Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-15
THE verdict of the jury of inquest in

THE verdict of the jury of inquest in
the Cramer case at New Haven, Conn.,, is
that Jennie E. Cramer came to her death by
poison and violence, and that James Malley,
Jr., is criminally responsible, and Walter e.
Mailey and Blanche Douglass morally re-
sponsible for the same. The post-mortem
examination does not absolutely reveal the
cause or manner of death, but various por-
lions of the body contained traces of arsenic.
FRANZ SHALOsKY, Bohemian farm
er living near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was lit
orally torn to pieces by bun which he was
trying to lead. He became esitangled in the
rope and the animal gored his head off, tore
mis- bowels out and limbs off. The bull was
shot six times before falling, and continued
running around field and through the
woods. He had one of the mans Pegs on
his horns when killed.
IMMENSE damage has been done by
brush fires in Ont ario, Canada. The villages
of Nigo and Elmsdale are destroyed. In the
Upter Grove district twenty seven families
were burned out, and in the vicinity of New
Lowell many barns and other buildings were
burned. Prayers for rain have been offered
in all the churches.
THE total loss of life by the founder
ing of the Teuton at the Cape of Good Hope
is placed at 236.
AYOOB KHAN has issued proclama-
ton saving that he had abandoned his in
tention of fighting the Ameer and was about
to fight the English. To this end he invited
all persons having weapons belonging to the
Government to consider them their own on
condition of their joining his standard i'm
mediately.
The Nihilist organ Will Of the People
has made its temperance in St. Peters
burg.
A FIRE at Tuscola, Ill.,, on the 9Th,
destroyed the entire business portion of the
city west of the Illinois Central Railroad
track. The entire loss by the confagration
is variously estimated at from $50 200 to
500, 900; the insurance is probably one third
of that amount. The railroad tracks were
so badly twisted by the heat as to delay the
passage of trains for several hours. During
the excitement caused by the fire gang OF
about fifty tramps began pillaging. The
militia company was called out and, armed
with revolvers and clubs, drove them from
the town.
By a railway collision at Charenton,
France, on the 9Th, nineteen passengers
were killed outright and twenty-five in
jured, some of them probably fatally.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has arrived in Lon
don. He declined to be interviewed.
The census of India has been com.
pleted, and shows a population of 252,
100000.
MORE rioting has occurred in Liner.
lex, Ireland. The police fired upon the mob,
but without fatal result. The soldiers subse-
quently charged and dispersed the crowd,
who used stones and other missiles freely.
AT Sparta, Tenn, in a recent en-
counter, T. j. r. Swofford shot and killed
Eli Paul and severely wounded one of Paul's
sons. James Scott, brother in law of Swof-
ford, endeavored to separate the comba-
tants, and he too was killed by Swofford.
A GENERAL court-martial has been
ordered to convene at Fort Davis, Texas
Sept. Is, for the trial of Lieut.. Flipper,
charged with embezzling LOO of Govern
ment funds.
A PASSENGER train on the Pittsburg
& Lake Erie Road cohided with freight
train at Homewood, near Pittsburg, Pa.
Both engines, several freight cars and one
passenger coach were badly wrecked. Con-
ductor Davidson, of the passenger train
Road Supervisor Corcoran, Brakeman Will
liams and laborer, whose name could not
be learned, were slightly injured; none
seriously.
VIM. WEBB, a prominent farmer Of
Pope County, Ark, living near Atkins, was
fatally injured by being struck on the head
with the limb of tree he had. cut down.