Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"A Law just passed. anu gone lnCO Ell
feet in the Chickasaw Nation imposes fine
of not less than $500 nor more than
5000 upon every native for every
white man employed by him in tax
ing care Of and assisting in raising stock,
with imprisonment of not less than one moi
more than twelve months additional, at the
option of the Court. An act has also been
passed establishing the price of license to
marry native at fifty dollars.
IT has recently been developed that
some time agoa package of 5000 worthl OF
bonds was distracted from desk in the
Chief Clerks room, Second Auditors De-
partment, Washington. An investigation
satisfied the Secretary Of the Treasury that
the bonds were appropriated by Chief
Clerk Herring, now dead.
THE Greenbackers of the Second
Illinois District (Chicago) have nominated
Charles G. Dixon for Congress.
The Howgate expedition to the Po-
lar seas has been abandoned for the present
season.
POLITICAL agitation is rife in the
Scandinavian peninsula. The Norwegians
want republic.
FRANK BE1RoN, former land agent
Of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, has
been arrested recently at Omaha, charged
with having defrauded large numbers of
people in Michigan and in other States by
selling them worthless land certificates. 1t
is said he has realized many thousands of
dollars by his swindles.
AFIRE at Fort Dodge, Iowa, destroy
ed the First National Bank and adjacent
buildings valued at 800, 900 and insured for
$4,000.
Two Chicago children, aged three
and five years, have died from eating the
seeds of weed known as thorn-apple, or
jimson-weed.
PROF. Brown has officially reported
to the Privy Council that the splenetic fever
of the imported Texas cattle is not the same
disease as the splenetic fever prevalent in
Great Britain.
LISBON, Portugal, has been visited by
destructive conflagration.
AT Richmond, Va, on the 29th, as
the elephant known as Chief, belonging to
John Robinson's circus, was being removed
from freight car, the animal became en-
ragged at his keeper, John King, and crushed
him against a car, causing injuries from
which he died within few hours.
G. L. SMITH, a sewing-machine agent
at Warsaw, Ind, won the heart of the hand
some daughter of Morse Chaplin, a wealthy
farmer living near that town, and induced
her to forge check on her father in his favor
for $3.50. The money was secured be-
fore the fraud was discovered, and
both parties were arrested and
placed in Jail. Smith was baiied out,
but the father refused to give bail for his
daughter, fearing she would elope with
Smith. The following day Smith called at
the Jail and was allowed to walk
with Miss Chaplin in the back yard.
They had not been there long when four
pistol shots were heard, and when the jailer's
family reached the yard the dead bodies of
Miss Chaplin and Smith were discovered
lying side by side, the smoking revolver still
being in Smiths hand. Smith had a wife
and two children and was trying to get
divorce.
FATAL results of blowing out the gas
James Forester and wife, an aged couple Of
Laporte County, Ind, came to indianapolis
to attend the State Fair, stopping at
the Pyle House. The next morning both
were found unconscious in bed, but still
breathing. The husband died soon after,
and there was but slight hope that the wife
would recover. At the Burnett House, in
Pa, James Hanna and
male companion, from Oakland, were found
dead in bed. Coroner's verdict, death from
suffocation, caused by blowing out instead
Of turning off the gas.