Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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rel over the wife of Peter Goff, Henry
Thompson was shot dead by Golf, who in
turn was killed by James Spiney, Thomp-
sons friend. -
IDA II. HosMER, three feet tall, and
Robert H. Huzza. three feet six inches,
were married few days ago on the stage of
the Brooklyn (N. " Museum. in which
they were attractions.
GEORGE CARSON, alias Haywood, an
alleged notorious bank sneak-thief, was
arrested in New York City the other day,
charged with the larceny of $50, 900.
THE Courthouse at Texarkana, Tex,
was the scene of a sensational affair on the
1tb, eliminating in the killing of A. L.
johnson by c. f. Dixon. Sheriff of Miller
County. The trouble. it was said, was
caused by Dixon making war on gambling
house in which Johnson was silently in
terested.
AN attempt was made by four desper-
ADDE'S on the 7th to rob a mail train on the
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad near Van
Buren,, Ark. They failed In the attempt, but
killed Conductor John Cain and brakeman
Milton Lester, who gave the alarm. The
railroad company has offered q reward Of
5000 and Crawford County one of 81 600 for
the capture of the Williams.
THE jury in the case of Colonel Theo-
dore Hyatt, President of the Pennsylvania
Military Academy, charged with an aggra-
waited assault and battery on a cadet, re-
turned a verdict of acquittal on the Sth.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN on the 7th
signed the pardon Of Clarence Hte, who
pleaded guilty of train robbery at the Feb
ruary term OF the Davies County Circuit
Court, in 1882.
In endeavoring to make their escape
from a fire in the Cambridge Flats in New
York City the other day Mrs. Abram Wake.
man and her daughter were suffocated. A
number of other persons had narrow es-
capes.
THE bodies of three victims of the re-
cent fire at Nashville, Tenn, were recovered
on the Sth. They had been crushed to death
by falling walls while rescuing property
from the adjoining building.
JUDGE LILLEY, of Washington, was
confined to his bed on the sth in consequence
of injuries received in personal encounter
with S. W. Dorsey, who charged him with
persuading Rerdell to testify for the Gov
eminent in the star-rOute cases.
Two murderers were executed in New
York City on the 9th, Michael McGloin for
the murder of Louis Hanier, and Pasquee
Malone for killing his thirteen-year- old wife.
Bob Cochran, colored, was hanged at Clay
ton, Ala, on the same day, for the murder
of NJ. l.. Drew.
THE Mayor of Xerez, Spain, received
letter recently cont aiming threat to poison
the drinking water il the prosecution Of the
ofv
JOSEPH H. LOOMS was executed at
Springfield, Mass, on the Sth for the MUIR
der of his friend David Levitt, in Agawam,
In December, 1881.
THERE were 252 business failures in
the United States and Canada for the seven
days ended on the 9th, against 272 for the
previous seven days.
The steamer Navarro, bound from
Copenhagen to Leith, foundered during a
gale on the sth, and Of the eighty persons
on board fully fifty-ive persisted.
SEVEN laborers were drowned on the
9th by the sinking of scow In New York
harbor.
THREE men, supposed to be the Ar
kansas train robbers, were arrested near
RusseIlvlle, Ark, on the 9th.
One man was killed and three Sc
verely hurt on the 9th by an explosion Of
giant powder at McKeesport, Pa.
The Commercial Iron Works Com
pany, Shoreditch, Eng, has failed for ESQ.,
900.
TIE Reading Pa.) Hardware Com
pany has increased molders' wages ten per
cent.
ONE of the desperadoes who killed
Conductor Cain i'm an attempt to rob train
near Van Buren,, Ark, was captured on the
Sth. 1t seems he was wounded in the melee
on the train and being unable to travel had
10 stop at a farm-hous near the scene of the
murder, where he gave himself up, having
been deserted by his companions.
HEAVY rains in the Kaladgi District,
India, recently, destroyed go houses.
Two hundred girls started from Linn
erck, Ireland, the other day for New Hamp-
shire, where they will be employed in
various factories.
A. Z. KENT, of San Francisco, Cal,
of the class Of '53, has given Yale College
900 to be used in erecting a chemical
laboratory.
WILLIAM LYON, of Cleveland, O., shot
his divorced wife through the cheek the
Otner Oays anu, surprising tHal He hau
killed her, shot himself through the brain,
dying instantly. Uncomfortable jealousy.
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, in recent
letter to the London Times, charged Bggar
and Parnell, as trustees Of the Land League
fund, with not accounting for f125,0O0.
In Chicago, ILL.,. the jury in the case
of Eugene Dougherty for the murder of the
Greek waiter, Nicholas Johns, the other
| evening brought in a verdict Of guilty, with
| life sentence.
M. T. RAY, assistant cashier of the
Merchants and Planters Bank, Montgom-
cry, Ala, killed himself the other day, and
| an examination of the books showed his
cash to be S $4,000 short.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
approved the rules and regulations and
amendments to the same adopted at re-
cent meeting of the Supervisors and In
spectors of Steam Vessels.
Mrs. LUCINDA FORMAN and her
| daughter were found murdered with an AK
nm a form mar Tndiananolis Ind. on the