Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ROBERT MARTIN, an Englishman, so
years Of age, living in Newark, Nj, shot
his wife and child on the 18th. The woman
was almost instantly killed. The child,
girl two years and six months old, was
wounded in two places, it is thought fatally.
Martin was arrested.
MYERS and Brown, the New Madrid
(Mo.) murderers, have been sentenced to be
hanged on the 10Th of July, and Mitchell, as
accessory to the crime, has been sentenced
to thirty years. in the Penitentiary.
A FLoTILLA of barges, carrying 10O,-
600 bushels of grain, has started from Peo-
ria for New Orleans. The shipment was
made as an experiment to ascertain il corn
thus shipped will generate heat on the trip
and depreciate in grade.
PATRICK Morris and Thomas Regain
persisted in fire at Pierrepont's stores,
Brooklyn, N. T., on the 18th. The loss on
bonded goods and buildings is estimated at
$780, 700.
The two stages running between Fay
etteville and Alma, Ark, were both robbed
on the night of the 10Th, near point where
they pass each other, about twenty miles
first came along and was stopped: the rob-
bers, two in number, presenting their re-
volvers at the head Of the driver, compelled
him to dismount and have his hands secured,
after doing which they blindfolded and
bound the passengers, at the same time re-
lieving them of their valuables. The other
stage soon put in an appearance and the dri-
yer and passengers were put through SIM
liar programme. The robbers did not get
very heavy return for their labors, only
about $35 in cash and gold watch and chain.
They ripped open the mail bags, however,
taking all the registered letters and valuable
packages.
GEORGE T. LARK1N, Deputy United
States Marshal, shot and killed his cousin,
also named Larkin, near Rodgersville, Tenn.
Larkin had violated the revenue law, and his
cousin went to arrest him in field. Larkin
resisted the officer, and was shot down. The
officer was arrested. It was feared the pris-
oner would be lynched, and the Governor
was telegraphed for aid. The Governor or
dered the Knoxville Rifles to the scene of
excitement and to protect the prisoner from
mob violence.
GEORGE w. PADGErT, William
Brown, Patrick McGown, Amos Marley and
Abel Manley have been sentenced by Judge
Parker, of the United States Court at Little
Rock, Ark, to be hanged on the 9th day of
September next, for murders committed in
the Indian Nation.
TEN men, who had been handling
coal and repairing barges near Cincinnati, ON
the 10th, attempted to reach the shore by
means Of small skiff, which capsized, and
inf 1dorf ho of IF how
swan to shore. One was rescued after
great deal OF trouble, and in very critical
condition. The others were drowned.
THE United States steamer Alliance
has sailed on four months cruise in search
of the missing steamer Jeanette.
IT is reported that the Houston &
Texas Central Railroad Company will COM
mence the construction of the road from
Whitney, Hill County, to Dallas, to connect
with and use the line agreed upon by the
Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central, the st.
Louis & San Francisco, and the Gulf of Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe Roads, to Paris, Tex, and
perhaps 10 Fort Smith, Ark, thus giving all
these anti Gould lines good Northeastern
outlet to st. Louis and Chicago, Independent
of the Gould system.
AT Elizabeth, N. j., Martin Magic, a
young man of good family, shot Miss Fam
ME Walker, dressmaker, inflicting merely
flesh wound. He then put two bullets into
his own body, causing almost instant death.
Magic had been verging upon insanity for
some time, and his friends had intended to
place him in an asylum, but had criminally
neglected to do so. He was sutton for
Miss Walkers hand, and jealousy was the
immediat cause of the crime.
A COMPANY has been organized at St.
Louis, with a capital of s, 10000 to build
the Chester, Iron Mountain & Western Rail-
road, running from st. Mary's, Mo-, nearly
opposite Chester, ILL.,, on the Mississippi
River, directly west through Ste. Genevieve
County to Pennington, thence west to Iron
Mountain, and SO on through Iron County
to Salem, in Dent County, where it will form
a connection with the branch from Cuba of
the st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. A
branch will also be run from point near
Pennington directly north through St. Fran
co.'s County to Bonnie Terre, where the st.
Joseph and the De Lassus lead mines are sit
uated.
A DETROIT grave-robber has been
sentenced to five years in the State-prison.
AT Lockland, O., the little daughter
of Marion Thompson, one year old, being
left alone in bed, crawled to the foot Of the
mattress and fell through between the Stats
of the bed, hanging suspended by the head.
She was dead when discovered by the ag-
onized mother.
THE residence of Mrs. Gilman, a
wealthy widow of Kittery Point, Me-, burned
one night recently, and she was supposed to
have persisted in the flames. 1t is now evil
dent that she was murdered and the house
set on fire TO destroy evidence of the crime.
CHARLEY ALLISON, Henry Watts and
Lewis Perkins, three noted highwaymen,
who have committed many crimes in New
Mexico and Colorado, and for whose arrest
heavy rewards were offered, have finally
been captured.
THE Tooth anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill, June 18th, was celebrated at
Boston. A specially interesting feature of
the day was the formal dedication of q bronze
statue of Col. VIM. Prescott, the hero of the
fight.
A NUMBER of employees have been