Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-07
THE recent killing of Colonel l.. w.

THE recent killing of Colonel l.. w.
r. Blair, at Camden, S. c., by. Captain j.
L. Halle, has been followed by the suicide
of the Colonel's daughter. Blair's father
took his own life when a member of Con-
gress, and his grandfather was hanged for
murder.
Mrs. HovEY, a young woman living
in Thetford, Mich, went into the Unknown,
Aug. q, by holding her head In tub Of
water, taking her child with her.
ARMED robbers boarded an excursion
train near Toledo, Ohio, on the 9th. The
conductor was badly treated, one passen-
ger was thrown from the platform, and an
other had to hand out $50.
AT Chicago, on the 28th, Richard
Wilson, Scotchman, aged "a, seriously
wounded his wife and then turned the re-
volver upon himself with fatal effect. Jeal-
ousy.
Ten colored participants in the recent
riot at Eastman, Ga, have been sentenced
to imprisonment for life.
M. M. BUFORD, aged 16, was acct
dentally killed, at Dallas, Texas, on the 9th,
by bosom friend named Herndon, who
''didn't know the pistol was loaded
THERE was tragedy in a court
room at Knoxville, Tenn, the other day.
Gen. j. 81. Mabry and his son James A.
appeared against Moses and D. C. Lusby,
father and son, and during the hearing the
latter made some disturbance, whereupon
two shots were fred by one of the Mabrys
and Moses Lusby fell dead and his son
was MORALLY wounded. There had
been a GOODNESS between the two families
b., 1,,o - oh 80
Mabry by D. C. Lusby last Christmas.
FELIPE CHAvEs, a wealthy stockman
of Valencia County, N. NJ, was murdered
for money the other day, and his body was
placed on the track to be mangled.
GEN. G. j. POWERS, a well-known
lawyer of Rochester, N. Y, was fatally in
jured by fall the other day.
FREDERICK NOBLE, of Philadelphia,
was drowned while yachting near Erie, Pa,
on the 26th. Frederick w. Remington, OF
New York, who was found clinging to a
capsized sailboat, reported the drowning Of
a companion named George Cornell.
A RABBLE numbering five or six hun
bred captured truck loaded with seized
beer in Augusta, Me-. the other day, pet-
ing the driver with stones. After breaking
open the cases and indulging freely, the
jewellers transferred the remainder to a wa
gon owned by a ward politician.
A YOUNG lady named Vincent was ia
tally injured by a train at Summitville, Ind. q,
on the s6th.
THERE was double tragedy at Le-
land, La Sale County, H., on the 26th.
Jonathan NJ. Stratton, prominent attor-
| ney, was killed by his wife, who then COM
mitted suicide. They were not happy, the
first quarrel arising out of $500 left to
Mrs. Stratton just after her marriage, two
years ago, she claiming that she had not
| been given fair share of it. The last one
| was brought about by Mr.. stratton accepting
| retainer from oon-keeper, as she was
strong advocate Of prohibition. High
| words were exchanged, and the husband
threatened to obtain divorce. This SO ex-
| cited the wife that she got revolver and
| shot him in the breast and herselfin the tenn =
pie. Mr.. Stratton had two children by a
| former wife, and Mrs. Stratton one by hus.
band from whom she had been divorced.
A DISPATCH from Calcutta says Hin
docs and Mohammedans at Salem have been
irving to extInguish each other. The houses
of the latter were burned, and the princi-
pal mosque almost RACED to the ground.
CONTRIBUTORS to the Irish fund
threaten the trustees with violence if they
| do not satisfactorily account for $4,000.
The English artillerists shelled the
Egyptian camps at Aboukir on the Goth,
eiciting but feeble replies. and it is thought
that Arab has withdrawn the bulk OF his
| army to cover Cairo.