Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-13
PEssoNxE-AND GENERAL.

fEssSONAL AND GENERAL.
EX-GOVERNOR MOSES, of South Car
olina, has again been arrested in New York
on a charge Of swindling.
TRUMAN DUNHANI, President of the
Cleveland Linseed Oil Works, an old and
honored citizen, was caught in machinery,
March so, and killed. He was alone in the
basement, where there was large belt
which runs the grinder; in some unknown
way he was caught in the belt, carried into
the machinery and the body shockingly
crushed. Deceased had been trustee of the
Cleveland water-works for many years.
Two inmates of the Dayton (Ohio)
Lunatic Asylum had deadly struggle the
other night. One, named John Drummond,
had arrived that day. He was a farmer,
living in Brown county, and the cause of
his insanity was said to be jealousy. He
had several times attempted suicide, and
threatened to kill others. On his arrival he
was quiet and tractable, but during the
night he became noisy and was removed to
a strong cell, in which was an old man
named O'Connell, of quiet habit. When
the Waterman entered the cell, toward
morning, O'ConneI bounded out from the
corner, frantic with excitement. He said
Drummond had attacked and bitten him, so
he Echoked him iquiet. Drummond was
found dead on the floor covered with blood,
one eye gouged out AND otherwise terribly
mutilated. O'Conneli was also badly bruised
and scratched in many places, and on
finger was nearly bitten off. 'E'"
So j.. w. SHEEHAN, a young man stop
ping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Kansas
;fu NFo -,
March 80, having taken poison. The fol-
owing note was found on the tables: "My
fathers address is William. Sheehan, North
Walpole, N. H.'' Sheehan had a letter of
Recommendation from the Smith Refrigera-
tor, Manufacturing Company, of Michigan
City, Ind, speaking of him as s1sober, in
dustrieus man. 1t is supposed he took the
dose in a fit of dependency, finding himself
out of work and among strangers. ' >
The Field monument to Major An
DIRE, at Tappan, N. Y, was partially de.
stroyed by dynamite, March 80, notwith
standing the guard established since the de-
Placement on Washington's Birthday.
THE following murderers were sus-
pended on the 31st:, Doc. Wright, colored,
at Chatham, Va; al. Weisingersand Bill
Ludlow, at Selma, Ala. At South Pueblo,
Colo, w. e. Phebus and. J. w. McGrew,
eminent horse thieves, were taken from Jail
and hanged by masked men. The vigilantes-
then rode to a ranch ten miles away, cap-
tured the Chastine brothers and an accom-
plice named Owsby, and strung them up in
the adjacent timber. 1t is stated that but
one of the gang Is left as sample, and .
necktie is ready for him. y ii.r' - 5'i p.
q THE Coroner's jury find that the
burning of the steamer Golden City at Mem
phis, March 80, twas caused by Wash Smith,
colored, captain Of the watch. handling
lamp, setting fire to lot Of jute then and
there stored in the deck room, and said jute
was not covered as it should have been to
avoid accident of fire; that stored near the
jute was a lot of tar and oil barrels, and that
the manner in which said jute, tar and bar
rels were loaded, and in the absence Of
proper coverings, and absence of specific
orders in regard to carrying lamps through
the boat evinces most positive criminal care
lessness on the part of the mate and other
officers of said boat, whose duty it was to
look after the loading and management of
the boat in such way as not to endanger hui
man life.' e. u 't
MoLLIE BOYER, aged II, belle of
Philadelphia, Pa, was drenched with vitriol
just as she was entering her residence the
other evening. Blinded by the blistering
shower she fell with cry of agony into the
to admit her. The motive for the assault is
shrouded in mystery. Mr.. John E. Keys
and his wife occupy the house from which
the vitriol was thrown. Some friends
standing on the opposite side of the street
hat bov- old lod 1oo NJ ho
third-story window, as if watching the eff
feet of the deadly shower. The two fam
lilies are not acquainted, and no trouble Of
any kind has occurred between them.
LILLY and Hany, two Indian muir
derers, were recently shot dead at Okmul-
gee, Indian Territory. The spectators were
nearly all Indians, mainly friends of the.
prisoners. There was no disturbance,
scarcely word being spoken from the time
the criminals were led from Jail until the
sharp report of the rifles announced that
their doom had been sealed and the law
indicated. They were found guilty of the
murder of an Indian sixty years old, who
had been robbed by Lilly, and who was
prosecuting him for the theft. The muir
derers professed to have been converted
and united with the NJ. E. Church. They
died expressing the hope Of eternal life.
OFFICER JONES, of Kansas City, Mo-,
was fatally wounded, April g., while at
tempting to arrest two negroes who had been
charged with theft. The men started to run
away, but one Of them, Dick Harrington,'
was captured. As officers were taking him to
the Central Station they were ,oyerpowered
by mob, who took the prisoner and swung
him of from the Bluff Street Bridge. As
he went over he shrieked that he was inno-
cent. One of the crowd fired pistol shot,
the rope was cut, and he fell corpse to the
track below. The mob quickly dispersed,
and no arrests were made. The other man
was captured in Kansas City, Kan, and is
now In Jail. Il v'2 -
PARTICULARS Of the fire at the Yank-
ton County (Dak.) Insane Asylum have Just
been received. The fire is supposedto have /.
caught from the kitchen There were at the
asylum fifty-tbree patients and twenty Off
GERS and attendants, with their families