Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-12

"A little J-year-Old daughter attempted to
seize the razor and was badly cut.
Two well-to-do merchants committed
| suicide the other day-John w. Minturn, of
New York, and Henry w. Mead, of Chicago.
GRANTS reception in Mexico was at
| tended by the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Con-
gress, Diplomatic Corps, and an immense
throng.
A BOY named Farrell was dangerously
| wounded in Dublin, for giving information
which led to the discovery of arms. The
crime is supposed to be the work of Fenians.
The city has been proclaimed under the
| arms act. John Dillon, home rule member
of Parliament for Tipperary, it is said, will
| be arrested.
THERE are 1,014 cases of smallpox
in the London (Eng.) Hospital. The cpl
demic has much increased in violence lately.
About 10 per cent of the cases prove fatal.
| During fortnight 1873 persons died in the
| hospital from the disease.
A MESSENGER from Itarem, Chief of
| Tanurego of Hoggar, Algiers, has been ar
| rested with letter from Itarem to the Sui
tan of Turkey announcing the massacre Of
| Col. Flatter's expedition and asking the
Sultan for a reward.
DAVID REEsE's house at New Provi-
| dence, Pa, burned on the morning of the
| I'd. While endeavoring to save some of their
| household goods the roof fell in, burying
Reese and his son in the ruins, and both were
| burned to death. Mrs. Reese was also badly
| injured.
j. w. AVERY & Co., wholesale grocers,
of Memphis, Tenn, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities, SCI 900; assets nominaily
| $4,000. II. How is named as assignee.
The creditors are principally merchants of
Memphis.
The journeymen bakers of New York
| and Brooklyn are on a strike.
JOHN HAHN committed suicide at
Spades Depot, Ripley County, Ind. by
throwing himself into burning brush-heap.
Intemperance and family troubles had rem
| dered him desperate.
JOHN F. GALE, a telegraph operator,
| drowned himself in the lake at Milwaukee.
FIVE children of Fritz Nebin, farmer
| of Hayward, CAL, were returning from a
| picnic, when in crossing the railroad track
their wagon was struck by the locomotive of
| an express train and completely demolished.
Three of the children were killed outright
and the other two died within ten minutes.
The eldest was IS years of age, the young
| est Z.
REPORTS of the death of the King of
Abyssinia are now said to be unfounded.
THE switchmen employed upon the
various railroads centering in Chicago en-
! tered upon strike on the I'd, their demand
| being for a general advance of wages to $500
| and So. 70 per day.
M. SHILLING and j. Epstein, two
merchants of Palestine, Texas, were drowned
| in Clear Lake by the capsizing of their boat
while fishing.
A TURKISH victory over the Alban-
ians at Prisrend is reported. The aggregate
losses in killed and wounded are placed ut
| 1900.
JOHN H. FINK, q retired New York
| flour merchant, committed suicide by hang
| ing to the brake of freight car on the Hud-
son River Road.
AN engine and tender on the Mount
Clair & Greenwood Lake Railroad crashed
through the trestle work at Ringwood, N.
j., on the LIST. Engineer Skully and fireman
Masker were killed.
SIXTY THOUSAND emigrants arrived
at New York during April.
GEN. JOHN PRESTON, of Columbia, 8.
c., is dead.
CoLoRow, the Ute Chief, and seventy
five lodges Of the red men were recently en-
camped within three miles of the military
post on the White River, and it looks as if
they meant to be troublesome.
PROF. LEWIS SMITH, of Rochester, has
discovered a new comet. 1t is located in the
constellation Andromeda.
Both the east and west bound stages
were robbed by highwaymen near Sabina,
Tex, on the night of the Goth. Net result
| small.
JOHN W. McCLUNY, one of the
Judges of johnson County, No., was struck
by lightning and killed near Warrensburg,
on the LIST. He was well known and highly
respected.
A SAD accident occurred at Greneda,
Miss, the other day. Capt. Fowler, drug
gist, was charging soda fountain, when the
generator exploded, fatally injuring DIR.
Ray, the leading physician of the city, who
died two hours afterward. Capt. Fowler's
injuries, it is thought, will also prove fatal.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has received
an autograph letter from President Grevy,
announcing that the French Republic will
officially participate in the coming centen-
NAL anniversary of the Battle of Yorktown.
FRANK HAZEL, conductor on the
Flint & Pere Marquette Road, was run over
by his own train at Farwell, fifty five miles
west of East Saginaw, Mich, and instantly
killed. He was twenty eight years old and
leaves a young wife.
A MEETING of Oklahoma colonizers
was held at Wichita, Kans., on the Sd.
Capt. Payne was present and announced the
unfavorable result of his trial before the
United States Court at Fort Smith. Resolu-
lions were adopted denouncing the injustice
of the verdict and pledging renewed efforts
to effect a Judgment in the Territory.
THE Executive Committee of the Ar
kansas Democratic State Central Committee
have called a meeting of the entire committee
for the oath Of May, to consider the question
of differences between Democrats in this
State on the debt question.
Two hundred bales of cotton, in tram