Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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TIE court-martial for the trial O,
Cadet Whitaker will meet in New York OF
January 20.
AT Pembroke, Me-, q nine-year-o old
1 boy, named Warren Longmore, has been in.
dicted for murder, his victim being an eight.
year-old playmate, named Freeman Wright
A BREAKUP of the ice in the Ohio
River at Cincinnati occurred on the 9Th
Several steamers and other craft were badly
damaged.
Mrs. G. G. GALLEY and Mrs. E. O
Ellis, wives of two prominent farmers il
Greenfield Township, while crossing th.
track OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad a
Havana, about twelves miles from
Nofwalk, o., were struck by train run
ming at high rate of speed ant
both killed, almost instantly. They were
riding in cutter, and the sound of thu
sleigh-bells drowned the noise Of the ap
preaching train, which was also hidden from
sight by an intervening building. Theil
horses neck was broken and the cutter
smashed to atoms.
AT Lake Providence, La, on the
| night of the 7th, mob broke open the Jai
| and took therefrom prisoner
James Brown, and hanged him to
tree. Brown was flatboatmar
from Illinois. In January, 1880, he and a
party of twelve others arrived in town, and
becoming unduly boisterous from
drinking, the City Marshal, Ber-
nard MCGUIRE, attempted to arrest
Brown, who acted as ringleader of the crowd.
Brown Immediately pulled revolver and
shot the officer dead on the spot. The MUIR
! derer escaped, but was subsequently recap
tured and held for trial.
BISHOP ATKINSON, of the Episcopal
diocese of North Carolina, is dead.
NEAR Keokuk, Iowa, young man
named Mahan was killed by the accidental
discharge OF gun in the hands of COM
touch the trigger.
CHARLES LEBsTER, twelve years old,
shedding down a steep hill at Reading, Pa. !,
dashed under street car, the wheels of
which scattered his brains along the track.
NEAR Lexington, N. c., on the 9Th, a
fast train on the Richmond & Danville Rail-
way ran into rock-slide and was wrecked.
M. O'Donnell, engineer, and his fireman
were instantly killed, several passengers sus-
tanning slight injuries.
HOLBROOK's cotton-mill, near Gin
ton, Ark. with large quantity of cotton,
burned on the It'll.
III. L. BALMER, an old fisherman, has
been arrested at Henderson, KY, for shoot
ing John Davis, varnisher, said to be
'wanted" for shooting some one at Louis
vile.
L. F. HENRY and Kirby Smith at
tempted to assassinate DR.. Robinson, at Cor
NTH, KY, on the 9Th, emptying their revolv-
ers in vain. All brothers-in-law.
The residence of Mr.. Mclean, at I'm
derwood, Ont, burned on the 10th and Mrs.
Mclean persisted in the flames. Other
members of the family were seriously
burned.
A JAPANESE coasting steamer has
been lost with sixty -four persons on board.
PRESIDENT HAYES recently ordered
the removal of Foreman Cook, of the
Charlestown (Mass.) Maynard, for intimi-
dating employees at the polls. Three naval
officers will convene as board to investigate
the charges.
THE mail-stage from Fort Davis to
Ell Paso, Tex, was dumped" by the In
dams, supposed to be remnant of the old
Victoria band, at Quitman Canon, on the
Sth. The driver and team were killed, and
the stage and mail broken and torn to pieces
Two children named Blank were
killed in Chicago, on the 10th, by the admin
istration of morphine, by mistake of the
druggist, for salts of quinine.
The New Orleans Times reports that
Jay Gould is negotiating, with every pros
pect OF the bargain being consummated, for
the purchase of the Morgan Railroad to
Donaldson, which is to be made part of
the New Orleans Pacific Road, thereby has
tening by year the completion of that road
to New Orleans.
The withdrawal of Will Cumback
from the Senatorial contest in Indiana
leaves Gen. Harrison a walk over.
JOHN SHERMAN was nominated for
United States Senator from Ohio without
opposition.
The Connecticut Republican Sena-
torlal Caucus nominated Gen. Hawley for
Senator by acclamation.
A TERRIBLE outbreak of fever is re-
ported at Tanderagee, County Armagh,
Ireland. One hundred and nine persons
are Frustrated by fever, and many deaths |
occur daily.
A PLOT. to depose the Rajah and
massacre all European residents while in |
church, has been discovered at Kolapore, in |
India, and twenty seven natives have been |
arrested.
THE Secretary of War asks Congress
to grant the right Of way through the mill
tary reservations at. Fort Bliss, Tex, and |
Fort Wingate, N. M, to the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Railroad.
THE Senate Committee on Privileges
md Elections have decided, by party vote,
% call up the Kellogg case and dispose Of it
It an early day.
THE annual exhibition of the Western
Poultry Club opened at Armory Hall, St.
Louis, on the 18th, to continue one week.
ANoTHER public appeal has been
made in New York for the relief of the COL
,red refugees in Kansas, whose condition is
described as most pitiable.
TWELVE persons were injured, nine
7ery badly, by the explosion of keg Of
powder in the store of j. P. Andrews & Co.,
It Climax, Kalamazoo County, Mich. The
'uilding was entirely demolished. The
Jerk was weighing out the powder when it