Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

and the total value Of buildings, machinery
and stock was estimated at about $2J0, 900.
Insurance from $40, 900 to 500, 900. The mills
have been three times destroyed by fire.
Considerable surrounding property was
burned, the most important being the Fu-
ture City Oil Works, valued at So. 900.
BENJAMIN BIRD, colored, was hanged
at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th, for the
murder of Policeman Nelson, also colored,
during a riot in June, 1880.
AT Visalia, Cal, Miss Maggie Blaine,
aged 16, was fatally burned while kindling
the fire with kerosene.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America have recently held a ses-
sion at Chicago.
THE widow of ex-President Willard
Fillmore is dead.
THE Governor of South Carolina offers
a reward of 5000 for the arrest of the MUIR
derer of Deputy U. S. Collector Brayton.
FRIDAY, Aug. IL, was the hottest day
ever experienced in st. Louis, the Signal
service thermometer registering maximum
temperature of 1864.
THE steamer Laura Lee, valued at
$50, 600, was sunk near Baton Rouge, La.
DIR. JOSEPH G.. HUGHES, formerly
Surgeon General of the State Of Iowa, died
at Keokuk from blood-poisoning.
AN express train on the Grand Trunk
Railway was thrown from the track near
Prescott, Ont. on the 18th, caused by the
locomotive striking COW. The locomotive
and tender and eXpress-car were overturned
and completely demolished, and four passen-
ger coaches were derailed. The engineer
stuck to his locomotive and met most hor-
rible death. The fireman was pitched off by
the conclusion and badly injured. Two ex-
press messengers and baggagemaster were
buried beneath the debris of their car and
rescued in an almost dying condition. Nine
passengers were injured, six Of them seri-
Ously.
THOMAS A. CRANDALL, a prominent
Colorado stock dealer, fell from the top of a
cattle train at st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 18th,
and was run over and killed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has been shaken by
an earthquake.
, AN emigrant train ran into wash
out near Las Vegas, N. NJ, on the night of
the 18th, killing engineer Townsend and fire.
man Patton.
E. M. MARKS, of Rome, Ca, and G.
NJ. Creswell, of Mebanesville, N. c., stud
ents at Eastman's College, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, while boating on the Hudson River
were run down by a steamer and both were
drowned.
By the sudden falling OF. an old build
ing in one Of the most frequented quarters
Of Vienna, on the 18th, twenty persons were
killed and thirty injured.
CHARLES BOYNTON, mill hand at
Portland, Me-, attempted to kill his wife,
who had left him and gone to her mothers
at Bar Mills. He fired at her with revolver
but missed, and she saved her life by jump
ing from a second story window. His wife's
sister, Mrs. Warehouse, then entered the
room, when he fired two shots at her, one of
which entered her breast INJECTING prob
ably fatal wound. Boynton then shot him
self through the pit of the stomach, expir-
ing instantly.
MAKING JAREz, the Minister from
Nicaragua to the United States, died of
apoplexy at Washington.
The drouth in Switzerland has con-
tinued for nearly two months. The grass is
burned, and in the mountain pastures beasts
are perishing from heat.
MIR. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis have
gone to Europe.
A TERRIBLE horse disease has broken
out at Camden, O. 1t is regarded as the
same disease which was so prevalent some
time ago in portions of Illinois. 1t comes
on suddenly and proves fatal in nearly every
case. Great Jumps raise on the bodies OF
the animals after death.