Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-12
Personal AND GENERAL.

w. G. WHITAKER, of Paschalville,
Pa, has been arrested for poisoning his wife
and six children. A boarder named Cooper
was also poisoned. Some of the sufferers are
in critical condition. 1t is alleged Whit.
taker placed arsenic in a bucket of water
with which tea was made.
FOUR negroes were killed and several
wounded in fight at a political meeting at
Lancaster. S. c., the other day.
JOHN ROPER, the Chicago embezzler,
has been sentenced to twenty-seven years
imprisonment.
HENRY BURKE and Martin Carlson,
employees of the Standard Oil Works. Long
Island City, N. Y, were fatally burned
while uDcovering still.
THE police raided sixty-fiye gambling
houses in New York City the other day.
The Ford boys are positive that Mrs.
Frank James, if not her husband, is after
them in New York. They have accordingly
invoked police protection.
DURING fuss between David Pear
son, a hack driver, ard Charles Patterson, a
gambler. at indianapolis, Sept Is, the latter
shot the former dead. {st .
G. j. WELToN was killed and his
near New Britain, Conn.,, Sept. %.
II. M. VALE and colored servant
named Reed were seriously injured by the
explosion of gasoline generator, near In
dependence, Mo-, the other day.
j. w. MEDKoFF, employed in paper
mill near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was found
dead in the woods the other morning, with
a charge of shot in the head and an empty
gun at his side. T.,.r.t rr-E.r.-. g..
F. B. RUSSELL, a grocer in Memphis,
Tenn, shot a negro thief the other night
and took him to drug store to have the
wound dressed, thoughtlessly leaving his
revolver on the counter while this was being
done. Springing for the weapon, the negro
shot Russell in the breast and abdomen, and
hobbled off in the darkness. IT,
A STEAM CAR carrying passengers be-
tween Black Rock and Victoria, Ont. +,
plunged into the Niagara River, Sept. %,
through an open draw Of the International
bridge. Edward Bohn, engineer, and Ed
ward Hershy, farmer, were killed. Mrs.
j. w. Parmlee, of Victoria, Canada; John
Cornell and Miss Council, Albany, n. Y;
Conductor James Haggert and three others
were seriously bruised. "a. ...E
Mrs. LEWIS RATHBoNE was killed
and ex- Assemblyman A. J. Parker seriously
injured by runaway horses near Albany, N.
Y, Sept. %. Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Strong
were slightly bruised.
Two THOUSAND veteran soldiers of
Iowa and Missouri in camp at Council
Bluffs engaged in sham battle the other
day. g.. --
EEnPCE a ND Tf no a q
Bishop and nephew of Senator Booth, be-
came insane on the way from Washington
to indianapolis. Having locked himself in
his room for two days without food, it was
deemed time to send him to a private asy-
lum. He sprang past the landlord of
hotel at Richmond, Ind, and threw himself
from third-story window, alighting head
first on the stone pavement, and there is lit
tie hope of his recovery.
Two young women of New Orleans
fought with butcher-knives, the other day,
on account Of the attentions of man. Me-
lissa Power was killed by a thrust in the
breast, while Addie johnson is in critical
condition.
A REvIvALIsT named johnson has
been conducting a series of meetings at
Waltham, Massachusetts,, in a manner so
that prominent citizens have
petitioned the selectmen to abate the gath
erings as nuisance.
WHILE escorting a young lady home
from a dance, in Columbus, Ohio, the other
night, Charles Victor was attacked by
jealous youth named j. T. Butler. The ever
ready revolver was brought into play; But
Ter fell dead, and Victor went to prison.
THREE workmen were killed and 9TH
ers badly injured by premature blast on
the West Shore Railroad, near Cornwall, N.
Y, Sept. 80.
SEVEN members of the Charleton fam
lily, living near Fort Arbuckle, Chcasaw
Nation, I. T., were poisoned by eating toad
stools mistaken for mushrooms the other
day.. Three deaths occurred; the others
may recover. ~ s.... l...- --. .... ...-
JOHN SCHILENsKI and Anton Koa-
sawba, Poles, persisted in fire at Lemont,
H., the other night. They had been drink
ing, and went to bed with cigars. ..
THREE children of Hillair Rousseau,
Rimouski, Quebec, were burned to death
the other day.
THOMAS MCCARTHY, aged 16, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the head, at Laredo, Texas, Sept. so.
IRELAND was swept by a hurricane on
the LIST. 1t was particularly destructive at
Cork, where many dwellings were ruined and
a number of vessels driven ashore.
TRAIN wRECKERs threw passenger
express from the track near Rochester. n.
H., Sept. 80. Oliver Goldsmith and r. NJ.
Randall were badly hurt.
j. r. BoGGEss, a prosperous farmer
near rksburg, w. Va, killed his wife
and thirteen-year-old daughter, Draining
them with poker, Oct. 1. He was drunk.
ARMED. men took possession of train
near Granada, Colo, the other night, and
robbed the express car Of s.. 500 in money.
MAX LowENsTEIN, of Philadelphia,
Pa, killed himself on his wife's grave. in
Frankfort, Oct. 1.
A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the
division of the Pittsburgh, Cincin-
natl & st. Louis Railroad, three miles north
Of Logansport, Ind, Oct. l. During dense
fog a switch engine collided with freight
train, wrecking both locomotives. One of
fbo enoineerS had his leo brok en-. two other