Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PAtL TOLLNER, Chicago machinist
shot and killed his wife on the 10th and ther
committed suicide. Frequent quarrels
married the peace Of the family, and the
tragedy was brought about by fiat refusal
on the part of the wife to obey her hus.
band.
| A PREMATURE explosion at Cornwall
N. Y, on the 10th. killed four negro track.
layers and wounded several others.
BANNOCK Indians attacked a party
of hunters in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
the other day. j. B. Bruner, Thomas Ray
] and Samuel Newton were killed.
VIM. M. WADLEY, President of the
Georgia Central Railroad, dropped dead in
Saratoga, N. Y, on the 10th. He was G.
years Of age.
A cABoosE full of Minneapolis & St.
Louis Railroad laborers went down an EN-.
bankment near Waseca, Mimi, on the 10th
Some thirty persons were injured, two
fatally. The accident is supposed to have
been caused by spreading rails.
AT Dayton, O., Aug. II, Mrs. Guen-
thy. married only two weeks, died from the
effects of poison taken in coffee. Several
| other members of the family affected by the
same cause recovered. The presence Of the
poison in the coffee can not be accounted
for, though strict examinat ion was made
by physicians. 1t is supposed to have been
introduced in the course Of the manufacture
of the article, there being nothing to indicate
criminality.
FIFTEEN tons of powder in the Hardy
Works, near Vallejo, CAL, exploded, Aug.
IL. The mining, glazing and drying house,
together with the magazine, were blown to
| atoms. The ruins took fire OF once. Moth
ing was left standing except the water tank
and brick work surrounding the boiler. A.
II. Hall, the engineer and superintendent,
was badly burned, but has chance for life.
He made his way out into the road and tore
off his burning clothes. George Edgecomb
and Ferga McArdle were burned beyond re-
cognition.
CHESS THOMAS was hanged at Pales-
| tine, Texas, Aug. II, for the murder OF
Houston McManus.
NEAL HARRIS, prominent planter,
living near Oak Bluff, Clay County, Ark.
while insane, the other day, took his little
son, a bright and handsome fellow, in
to the woods, as he said, to kill squirrels.
His wife and daughter followed him, believ-
ing he would do something rash. There was
no one near on whom they could call for as
sistance. They had gone but a short dis
lance when Harris stopped and deliberate
ly shot the boy dead, emptying the con-
tents of one barrel of double barreled gun
into his head. He then fired the other barrel
at his wife and daughter, but fortunately
without fatal effect. He next drew revolv-
er and killed himself, firing a bullet through
his heart. The sad affair causes great SEN
sation in Northeast Arkansas.
THE Steamer Buckeye State sunk at
Louisville, Ky, the other day.
JOHN THOMPSON was killed by James
Neal at the recent Confederate reunion at
Glenn Springs, Upton County, Tenn.
j. H. HUNTER has embezzled from
the estate of Charles Hunter at Montreal,
Cana, from 500, 900 to 100000, and con-
fesses his guilt. Other estates OF which he
was the manager are also thought to have
suffered. He was a highly esteemed citi-
zen.
ELIJAH FRANKLIN was hanged at
Silver City, N. NJ, Aug. II, for the murder
of Deputy Sheriff johnson.
POLICEMAN DOYLE, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, was terribly beaten while attempting
to arrest two roughs on the 18th. Doyle
killed George Alexander and dragged the
other to the station house, where he fell
exhausted from his own wounds.
MINNIE KRUGER, an eccentric old
maid, has been arrested at Canton, Ohio,
for firing gun-load of pebbles into bed
room occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Gottlieb
Summers. Minnie complained that boys
disturbed her rest by firing guns near her
hr1f fho sfn fo hoy in
vented to divert suspicion from herself.
JOSEPH BARTLETT, a retired minister,
Of Gorham, Me-, committed suicide
by drowning while temporarily insane.
JOHN METzGER, a molder, was fatally
stabbed by his step-son, Charles Wagner,
aged II, at Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th.
The boy was defending his mother. All
three were intoxicated.
MRS. A. LAUTCH, of Leavenworth,
HANS, was terribly burned by coal-oi the
other day. Her son was melting lead, and
thought oil would be an improvement,
whereupon the can was held over the fire
with the usual consequences.
WIN. JOHNSON has been arrested for
attempting to wreck a Chicago & North
western passenger train near Milwaukee,
Wis.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, was intensely ex-
cited on the morning of the 18th by the dis
covery that Alexander Weber, q German
saloon keeper, his wife and his little son,
seven years old, had been butchered in bed.
The heads of all three were crushed with a
Ratchet, and their Threats were cut and
mangled in a most brutal manner. An in
FAINT of six months was found unframed in
its crib, smiling and growing, unconscious
of bereavement. The house in which the
tragedy was enacted was formerly owned
by a German named Krugg, who was killed
there about six years ago by negroes. His
widow married George Lenhart, a Ger
man laborer, who has done little or no
work since his marriage. He has fire.
quently asked his wife TO let him have
the house and run saloon, but as Weber.
the man who was murdered, had lease
on the house, she could not do it.
Lenhart is an ignorant fellow, and be-
lieved himself aggrieved by Wieber's
possession of the house. Frequently he
quarreled with him, and threatened to kill