Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23

the other morning, and the party proceeded
TO take possession of $50 Clydesdale horses
In the stables of Colonel Holloway, at the
instance OF William Buchanan and James
johnson. The citizens determined to tear
up the railway track II necessary, and at
once caused the arrest of the ringleaders
ana OF the engineer. conductor, and tele-
graph operator, and returned the horses to
the stables.
Il. II. BUSTED, Massachusetts dis
tiiler, and 6. D. Bayard and G. F. PEREZ
mond, New York liquor dealers, are held
on charges OF defrauding the revenue.
ARTHUR HALLER was killed and
Frederick Pierce probably fatally hurt by a
locomotive on the New York Elevated Rail.
road the other day.
In the Jeanette inquiry at Washing
ton the other morning Melville narrated an
incident in which Chip, losing strength
and courage, and finding himself unable to
proceed further, threw himself down upon
a sled and besought the party to go on with
out him, saying 1t was no use for him to
struggle on further. A number of lady
relatives of Chip burst into tears, and,
finding themselves unable to listen calmly
to further account of his sufferings, left
the room.
THE Department of Agriculture re-
ports exceptionally fine weather during the
past month for maturing and harvesting
cotton, and returns estimate the yield of
| acreage of each State as follows: Virginia,
pounds OF lint to the acre, 17S; North Caro-.
| lima, $50; South Carolina, 1888; Georgia, 1872;
Florida, III; Alabama, $50; Mississippi,
| 100; Louisiana, 235; Texas, $40; Arkansas,
| the result Of consolidation of the revised
county estimates and suppose continuance
Of the average weather for the six remain
ing weeks Of the harvest season. Injury by
caterpillar or boll-worm is not appreciable
except in few counties.
THE steamer Emma G. Elliott, while
nearing St. Louis, the other evening, came
upon an immense flock Of wild ducks. The
electric light was turned on, when the birds
dashed against it with such force that sew
eral hundred Of them were captured, and
in the morning thirty.six were found con.
cealed in the cabin.
THOMAS REESE, foreman of rolling
mill at Louisville, KY, was fatally injured
by Bryan McMann, a recently discharged
workman, who struck him three murderous
blows on the head with bar of iron.
"A SCnOoL.hoUSE dIlu S0FcTdl Quiet
buildings at Rippey, Iowa, were destroyed
by a cyclone the other evening. Mrs. Har.
mon, wife of a farmer, was seriously in
jured, and her three children were bruised
and cut by flying timbers.
A. G. SMITH, Surgeon of the Homeo-
pathic Dispensary in Louisville, KY, so sue
cessfully mesmerized a negro the other day
that a difficult operation was performed
without pain, although the patient was con-
scious of all that was said and done.
THE Upper Missouri is full of ice, and |
snow drifts ten or twelve feet deep are re-
ported in Minnesota and Dakota.
THE new opera-house, fine hotel,
and other buildings in Lexington, KY, went |
to blazes the other afternoon. Three fire. |
men were hurt.
A FAMILY of colored persons per-
ished in a burning cabin, near Petersburg,
Va, the other night.
II. o. WATERS, Manager of the Mutual
Union Telegraph Company's Office on the
Board of Trado, Chicago, and a member of
the board himself, sh OF himself on the 10th
in his room on State street, opposite the
Palmer House. The ball could not be found,
and whether the wound is mortal or not the
doctors could not say. There is a scandal
back of the tragedy. The wife of the would
be suicide is pretty woman, and foolish.
The gossips said she was in Boston, whittier
she had gone in pursuit of a young fellow
whom she loved better than her husband. |
She has two children. When friends asked
Waters if there was anything he wanted he
said: "Nothing, except what have tried to
give myself"
TRAIN-wRECKERs have again been at
work on the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
road. Heavy timbers were placed on the
track near Limerick, Pa, the other night,
for the purpose of derailing a passenger
train, but an extra freight happened along
in time to carry the distractions down an
No lives were lost, but many
cars were demolished.
THE Allen-street bridge in Rochester,
N. Y. fell into the canal the other morn
ing. Navigation was suspended for some
time.
j. B. SMITH, of Sherman, Cal, muir
dered his fourteen-year- old-son the other
day, cutting his throat. Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith have been insane for some time, and
claim that the Lord commanded the sac.
rifice. ,
DIR. E. LUTz, prominent surgeon of
/
10 the stone floor of the basement in the ,
Blackstone block, the other day, a dis
lance of thirty feet, and sustained in ,
uries which will probably prove fatal. The ,
elevator door was open and he stepped in, =.
the platform to be there. ,
GRAND preparations are being made
Tor fist and bull-fghts at Pridier Negres,
Mexico, commencing on the Goth and last ,
ng fifteen days. Excursion trains will .
probably run to Eagle Pass, from whence
persons will be transferred across the Rio ,
5rande jv boats.
A woRKM AN in the Government TO- !,
,acco factory at Lyons, France, was fined =
or violating the rules Of the institution the =
other day. This so enraged his fellows that
hey attempted to avenge their comrade by .
hrowing the manager into the river. Police
and with great difficulty sue y
,eeded in rescuing him. Several heads q