Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Jail at Jefferson City, NO., tried to cut his
throat with a case-knife the other day. After
attempting his life, he begged the bystand-
ers to shoot him, and with sobs confessed he
had been acting badly, and wished to die to
end his disgrace. While on the way to Sc
dalia, for treatment, he slipped out Of the
car at Smithton and placed his peck on the
rail and was killed.
WITHIN two years store at Elk
River, Mimi, has been robbed five times.
On the last occasion the safe was blown
open and laces and silks worth 81 900 car
ried off. An armed posse secured the
country and found one of the thieves, who
was fatally shot in being captured. The
other was taken on the way home, and gave
up all the plumber.
THOMAS TALBOT, of Cheyenne, w.
t., was fatally shot by his wife the other
morning. They were quarreling, and Mrs
Talbot says she killed him in self defense.
GEORGE WOODRUFF, aged 20, Presi-
dent OF the First National Bank of Joliet,
H., was killed by falling into a bin at the
new elevator the other afternoon.
FIVE men were buried in coal mine
near Shenandoah, Pa, Oct. %.
WILLIE Connolly, IA years old, was
whirled to death by machinery in the Nc
Donald pump work at Dubuque, Iowa, the
other day. Nearly every bone was broken.
NEAR Geneva, Ca, the other evening,
Captain Samuel Daire, prominent poli,i
clan, fatally stabbed Calvin Calhoun, re-
Gently a candidate for the Legislature.
AN express train on the Detroit &
Milwaukee road was thrown from the track
west of Grand Rapids, Mich, the other
night. Wreckers had removed a rail on a
steep grade, and the smoking-car and one
coach went down an embankment. No one
was seriously hurt.
ROBERT MEEKIN, commercial trav-
eler, pocketed some watches and silver forks
and spoons while inspecting the stock of a
jeweler in Wheeling, W. Va, the other day,
and when arrested pleaded the opium habit
as an excuse.
JOHN HEIsER, trunk-maker, has
disappeared from Milwaukee, Wis.,, with
SO, 900 and young woman, leaving fami-
ly in want.
DENIS BoHLEN and Joseph Holman
were blown to atoms by boiler explosion
on the tug De Soto at Memphis, Tenn, the
other morning.
JOSEPH REINHARDT's saloon at Pal
estine, Ind, was blown up with dynamite
the other day. Several other buildings were
shattered.
JOSEPH TODD, farmer, of Bloom,
Wis was killed by falling tree the other
day.
DR.. ELLIOTT, recently from Almonte,
Ontario, was tarred and feathered by a
party Of citizens at Grand Forks, Dakota,
the other night. He had insulteG some
schoolgirls.
Two burglars entered drug store in
West Brookfield, Mass, the other morning,
and were chased out Of town. After shoot
ing an officer they stopped train on the
Boston & Albany road and made the con-
ductor carry them to Charleston, where they
cut the bell-rope and took to the woods.
ALOIs REGER, grocer at Buffalo, N.
Y, his wife, and three children, soon after
eating some potato pancakes the other day,
exhibited all the symptoms Of arsenical
poisoning. Mrs. Roger and one son died in
great agony, and the others were in a crit
ical condition. Mrs. Gertrude Miller, a
neighbor, visited the house after the poi
soning and ate a morsel of the remaining
cake. She also was soon Frustrated, but a
physician got her out Of danger. The
sugar.bowl showed traces of some for
eign substance, and its contents were Sc
cured for analysis.
THE tug Wetzel was completely de-
molished by the explosion of her boiler
while racing, north of Racine, Wis.,, Oct.
%. F. E. Lowell, VIM. Kelly, and Patrick
White were killed.
The engine and baggage car of an
express on the st. Louis Air Line were
ditched by train-wreckers near Boston,
Ind, the other night. John McSwain, fire.
man, was killed under the engine as it rolled
over. Several passengers were bruised, but
only one was severely hurt.
D. w. BISHOP, conductor on the
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail-
way, fell between cars the other morning
and was killed. The remains were for
warded to Cleveland, Tenn, where he leaves
a wife and four children.
RECENT fires: The Flint Mill, Fall
River, Mass. 4 magnificent granite struc-
ture, valued at $500. 900. employing so
hands in the annual production of thirteen
million yards of print cloth. The extensive
works of the Eureka Cast-steel Company at
Shamokin, Pa, valued at $50, OC0. The
American Hotel, Sheriff. House, Odd-fel-
lows Hall, and other property at True
kee, Call, to the value of 100000.
About $50, 900 worth of lumber in the docks
of Hamilton, Mcclure Sc Co., East Saginaw,
Mich.
INSPECTOR POLLOCK, who was sus-
pended by Secretary Teller for arbitrary acts
at Pine Ridge Agency, claims that more
than year ago he made report to the Com
missioner, accusing Agent McGillicuddv OF
selling annuity goods to whites, and that it
has been suppressed. The forthcoming in
vestigation into the affair will take wide
range.
SHEPARD F. KNAPP, a son of the
millionaire carpet-dealer of New York, went
fishing in a small boat on the Hudson River
the other day. A Waterman saw him spring
to his feet, clutch at his throat, and pitch
forward into the water, sinking out of sight.
LEWIS LYON, President of the Third
Avenue Railroad Company, of New York,
was twice fired at the other day by his
nephew, who then blew out his own brains.
THE residence of General Sturgis, at
ba SolJ;arsy Home in WASHINGTON. was