Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-31

| SEVERAL trainmen were injured by q
collision on the Pennsylvania Central. near
! Bristol, Pa, on the Goth.
SOME practical jokers told a young
man named Edward Waterman, at Mil
waukee. Wis.,, that the water off the break
water was fourteen feet deep, inducing him
| to dive. The water being but three feet,
| the Divers neck was broken and death en- :
sued Immediately.
AN Ohio & Mississippi express train
broke in two, near Olney, Ill.,, the other
| night, and when the engine was reversed the
detached sleepers dashed into the day coach
and demolished it. J. r. ChalIen, aged 10,
was killed; Miss B. Reynolds, OF Vincennes,
Ind. was seriously injured and several others
were cut and bruised.
A PARTY of imported miners sent to
extinguish the fire In the Astor mine, near
Homecoming, Md, were attacked by large
body of strikers and driven back to their
barracks. Firearms were used freely on
both sides, but so far as learned no one was
injured.
JAMES BIRD, a cooper, who had just
separated from his wife, sought her at the
residence of her sister, in Gratiot, Wis.,, on
the 21st, and after saying they ought at least
to be friends drew a revolver and shot her
twice, inflicting serious wounds. He then
turned the weapon on himself, with proba-
bly, fatal effect.
G. w. WARD, colored, was hanged at
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 81, for criminal
assault upon Dora Ellerman, young Ger.
man girl.
THE bodies of three unknown men,
supposed to have been murdered, were
found in a skiff floating down the river near
Uniontown, KY, on the 21st.
THE body of an unknown man killed
by the cars near Boston. Mass, is believed
to be that Of Peter La Grassa, once a cele.
brated operate tenor.
JAMES MCINTYRE, of Bradford, Pa.
State Senator, was drowned while bath
ing in the surf at West Brighton, n. Y, the
other day.
AN enterprising individual named B.
D. Ply, stationed at Body, ILL.,, has been
sending out circulars to Western farmers
offering for sale a new variety of wheat sc
superior in quality that he is willing to trnst
the farmers until they have sown and gath
cred the grain, and then If it does not yield
a third more than other kinds of wheat, he
asks no pay. In carrying out this be-
nevolent scheme he finds it necessary to call
upon his beneficiaries to send by mail ST to
prepay the express charges on the large
bags of seed wheat. The dollar has, in many
cases, been sent, but no wheat came, and
the victims have complained to the Post
Office Department, which can do no thing but
direct the return to the senders Of all money
orders and registered letters, having no
power to interfere with his ordinary sealed
letters. -,.
In Choctaw County, Ala, the other
day, a mob hanged a negro named Jack
Turner, who was charged with being the
ringleader of plot to murder white people.
CHARLES MCMAHON, wealthy far
mer residing near Mount Pulaski, ILL.,, and
two of his laborers, named John Carlock
and Solomon Malheny, were literally butch
cred by unknown men, the other night, the
crime remaining undiscovered for two days.
The house was thoroughly ransacked for
valuables.
Two sections of a circus train crashed
together near New Burnside, ILL.,, on the
Goth. Four men were killed in a car contain
ing eighty sleeping showmen, and at least
twelve others were seriously injured.
FOUR enlisted men of the Ninth In
fantry, stationed at Fort Omaha, Nebr.,
by robbing citizen of Sc. This
proved so easy task that the team of Mr..
Woolsey was stopped on the highway with
a demand for money. The reply was bull
let which killed Emanuel x. Shrader. His
Dawson, Flintwell, and Nc.
Donald, are in Jail. .5a .ga