Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Senator, has become insane from the excite
ment Of the contest.
SANDY MATTHEW'S, colored, was
hanged at Memphis, Tenn, Jnne 2. James
c. Harvey was executed at Carrollton, Ga,
on the same day.
j. w. JOHNSTON, ex-Sheriff of Han
cock County, Mississippi, was arrested in
New Orleans, June 3, charged with embez-
element in office.
VIM. Moon was hanged at Carrollton,
Ga, June 8. He had been respited from
the day before on account of an attempt at
suicide.
THE thirtieth annual session of the
International Typographical Union was
called to order by President George Clark at
| st. Louis, June 5.
GEORGE ELLIS, the Catlettsburg, KY,
murderer, who turned States evidence and
was then sentenced for life, was hanged by
a mob on the morning of the 3D.. Caleb
| Campbell (colored), who attempted a GRIM
| inal assault on Mrs. Rains, at WinnsbOro,
| S. c., was punished in the same way.
HENRY HOPKINS and an unknown
man were killed and Fred Otto was fatally
| injured by boiler explosion at Norrie,
| Wis.,, June 3. Four others were seriously
| hurt.
A KEROSENE oil can exploded at the
residence of Alexander Adams, at Three
Notch, Ala, the other night, and three chill
! dren were burned to death. The accident
| was caused by attempting to fill lamp
while burning.
THE mangled remains of John Hun
ter, of Fairview Iowa, were found on the
| railroad, June 8. As he had been drinking
on the day before it is thought he laid down
to sleep and train passed over him.
VIM. COLEMAN, a miner employed
by the Illinois Valley Coal Company, at La
Sale, lost his life in consequence of rotten
wire rope, June 2. He was coming up in a
tub, when the strands parted and he was
thrown out, falling 12S feet.
NEAR Lambertpn, N. c., the other
day, a feud between Jane McKelIer and
| Frances McNair eliminated in a desperate
| fight. the former being killed with bowie
| knife.
THE liquor firm of Charles B. Darling
s. Son, of Boston, has filed petition in in
solvency, confessing joint liabilities of $11S,-
s16. while the younger partner has private
| debts amounting to $59, $50. Various South
WoRKMEN engaged in digging hole
for telegraph post in the street at Alamo
sa, CAL, struck stratum of collaborating
dirt, and the citizens are marking off the
town into placer claims.
IT is alleged that gold in paying guam
titles has been discovered on the farm of Mr..
Maxwell, in the town of Stockbridge, Wis.,,
and machinery to operate the mine has al
ready been purchased.
A WHOLESALE liquor firm of Boston.
in order to get barrel of whisky to a GUS
| toner at Claremont, n. H., where prohibit
ton Is in full force, labeled it kerosene oil,
and painted it to carry out the deception.
Now they have been convicted of a violation
of the internal revenue laws.
SIX chiefs of the Caughnawaga tribe
of Indians have brought suit against the
cure of Notre Dame Parish, Montreal, to
recover a loan of 81 800, which is claimed by
the Government.
A PASSENGER train on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad was tagged in cut sur
rounded by dense thickets near Denton,
Texas, June ). AS soon as it stopped four
masked men boarded the mail car. As they
appeared in the narrow passage the eX-
press agent, the mail agent, the baggage
master, and one of the guards, who, in an
ticipation of robbery, had armed them
selves before the train stopped, opened fire
on them. Taken at a disadvantage, the
robbers fled without returning the fire. A
Sheriff's posse soon after daylight went in
pursuit. A short distance from the scene of
the attempted robbery they found the dead
body of man with his mask still on, who
proved to be S. p. Shelton. Joe Carter,
another of the bandits, subsequently sur
rendered.
SURGEONS pronounce not fatal the
wound received in the game in New York
by Gillespie of the Troy nine. His skull is
not fractured.
d. B. READY and George Dexter, of
Hampton, Va, were drowned off Sewell's
Point on the 4th.
CHARLES RIPLEY, aged Z, of Milton,
Mass, was fatally shot by playmate a few
days ago.
FIVE workmen were badly hurt by a
collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul Railway, near Muscoda, Wis, June 3.
A STORM extending from Halifax to
Garysburg, N. c., ON the 4th, leveled
houses, trees and fences. In the wreck of
one house two children were killed. Hail
stones large as eggs fell, damaging crops
seriously and delaying trains.
A DISPATCH from Jacksonville, Fla,
says Mr.. Warburton, his wife, and two chill
dren were drowned in Lake Eustis on the
4th. They were in a carriage, and Mr..
Warburton drove into the lake to water the
horse at a dangerous spot. The bodies were
recovered.
THE bodies of Washington and Fred
Fehrbach were found near Perham, Mimi,
June 3. The evidence is conclusive that
they were both murdered by John Tribbett,
boy fifteen years old, who has started to
join the cowboys in Montana. Tribbett
comes of good family, but is victim of
blood and-thunder literature.
THE schooner Industry, of st. Joseph,
capsized off South Haven, Mich, the other
day, and all on board were drowned.
She was near the shore, and the
wreck was witnessed by hundreds of men,
but owing to the terrible seas it was impos-