Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-09
JUDGE GRESHAM, of the United States

JUDGE GRESHAM, of the United States
Circuit Court at Indianapolis, has given
Judgment against railroad company for
was crushed in consequence of the coupling
apparatus of cars being out of repair.
WILLIAM PARENT, of Iron Mountain,
Mich, jumped into the lake, at Milwaukee,
the other day. He was rescued, but after
ward leaped from the third story window Of
his hotel and broke both his feet.
THE bark Melville, from China, Aug.
IS, for Victoria, B. c., foundered off the
coast Oct. 10. All on board are believed to
have been lost. Captain Harlow had with
him his wife and two children.
ABBEY's Park Theater, New York, at
which Mrs. Langtry was to have appeared,
was totally destroyed by fire, Oct. 80, in
volving loss of $3.50, 900.
DICK WEsTENRA has been arrested at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, for obtaining money
under false pretenses, representing himself
as an English nobleman. During the fall of
1878 this individual figured in Ottawa $
Hon. Richard Westenra, was received into
the best society, was a constant visitor at
the government house, and victimiZed to a
considerable extent several of his new
formed acquaintance. In time to save ar
rest he took flight to the United States,
where he figured conspicuously as Lord
Courtney, under which name he was ar
rested in New York in 1880 on charge of
being an impostor. After his liberation he
travelled under several aliases, and is re-
ported to have added innumerable victims
to his list.
THE body of an unknown man, well
dressed in dark clothes, about feet inches
high, with dark hair and eyes, smooth face,
and evidently about % years old, was found
in barn near Danville, ILL.,, the other day,
with bullet-hole near the heart.
WIN. r. TAYLOR, of Smithport, Pa,
shot himself in the head the other morning
because his domestic relations were not
happy.
A PULLMAN palace car on the English
railway between London and Glasgow
caught fire the other morning and the pas
sengers barely escaped. Conductor Arthur.
of Aberdeen, was burned to death.
THE New York police have arrested a
number of ruffians who have been forcing
money from Chinese laundrymen.
ANTON DELANo was fatally stabbed
by Emil Trompeter in a Cincinnati board
ing house the other night. Delano was
dancing, in his own room, and some of the
boarders proposed calling policeman; but
Emil, who was quite sober, said it was not
necessary, and then went for butcher knife
and plunged it into Anton's breast. The
murderer was allowed to walk off. SD.
A HEAVY log rolled on number of
children playing about saw-mill in Waynes
field, Ohio, Oct. 80. Blanche Gardner, aged
5, was killed and four others were fatally
crushed.
A FREIGHT train on the Delaware &
Hudson road ran off a trestle near Putnam,
n. Y, the other night. Charles Wheeler
and George Near were killed. Eighteen cars
were burned.
Mrs. MARY GooGINs, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, was fatally burned by the explosion of
a lamp thrown at her by an intoxicated fe-
male named Weyman the other night.
The jury in the Hazard will case at
Newport, r. l., contested by the widow
and others on the ground that the testator
was of unsound mind and possessed of de-
lusions concerning his property and kim
dred, failed to agree. The greater part Of
the estate, valued at $500 900, is beqeathed
TO hospital, in trust.
FLORENCE WILSON, colored, formerly
and mortally wounded a negro named James
Shannon at a dance in Cincinnati the other
night. Shannon was approaching her in a
threatening manner, and she thought her
life in danger.