Iron County register., 1882-07-20
pERSUNAL AND GENERAL.

I lHOMAS MAGUIkE,a StOneulaSOn, Gil
his brothers throat from ear to ear. ii
Boston, Mass, July 6, during a famil.
quarrel.
The members of the lumber firm O
King. Quick 4 King, of Lowell, Mich, hav,
been arrested on charge of stealing $40, ,00
worth of logs from Flat River during tn
past three years.
JULY opened auspiciously at States
vile, N. C. Ex- Congressman Robbins mad,
q political speech and commented on the ad
ministration of DR.. j. J. Mott, ex Revenu,
Collector. Mr.. L. Mott, son of DIR. Mott
assaulted Robbins, injuring him severely
From this sprung an assault by William
Stockton, Revenue Collector, on JOSEPH
Adams, State Solicitor, breaking Adams
arm. John E. Osborne thereupon expressed
indignation, when C. S. Cooper, brother Of
Thomas Cooper, present Revenue Collector,
abused Osborne. The latter drew . pisto
and fired at Cooper, wounding him twice.
but not seriously. Mont Robbins, deter
mined to avenge his father, subsequently
sought Mott, and both men drew pistols the
moment they met. Mott fired first, and
shot Robbins in the mouth. Robbins then
fired, shooting Mott in the breast, killing
him.
MILTON SMITH, of Kirkwood, Mo-,
was killed by his son Guy, aged 12, on the
9Th. The boy had been playing some mis-
chievous pranks on little brother, and up
on being punished retaliated with q shot
gun. ,
The large memorial painting of ex-
President Garfield has been placed in the
executive mansion.
WILHELM KRAMER, aged 43, keeper
of q saloon and lodging house in Philadel-
phia, was murdered by his stepson, Her.
man Berto, aged 1S years, July 8. Kramer
had been drinking to excess and demanded
the young mans board. Not getting the
| full amount he assaulted his stepson, when
the latter cut him in the neck with a knife,
| in q few minutes.
CHARLES PENN, farmer living near
Frankfort, KY, was assaulted the other
night by some unknown party. Penn
was brother in law of Mrs. Owen, of the
Owen-Nuckols damage suit.
THE New York freight-handlers are
growing desperate. There was some trouble
at Jersey City on the sth.
JOSIAH REECE, an old and respected
farmer, was killed by blow from Michael
Foley, contractor, during a quarrel at
Plymouth, Ind, on the Sth.
&. w. MURPHY, watchman en-
ployed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railway Company at Chicago, killed a car
thief named "Dutchy' Weiland the other
day.
ELLEN McGRATH, in jail at Chicago
for unnecessary hilarity on the Fourth of
T,rIv, obo bad tN fho hxy
twisting her stocking about her throat.
FORTY Mexic an soldiers, acting un-
der orders of the Customs officers, attack
ed q camp of smugglers near Piedras Ne
gras, the other day. Half the troops were
mounted, the others firing from ravine.
Gonzelos, the Customs officer, was killed,
and the smugglers lost two men. Nine of
the contrabandists were captured, as also
forty bales of goods and forty horses.
The Princess Olive Lubin, only child
of the late Emperor Of Hayti, has arrived in
New York, and will soon make tour of the
chief cities. She is the widow of General
Lubin, is Sc years of age, and was educated
with great care.
PROFESSOR WORTH, the snake-charm-
er, during performance in New York the
other evening received fatal bite.
A DISPATCH dated July II says the
British fleet opened fire on Alexandria at Z
a. m. Arabi Pasha was still defiant. The
military commanders determined to defend
the forts to the last, and then retire into the
interior, where preparations for resistance
are complete. The foreign consuls pro-
tested against bombardment. The French
squadron had sailed, leaving behind only
the Alma and Hirondelle. It. is believed
that the Governor proposed compromise,
but Admiral Seymour would not accept any
terms short of the complete surrender Of the
forts. -" t#
CHARLES N. STILES, for many years
caller on the Chicago Call Board, and we'll
known man in Board of Trade circles, was
shot and instantly killed, July 10, by young
woman of doubtful reputation who passed
under the name of Madeline Stiles. She
obtained access to his room by an artifce,
when a quarrel ensued which resulted in his
death. The woman claims that Stiles had
made her life unbearable by his dissolute
habits and cruelty, and the announcement
of determination to leave him precipitated
the quarrel.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has nominated
J. A. Zabriskie to be Attorney for Arizo-
Marshal of the same territory, and William
p. Chandler, of Illinois, to be Surveyor
General of Idaho.
JOEL PRESCOTT, an old resident of
Chicago, was found on the morning of the 9th
lying in the doorway Of his basement with
his brains beaten out. His pockets had been
rified, but nothing of value was captured.
Four arrests have been made on suspicion.
AT San Jose, CAL, the other day, Miss
Belle Cook defeated Miss Ida Rogers in
racing contest for s., 900, making ten miles
in twenty.one minutes.
AT Syracuse, N. Y, July 9, James
Hawks, a laborer, killed his wife while on q
drunken spree. He said on being arrested,
"I'm glad Of it; it's good thing for me-"
In a railroad collision at Cork, Ire
land, July 8, thirty persons were injured,
twelve of whom, it is expected, will die.
AN enraged stallion at Coldwater,
Mich, the other day knocked down horse |
m n named 7 eiohfon Eelt llpOn him. bit off |