Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Kansas Republican State Con-
vention will be held at Topeka on the 31st of
March.
| The PRINCESS LOUISE, while out
sleigh riding at Ottawa, the other day, was
upset and thrown into snow bank, losing
jewel valued at $4,000, which at latest
accounts had not been found. .3s
A SON of ex-President Juarez, of Mex
leo, is the most recent addition to the Mexi-
can legation at Washington. ~,,...t.....,.
REV. j. r. B. JETTER, one of the edi-
tors of the Religious Herald, organ Of the
| Baptist Church in Virginia, died at Rich
mond on the 18th, aged IS. -
Rev EDWARD CowLEY late manager
of the " Shepherds Fold" New York City,
has been convicted of cruelty treating and
starving the children under his care and
sentenced to one year in the State-prison and
to pay fine of $3.50. ....s,
HALL and Smith, both colored, who
murdered Major Henry S. Pugh in May last,
were hanged at Murfreesboro, Tenn, on the
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spectators. - - .c.a ..,fts5 - ss@
F. H. BOWEN, newspaper writer
well known in Iowa, committed suicide at
his home at Sand Springs, Delaware County,
on the night of the 18th. He was partially
insane, the result of financial losses and i'll
| health.
REV. DIR. BUSH, of New York, Sec
rotary of the American Board of Foreign
Missions, died on the ed. ? -..
BY the explosion of boiler in Barton
& Babcocl1s, distillery at Peoria, ILL.,, on
the 18th, John Sill, > fireman, and an I'M
known man who had just come in to inquire
for work, were instantly killed; Benz. Bah
cock, one Of the proprietors, and John Rich
ardson, an employee, were fatally injured,
and three others were badly hurt. The ex-
plosion was caused by pumping cold water
into the boiler, which had been allowed to
get nearly dry. .....
The boiler. in John F. Thompson's
steam mill ut Randolph, N. H., burst on the
18th, destroying the mill and killing Eden
Page, Roger johnson, Mr.. Prescott and a
French workman, and badly injuring S. F.
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Notwithstanding the Presidents proc
lamation, it is said that an organized invasion
| of the Indian Territory from Southern Kan
sas will be made at an early day.
THE officers and members of the Ter
| ritorial Legislature Of New Mexico made a
pleasure excursion over the newly completed
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to
Kansas. They were publicly entertained at
| Atchison, Topeka and Leavenworth.
no10ro1 xxy10 ~I1v.
arrest for committing an indecent assault
upon a white woman, on the 18th was taken
| from the Sheriff at Point Of Rocks, Nd,
carried across the river to the Virginia shore,
where the offense was committed, and
| hanged by a mob, after which his body was
riddled with bullets.
A passenger train on the Bellaire and
Southwestern Railroad ran of trestle
thirty-five feet high, nine miles southwest
of Bellaire, O., on the evening of the 18th.
Some twenty passengers were injured, sew
eral fatally, as supposed, and most of the
others severely,
MARTIAL law has been proclaimed in
Turkey.
Thomas J. Dougherty and John F.
Cassiday, firemen, were killed by the fall
ing OF the TOOL u u
New York City ON the night of the Goth.
Advices from Rio de Janeiro state that
| from eight to ten persons are dying daily
| from yellow fever. There is also much sick
ness on shipboard, and vessels are conse-,
| quently removed from the docks and dis
persed throughout the harbor. Ia II
MIR. BENEFITS princely donation of
800, 600 to the famished people of ireland
has been splendidly supplemented by the
! Bank of Nevada, which sends to Mr.. Ben
nett check for $25,000-the largest sum
ever contributed to any moneyed corpora
tion in the world for charitable purpose.
Mr.. Mackey, one of the five, proprietors of
| the bank, had previously sent to Mr.. Ben
nett, on his individual account, 900.
H. G. WRIGHT, one of the editors
and proprietors of the Augusta (Ga.)
| Chronicle and ConstitutiondJist, died On the
22d, aged twenty mine. I s5 ~
A SHOOTING affray took place near
Princeton, H., on the 10th, causing
| the. death of two persons. A. D.
Garvin, an ex-soldier of unsavory
reputation having trouble with
his sister, Mrs. Kessick, agreed for money
| consideration to leave the country. He re-
turned shortly after and attempted to kill
Mrs. Kessick, but was prevented by daugh-
| ter, who received the bullet in her own body,
himself through the head, INJECTING q wound
from which he died next day, - MA
FoRTY-SNTH CONGRESS.
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