Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-06
THE boilers in Dodge & Co.'s shoe

THE boilers in Dodge & Co.'s shoe
factory at Newburyport, Mass, exploded at
noon on the 9th, killing instantly John Har
rington, engineer, and John III. Basley, fire.
man, and fatally injuring John Teel and Os.
car Satkins, all of whom were in the
boiler-room at the time OF the explo-
sion. The disaster occurred, fortunately.
during the dinner hour, or the loss Of
life among the 500 operatives must have been
fearful to contemplate, as the boiler-house
was blown to atoms and the debris scattered
in all directions, while one Of the boilers was
landed 200 yards away, crushing everything
in its path. The cause Of the explosion is
not known, as the boilers are said to have
been nearly new and of the best quality.
A MOVEMENT is making in Northern
Dakota to have the Territory divided into
two parts.
RAILWAY employees in Great Britain
have begun a movement for a reduction Of
working hours.
A COLLISION of trains on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad occurred on the morning
Of the 26th at the State line, sixty three miles
from Mobile, causing the death of both en-
gineers and firemcn and the injury Of several
other employees as well as passengers. The
names of the killed are Savage, Heuchey and
Moody, one not being given.
The steamer City of Peking from
China brings an account of the burning of a
theater in Nomhoitner, Province of Yuchun,
on the afternoon of December IL. Some
1900 spectators were in the theater at the
time, and great panic ensued. There was
wild rush for the doors, and many were
mangled and killed by being trodden on.
Several hundred were burned to death,
among whom were number of actors.
JACOB GOGLE and wife, residing four
miles from Bethlehem, Pa, on the morning
of the 9th were found dead in bed, their
heads nearly severed from their bodies. A
bloody AK was found in the apartment and
the walls were splashed with blood. Joseph
Snyder, q miner, who boarded with the
Goggles, was believed to be the murderer.
He was caught by an Infatuated mob soon
after the discovery of the crime, forced to
confess his guilt, and hanged to the nearest
tree. The Goggles leave three children.
PHILIP WHIsNANT, Charles Sellers,
and three colored men, riding in caboose
on the Airline Railroad, North Corolina,
were killed by collision, nine miles from
Charlotte, on the Goth.
The lawyers of Missouri met in State
Convention at Kansas City, on the 2Sth, for
the purpose OF suggesting some remedy for
relieving the Supreme Court of the present
overplus of business.
The annual session of the Western
Commercial Travellers Association was held
at st. Louis on the 2Sth.
AT Martha's Vineyard, Mass, the
wife of Edwin S. Baker went to the rescue
of her son, who had broken through the ice
on pond, and both were drowned.
The recent nominations by President
Hayes of Mr.. Daniels for Collector at Buffalo
and MIR. Haskell for Postmaster at Albany,
n. Y, both strong anti-Conkling men, are
creating no little talk in political circles, es-
pecially in connection with the rumor, which
it by no means verified, however, that both
appointments were made with the concur
renee of President elect Garfield.
THE dead body of a negro, in fair
state of preservation, was found in a hogs
head of molasses recently opened at Ok
bridge, Mass. He is supposed to have been
murdered and the body thus disposed of to
conceal the evidence of the crime. Steps
will be taken to ferret out the mystery.
N. B. HARDWOOD, the well-known St.
Paul dry-goods merchant, who recently
went into bankruptcy, has absconded. His
creditors are generally of the opinion that
his failure was swindle. His assets will
not pay over % cents on the dollar.
JUDGE PERCY WALKER, ex-Repre-
sentative in Congress from Alabama, is dead.
JOHN J. MECHI, the well-known En-
glish agriculturist, is dead.