Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-21

PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

TIE schooner Fred Brown, Of Provi-s
dence, r. 4, was sunk of Cape Cod on the
9th inst. through > collision with the
schooner n. II. Skinner, Of Taunton. Capt.
Small, the Mate, Mate's wife, three children
and one seaman were drowned. ss-s
EoUR convicts made asdesperate ~
tempt to escape from the Michigan State
prison. One of them, named Lynch, knocked
down keeper, and the four then ran to
scale the wall, where ladder had been
previously placed. The alarm was given and
the guards arrived in time to defeat the es-
capade. Lynch, the ringleader, was shot
and killed just as he had mounted the top Of
the wall, and one or two others were injured
in the melee.
THE Missouri River rise washed away
the levee north of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
flooding the bottom lands in and about the
city from four to six feet in depth. Some
$40 persons were driven from their homes.
No cases Of drowning occurred, although
there were several narrow escapes. Rail-
way connection with Omaha was entirely
suspended. AT the latter city immense dam
age was done to manufacturing establish
ments, lumber yards, etc., situated on the
bottoms. The highest point of the flood was
reached about midnight of the 9th, when the
river commenced falling slowly.
The steamer Victory, from Keokuk,
with corn, was driven against one of the St.
Louis bridge piers and sunk on the 9th.
NEWS of a sad tragedy comes from
Marblehead, Mass. Mary L. Bridges, %
years old, was engaged and all ready to be
married to William Adams, when she was
informed by him that he should not fulfill
his promise. On her knees she begged him
to keep his word, but, without assigning
any reason, he refused, whereupon she went
to her room, cut up her wedding dress with
knife, purchased an ounce of laudanum
and swallowed it, breathing her last the next
morning.
COOPER & Co., engine builders at Mt.
Vernon, o., lost 500, 900 by an incendiary
fire on the Sth.
The floods in Hungary extending over
vast tracts of arabic land, four battalions of
engineers have been ordered to Merezel, on
the Thesis.
PATRICK COLEMAN, supposed to have
participated in the attempt to blow up the
friends in New York City.
CALIFORNIA has experienced a heavy
earthquake, but no serious damage is re-
ported.
THE Mormon Church Annual Con-
ference recently held reelected all church
officials except John w. Young, now under
Indictment for polygamy. He has been
counselor to the Apostles, but was dropped.
Forty elders We're designated as missionaries
to the United States, and fifty to various
countries in Europe, and few to the Pacific
Islands and New Zealand. Eighty families
were also sent to Arizona, where they will
establish Mormon colonies.
SENATOR KIRKwOOD has ordered a
competitive examination of applicants for
positions in the Pension Bureau. 1t is said
the ordered was issued by request of the
President.
THREE Texas desperadoes rode into
railroad camp on the Denver 81 Rio Grande
Extension with drawn revoIvers and robbed
every store and saloon in town, making their
victims fall into line and follow them from
one drinking place to another, until finally
French saloon-keeper wrested revolver
from the hands of Baker, the leader, and
shot him five times. The others escaped,
one with bullet in him.
PRINCE PIERRE NAPOLEON is dead.
GEN. w. M. GARY, of South Carolina,
is dead.
The Treasurer's Office at Toledo,
Dorsey County, Ark, was robbed on the
morning of the 18th of So 900 or $40, 900.
The thieves, numbering fifteen or twenty
men, were well armed, mounted and
masked.
MISS HATTIE DEUEL., the fasting
woman at Iowa City, died at noon ON the
18th, having lived just forty-seven days since
she began abstaining from food. Her end
was peaceful.
A PASSENGER train on the Oregon
Railroad met with an accident at a place
called China Gulch, near Reading. Cal. The
whole train went over the trestle, and the
engine and cars are total wreck. Two men
were killed and several others injured.
EMILE SUNDEHEIMER, travelling sales
man for Hasheim Bros, Shreveport, La,
committed suicide at Baldwin's Hotel, San
Francisco. Letters left by deceased indi-
cate poverty as the cause of suicide.
Mrs. ALBERT II. BUCK, of Chicago,
died on the 18th of trichinosis, the result of
eating uncooked sausage.
IRISH landlords say the Land bill re-
duces them to the position of trustees for
their tenants. The Radicals hope to strike
similar blow at the English land system.
A GENERAL snow-storm prevailed
throughout the Northwest on the 18th and
18th, causing another blockade of railroads
in Minnesota and Dakota. Several inches of
snow also fell in New York and Pennsylva-
MIA.
DURING dance at Pelham, Hamp-
shire County, Mass, on the 18th, quarrel
arose over 3 lady partner, and a man named
Briggs shot the son of James Stetson three
times in the head, killing him instantly.
MRS. AUGUSTA GEDELGA, aged %,
wife OF cigar maker living in q five-story
tenement house, 145 Delaney Street, New
York City, becoming insane brooding over,
the fact that her three children were ex-
posed to smallpox, which had broken out
in the neighborhood, leaped from the roof to
the sidewalk and was killed.
DAVID DowNEY and Michael Brod-
eriek were killed and John Murray severely