Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
HENRY LoCKHARr and Frank Nelson
were killed and jennings Wethers was seri-
ously Injured by the explosion OF boiler,
nesr EeyFburg. Ind, on the 4th. s
JOHN CLARK. while working in . well
fifty feetgde near. Waupacas Wis, May
4, vas buried beneath q mass OF falling
earth.
GEORGE HANKEY, confectioner, of
Brookline, Mass, unwisely loved Boston
belle, named Mabel Raymond, who could
not confine her affection and made him
jealous. Burning with this passion and
liquor, the infatuated man decided that
Mabel should die on May 3, so he called up
on her with a revolver and informed her
that her time had come. But Mabel threw
a shawl over his head and ran upstairs,
whereupon George sent bullet through his
own heart and expired.
A QUARRELsoME drunkard named
John Davidson killed his aged mother, in
Philadelphia, Pa, May 4. There had been
an alteration over some money matters,
during which pans and chairs were thrown
about the rooms, and John seized Ratchet
and struck his mother savage blow on the
top OF the head. This he repeated time at
ter time, until the woman's brains were
scattered on the floor, when the neighbors,
started by the tumult, rushed into the
room.
CHARLES ANDERSON, a prominent
farmer of Marshall County, Ind, while I'M
der the influence of liquor, May 4, threw
himself in front Of q freight train on the
Fort Wayne Road at Plymouth and was in
stantly killed. He leaves large family.
The engineer saw him plainly, but too late
to stop. -''
Mrs NEWTON, of Louisville, Ky. ap-
prehensive that the father of her adopted
SON would take him from her, gave the little
fellow dose Of morphine, on the Sd, wrote
a note of explanation, and then drugged
herself. The boy died. Mrs. Newton will
probably recover.
THE jury in the case of r. E. Cowart,
charged with the murder of ex-Judge IN.
Thurmond, at Dallas, Texas, rendered a
verdict of guilty of manslaughter, and
Cowart was sentenced to the Penitentiary
for seven years. A motion for q new trial
was granted on the ground that the verdict
was not in accordance with the evidence.
HOWARD, the Del Norte horse and
cattle thief, who escaped from a mob who
took him out of Jail to hang him, was sur
prised on a ranch near Pueblo, Colo, on the
9th, and captured after desperate resist
ance. f-a .-G.-. .-~ a..-s
JOHN MoRIARTY and Oliver Milford
were drowned at ST. Joseph, Mo-, on the
9Th. They We're throwing load OF garbage
into the river and Moriarty fell into the
nd in tn 20 m
panion and both were drowned. e. %
SEVERAL blocks of buildings were
burned at Racine, Wis.,, the other morning..
The loss was over half a million.
LAKE SHORE and Grand Trunk trains
collided near Chicago, the other day. Ed
ward D. Colgan was killed, and serious in
juries were inflicted upon T. j. JOY, solicitor
of the Grand Trunk, and Mr.. Wylie Marvel.
of Peoria. The engineer and fireman Of the
Grand Trunk train were arrested by the
police of Lake Township, and held in 81 600
each to the Criminal Court.
- A WABASH freight train went through
atrestlework at HutsonviIle, Ill.,, the other
evening. Three cars loaded with machinery
shelled corn and soap were swept several
hundred yards down the creek. The head
light of the locomotive was carried into
field far away, while the engineer was fin
ally rescued from the forks of tree, 800
yards below the scene of the accident. Wal
ter Mcclure, the fireman, was drowned,
and the body recovered.
JAMES G. TROY, of San Francisco,
CAL, was fatally stabbed by his brother.
John R., during a@quarrel over business
matters the other day. Both men had been
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knives were drawn. James was stabbed in
the throat and died almost instantly. John
received several wounds in the head and
neck, but they are not dangerous. The
dead man leaves a wife and two children.
AT Lancaster, Ky, on the 9TH, Town
Marshall Singleton fired three shots into
crowd trying to rescue a prisoner, wound
ing Joe Ray in the thigh. Ray was also hit
on the head with rock and killed. The
Marshal was pelted with stones by the mob.
one of which is supposed to have killed Ray.
A STAGING on the new railroad bridge
at Greenfield, Mass, fell forty-six feet to
the ground the other day. OF eight men at
work one was fatally and two others badly
hurt.
DIR. H. r. PALMER's International
Pa, and continues four weeks.
A HORRIBLE murder is reported from
Murray County, Georgia. James Emery,
aged about 100 years, beat his wife, 80 years
old, to death with a maui, and threw the
body into lime-sink. Emery has been
desperate all his life, living in the wilds be-
yond the Cabutta Mountains. He is con-
sidered an old Blue Beard, having married
seven times, and murdered all his wives in
the most brutal manner. He had not been
up to the Sth, but the officers
were tracking him through the mountains.
JOHN ScRoGGs, a herder, was killed
by lightning at Aldred's camp, near Boone
vile, Colo, a few days ago. He was cook
ing breakfast at the time, and had expert
enced quite a severe shock a few moments
before.
WILLIAM HABEL, inventor of the
knitting machine, aud Hiram Jones, dro-
yer from Vermont, We're killed, and Ed.
PEBBLES, engineer, was slightly injured by a
collision on the Boston, Concord & Montreal
Railway, near Concord, on the Sth. Both
engines, together, with several freight cars