Iron County register., 1882-09-21

into the basement for tool. The poor fel-
low was taken to the hospital, where doubt,
were expressed as to his recovery.
| ISAAC JACKSON drew his pension in
North Baltimore, Ohio, the other day, anG
went on a bender. Starting home about
midnight he met freight train and was cut
to pieces.
Two lads, John and Henry Barder,
We're fatally burned at Cleveland, Ohio, the
other day, by the explosion of a can Of kerr
osene oil, with which they attempted to
kindle fire.
| CARL HEINING, a poor Jew, lost $12
worth Of gold dust which he was refining at
stove in front of his house. in Denver,
| Colo, the other afternoon, and Immediate
ly committed suicide.
| AN accident on the Central Railroad
! OF New Jersey, at Bayonne, on the 10Th, re-
suited in the death of J. j. Worsley and the
loss of thirteen cars with freight.
The Shivley block, On Massachusetts
avenue, indianapolis, Ind, in which an
arch was being cut, crumbled into mass OF
ruins the other day. A woman was seri-
ously injured.
WHEN the Eureka stage was about
nine miles south of Seligman, Mo-, Sept. 10,
two masked men sprang from the roadside,
ordered the driver to halt, and made the
passengers alight and hold up their hands.
While one of the highwaymen enforced obe-
dience with a revolver the other ransacked
the mail-pOuch, selecting few packages
and scattering the remainder on the ground.
After ordering the passengers to give up
what they had, the leader told his accom-
plice to swatch these men," and started on
run up the road to meet another hack of
the same line, distant some 800 or 400 yards.
The driver drew up, of course, and two men
alighted, lady from Kansas City remain
ing in the hack. E. E.. Phillips handed out
$3.50 and gold watch, and the other mails
delivered bis revolver and a few dollars.
Using very abusive language, the robber
then relieved the lady of a watch and chain
Rejoining his confederate the pair retired
into the woods. The passengers were soon
again seated, and coach and hack went on
their way to the Springs. $500
A MASKED mob gathered at Washing
ton, Ind, the other morning. with the inten-
ton of lynching John Hunter, who mur-
dered William Leutz. The sheriff had quiz
etly garrisoned the Jail with thirty armed
the fire and police bells, fired volleys to
frighten citizens, and sent fifty men over
the Jail fence. Three attempts to force the
doors We're unavaling, and the appeals of
the sheriff and prosecuting attorney caused
the mob to disperse. Hunter lay crouched
in his cell all day. .a.s =
INTENSE excitement has been created
at Putnam, Connecticut, by the arrest of
G.. F. Willis, trial justice and deputy United
States marshal, on charge OF burning block
of stores to defraud the insurance compa-
nies. The detectives developed the fact that
the accused has for years been connected
with gang of bank-thieves in Boston, and
caused bogus robbery to be committed by
them to show the judges completely, forcing
from him confession that almost from his
cradle he had been an incendiary and thief
THERE was an effort to draw the
color line in the Jail at Dubuque, Iowa, the
other day. Two negro roustabouts had
stolen $345 from woman sick with ague on
the steamer Mary Morton, and were inn
prisoned. Several Irishmen in the Jail gave
them welcome with chair-rounds and ta-
legs, and it required all the force in the
court house to quell the riot.
WHILE Robert Rice, night watch
man in the Frisco Company's yards at
Pierce City, Mo-, was going about his
on the 9th he came across Albert
Reed, and told him to move off. Reed felled
him with heavy cane, and Rice drew his
pistol and shot him through the heart. The
jury returned verdict of justi-
fable homicide. ..t..