Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-30
fEhSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Asyium, az ,tica, walked into that gentle
n'n o !. March 10th, and shot him. The
amo'ss" Aor then went to the jail and gave
nlin>e Iup, surrendering two navy reyolv-
o.s' one 6-barrel revolver, one repeater, one
"a RI, bottle Of chloroform. and about thir-
" bundles of cartridges. The wound was
not considered dangerous.
Miss ANNA NJ. Hermann, q native of
! Germany, 81 years of age, died Of starvation
March Is, in the Clark County Und.) Poor
Asylum. Miss Hermann was lady of SUI
perior intelligence, and for a time taught
languages in Jacksonville. One day in
January last she suddenly became violently
| insane and was arrested. She requested the
officer 10 kill her, as she desired to go to
heaven without DELAY. When this was re-
| fused her, she determined to die by starving
herself. The visiting physician and superin-
tendent used every effort to induce her to
partake of food, but to no purpose. One day
shortly after her arrival at the asylum she
/ ate portion of an apple, but since that time
| she partOok of no food whatever. She would
4 drink little water once day for a while,
| but lately had been unable to retain even
| that on her stomach. During the last few
| DAYS of her two months fast, Miss Hermann
grew very weak, but retained her senses up
TO the end. She conversed intellgently, and
when doctor called upon her the other day
| she said: 81 did not send for you, and as
| you are intruding wish you would retire."
From very stout person, weighing more
than 200 pounds, she was reduced to about
so, and the little flesh which chung to her
| bones was almost mortified.
KONALD's gin distillery at Grapevine
Point, near New Haven, Conn.,, burned on
the 18th. Loss, 10000: insurance, $4,000.
Before the engines were called away another
alarm was caused by the burning of the
Calvary Baptist Church. Only the steeple
and walls were left standing. Loss, 49,,
900; insurance, $4,000. Both fires were in
cendiary.
A SHOCKING accident occurred on the
Cleveland & Marietta Railroad, near Wes-
ley, o., March 10th, which resulted in the
injury of thirteen passengers, several of
whom, it is feared, can not recover.
Spreading rails threw coach down an en-
bankment.
D. OWENS, an Englishman, made an
assault upon a young lady, at Tampa, Fla,
March IS, inflicting knife-wOunds which
will probably cause her death. He was
captured and placed in Jail, but within an
hour was taken out by a mob and hanged to
tree in the Court house yard, where the
United States Court was in session. The
Mayor and Sheriff protested, and Lieut..
Davies, of the Third United States Artillery,
ordered out the garrison to rescue the pris-
oner, but before the troops arrived Owens
was dead.
P. DEvENow, H. Phueger, and S.
Trent were seriously injured by the eXplo-
sion of gasometer in the German Hospi-
tai. San Francisco, CAL, the other night.
JOHN MATT, telegraph operator and
station agent at Glendale, Mo-, was arrested
on the 10Th by Detective Gorham, of New
York, on a charge of participation in the
Chicago & Alton express robbery, at Blue
Cut, September I, 1881. Gorham states that
he has not only overwhelming proof of
Mats guilt, but also of the guilt of the 9TH
ers OF the gang now awaiting trial. He says
further that Jesse James was the leader of
the gang, and remained in the immediate
vicinity of the crime for several days after
the robbery and was in Independence dur
ing the trial of Bill Ryan. The intention at
the time was to rob not only the train, bnt
also the Independence banks and rescue
Ryan, but the two latter plans were frus-
trated by the prompt uprising of the people.
ROBERT NAVARRO, saloon-keeper of
Newport, Monroe County, Mich, has en-
tered suit in the Circuit Court against Rev.
Father Guthrie, pastor of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church of that place. Navarro, who is
Il member of the church committee, charges
the priest with having denounced him from
the pulpit as "a drunkard and bad man,"
and asks $40, 200.
j. n. kLODT, a German, was found
dead in bed at his residence, near Topeka,
Hans, on the 18th. There was bullet
wound in his right temple. The ball passed
through his head and came out back OF bis
left ear. 1t is supposed that he was muir
dered for money.
NIMRoD Bowen, his wife, Miss Berlin,
and several Indians were buried by snow
slide at Genoa, New, tine other day. Some
of the bodies were recovered.
POND & Co., Williamsburg, n. Y,
lost 500, 900 by fire. March 18th. Other oc-
cupants of the building also lost heavily.
MORGAN carp was assassinated while
playing a game of billiards in saloon ut
Tombstone, Ariz., the other night. A shot
was fired through a glass door. His brother
Wyatt, who was sitting near, was also shot |
at, but was not hit. The assassin escaped. !
carp died at midnight. There is great eX-
element. The tragedy was not unexpected, |
as since the fight between the carp brothers |
and the cowboys last November threats of
assassination were frequently made.
THE central organization of the United |
Trades and Labor Unions Of New York City |
have denounced Minister Lowell for declin-
ing to interfere on behalf of American citi-
zens in English prisons, and ask his recall.
The German and English sOcialistic labor
party celebrated, March 10Th, the eleventh
of the Paris Commune.
CAPT. JAMES TAYLOR, a prominent
politician of Indianapolis, wound up long
debauch, March 10, bv falling down in a
attack which terminated fatally. |
In the celebrated trial of Warren Tate for
the murder of John Love, Taylor was the |
witness who pretended to have heard Love
Tate, and his testimony contrib
uted more than any other to the acquittal
of Tate. Since that time he has been more
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