Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"CH1P SIXTH" was hanged at New
Haven, Conn.,, Sept. /.
DICK REvELL, q counterfeiter drew {
revolver And tried to escape from Deput,
Marshal vermilyea near Monroe Iowa, Aug
81. The officer used his pistol with fat q
effect. -
The agent of the American News
Company at Omaha, Nebr., has caused thu
arrest of book canvasser named Charles
W. Hill, who has been falsely representing
himself as an agent of the company. Davis
bought sample copies of standard publica.
tons at the news room, and exhibiting then
would take orders for duplicate copies a
less than wholesale rates. always insisting
upon cash In advance. Whatever he OBJ
tanned was clear profit, as his dupes never
received the book ordered. He has beer
doing thriving trade, notwithstanding the
similar swindle worked by the Rev. j. n
Rockwell only few weeks ago. i.'tai'' "
L. d. Ross, Of the firm of Deland &
Ross, ticket scalpers, Kansas City. has beer
arrested at the instigation OF E. J. Jewett,
OF the Missouri Pacific, charged with pass.
ing fraudulent railroad tickets. A large
number of bogus, tickets were found on
Ross person. He claims that they were
sept him by Eastern parties to sell. Appear.
ances indicate thai big sgheme has been ir
operation some time, 8 swindling. several
roads. 1t is thought the tickets ere manu-.
featured at some point In the yicinityiof St.
Louis or Chicago. and that one Of the band
is employed circulating them. 9lai
- AT the Dubuque encampment the
first prize, 81, 0O0.' was awarded to the Por-
ter Guards, of Memphis; the second, $500,
to the Branch Guards, Of st.: Louis, and the
DEBORAH Drum Corps was given $500.
A FREIGHT train on the Wabash, St.
Louis & Pacific Railway was wrecked by o
misplaced switch at Okolona, Ohio, Sept, i.
John Conklin, engineer, and an unknown
tramp were seriously injured. ss,
b A GENTLEMAN in Bangor, Me-, pro-
fesses to have been informed by men per-
sonally interested that the Bar Harbor high.
way robbery was a practical joke. and that
the denouement has Just been reached. The
story as told is about as follows: The
Messrs. Howe, who were robbed on Green
Mountain, employed a celebrated detective
in New Yerk to ferret out the robber,. and
the practical jokers, getting frightened,
cleared up the whole mystery. 1t is said
that two young lady friends Of the Howe
brothers persuaded q friend of all the par
ties to personate Claude Duval, of the des-
ert dale, with the intention, of course, of
ultimately returning the valuables. While
the guests of a certain hotel were assembled,
the other evening, the modern Duyal en-
tered the room, wearing the same mask and
costume as on the road, and with a flourish
returned the stolen property to the aston
ished Messrs. Howe. II s [a1l .srt
D. N. SHERWOOD, postal clerk in
North Carolina, who had been rfiing regis
tered letters for some ten years, was found
out and arrested at Goldsboro the other day.
poison.
GEORGE TAYLOR was killed and D.
M. Wynn seriously injured by the fall of an
elevator at Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 2. ~
COLLECTOR ROBERTsON,ia of New
York, received from Washington the other
day an express package containing finely
mounted spy glass, a gold pocket chronom-
eter, and sum of money. The articles
were intended ''for the officers and crew. Of
the American ship Caravan, for great serv-.
ices rendered in midocean to the crew of the
German bark Lohengrin, as tribute of ap-
probation from the imperial German Gov
ernnient. The package was forwarded by
Count Beust. The spy-glass, it was ex-
planned. was for, Capt. Josiah. Daggett, of
New York, master Of the Caravan; the
chronometer was-for james Dovan, mate of
the Caravan, and the money was for dfsfri-
button among Seamen John Fitzgerald, Ed
ward Williams, j. j. Ramsley, and Edward.
Watson. e-...,.., s~o,54,. r.. ,,fes ---,t. .
J. D. WICKIsER and Charles Kline
were crushed to death nnder,a frame
which they removing, near.
Upper Sandusky; Ohio, SepEi1.gehl 'r,
: HENRY Q Brown, of New Hampton,
Iowa, once a prominent farmer, is in custo-
dy on charge of arson, forgery, adultery
and conspiring to defraud the State Insur-
ance Company of Des Moines, for which he
was agent. He made out policy on house
and contents in the name of Miss Sanborn,
packed up the goods. shipped them to La
Crosse, burned the place and endeavored to,
get the amount of the policy on the house
and goods. ~ l.. .:o ..I.s....t :
G.. O. B. CowARDIN, of the Richmond
(va.) Dispatch; charged with being about
to engage in duel with W. G. Elan, edi.
THE United States grand jury at
W. Va, has indicted Inspec-
ter Young for manslaughter, for granting
the steamer Scioto a permit to carry more
passengers than authorized by law. Two
pilots and the captain Of the Tomas are also
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A NUMBER of men were buried be-
meath q mass of rocks and earth in q tunnel
near Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. g. Henry
Moira was killed and several others were
severely injured. uC ..sg esa Aass
DEWITT c. RUSH, City Treasurer of
South Bend, Ind. for six years. went TO
Chicago not long since and failed to return.
On Sept. his wife received a letter frnm
him, stating that he was defaulter and
that she would never see him more. . -
TIE pottery firms at East Liverpool,
Ohio, have recognized the knights of Labor
and the workmen have accepted former
prices. The New York glass workers have
made satisfactory terms and operations will
be re umed at once. tr4
MINERS in Manchester, England. de-
mand more pay and threaten general
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