Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-24
THE Campbell brothers, desperadoes |

The Campbell brothers, desperadoes
OF Caldwell County, KY, were smoked out
OF house by mob the other day and rid.
died with bullets. One of the besiegers was
killed.
NELLIE and Mamie Meekhan, and
years old respectively, were asphyxiated
were left alone all night, Mr.. Meekham hav-
Ing missed the last train from Chicago, and
not knowing how to shut off the gas they
blew 1t out.
THOMAS ELDER, q saloon-keeper, was
killed by an unknown man near Louisville,
KY, the other night. Elder was waiting on
customer, and the assassin rode up to the
open door and fired two shots.
LITTLE THUNDER, chief of the Chip
pewa Indians, died in a Chicago hospital,
Aug. IA. He was one of the two survivors
of the Custer massacre.
BERRY WHITLEY and Robert Floyd,
students at Woodville, Ga. quarreled or
the 14th. Knives were drawn, and Floyd
was mortally wounded.
Two cases of typhoid fever frightened
all the guests from hotel at Long Branch.
n. j., and the proprietor posted q notice
that he would close the establishment forth
with. Physicians said the sick men could
not be removed within ten days, and the
landlord consented to keep the house open
that time provided he was paid $500 fol
each patient.
A NUMBER of Hebrew children were
killed in q school at Grodena, Russia, the
other day, by the explosion of barrel Of
powder in bridesmaids house near by.
THE knights of Labor at Homecoming,
Md, counseled the tenants of companies to
hold out in the strike and all necessary funds
will be furnished.
M. T. BENNETT, q prominent mer-
chant at Lebanon, Tenn, was murdered and
robbed at that place on the 18th.
THE County Insane Asylum at Ian
caster, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire on
the 18th. The inmates, ia in number,
were all saved after great eXertions.
THERE was savage prize-fght at
Flushing Bay, N. Y, on the 18th. Charles
Schalenbach and Robert Turnbulf pounded
each other into jelly for $500. Schalenbach
was unconscious after the twelfth round.
THERE was double lynching at La
Fayette, Ala, the other night. Two me-
groes, named Bob Young and Charlie Griffin,
were hanged by a mob of forty men, for the
murder of a white man named Mccain,
some months ago. The negroes had beer
tried, convicted and sentenced by the Cir
cult Court, and the day for their execution
fixed. The case was carried to the Supreme
Court, and reversed, and a new trial or
dered. The mob took the prisoners out OF
Jail by force. carried them out of town, and
swung them to an oak tree.
On petition of the business men of Fall
River, Mass, President Arthur has granted
a pardon to Joseph w. Milne, teller of the
Pocasset National Bank, convicted of EN-.
bezzling the funds.
AS services were about to be held in
the Jail at Toledo, Ohio, the other day, six
teen prisoners made a break for liberty.
Sheriff Harbeck knocked down two men with
jimmy, and had his eyes filled with pepper
and salt. Deputy Sheriff Edgar fired a shot
at a negro, which grazed his head. After
fight of three minutes the prisoners were
beaten back and the door locked. An iron
bar had been sawed through with a corset
steel taken in by some woman.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th,
Albert Harrison, worthless fellow, while
intoxicated, stabbed his son William, in
flicting a probably fatal wound. The son
interposed to protect his sister.
THREE children of Mr.. T. Carter, of
Putnam County, Ga, were burned to
death on the 18th.
DOUGLAS HEATHCoTE was dubbed
to death by John Goodman at Ullin, ILL.,,
the other night.