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

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
TIE census authorities estimate the
value Of the property Of the United States as
assessed for purposes of taxation, Is some
where in the neighborhood Of $50, 600 900, :
600. Various estimates have been made as
to the true value of the property. Mr.. Por-
ter, chief of the Wealth, Debt and Taxation
Bureau, thinks it nearer $40, OOO, 100000 than
$50, OOO, OOO, 900.
THE hog cholera is making fearful
ravages in Iowa. In one county over 1000
hogs have died within week, and all ef-
forts to check the disease appear fruitless.
One farmer lost over 500 in two weeks, and
all the balance are afflicted. Serious appre-
tensions are felt for Dubuque County's hog
crop.
THIRTY-Two deaths had occurred up
to the Goth as the result of the recent lorna
do at New Ulm, Mimi, and vicinity. Great
restitution exists, which is being relieved by
contributions from nearly all parts of the
country.
THOMAS DEWITT and Legrande En-
sign have been arrested in Philadelphia for
completely in Star-route postal frauds.
Other arrests are to follow.
AT an Indian barbecue held at Green
Leaf, near Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Ma
| ton, at which whisky flowed freely, eight
men were killed or MORALLY wounded.
THERE was general jail delivery at
Ozark, Ark, the other night, by which four
prisoners, on trial for murder, with every
prospect of conviction, were set free. A Jail
guard is said to have unlocked the door
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, Mrs. Victoria
Keough, a well-known lady, went to the
railroad yards in pursuit of truant son,
aged II, who was in the habit of lettering
| about the tracks and stealing rides upon
trains. The boy was caught, but broke
away from his mother, and while the latter
was in close and hot pursuit, an unobserved
switch engine came down upon them and
both were literally decapitated.
NUMBERS of farm laborers in County
Cork, Ireland, have struck for higher wages,
| and are marching through the county, fore
ing others to join in the strike.
A DISPATCH from Quebec says the
Roman Catholic Presbytery at Roxton Falls
burned on the 10th, and Father Larue per-
ished in the flames. A nephew escaped by
leaping from an upper window. Father
Larue had been i'll for some days.
The Universal Life Insurance Com
pany of New York is again in trouble. In
1879 the Company forced its policyholders to
compromise their claims, and now the State
Insurance Department., in view of the ina
bility of the Company to meet the require
wind up the concern.
yho
dered w. Judd Scott, Kingston LA. }
merchant, and then robbed his store, was
taken from the Mansfield Jail and hanged
by mob. He made confession, implicat-
ing four or five other colored men in the
plot, who have been arrested and it was
thought would meet the same fate.
AN independent cable will be laid
from Germany to Valencia, Ireland, and
thence to the United States.
A DEAF MUTE named Seaward has
been arrested in Philadelphia for soliciting
aid to defend Guiteau and commencing his
attack upon the President. !
T. L. BRAYToN, United States Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue, was MUIR
dered by illicit distillers in Pickens County,
s. c., on the Goth.
Teller of the Montreal Bank, Canada, has
been arrested at Santa Fe by a Canadian de-
tective who has been hunting him for some
months. Pelton absconded in April last
with 900 in cash, but it is believed was
himself robbed Of the larger part of his plum
der by woman who accompanied him in his
flight and who subsequently ran off with a
handsomer man.
A REPORTED oil discovery near May
flower, Ark. twenty miles from Little Rock,
is causing great excitement among prospect
ors and spectators.
JOHN WILSON, while in state of
somnambulism, walked out of the second
story window of hotel in Dallas, Texas,
and sustained fatal injuries.
A ROCK slide in the Washington quar-
ry, near Slatington, Pa, resulted in the
death of VIM. Coffin and Charles Erdman.
Mrs. MERKs and Miss Blitz were kill
ed by runaway horses in Jersey City, N. j.
A YACHT containing six young men
| belonging to South Boston, Mass, capsized
in Squantum Gut on the Goth, and all were
| drowned. The bodies were recovered.
THE open cut of the Caledonia mine,
at Terraville, D. T., caved in on the Goth,
burying seven miners VIM. Gill, Daniel
Cameron and Andrew Latson were taken out
| alive. John Costello, James Roach, Pat
Hawkins and l.. III. Hamilton are supposed
| to be killed. ..
AN express train on the Delaware &
Hudson Railway struck a rock, near Dres-
| den, N. Y, on the 21st, three cars leaving
| the track. Charles Carswell, engineer, was
killed, and the fireman and two passengers
were injured.
THE vicinity of Hadlyme, Conn, was
visited by terrible hail and wind storm on
the 2lst, destroying entire crops of corn, to-
baeco and other products.
FIVE miscreants removed a rail on
| the A., T. & s. f. Railroad, near Law
renee, Kans., on the 21st, by which an emf
grant train was thrown from the track and
badly wrecked, but fortunately no one was
injured. 1t is believed the intention was to
ditch the express train from Pueblo, which
was due short time afterward, for the pur-
| pose of robbery.
| In the Cork Assizes the trial of Grim
mol aorariau On seS yas Stunned Mt the rom OCT