Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Church at RoXborough, n. c., the other
evening, was abruptly terminated by the
fall of an immense chandelier. A number
of wershipers were injured In the panic
which ensued.
j. H. COREY, proprietor of the Belle
vue Hotel, Long Branch, n. j., who would
not allow two sick gentlemen to remain in
his establishment for few days unless paid
81, 500, has been indicted for robbery, riot,
extortion, assault and battery, and main
tanning a nuisance.
A TRAIN of twenty-five empty stock
cars made a test of the Northern Pacific
iron bridge across the Missouri at Mandan,
Dakota, the other day, amid salutes from
the steamboats, and locomotives in sight. On
the return trip eight heavily LOADED ears
were attached, and no vibration was felt.
PHILADELPHIA has been excited by a
series of remarkable explosions of gas
mains under Twentieth street. Things
were badly shaken up, but nobody was
hurt.
THE suit of Marie Prescott, the &C.
tress, against the President of the Ameri-
can News Company, New York, resulted in
a verdict of So, 800 for plaintiff.
SMALLPOX is raging at Paterson, N.
j., in spite Of wholesale vaccination. 1t is
charged that the virus obtained is useless.
AT Eastman, Ca, Oct. 90, Joe King,
Bob Donaldson, Simon O'Quinn, Reddick
Powell, and Ella Moore, all colored, were
hanged for participating in the riot at a
camp-meeting in August last which ended
in the murder of James Harvard, young
white man.
Miss IDA GRAVES, aged 10, was shot
dead as she sat at a window in Marietta,
Mich, the other evening. Suspicion falls
on her fathers hired man, named Sullivan,
lover, whose proposition she had refused
in the afternoon.
ALICE FIELD, pretty girl of fifteen,
was drugged and assaulted by James Car
penter and VIM. McMurry, at Hasling,
Mich, on the Goth, and died within few
hours.
r. o. SToRRs & Co., manufacturers
of woolens at Dedham, Mass, have failed.
Liabilities, 1880, 900: nominal assets, S225,
900.
JOHN WINNING, aged Is, was fatally
injured by the accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting near Newburg, W. Va,
on the 10Th.
A FREIGHT TRAIN on the Charlotte &
Augusta road, was thrown from the track
near Columbia, S. c., early the other morn
ing, distractions having been placed in a
gravel-pit. The engine, tender and five
box cars were wrecked. The engineer was
badly scalded. The fireman was slightly
wounded, and a brakeman named Tom
Mitchell was killed by the tender rolling on
him.
VIM. GIBSON, City Marshall of Hori-
con, Wis, was shot and seriously injured
the other night by drunken man whom he
tried to arrest.
THE explosion of a three-gallon can
of benzine demolished a brick house in
Frankford, Pa. the other day. Mrs. Heff
was badly injured.
A DESPERATE fight between Mexican
Custom house officers and fifteen snug
glers is said to have occurred ON the road
between Lampasas and Milmos Mountains,
Mex. Four of the smugglers were killed
outright and four more captured and taken
prisoners to Monterey, seven escaping.
The goods found in possession of the snug
glers consisted of American prints, and
were confiscated.
A MEETING of Socialists in Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 22d, was broken up by the
police.
l.. B. CORDER, F. A. Meade, ]. G.
Cass, and j. F. Reades, cowboys with Maj.
Falls, who is in charge of a lot of cattle be-
longing to Supt. Strong and others. of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, be-
ing on a big spree, attacked the east
bound train at Lakin, HANS, the other
day. The raid was instituted by dis
charged operator. The cars were perforated
in many places and the windows broken,but
no one was seriously injured. A posse of
ten men captured all the parties, one Of
them making a desperate resistance. He
was fired at over twenty times, and his
horse killed. He was finally dislodged from
a dug.out.
HARRY and Estella Fancher, aged
about 81 and A. years respectively, claiming
to be brother and sister, have been arrested
in Detroit, Mich, for obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses in Buffalo, n. Y. They
took rooms, advertised for young ladies
wanting employment at $50 per month, Sc
cured an advance Of IS from about $50 vic
Tins and emigrated. They were preparing
to victimize Michigan girls by a similar en-
terprise.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY and Michael DAY.
lit declare from personal knowledge that
the statements published regarding deficit
in the Land League funds are unfounded.
H. P. KEYS, guest at the Valentine
House, Washington, D. c., blew out the
gas before going to sleep the other night.
He was nearly dead when discovered.
THREE men have been arrested in
New York for blsckmailing Walter Malley,
one of the brothers charged with the muir
der of Jennie Cramer.
JOHN DEvoY, editor of the Irish Na-
ton, has been arrested in New York on a
charge of libeling August Belmont. The
paper accused the banker of retaining
Fenian funds deposited in 1865.
Mrs. D. BROWN, of Salisbury, N. c.,
was fatally injured by fractions cow the
other day.
A FREIGHT train on the Louisville &
Nashville road ran into some cattle near
KY, the other day, and
went into a cornfield. George Minot, en-
p A.