Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-09
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


wood, who expected him, had made extern
sive preparations to receive him and his
party when they arrived. She saw the fur
niture wagon coming and barricaded the
doors. Mr.. Greenwood tried to force an
entrance, whereupon Mrs. Greenwood
planted herself in the hallway and fired two
shots at him through the panel. Mr.Green-
| wood retired, and lac at night his wife
| moved the things,to another part of the city.
Ernst Wagner, accidentally hurt at
the st. Louis Chemical Works some time ago,
| died of lockjaw. Endeavoring to pick some
| foreign substance out of grinding mach ne,
| finger was caught by one Of the teeth and
| drawn into its iron jaws. To let his arm go
any lower would be to have his whole hand
ground up, so he braced himself and pulled
against the machine. His finger was torn
off in twinllling, and he sank to the floor
with blood pouring from the vacated
knuckle socket. He was taken home and a
| physician called. The shock to his nerves,
however, was terrific, and it was so long
| before a healthy reaction could be obtained
| that gangrene set in and the hand had to be
amputated. The result of the double ordeal
was more than his system could stand, and
| lockjaw set in. Although conscious, and
| suffering the most acute torture, his muscles
became rigid. and his jaws were set together
| as though all OF one bone.
Thomas Ring, who killed himself with
a revolver in St. Louis few days ago, was
| the victim of strange hallucination. AL
| though he had not been well in body or
mind for some two years, he performed the
| duties of a salesman in Barr's establishment
| until few weeks since, when he became
melancholy, imagining that he was guilty OF
| slandering some one and would be arrested
| and put in jail; that his lungs were nearly
| gone, and that his blood was poisoned.
| After leaving the store he gradually grew
| worse, and no efforts OF his family Or his
| friends could make him appear cheerful.
| He had the entire confidence and respect OF
his employers, and bore good reputation
for sobriety and industry.
THREE men were injured by the ex-
ploson OF a locomotive boiler on the St. Jo-
seph & Des Moines Railway. The engineer,
! John Reed, was lodged on the top OF the
cab; the fireman, John Gahagen, was
| thrown through the window of the cab and
some twenty or thirty feet away, alighting
in sitting position, and Henry Dorsey,
switchman, was sent through the door fully
| ten yards, lighting on his face. Reed and
Dorsey were not seriously hurt, but Gaia
gen was very severely scalded about the
face, arms and neck and otherwise bruised
up. The engine was attached to a passen-
| ger train, and had not run over 200 yards
| when the explosion occurred.
The proprietor of St. Louis lodging
house was awakened few nights ago by a
suffocating smoke which filled the lower
| part of the house. He made hasty exam
ination of the premises, but could find no
traces of fire. He then opened the front
door, when he was met by an oyerpowering,
sickening fume, caused by quantity of
cotton which had been placed on the DOOR
| sill, saturated with some poisonous, ILL
| smelling substance, and then set on fire.
Records of the Coroner's Office in St.
Louis show that SO homicides and 81 sui
cides have been committed during the past
year. OF the suicides, % persons used fire.
arms as a means of sef-destruction, IS
knives.
Acknowledgement John B. Waddill,
in his annual report to the Governor, says:
II aim grati6ed to be able to say the Ma
, tional Guard of the State is in more pros
porous condition than at any period of its
history, despite the fact that the General
| Assembly has per-istently refused to render
the militia any substantial encouragement"
Benjamin Ellis, of Sedalia, was IA
| tally injured by the fall of derrick few
days ago.
Several boys were snowballing in ST.
Louis the other day, and one of them lost
his temper and stabbed Edward Eichler in
the arm, inflicting painful wound.
Richland, Pulaski County, is to have
a calaboose The proposition to issue bonds
to build one, submitted to vote of the citi-
Zens was voted down. The citizens then
raised the amount by subscription.
Geo. j. Vaughn, conductor, and G.
near Russellville on the 18th of December,
taken before justice of the peace at Jeffer-
son City recently, under charge of willfully
and negligently running their train on the
date aforesaid. resulting in the death of five
prominent citizens, waived examination and
entered into bonds in the sum Of 5000 each
for their appearance at the next term OF the
Cole Circuit Court.
The Kansas City Board of Trade di-
rectors have elected 6. w. Mclean Grain
Inspector.
The walls of the Buchanan County
Insane Asylum have been pronounced the
worst piece of masonry ever viewed by the
inspectors.
A suit filed in the United States Court
I for the Western District of Missouri, in
which Mary S. Rdenbaugh, of Alton, ILL.,,
is complainant, and James n. Burnes, of st.
Joseph, is defendant, praying for judgment
for the sum of $685. 900 and interest from
May ,, 1879, has given rise to much COM
ment, on account of the high standing Of the
parties, Col. Burnes having been admins
TRAITOR of George Young, the father of COM
painant, who was also wealthy man and
politician of no little reputation in Western
Missouri.
A team of horses belonging to John
Burns, of Liberty, Clay County, were
drowned in the deep pond near the Harlem
Railroad depot. They were attached to a
..,.,.ro,, which slid off the pape and dr.vpe6