Iron County register., 1882-03-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Holland, Mich, whose members favor the
Masonic order, recently resolved to secede
from the Protestant Reformed Church of
America, and refused to allow the use of
the edifice for q meeting of the classis, the
gates being nailed and guarded. A free
fight resulted, and the Mayor read the riot
| act and ordered three arrests.
The damage to the Memphis & Little
| Rock Railroad by floods is estimated at
$5OO,0OO. Refugees are flocking to Memphis
by hundreds. The commissioners to dis
tribute rations for Arkansas and Mississippi
| have forwarded supplies to various points.
The water at New Orleans is greatly higher
than the average leyel of the city.
The hatters of Danbury, Conn, being
on strike, the Governor has ordered the
| militia of Hartford to be in readiness to
| move. The strike at the Bessemer steel
| works at Homestead, Pa, led to riot, in
which three men were injured.
ALICE WRIGHT, aged 10, a member
of theatrical company performing in
Cleveland, Ohio, jumped from the fourth
story window Of the Striebinger House
| March A., and was instantly killed. No cause
| is assigned for the act, but it is believed she
was demented, as since an attack of typhoid
fever last fall she has occasionally manifested
symptoms of mental alteration. She seemed
in her usual health and spirits and acted
her part at the matinee, but after the per-
formance she went to the hotel and took the
fatal jump. She was an orphan, native Of
England.
In a recent collision on the Syracuse,
Chenango & New York Railway, near Earl
vile, George Collins, John Sullivan, and
Toh ki1Joi opd
Atwood was seriously injured. The acci-
dent was caused by a misinterpretation of
orders.
THE pedestrian contest in New York
City resulted as follows: Hazael 600, Fitz-
gerald 577, Noremac 555, Hart 542, Hughes
531, Sullivan 525 miles. The receipts are
estimated at $50, 900; expenses, ,$24 800. The
winner, George Hazael, is to receive the
whole amount of the entrance money of
81, 900 each for ten men, except 81 ZOO, which
will go to the second man. His entire re-
ceipts are $21.7 .75O, besides the trophy. The
second man, Patrick Fitzgerald, will re-
ceive in all $6, 100. Noremac will receive $3,-
O6O, Hart 5000, Hughes 1850, Sullivan
81, ,O2O.
THE boiler in Wesler & Barnes saw
mill, Stones Station, Ind, exploded the
other morning, killing five men and wound
ing two others. The bodies Of the killed
were horribly mangled. The boiler divided
into dozen pieces and scattered in every
direction.
HENRY CARLSON and Peter johnson
were crushed to death by a landslide near
Ishpeming, Marquette County, Mich, the
other night. Collins Magannis was fatally
injured and Thomas Williams was badly
hurt.
THE remains of man named
Henry Welcker were found in hay-loft
at st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 4th. He was
identified by means of pawn ticket from
Denver. A coroner's jury returned ver
diet of death from an unknown cause. The
body was half decomposed, and rats had
mutiiated it in a horrible manner.
THE steamer James D. Parker, from
Cincinnati for Memphis, sunk in the chan
mel under the railroad bridge at Louisville,
KY, on the 5th.. The boat was being piloted
over the falls by Capt. Pink Varble, and he
accounts for the accident by the vessel re-
fusing to answer her helm. She was draw
ing only 1-2 feet of feet of water in the
chute. The boat lies at the lower end of the
rubble rock, with bow up stream, and is a
total loss. The Life Saving crew arrived n
ten minutes, and prevented loss of life.
Amid the excitement the boat took fire, but
the effort of those on board was sufficient to
extinguish the flames before they had gained
much headway.
THE knife was used with fatal effect
in Hamden, Ohio, the other day. David
Sands and Charles Murray Knocked each
other down on the threshold of saloon, and
the former stabbed the latter in two places.
Murray was 80 years of age, and leaves a
wife and four small children.
AT Memphis, the other evening, ex-
Governor R. j. Morgan made an assault on
Colonel Nichols, Of the AUaldnche, knock
ing him to the ground with cane. They
were separated by friends, and a duel was
expected. Both gentlemen were placed un-
der 5000 bonds to keep the peace for
year.
HEsSIE HELFMANN, the Nihilist, who
received respite from execution for the
murder of the Car, died recently at ST. Pc
tersburg.
WAR has broken out in Bath County, |
Virginia, between the natives and party of |
surveyors engaged in measuring off a large |
tract of land belonging to Gen. B. F. Butler. |
The surveyors were attacked by seventy |
five Virginians, and, after sharp engage
ment, in which 100 shots were fired and sew
eral persons wounded, surrendered at dis |
Getion and left the country.
HENRY CRAIG and Jesse Galveston, |
colored bootblacks, IA years of age, quar-
relied in Memphis, Tenn, the other day.
Craig's head was split with brick and GAL
weston was killed by a knife-thrust in the
heart.
WESLEY COBB, his wife, and seven
children, living at Thomaston, Upson Coun
ty, Ga, were recently poisoned by eating
biscuit mixed with cotton-s seed OIL They
were out of lard, and having read that cot
tom seed oil was good substitute, worked
some of it up in the dough. All who par
took were seized with violent convulsions
and vomiting, but recovery was thought
possible in each case.
ELLA BIDDY, age II, of Indianapolis,
broke her spine by falling upon piano stool
which she had overturned while practicing,