Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18
IT is renorted from New York that

IT is reported from New York that
the Democratic State Committee allege the
discovery of frauds in certain localities at
the recent election, and will institute an in
vestigation.
Mrs. CHILDERs, of Stewartsville,
KY, was fatally burned while making soap.
Her dress caught fire, and before assistance
could arrive she was literally roasted to
death.
TIE steamer Rhode Island, of the
Providence and New York Steamship Line,
was wrecked during dense fog at an early
hour on the morning of the 9Th, on a rocky
point near Narragansett Pier. There were
about 100 passengers on board, all of whom
were safely landed by the steamships boats.
THE schooner Belle Sheridan, of To-
ronto, was lost during the recent storm on
Lake Ontario, and seven persons, all on
board save one, were drowned. The lost are
Capt. James McSherry and his four sons,
John Hamilton and Samuel Boyd, all of To-
ronto.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 9th says:
An earthquake was felt to-day throughout
Southern Austria from Vienna to the Adri-
attic and to the frontiers of Bosnia: At Ag-
every house in town was injured. Several
persons were killed and thirty injured. Many
buildings will have to be pulled down. A
large number Of inhabitants fed to the fields.
GEN. GARFIELD has sent to Gov. Eos
ter his resignation as Member Of Congress
from the Nineteenth Ohio District, and an
election will be ordered for Nov. 80 to fill the
vacancy.
GEN. JOHN B. CLARK, JR., Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Eleventh Mis-
souri, District, was married to Mrs. Cornelia
We'll at Washington, ID. c., on the 10th.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, Mr.. Russell Dart,
a prominent and wealthy resident, shot and
probably fatally wounded Emil Siefert,
well known music teacher, for the alleged
reason that the latter had availed himself of
his opportunities as instructor to become
too intimate with the formers daughter, a
young lady OF II. Siefert is man about 80
years of age. His wife has recently pro-
cured divorce from him. He makes coun-
er-charge that an improper intimacy existed
between Dart and his wife.
Col. E. L. DRAKE, who drilled the
first oil-w well at Titusville, Pa, and who for
several years past has received a pension
from the State Of Pennsylvania on account Of
his labors in developing the oil industry in
that State, has just died. A statue to his
memory is to be erected on the new Oil EX-
change now building at Titusville or at some
other prominent point in that city.
THE Arkansas Division of the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad is COM
pleted to Seligman, 80 miles south of Pierce
CITY, Mo-, and within IS miles of Eureka
Springs, Ark.
FOUR men were suffocated in a mine
at Bodie, CAL, the hosting works having
taken fire and cut off their escape.
In New York City, on the 10th, An
drew Gillen, young lawyer of dissipated
habits, shot and instantly killed, in the pres
ence of her mother, Mary Sigerson, young
lady to whom he had been paying his adj
dresses, but who refused to marry him.
THE President and members of the
Cabinet witnessed the naval review in
Hampton Roads on he 10th.
LEONARD HEFFNER's residence, in
the town of Ellenboro, Wis.,, burned on the
9th, and his two children, aged three and
five years, persisted in the flames. Mrs.
Heffner was badly burned, though it was
thought not fatally.
Chicago Tribune, 9th, gives the Democrats
all four Congressman in Arkansas. Per
contra, Memphis dispatch, same date,
says johnson (colored), Republican, is
elected in the First District, and another re-
port says Murphy, Republican, is elected ir
the Fourth.