Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE police forcihly. entered the col
lege at Toulouse, France, on the 14th, and
forciblyas elected thirteen JeSuits% who had
been installed as Professors q 81 III
JOHN =. WOODWARD, Cashier of the
Boston Tfeasury Department, has disap-
peared, leaving deficit in his accounts OF
$50, 600. q al g 81
aF.<M. LEADEK, State Auditor of Ne
braska, is behind s, 800 in his accounts and is
missing. 1t is thought he has gone to Chilli.
The Attorney General has commenced legal
proceedings to recover the amount from his
bondsmen. = 6cfN as SsS ~
/ A SHOOTING saffrayf took place at
Buena Vista, eight miles east of Hunting
ton, Tenn, the participants being DIR. D. G..
johnson and his two sons and a Mr.. Steele
on one side, and two men named Owens and
Sadberry on the other. Owens and one of
the johnson boys were mortally wounded
and others of the party were slightly
wounded. The johnson party were the as
sailants. An old feud wasthe cause Of the
fight. j. \ ~ *
Col. GEORGE SCRoGGs, proprietor of
the Champaign Qll.) Gazette, late United
States Consul at Hamburg, died of consump-
IlOA db DcuSCI, SOlO., Ou lLc 1Obu1 eN.ucTc uc
had gone for the benefitof his health. He
was SO years ofsage. y EASt5 !.
SAMUEL WATKINS, prominent citi-
zen Of Nashville, Tenn, just deceased, has
bequeathed $3.50 900 for the Establishment of
the Watkins Polytechnic Institute, to be be-
gun next spring.
On the 18th of September a snow
storm Of unprecedented severity occurred
in the province of Buenos Ayres, by'whch it
is estimated 100000 cattle, 100000 sheep and
$1,000 horses persisted.
|, NEARLY half million dollars worth
'ot cotton. vas destroyed by'fire at Charles
ton, S. c., on the night of the 18th.
In the town of Sheffield, Caledonia
County, VI, on the 18th, Byron Blake, aged
&c, murdered his mother, sister and step-fa-
Their, clubbing them to death, and then hung
himself. He had formerly been insane, but
for several years past had not been eonsid-
cred dangerous. The old couple were in
firm and unable to project, themselves
against the maniac, who was man of great
physical strength. .x.tfA s..
CHIEF-JUsTICE RYAN, of the Wiscon-
sin Supreme Court, is dead,
THE Rhode Island Greenbackers have
nominated fun State and Electoral ticket.
A REUNION of troops, Northern and
Southern, took place. at Atlanta, Ga.,- on
the 18th. The best of feeling prevailed.
The steam barge Trader was wreck
ed on Lake Michigan during the late storm,
and her Captain and crew of ten were all
drowned.
LEE SHRYOcK, Cashier of the LOUIS
vile Turf Exchange, is missing. His ac-
counts are short from 1000 to $4,000. It
is believed ne has drowned himself.
A BATTERY of three boilers in the dis
tilery Of Cox & Fairbanks at Terre Haute,
Ind, exploded on the Goth, instantly killing
six men and seriously injuring twice as
many more. The names of the killed are:
Joseph Denny, John A. Brooks, NJ. Kelly,
VIM. Bergman, Frank Hanley and Harvey
Day (col Seriously injured:' Henry
Wilson, Eugene Mehring, Henry Dinkle,
Frank Brown, John Yeo, Wash Simpson,
George Grom and VIM. TZirtley, the latter
fatally The cause Of the explosions not
known. f~F@ Oh y
A FIRE broke out in the shoddy man.
ufactory of Benjamin Hey Second Street,
and Broadway, Cincinnati, on the Goth.
There were twenty eight women working in
the third story, and the flames spread so
rapidly that escape was cut off and five of
them persisted in the flames.
AN accident occurred on the Cincin-
natl and Dayton Railroad, at Jones Station,
nineteen miles north of Cincinnati, on the
Goth, by which fifteen passengers were in
jured, several seriously. tf,
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