Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

H. g. CADMUs, Postmaster at South
Annboy, N, j., became shortin his official
accounts, and not having the nerve to NEE;
the Government officer sent TO examine his
books, he Shot himself fatally.
4 MYSTERIOUS railway murder has
occurred in England. A retired business
man, named F. j. Gould, while returning to
Brighton from London, where he had beer
to collect dividends, was killed and his body
thrown out OF the compartment Of a railway
carriage. 1t was found in Balcombe Tunnel
the throat cut, land stabbed in various places
A fellow-passenger Of the murdered man,
one Henry Mapleton, alias Lefray, was found
in the carriage when it arrived at its desti-
nation, wounded and bleeding. He re-
ported that shortly after passing Croydon a
number of shots were fired by some one in
the carriage and he was struck and stunned.
| Several bullets were found imbedded in the
woodwork of the carriage. Strangely
enough he was permitted to go at liberty at
ter having his wounds dressed, and subse-
! guently, when the officers went to his house
| to arrest him, he had fled. Leiray is said
to be newspaper reporter, and claims the
authorship of several successful minor plays
and operas. He is believed to have COM
mitted the murder.
THE Phaeton, a local steam packet on
the Ohio River, exploded her boilers just
above Maysville, Ky, on the 18th, blowing
| the boat to atoms. The force of the explo-
| sion was backward, in the direction of the
| ladies' cabin, which fortunately was unoc-
| cupied, but every person on that part of the
boat was either killed or injured. -Four
| lives are known to have been lost, the en-
gineer, Cash Naylor, being of the number.
w. E. LEE, wealthy planter of
Sewer County, Ark, took down his rifle,
and thinking it empty, placed his foot on
the hammer to blow through the barrel,
when it was discharged, the contents enter.
ing his head and scattering his brains in all
directions. He leaves wife and five chit
dren.
FIVE Hungarian miners lost their
lives in Luzerne County, Pa, it Is believed,
by eating poisoned sausage.
PITNEY denies a report that he will 60
before the Grand Jury and make q full
statement of the misdoings of the Treasury
| ring.
CENSUS officers at Washington say
that there are nearly three hundred rail-
road corporations whose officers have thus
far either refused or neglected to furnish the
statistical information required by the Cen
sus law.
CAPT. j. w. DAVIDSON, Post Com
mander at Fort Custer, died recently at St.
Paul, MINI. The deceased was in command
of department in st. Louis during the war.
He was also married in that city, and his re-
mains were taken there for burial.
SECPETA KJpEw0nn 6opioc tho
rumor that the Pension Bureau has exhaust
ed the appropriation for the payment of
pensions.
VENNOR predicts a hot and stormy
July, with frequent disastrous storms of
wind, hail and rain throughout those sections
in which the June storms have been so Sc
verely felt.
IT is reported at Piedras Negras that
several American railroad engineers were
killed in the interior OF Mexico, in conse-
quence of a dispute regarding the right Of
way, but no particulars have yet been OBJ
tanned.
REPORTS of recent Indian troubles in
Western Colorado and Utah have been great
ly exaggerated.
DICK WOOD, noted desperate of
ilantes.
THE convicted murderers of the late
Abdul Aziz, nine in number, have been sem
fenced to death. They are Midhat Pasha,
Mahmoud Pasha, Nowri Pasha, Ali Bey,
Nedjib Bey, Fahri Bey, Hadji Mehmer, Mus
tapha the Wrestler, and Mustapha the
Gardener. Izzet Pa>ha and Zida Pasha,
implicated in the murder, have each been
sentenced to ten years. penal servitude.
A FLYING column of infantry, caval-
ry and police assisted the Sheriff in enforce
ing evictions at Mitchellsfown, County Cork,
Ireland. Persons against whom wrts have
been issued paid the rent in every case, thus
proven ing eviction. Trees were placed
across several roads to delay the progress of
the column, which as it entered town found
anumber OF carts thrown across the streets.
The military and police charged the crowd
until the streets were deserted. 1t is stated
thirty persons were injured.
EX-CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN, of
Georgia, died on the 30th, aged 10. He was
on the bench for upward Of fifty years.
A. D. BARBER, E. r. Phelps and c.
A. Edwards have been indicted by the Grand
Jury at Albany, n. Y, for bribing or fur
HlsHulS iuOHey loI tDe purpose VI DIIDlnS
State officers.
A YACHT was capsized off Bridgeport,
Ct, on the 2Sth, by a phenomenal squall
which lifted it completely out of water, and
five persons We're drowned. A survivor de-
scribes the battle of the elements as simply
appalling.
THE storm of the goth was wide
spread and severe. At Cherokee, Iowa, the
residence Of MIR. Stevens was completely de-
molished, two children being instantly
killed and his wife receiving fatal injuries.
An old lady named Oberch, of the same
place, also was killed, her house being over
turned. At Meridian Miss Pierce was
killed by lightning. At Keller Station, Ind,
a train Of fourteen freight cars was blown
from the track and down an embankment.
The cars were lifted so neatly that not a
link was broken. Near Lewiston, Pa, a
baggage truck was carried fifty yards and
dashed to pieces.
SANDERsON's stage from Lake City
was robbed by two masked men twelve miles
west of Alamosa, COL, Oh the 30th. There