Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-10-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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ance Commissioners of Pennsylvania he will
assessment insurance companies. As the
Governor CONSTITUTES the law, the business il
not conducted legally.
MRS. GREEN, residing on the York
town Pike, near Muncie, Ind, was seri-
ously shot in the breast from a toy pistol in
the hands of young son.
ORsoN PRATT, the oldest Apostle of
the Mormon Church, is dead, aged 70.
Gov. CULLoM, of Illinois, has issued
proclamation Offering $500 reward for the
arrest of the notorious Williams brothers,
whose last murderous offense was the kill
ing OF Sheriff Lammy, of Calhoun County.
They are believed to be still secreted in the
vicinity.
JOHN and James Pickard, brothers,
were killed by boiler explosion at Carroll
ton, Mich.
THE German ship Hugo was burned
in the South Pacific Ocean and the Captain
with eight men floated eight hundred miles
to the coast Of Chilli in nine days.
The insurgents in Tunis are charged
with fresh outrages. At Wadzergha rail-
way station was fired and ten employees
massacred. The station master, an ex-
Lieutenant in the French army and
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, was
burned alive.
CAPTAIN HOwGATE returned unex-
pectedly to Washington and announced him
self ready to stand trial. He was taken to
Jail. His bondsmen feel greatly relieved by
his presence.
FRANKLIN j. Moses, formerly Gov
ernor Of South Carolina, has been up in the
police headquarters at New York for swind-
ling William L. Hall out of $25.
AT Richmond, Va, Marvin, the biga-
mist and forger, was sentenced to the Peni-
Tertiary for ten years.
THERE have recently arrived by
steamship at New Orleans 800 German and
800 English immigrants, for settlement in
Texas, and $50 italian laborers for work up
on the New York, Texas & Mexican Rail-
way.
RECENT Irish news: A farmer
named Leary, living near Baltimore, on
Lord kenmare's property, was shot by a
band of armed men, who visited his house
to warn him not to pay rent. He has since
died from his wounds. A man carrying
ty Tipperary, was shot, and it was thought,
MORALLY wounded. Mr.. Bingham, land
lord, while riding near Erris, County Mayo,
was fired at. A girl on the car with him
was wounded. The assaiant, who was dis
guised in female clothing, escaped.
AN oil train of fifty cars on the Erie
Railway, took fire near Port Jervis, N. Y.
Fifteen cars were cut loose from the rear of
the train, where the fire occurred, and the
remainder of the train was pulled off to
safe distance. AS the burning cars explod-
ed volumes Of flames shot hundreds of feet
into the air, and the burning oil and frag-
ments of tanks were thrown 1000 yards. So
intense was the heat that the telegraph
wires were melted.
ARIZONA BILL, an old Government
scout, whose real name was James A. Lewis,
was shot and killed by the Marshal of Crested
Butte, Colo, the other day. Bill got drunk
and tried to ''run the town."
Two men were killed and three others
badly injured by the falling of some masonry
near Livermore, Pa.
REV. STUART ROBINSON, D. D., died
at his home in Louisville, KY, on the 5th,
after suffering from cancer of the stomach
for eighteen months. DR.. Robinson was
one of the ablest American divines. He was
born in Strabane, County Thorne, Ireland,
in the year 1914, and was consequently in
his 9th year at the time of his death.
The trial of the Rev. DR.. Thomas, of
Chicago, for heresy, was begun by the
Rock River M. E. Conference at Sycamore,
ILL.,, on the 9Th.
PULASKI, N. Y, burned on the 9th to
the extent of 100000.
AT Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa,
Robert Bell was shot and killed by his wife
in fit of insanity. She declares that she
was commanded by an angel to commit the
deed.
HAM WHITE, Texas highwayman,
has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for
ninety mine years.
A FIRE at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the
morning Of the 7th, destroyed about 500, 900
worth of property, including the Office of
the Press, E. l.. Taylor & Co.'s dry-goods
store and j. 81. Dellman's hardware store.
Partially insured.
THE Protestant ministers OF Washing
ton called on the President on the 7th.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR will retain his
quarters at the residence of Senator Jones
until the White House repairs are completed.
The President positively declines to hear
any applicants for public Offices, and thinks
the minor offices now vacant should be filled
by the heads Of the various departments.
THE Rose City Flouringmills of Lit
tie Rock, one Of the largest manufacturing
establishments of the Southwest, were to-
tally destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss be-
tween $50, zoo and $40, 900, partially insured.
SEVERE frosts have occurred in the
Carolinas and Virginia, injuring tobacco
and, it is feared, killing the late growth of
cotton.
MISS SADIE SIMS, of Raleigh, N. c.,
was fatally poisoned by the administration
of arsenic by mistake for quinine. Her
sister, who committed the fatal error, was
crazed with grief.
VIM. Cox, Jesse Monroe and VIM.
Delaney, the three young men who robbed
the Iron Mountain Express Company and
the passengers on train No. 4, near Hope,
Ark, September g, pleaded guilty to four