Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-29

Pultowa, which has less than 200, 1000 peo-
pie, there have been As, 543 persons stricken
by the disease, and of these IS, 765 have
died.
GEN. w. +. TUCKER, a we'll known
resident of Oklahoma, Miss, was assassinated
the other evening while standing in his own
doorway, to which he had been called by
some one outside. A young negro
named Houston Parish, with whom the Gen.
eral had some difficulty few days before, is
suspected of the crime and has been arrest
ed. Gen. Tucker was a Brigadier- General
in the Confederate service and won distinc-
ton as a gallant soldier during the war.
Two passenger coaches and Superin-
tendent's car on the Vicksburg & Meridian
Railway were thrown from the track by a
broken rail near Edwards, Miss. They fell
down a declivity of about six or eight feet.
The passenger coaches were crowded.
Eighteen persons were injured.
REV. r. F. M. WALLACE, of Missouri,
was killed near South Union, KY, by car
running into carriage in which he was
riding.
AT Oakland, KY, P. H. Winegardner,
a noted counterfeiter, was shot and danger
ously wounded by woman named Laura
Morehead, to whom he was engaged to be
married, but for some reason the engage
ment was broken off. He questioned her
fealty, and in moment of frenzy she got a
revolver and fired two shots.
Two freight trains on the Erie Rail
road collided near Elmira, on the 18th.
Engineer Fuller and two brakemen, named
ND frin
Jones, Conductor, and Asa Durham, brake
nearly a total wreck. The accident was
caused by misunderstanding signals.
AT Plain City, O., Mrs. Walter Strapp
was run down and killed while she was
attempting to cross the track in the east end
of the town. She was about fifty years old
and leaves a large family. The same train
ran over and instantly killed Lawson Brad
ley in the west end of the town at the same
hour.
The schooner A. Van Valkenburg,
from Chicago to Buffalo with corn, toun-
dered on the 18th. All but one of a crew of
nine were lost.
A DISPATCH from Portland, Greg,
says ten men employed in cutting trees and
clearing the track of the new railroad line
near Multworah Falls, Columbia River, got
into small boat to cross the river. The
boat swamped and five of the occupants
were drowned. .T. .
AT Rockland, Me-, Charles Smith, a
laborer, shot and killed his wife, infant son
and mother law, and attempted to kill
Mrs. Metcalf, an old lady living in the house,
but she, with two children, escaped. The
murderer gave himself up. Cause, jealousy.
HARRY FORBES and Geo. Townsend,
the well-known marine diver, of Boston,
quarreled the other day, and Forbes shot
Townsend through the neck and then shot
himself in the head and fell dead. Townsend
will probably die.
CHARLES DETER, a divorced hus-
band, recently returned to Muncie, Ind,
and found his former consort married to T.
Straight. Looking up the latter, Deter
fired two loads of heavy shot into him.
nearly tearing off his right hand and in.
juring him internally. Straight fell and
Deter started for the home of the woman,
where he kissed the gun and put it away.
He then suddenly drew a large revolver and
shot himself in the breast, dying almost
instantly. ..
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, Andrew Kountz-
man, German shoemaker, made an at
tempt on the life of his wife and that OF
Joseph Mentzer, a boarder, by assaulting
them with piece of iron. After knocking
them senseless Kountzman committed sui
eide by cutting his throat. Mrs. KountZ-
man is in critical condition and will hardly
recover. Mentzer is not badly hurt.