Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-15
Hon. JOSEPH MEp1LL. Of the CHICAGO,

tribune, has written letter to the WAYS
and Means Committee on the paper ques-
ton. He says that the sudden rise in the
price OF paper has filed the minds of pub
fishers with alarm. The paper-makers
meet monthly and vote . further increase,
and pour memorials into Congress repree
senting that the newspaper business is SO
nourfshing that 1t can stand any thing
without being ruined. They mention,
however, only, the stronger, and not
the ninety and nine publishers who are
driven to the wall by them. Mr.. Medill
makes the point that this is case where
two classes of manufacturers ask Congress
to discriminate against third class who
can not throw of the burden Of loss on the
public as other dealers can, but must sus-
tain 1t all. II they raise their price, they
lose their subscribers; If they re-
duce the size Of their sheet, they crowd
out advertisers or make their paper
unsatisfactory to readers. Publishers are
manufacturers, and they give employment
to ten times as many operatives as pulp or
paper manufacturers, and an artificial in
crease In the price of paper must necessa-
rily affect the salaries of all their employees.
They have no protection, and only ask to be
i
burdensome and damaging tax, imposed for
the emolument of paper-makers.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A MAN who registered at Salt Lake
| (Utah) hotel as George Wilson Drake,
Beattie, Marshall County, Kansas, and
who had been drinking freely for
| several days in company with two
strangers, on the morning of the 31st
was found on the street in dying con-
dition, with bullet hole in his head. He
died a few hours afterwards. After being
shot he had walked fifty rods, as shown by
bloody trail.
ANDREW WALLACE, of Indianapolis,
a wealthy mine Spectator, was recently shot
and fatally wounded by his insane son at
Pennington, Dakota.
Two Omaha boys, VIM. Largen, aged
seven, and John Downs, aged eleven, were
poisoned on the 31st by eating wild parsnips
and both died in terrible commissions within
two hours. A third boy was made terribly
sick, but will recover.
GEORGE WARNER ENGLISH, Treas
urer Of Bordentown, N. j., hanged himself
on the LIST.
Two miles west of Terre Haute, Ind,
on the night of the LIST, wagon containing
party of twelve was driven off an embank-
ment and fell into the river. Mrs. Otterman
and Miss Hanna were drowned.
JAMES Boiler, Samuel Brown and
Andrew Macon, all colored, were hanged at
Macon, Miss, on the I'd. Boiler murdered
Frank Reed, white man; Brown and Ma
con killed Tarleton Macon, a respectable old
colored man, the father of one and father
in-law Of the other of his murderers.
JAMES MADISON WYATT STONE, a
mulatto, about thirty-six years of age, was
hanged In the Jail yard at Washington, D. c.,
on the I'd, for the murder of his wife in Oc-
tober, 1878; Robert Anderson, white, and
Charles Webster, colored, were hanged at
Louisville, KY, the former for wife murder
aud the latter for outraging a child; and
Edward Tatro, another woman killer, was
hanged at Windsor, VT, all on the same day.
A PORTABLE boiler in the Buffalo IN.
W Steam Forge Works exploded on the
I'd, killing Franz j. Hammer, engineer, and
frightfully injuring several other employees.
FoRTY-rwo persons were killed by
recent colliery explosion at Anderlues, Bel
GUM.
WESLEY M. Parker, aged about fifty,
was killed by the explosion of boiler in
LAWYERS saw-mill, ten miles southeast of
Rushville, Schuyler County, ILL.,, on the I'd.
John Randall, young man, and Thomas
Jones, a lad, were probably fatally injured.
The mill was entirely demolished.
In Mendocino County, CAL, on the
4th, Neil s. Hammaland killed his wife
Johanna, and her paramour, Frank Allsen,
as they were sleeping together, Draining
both with an ak.
VIM. AsHBURN, carpenter, lost his
life in burning mill at Rockport, w. Va,
on the night Of the I'd.
A DISPATCH from Paris reports that a
terrible fire occurred in Montaimont, a vii
lage of Savoy. Seventeen inhabitants per-
ished, and thirty-one dwellings were de-
stroyed.
BEN. JOHNSON, better known as Ben
Plunkton, negro, was taken from the Jail
at Winchester, KY, on the night of the 1st
and hanged by mob. His offense was a
criminal assault upon young white lady.
THE Courthouse and Jail of Brown
County, Tex, was recently burned. Sever
al prisoners lost their lives and all the rec
ords were destroyed.
The boiler of Bells soap factory, near
Rochester, Ind, exploded on the Goth, badly
scalding Thomas A. Bell, the proprietor,
and O. NJ. Kenny, boiler-maker. The
boiler had just been finished, and this was
the first time fire had been kindled in the
furnace.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE religious associations of France
will contest in the courts the legality of de-
crees Of the Government against unauthor
lied religious societies, on the ground that
the laws they are based on are obsolete.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople says
terrible distress prevails in Asia Minor.
Cattle, sheep and goats are being carried off
in large numbers by disease, and the coun
<,u hofCuoon Appora and Tsuid ia hocominv