Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

party, is dead.
A. G. RENAUDIN, Frenchman, aged
twenty.two, entered the Protestant Episco-
pal Church Of the Annupciation, New York
City, on the 18th. drew q pistol from his
pocket and deliberately shot himself.
WHILE the widow of James Quigley
was filing her account as administrator in
| court at Erie, Pa, few days ago, she was
startled by the appearance of another widow
OF the same man, who laid claim to the en-.
tire estate. 1t appears that the latter was
married in Buffalo twenty years ago, and
that Quigley deserted her with four children
on her hands. ~
NEAR Kingston, Tenn, on the 18th,
| hack containing Alley Firestone and John
Hughes, driventby T. c. Williams, was fired
| upon from ambush near the residence of
Mrs. Zoda Pearce. The passengers and
| driver took to the woods, but returned the
fire in the direction of the shots. Firestone
ventured to return, when he found that
Mrs. Pearce was the would-be assassin.
Entering the house he discovered q little
daughter had been shot through the head.
The child was alive at last accounts, but can
not live. 1t is supposed Mrs. Pearce's shot
was intended for Williams, against whom
sault.
M. B. CowDEN, City Surveyor of
Harrisburg, Pa, was accidentally killed at
shooting match the other day.
C.. M. MORTON, aged IS, a we'll
known and once very prominent man Of
Louisville, KY, sent a bullet through his
brain on the 18th. Business failures some
years ago had plunged him into a gloomy
frame of mind, and he took dose of poison
but was saved by stomach-pump.
GEORGE FARRow, an old resident of
Peoria, ILL.,, attempted suicide the other
night by means of strychnine. On his per-
son was found a letter severely denouncing
the Overseer Of the Poor Tor refusing to as
sist himself and wife, and saying he would
haunt him after death.
A TELEGRAM from Portland, Oregon,
reports a serious fight at Harrisburg, Alas
ka, among white miners. A number were
killed.
r. A. SMITH, City Marshal of Mount
Vernon, ILL.,, killed Charles w. Yost, ci-
gar manufacturer, the other day, and
escaped from town on a horse.
THE Allan steamer Progress was pro-
visioned at Montreal and sent to the relief of
the Peruvian, which was disabled in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence by ice. While the
Progress was of Riviere du Loup, few
days ago, flames broke out, and so rapid
was their progress that three of the crew
were burned to death and the steamer was
destroyed. The loss will exceed 100000.
THREE murderers were executed on
Stephen G. Efler, at Marion, Ga; A. D.
T IN
THERE was S250,O0O blaze at Lead
vile, Colo, on the 10Th. Arthur Ballour
and an unknown man were burned to death.
Incendiarism Is suspected.
AN explosion of sulphur in the Buck
Ridge Colliery, near Shamokin, Pa, May
20, caused the death of James Lawrence.
Frank Osman, David Green, and Frederick
Hoffman,.
Two gentlemen living near Boston,
Mass, we're made seriously Ill by sleeping in
a newly papered room. A strip of the pa
per was submitted to a chemist, who de-
tected the presence of arsenic.
JOHN MCMENoMoN, farmer living
near Muscatine, Iowa, was shot and killed
by his l5.year-o old daughter the other day.
The two were quarreling, when the girls
brother, aged Is, handed her revolver, with
which she shot her father through the
breast. 1t Is supposed the children desired
to get possession Of their fathers property.
The mother is in the insane asylum.
JACK BRUMMAGE and Charles Axline,
of Rosevlle, Ohio, quarreled on a Mus
kingum Valley train, May 20. Axline was
stabbed in the breast, and knocked Brum-
mage off the platform while the train was
in rapid motion, and in falling his head
struck telegraph pole, knocking his brains
out. Brummage died in short time. AK
line was not expected to live.
GEORGE KNICKERBOCKER, a furni-
ture-d dealer of Minneapolis, Mimi, set a ia
bic in front of his store, few days ago, and
attached placard stating that it had been
taken away from DR.. NJ. E. Woodling be-
cause he would not pay for it. The doctor
went into the establishment with a huge
knife and slashed Mr.. Knickerbocker and a
clerk named Neil Berry in the arm, but was
seized and lodged in jail.
The jury at Fort Madison, Iowa,
found Polk Wells and Charles Cook guilty
of the murder of penitentary guard, and
fixed their punishment at imprisonment for
life.
FIVE of the best brick blocks in Wax
ahachie, Tex, valued at $10o, 900, were swept
away by fire the other day.
PRICE, the Englishman who was
serving life sentence for the murder Of a
fellow countryman named Neaves, died in
the Canon City fColo.) Penitentiary the 9TH
er night. He committed suicide by starving
himself to death. He had not partaken of
solid food for three weeks. He drank
water, but resisted all attempts to force him
to eat. He claimed to be an English noble
man. Price was an expert knife thrower,
and had killed five men in this manner.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, May 81, Alfred
Robinson, aged "a, shot his wife, aged so,
from whom he had been separated since last
September. The wound may prove fatal.
Jealousy was the cause.
HARRIET w. DARE, teacher at the
Ohio Institute for Deaf and Dumb, fell
dead the other evening while gathering
flowers near Shadeville. Apoplexy was the
supposed cause.
A LARGE crowd gathered at Schuetz-
on Park DayenOort. Iowa. on the Dist. to