Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
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petition, Melville, Ninderman and Noros.
accompanied by Lieutenant Berry, of the
relief steamer Rodgers, arrived in New
York the other day, and were warmly well
coined. -
SHERIFF w. S. HATES and Deputy
Sheriff John Conway, OF Chattanooga, Tenn,
started for Knoxville, Sept. Il, with three
prisoners. Two of the prisoners, John Tay-
Tor and Sam Carter, under sentence for
murder, were chained to a seat. When the
train stopped at Sweetwater three men en-
tered the car One, the brother of TAYLOR,
entered the car from the rear. while the
other two entered at the front. =. Taylor )
brother approached from behind and blew
Conway's .brafns out. He then took the
keys from his victims pocket and unlocked
the prisoner. Taylor and the latter secured
the Deputy's pistol. AT this instant Sheriff
Hates rushed forward, firing at them and
the prisoners. AS he fired the prisoner shot
him through the bowels and the other two
shot him through the breast, killing him.
Prisoner Taylor was slightly wounded In the
arm and Carter in the legs. The three res
cuers were not hurt. Taylor, with the
others, jumped on the engine and com.
PEELED the engineer to put on steam and
forced him to run twenty miles. to Lenas,
through three towns, without stopping. At
Lenas the four men jumped from the engine
and secured horses, which were waiting for
them, and all escaped. At least five hum
dred men left different points in East Ten.
nessee in search of the murderers. s..H
SEVEN thieves escaped from Jail at
Louisville, KY, on the 10Th. They captured
the guard and took his keys. i,
Two murderers paid the death pen
atty in Illinois, Sept. 15-James Tracey, at
Chicago, and Samuel Redden, at Metropolis.
THE Mitchell & Rowland Lumber
Company, Toledo, Ohio, lost $500, 900 by fire
on the 18th. ...f.
Four boys ran away from their homes
in Chicago, the other day, and boarded a
freight train on the Fort Wayne road, near
Plymouth, Ind. The train was wrecked,
under the cars and instantly killed. William
Van Berger had one leg broken. The other
two boys got off with slight bruises.
NEAR Acworth, Cobb County, Ca,
the other day, Bob Edwards, drunken
negro, assaulted his SON. in law with ra
Zor, when the young man fired the contents
of both barrels of II shotgun into the old
mans stomach, killing him instantly. The
court of inquest said the son-in-law acted in
and he was discharged.
A HURRICANE destroyed ten houses
and five barns in Winsted, Conn.,, on the
14th. Some twenty persons were hurt.
Destructive storms swept over several coun-
ties i'm New York on the same day.
FOUR men were seriously injured on
an express train near Mount Carbon, Pa.
the other day. A piece of timber projecting
from passing freight penetrated the car in
which they were seated. William Snyder,
of Philadelphia, can not recover. -.t
VIM. MEIGs, an aged printer, was run
down by q train near Atlanta, Ga, on the
14th, and fatally injured.
A SERIOUS break occurred in the Erie
Canal, near Camilus, n. Y, on the 18th.
One hundred feet Of the Bernie bank was
carried away. Two boats were swept into
the break. ,-c.
AT Fort Davis, Texas, ON the 14th,
Deputy United States Marshal Studemeyer
was shot and killed by ranger on whom he
went to serve q writ.
r. BERNHARDT and NJ. McGowan
were killed by the explosion of a boiler near
Ohio, the other day.
CHARLES DALE, engineer, and Charles
Millen, brakeman, were seriously injured by
colliding trains on the Lackawanna &
Railroad, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 14th. =
WHILE VIM. Spencer and Miss Sue
Allen, of Leavenworth, Kans., were driving
home from the Fort, the other evening, the
horse ran away and plunged from a railway
bridge into a ravine. Miss Allen sustained
injuries which proved fatal soon after, and
Mr.. Spencer received two serious wounds
in the head. .s- 80
ABRAM MCGLAssoN, a farmer near
Williamstown, n.y., fell dead on the l4th,
after drinking some whisky he had found in
a bottle on his farm. The liquor had been
poisoned. 80
RICHARDs's shoe factory at Elmira,.
Loss, $500. 200.
THREE firemen were seriously in
jured in Chicago the other night. A hose
cart was overturned. Captain Murphy can
not recover.
Mrs. WALTON, on trial at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, for helping to murder her hus-
band, has been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life. &c
A FATAL explosion occurred near
Point San Pedro, CAL, on the 10TH. An
Italian named Dominic MAGIC while putting
in charge of giant powder carelessly used
an iron bar in tamping. The blast exploded
blowing MAGIC thirty feet in the air, hor.
ribly mangling the body and killing him in
stantly. A fellow workman named Daniel
McKinna was also fatally injured.
FIVE burglars gained an entrance to
the residence of James p. Emswiller, Rich
mond, Ind, the other night. and blew open
a safe in his sitting room. The thieves were
discovered, and Mr.. Emswiller gave the
alarm, hut they hushed him up by shooting
at his head. His next-door neighbour.
Methodist minister, came to the rescue and
was also driven back. Forty dollars in
money and $3.50 worth of gold neck-chains
and watches were taken.
WHILE three boys were rowing on the
river near Reading. Pa, Sept. Il, some one
threw a lighted match in the water, which
was thickly covered with benzine from the