Iron County register., 1882-01-12

Aber>'s three children, aged from 10 to 1a
persisted in the flames. Mrs. Ahers was sick
with fever 1T the time, and her husband.
who was watching by her bedside, had fallen
asleep. He was awakened in time to seize
his wife in his arms and carry her out of the
burning building. He then endeavored to
return for his children, but the flames
barred his ingress.
Hon. THOMPSON MCKINNEY, late
Chief Clerk of the Choctaw Council, was
killed by Reuben Lucas, between whom an
old feud existed. 1t is said Thompson was
literally stoned to death.
r. T. ADAMS, proprietor of the South
ern Hotel at Selma, Ala, interfered to
stop quarrel between Babe Burns and
George X. keipp; and was shot in the cheek
by bullet from Burns pistol, intended for
keipp. Adams then drew a revolver and
shot Burns three times, killing him on the
spot.
JOHN H. RUSSELL, the murderer of
John T. smarr at Kansas City, died in Jail
on the morning of the 1st from the effects of
morphia, presumably taken with suicidal
intent. 1t is not known how he procured
the poison, but it is supposed through the
connivance of outside parties.
THREE lives were lost and some sixty
persons injured at Shanesvile, Tuscarawas
County, O., on the last day of the year.
| knights Of Pythias were holding fair and
festival, the floor gave way and red-hot
stove and oil in the lamps came together.
Many of the wounded can not recover.
EMMETT CLOUD, negro, was lynched
in Southampton County, Va, for having
murdered John Murrell and Thomas
Glover, clerks in Princes store. The double
crime was committed for the purpose of
robbery, the store then being set on fire.
GEORGE S. REED, a young business
man of San Francisco, in fit of insanity
shot his moher-in- law, Mrs. Smith, his
little daughter, and himself, all fatally.
| Grief at the death Of his wife, augmented
| by overwork, was the cause of his morbid
condition.
THREE prisoners attacked their keep
ers at Graham, Texas, and were killed by
citizens. One Deputy Sheriff lost his life
and another was mortally wounded. E.
ANOTHER explosion, caused by the
careless handling of dynamite, occurred on
the Pennsylvania Railroad extension, near
Beaver Falls, Pa, on the 3lst. Wilford
| Cunningham was fatally injured, John
Burns seriously, and others slightly.
| A PASSENGER train crashed through
a viaduct at Kennebec, Me. Two persons
were instantly killed and several fatally in
jured.
A WABASH freight train dashed into
an indianapolis street-car the other day,
killing Sister of Mercy and dangerously
iniuring another passenger.
EDWARD F. RYAN, Michael Ryan and
Richard Adkins, employed on Paradise Tun-
mel, eighteen miles from Silverton, Colo. ,
were buried 100 feet deep in snow slide.
THE attention of Congress is about to
be called to the irregularities in the office OF
the Comptroller OF the Currency in winding
up insolvent national banks. 1t is alleged
that eXorbitant fees have been allowed to
receivers and attorneys, and that one bank
in New York has been favored with the sale
of all bonds belonging to wrecked institu-
tions.
The Missouri River closef-at Sioux
City Dec. Goth. Ice gorged around the pile
bridge of the Omaha road, and swept awas
three hundred feet of the structure. Ar
express messenger crossed on the ice.
j. d. WoLCoTT, said to have been q
substantial citizen OF San Francisco, com.
mitted suicide at the Gault House, Chicago
THE death is announced at Philadel
phia of ex-Congressman Edward Joy Nor.
ris.
A FIRE in the Waterfall building, Phil
adelphia, destroyed the three upper floors
inficting loss of $150,000.