Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IOItef, the actor, az Marshall, TeXaS, was
concluded on the 18th. The Jury, after be.
ing out fifteen minutes, returned q verdict
OF not guilty, on the ground of insanity.
Currie is reported to have Immediately left
| the State
| Col. DAVID L. PHILLIPS, Postmas-
ter at Springfield, Ill.,, died on the 18th, aged
| ffty-seven years. Col. Phillips was formerly
one of the proprietors of the Illinois State
Journal, and was appointed by President
Lincoln United States Marshal for the South
ern District of Illinois.
| The First National Bank of Brattle-
boro, VT, offers 5000 reward for the ar
! rest Of President Waite. Later develop
ments confirm previous reports Of the utter
failure OF the bank, and, possibly, future
developments may add to, rather than de-
crease, the liabilities, which are now placed
at about S450,00O.
| THE Irish members of Parliament
have resolved to ask the English Govern
ment to double their proposed grant for the
relief of Irish distress, and that $500, 900 be
voted for the construction of fishery piers.
| Obstructive measures are threatened unless
the Government complies with the request.
THE Dublin correspondent of the
London Daily Ne,os telegraphs: There is no
longer any doubt that the famine fever has
appeared in some parts of the West and
South of Ireland. A letter read in the Man.
sion-house Relief Committee from Charles
town, Mayo County, says famine fever of the
most dangerous type is very prevalent and
is making much progress. 1t has also ap-
peared in Swenford, Mayo County, and
Glengariff, Cork County.
| GEN. JOHN A. SUFFER-, the first dis
coverer of gold in California, died on the
10Th at Washington, D. C.
THE population of Kansas City, ac-
cording to the new census returns, is not
far from 81 ZOO.
THE village of Homouna, in the coun-
ty of Zemplen, Hungary, has been destroyed
by fire. Many inhabitants were burned and
| others injured. Famine having ragged since
| the beginning OF winter, the misery is indie
scribable.
A TERRIBLE storm and water-spout
| occurred near Dresden, Saxony, by which
sixty persons are reported to have been
killed.
THE Boston and Albany Railroad
Company has increased the wages of all en-
| ployees 10 per cent, to take effect from
June /.
A FIRE at Batavia, N. Y, on the 10Th,
destroyed every building on the principal
business street.
HARRISON, well-known engraver of
counterfeit bank notes, has been arrested at
Toronto. He surrendered five plates, two
being of United States legal tender notes.
JUDGE j. B. HOWELL, of Keokuk.
Iowa, died on the 18th, aged sixty-four. He
was at one time a newspaper man; then
United States Senator, and for some years
past one of the Commissioners of Southern
Claims.
GEN RoCA, Minister of War, has been
declared elected President of the Argentine
Confederation. He was backed by the Gov
eminent. 1t is expected that his opponent,
DIR. Tejedos, Governor Of the province of
Buenos Ayres, will resist the installation Of
Gen. Roca, and possibly declare the secession
of Buenos Ayres from the confederation,
which would lead to a civil war.
ROBERT DECURCIER, under sentence
of death at Toronto, committed suicide by
poison the day previous to the enc fixed for
his execution.
AT meeting of the Leadville Miners
Union, held on the 18th, it was agreed to re-
sumo work at the terms on which they were
employed previous to the strike, certain
mine owners to recognize the eight hour
system in the future as heretofore, and Civ
ing pledges to use their influence to have
that system generally adopted throughout
the camp.
JUDGE SAMUEL B. GOoKINs, well
known jurist and writer, died of heart dis
ease in Terre Haute, Ind, on the 18th.
AT Albuquerque, N. Mex, on the
18th, A. Young shot and killed Ed. Harris.
Both were well known gamblers.
GEN. GARFIELD had public recep-
ton in Washington on the evening of the
10th. 1t was rendered by the National Vet
eran Association.
THE King of Greece is being most
royalty entertained in London.
On the 10th five tenant families were
evicted near Balla, Ireland. At night they
were conducted back to their holdings by a
large and determined crowd.
Snow fell in Minnesota on the 18th
day of June.
IT is reported from Fort Keogh that
500 of Sitting Bulls band, from the other
side of the International boundary, have
come IN anu SuTTcuOcTcO 10 w
They represented that great numbers of In
dams were in a starving condition. It is
said more are about to come in.
THE Government has decided to do
S~uand from the Spanish Government an ex-
- nation Of the recent firing on the Ameri
can Achsoner Ethel A. Merritt, near the Gu
ban cost, by 3 Spanish man-of-war.
THE KenNcky Democratic State Con-
vention, held gu the 18th, selected Henry
Watterson, JoA2 Stevenson, Gen. Preston
and Judge L. w. lindsay as delegateAat
large to the Cincinna& <onventicn. A reso-
luton instructing the d..,.,xates t. vote as
unit in the National ConveAcL<on was onereo
but subsequently withdrawn.
THE President has nominated - Con-.
nissioners to ratify the agreement win the i
Ute Indians, Geo. W. Manypenny, Ox;s;
Alfred B. Meacham, Washington; John B.
Bowman, Kentucky; John j. Russell, Iowa,
nd Otto Mears, Colorado.
THE labor troubles at Denver and
.eadville were reported over on the 18th,