Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
"A SERIOUS horse distemper prevails
| In New York City.
| THE remains of DIR. Kourden Harenz-
burg, AN Indianapolis physician, were
cremated at theL Moyne Crematory at Wash
| ington, Pa. , on the 10Th. This was the tenth
cremation there and excited no local inter-
1 estwhatever. & 20
/ Mr.. HARTMANN sends. to asParis
4 paper deplorabIe account of the famine in
Russia. In the villages, as he relates. peo-
pie die of hunger every day and men rob
and pillage for the sole object of being i'm
1 INJURED in prison, where at least they are fed
/ at the expense of the State. In the extreme
East bands of Kerghis and Kalmucks attack
the towns and villages with impunity, and
massacre the inhabitants in order to obtain
! their provisions. The -Baskers. sell their
children for small quantities Of four and
the Kalmucks dig up the bones of the horses
that died last year OF the plague and grind
| them into cakes. Villages are entirely de-
| serted, and men have fled to the cities or to
Siberia, abandoning to their frightful fate
the old men and nurslings. ~
THE wife and infant child of VIM. A.
Crandall, of Millbank, Mimi, were recently
found frozen to death near their home, from
which the wife was driven two days before
by her brutal husband. There were marks
OF violence on her person, showing the most
outrageous treatment, if not actual murder.
Mrs. Crandall is said to have been a most
estimable and affectionate woman.
| The boiler in Perkins, Randolph &
Co.'s saw-mill, at Poplar Bluff, Mo-. ex-
ploded on the 10Th. The fireman, named
Campbell, is probably fatally injured. The
cause of the accident is not known.
A FIRE at Silver Cliff, Colo, on the
Goth, destroyed about a dozen business
buildings, valued with contents at about
$4,000.
A FIRE at Warsaw, Mo-, on the night
of the 18th, destroyed the Times office, to-
gether with the bookstore attached, Roll's
Edrug-store, Clark's dry-goods store and
Lees grocery and butcher shop. The Times
Office was uninsured-loss about 50 600.
Other losses are nearly covered by insur-
ance.
ROBERT WOLF shot and killed Alfred
| Cart at GAINESVILLE, W. Va, for having
grievously wronged his daughter.
A FIRE at Monroe, La, destroyed the
steamer Fair Play and the wharfboat Katie,
| together with l.. 800 bales of cotton and lot
of general merchandise. Eddie Hancock, a
printer, was burned to death on the Fair
Play. Others escaped without clothing or
| baggage. Loss about $50, 900; insurance,
$4,000. Incendiarism is suspected.
L. D. GREEN was instantly killed at
Sunbury. o., by being struck by piece of
a circular saw which broke while running at
high rate of speed, penetrating to- his
heart.
AT Ash Grove, Shelby County, ILL.,,
Mrs. Nancy l. Forbes fell into an open fire.
place, holding her infant child in her arms.
The child was burned to death, and the
mother was very painfully burned about the
head and face. With her clothing nearly
burned off, Mrs. Forbes ran a quarter of a
mile to her fathers house, where she died
in great agony.
DROz, previously Vice-President, has
been elected President of the Swiss Confed-
Grafton in the place of Anderwert, deceased.
THE steamer j. M. Kerr, heavily
laden with cotton, sank 50 miles below
Natchez. No lives lost.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at
Stoddart's Agricultural works in Dayton,
O. Several workmen were carrying large
ladle containing 300 pounds of molten iron
on truck, when it upset in some water,
causing terrible explosion. The workmen
were frightfully burned, and threw them
selves into the water in the street gutter to
relieve their suffering. One of them will
die, and the recovery of the others is doubt
full. 5
A LARGE tract Of land has been pur-
chased in Eastern Kentucky for Swiss
colony. The advance guard of immigrants
have arrived in Frankfort, but the greater
number will make their appearance in
April. v
A BILL to fix the charges for railway
transportation is before the Legislature of
Arkansas. 1t divides the roads into three
classes, and makes the rate for passengers
three to eight cents per mile, the Iron Noun
tain coming under the lower classification.
IT is understood that negotiations
have begun between General Colley and the
Beers, and it is expected truce will soon
be arranged.
ALBERT BRUNEI, aged 10, died of
hydrophobia at New Orleans on the Goth,
having been bitten by a dog six weeks pre-
viously.
WOMEN and children will not be ex-
empt from the operation of the Irish Coer-
cion act, motion exempting them having
been rejected in the House of Commons by a
vote of $50 to 40.
The formal presentation OF the Egyp-
tian obelisk erected in Central Park to the
City of New York took place on the ed.
THE boiler in F. W.. Meyers soap
factory at Louisville, KY, exploded on the
ed, killing Meyer and injuring his son
William.
THE National Association of the Veter-
ans of the Mexican War met at Louisville,
KY, on the 22d, about two hundred being
present.
MR.. A. S. MITCHELL, an old news
paper man, formerly Of St. Louis, died at
Hot Springs, Ark, on the 23d, Of pneu-
monia.
Mrs. JULIUS CLEMENS, of Northamp-
ton, Mass. victim of hereditary insanity,
rose from her bed in the night, went to the
barn, saturated her clothing with kerosene,
and, lighting match, burned herself to q