Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-08

Tenn, and Ben Perkins, for the murder of
Gif Roberts. cosored, at Livingstone, Ala.
JOHN G. HATELY's packing house,
Chicago, was destroyed by fire ON the 18th.
Loss, 100000.
Two brothers named Coffin, living
in Elk Township, Mich, fell from Il steamer
in the St. Clair River and were drowned.
They were intoxicated.
AT Greensburg, Ky, George Gaines
was killed and several persons injured by
the explosion Of a boiler.
NEARLY ton of powder blew up the
building in which it was stored at Warren,
Me-, the other day. Samuel Mank, work
man, was blown nearly four hundred feet
and instantly killed..
AT Forest City, Ark, Tate Wallace
invited S. D. Apperson, City Marshal, to
take cigar, and while standing at the coun-
ter of the saloon Apperson drew his pistol
and said: 81 believe I'll shoot you.' Tate,
thinking he was testing, replied: 'Shoot
away" Apperson fired, killing him In
stantly. No cause can be assigned for the
murder, for the two men were apparently
on the best of terms. AppersOn was intoXi-
Gated at the time.
THREE men were killed and two 9TH
ers seriously injured in New York City the
other day. Some electric lights were about
to be tested, the hosting gear ut the top of
the pole broke just as the lamps reached the
top, and the lamps and their carriage, a
mass of iron weighing over 600 pounds, fell
with crushing weight from a height of more
than 100 feet.
Mrs. SMITH, widow living near
Kaufman, Texas, several members of her
family, and some tenants, ten in all, were
poisoned by eating cooked peaches contain
ing arsenic. Medical assistance was sum-
soned, but at last report there was little
hope of recovery of any of the I'M ured par
ties.
A COLLISION on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western, near Burnham, between
gravel and wood trains, wrecked both en-
gines and killed engineer Michael Gray, fire.
man Robert Bethinger, and brakeman.
AT Leadville, Colo, on the 9th, some
assassin placed a large quantity Of giant
powder under the bav-window of Judge J.
l.. Pendery's residence and fired it with
long fuse. The front part of the house was
demolished, but fortunately no one was in
jured. No cause is assigned for the diaboli-
cal deed, and no clcw has been obtained to
the perpetrators.
A DISPATCH from Tombstone, A. T.,
says Indians attacked the town of Eureka,
New Mexico, and killed the citizens, said to
be about seventy in number.
CAPT. w. w. Ross, the official re-
porter of the A agricultural Bureau for North
crn Texas. has completed his report. 1t
shows about one -fourth corn crop. Wheat is
all threshed, and crops fair and of good
quality. Oats from forty to eighty bushels
per acre, and of best quality. Cotton will
hardly yield above third of an average
crop.
ROBERT WARREN was killed by jump
ing from he fourth story of burning build
inein Cincinnati. A number of persons were
partially suffocated and slightly injured in
effecting escape.
BETTE, the 11-year-old daughter of
Anthony MCGEE, residing near Marshall.
Tex. attempted to kindle fire with coal
oil, when the can exploded, enveloping her
in flames, from the effects of which she died
in three hours.
IT is said that the Government is 90
ing to treat Sitting-Bull and the warriors
who surrendered with him prisoners of
war. and that their transfer to Fort Randall
has been resolved upon.
EDWARD MUSGRAvE, Treasurer of
the Alpaca Company at ChicOpee Falls,
Mass, is q defaulter to the amount of $780,,
600 or over, and has abscOnded.
ARTHUR MORTON, with many aliases,
swindler and bigamist, has been taken tc
Richmond, Va, for trial.