Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-07-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Washington, N. c., on the 18th, for the
murder of Paul Lincke, made a second
(and successfully attempt to terminate his
own existence on the night of the 18th.
He took mixed dose Of choral and NOR
phine.
BY the explosion of lamp in the house
of Mrs. j. G. Floss, at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the night of the 10th, Mrs. Floss and her
sister, n-law, Mrs. Mary Wittig, were
burned to death, and Mr.. Kuhn, Mr..
Beech and a sister of Mrs. Floss were
badly burned.
The Department of State Is informed
that Mr.. j. Harvey Brigham, of Louisiana,
Consul at Jamaica, died at Kingston, on
the 10th.
A COLLISION between a work tratn and
| a freight train on the Central Pacific road
near San Francisco, on the 18th, killed
one man and injured a number of others.
A wATERsPoUT passed from the ocean
through the town of North Beach, Fla,
on the 18th, doing considerable damage
to boats in the harbor and houses in it's
track.
GEORGE STEVENSON, who was postmas-
ter, express agent, telegraph operator
and station agent at CLAIMS, Ariz., was
murdered there on the 14th. Pedro Jones,
a Mexican, aged fifteen, has confessed
to the murder. The deed was committed
for the purpose of robbery.
A BERLIN dispatch to the London Stand
ard, of the 10th. says that it is decided
that Emperor William, on returning from
Russia, will visit Stockholm and Copen-
hagen.
WILLIAM LENHEIMHANN was choked to
| death at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 18th, by
| piece of bread which lodged in his wind
pipe.
EMPRESS DowAGER VICTORIA has re-
| fA1 H. No. Ia 49, Co. hax
a true history Of the late Emperor Fred
erick's illness in order to correct the
German DOCTORS assertions.
JOSEPH THOMAS, with team of fine
horses, drove over the bluffs in front of
the city of Evansville, Ind, on the 18th,
and all were drowned.
THE Grand Duke George of Russia, the
second son of the Gear, is about to enter
the Imperial navy. He was seventeen
last May, and is a very bright, clever lad.
| A FARMER of Millersville, Wis, nam ed
Schecher, with his two sons, assassinated
neighbor named Blatt while he was
moving in a field on his own farm, on the
18th.
JOHN ROSE and his son-in-law. 8. s.
Hall, met on the streets of Stanton, KY.
on the 18th, and commenced firing at each
other with pistols. Rose fatally wounded
his SON. law.
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| Emperor passed the island of Dagoe at
$3.50 a. m, on the 18th.
| The engine on an excursion train on
the Shenandoah Valley railroad, near
| Penmar, Nd, was taken possession Of by
| a maniac, on the 18th, who drove the
| engineer and fireman out with a pistol.
All the brakes were put down hard, and
before the lunatic got the train we'll
started the conductor bowled him over
| with a well-aimed stone.
The Earl of Erne, England, was, on the
10th, chosen Grand Master of Orangemen
throughout the world.
IT is reported in official circles in Win
nipeg, Man., that the Behring's sea diff
| Guilty has been all but settled between
England and the United States, the latter
| country now accepting a proposition
| made years ago.
| NEGOTIATIONS are in progress with
view to the betrothal of the Prince of
Naples, the only son of the King and
| Queen of italy, to Princess Clementine,
| the youngest Of the three daughters of
| the King and Queen of Belgium. The
Prince of Naples will not be nineteen till
November, and the Princess will be six
| teen on the 30th.
JACOB DAUcHER, who was arrested at
Daggott, Cal, for the murder of Louis
Schoenberg at Denver, Col, and taken to
San Bernardino for safekeeping, on the
18th, committed suicide by hanging him
self in his cell. He left a letter saying
he was innocent of the crime with which
he was charged.
Ed. CLoProN, son of Judge David Clop-
ton, of the Alabama Supreme Court was
shot by a neighbor named DIR. Bibb, near
Montgomery, on the 18th. Young Clop-
ton and DIR. Bib were in a party chasing
burglar, when Bibb mistook Clopton for
the man wanted, and shot him.
JOHN P. MARTIN, a wealthy planter at
Hudson's Mills, Miss, offended the friends
of young man who had eloped with his
pretty daughter by cursing the young
man in their presence. They armed them
selves and hunted up Martin, wounding
him seriously.
On the 10Th, the Senate confirmed Os car
E. Rea, to be register of the land Office at
Bismarck, OAK, and Thomas Parker to be
postmaster at Albion, N. Y.
The National Republican committee,
on the 18th, selected the four story brick
house at No. 81 Fifth avenue. New York,
as headquarters. They will move in as
soon as the building can be got ready.
FANNY L. DAVENPORT, the actress, has
been granted an absolute divorce.
THE Woonsocket (R- IL HOSPITAL was
dedicated on the 10Th. 1t is constructed
on the cottage plan, at IA cost of $4,000.
GEO. H. STAYNoR and Henry s. Ives, the
fugitive New York inanciers, are at the
Clifton House, Niagara Fails, Ont. Thew
keep close to their rooms, and decline to
see any one.
was felt at Dumfries, Scotland. on tho
18th.