Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-12-28
PEP 4SONAL AND GENERAL.

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Road in Terre Haute, Ind, the other morn
ing, were found two mail pouches contain
ing matter destined from New York for
Colorado. The letters had been cut open
and put back in the bags.
THE British bark Langrigg Hall
struck on the Turkar Rock, off the coast of
Wexford, Eng, recently. Twenty-fo Of
the crew were drowned and only two saved.
The British ship Glad Tidings, Calcutta to
Falmouth, went ashore at FrawIe Point.
She caught fire afterward and was totally
destroyed. Two drowned.
The old State Capitol building at
Lansing, Mich, was completely destroyed
by fire few afternoons ago. It:was large
frame structure, two stories, with attic,
and was built n 1s47. ----
THE other morning a pouch at the
Pcst-office at Detroit, containing mail MAJ
ter for the East suddenly burst into f1araes
frem spontaneous combustion and was de
stroyed.
By the blowing out of the crown-sheet
ef an engine on the Cumberland and Penn
sylvania Railroad recently two men were
scalded to death and another was not ex-
pected to live. rtr t.r. 81 ..E-
oohN h1lttu Ills VILE a0u
then put pistol to his own temple and
blew out his brains at Baltimore, Md, a
few days ago, making the eighth suicide in
that city within ten days. III
DENNIS SULLIVAN and John Leary
were fatally injured, Edward Gilroy had
thigh fractured, Conductor Monahan re-
ceived conclusions on the head and an
Italian was dangerously injured by colis-
ion on the New York & New England
Railroad near Waterbury, Conn.,, the other
dav. s -t=- s4 .r. -..f 80 '-sla
The Lackawanna and the Alaska are
the two ships that will probably be selected
to visit Honolulu in February next, on the
occasion of the coronation of the King.
THE epizootic broke out in the stables
of the Camden, Pa, Transfer company the
other day.
HAMPTON COURT, palace fifteen
miles from London, Eng, took fire the |
other morning. Two rooms above the pic |
ture gallery were burned, the damage by |
fire and water being f30, 900.
In Boston the officers of Bellevue |
Medical College were arraigned for using
the mails for fraudulent purposes recently. |
1t was decided that the institution had |
Of Massachusetts, and the defendants were
discharged.
THE first snow storm of the season
1t Louisville fell on the nth.
HON. CLINTON BRIGGS, for over
twenty years prominent lawyer and states
nan in Nebraska, and a resident of Omaha,
vas killed the other morning by falling off
. train at Alton, Iowa.
On account of insufficient evidence
Igainst them 500 Egyptians, charged with
ncendlarism and massacre at Alexandria, |
we're released the other day.
By collision on the Pittsburgh, Gin
.innati & st. Louis Road near Kings Sta
ion, thirty miles from Cincinnati, O.,
ew days ago, Engineer Peters and Postal
Jerks Wharton, Hollingsworth and Goebel +
we're killed. An elephant belonging to a
heatrical troupe was also killed. +.
The Hematite Iron Company of
daryport, Eng. failed recently. Liabilities,
.200, 900.
In New York few days ago George I
/. Rice. ex-President of the Utica. Ithaca !
!, Elmira Railroad, was bailed in S25, COO to I
tand trial on charge of hypothecating :
worth OF the company's bonds and 8
toShS nave D66u C3DcPleu.
A FIRE in the Barton block at Mime
polls, Mimi, a few days ago DESTROYED
roperty valued at $4,000; insurance, So
70. .,..-. -f .iE :.
THERE was great fire in Canton,
hina, recently. Eight hundred houses
ere destroyed and many lives were lost,
lcluding firemen burned to DEATH The
iceroy visited the scene with body of
,ldiers to prevent robberies, and a fierce
ght ensued between thieves and citizens. a
wo fires in Foo Chow consumed about 200
buses each. Five lives were lost.
SOUTHERN matrimonial associations
the number of 30 were placed on the
ack list Of the Post-office Department the q
her day.
The other day fire causing the death l,
nine persons occurred in the town of 81
epury, France.
THE fancy-goods firms of DAWSON, O.
all & Co., of San Francisco, and DAWSON. q
riffin & Co., of New York, were forced to II
spend the other day through losses by one
the firm in stock speculations. The liza c
lities were said to be nearly 100000. H tt
In consequence of an outbreak of b
phoid fever boarders at the Ursuline Con- W
Mt .Ouebec ,vere cont homo rooo,,I, c.
HLs SuCpCCs WSic ScHt uOH1e recently.
In New York City the other day a
spute about paving seventy-five cents for u
er led to a fight in saloon which re- at
lied in Martin Hesse stabbing Frederick ti
,ehterman to death. III
DODGE & SINCLAIR, India rubber oS
DDS, failed recently in New York. Lii -
llities S15o,47S; nominal assets $167, 160;
ual assets S44, $50. OF
AT Corsicana, Tex, few days ago, pr
destroyed an entire business block. ~
zen brick houses and /, 200 bales of cotton 81 81
re consumed. Partly insured. The fire en
$ believed to have been inceudiary.
II was stated that the liabilities of the en-
coma Wooden Mill Company at Hamp- ~.
j, Mass, were from $50, 900 to 500, 900. e'
The fugitive Secretary of the Brook n,
/, n. Y, Board Of Education, Stewart, 90,
S recently shown by expert accountants ~
be a defaulter to the amount of $3.50, 900.
4 FEW days ago John Spalding, City
Ill :