Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


JULIEN SCOTT, prominent citizen of
ing to ford the Emory River, in Morgan
County, East Tennessee.
MRS. MARTIN, a farmers wife, living
near Northup, o., subject to fits, fell into
the fire and was fatally burned.
N. c. OLSEN, a drunkard who was
SOLDERING up in a Chicago police station,
hanged himself in cell. He was a car
penter by trade. He leaves a wife and five
children.
STATE, an employee in a Boston
banking house, attempted to kill his en-
ployer with a revolver. He was intoxica-
ted. ------
Mrs. MARY HELMsMAN threw herself
In front of an approaching locomotive on
the c., B. & O., in Davenport, Iowa. Her
head was severed from her body. She was
insane. .f -r.
NELLIE and Eddie Goozie and Geor-
giana Hart We're drowned at Brookfield,
Mass.
THE Port Jervis On. ~ Board of
Health have closed all churches on account
of smallpox.
AN old man named Fred Deske, of
Milwaukee, Wis, beat his sons brains out
with an AK helve and club. The boy was Is
years old and was named Reinhold. After
the murder Deske tried to hang himself,
and was in fact suspended when an officer
came to arrest him. He was cut down, and
then stated that his son came home drunk
and quarrel ensued.
In his report for the Department of
Dakota, Gen. Terry says the Indian outlook
| in Northern Montana is untavorable. Buff
faloes are rapidly diminishing. The Indians
| are making raids on cattle and the ranchmen
are organizing for protection. Dispatches
from Hermorilla, Sonora, confirm previous
reports Of the murder Of Superintendent
| Woeberling of the Lampazos Mine, fourteen
men, six women, and five children.
JULIUS ALBRIGHT, an employee of
| the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Road,
coupling cars, was run over and killed at
New London, Wis. He was struck on the
shoulder and cut in two lengthwise.
DEGREES, the Public Printer, recently
| sent q communication to Senator Plumb, of
Kansas, asking if certain newspaper ac-
count of an alleged interview between the
| two was true. Plumb replied that he de-
clned to be dragged into a newspaper con-
| troversy. Defrees then wrote Plumb an
open letter in which he is reported to have
| said:
emo one asked you to engage in a news
paper controversy; you were simply re-
Quested to say yes or no to question l had
| a right to ask. Your refusal to answer it is
a confession of your guilt. No one reading
| your notes can doubt the fact that you
| prompted the publication of the paragraph.
You thus stand before all honorable men
| self convicted of having falsely boosted that
you had grossly insulted, without cause and
in manner becoming the lowest black
| guard, man almost thirty years older than
with me will regard the paragraph as a lie
| on its face, rs they know that do not cringe
| to any one, and that such an insult would
have been resented by me on the spot"
THE walls of recently burned build
ing at Syracuse, N. Y, fell upon an adjoin-
ing restaurant and fifteen or twenty persons
were buried in the ruins. Eugene Fitzger-
aid and Martin Fenton were killed, and a
number were injured.
| F. FERFETTI called Oh Francisco
Massa, Brooklyn On. w shoemaker, to
collect bill. A quarrel followed, and Per-
| fetti was fatally stabbed.
A BATTLE took place at Westport,
La, between j. W. Moore and party and a
mob of belligerents. The windows were
| shot out of Moore's house, and three men
| were killed.
JOHN WALTON, a wealthy farmer iv-
| ing near st. Paul, Ind, was shot and NOR
| tally wounded while reading near a win
| dow. The assassin, who is unknown, used
! shotgun.
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