Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
PERSONAL AND.GENERAL.

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land.
PERSONAL AND-GENERAL.
A BISMARCK dispatch of the oath
in the Northwest ragged there for two days.
Since Feb. LIST there has been succession of
storms, causing an almost total suspension
of travel.
The House Committee in the con-
tested case of Bradley against Slemens, Ar
kansas, will report in favor of Mr.. Slemens,
the sitting member.
PRESIDENT HAYES, has refused to
grant . court-martial in the case of Gen.
Boynton against Gen. Sherman, on the
ground that the civil courts afford an ample
remedy for the acts complained of.
A LARGE tenant-right meeting held
near Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland,
on the 25th, was attacked by three thousand
Orangemen armed with bludgeons, who
| stormed the platform and dispersed the
meeting. Twenty tenant-righters were Sc
riously injured. The Orange party consid-
cred the meeting to be of a seditious charac-
| ter.
PHILIP BOALTZ, bachelor 62 years
old, said to be quite well off, who lived alone
on his farm five miles northwest Of Milan,
Ripley County, Ind, was found murdered
in his house on the morning Of the 25th. He
was beaten to death with club. William
| Strissinger, a nephew of BoaltZ, is under ar
rest upon suspicion of having committed the
murder.
| ASSISTANT SURGEON ROBERT WHITE,
United States Marine Hospital Service, died
on the 25th. He was largely interested in
sanitary science, and was prominent MEM
Der of the American Health Association.
HON. THOMAS FLETCHER, a promi
nent citizen of Arkansas, for two years Pres
ident of the State Senate, died on the 26th.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit has
recently been put in circulation in Chicago,
and probably elsewhere. 1t is $40 legal
tender note, dated 1875, check letter c,
signed John Allison, Register, and Jno. C.
| New, Treasurer; is rather dark in appear
ance, and printed on heavy paper. The
fiber which appears in genuine bills is imi-
tated by engraved lines, and the counterfeit
may readily be detected by scratching these
lines with pin, when the fiber will not ap
pear.
ACCORDING to the latest news received
by cable, the alliance between Peru and
Bolivia has been broken off.
JOHN O'BRIEN and A. D. Parshall,
well known frontiersmen, were recently
killed by Indians, on the Redwater, in Da-
| kota.
JAMES HOWARD MILLER was hanged
at Ozark, Ark, on the 9th, for the murder
of his wife about year ago. A large crowd
of spectators witnessed the execution. Miller
steadfastly denied the crime of which he was
convicted.
The President has nominated Percy
B. S. Pinchback for Naval Officer at New
Orleans.
VERA SAssULITCH, the famousJfef6i-
nine Nihiist agent, who on the 9Th of Feb
ruary, 1878, attempted the assassination Of
General Trepoff, Project Of st. Peters
burg, has been rearrested at the residence OF
her friends in St. Petersburg.
JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, colored, was
hanged at Savannah, Ga, on the 9th, for
the murder of Daniel McDermott, seaman,
in March, 1878. johnson confessed his guilt,
expressed penitence, and said he believed
he would go to heaven.
THE United States ship Constellation,
now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, will be sur
the transportation of supplies to Ireland, in
accordance with the recent act Of Congress.
MR.. VIM. H. VANDERBILT few days
ago sent to the Treasury Department for
registry s., SOC, 900 in four per cent. bonds,
making total of $3l 800, 900 that now stands
in his name on the Treasury books.
AT Leadville, Colo, on the Goth, John
NJ. Wollery shot and fatally wounded Miss
Mamie Berry, and then put bullet through
his own head, producing instant death. Miss
Berry was Wolery's sister in-law. The two
had maintained illicit relations for some
years land jealousy was the cause of the shoot
ing. They were former residents of Pettis
County, Mo. Miss Berry was only 10 years
of age and Of prepossessing appearance.
Wollery's wife had once left him on account
of his relations with her sister, but at the
time Of the final tragedy they were all living
together in apparent harmony, except for
Wollery's jealousy Of other mems attentions
to Miss Berry.
WILL M. RUsTON, aged "a, and Oscar
II. Knox, aged 90, two well known citizens,
went out hunting across the river from
Evansville, Ind. They became los:,
wandered aimlessly through the morasses
for hours, and finally lay down and died
from hunger and exhaustion, within 400
yards of house. After long search their
bodies were found by their friends, their
faithful dog keeping watch over them, al
though it had been at least So hours since
they died.
JAY GOULD, accompanied by num-
Der of his business associates, left New York
ON the 2Sth for visit to the Southwest. 1t
is said he will spend several weeks in look
ing over his railway and telegraph lines in
Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Texas.
THE United States steamer Marion
recently arrived at Montevideo from Rio,
with several cases Of yellow fever on board.
| I iar1tanant IEa Ills and a hoy died of the dis.