Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-17
Personal AND GENERAL.

day, In consequence of u dam trouble. The
Hydraulic Company constructed one which
| the Straw Board Company tore away, claim
ing it was the means of polluting the water
| and damaging its business. The Hydraulic
meh attempted to rebuild, but were driven
OFF by the citizens. The Mayor made a
speech and commanded the mob to disperse,
but the people were determined to resist
the rebuilding of the dam.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN has par
doned Robert C. Pate, Henry Lehndorf and
John CLARION, sentenced by the st. Louis
Criminal Court to six months each in Jail for
establishing lotteries.
w. Fl. YEATS was hanged at Chat
ham, Va. Aug. 4, for the murder of P. E.
Anderson. Two negroes mounted the scat
fold in Florida on the same day-Merrick
jackson, at Fernandina, and Harrison Car.
| ter, at Jacksonville.
AT Indianapolis, the other evening,
/ two colored boys, Charles BLY, and James
| BLY, was struck in the stomach and expired
before medical aid could be secured.
THERE was q fight between rustlers
| and citizens in Phoenix, CAL, the other day.
| Three cowboys were captured. one killed
| and one badly wounded. As the prisoners
were being taken an attempt was made to
| lynch them. Officers came to the rescue and
| removed them to the jail.
NoN-UNIoNIsTs who have taken the
places of strikers In McKeesport, Pa, re-
quire police escort to and from the mills.
| and are subjected to all manner of abuse and
| insult.
Mrs. FORD, Martin johnson, VIM.
| Bosrum, and John Fehrerman were drowned
in South Park Lake, Chicago, Aug. 4. A
| pleasure boat upset.
The pedestrian contest at Boston re-
| suited: Hart, 527 miles; Noremac, sos; Har-
riman, 500; Campana, 800.
Mrs. SUSIE RODGERS, of Kansas City,
Mo-, took fatal dose of poison, Aug. 5.
IT is said that Frank L. Gould, the
young man who died of starvation at Port
land, Me-, a few days ago, went without
| food himself in order that his mother, three
| brothers, and a sister might live. He could
not get enough for all.
JOHN MILLER and John Holmquist
| were burned to death in a flour mill near
North Branch, Mimi, Aug. 6.
JOHN SHEA, laborer living in Ham,
| let, r. l., attempted to butcher his wife
| with a pocket knife the other day, but was
| felled by blow with bed-slat In the hands
| of his twelve-year old son. Mrs. Shea was
cut in four places, once near the heart,
| but she may recover.
FOUR firemen were thrown into the
river and badly hurt while at work on a
burning bridge at Lowell, Mass, on the
| 9Th.
| CHARLES HILGERT, wholesale sugar
dealer at Philadelphia, Pa, has failed for
half million. He had perpetrated for
geries to the extent Of 100000.
a BOY named Huber and colored
girl named Rodgers were killed by lightning
at Kickapoo, Kans., the other day.
A COURT of inquiry has been ordered
| in the case of Colonel Carr, Sixth Cavalry,
In reference to accusations growing out OF
charges of characterization preferred by
General Wilcox, commanding the depart
| ment of Arizona.
AN attempt is being made to induce
the New York 'longshoremen to join the
freight handlers in continuing the present
strike.
THE counsel for the star-routers have
decided to put none of the leading defend
ants on the stand.
WALLACE Ross has challenged Ed
ward Hanlan to a five-mile race for $1,000
side and the championship Of the world.
A PRIZE-FIGHT occurred between ca
diets at West Point, the other day, in which
one OF the principals was knocked out of
time. The successful pugilists and seconds
are under arrest and will be dismissed the
service.
THE striking telegraphers at Denver,
Colo. have received numerous offers of aid
from labor organizations throughout the
country.
Rev. DIR. BLYDEN, President of the
Liberian College, was refused accommoda-
tions at High Bridge, n. Y, resort, because
of his color.
FIVE persons were Frustrated by light
ming near Worcester, VT, on the 9th. Mer-
ton Young, aged IA, died. Charles Young
was seriously injured.
WIN. HALE, aged 35, was tarred and
| feathered and driven out of Tarport, Pa,
the other night, for attempting to outrage a
little girl.
THE steamer Gold Dust was blown to
pieces by boiler explosion, at Hickman,
KY, Aug. Z. Seventeen persons were killed
and some forty or fifty injured.
TEN firemen were injured by falling
| walls in Pittsburgh, Pa, the other morning.
John Green, Charles Little, Robert Kilhon
and Philip Mcguire may not survive.
VIM. PARKE, a laborer, was grossly
insulted by four bad characters as he was
entering his dwelling, in Chicago, on the
9Th. They ordered him to bring down his
daughters, and tried to force their way in,
but Mr.. Parke happened to have pistol in
the house and Frank Thornton got q fatal
bullet in his forehead.
GEORGE WILSON fatally stabbed John
Sheavy, a fellow-convict in the Penitentiary
at Waupun, Wis, Aug. 6. George had
stolen something and John informed the
officers.
CITIZENS of Athens, Texas, have
started on the trail Of band of young men
who have been plundering stores and doing
other mischief.
Miss JULIA LEVI, of Philadelphia,