Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Hubbard, jockey, was MORALLY wounded;
John Denny, q telegraph repairer, was shot
in the leg, and Mackey, . well-known horse
man, was slightly wounded. The shooting
was done by G. 81. Wood, real estate agent.
Mackey and the jockey were coming along
Sixteenth street and brushed against Wood.
The latter showed them into the street. The
jockey knocked Wood down and commenced
beating him furiously, when Mackey pulled
him of. Wood then drew self-cocking
revolver and commenced shooting at the
jockey, who ran into the crowd. The jockey
fell, badly wounded in the back and hip.
The first shot struck Denny.
THE Universal Peace Union convened
in Washington on the 2Sth.
EIGHT prisoners, including two MUIR
derers and one highway robber, effected
their escape from the jail at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, on the 9th, by cutting the hinges off
the cell door and running over the jailer.
THE Governor of Michigan has or
dered an investigation into the truth of afi-
davits charging N. Delong, Mayor Of Mus
kegon, with attempting to bride an Alder
man to vote for one of his nominees to Of
fee.
A. F. BRAKEMAN, who for some weeks
| was the laughing-stock of st. Louis, died
the other day in the Missouri Insane Asy-
| lum. He came from Nebraska with an
abundance of money, married chamber
maid at the Planters House, gave her a
| wardrobe costing 81, 500, and was deserted
| on the day succeeding the wedding. He was
| several times arrested for eccentric conduct
| on the streets. An autopsy revealed the
| fact that he died from softening of the brain.
| WILLIAM A. HALL, the thieving As
sistant Auditor of Newark, N. j., has been
| captured at Toronto. He spent three months
| at Prescott, where he Kept two fast horses
and carried large amount in diamonds.
He is said to have secured $4,000 in plum
der.
JOHN G. WoLCoTT, the best-known
lawyer in Western Massachusetts, has been
Jailed in Boston to make him sober. Then
he will be arraigned in the federal court for
charging pensioner 500 for prosecuting
| his claim.
| BRAVE BEAR, the Sioux Indian who
would have been executed on the 9th OF
March for the murder Of a soldier named
johnson, near Fort Sully, Oak, but for an
appeal to the Supreme Court and motion for
new trial, has been resentenced to be
hanged on the Doth of July. the Supreme
| Court having denied him trial. He fully
deserves the sentence, as ne is clearly guilty
not only of this murder, but of others, in
GLIDING an entire white family near Penn
| bina. Upon being asked IL he had anything
| to say before being sentenced, Brave Bear
| replied: 81 have taken the white man g
part always. 1 am disappointed at the
treatment of the white man. They can do
as they please with me, and cut me to
pieces If they choose.'' So saying he re-
| ceived the sentence with the utmost uncon-
Germ.
AT Springfield, Ohio, May 20, a man
named Kitzmiller, becoming enraged at bis
daughter for keeping company with man
of whom he disapproved, drew revolver
and shot her dead. He narrowly escaped
lynching at the hands of his neighbors before
| he was taken to Jail.
| MARCUS DE BAsTIDE, a young French
Canadian, was assaulted by members of the
congregation of the French Canadian Cath
Ollie chapel in New York City. May %. The
cause of the assault was the distribution by
Bastide of tracts printed in French calculat-
ed to persuade people to accept Protestant
beliefs. He had attended services at the
chapel and the officiating clergyman de-
nounced his books to the congregation.
ACoLLIsIoN between trackmen of the
Denver & New Orleans and Denver & Rio
Grande roads occurred near Denver, Colo.
MAY %. The latter road undertook to block
the progress of the former by running an
empty engine under full head Of steam in
to gang of men laying the track at cross
ing. None of the men were injured, but the
engine was derailed and plowed up the track
for a considerable distance.
WILLIS EDWARDS, a notorious des-
perado, was killed in the Jail at Monroe
Court house, N. c., the other day. in an af.
fray with the Sheriff and his posse. Edwards
succeeded in severely wounding the foul
men who attempted to subdue him.
FRANK MILLER, while robbing the
residence of III. P. Moore at Erie, Pa, the
other night, was nearly beheaded with 6
scythe.
THE Attorney General has decided
that Secretary Kirkwood is not eligible fol
appointment on the Tariff Commission.
F. H. SToNER and Arthur j. Cole, o.
Chicago, were drowned, May 81, by the cap.
sizing of boat.
ALT. BURNETT committed suicide a,
Topeka, Kans., on the 2Sth, by shooting
himself in the temple. He had been re-
leased from the County Jail the day before
having served out sentence of thirty day.
for selling liquor without a license.
A NUMBER of Dunkards assembled il
Eapho Township, Lancaster County, Pa.
few days ago for the purpose of raising thu
framework of meeting house. The lowe
story and about onehalf Of the second stor.
had already been successfully put together
and between forty and fifty persons wer'
standing on some joists on the second stor.
on the unfinished part of the building, plac
ing the rafters in position. There was
span of forty or fifty feet, and over this hat
been stretched some girders, upon whfcl
these persons were standing. They worked
without accident until between and Il
O'Clock in the morning, when, with lou,
crash, the timbers broke and fell, carryin:
} their living freight with them. The weigh
\ - ,ha falling mass caused other parts of tn