposes so
to intermingle with both political parties as
to secure the nomination of men friendly to
or identified with its interests.
JOHN W. POWELL, who has been
confirmed by the United States Senate as
Director of the United States Geological
Seminary, formerly resided in Bloomington,
ILL.,, and for over two years was Professor Of
Natural Science in the Illinois Wesleyan
University. He served during the war in
an Illinois battery with bravery and distinc-
ton. He lost an arm and was otherwise
seriously wounded. He is regarded by
scholars as one of the most scientific men in
the country.
The grand breakup in the Upper
Missouri occurred ON the 30th, causing con-
siderable damage to property at Bismarck,
Buford, Mandan and other places.
THE total value of exports of domes-
tic breadstuffs during the eight months
ended February 81, were $1s2, 42s, s26; eight
months ended February 80, SIS, 49,, $50.
Immigration arrived in the United States for
eight months ended February %, 305 ,022;
of whom nearly 5000 were from Germany,
1900 from Canada, sc, 600 from England and
Wales and 80 GOO from Ireland.
Mrs. MARY A. NELSON, aged 40, of
New Rochelle, n. Y, Familiarity known as the
s'blind teacher of music" and her daughter
Addie, aged 13, after shutting off the draught
of the stove by turning the damper, went to
bed. The following morning some of Mrs.
Nelson's pupils, who called to take lessons,
found Mrs. Nelson dead in her bed, and by
her side her daughter, insensible. The lat
ter died within a few hours.
A DISPATCH from Las Vegas, N. NJ,
says James Currie, the murderer of Porter,
the actor, had been shot and killed at that
place. Currie, it appears, was on a drunken
spree, and threatened to kill several people.
Among the persons threatened was the bar
tender of saloon, who shot Currie in self