Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-25
Personal AND GENERAL.

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ously i'll the other day by eating bread
lubricating oil. Three children were in a
critical condition.
WADE MARTIN, colored, 20 years of
age, was found wandering about the court
yard In Rock Island, ILL.,, the other night,
suffering from Inflammation of the brain
caused by a blow with mallet In tie hand
of man named Proctor, of Iowa City.
Martin was not expected to live, and his as
sailant was arrested.
MRS. BRADY, wife of country mer-
chant living near Carlisle, KY, was killed by
lightning during recent storm.
In a dense pine forest, ten miles north
| east of Sparta, Wis, wild pigeons have es-
tablished a roost half a mile wide and ten
miles long, every tree containing twenty or
more nests.
The May report of the agricultural
| bureau places the condition of winter wheat
for the entire country at 100.
DICK ROGERS, a cowboy, was shot
dead and Jim Catron, the Paghas Springs
stage robber, was fatally wounded by SOL
diers at Fort Garland, Colo, the other day.
| These desperadoes had got drunk, terrified
the town, and were trying to run the soldiers
| out of the fort. Large rewards are offered
for Catron in Texas.
THE dead body of Phoebe Spruce was
found near Rome, Ga, May u, in the last
stages of decomposition and partly de-
voured by buzzards. Her husband is &C.
cused of having murdered her in order to
marry another woman and was arrested.
AT Uvalde, Texas, on the 18th, Tom
German named Christian Shredder. Wey-
miller had difficulty with some German
stone cutters, and procuring pistol, wen1
on the street, declaring that he would kill
the first Dutchman he met. Meeting Schroe-
der, whom he did not know, but recognized
as German, he shot him through the stom-
ach. Weymiller was arrested and jailed,
and Coroner's jury held him responsible
for the murder. Weymiller is himself a
German. The murdered man leaves a wife
and two children.
Mrs. II. W. PICER, wife of a promi-
nent merchant in Leadville, Colo, escaped
from the county insane asylum the other
day and was killed by a train at a place
called the Horseshoe, the track having to
double the hill in order to make the steep
grade. The engineer saw her on the track
and blew his whistle, but was unable to stop
the train. The woman was literally cut to
pieces.
WILLIE WRIGHT, aged IL, was killed
by a train near st. Paul, MIMI, May IA. In
December, 1881, he was enticed from his
home by an Indian, and his parents were
wild with grief over his supposed loss; but
after long search he was found at Ver-
sailles, KY, and restored to his friends, only
to meet II horrible death.
Mrs. G. G. BROTHERToN, lady from
Escanaba, Mich, died very suddenly, under
| suspicious circumstances, at the American
House, in Denver, Colo, the other night.
Her husband is a civil engineer in the en-
ploy of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail
road.
JOHN BRIZZALAPO, who killed his
wife and shot himself in Baltimore, Md,
the other day, succeeded in abridging his
ridor of the jail.
AT Galveston, Texas, on the 18th,
George Henderson cut Dennis Crawley in
the abdomen, inficting dangerous If not
fatal wound. Henderson was arrested, and
while in charge of an officer he was assault
ed by the wife and sister-in-law of the
wounded man, the former with knife and
the latter with a Ratchet. The officer, to
save his prisoner from the Infatuated fe-
males, had to make run for the Police
Station, where they followed, and would
have made short work Of Henderson but
for the timely interference Of the officers in
charge.
A REMARKABLE suit was begun at
Pawpaw, Mich. the other day. B. A. Oh
ney, the wealthiest man in Van Buren,
County, filed bill in chancery to restrain
Jane Ann Marley, OF Hartford, from col
lecting or disposing of a note for $4,000,
given by Olney and held by her. While Wis
iting her in December last, he AYERS that
she removed from a basket nearly $50, 900 in
money, notes and mortgages, which he had
therein, filling the basket with chips. He
did not discover his loss till next day, and
when he demanded the return of the miss
ing property which she held she refused,
and on the contrary threatened to destroy it
unless he gave her $40, 900. To recover the
securities he yielded to her demand, and
now he asks to be relieved from paying 1t,
alleging duress.
AT Pullman, Ill.,, on the 14th, party
of twelve men embarked in sail-boat for a
ride on the Calumet Lake. They put off
from the shore and had made about half the
distance across the lake, which is mile in
width, when the boat was capsized. Three
boats were promptly manned and put out
for the Inflated pleasure seekers. Two of
the boats, a racing shell and small row.
boat, were compelled to return on account
of the heavy sea, and another sail-boat start
ed, manned by Charles Bronson and Frank
Rrayman When they approached within
fifteen feet Of the wrecked boat they saw six
men clinging to it and were welcomed with
glad cheers. The relief boat found it inn
possible to get nearer the wreck and Bray
man and Bronson called to the men to let go
their hold and swim to them. James Buck
lin attempted to obey, but sank after swim
ming a few feet, evidently the victim of
cramps. At this juncture the wind became
more fierce, the boom and mast of the relief
boat were carried away, and Brayman and
Bronson were compelled to get out on
mud bank and wade home, reaching Pull
man in an exhausted state long after mid