Iron County register., 1880-08-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tity of cattle to Cettinja. Prince Nikita or
dered restitution Of the cattle. The Prince
has also ordered levy of men between the
ages of sixteen and sixty.
LITTLE Rocks population is 16, ,119.
THE John Kelly (Tammany) Demo
| Gratis have Withdrawn their Electoral ticket
| in New York and will support the regular
| ticket chosen at Cincinnati.
MRS. NIEDERsPRIM, an aged lady,
| was killed by tramp about four miles from
Kenosha, Wis. The murderer struck the
woman on the head with chair. Her death
was instantaneous. The scoundrel made
| good his escape.
AT Chicago, on the oath, Maud S.,
the famous trotting mare, in a contest with
Trinket, made a record on her third heat of
| 2:13 12. This time is the best ever made in
| a match between horses. The California
horse, ST. Julien, has record Of 2:12 3-4
against time. Capt. Stone, the manager of
Maud S., claims that the mare will yet cut
her record down to 2:10. u' 9.a.e.s
THE official census returns make the
population of the Second District of Kan
sas, comprising fifty western counties Of the
State, 335, ,000-an increase of 275, 900 since
1870.
DAVID SCRUGGs, formerly of Jeffer
son City, Mo-, and young son of Joseph
Watson, a wealthy Colorado mine owner,
were drowned in Wolfe Lake, near Denver,
on the Goth, caused by the upsetting OF a
boat. Scruggs made an effort to save the
life of the boy and in so doing was himself
drowned.
SIX boys living along the Dayton and
Western Railroad, near Eldorado, o., were
trying an experiment exploding railroad tor
pedoes. Result-one died in six hours after
wards, one had an arm amputated, one a
leg, and one had his eye put out. The rest
are all badly burned, but will recover.
IHE steamer Derwent, from the West
Indies, was at Havre, France, on the Goth,
with yellow fever on board. Three persons
died on the passage. Eighteen were con-
valescent.
THERE were sixty-one deaths from
ending July oath. -.s.
SIXTEEN persons were drowned on
Lake Brienz, Switzerland, by the capsizing
Of a pleasure steamer.
Col. JOHNSON, an American, and
Brig. Gen. Medina, Of the insurgent army
in Cuba, were killed by the Spanish troops.
A BANQUET to the amnestied COmmu-
nists was given by the students of Paris on
the night of the oath. Rochefort, Blanqui
and others were present. Violent speeches
were made eulogizing the Commune, de-
manding European republic, the annihila-
tion of kings and social revolution.
THE cotton operatives of Bolton,
England, have determined upon general
strike for an increase in wages. The mas
ters declare their intention to meet the strike
with a general lockout. Two thousand
operatives are now on a strike at Rochdale,
and a strike is probable at Oldham.
GENERAL GRANT has been elected
President of the San Pedro and Canon
Delaqua Company, which owns 10000 acres
of land in New Mexico, including copper
and gold mines. Eastern capitalists are
largely interested in the enterprise.
AN eruption of Vesuvius began on the
25th, coincident with which sharp shock
of earthquake was felt at Naples.
SOLOMON H. EAsTERLY, a wealthy
farmer of WAYNE County, New York, killed
his wife and mother-in-law and then COM
mitted suicide. Easterly frequently quar-
relied with his wife, and blamed his mother
in-law for much of his domestic trouble.
THE Arkansas Conference Seminary,
at Harrison, Boone County, Ark, an insti-
tuition founded by the Methodist Episcopal
Church, was burned on the night of the 10th,
together with the church adjacent.
ONE-HALF of the town of Troupe,
Texas, on the international and Great North
ern Railroad, was destroyed by fire on the
22d. Very little insurance.
A MOB broke open the jail at Rock
vile, Md, on the morning Of the 9th, and
taking therefrom a negro named John Diggs,
hanged him to tree. Diggs was arrested
for an indecent assault upon a white lady
near Jamestown. 1t is stated that he made
full confession to the Sheriff. t
OREGON has population of 1855,
an increase of SO per cent. since 1870.
The Democratic Convention of the
Sixth Missouri District renominated Con-
gresham Waddill.
GEN. HANCOCK, in addition to his
present duties, has been assigned to the
command of the Department of the South
during the temporary absence of Brig. Gen.
Augur.
The United States chronological
Commission, headed by Prof. Charles v.
Riley, is at present engaged in an investiga-
tion Of the habits, ravages, and prevention
of the cotton worm in the South.
ANOTHER and more serious earth
quake occurred at Manila on the 21st. Not
a single public edifice remains standing.
The Convent Of Guadaloupe, which had
lasted three centuries, was destroyed. The
inhabitants were encamped outside the town
and consequently no lives were lost.
THREE little girls, children of Mr..
Fishels, farmer residing in Clarke County,
Mo-, not far from Keokuk, Iowa, were
burned by an explosion of kerosene with
which they were kindling the fire during the
absence of their parents. The eldest, aged
10, died within few hours; the second, aged
Z, can not recover; the youngest, aged 5,
was not seriously injured.
A PARIS paper gives the following
concerning the recent suicide Of Mrs. Wet
more, an American lady, in that city. Lord
Anglesey paid her very marked attention
and pressed her to obtain divorce from her
American husband in order to marry
him. She obtained the divorce, but
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