Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BURGLARS blew open the safe in the
Post-ofice at Ypsilanti, Mich, and secured
81 200. $50 Fl /.
An attempt to burn the County Court
house at Ottawa, Ill, was discovered and
frustrated on the morning of the Sd. Dur
ing the night some scoundrel effected an en-
trance to the Recorders Office and kindled
a fire, with the evident intention of destroy
ing the County records. As it was, fourteen
books were destroyed When the fire was
extinguished a torpedo and four cans Of
nitro -glycerine were on the floor in the vault
and the fire had nearly reached them. Had
they exploded, as they would have done in a
few minutes, not only would tho building
have been destroyed with all its valuable
records, but the Jail beneath would have
been blown to atoms with its inmates. There
was no clew to the dastardly perpetrators of
the scheme. +@ q
DEPUTY-MARsHAL RUTHERFORD was
attacked not long since by twelve Seminole
Indians, on the line of the Seminole and
Pottawattomie countries. He was in camp
at the time, and had horse killed. He sue
ceeded in killing one of his assailants and
driving them OF, but his prisoner made his
escape. His assailants were afterward rein
forced by about thirty of their tribe, but
Rutherford made good his retreat to Paul's
Valley.
A BILL-POsTER in County Armagh,
Ireland, who was detected posting obnoX-
ious notices respecting the sale Of lands, was
attacked and killed by some of the native
residents.
A FIRE in the underground works of
the Vulcan Mine, at Leadville, Colo, on
the 4th, caused great excitement and some
destruction to property. A number of
miners were rendered insensible by suffoca-
ton while trying to cut off the connection
with other mines, but it was thought all
would recover. The fire originated from
the burning of an old shaft-house used as
boarding house, the burning brands of
which dropped into the shaft and set the
timbers on fire. 1t was finally quenched by
building bulkheads in all the branch levels,
so as to confine the flames to a limited COM
pass.
JOSEPH MOoREHOUSE, of Elizabeth,
n. j., died on the 4th from hydrophobia.
He was bitten bya dog with which he was
playing in May last. The wound was eau
terized and Moorehouse thought no more
about it until the day before he died, when
he was attacked with spasms and died with
in "a hours.
BY the explosion of gasoline, the wife
and three children of William Clark, lead
ing business man of Jacksonville, Fla, were
fatally burned.
A STRIKE of negro laborers, COM
pressmen and longshoremen, at Houston,
Tex, begun on the 4th and threatened to
assume serious proportions.
A FEW days ago DR.. Lynch, of Den
ton County, Texas, administered morphine
through mistake for quinine to D. E. Bailey,
Callie Eubanks, Mrs. James Bailey and
Mrs. Finney. The two first named died
from the effects of the drug; the two latter
have suffered severely, but it is thought they
will recover.
PROF. JACOB BALL, a well known nat
uralist and geologist, died recently in camp
in Willeberger County, Tex, where he was
pursuing his scientific explorations.
JACQUES OFFENBACH, the favorite
opera bouffe composer, has just died in
Paris.
THE International Exposition at Mel
bourne is open.
PROF. BENJAMIN PIERCE, math ema-
tician and Professor at Harvard College, is
dead. A
The epizooty has reached Cincinnati.
AT Pottsville, Pa, on the 9th, Charl-
ton Wilthem, an employee in the Port Gin
ton Iron Works, shot and seriously wound
ed his wife and then shot himself, dying in
stantly. Jealousy was the cause.