Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


her aunt, Mary Higgins. When she re-
turned she found the woman and an infant
lying on the floor in drunken stupor. A
physician was summoned, but he arrived too
late to save the child's life, and Mary was
locked up on a charge of infanticide. The
little one had been crying, and as the woman
had always regarded alcohol as a general
panacea, she forced dose down its throat.
Two children of Rev. Mr.. Gleason,
Of the Methodist Church at Window, Mimi,
were drowned while skating the other day.
The bodies were recovered. a
THE barge Signal was run down and
sunk by the steamer City OF Worcester in
the East River, New York, on the 18th.
There were on board at the time Captain
VIM. Taylor, his mother, wife, and three
children, and two deckhands. The captain
was rescued by a tug; the others went down
with the wreck.
THREE Cinnamon who arrived at San
Francisco the other day claimed to be mer-
chants, but did not possess the certificates
required by the restriction law. They were
refused permission to land, but the Collec-
tor OF the port was summoned before the
United States Court, where it was decided
that the Celestials had proved. themselves
to belong to the mercantile class, while the
prohibition applied only to laborers, and
they came ashore. +y.
A COMPANY with capital of S75O,OOO
has been organized in Pittsburgh, Pa, by
prominent iron men, to erect works for the
manufacture Of nails and spikes from steel
something which has never before been
done in the United States.
A DETECTIVE has been for month
following band of thieves in the lumber
regions of Elk County, Pennsylvania. A few
nights ago, with an armed force, he cap
tured thirty bandits asleep in the forest,
and lodged them in Jail at Driftwood. Their
operations have been mainly directed
against freight cars of the Allegheny Valley
road. -e
FORTY armed men attacked the house
of Magistrate Roach, at Magnoss, Ireland,
the other night, firing several shots and car
rying away two guns.
AN engine and twelve cars of the
Canada Southern Road were badly wrecked
at the yard in St.Thomas, Ontario, the other
day, and two men were seriously injured
AN international exhibition of bot
tiers, with machinery and appliances, called
together large crowds of popele from all
parts of the United States and England,
in Pittsburg, Pa, last week.
REV PETER LoCKwooD, Presby-
terian. of Binghamton, New York, who was
ordained sixty-one years ago, has closed his
earthly 1abors.
FERDINAND SCHRAEDER, who kept
hotel near Detroit, Mich, recently had an
arm injured in a railroad accident, and
killed himself rather than submit to all am
putation, which the surgeons had pro-
nounced necessary.
JAMES MCCULLOUGH, a troublesome
citizen of Holgate, Ohio, was placed in the
lookup to get sober, when he fired the
structure and burned himself to a crisp.
THE contest over the will of General
John A. Hazard, at Newport, Rhode Island,
has been settled. The widow is to receive
$50, 900 in bulk or have $500 per annnm
during her life.
GUsTAvUs GRIFFIN, M. P, is the
name given by gaunt and clerical person
who has allowed the people of Montreal,
Canada, to suspect that he was a capitalist.
He bought out the proprietors Of the Vic
toria Hotel, and then commenced swindling
operations of great magnitude. by which he
probably obtained 100000. He made an at
tempt to leave the city the other day, but
was .forcibly detained at the depot by the
wife of victim. and now lies in Jail.
EIGHT thousand of the soldiers Gu
gagged in the Egyptian campaign we're re-
viewed by Queen Victoria and the Duke of
Cambridge the other day.
CAPTAIN HOWARD, charged with de-
sorting his post at Pensacola, Fla, claims
that he left on account of sickness before
the fever broke out.
THE police at Lemberg, Germany,
have seized a lot of pamphlets and explo-
sives. ...
H. II. JOHNSON, a well-known broker
of Boston, Mass, has been arrested for en-
bezzling some 81 600 intrusted to him by E..
p. Pierce and Mary Collyer.
D. l.. SULLIVAN, conductor, was
killed by his train at Louisville, KY, the
other morning. He leaves a widowed moth
er in Columbus, Ohio.
In a quarrel at Lead City, Dakota,
on the 18th, Timothy Coleman killed Boyd
Hicklen by a fist blow under the ear.
AMELIA KAHLER, beautiful girl of
Washington, D. c., killed herself with rat
poison Oh LUc 1otus
MRS. MELVILLE, wife of the explorer,
has been discharged from the insane asylum
at Norristown, Pa, sound in mind and
body.
In an unpleasantness between promi-
nent citizens Of Forest City, N. c., on the
18th, Barnes King was killed and William
Suttle received injuries which will probably
cause his death.
WIN. n. BROOKS, Car inspector of the
Chesapeake &, Ohio Railway. was killed
while crossing the track at Richmond, Va,
on the 18th Es s. ..
VIM. II. CUNNINGHAM, a workman st
the rolling-mill in Birmingham, Ala. COM
mitted suicide on the 18th by plunging head
foremost into blast furnace.
TWENTY Mexicans were killed by In
dams near Carlitas, the other day, and
troops have been sent to punish the ma
RAIDERS. a .4ssfs. st~
GEN. I'D. FEssENDEN, son of the late
Senator Fessenden, dropped dead on the
street in Portland, Me-, the other morning.