Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-19

shot himself fatally, after jumping into
cistern with weights attached to his feet.
The Directors say that his accounts are prob
ably all right.
Welch's business block at Fort Collins,
Colo, was burned on the night of the Sd.
Miss Tillie Irwin and Mr.. A. F. Hopkins,
who occupied apartments in the upper story,
were burned to death. Eight others es. :.
capped by jumping from the windows.
The House Banking and Cure nov
Committee will recommend for passae !. tn,
bill introduced by Representative o. ,S,,,or
authorizing National banks to M axe lc.
upon the mortgage of real estate
A negro cabin on the p' as,4at;on of
Can't. VIM. Stack, IS miles NJ rt,h Of Co,um :
bia, s. c., burned one nis' It recently, and
two men, a woman and sly .casildren perished
in the flames.
Wabash, Ind, as contracted with
the Brush Electric .lght Company of Cleve-
land for an eiectr Ic light of 10, 600 candle
power, to be Placed in the dome of the
Courthouse, for the purpose of lighting the
principal busin ess portion of the city. The
cost is te be 81, 800
Eleven or more Cinnamon lost their
lives by the burning of wash-house in San
Francisco on the morning of the 9th. II is
sup posed they were stupefed with opium.
A rrible railway collision occurred
on the Circular Railroad at Clichy, France,
on the night of the Sd, by which IL or more
persons were killed outright and some 60
injured, many of them seriously. Among
those killed is the Count de Puyferrot and
NJ. Monet, an eminent architect.
A sleigh-load of young people, nine
in number, on their way to public enter
tainment, was run into by railway train at
Hoffman's Crossing, near West Milton,
Union County, Pa, on the night of the 9th.
Miss Sue Benage was instantly killed and
John Shedle was fatally injured.
The body of Miss Dolly Hartman,
daughter Of prominent resident of Pitts
burg, Pa, was cremated at the LIE MOyne
J Crematory, Washington, Pa, on the It'll.
Miss Hartman requested that this disposition
be made of her remains.
The Denver Tribune says thata formi-
dable secret organization is being perfected
there for the purpose of driving the Indians
out of Colorado.
, Gen. Roberts officially announces that
{ 50 men have been executed and 10 more are
under sentence of death for being concerned
in the massacre of the officers of the British
Embassy at Cabul.
) At Londonderry, N. H., on the 9TH,
Mrs. Sarah Dillingham;, aged 33, wife of E.
n. Dillingham;, a respectable farmer, was
horribly murdered by Frank Dillingham;,
aged 20, nephew of the husband. The lat
ter then attempted to commit suicide, but it
was thought would survive. There is no
, doubt the murder was committed to conceal
another crime, equally atrocious. The
J young man says he shot his aunt accidental
ly. while cleaning his revolver, but does not
undertake to explain other circumstances.
At Las Vegas, N. Mex, on the 9th.
Jim West, John Dorsey and Tom Henry, i'm
plicated in the shooting of Carson, City Mar
shall, two weeks previously, were dragged
from their cells by mob of IS armed men,
who broke into the jailor's room and forced
him to give up the keys. The three men
were dragged to the Central Plaza, where
West was hauled up and strangled. The
impatient mob then began firing, and in
short time Dorsey and Henry were riddled
= W. -. IRE ia the
sne ,snltlon OF the curtains of tho S.o. ny
OF the Duke and Duchess of M nr 1aa.e-oox
no me were TO have attended a pantom;s'
pe,lorn1an &c in the afternoon. The ,,un.
y 'os' Is paced at nearly 81, 900. 900