Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-02

County, Texas, n few days ago, and his
body was concealed in the carcass OF COW.
Wolves aud buzzards had been feasting on
the remains.
JOHN THoKp, an iron-molder, was
knocked down with sand-bag by Daniel
Fisher, a stableman, near the Union Depot
in Kansas City. Mo-, the other night, and
died the next day. Fisher says he was
drunk at the time, but the police know him
to be bad man and tbiuk it case of high
way robbery.
ROBERT FORp, one of the slayers OF
Jesse James, is being tried at Plattsburgh,
Mo-, for the murder of Wood Hite. Charles
Sayres, merchant of Richmond, testified
that while in Jail at st. Joseph Robert con-
fessed having killed Hite and gave full de-
tails OF the occurrence.
HENRY P. ROBERTS, who for fifteen
years was clerk of the United States Circuit
Court in Boston, ended his career the other
day by dose of laudanum.
In the County Court at Wausau, Wis.
the other day, man named Quinn recoy-
cred 5000 damages from DR.. Higgins for
malpractice. Quinn had broken his leg,
and the doctor left him a cripple for life,
and amputation has become almost ne
cessity.
FIVE HUNDRED wires on the switch
board in the Western Union telegraph office
Mt Cincinnatiwere melted off the other morn.
ing, stopping business until dark.
j. d. BLACK, Secretary of the Buffalo
Loan, Trust and Safe Deposit Company, has
been missing for some days. His accounts
appear all right.
THE New York Socialists are moving
in behalf of their brethren in Austrian dun
geons.
Gus SEIG. an engineer on the Penn
sylvania Central, was driven from burn
ing cab while making forty miles an hour
the other afternoon, but he saved the lives
of some 600 passengers by forcing his way
back into the flames and stopping the train
before it plunged into the Hackensack Riv-
er. The hero was found in the water-tank,
half dead.
THIRTY persons have been arrested in
Paris, Lyons and st. Etienne, on suspicion OF
connection with the riots in Montceau les
Mines.
JOHN MAGRUs, trackman, was run
down and killed by an express train at
jamestown, n. Y, on the 22d.
FRANK STUMP, of Grantsville, w.
Va, was cut to pieces by threshing ma
chine the other day. His clothing caught
in the belt.
HENRY TODD, young man living in
Lyon County, KY, was kicked to death by
mule the other day.
FRANK MILLER, Woodworking Ger
man of Chicago, got on spree the other
night and quarreled with his wife. The
contention continued in the front yard. AL
bert Hardies, neighbor, attempted the
peacemaker act. Mrs. Miller slapped him
in the face. Miller then pulled a jackknife
and severed Hardies' jugular, killing him
instantly. The murderer was arrested.
LETTER-CARRIERs at the national
capital are to be mounted on tricycles.
MANY members of the Salvation Army
were injured, some very seriously, by the
falling of floor at Hanley, England, the
other day.
JACOB PEsHON and Joseph Lehnen
were shockingly mangled by the premature
explosion of blast in a coal mine near
Springfield, ILL.,, the other day. Peshon ex-
pired within an hour or two and the other
fingered in great agony, with very little hope
of recovery.
HIRAM WILSON, brakeman, was Sc.
riously injured while coupling cars at East
Atchison NO., on the 22d. His chest was
cru shed between the bumpers.
NINE pedestrians are plodding around
Madison Square Garden in New York for
the championship of the world and four OF
five thousand dollars.