Iron County register., 1880-09-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

house, and then committed suicide. Family
troubles.
ANOTHER big oil fire has occurred
near Bradford, Pa, caused by lightning.
MAX LEvINGER, a collector, was set
York City, in broad daylight on the 21st,
and robbed of his pocket book and watch
and chain. Levinger gave chase, when one
Of the robbers turned and fired upon him,
but the bullet missed its mark and struck a
butcher boy in the neck, causing a fatal
wound.
MICHAEL DAvITT, the associate of
Parnell, had public reception in st. Louis
on Sunday, the 22d.
AT Morristown, Tenn, on circus day,
B. f. Richardson, desperate character,
shot and killed Marshal James T. Morris,
who had earlier in the day arrested him for
shooting at negro. He then opened fire on
Sheriff II. Loop, wOunding him in two
places and receiving two shots in return from
the Sheriff's revolver. A bystander then
took hand in and shot Richardson through
the heart. Several citizens were slightly
wounded by stray bullets.
THE large paper mills at Walpole,
Mass, owned by Hon. f. W. Bird, Hol-
lingsworth Il Co., burned on the morning of
the 22d. Loss about $4,000, insured for
three fourths their value.
AN official report gives the number of
persons in Russia under police surveillance
at ,G96.
DISASTROUS storms have occurred in
the French provinces.
Up to the 22d, twenty-five deaths had
resulted from the Mays Landing On. J.)
railway disaster.
Col. VIM. H. EDGAR, of the Jersey
vile Republicon, has received the Republi-
can nomination for Congress in the Eleventh
Illinois District.
CASES of Asiatic cholera reported to
have resulted fatally at Erie, Pa, are pro-
nounced merely bad cases of cholera NOR
bus.
A NATIONAL CONVENTION of the
Union soldiers who were made prisoners
during the War Of the Rebellion has been
called to meet at indianapolis September 90
and 30.
THE Rev. Thomas X. Beecher, a
brother of Henry Ward Beecher, has been
nominated for Congress by the Grecnbackers
of the Elmira On. " District.
Gaines, two murderers, were hanged at Sill
yer City, n. NJ, on the Goth.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL DEvENs is an
nounced to make several political speeches
in Minnesota and Indiana.
JUDGE HENRY Al. SPOFFoRD, of Loui-
siana, is dead.
THE Supreme Lodge of the World,
knights of Pythias, assembled in st. Louis
on the 23d. There was Il large attendance
and fine street parade.
In Marshall County, Ky, near Brew
er's Mill, Mrs. Lyles and her little daughter
and Mrs. Tyre, her mother, We're fatally
burned by a kerosene explosion and
all died within few hours. Mr..
Lyle was badly burned while trying
to extinguish the flames. The accident
resulted from an attempt 10 fill light
ed lamp from,the kerosene can, which eX-
ploded, throwing the burning oil over the
three occupants of the room and setting
their clothes on fire.
AT Chicago, on the Esd, Simon Zim-
norman, a workman in the Chicago Elec
trical Works, shot his wife and then himself,
both through the head. No cause is known
for the trag dy.
THE Superintendent of the Colored
Relief Board of st. Louis estimates that
10000 negroes will emigrate from Mississippi
and Louisiana within the next two months
for Kansas and other Northern States About
forty per day, for the past month, have been
cared for by the Board and forwarded to va
rious destinations.
CHAR LEE, a Chinaman, is in Jail at
Cincinnati for an ingenious swindle on two
fellow -MonSolians. He procured rough
chunk of brass, weighing twenty six pounds,
discolored the edges with gold, and repre-
sented it as huge lump Of bullion which had
been stolen and could not be disposed of in
this country without great risk. The two
purchased it for So, 900, expecting to clear
$1,000 or $4,000 by shipping it to China. Be-
fore purchasing they had a piece knocked off
for assay, and Char Lee was careful that they
got a doctored knob, which stood the test.
CHIEF OURAY is lying dangerously i'll
at the Southern Ute Agency.
LORD ROsEBERY has been appointed
British er-Secretary for India, rice the
Marquis of Lansdowne, resigned.
TIE coopers of Cincinnati are on
strike for an increase of wages.
A THRAsHING- -MACINE boiler ex-
plOutu Oh the liIlu VI MIS-. 81. hiCtDCis
Shabonier, ILL.,, on the 22d, killing the en-
gneer, Ed. Suster, and badly scalding two
other persons. The engine and thrasher
were entirely demolished and six stacks of
wheat and oats were burned.
z. II. KELLY & Co.'s grocery store,
Averill, Rus sell & Carpenters paper ware
house, and some smaller business houses
were burned at st. Paul, Minn., on the 23d
Loss over 100000; fully insured.
JAMES ALLIGER, a well known New
York broker, has been held in $40, 900 bonds
to answer the charge OF negotiating stolen
securities.
A DUEL between James Barron Hope,
editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Landmark, and
Col. VIM. Lamb, Mayor of Norfolk, was
prevented by the arrest of the Mayor just
he was leaving his house for the field of bat
tie. Capt. Hope reached the rendezvous.
Upon his return he was required to give
bond to keep the peace.
''DoCTOR" BUCHANAN, who fled from
Philadelphia to escape trial, after connecting
a very ingenious scheme to make people be-