Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

JAMES OO1CEs dSeu w years, Was Id
tally shot by Geo. w. Blust, aged so, at the
latter's home on the Corydon turnpike,
near New Albany, Ind, the other day.
j. w. CURTIS, private secretary to
General Manager Finney, of the Wisconsin
Central Railway, Milwaukee, committed sui
eide by shooting, Feb. 25th. The loss of a
child is supposed to have caused the act.
WILLIAM LEET, age II, was cut in
two by coil of wire in needle factory at
Newark, n. j., Feb. 25th.
MASKED vandals attempted to destroy
the press and material in the Independent
office, Wahoo, Saunders County, Neb., on
the Goth. One of the publishers and son
of the editor objected, but were overpow-
cred and disarmed. The intruders, fearing
discovery, then retired. The outrage is
said to have grown out of local political
quarrel.
A NEW five-story brick building on
Second street, st. Louis, Mo-, occupied by
the grocery house of Kraft, Holmes & Co.,
suddenly fell in, the other morning, burying
goods valued at $4,000
A sNow-sLIDE in Big Cottonwood
Canyon, Utah, buried woodchopper and
his wife and five children. The bodies were
recovered, lying naturally in bed.
LOSSES by the recent fire in Conway,
Ark, are estimated at 100000.
A BELGIAN just arrived at Castle
Garden, New York City, has a pair of horns
an inch long protruding from his forehead.
A SAN FRANCISCO police court was
electrified the other morning by Officer Ma
roney, who deliberately walked up to
awyer, D. E. Murphy, and shot him in the
neck, inflicting 4 dangerous wound. The
shooting was the result of grossly insulting
language used by Murphy against Maroney
in case which has been on trial for several
weeks. On beip- shot Murphy rose in his
chair, swayed to and fro, and with blood
gushing from gaping cash in the neck, eX-
claimed: 1.-THE curse of God be upon you.
You have murdered me for defending
man whom know to be innocent"
JUDGE TORRENCE, a distinguished
lawyer of Montreal, has decided that New
York divorce is legal in Canada.
AN immense audience witnessed the
opening of the pede strian contest in Gill
more's Garden, New York City.
THE wholesale dry-goods house of
Menken Brothers, at Memphis, Tenn, has
made an assignment to cover liabilities of
500, 900.
THE exports of breadstuffs from the
United States for the month of January last
amounted in value to $11, 92S, 1892, against
$14 1929, 400 in 1881.
Mrs. WICKER, of Scott County, Va,
and three children were recently thrown in
to a swollen stream by the stumbling of
horse. John Tugate not only stood on the
bank alphabetically watching the desperate
struggles of the woman and her little ones
to save themselves, but prevented two other
males from rendering the slightest assist
auce. The cries of the woman finally
reached the ears of man at work in field
near by, who arrived in time to save her and
two children. The infant had been swept
down the stream and drowned before the
man could plunge in and save it. The eX-
PLANTATION of Tugate's heartless conduct is
that her husband, few years ago, muir
dered his brother.
JENNIE WEsTBROOK, young woman
recently arrested in New York City for
masquerading in male habiliments, has
been sent to Wards Island. Her case,
however, has awakened deep interest, since
it only seems to be due to an effort to escape
from that bondage which social laws have
subjected the SEX. Her excuse was that she
could make $40 a week in her disguise,
while as ''saleslady" in a fashionable store
the pay would be only one third of that
amount.
THE Union Oil and Soap Company,
Cincinnati. o., lost 100000 by fire the other
day. fireman was seriously injured by
fol Iipo from a ladder