Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

early hour, seemingly in the best of spirits,
and deliberately shot herself dead. No
| cause is assigned.
Mrs. NELSON, wife of q prominent
merchant of Red Wing, Mimi, and Miss
. Bradley, a visitor from Springfield, Ohio,
| were drowned while boating on the 18TH
FRIEDRICH LEAHY, of indianapolis,
Ind, sought relief from domestic trouble by
swallowing two ounces of selpburic acid,
but fingered long in intense agony.
AT Canton, Ohio, on the morning of
the 18th, officers were attracted to the house
of George Mcmillan by pistol report and
cries of "Murd er!" Mrs. Mcmillan was ly-
ing in bed, with fatal wound In her tenn
pie, and her husband was losing blood from
a scratch in his breast. George told an I'M
satisfactory story, and was taken to jail.
AN express on the New York Central
Railroad was thrown from the track near
Brockport, jane Is, while running at tho
rate Of thirty miles an hour. The engineer
and fireman were killed and the passengers
badly shaken.
AFTER preliminary shot at Police
man Schriver's eye, June 10, Mr.. Schu-
macker, saloon-keeper at Jackson, Mieh..
killed his wife and then fatally shot himself.
Schriver may recover.
JAMES VAUGHN, who murdered VIM.
Watts, in August last, was hanged at Pinck-
NEVILLE, ILL.,, June 16. Milton Yarberry, a
notorious desperate, dropped out in the
same way at Albuquerque, N. Mex.
A PASSENGER train on the Western
Atlantic Railway dashed into some freight
cars at Kingston, Ga, June II. Andrew
West, engineer, was killed and George
Bass, the fireman, was fatally injured. A
number of persons were badly hurt in the
coaches.
EIGHT men were seriously injured by
the latest explosion in the mines near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, June II.
Two burglars raided the residence of
Revenue Collector Bickel, at st. Paul, Mimi,
June II, but were baff1ed, and escaped to
the woods. Officer Daniel O'Connell fol-
lowed them, and was not again seen alive.
His body was subsequently found with a
bullet-hole in the temple. The fatal shot
had been fired at such close range that his
head was powder-burnt.
JOHN HARRIS, Marshal of Cedarville,
Ohio, is held in Sc 900 bail on a charge OF
blowing up Con. Sweeney's saloon.
Two hostlers and thirteen horses were
cremated in a stable at Cambridge, Mass. :,
June II.
TWENTY fremen were injured by fall
ing walls in Boston, Mass, June II.
POLICE made raid ON stable in
Clerkenwell, London, June II, and seized
100, 900 pounds of ammunition packed in
boxes ready for removal to Ireland. Four
hundred rifles, with bayonets, and twenty
five boxes Of revovers were also captured.
THREE little sons of Duncan Taylor,
of Brussels, Ontario, were suffocated on the
18th. The boys were playing about a barn,
and got into an oat-bin, the lid Of which
fell and fastened them in.
f. G. INGERsoLL, counsel for plain
tiff in the ChristiaEcy divorce case, mas been
pronounced insane and taken to an asylum.
SIX boys were drowned near New
Orleans on the 18th. A pleasure boat cap
sized.
A PRETTY girl of II years, residing at
Dedham, Mass, has been practicing burg
larry as a profession. She was recently
caught in the sleeping-room of a neighbor-
ing family.
A MOB at Rico, Colo, the other day,
took from jail two murderers named Thomas
Wall and Trinidad Charlie, and hanged
them in a small cabin.
Miss EMMA GROVER, member of the
senior class in the high school at Holyoke,
Mass, eloped with a colored coachman
some weeks ago. Nothing has been heard
| from the girl, but the negro writes that the
affair can be settled by the payment Of a
| specified sum of money.
DIR. JULES CREvAUx and party OF
seventeen men, who were engaged in ex-
| ploring the northern tributaries Of the River
Plate, were killed by the Obah Indians in
Bolivia.
MoRRIsoN's paper mill, at Tyrone,
Pa, burned on the 18th. Loss, 1928 200;
insurance, $4,000.
| j. N. BROWN, Justice of the Peace at
Dallas, Greg, took Q fatal dose of chloro-
form on the 10th. He had been suffering
| from asthma.
HARRY FINLEY, son of ex-Congress-
man Finley, committed suicide at Bucyrus,
Ohio, June IS. He had just resigned his
position of midshipman on the steamer Ten
nessee, and the cause is supposed to be
| something connected with @ recent examina-
| ton.
| HENRY HUDDLEsToN, negro, was
lynched at Winchester, Tenn, June IS,
for assaulting a woman.
JARVIS GAY, an old veterinary sur
| geon, of Norwood, Mass, asked G. W. Ed
mund to direct him on his way at an early
hour on the 10Th. Edmund mistook him
for burglar and fatally shot him.
| The schooner Massasoit was sunk by
an iceberg off st. John, Newfoundland, June
10. Four of the crew persisted.
FIVE laborers were drowned at Pas
pebiac, Quebec, June IS boat sinking.
| The rising tide at Isle Aux Grues drowned
two children, named Lapointo and Harvey,
covering the islet upon which they were at
play.
THE freight-handlers of the Central
Road in New York struck for an Increase to
20 cents per hour, the other day. and party
| of seventy-five marched along the piers and
compelled all 'longshoremen to quit work.
THE ship Freeman Clark, just arrived
at New York from Calcutta, reports that
the captain, James Dwight, of Springfield.