Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-05-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

salary OF the Commissioner of Agriculture,
instead Of the 81, 900 asked for.
The Volcano of Colima, Mexico, is
now in state Of eruption. 1t is said to be
grand and magnificent sight, but
threatening destruction to the towns
and villages around its base, whose in
habitants are in constant dread of a flow of
lava.
A FLEET of fishing boats were struck
by squall at the mouth of the Columbia
River, Oregon, on the 4th, and twelve or more
fishermen were drowned.
SENATOR CAMERON returned to
Washington on the 9Th from visit to Penn
syivania. He declares there is no truth in
the report concerning an anti: Grant revolt
among the delegates to the National Conven-
ton.
CAPT. POTTER, of the u. S. relief
ship Constellation, has been presented with
the freedom of the City of Dublin.
The German Reichstag, after heated
discussion, by a vote of 1911 to "a, passed the
Anti-Socialist bill. September 80, 1884, is
the date fixed for the expiration of the
operation Of the bill.
THE Canadian Minister of Agriculture
has been persuaded by large number OF
pork-packers at Montreal to reseind the alb
surd order, recently issued, prohibiting the
importation of hogs from the United States.
The British training-ship Atalanta is
supposed to be lost at sea with all on board.
ACCOUNTS from Mesopotamia and
Kurdestan represent the famine there as ter
rible.
IT is reported from Berlin that all
Jews Of foreign birth had been ordered to
leave st. Petersburg within six hours.
SMALL bands of Mescalero Apaches
are killing and robbing settlers in Lincoln
County, New Mexico.
THE bodies of two men were found
hanging to tree in Denton County, Tex,
on the 1st Of May, each bearing placard
with this Legend" Such is the fate Of all
cattle thieves" Both men were strangers.
DURING fire at Grusbach, Moravia,
a fanatic melted the populace to attack the
Jews, and one of the latter was killed and
several mutilated before the wrath of the
mob could be stayed.
The twenty-third quadrennial session
of the General Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church Of the United States con-
vened in Pixies Opera house, Cincinnati, on
States were all present.
UPWARDS of 1000 iron workers are
on a strike in North England against five
per cent. reduction of wages awarded by
arbitrator.
A DISASTROUS oil fire occurred in Nc
Kean County, Pa, on the 9Th. Rev City, a
village of about one hundred houses, ten
miles from Bradford, was entirely burned,
not one house remaining. A large extent of
country was swept over by the flames. 1t is
estimated that about three hundred derricks
were consumed, besides large quantities Of
oil. Total damage probably not less than
$500, 200, on which there is no insurance.
THE house of James Gage, ex-Coun-
selor Township Euphemia, near Chatham,
Ont, was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 4th. Four of Cages children and the
daughter of a neighbor named Wade per-
ished in the flames.
ALVIN S. HAWKINS, of Carroll Coun-
ty, is the Republican nominee for Governor
Of Tennessee.
TEUscHER & Co.'s distillery at St.
Louis burned on the morning Of the 9Th.
The fire was caused by the explosion of
copper still, the gas from which penetrated
employee, was burned to death. Loss about
S6O, 900; insured for One-half that amount.
VICToR1o and his band attacked the
miners at Cooney's Mining Camp on Mogal-
lon Mountain, New Mexico, killing four and
wounding one of the number. AS soon as
the news reached Silver City two companies
of about sixty five men went to the relief of
the settlers.
THE insane wife of George Woodruff,
of Penn Yam, N. Y, jumped into a eistern
with her two children, one aged six years
and the other twelve months. Both children
were drowned, but the. mother was alive
when discovered.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway Company has purchased
a large majority of the capital stock Of the
Memphis and Little Rock Road.
THREE convicts attempted to escape
from the Kentucky Penitentiary at Frank
fort, on the morning of the 7th, when they
were discovered and fired upon by the guard,
one of them being instantly killed. The
others were recaptured.
The bodies of twenty-five fishermen,
drowned in the recent gale at the mouth of
Columbia River, Oregon, have been recov-
cred. OtnerS OrlICeO SeaWarQ anu Will
probably never be found.
A SEVERE hurricane prevailed in
Southern Minnesota on the eth. Many
buildings were blown down. The wife of
Arthur Pond was killed near Madden by
falling timbers.
A NEGRO was lynched near Fairview,
Todd County, KY, on the 7th, for commit
ting an assault upon white woman.
THE Governor of Ohio has authorized
the employment of militia to suppress an
incipient riot in the coal mines of Wayne
County, caused by the employment of col
ored men in the mines.
Two little children in Rochester, n.
Y, sons of Ransom D. McCrasson and Mr..
Gorgan, neighbors, were playing with
matches in McCrasson's barn, when they set
fire to the hay and the fire spread SO quickly
that both were burned to death.
CLARENCE E. DAVIS, the noted big
amist, has been sentenced at Chicago to five
years in the Penitentiary and to pay fine