Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-09
Personal AND GENERAL.

stairs for the purpose Of sliding down, when
he lost his balances and went crashing head
long to the bottom, his head striking the
post at the foot Of the stairs. Nearly every
bone in his body was fractured.
COMMODORE MUTT is dead.
E. L. SAGE and Fl. r. Lott, Jr., of
Floyd, La, had difficulty which ended in
the death Of the latter. j. T. Lott, q brother
OF the murdered man, took part Immediately
after the shooting, and received probably
fatal wounds.
IT is announced that Mr.. Morgan,
Minister to Mexico, is to be retained in his
present position, at least until next winter.
AT Pittsburgh, on the Goth, Mrs.
Egler attempted to start fire with kero-
sence, when an explosion followed, her
clothes were ignited and then the dwelling,
which was burned to the ground. The hus-
band of the unfortunate lady, who set about
saving his children, was badly burned about
the face and hands. He forgot one child,
whose charred remains were subsequently
found t4 ?
THE Arkansas Democratic State Ex-
ecutive Committee have issued an address to
the people of the State setting forth the
the party on the question of the States in
debtedness. The address urges harmony in
the party and q united front In the next
compaign; that the debt question shall
not be made test Of party fealty; and rec.
ommends that q constitutional amendment
be submitted by the next Legislature to the
people declaring what part OF the debt shall
or shall not be paid.
A GANG of desperadoes, armed and
disguised, pillaged the store of J. A. Tai
bolt, at Mountain Home, Baxter County,
Ark, the other night, securing large
amount of money from the safe, which they
forced open, besides many valuable goods.
They then set fire to the premises, which
communicated to some powder stored in the
basement, the explosion of which COM
pletely demolished the building. The rob-
beers escaped.
THE graves of the Confederate dead
at Richmond were decorated on the
Goth. Business was generally suspended.
Visiting communicates of Knights Templar
from Boston and Providence deposited
wreaths of flowers and evergreens upon the
Stonewall Jackson monument.
The barn of Andrew Sears, near
West Jefferson, Madison County, O., burned
on the Goth, and four small children of the
owner persisted in the flames. They had
been playing in the barn and it is supposed
they set it on fire.
The speedy construction of the Ar
kansas extension of the Texas & st. Louis
Narrow-gauge Railroad, from Texarkana to
Cairo, Ill.,, is said to be a fixed fact.
ONE hundred and eighty bodies of
victims of the London (Ont.) disaster had
been recovered and buried up to midnight
of the 26th.
The house, barn, corn-crib and all
the grain and hay belonging to John Smith,
vanceburg, KY, who was driven from home
by the regulators recently, were burned ON
the 25th.
THE cities of Galveston, Houston, Aus
tin, Waco, Dallas, Sherman. Dennison, Fort
Worth and San Antonio, Texas, are to be
connected by telephone.
Mrs. WILLIAM HARDGRAvEs, of Har-
mony, Ark, tried the experiment of kindling
her kitchen fire with powder. The bottle
containing it suddenly exploded, killing her
almost instantly.
CAPT. A. j. FRITZ, well-known To-
cal politician and sporting man Of San Fran
cisco, hanged himself on account of tenn
porary financial reverses.
A CARGO of $4,000 bushels wheat
2sth, billed direct to Liverpool, via Glasgow,
Scotland. The contract rate is % cents a
bushel. The grain will be thoroughly re-
inspected upon its transshipment at New
Orleans. Much interest is felt in the sue
cess of this experiment, which if successful
will probably lead to the establishment of an
immense direct trade between the grain GEN.
tiers Of the Upper Mississippi and the Old
World.
JAMES WEsTAURER'sy young daughter,
aged 16, living at Markesan, Wis, poisoned
herself with strychnine, because her father
had forbidden the house to her lover, Daniel
S. Murray, aged IS. The latter, learning Of
the girls death, committed suicide in a SIM
liar manner.
A TELEGRAM from St. John, N. B.,
says Eli Martin, Napoleon Martin and James
Bouchard, breaking jam of logs on Fish
River, were carried over the falls and
drowned.
MORMON missionaries who have been
trying to make proselytes in Germany are to
De eXpelteu.
PRINCE MILAN will probably be
crowned King of Servia, in accordance with
the agreement with Austria.
HENRY GRAFT, German, went into
Chicago saloon and drank pint of whisky.
He then closed wager with the barkeeper
that he could drink quart of whisky before
leaving the bar. He accomplished this feat
in few minutes, but upon turning round
to walk out, fell dead.
The Executive orders recommended
by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
have been signed by the President, trans
ferring the Indian Territory from the Fifth
Collection District of Missouri to that of
Kansas, and remodeling the three collection
districts of Texas SO as to conform to the
judicial districts.
THE Frankturter Zeitung has again
been prosecuted for disrespect to Bismarck,
and its editor sentenced to one months Inn
prisoument.
A DENVER & Rio Grande freight train,
suddenly rounding . curve near Granite,
Colo, crashed into the caboose Of con-
struction train, containing twenty men, KILL