Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

her husband, set fire to her house and
threw herself into the flames. She was res
cued by policeman, but was severely
burned.
CHARLES MATTHEWS, editor of the
Hornet, was shot four times and killed in
an affray with Col. S. W. Fordyce, Vice.
President of the St. Louis & Texas Narrow
Gauge Railroad, and Col. Rugg, one of the
proprietors of the Arlington Hotel, at Hot
Springs, Ark, on the ed. 1t is not known
whether Fordyce or Rugg fired the fatal
shot. Rugg was wounded.
NJ. DAVIS, postmaster at Athens, Ga,
and Randall Brown. another negro, got in
to a political discussion the other night.
Davis settled the point by fatally stabbing
Brown in the abdomen.
Gus KNIGHT, negro, assaulted the
wife of Harmon Mcdaniel, a respected
farmer of jefferson County, Ga, the other
day. He was arrested soon after, confessed,
and was riddled with bullets by q party of
disguised men.
Mrs. DAVID HENNEssY, wife of a
prosperous farmer near Troy, N. Y, took a
dose of Paris green during a fit of Temporal
ry insanity, OH the 2lst, and died in about
five hours. She was fifty years Of age, and
the mother of eight children.
THE members of the INNINGS stock
firm of James G. Sands & Co., of New York,
disappeared some days ago. Sands was
secretary of several mining companies, and
is said to have gone to Mexico. Two ladies
have lost $4,000 each by the collapse, and
several prominent lawyers are out about
SIC, 200 each.
A DAUGHTER of William Smith
O'Brien visited Castle Garden, New York,
the other day, in search of Information as to
the treatment of immigrants on their arri-
val. She intends to establish a. boarding
house for female emigrants in Liverpool.
THE steamer Edom is reported lost in
a collision with the Lepanto, from Hull, on
the 21st. Two sailors persisted.
SEVERAL passengers were killed and
many seriously injured by a collision of
trains in the tunnel at Eighty-si street,
New York, on the ODD. Following are the
names of the dead so far as known: Sher-
man Adamson, Of Mt. Vernon; Frederick
Stein, of New Rochelle; Miss j. Smith,
school teacher, of New York City; Eugene
Aubert, ool-teacher, Of Mt Vernon. 1t
is claimed that the accident was the result
of gross mismanagement.
Mrs. M. w. FOLGER, aged so, fell or
jumped off a Wabash train between Bement
and Monticello, ILL.,, the other morning. and
was fatally injured. She was on her way
from Hennepin to Little Rock, Ark. The
body was inferred in the Piatt County Poor
Farm.
A BRAKEMAN, conductor, and tele-
grapher have been held to answer for the
vul-&
PORTER WHITE, of Sedalia, Mo-,
took to drinking, some weeks ago, and
treated his wife so badly she left him. On
the night of the 22d he paid her visit and
killed her. He then put bullet in his own
brain, lingering but short time.
MATHEW Comfy. of Claremout, N.
H., aged IS, was reproved by his mother the
other day, whereupon he went into wood
shed and emptied the chambers of revolt
yer into his heart.
A TRAIN carrying Austrian soldiers
near Eek, on the 23d. Fifteen hussars
were drowned and some thirty injured.
TIE Chinese quarter of Susanville,
CAL, was fired the other morning. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
MRS. JANE HICKEY and Christopher
Carten were drowned in a canal lock near
New Brunswick, n. j., on the 23d.
VIM. MCGEARY, aged 16, went COON
hunting near gainesville, Ohio, the other
night, and lost his life while telling a tree.
His body was found by some workmen who
were led to the spot by the boys dog.
Mrs. ELSA MILLS and her daughter
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wagon by a runaway horse, near Gallipolis,
Ohio, the other day. Mrs. Mills was killed
Instantly; the young lady escaped with a
few bruises.
EDWARD SIDDoNs, in Jail at Cincin-
natl for assaulting little girl. was fatally
burned by the explosion Of lamp in his
cell the other night.
GEORGE RATHsACK, of Manitowoc,
Wis.,, native of Poland, deliberately split
open his wife's head, the other day, because
she would not give him money to purchase
liquor. lie then took SIS from her pockets
and fed. His mother witnessed the trage-
dy.
JACK CHAPMAN, colored, was exc
cuted at Bellevue. La, on the 22d, for the
murder Of John Williams.
CHICAGO butchers are erecting on a
wharf at New York a two STORY refrigerator,
eighty feet long and twenty feet wide, in
which to store dressed beef slaughtered on
the prairies.
THE friends of John B. Davis, presi-
dent of the suspended banking company Of
Richmond, Virginia, have executed papers
covering his Indebtedness and securing de-
positors in full.
AN insane daughter of James Cleve-
land, of Nashville, Tenn, poisoned six
members of the family by putting strychnine
in the coffee, a few DAYS ago. The father is
already dead, and one of the daughters can
not recover.
The Exhibition building at Sydney,
New South Wales, with all its contents, was
swept away by fire. The loss is reported at
f5OO, 200.
B. F. CAMERON, a wealthy planter,
and his daughter Laura, were brought into
Dallas, Texas, the other day, and delivered
to the county authorities, both raving ma
MACS. Mr.. Cameron was insane about
eighteen months ago, but after term Of
three months in the State Asylum was re-