Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-01-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


of his son We're sold at auction at the
| old Fillmore mansion in Buffalo, y. V,
on the 29th. The sale was conducted by
the executors of Willard Powers Fill
more. the Presidents son. and con-
tanned about 1000 volumes, a great part
of which We're law books.
Two escaped convicts broke into the
house OF L. Pierce at Pierce Junction,
Has, on the Goth. They Wore prison
garb and were numbered 403 and 321,
respectively. They helped themselves
to food and clothing and few other
| things of no great value and escaped.
On the evening of the 29th George d.
| Sanger, a brother-in-law of the late
! Bishop Beckwith of Georgia. and pre-
scription clerk in Rose Il Cherry's drug
store at Macon, Ga. dropped dead while
sitting on a stool in the store. The
| asltopsy revealed the fact that death was
| caused by over-stimulatiOn of the heart,
superinduced by constant and excessive
smoking of cigarettes.
\ PARTY of four young people, riding
in two-Seated conveyance. We're run
down on a railway crossing near Cam
den. Ind, on the 30th. James Mckane,
one of the men, was pitched against
telegraph pole and instantly killed.
| Miss Lizzie Snow erger was so badly
hurt that she lived but a short time.
The other two We're not badly hurt.
JOHN REED. convicted of attempted
train wreclling at Greenbush, n. y,
| September 4. was taken into court at
Troy, on the 3Oth, and sentenced to
Dannemora prison for seven years.
His accomplices, Arthur Buell. and
Thomas l.. Cain, entered pleas of guilty
to the indictment. Buell. was given
two years in Clinton prison and Cain
three years and eight months The
three men broke down and sobbed aloud
when sentence was pronounced.
| MANnamed Hallett, of Camden. Me-,
| who had been in Boston selling horses,
was robbed of s., 400 while asleep on a
night Pullman car on which he was re-
turning home on the 29th.
IN a fight at Clinton, Pa. on the 30th,
James Grundy literally cut Edward Me-
10y to pieces with huge knife before
| bystanderS could interfere and diSarn
him.
! w. C. MURRAY. a prominent merchant
tailor of Toronto, Ont, has fled to the
United States leaving a large number
| of creditors. His total liabilities are eS-
timated at $4,000.
| HENRY LUTZ. eighty-two years old,
who has been Il tramp in this country
for many wears. was arrested near
South Bethlehem, Pa, recently, by
three detectives and taken to New
| York CITY He is wanted in Germany
for numbering a whole family thirty
years ago.
| AUNT FANNY SMITH, a peculiar char
acter. who lives at the foot of Sinking
mountain. near Tallulah Falls. Ga,
was recently raided by revenue officers
and 500 gallons of illicit liquor de-
stroyed.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai announces
the death of Prince Chun, the father of
the Emperor of China.
THE total production of cotton in the
South for the last six years was 4.OOO,-
600 bales. worth. including the value of
seed sold, about $1,000, 600, 900.
ANDREW BoRGE,,soN, who was con-
victed at Litchfield, Conn. of murder
in the first degree for the killing at New
Milford of Elma Anderson. was sem
fenced. on the 31st, to be hanged January
30, 1892.
THE family of Benjamin Sours was
poisoned at Luray. Va, on the list. by
eating pumpkin pies which were sup
posed to contain rat poison. Mr.. Sours
and one child died and the others are
dangerously i'll.
FIRE did $500. 900 damage in Clinton
| On. prison on tbs 1st. Three hundred
prisoners stampeded in an attempt to
escape. but they did not succeed in get
ting out.
The escaped murderers, Wordugo and
Juan Jacinto. were surrounded. on the
list. in the Black Hills on the spur of
the Tucson mountains, three miles from
Tucson, Ariz. The refugees are well
armed.
DIR. KOCH. who had left Berlin fo,' Il
short vacation. Suddenly returned TO
the city on the 1st. He was summoned
back to attend patient to whom by
accident an overdose of the lymph had
been administered.
JOHN I. MILLER. living near Lewis
burg, o., was placed in the county Jail
by Il United States Secret-Service de-
tectiye. on the SIst. charged with max
ing counterfeit gold coin His arrest
was the result of a confession by one OF
his agents.
> PATRICK MCCABE, unmarried, met a
horrible death at GARDENER x Downer's
ice-house at Schodack Landing. y. ",
on the LIST. His clothes caught in a
revolving shaft, around which he was
carried until mangled beyond reccgni-
ton.