Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

dunlap, near Memphis, Tenn, on the nj <ht
{ the It'll. Leonard managed to catch hoId
[ the wheel and made his way on deck
When the crew heard his story they rnsbed
non Dunlap, and before the Off .ers of the
oat could rescue him he was be- .aten in sucb
terrible manner that his life was despaired
f.
HAVING failed to exc cute some trans
,ortation contracts wi IN the Government.
lanes Callaghan, prominent citizen of
san Antonio, Tex, shot himself dead the
,ther day.
FREIGHT trains on the Chicago, Min
neapolis & St. Paul Railway telescoped, for
by miles west of Eau Claire, Wis, on the
9Th. George Winters, engineer, and con-
ductor Were seriously injured.
GEORGE ROBINSON and Mary Bag
gan, of Chicago, were engaged to be mar
ried. On the 10th, Robinson called upon
his sweetheart and sent a bullet into her
head. He then placed the revolver behind
his left ear and fired again, expiring imme
diateiy. The girl only lived few minutes.
Mary had refused to go out with Robinson
the night previous.
THREE murderers were executed on
the 1Oth--Quirino Gaitan, a Mexican, at
Brownsville, Texas; Jesse Barber, colored,
at Winnsboro, S. c.; Henry III. Hall, Pres
colt, Arizona. Charley Hing, a Chinaman,
was hanged at Winnemucca, Humboldt
County, New, on the 9th, for the murder Of
All Lick, one of his countrymen.
EDDIE KILBERGER, aged II, pleaded
guilty to manslaughter in the Common Pleas
Court at Lancaster, Ohio, few days ago,
and was sentenced to the State Farm until
of age. Young Kiberger stabbed a 13-year-
old son Of Christian Straacke to the heart
one evening last October, during a quarrel
about some marbles.
JUDGE MILLER, of the United States
Supreme Court, has issued a writ of error
in the case of Charles F, Kring, sentenced
to be hanged in st. Louis on Feb. 2ith.
FIVE members of the Yeager family,
of Fort Wayne, Ind, were recently pois-
oned by raw ham. 1t was not thought pos
sible for the children to recover.
Two young men recently entered the
works of the Chicago Car-wheel Company
and asked some information from Walter
Todd, the cashier. Almost instantly they
threw red pepper in his eyes, pushed him
into a closet, locked the door, and secured
800 in cash.
CLARENCE O. PERRY, a boy of .16,
was recently left in charge of a house in
Ashland, Mass, during the absence of the
family. He set fire to three beds in differ
ent parts of the house, but the neighbors
smelled smoke and eXtinguished the flames.
The fellow was arrested and committed in
S., 600 to await the Grand Jury's action.
Perry is monomaniac on the subject of in
cendiarism and confesses to at least three
attempts.
WILLIAM LEDERE, of Syracuse, n.
Y, loved Nellie TAFT so passionately that he
forced entrance to her residence the other
day with the avowed purpose of killing her.
The proprietress of the house tried to pre-
vent this, and he shot both. He then went
home and killed himself by emptying his
revolver into his head. Jealousy.
LAKE RANSOM, an employee of the
D. NJ. Osborne Reaper Company for eight
cen years and manager of the Chicago Office
for the last nine years, was found dead in
the suburb of Hinsdale, Feb. 11th, half
way between his house and the depot. Near
him was q revolver with two chambers
empty, and there was pistol wound in the
back of the head from which the brains
but no traces of the murderer. The clothes
and wallet had been rifled of their contents.
He leaves family in moderate circum-
stances.
PARIS advices say the Marquis de Jo
cas-, a large shareholder in the Union Cen
erale, has committed suicide. He had in
vested 600, 900 francs in shares of the Union
Generate. 1t was he who introduced Amer
lean vines In the south of France.
Two freight trains came together
near Atchison, Kans., Feb. 18th. One fiat
car flew into the air and came down on To-
connective, and a general wreck piled up in
an instant. Pat. Mackey, a fireman, was
frightfully mangled; Engineers Craft and
Burger and James Rilly, fireman, were
badly hurt. The accident is regarded by the
officers as the greatest piece of carelessness'
ever known in that section, as both engi-
peers saw the danger, but neither would
back up, as each expected the other to do
so.
THE piano-case factory of Dielmann
& Co., in Twenty-first street, New York,
was destroyed by fire on the 10Th, causing a
loss of 100000. A fireman named David
Stardenger was fatally injured by falling
walls.
JOHN HUDSON, of Piqua, O., attempt
ed to leap from train before it stopped, at
Urbana, on the 10Th, and fell between two
trucks. He was crushed to death instantly.
THREE outlaws in New Mexico have
or some time been robbing and wounding
travellers at a point 1856 miles west Of AL
buqurque, known as Cranes. A deputy
sheriff led party of citizens to the cabin Of
the robbers few days ago. and bloody en-
counter followed. The Williams We're shot
dead, but one of the attacking party was
killed and two others so seriously wounded
that they were sent to Fort Wingate by
special train for surgical treatment.
ALBERT WEILE, an architect, once
wealthy citizen of Cleveland, o., recently
imprisoned as vagrant at Kansas City, Mo-,
hanged himself in his cell.
Two coaches attached to an express
train on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
rolled into Huron River, about four miles
from Huron, o., the other day. The train