Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

public official are absolutely and unquali-
fedly false"
FRENCH troops have occupied Tabar-
ca, and the Tunisian garrison left before the
French force landed.
DERvIsCH PAsCHA, with 10000 Tur-
ish troops, attacked and defeated the Al
banians near Uskup.
AN Indianapolis coffin factory was
burned on the 4th.
SHAMOKIN, Pa, has had $4,000
fire.
NEAR Ozier, N. NJ, on the 22d, pas
senger coach on the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment, 100 feet. Mrs. C.
Dectodedat, James Lynch, D. G. Brewer, G.
Hall, L. Isaacs, d. G. Wilson, d. G. Shoeles
and one unknown were killed. George In
man, George r. Page, D. r. Brewer, N.
j. Brewer and several others were wounded.
TIE residence of S. Ball, Mayor of
Salinas, CAL, was burned the other night.
Mrs. Ball and two children were suffocated.
A DAUGHTER of John Haley lost her
life by the upsetting of a boat at Charlestown,
w. Va. She was attending funeral at the
time.
JOHN GUYMPHER, a Hungarian who
had been asleep for some three weeks at the
Allentown, Pa, Poor house, jumped out of
q window the moment he awoke, falling %
feet, and will probably die from his injuries.
A TWELvE-YEAR-OLD son of HI. D.
Root, Of Reading, o., hanged himself with
halter because his father threatened pun
ishment if he persisted in playing with an
old musket.
B. w. HExr and John Conner, re-
spectacle citizens of Miller, Ga, quarreled
about five cents, the latter receiving death
wound from his antagonists revolver.
AT Boston, Mass, on the Esd, James
Tracy was arrested for infiicting wounds up
on Mrs. Elizabeth Pape from which she died
soon after.
THE town of Greenville, Plumas
County, CAL, burned on the 23d.
SMALLPOX is epidemic both in the
Sandwich Islands and China.
AT Bartwell, N. c., Henry Hill, col
ored, was hanged for numbering Thomas
Shelton, the Jailer of Hart County. Andrew
Pell, also colored, was hanged on the 22d, at
Monticello, Fla. for the murder of j. Fl.
Whitaker in December last.
VIM. M. GREENLEAF, a grandson of
the President of the Franklin Insurance
Company, was arrested at Denver, Colo,
on charge of forgery.
A STAGE bound for Ell Paso, Texas,
was stopped and robbed, sixty miles west of
San Antonio, recently. The two robbers Sc
cured Is cents.
THE executioner Troploff received 100
lashes for mismanagement in the hanging of
the Nihilist, Michaeloff, whose rope broke
twice.
WILLIE TAYLOR, twelve-year-old
son of John A. Taylor, of Warsaw, KY,
while sliding down the bahister railing of
an outside stairway fell to the ground, a dis
lance of twenty feet, sustaining injuries
about the head from which he can not re-
cover.
FOUR persons, formerly domestic SER
wants in the Imperial Palace at Constanti-
nople, have been arrested, charged with the
assassination of the late Sultan, Abdul Aziz.
A PRAIRIE fire threatens property at
Fort Omaha, and the garrison has been called
out to check its progress.
THE somewhat improbable story
comes from Panama that the Treasurer Of
De Lesseps' Canal Company has absconded
with $6,O0O,000 in gold belonging to the
company. 1t was at first reported he had
committed suicide, but the truth is now said
to be admitted.
The police of St. Petersburg continue
to seize printing presses used for seditious
purposes and arrest the workmen.
Four companies of the Fourth Cavalry
have been ordered from Fort Riley to the
Ute region.
MRS. THOMPSON, wife of ex.Repre-
sentative j. D. Thompson, Of Lewis County,
KY, was drowned while crossing a creek in
q small boat with her husband.
A TwELvE-YEAR-OLD daughter of
Daniel Spicer, living nine miles north of
Newark, O., was burned to death by her
clothing taking fire from burning brush
heap.
AT Marshalltown, Iowa, on the oath,
young and pretty Bohemian girl, Mary
Brooks, was shot through the heart by her
sweetheart, James Oderback, while she was
drawing water from well. They were on
good terms, and no cause for the act is
known. He was arrested.
j. w. ROBB, a prominent lawyer of
Astoria, Ore, was shot dead in his office on
the 26th. The murderer is believed to be j.
G. Robson, with whom Robb had some
legal difficulty.
THE steamer City of Austin, of the
Mallory Line, was wrecked on Pelican Shoals,
a mile inside Fernandina bar, Florida, on the
26th, and is total loss. Boat and cargo both
well insured.
LEVI HECHT & Co., merchants, Po-
eahontas, Ark, have failed; liabilities,
100000.
ADvICEs from Panama state that the
town of Buena Ventura was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss 81 100000. Three
persons were burned to death. Fifteen
thousand people are homeless.
JAMES T. FIELDS, the well known
publisher and author, died suddenly at his
home in Boston on the 9th. He was born
at Portsmouth, n. H., Dec. 81, 1920.
A NUMBER Of persons, mostly en-
ployees, were seriously injured by the burn
ing of box factory at Greenpoint, n. Y.
AN Omaha dispatch of the goth saws: