Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

l lyncneQ near L ascoSa, 1eAaSs July ~ LOT
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Henry Nc.
/ Cullough.
Mrs. ISAAC FINES, aged As, was killed
| by a train at East Palestine, Ohio, on the
9th, while attempting to cross the track.
| A DESPERATE but unsuccessful at
! tempt was made on the 9th to assassinate
: the Recorder of the City of Dublin, Ireland.
. A tutor named Fitzpatrick, nonsuited as
| plaintiff on a civil bill process, fired at the
Recorder in open court, and was seized by
| the defendant and a policeman.
F. A. LAWRENCE, SON of the late
Judge bingham Lawrence, committed
suicide at Flushing, n. v, on the oSth.
TWG masked men stopped stage
near Clark's Bayou, La, the other morn
ing. -Four passengers were robbed and the
mail pouch was rified. The highwaymen
| then made the driver unscrew the nuts
holding two of the wheels, which they car
| ried off into the woods. Lag: +t-.,..-
JOHN HARTER, of the St. Charles Ho-
| tel, Steubenville, Ohio, had fuss with a
boarder the other day and went on the war
path. His father tried to pacify him and
| made matters worse. John pulled his re.
syolver. Edward .Harter threw himself be-
e"CCh LuC wv JUST iu lllAc W IcCclNG aOultGI
| intended for his father and dropped dead.
Josiah Salmon attempted to disarm John and
was shot in the hand. Edward was under
indictment for killing George Aldridge
few months ago. John was finally jailed.
MAGGIE CHESTNUT and little daugh-
| ter Of Mrs. John Rabbit got into deep water
| while bathing at ST. John, n. B., July %.
Mrs. Rabbit succeeded in rescuing her
child, but lost her life in an effort to save
| the other.
SIMON FRANK, an Israelite, brother
| of A. b. Frank, wholesale merchant of San
| Antonio, Texas, took fatal dose of NOR
| phine the other night. 1t may have been a
mistake.
FRANK A. SMITH, Howard College
| sophomore, was shot by Sergeant Kely,who
has charge of Fort Popham, Hunnewell's
| Point, Me-, July %. Smith and young
companion crept under the gate to inspect
| the fort, and the Sergeant, who has had
trouble with trespassers, thought they came
| to steal Government property.
Guy SMITH, the boy who killed his
| father, near Kirkwood, Mo-, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
A NUMBER of persons were injured by
the fall of foot bridge near Manayunk,
Pa, July 30, They were watching a tub
race on the canal, and the structure wasn't
strong enough. About hundred men, wo-
men and children were precipitated into the
water, and many narrowly escaped drown
ing.
NEW ORLEANS had a $4,000 fire on
the 30th.
A SON OF one of the Russian consuls in
Roumania has been arrested at Odessa on
charge of supplying dynamite to the Nj
hiists. .---..-.
THE executive officers of the Brother
hood Of Photographers Of the United States
and Canada and the United Telegraphers of
North America have effected complete con-
solidation, thus ending the sharp rivalry that
for some time has existed between them.
The organization has membership of from
6, 200 to 5000, and is strongly protective in
its features.
THE body of Minister Marsh arrived
i'm Rome the other morning, and was re-
ceived by the Mayor. A troop of cavalry,
the Italian Ministry, and representatives of
seven leading powers escorted the remains
to the Protestant cemetery, where they
were deposited in the mortuary chapel. The
widow of the Minister will continue to re-
side in Italy.
B. F. BIGELow, formerly receiving
teller of the National Bank Of the Republic
at Washington, who abscOnded with 81, 900
last month, surrendered himself at Port HUI
ron, Mich, having grown tired of being
hunted through Canada.
Two children of Mary Eppolteo
burned to death in New York tenement,
July 80.
HENRY CALDWELL, in jail at Ironton,
Mo-, for assaulting an old lady, was lynched
by masked men, July 80.
AUDITOR JILsoN, of the Rock Island
Railroad, after a thorough investigation,
about 10000. Superintendent Riddell states
that Richards handled no funds of the COM
pany, and the money was stolen from Chi
cago banks, which are responsible for the
loss.
DIR. LORD, of Plano, ILL.,, was called
out of bed the other night to attend a pa
tient at Yorkville. When he had driven a
mile he was halted by two men with drawn
revolvers, tied to a tree, and robbed of gold
watch and thrty-five cents. When he sub
sequently freed himself, he found his horse
and buggy near his home.
SEVEN pedestrians are on six-day
contest in Boston, Mass.
THE American Lumber Company has
purchased from the Detroit, Mackinac &
Marquette Railroad the standing pine on its
entire land grant, comprising SOC, 200 acres,
besides large amounts in Chippewa County
and on the Ontonagon River, and will erect
a mill at Newberry, Mich.
A MOB of mounted men gathered at
Chatham, Va, the other morning, to lynch
w. II. Yeats for the murder Of J. D. Adj
kerson, but the scheme failed through the
watchfulness OF the officials. The Governor
bad granted the condemned man respite
for one week on the ground that the slaugh-
ter was caused by Yeats discovery that his
bride had been criminally intimate with Adj
kerson.
HECKER's -four mills and the spice
mills Of Sawyer, Beers & Fisher, New York
City, were destroyed by fire, July 81, in
volving loss of $1,000.000. A fireman was
seriously injured and two others were pros
trated by the heat.