Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-18

La Matyr for Congress-.
| THE Kentucky Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Lexington, June II.
THE House Committee on Commerce
will make favorable report on the bill in
troduced by Mr.. Clardy, of Missouri, pro-
yiding for the removal by the Lighthouse
Board of wrecks and sunken vessels lying In
the course of commerce and obstructing nav
igation in the Mississippi River and tribu-
taries.
THE London Times anticipates an un-
usually large emigration to America the
| coming season.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has left Mad
rid for London to assume his duties as Min
lister to the Court of St. James. - 81.
The Senate, on the 4th, rejected the
nomination of Gen. Mcneil, of st. Louis, as
United States Marshal for the Eastern Dis
trict of Missouri. The vote stood seven
for confirmation and thirty-two for rejec-
ton.
DOUGLAS, the Ute Chief, made fly
ing escape from his prison at Fort Leaven-
| worth, on the 4th. He outran all his pur-
suers on foot, but was finally overtaken and
recaptured by soldier on horseback.
MARSH DYER, VIM. Wolfe and w. E.
Ames, three well -to-do farmers of Casey
vile, Union County, KY, and a colored man
accompanying them, were drowned on the
morning of the 4th by the upsetting of a
| skif.
| THE would-be assassin of Gen. Nell
koff was tried on the 4th and executed by
hanging on the 9TH. His real name was
Melodetsky; he was native of Minsk, thirty
years Of age. He maintained stolid de-
meanor throughout his incarceration, and
would only say in his own defense that he
acted from principle and not from personal
motives. He further said, as reported, that
though he had failed in killing Gen. Melikoff
some of his comrades would succeed.
ROYAL B. CONANT, eX-Cashier of the
Elliott National Bank, of Boston, convicted
of embezzlement, has been sentenced to sew
en- years. imprisonment.
| A SEVERE tornado occurred during
the night of the 4th, causing much damage
to property in Indianapolis, Louisville, Gin
cinnati, Cleveland, Toledo and other locali-
ties. In Toledo two men were killed by the
falling Of chimney.
THE Tennessee Democratic State
Convention has been called to meet at Nash
vile on June 8, to select delegates to the
| Cincinnati Convention.
WALTER kILGoRE was hanged at
| Mexico, Mo-, on the 9Th, for the murder of
L. D. Willingham in January, 1879. The
execution was witnessed by some five thou
sand people.
JOSEPH CORE was hanged at Lebanon,
Mo-, on the 9th, for the murder of w. II.
King in September last. From six to ten
thousand spectators witnessed the hanging.
A BERLIN dispatch says that, with
view to affording Bismarck further relief
from his arduous duties, Count Won Stolberg
Wernigerode, Vice. President of the Council
of Ministers, will be appointed Prlissian
Premier.
THE Ohio Prohibitionists held State
Convention at Columbus on the 5th and
placed in nomination full ticket of State
officers and Presidential Electors-at-large.
REPRESENTATIVE AIKEN, of the Com
mittee on Agriculture, has introduced q bill
making the Department of Agriculture an
executive department., and its head men,
Der of the Cabinet. Representative Covert,
Chairman of the Committee, presented a mi
nority report, signed by himself aiou.-
A po.E-u-, oApfoslOn at Glasgow,
Scotland, on the 9Th, resulted in the death
of sixteen persons. On the same day. GAL
braith's spinning mill burned and two lives
were lost.
THE principal shops of the Danforth
Locomotive Works at Paterson, N. J.,
burned on the 9Th. Three hundred men
are thrown out of work.
MUNGER, MACK & Co.'S elevator,
containing 10000 bushels of grain, at Du-
luth, Mimi, burned OH the 9Th.
Hil1oA on1
ously injured by coal-mine explosion at
Nanticoke, Pa, on the 9th.
THE residence of Norman Mcleod, at |
Scottstown, Quebec, burned on the 9th, and |
his two children persisted in the flames.
A Rio JANEIRo dispatch of the 5th |
gives brief statement that the Gillian fleet |
had attacked africa, and that the commander |
of the iron clad Huascar was killed during |
the engagement.
The Treasury Department announces
the existence Of counterfeit 500 bills on the /
following banks: National Revere Bank,
Boston; Pittsfield National Bank, Pittsfeld;
Merchants's National Bank, New Bedford;
Second National Bank, Wilkesbarre; Pitts
burg National Bank of Commerce. The
counterfeit notes on the banks mentioned are
so admirably executed they are liable to de-
ceive even experts.
The large wholesale dry-goods house
of Ambach, Finch, Culbertson & Co., at st.
Paul, Mimi, was totally destroyed by fire on
the It'll. The building cost $4,000 and the
stock of goods was valued at $S52,0OO. Both
were insured for about one-half the sums
named.
Col. B. j. CHAMBERS, nominated by
the Greenback Convention at St. Louis for
Vice. President of the United States, lis rest
dent Of Cleburne, johnson County, Texas,
and is regarded as one Of the wealthiest men
in the State. He is a lawyer, and at one
time was engaged in the banking business.
During the canvass of 1879 he published
an open letter to Senator Coke, taking is
sue with him on the financial question,
which gave him considerable political noto-
riety.
The French Government refused to
surrender Hartmann, the Russian charged