Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-21

injured by the falling of a new roof they
were putting on a meeting house.
DISPATCHES to TuniS say the French
commenced Smelling Sfax on the 9th inst
| and the fire was returned from the town,
PROF. G. V. RILEY has been appoint.
ed Entomologist Of the Agricultural Bureau
by Commissioner Lorng, in the place of j.
II. Comstock, resigned.
THE creditors of Mrs. Howe's Won
ans Bank at Boston will receive five cents on
the dollar.
| LIGHTNING struck barn near Deca-
tur, Ala, where number of people sought
refuge. Four were killed outright and eight
seriously injured.
LEROY, who murdered Gould on an
English railway and threw his body out OF
| the window, has been arrested and has con-
fessed.
| Mrs. PRETEBARD, of Asbury Park,
N. j., committed suicide the other day, it is
said in consequence of mental anxiety for
| President Garfield's condition.
A DAUGHTER of Ma jor-General Fyres,
Of England, recently fell overheard at
Hyenes, France. Her mother and two SIS
tiers sought to rescue her, and all four were
drowned.
THREE Montreal strikers were
wounded by the police, who were obliged to
use pistols in dispensing a mob.
SAMUEL TRIvIAs was hanged in AL
exandria, Rapides Parish, La, on the Sth,
for the murder of A. j. Hanna.
POSTMASTER G. E. Carman, at Lyons,
Mich, accidentally shot and killed his a.
year. old son the other night. The boy had
wandered out on the roof in a fit of somnam-
bulism and his father mstook him for bur-
glar.
The large feeding barns of j. Ter
minch, near Buffalo, N. Y, containing about
800 cattle, burned on the sth. Nearly one
half the stock persisted.
THE British bark Beatrice, Captain
Stewart, for Rouen, with OIL was struck by
lightning while off Reedy Island. The fluid
ran down the mast into the hold and fired
the cargo. An explosion followed and the
main hatch was blown into the river, carry
ing sailor with it, who was drowned. The
captain, steward, mate, and two sailors were
injured by the flying timbers. The vessel
burned TO the waters edge.
AN erroneous statement has been pub
lished that Judge Sherman, the Republican
nominee for Governor of Iowa, is brother
of General and Senator Sherman. They are
no relation.
A SINGULAR case of piracy has been
discovered in Saigon (French Cochin China).
A native vessel driven ashore in stress of
weaih her was searched for contraband opium.
In the hold, concealed, We're about fifty fe-
male children, whom investigation proved
to be for sale.
EX-SENATOR HITCHCOCK, of Nebras-
ka, is dead, aged so.
THE track of the Kentucky Central
Railroad has been changed to conform to the
standard Northern gauge.
THOMAS HARPER, a cowboy, was
hanged on the 9th, at Tucson, Arizona, for
the murder of John Talleday in last Sep
TENDER. His demeanor on the scaffold was
cool and jaunty. He made no confession,
but left letter to "CurIey BILL" we'll |
known desperate, admonishing him to take |
warning from him and not to be too ready |
with his pistol and to "stand heap from a |
man before you. kill him.
A TERRIBLE accident happened on |
The East st. Louis & Carondelet Railroad, |
opposite Cahokia, on the 10th. in which one |
nan and a boy were Instantly killed and six
men more or less scalded or bruised, several
# them badly and with broken limbs.
THE Signal-service thermometer
marked 104 degrees at st. Louis on Sunday,
he 10th, which was the hottest day, with
perhaps a single exception (July 81, 1867,
nce 1886. There We're over thirty cases of
unstroke recorded, twelve OF them fatal.