Iron County register., 1882-03-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ce1vaDle rapid1ty. Two young men were in
jured by jumping from the second story.
Miss Mary Nagle, IS years of age, perished
in the flames. Her body was recovered.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Mrs. HARRIET BELL, of Boston,
Mass, was accosted at the door of her resi-
dence, the other morning. by a man who
followed her into the house, and soon came
out and walked away. Almost immedi-
ately it was discovered that she had been
stabbed in the neck, and in two minutes
she was dead. Three arrests have been
made, but the affair is still mystery. That
the assault was committed by some person
who bore an intense hatred against the
woman is indicated by the fact that the au
topsy reveals nine distinct and separate cuts
on the neck and breast, made by a broad
bladed knife, and most Of them deep and
wide enough to cause the victim to bleed to
death.
MAYOR King, of Philadelphia, Pa,
having become convinced that several men,
bers of the detective force are no better
than the thieves whom they pursue, is ma
turing plans for different system Of catch
ing criminals.
BY the will of Miss Sarah Burr, of
New York, nearly $4,000, 200 will be dis
tributed among the benevolent and religious
societies of that city.
THE Executive Committee of the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee have
completed arrangements for the fifteenth
annual reunion, which is to be held in st.
Louis on May 10 and II.
r. H. CORNWALL, trusted clerk in
the Fourth National Bank, New York City,
has been stealing for the past three months,
but has at last been found out. He was at
his post in the bank when the discovery was
made, and as soon as he saw that he had
been detected he confessed the ''embezzle-
ment" OF some $50, ,000 Cornwall is married
and has large family. He was prominent
member of Methodist Episcopal Church
in Brooklyn, and for several years Superin-
tendent of its Sunday-school.
S. II. CoNDICT, director of the Me-
chancs' National Bank, of Newark, n. j.,
has been arrested on a civil suit brought Oy
Receiver Frelinghuysen, bail being fixed at
S250,00 The charge is that Condict had
knowledge of the situation OF the bank and
it from the other directors, and
that the loss to the bank after his knowledge
was acquired was $780, 900, and that he per-
sonally profted by concealing such informa-
ton.
RICHARD S. FAY, a prominent and
wealthy Bostonian, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains with a revolver, on
board the steamer Tennessee, while on a
trip South for the benefit OF his health.
Some years ago he was stabbed by the late
DR.. Aver, of Lowell, Mass, but recovered
almost entirely from the effects of the
THE Beers and natives in South At
rica have been slaughtering each other.
ALFRED BELL, of Erie, Pa, recently
married Mary O'Conner, aged Is. They
we're not happy, and the other night he
turned his child-wife out into the street.
with grief she ended her ex-
stence by swallowing a dose of arsenic.
MARCUS and jeff, two Indians, who
John Hendry in December last,
were hanged at Lake Park, Cal, March 10.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Gui-
teau, has been sentenced to be dishonorably
discharged from the army and imprisoned
for eight years at hard labor.
AGENT ARMSTRONG has been in
structed by the Secretary of the Interior to
send the one hundred Indian children un-
der his care at the Crow agency, Montana,
to certain farmers in Ohio, to be educated
and reared up to usefulness.
AT Bolivar, n. Y, the other day,
three-story building was dismantled by the
wind, and the whole structure collapsed:
burying four men. Frederick Kische is
reported dead. Brad Phelps can not live.
In October last two miners lost their
lives and several others were seriously in
iured at Mahanoy City (Pa) Colliery, on
account of a gangway not being properly
timbered. The Mine Inspector of that dis
trict brought suit under the mining laws
against George Gilgore, inside superin-
tendent, as responsible for the safety of in
side working. The case was given to the
Jury on March II, and resulted. in a verdict
Of guilty, with recommendation to mercy.
A LITTLE daughter of j. ID. Willis, of
East Atchison, Mo-, met horrible fate the
other day. While playing near the track
with her twin sister and little boy, the
child's clothing suddenly burst into flames.
The children screamed for assistance and
William Belcher, who was near, rushed to
the rescue; but before he could remove her
clothing, in doing which his hands were
badly singed, the child was lburned to
trlSp. 1t Is supposed tldt SpdIh IloHl
passing locomotive set fire to the girls
clothing.
WIN. KARAMPE, Prussian employee
Of the Cleveland (O.) Rolling Mill Company,
was killed while manipulating the electric
light machinery of that institution, March
10. This i the first fatal accident in Cleve-
and, and said to be the second in the United
States. with the electric light.
In the case of the Northern Transit
Company of Michigan against the Grand
Trunk Railway Company of Canada, tried
IN the United States Circuit Court at Mil
yaukee, Wis, March IL, the jury returned
!, verdict for plaintiff in the sum OF S11l,-
1866 &c. A motion for new trial was made
Dy defendants.
THE St. Louis Distilling Company
ost 800. 900 by fire, March 13.
THE GOlos declares that Russia wants
no war with Germany and prays for deliv-
erance from the Vaccinations of the Chauv-
nists.
A DISPATCH from Parkersburg, w.