Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE Iowa Legislature has voted in
favor Of Constitutional amendment pro.
hibiting the manufacture and sale Of intoxi.
eating liquors as beverage, including wine
and beer. The amendment has to be rati-
fed by the next Legislature.
A SPECIAL from Rome says that the
Pope has approved and named RI Rev.
Michael Heiss, now Bishop Of Lacrosse,
Wis.,, as Coadjutor, with the right Of sue
ceeding to the Archbishop of Milwaukee,
and approved and named Rev. John A.
Watterson, President Of Mt. st. Mary's Col
lege, Emmettsburg, Md, to be Bishop OF
Columbus, Ohio.
SECRETARY SCHURZ has issued pub
lie notice to squatters upon the Ute Reserva-
ton lands that their claims will not be re-
cognized, the land having not as yet been re-
stored to the public domains.
A DANGEROUS 800 United States
Treasury note has made its appearance in
the West. 1t is Of the series of 1875, letter
C, and printed on imitation fiber paper. The
shading under the words "United States
is darker than in the genuine note, but the
general appearance of the bill is good.
DENNIS KEARNEY has been sentenced
by San Francisco police magistrate to six
months Imprisonment in the House of Cor
rection and to pay fine of 1000. He gave
bonds and appealed to the Superior Court.
The President has reneminated Will
liam r. Brown for Census Supervisor in
the Eighth Illinois District. Mr.. Brown
was previously rejected by the Senate on &C.
count of political considerations.
A PARTY of about seventy-five dis
guised men visited the Jail at Winchester,
Scott County, ILL.,, at an early hour on the
morning of the 18th, and having obtained
access to the building by overpowering the
Jailer, went to the cell occupied by Joseph j
Fields and riddled him with bullets. Fields
had shot and killed James Padgett few
weeks previous.
The President has confirmed the
sentence passed upon Major Reno of dis
missal from the Army,
IT is reported that the recent cold
spell killed the fruit and seriously injured
the cotton and corn throughout many parts
of the South.
THE Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections, by;a strict party vote, decid-
ed to report in favor of unseating Kellogg
and admitting Spofford.
A TELEGRAM from Alexandria, Egypt,
says that in consequence of unfavorable
weather O large quantity Of cotton must be
resown, and the, crop will be late.
The Southern Pacific Railroad was
completed to Tucson, Arizona, on the 18th.
AT Chicago, on the 18th, Martin
Power, aged 46, shot and probably fatally
wounded his wife, Bridget, aged %, and then
shot himself, producing death almost in
stantly. Jealousy was the cause. They had
only been married five months.
The Kansas City Commercial I,adt-
Gator estimates the coming drive of Texas
cattle to number 294, 200, principally young
cattle, of which about one-third have been
of in advance.
AT st. Louis on the morning of the
18th, Conrad Hiemann, while in drunken
craze, stabbed his wife and two-year- old
child, the latter while in it's mothers arms.
The wife was almost instantly killed; the
babe was probably fatally injured. John
q brother of the murderer, also
severe cutwhile trying to restrain
the latter. The murderer fled, but was
arrested few hours later, while wandering
about in an apparently crazed condition.
IT is announced that the Central
Branch Railroad has been consolidated with
The Union Pacific, and will, ON and after the
LIST of April, cease to be o division of the
Missouri Pacific. The road will resume its
Did name of the Central Branch Union Pa
cific, and its main line will be extended at an
early day to connection with the Union Pa
cific Railway.
Four train-loads of exeursionists from
Chattanooga and other Southern points ar
rived in Cincinnati on the 18th, to celebrate
The opening Of the Cincinnati Southern
Road. The excursfonists were entertained
with most prefuse inequalities.
AT Aurora, ILL.,, on the morning of
he 18th, Mrs. w. Baldwin was found dead
n bed with her jugular vein severed, and
beside her lay her unconscious husband with
several gashes in his throat, arms and abdoe
men. His wounds are not serious. Baldwin
came from Vermont, and they had been
married only three weeks. Cause of the
tragedy unknown.
THE Louisiana Republican State
Convention will meet at New Orleans on May
a.
THE Michigan State Greenback Con-
7ention met at Detroit on the 18th and
elected delegates to the National Conven-
ion.
THE Western nail-mills, by agree
nent, have shut down all their works for
while IN order to prevent over-production
HOMER WELLINGTON, a well known
business man of Boston, Of high social
is under arrest, charged with poi
oning his wife and little boy, and also Of
he minor crime of forgery His wife will
recover. The boy died with every
ymptom Of poisoning.
THE Illinois Democratic State Con-
'ention, to select delegates to the Nation
i Convention, will be held at Springfield,
Tune 10.
THE Rhode Island Republicans have
nominated Alfred H. Littlefeld for Cover |
Tor and Henry III. Fay for Lieutenant-Gov- |
rnor.
CLARENCE DAVIS, the bigamist, who
ppears to have had five or six wives in vaFi !
JUS parts Of America (having one or two in |
has been held TO bail by . Chicago |