Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| AMI UGNHAsA
SUIT has been brought in the Circuit
Court at Denver, Colo, in the interest OF
hundreds of settlers. asking the cancellation
of the patent Issued to the Maxwell Mining
Grant Company, on the ground OF fraud.
The tract comprises nearly two million acres
in Colorado and New Mexico, and Is now
possessed by Holland company.
A coRoNER's jury at Paterson, N. j.,
held James Kennedy for manslaughter, for
| locking his children in a garnet when at
tackled by smallpox.
All SING, Chinese sailor, who ar
rived at San Francisco without certificate
permitting him to land, secured his release
by writ of habeas corpus, Judge Field de-
Gliding that he shipped before the passage Of
| the restrictive act by Congress.
AN eighteen-year-old daughter of Col
! Thos. Norman, of New London, Ark, who
| disappeared some days since, has been
| found. She was hidden under a building
| not far from home, her mind entirely
wrecked.
AT Shelbyville, KY, on the oath,
| Deputy Sheriff Alex. Julian, a defeated
candidate for Sheriff of Franklin County,
killed himself with a revolver while riding
| in his buggy. ...
ROBERT PARKER, q wife-murderer,
was jerked out of existence at Aiken, s.
| c., Aug. Is. VIM. Bryan, who killed Jack
Moore, was hanged at Madison, Fla, on
the same day, and a negro named James
Redden paid the death penalty at New Cas-
| tie, Del, for assaulting little girl.
j. B. KELSEY, private banker at YER
sailles, Mo-, has been arrested for misappro-
| priation of deposits. The failure caused a
| sensation.
NEAR Belleville, ILL.,, the other day,
| passenger train on the Illinois & st. Louis
| road ran into an extra engine. killing the
| engineer of the train, j. D. Ensminger, and
seriously scalding his fremen, named JUL
| ius Barnischol. The man in charge of the
wild locomotive, named Stone, was unac.
quainted with the road, and has been ar
| rested.
WHILE Marshal West and a deputy
named Fowler were taking two prisoners
| into Cynthiana, KY, the other day, James
| Kearns interfered, Knocked the deputy
against moving train, and then attacked
West. The marshal used revolver with
fatal effect and marched his prisoners to Jail.
Fowler was seriously injured by the cars,
and narrowly escaped death.
THE Erie Railway elevator at Buffalo,
N. Y, was destroyed by an explosion and
fire on the oath. John Bonner, Henry Lee,
Chas., Anterbach and John Kemp, en-
ployees, could not be found and were sup
posed to have persisted. Timothy Driscoll
was fatally injured. About $4,000 will
cover the loss of property.
GIL. WARE and Calvin Gay persisted
in fire at Walpole Plains, Mass, on the
| 25th. .s' |F
| SOME young rowdies disturbed q
prayer-meeting in a school-house in Car
rollton Township, Boone County, Ark, a
few nights ago, and were solemnly rebuked
by the pastor. They remained, however,
until the services were concluded, and in
less than fifteen minutes the building was
discovered to be in flames. The people
rushed back, but all their efforts to subdue
the fire were unavailing. Warrants were
| iSued for the arrest of all the boys.
MRS. MATILDA SMITH was thrown
from a wagon and fatally injured, near Far
ley, Iowa. Aug. "a. A wheel broke.
A FEW weeks ago Frederick Wagon
er, of Belle Center, Ohio, quarreled with
Jacob Keunzel, an employee who had
spoiled some work. On the oath Keunzel
entered Wagoner's shop and fatally shot
him. The murderer then swallowed dose
of poison, but emetics brought it up and he
was lodged in Jail.
A DAUGHTER of n. G. Greer was
burned to death at Pearson, Ca, on the
Goth. Her sister was rescued with difficulty
by r. j. Mcdonald.
THE trial of Mrs. Mary Glinn, at Ban
gor, Me-, for making away with daughters
child, resulted in verdict Of murder in the
first degree. The woman, who is about 40
years of age, I'm her testimony asserted that
she was not ware of what she did, and
claimed that she was influenced by her de-
ceased husbands spirit, he having pro-
nounced curse upon her before he died.
The defense of insanity, or irresistible inn
pulse, was not sustained.
/ j. B. SHIRK, a mail agent on the
yandalia Railway, was thrown from train
while crossing bridge near Indianapolis,
the other evening, and crushed to death in
the timbers.
THERE was conflict between striking
'longshoremen and Italians who had taken
their places, in Boston. Mass, Aug. 26.
The assailants were driven off by the pc.
lice
w. L. PHILLIPS, pastor of the Metho'
dist Episcopal Church at Shiloh, Ohio, was
severely stabbed by John E. Smith, lead
ing grain dealer, the other day. The quar-
rel grew out of efforts to enforce the law
prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sunday.
X. G. GRAY, of Surrey County, Va.
whose wife and child were poisoned by two
colored girls some time ago, committed sui
eide the other day. Grief.
JOSEPH WRIGHT, engineer, and John
Odom, fireman, were killed by boiler ex'
: pIosion near Salem, Ohio. on the 10Th
Robert Porter and Kinney Burns were Sc.
! verely injured, and several others were
scratched and scalded.
LENA ROBERTS, a progressing and
| intelligent young woman, took fatal dose
of morphine at Omaha, Nebr., the othel
night.
LEONARD CoKER, the negro who
murdered Mrs. Catherine Paynes, was cap
tured near Montgomery, Ala, the othel
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