Iron County register., 1882-09-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

slIss CARRIE HORLoCKER, aged 49,
threw herself in front of a train at Kingston
Station, Ohio, the other night, and was
mangled to death. Her parents did not liks
the man she loved. and she thought it neces.
isary to die.
Six boys managed to upset boat,
near Bangor, Ne. the. other day. Charles
/ IBrack eft and Leroy Lozier were drowned.
The Children,s Home near Marietta,
Ohio, was damaged by fire the other night.
The little ones fled in all directions, but were
looked up and found to be all right.
KATE CoRBIN, aged 21, jumped from
the fourth floor of burning building in
Chicago, Sept. !, and was fatally injured.
Two strangers entered the Mer-
chants Bank at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the
sth. .and during the temporary absence of the
| teller seemed possession Of $40, 900 in bills.
| No one saw the men near enough to be able
to identify them and the authorities are at
| sea. As the money was not in Bills of any
particular bank there is no way of identi.
| flying it. FG
GEORGE MALLORY, an inmate of the
A!ms-house at Norwich, Conn.,. was arrest
| ed in the act of placing heavy stone on
the track of the New London & Northern
Railway the, other morning. Several at
tempts had been made to wreck fast train
and a watch had been set. When two de-
tectives pounced upon him just as he was
obstructing the track Mallory said 81 am
poor, foolish, and knew not what / was
doing" .i!.. ..,r.J ...L -s
CUPPLEs & Co.'S broom factory in
st. Louis, No., burned on the 9th. Loss
estimated at 500, 1000.
JOHN HURST, fisherman living near
Cambridge, Md, went home drunk the
other day and gave his eight-year-ol old son
good thrashing. When the wife interceded
for the boy Hurst threatened her, and man
named Moore tried to pacifv him, whereup-
on the affectionate father seized his boy by
the feet and threw him to the floor, the
blood squirting from his eyes and ears.
When picked up the child was dead.
A BAND of English gypsies travelled
with carts and wagons from Philadelphia to
New York, and encamped on vacant lot on
Broadway. They have been engaged by a
theatrical manager to appear on the stage in
an encampment scene.
A TRAIN of eighty-five freight cars on
the Pennsylvania Central became unmanage-
able on steep grade near Penobscot the
other day. After running several miles at
great speed it demolished a bridge near
Ashley. The trainmen escaped with slight
bruises. The engine and many cars were
wrecked. 4..s .... ..T
r THREE bold highway robberies have
been committed in Montreal, Quebec, with
in few days. The latest victim was a
Partisan named Hammerell, who was as
saulted near leading hotel and stripped Of
two valuable diamond rings and a large
amount in bank notes. A cabman who had
driven the tourist about town was picked up
by the police and identified as one of the
robbers. ..,.-..4 ........ a......
EIGHT bicyclists of Boston, Mass,
rode one hundred miles over country roads
in twelve hours and thirty five minutes, de-
ducting the time taken for meals.
j. H. JOHNSTON, Mayor of Danville,
Pa. and S. E. Hatcher, late Chief of Po-
lice, had scuffie in the street the other
evening. The Mayor pulled his pistol and
Hatcher may not survive.
H. j. GRONAN, nurse in the St. JO-
'seph Hospital, Baltimore, Md, was re-
proved by Sister, the other day, for not
restoring to patients money confided to his
care. He went out and shot himself and
died within an hour. =
The British bark Canomel, from Sun
derland to Java, went down with twenty
persons. ..H.
THE body of VIM. C. Ferguson, of
Steubenville, Ohio, was found on the track
near Indianapolis, Ind, the other day, the
skull cracked and an arm broken. Foul
play is suspected. ...
GEORGE Demo, formerly a Sergeant
of Police and ex-Deputy Sheriff, was shot
dead in the Parish Prison, New Orleans,
Sept. 10, by John Dominick, a Deputy Sher-
iff. 1T. .r.. re. -.
CHAs. CLARK, 16 years old, killed
his sweetheart, Mary Carroll, at Dallas,
Texas, Sept. 10.
A METEOR weighing one pound eleven
ounces fell in the center of the principal
street Of Lebanon, Pa, during recent
storm. ...-..
F. G. REYNoLDs, a distinguished
forger, has been arrested by Chicago detec-
tives. t....,. r..: .s
MAMIE LYONS, aged 4, was sent for
whisky, in Syracuse, n. Y, Sept. 8, and
drank enough of it to cause her death.
JOHN BLACKLAw, prominent farmer
of Pawnee County, Nebr., was fatally shot
by s. c. Becker, q neighbor, who mistook
him for horse-thief, the other night.
III. S. SCRIBNER, q brother of the
New York publisher, was assaulted by
in Des Moines, Iowa, the other
night, and was fatally injured.
ANDREW WETTIG, an old an almost
helpless grocer at East st. Louis. ILL.,, was
by burglars the other morning.
JUDGE KRECKLE, of the federal
court at jefferson City, Mo-, has sent
Judges Barnes and Johnston, of Cass
County, to jail for refusing to order q levy |
to satisfy judgment obtained on railroad
bonds. |
SAM HAZEL, tried at Anna, ILL.,, for |
the murder of little Mollie Dalton, has been |
to Imprisonment for ninety mine |
years. .4
A SMALL fire in St. Thomas's Catho- |
lie Church, Cincinnati, Sept. IL, caused a
panic, during which a number of children |