Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

eAc CaHauIan auCnOTltlcS, VINO sent strong
force of civil officers, backed by militia, to
prevent the pugilists from landing. The en-
| tire party, comprising four boat loads from
Buffalo and Erie, returned home in a most
exasperated condition.
THE British Admiralty have about
given up all hopes that the training ship
ATLANTA is still afoat.
SENIOR HIPOLITO DE URIATE, Span
ish Consul at New York, received an infer
nal machine through the mails. In tearing
open the apparently harmless paper box in
| which it was enclosed, the affair exploded,
burning Senior Uriate slightly on the hand
and setting the carpet on fire. It was charged
with most deadly explosives, and that it did
not do greater damage was because of its
imperfect construction.
FOREST fires of a most alarming ma
ture are reported from Monroe and Pike
New Jersey.
A VERY sensible shock of earthquake
was experienced throughout Middlesex
County, Mass, on the morning of the 18th.
Many people ran out Of doors, supposing
that an explosion had occurred.
THE entire business portion of the
village Of Stuyvesant, N. Y, together with
a number of fine private residences, was
I burned on the 18th. A tramp was arrested
charged with causing the fire.
ISRAEL BRANDT, Josiah Hummel and
Henry Wise, the three men who murdered
Josiah Raber in order to obtain his life in
surance, were hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on
| the 18th.
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Washington, Pa, on the 10Th, the body in
cinerated being that of Charles Gustav Poetz,
of New York.
THE Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
is now open for business to South Arkansas,
sixty miles west of Carson City and forty
miles from Leadville. The road will be COM
pleted to Leadville before July 1.
THE National Association of Window
Glass Manufacturers have resolved to sus-
pend production three months, dating from
June 1. A proposition to reduce the price
list was unanimously defeated.
A MOB composed of about one hum
dred masked men, on the morning of the
18th forcibly entered the Jail at Oseeola, St.
Clair County, Mo-, took out three prisoners,
w. r. Smith, Charley Pierce and John
murder, and hanged them within four hum
dred yards of the Jail.
EDWIN HAYT was hanged at Bridge
port, Conn.,, on the 18th, for the murder
his father, George Hayt, in June, 1878.
AN investigation into the affairs of the
First National Bank of Augusta, Maine, re-
vealed the fact that the late Cashier, Israel
Boothby, who committed suicide Feb. 8, was
defaulter for over $50, 600.
The Indians are to hold an Interna-
tional Fair at Muscogee, I. T., on Sept. %
to Oct. l. 1t is believed that all the tribes
will participate.
The fires in the Bradford Pa.) oil
regions broke out afresh on the 18th. The
villages of Oil Center and Middaughville
were almost entirely consumed and large
section of country, covered with derricks
and tanks, was swept over as by whirl-
wind.
THE General Conference of the M E.
Church, in session at Cincinnati, elected
four additional Bishops, namely: Cyrus D.
Foss, President Wesleyan University, Mid
dletown, Ct; John F. Hurst, President
Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, n. j.;
Henry W. Warren, Of Philadelphia; and DIR.
E. o. Haven, Chancellor Syracuse Univer-
sity, N: Y.
Rev. L. M. HUNT, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church at South Haven, Mich,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head while in state of mental
depression caused by ill health.
THOMAS WHITE, a white man, was
hanged at Spartanburg, S. c., on the 18th,
for the murder of Pet Hawkins, colered
man, in January last.
AT Corpus Christi, Tex, on the 14th,
Horace Burr attempted to kill his wife,
his mother in-law and his sister in-law,
and then shet himself dead. His moth
er-in-law, Mrs. Barnard, was fatally
wounded. There had been family quarrel,
ending in Mrs. Burr's return to her fathers
home.
Two of the ladies burned at the
Atlanta Opera house have died of their in
juries.
THREE men were killed by the caving
in of shaft of the Lumberman Mining
Company, at Norway, Mich, on the 18th.
Thirteen other men who were working in the
drift were rescued in half-suffocated con-
ditioa after several hours confinement.
CARL MANKE was hanged at Buffalo,
n. Y, on the 18th, for the murder of John
Atloff, in April, 1879.
CHIEF-JUsTICE SANFORDE. CHURCH,
of the New York Court Of Appeals, died of
apoplexy on the 18th, at his home in Albion,
Orleans County.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee have voted to favor adjournment on
May 81.
BAUMHoLDER, a Rhenish town, has
been almost destroyed by fire, and 1000
persons rendered homeless and destitute.
THE house of w. E. Farmes, near
Gore, o., burned on the 18th. A young
child, who had been left alone in the house,
asleep and locked in, persisted in the flames.
THERE was a report current at Lead
vile, on the 10Th, that party Of prospectors
in the Ute Reservation, sixteen in number,
had been massacred by the Indians. An
other report, from Lake City, was to the
effect that party of twelve had met the
same fate in the Gunnison country. Neither
report was credited by the military authori.