Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-04

THE Perryville (Ark.) vendetta has
broken out afresh, the latest victim being
Mr.. Matthews, editor of the Perryville
Times, who was shot while standing in front
of his Office on the evening Of the 21st, six
teen buckshot entering his side.
Col. VIM. MILNER ROGERS, q noted
American civil engineer, died recently at
Rio Janeiro, where he held the position OF
Chief Engineer Of Public Works under Dom
Pedro, at salary Of $4,000.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, has re-
Gently undergone at Philadelphia surgi-
cal operation for a dangerous disease OF the
mouth known as epithelioma. The surgeons
say the operation was entirely successful
and the patient is in fair way of speedy re-
covery.
AT Arkansas City, Ark, on the 21st,
Robert Costello settled quarrel with q
neighbor named Gathering by shooting him
while he was blowing field, the ball pass
ing through his victim and killing horse
two rods distant. Costello was held to await
the result of the wound.
AT Fall River, Mass, Andrew john
son, John Howard and Joseph Yates, all
boys, were drowned while bathing. An H.
year-old son of M. 81. Gushing met the
same fate at Middleboro.
ANToNITo, Colo, has been infested
for several months with gang OF robbers,
who have held up and robbed all the stran-
gers coming into town. The gang has been
broken up by the hanging of the principal,
George C. O'Connor, who, in his capacity OF
Justice of the Peace, shielded them and had
citizens arrested and fined without the least
provocation. On the 22d O'Connor rode
through town on horseback, with Win
chester rifle and two revolvers, threatening
everybody. A Vigilance Committee caught
him in his saloon and hung him in an old
slaughter house.
SECRETARY WINDOW has telegraphed
Sherman o. Houghton, San Jose, CAL, and
Congressman Thos. L. Young, Ohio, now on
the Pacific Coast, requesting them to act
with ex-Secretary Ramsey in examining the
charges preferred against Superintendent
Dodge of the San Francisco Mint.
WESTERN Wisconsin has been nearly
Inundated by q terrific rainstorm that occur
red on the 21st. In Coon Valley, Vernon
County, woman and six children, named
Jansen, were drowned, and young lady in
Pine Creek Valley met similar fate. Bridges
and mill-danns were swept away and much
farming property destroyed
ADAM HARTRANFT, a Russian Nihilist,
who was engaged in the Winter Palace plot,
BY which ten men were killed and many
wounded, has arrived in New York. His
mission to this country is to raise funds to
carry on the plans of the Nihilists at home.
Two men, Rhodes and Crowder, were
killed near, their homes in Volusia County,
Fla, the other day. Supposed to have been
lynched by personal enemies.
IT is believed that the Egyptian cot
ton crop this year will be fully equal to that
Of last year, when the crop was excellent.
In one province the destructive cotton-worm
has appeared, but its ravages will be limited
| to that province.
A FORT WORTH dispatch says there
was a wreck on the Texas Pacific road at the
edge of the sand hills. "A tool car jumped
the track with about sixty men aboard.
Three were killed and ten wounded.
AT Paducah, KY, on the oath, Levi
Bolden, negro convict, killed afellow-pris-
oner named Stewart and was slain by guard
whom he also attacked.
AN engineer of a steamer plying be-
tween New York and Havana, named Read,
| is charged with having roasted VIM. Kra-
nisch, a fireman, to death.
Mrs. MOLLIE HURT, widow forty
two years of~age, and mother of four boys,
eight to fifteen years old, keeping toll
house on the Franklin and Greenwood road,
half mile south Of Greenwood, Ind, shot
and killed tramp who demanded money at
midnight. ........-s
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