Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


prisons are filled with persons accused of
political crimes, very few are brought to
trial.
Col. JAMES G. BENTON, of the United
States Ordnance Department, since 1866 in
charge of the Armory at Springfield, Mass,
is dead.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS has writ
ten private letter announcing that be is
very busily engaged in writing book in re-
ply to the recently published work of Jeffer-
son Davis.
ANDERSON PITTS, a wealthy farmer
at Rutherford County, Tenn. who recently
had divorce trouble, was shot and killed
in his melon patch by some persons I'M
known.
A CASE of yellow fever is reported
from Key West, Fla, and the National
Board of Health is officially informed that it
is believed to have originated there.
TIE American Pharmaceutical Asso-
citation met in Kansas City on the 23d, with
a representation of about one hundred mem
bers.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, has had $780,
600 fire. One fireman was killed and two
others badly injured.
THE shops of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railroad at Harrisburg,
Texas, We're burned on the o3d. together
with the tools, machinery, three locomo-
tives and one passenger car. Total loss
500, 900; insured. The fire is supposed to
have originated from spontaneous combus-
ton.
BEN BLANTON, ex-Sheriff of Cooke
County, Texas, and James Todd settled 4
quarrel growing out of a lawsuit by killing
each other. Todd was shot through the heart
and in the breast. The top of Blanton's
head was blown off.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Temple, residing on
the farm of A. D. Mitchell, about two miles
south of Fulton, H., were instantly killed
by lightning during a heavy storm on the
morning of the 18th. They had arisen dur
ing the storm and were in the act of retiring
when the fatal stroke entered the building.
An infant about four months old was be-
tween them at the time they were killed, but
was uninjured. Four other children We're
also in the same room in bed, but they like
wise escaped.
A. j. WILTON, Government In
spector of Weights and Measures at Mon
treal, Canada, is defaulter to a large
amount and has fled to the States.
The reputable citizens of Benson,
Arizona, give notice that they have driven
from the town gang of confidence men
who have long infested the place, to the dis
comfture and pecuniary loss of many East
ern tourists.
GENERAL LESLIE COOMBs, of Ken
lucky, who died at his home in Lexington on
the Dist, in the SSth year Of his age, was the
last of the Pioneer Indian warriors of that
State. He was Captain in the war of 1912,
and raised and equipped regiment to aid
Texas in her struggle for independence. He
was trusted friend of Henry Clay. He was
several times Auditor OF Kentucky, and suf-
fered defeat for Congress at the hands Of
John c. Breckenridge. He was 4 strong
Union man during the late civil war. Many
years ago he lost large fortune in building
and two years since he was left al
most destitute by the burning of his home.
The Colored Press Association of the
United States met at Chicago on the 23d.
WHILE the crops throughout large
area of the United States are almost an ut
ter failure on account of the prolonged
ing the probable destruction OF their harvests
by too copious rains.
THE Illinois and Mississippi River
and Canal Improvement Commission, ap-
pointed by the Convention held at Daven-
port, Iowa, last May, to further the con-
struction of the Hennepin Canal, met in
Chicago on the 25th. The most important
business transacted was the appointment Of
a committee to memorabilia Congress for the
of commercial canal not to
exceed seven feet in depth, from Hennepin
westward to the Mississippi River.
B. WILKES, well-known planter and
merchant Of Sunflower County, Miss, was
shot dead while standing in the door of his
store at Jacksonville. The assassin is I'M
known.
GEORGE w. RIGGS, the well-known
Washington banker, is dead.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, suffered the
destruction of nearly the entire business
portion of the town by fire, on the morning
of the oath. The Journal office was entirely
The total loss foots up about
500, 900, with but little insurance. A coal
oil lamp explosion was the cause of the con-
flagration.
THROUGH the assistance of the United
States Ministers to Chilli and the Argentine
Republic, the boundary between those coun-
tries has been fixed.
THE Attorney General has given a de-
cision in favor Of Gen. Hazen as against Gen.
Sherman, conceding to officers Of the Signal
Corps army status under the law.
A LETTER from Bangkok, Siam, says
Asiatic cholera is raging. 1t is variously
estimated that from 100 to 800 natives are
dying daily. Very few foreigners have died,
but several have fled to Singapore and Hong
Kong.
A TERRIBLE encounter occurred in
County, S. c., between j. W.
Buzzard and his son and J. w. Thinner
man, in which Zimmerman was killed and
Buzzard and his son seriously wounded.
An old feud was the cause Of the ARRAY.
The weapons used were double barreled
shotguns.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Rathkeale,
County Limerick, Ireland, owing to the re-
port that the police were about to remove
some cattle seized for rent. A mob assem-