Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

mission house were slaughtered, and one.
nth of the number were found to be dis.
eased and condemned by the Health officers
JOHN MCMAHON, q Chicago saloon.
keeper, was shot and killed on the morning
| Of the Sd by burglar whom he discovered
providing about his room.
JOHN BODINE, q waiter, was burned
to death at Terre Haute, Ind, on the morn.
ing of the LIST. He had gone to sleep in q
restaurant, which caught fire, and was not
awakened until escape was out of the ques.
ton. His parents reside at Martinsville, Ill
| REPRESENTATIVE STEVENSON has
been renominated for Congress by the Dem
ocrats and Greenbackers of the Thirteenth
Illinois District.
A MOB broke into the County Jail al
Hampstead, Tex, the other night, and re-
leased all the prisoners. A negro prisoner
Immediately proceeded to the house of the
Sheriff, and, after informing him of the esca-
pade, returned to his quarters in Jail.
CoLoRADo's population, according to
the official census reports, is 196,161, an in
crease of 155,297 since 1870. Lake County
which contains Leadville, had -522 people in
1870. 1t now has 22,265 people.
MAJ. WALSH, of the Northwestern
Mounted Police, is on a visit to Chicago.
He says that out of Sitting Bulbs original
band Of $50 lodges only 200 remein in the
Dominion, the others having quietly gone
into the different Sioux agencies. Sitting
Bull himself is anxious for peace.
THERE were fifty three deaths from
| yellow fever and thirteen from smallpox in
Havana during the week ended July 81.
Snow fell in the Catskill Mountains,
New York, on the night of the 30th.
The total population of Kansas, in
round numbers, is 100000.
The Bank of Colorado at Leadville
has suspended, the Cashier, G. Thornton
Lee, having absconded with all the available
funds. 1t was always considered weak
institution and had but a small amount of
deposits.
A WEAK imitation of Spanish bull
fight came off in New York City on the 31st.
| The exhibition was given by real Spanish
| torreros and the so called bulls were Texas
steers. 1t was rather tame affair, no blood
being split, either human or animal.
Col. B. j. CHAMBERS, candidate for
Vice President on the Greenback ticket, has
notified the editor of the indianapolis Sun
that the improved condition of his health
justifes him in announcing to the people his
intention Of remaining on the ticket to the
end Of the campaign.
Rev. EDWARD PAYsON ADAMS, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Dunkirk, N.
Y, has been arraigned before the Buffalo
Presbytery on a charge of having publicly
renowned the doctrine of everlasting pun
ishment as set forth in the Confession of
Faith. The Presbytery having heard the
evidence offered, voted to suspend Rev. Mr..
Adams until final action at the next stated
meeting, which will be in September.
GLADSTONE, the English Premier, was
lying seriously i'll on the Sd.
A CONsTANTINOPLE dispatch says
that the bodies of DR.. Parsons and his two
servants were recently found near Ismidt by
an American missionary and his servant
while the latter were on their way to relieve
the fapished population. Two nomad Turks
were arrested and confessed the crime.
THE Democratic Congressional Con-
vention of the Eleventh Missouri District re-
nominated Hon. John B. Clark for Repre-
sentative.
REPRESENTATIVE HASKELL has been
renominated for Congress by the Republic
cans of the Second Kansas District.
EIGHTY men have been killed in a
colliery explosion near Wrexham, Wales.
The war of rates between the Louis
vile and Nashville and the Chicago, St.
Louis and New Orleans Railroads has re-
duced passenger fares from New Orleans to
Memphis to $500, and to St. Louis and Chi
cago, $500
MARY ENNIS, aged Is, fell into the
canal at Durhamville, N. Y. Stephen Muir
ry, aged p, her cousin, attempted to save
her, and both were drowned.
KENTUCKY held an election on the I'd
for county and judicial officers. Nomina-
lions were made by Republicans in very few
counties, and the vote polled was light.
MAJOR JOHN E. SIMPSON, General
Manager of the Vandalia Railroad, died in
St. Louis, on the I'd, after very brief illness,
aged Al. The cause Of his death was tumor
of the brain, causing paralysis.
HOG cholera is said to be making sad
havoc among the swine in the vicinity Of Vim
cennes, Ind, and also across the river in Illi
nois.
PARTICULARS have been received re-
garding the sinking of the Gillian transport
Loa in Callao Bay by means of Peruvian
torpedo launch. The torpedo was loaded
with 800 pounds Of dynamite. The explo-
sion lifted the Loa almost out Of water, and
in few moments she suddenly went dpwn
with all on board. AT least $50 men persisted.
About 40 were rescued by boats fom neutral
vessels lying in the Bay, hut many of these
survivors were badly injured.
A DISPATCH from Fremont, Neb., Sd,
SAYS that the woman in custody there has
owned up TO being Mrs. Bender and has
made a full confession of ali the horrible
crimes committed on the Bender farm in
Kansas du ing 1872 and 1873. She declares,
however. that the old man and Kate com-
United all OF the murders and that she was
simply passive spectator.
MIR. a. w. CARROLL, of Bradford,
Pa, was somewhat under the weather"
from II supposed malaritl attack and called
upon DIR. ID. q. Hopkins for professional
and. The Doctor gave him a prescription,
soon after taking which Mr.. Carroll died. a
post norton developed the fact that he hal
taken enough morphine to Kill two men.
1t was further proven, upon the testimonyof