Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-09
borhood in which he lived, on the morning


of the LIST was taken from his bed by party
of disguised men, dragged across the fields
by rope halter tied around his neck, and
finally hanged to tree. 1t is believed death
resulted from the rough usage he received
previous to reaching the place selected for
his execution. The wretched man was liter
ally blind at the time the outrage was COM
mitted, having lost his only remaining eye
in an ARRAY with Commercial Point saloon
keeper few days previous.
REPRESENTATIVE BUCKNER has been
renominated for Congress by the Democratic
Convention of the Thirteenth Missouri Dis
trict.
THE Democrats of the Seventh Illi-
nois District have nominated Daniel Evans
for Congress.
THE public debt statement issued
Sept. 1 shows the reduction of the debt
during August to be $12,027, 167; cash in
Treasury, 1896, 66s, 1882; gold certificates, ST.
697 800; silver certificates, 3,13S, 040; GER
tificates of deposit outstanding, $11, 900, 600;
refunding certificates, 81, 106, $50; legal ten
ders outstanding, $346, 6s1, IS; fractional
currency outstanding, s., 1S1,995
AN official statement by the Commits
sioner of Pensions shows that on the goth of
June there were 245, 1000 pensioners. There
were paid as pensions falling due during the
year, $3.50, 900 900, and 81 200, 900 arrears of
previous years. Commissioner Bently thinks
the sum to be paid in pensions will yet reach
$5O,000,Oo0 annually. There were before the
Commissioner on July 100000 unsettled
claims for pensions, involving an average
first payment of ST., 900 in each case, OR
total of sos ZOO, 600. The whole number of
persons interested in the pensions, either as
recipients or as claimants, is $4,000. The
average number of claims filed each day
since July has been $50.
THE wife of the Rev. D. NJ. De Hughes,
of Cinnamonson, n. j., who was reported
to have committed suicide by jumping over
board from a ferryboat between Camden and
Philadelphia, believes that her husband is
still living. 1t seems he had been implicated
in scandal with woman and was threat
ened with exposure in case he did not re-
sign from the ministry. His wife thinks he
has gone off with the woman mentioned, and
that the pretended suicide, like that Of DIR.
Buchanan, was "put-up job" to cover up
his tracks.
INFORMATION has been received at
the Secret Service Office that about $40, 900
worth of counterfeit legal-tender notes have
been showed upon guileless people in Miss
issippi. Photographs of legal-tender notes
were made by the counterfeiters and passed
as United States Treasury checks. 1t is i'm
possible to make decent counterfeit by
photography, and the success of the swindle
is doubtless due to the unfamiiarity of those
swindled by greenbacks.
DIR. CHARLES THOMAS JACKSON, the
distinguished American physicist, died at
his residence in Somervile, Mass, on the
29th ult. DR.. Jackson was one of the claim
ants to the discovery Of anasthetcs, which
claim was disputed by DIR. W. L. G. Morton
and DR.. Horace Wells, resulting in long
controversy. The French Academy of Sci
ence appointedsa committee to investigate
the facts in the case, and on its report the
Academy decreed that prize of $500 francs
each be given to both DR.. Jackson and DR..
Morton. DR.. Jackson was at one period a
colaborer with DR.. Morse, the reputed in
ventor of the telegraph, and claimed to have
suggested to the latter the main features of
the Geographic device patented by him.
IT is reported from Blanchester, O.,
that man living in that vicinity admins
tered poison to his wife and child in coffee,
from which both died. He then took re-
volver and attempted to kill himself, but
produced only slight wound. At night a
mob gathered about his residence, took him
out, and, after marching him half mile to
the cross roads, hanged him to tree. The
names Of the parties are not yet given, and
the story needs confirmation.