Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

legs were cut of below the knees, and the
body cut and bruised. 1t is thought he at
| tempted to board a moving train and fell
| under the wheels. There is no clue to his
identity, except q small Catholic prayer.
book bearing the name of j. M. Carmichael
on the fly.leaf.
The police of Dallas, Texas, have ar
rested a man supposed to be Charles Saun-
ders, who murdered Officer Printz, of St
Louis, on June 1, 1879. and who has ever
since evaded arrest. The accused, however,
stoutly asserts his ability to prove that JUS
tice is on the wrong track.
SEVEN bodies were recovered from
the wreck of the Robert E. Lee on the 9th,
some of which have been identified.
AN accident on the stage of the Royal
| Opera House in Berlin caused a panic in
which many persons were severely injured.
A LAZY fagman caused collision on
the Baltimore & Ohio, near Pittsburg, Pa,
the other day. Sanders, q brakemen, was
killed; Conductor Ruffner lost leg, and
| another trainman was badly hurt.
In the annual Mohammedan cere-
many of the holy carpet, in Cairo, General
| Wolseley and the Duke Of Connaught ap-
peared in the procession, following a camel
loaded with gifts for the Caliph.
AT a meeting of the American Board
of Foreign Missions in Portland, Me-. the
other day, Rev. DIR. Alden announced q
financial crisis which scarcely admitted of
hope. William E. Dodge electrified the as.
| sembIage by offering to double his sub
| scription, an example which was instantly
followed by dozen gifts Of $1,000 each. A
touching appeal by DR.. Webb, of Boston,
caused fifteen hundred men and women to
rise to their feet simultaneously and pledge
twice the sum they had previously offered,
the total amount secured being $4,000.
FRANK HIT, aged Is, son of q Car
inspector, was decapitated by train in the
depot at Hornellsville, n. Y, the other day.
MEXICAN robbers at Tacubaya killed
Frederic Hubbi, the tax collector, MORALLY
wounded his wife, and took 1900 from
the safe.
GEORGE ScovILLE, of Chicago has
filed in the Cook County Court an affidavit
that his wife is insane, and asks that pro.
ceedings may be instituted to determine the
question. Not having the Sc to pay the fees
he swore that he and the patient were
paupers.
JOSEPH FRY, an aged miser of Vim
cennes, Ind, has just closed his career Of
money getting. Inside his shirt there was
found a mass of greenbacks amounting to
81, $50. His chief avocation has been the
collection Of cigar stumps, and he died from
attempting to live on green apples. His will
gives $3.50 to the Catholic church, and the
remainder to a sister in Germany.
A BURGLAR who was surprised in the
residence of Mr.. Pierce, at Dallas, Texas,
threw a lighted kerosene lamp at the gentle
man, and the house was burned to the
ground.
ANDREW EsENHARDT, merchant at
Iberville, Quebec, has followed his fourth
failure by Ascending to the United States.
He was formerly a member Of Parliament,
and three times compromised at % per
cent. His present liabilities are S6O, 000, and
he is thought to have carried away q con-
siderable amount. &
GEORGE Downs, the only child of a
widow, in Dover, N. H., died two months
ago. The blow finally rendered the mother
insane, and early the other morning she
was found digging up the casket in the
cemetery, in the hope Of restoring her boy
to life.
LEOPOLD FURRER, President of the
DOMu VI CupcINiSOTS dC AIiLOhds
was shot dead by William Douchy for re-
fusing to pay an alleged debt. The latter
was taken to the Penitentiary for fear of
lynching.
AT Galveston, Texas, Oct. z, a little
daughter of Charles Werth was crushed to
death by the wheels of a dray driven by
Andrew Conrad.
ABoILER explosion at Longford Mills,
Ontario, killed Fireman Ellis and Frederick
Grey. David Roberts and several others
were seriously injured.
WIN. MARTIN, Is years of age, called
at police headquarters in New York City,
the other morning, and asked for permit
to carry pistol, saying he wanted to shoot
President Arthur. He was committed for
examination.
GEORGE HUNTINGTON, of Amesbury,
Mass, his wife, and four children were
drowned while boating, Oct. Z.
JAMES HAY SMITH, agent for manu-
featuring firm in Montreal, Quebec, either
committed suicide or was murdered and
thrown in the river, at Chicago, the other
day.
JAMES A. WATKINS, a member of the
Virginia Legislature from AppomattoxC oun-
ty, has been indicted by the grand jury for
accepting $50 from E. S. Birmingham as the
price of an appointment as guard at the
Penitentiarv.
In collision near Bridgeville, Del,
on the 7th, Edward Webb, colored, was
killed and three other trainmen were seri
ously injured.
JOHN POLLING, proprietor of the
European Hotel at Plattsmouth, Neb., and
j. Mather had some words the other day
about letter said to have been received by
the latter from Mrs. Polling. The two men
met on the street, Oct. Z, and went to the
hotel, where, after closing the doors Polling
pulled his pistol and made a fatal wound in
Mather's head, after which he walked out
and surrendered to the sheriff.
7. G. HEDGES, an estimable young
man in business at Des Moines, Iowa, acct
dentally killed himself while examining a