Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

poisoned with ehloral. Kellehsr AMI SCAT
A FRESeH briaegroom was,shot by. q
jealous rival while the wedding party was
near the church in Paris few days ago.
The assassin committed suicide. ss'
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10th, Ward
McConkey was hanged sfOr the murder Of
George A. Mcclure in Dead Man'S Hollow,
near MGKsasport,.on-t the night ofsAugust
HENRY Il MARRIOTT and Marie
sPereux, crested in New York recently for
the larceny of $4,000 worth of diamonds
from Paris .(France) jewefer, were mar
ried in court ON the 10th. ~, -y,i, ysss,
ri A TORNADO caused extensive damage
to farms in the vicinity of the town Of
Rock, Rock County, Wis, on the 10th. The
storm was about forty rods wide, and trav-
eled wo or three miles without lifting.
AT Loudon, Tenn, on the 10th, the
trial of Andy Taylor was closed by the
jury returning verdict of guilty of muir
der in the first degree and he was sentenced
to death. The prisoner was one of the Tay-
lor brothers who last fall boarded a train
on the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad, killed Sheriff Cate, of Hamilton
County, Tenn, and his deputy, John Con-
way, and rescued John Taylor, who was
being conveyed to Knoxville for trial.
BURGLARS forced their way into a
private bank at Vassar, Mich, the other
night and carried off $4,l00 in gold and
silver. .,s .. .... s- it.-
ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of
the failure of Henry K. White, dealer in
straw goods, New York, with liabilities of
$4,000; assets, $780, 900. ...* 3d..
DURING severe storm at La Crosse,
Wis, the other afternoon lightning struck
the house of James Eagan, severely if not
fatally injuring Mrs. Egan, and in a less
degree her daughter, aged thirteen. At
New York on t.ae same day the sash and
struck and fired, the loss being $4,000.
Two lives were lost by the burning of
dwelling in West Madison street, Balti-
more, Md, the other morning, John F. Adj
ans, aged eighty-three, and a colored cook
being suffocated and burned while in bed.
A colored chambermaid leaped from third
story window, broke one of her ribs and
received other internal injuries. $50.
Mrs. JESSE R. GRANT, mother of ex-
President Grant, died at Jersey City, N. j.,
on the 18th, aged eighty-five years.
SECRETARY TELLER has recommended
that suit be begun against the Union Pacific
Railroad, to determine the true meaning
of the net earnings clause of the Thurman
act. ia-ff :.
MATTHIAS BRADY has been arrested
for threatening the foreman of the jury
which convicted his brother in Dublin, Ire
land. T ssf5tt sos" ig9's'- a5
ANDREW j. SMITH, President of the
Manhattan Insurance Company, New
York, has been arrested on aachargeiof
perjury. inlt ~. gfss'iJ iH.7l -t-eIoya !
's- A BREWER and an undertaken fought
duel with broadswords near Chicago, ILL.,,
the other day, the former being wounded.
b. EDWARD O'BRIEN and Thomas Doyle
pleaded guilty to charges of murder and
conspiracy in Dublin, ireland, on the 18th.
Four lmurderers paid the penalty of
their crimes ON the 1Ith.siiSylvester K.
Makinson was hanged at Cambridge, ILL.,,
for the murder of, Mrs, Copeland near Ke-
vance ON the Goth day of last August; An
gelo Cornetti, the Italian murderer Of DAN
iel Cash, a fellow convict at Sing Sing, N.
Y, December 81, 1881, was hanged in the
prison yard; Jerry Blalock was hanged at
Newport. Ark, for numbering Thomas
Brandenburg in a cotton field in 1880, and
John W. Jackson, at Jackson, Ohio, for the
murder of Samuel l.. Hull 1T iras q
ALoCKOUT occurred at w! S. Kimball
& Co.'s cigarette factory, at Rochester, N.
Y, few days ago, seven hundred female
employees being refused work. The firm
had thrice refused to advance the twenty
per cent. demanded, and fearing a strike
%l,ao Il hon,
they arrived at the factory.
The Standard oil-works at Com
munipaw, N. j., were struck by lightning
on the 10th inst. and set on fire. The
flames communicating with the oil tanks, one
explosion followed another, and at last the
storehouse where the barreled oil was kept
was attacked, which succumbed. Six fire.
men were overtaken by flood of blazing
oil and persisted. The loss was estimated
at 81 SOC, 600, the property destroyed includ-
ing twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six
barges, a dredge, three docks and five brick
buildings. HNFa.. .t. E..r
MCDONALD, the last of the four men
who robbed a Little Rock g. Fort Smith
train, killed the conductor and disabled
brakeman for life, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree at GAINESVILLE,
Ark.
PAUL STRoBACH, United States Mar
shall for the Southern District of Alabama,
has been indicted at Montgomery for pre-
senting fraudulent accounts.
AMAsA STONE, the millionaire railway
and iron magnate, committed suicide at
Cleveland, O., on the 18th by shooting him
self through the heart with a revolver
while suffering from temporary insanity.
By boiler explosion near Napanee,
Ind, the other afternoon two men were
killed and three others fatally Injured.
RECENT disturbances in WI Chang,
China, have been repressed. Thirty-five
insurgents were beheaded. "-''' s
THE Canadian Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 18th after a session Of one
hundred and seven days. 'l -. ~..i.' sFs 3.
.Ta DURING the week ended ON the 18th
there were fourteen deaths from yellow
fever at Havana, Cuba. ia 5j3ffss
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