Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-18

which was larger tkan during any previous
year with the exception Of the year immedi.
stely preceding,
RENEWED attacks by mobs on the
shops and synagogues Of the Jews are
reported In various places in Pomerania.
Some shops were wrecked. The mobs were
dispersed by the police.
TIE National Catholic Total Absti-
nence Union has been in session at Boston.
Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, was elect
ed President Of the Union, but declining,
the Rev. j. B. Cotter, of Minnesota, was
chosen.
NATHAN 0. GREENFIELD, six times
sentenced forimurder of his wife, in 1875, was
hanged at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 9TH.
FOREST fires have swept the country
north of Bay City, Mich, destroying farm
buildings, fences, and much standing tim
Der. Trains on the Michigan Central Rail-
way were delayed by clouds OF smoke and
ashes.
A LETTER threatening the Gar with
death was found on table in his bedroom,
supposed to be thoroughly guarded and to
which access can be had only by the most
thoroughly trusted of his attendants. The
OmCcr ON SuaTu anu 1OuT Servants u tuo
palace have been arrested.
THREE daughters of D. o. Barley, q
farmer living near Sherman, Texas, aged
respectively seven, nine and eleven years,
playing beside stack of new mown hay,
we're struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
JAY GOULD has purchased an interest
in the National Stock-yar at East St.
Louis.
AT Petersburg, Va, John w. Green,
commission merchant, and w. T. Lee, of
Littleton, N. c., used knife and pistol upon
each other with fatal results. The quarrel
grew out of a refusal to drink on the part Of
the latter.
HARTMANN, the self-confessed Mill
list, recently arrived in New York, has
taken hasty departure for Canada, owing,
as claimed, to fear Of being extradited.
THE President had slight drawback
on the 7th, as indicated by an increased
pulse and higher bodily temperature. The
attending physicians protested to feel no
anxiety, however, as to the patients condi-
ton.
Two suspicious vessels, the Diogenes
and the Socrates, have been seized by the
German Government at Kiel. They are va
riously reported as being designed for the
American Fenians, the Russian Nihilists, or
for the slave trade.
A SECRET conclave of prominent
Irishmen has recently been in session at
Chicago. There are various and contradic-
tory rumors regarding the object Of the
meeting and the results arrived at.
CEOPcE AInESCuJEN of Washinu
ton County, Ore, in a fit of rage shot his
daughter, inflicting painful though moi
dangerous wound, but thinking he had
killed her he fled to the woods and commit
ted suicide.
DISPATCH from Pine Ridge Agency,
Neb., says that Crow Dog, Captain Of Police
at Rosebud Agency, shot and instantly killed
Spotted Tail the other day. There had been
an i'll feeling between them for some time.
Crow Dog went to Fort Niobrara to remain
until further developments. Trouble is an
ticipated.
A GROUP of twenty men were stand
ing close to the house of j. H. Clyburn,
near Huntsville, S. c., the other day,when q
stroke Of lightning killed four and wounded
ten of the number, five of whom were not
expected to survive. There was no storm
at the time, though heavy rain fell shortly
after.
AT Oroville, Cal, on the 18th, J. T.
Noakes was taken from jail by a body of
masked and armed men and conveyed a
short distance from town and hanged to a
tree. Noakes murdered an old man named
A. J. Crumat at Chico, recently, by kicking
him to death.
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