Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02

grou Gonntg &egistes
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRoNToN. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
The rise in the Mississippi at st. Louis
on the Goth was over IL feet.
The President has refused to enter
tain the charges against Gen. Carr.
THE next reunion of ex-Confederates
of Missouri is to be held at Sedalia, on the
18th of August.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR had thirty seven
guests at his first state dinner. The White
House was radiant with flowers.
CHARLES w. WEST, of Cincinnati,
has made another gift of $15O, 900 to the Art
Museum, the interest only to be used by the
association.
JACOB GEssERT, lately Superintend-
ent Of Police at Cincinnati, killed himself
with revolver, leaving wife and nine
children.
DIPHTHERIA has within four days
swept away four children of John Wander.
an, of Cleveland, o., and they were placed
In one grave at Riverside Cemetery.
The town of Columbia, Texas, has
been inundated from the Brazos River. The
Inhabitants gathered in the churches and
were supplied with food by boats.
GENERAL SHERMAN and some staff
officers are to spend two months in an in
spection of the Department of Texas and a
visit to the Yosemite and San Francisco.
TIE report of the commission on the
cattle plague, which was sent to the Senate
by the Secretary of the Treasury, shows that
no lung disease exists in the Western centers
of livestock traffic.
THE Treasury investigation has led to
the resignation of Norton, clerk in the
lighthouse board, and Skeen, foreman Of
laborers in the Treasury Department, and
the removal of Hatch, the storekeeper.
JOSEPH +. SHEFFIELD, who died in
New Haven, Conn.,, recently, has given for
educational purposes no less than $500, 900,
one of his good works being the scientific
school attached to Yale College. He leaves
to widow and six children an estate valued
at s., 000, 900.
RUSSIAN Jews in a village near Kichi-
nef were attacked by peasants, ten of the
former being nearly beaten to death. A
Vienna correspondent asserts that in seven
important towns no less than $50 persons
were outraged by Jew-baiters. At Odessa,
petroleum was poured on a Hebrews head
and set on fire.
THE Virginia oyster pirates have sur
rendered to Gov. Cameron and his forces.
After brilliant engagement in which no
one was hurt, six schooners and one sloop
hauled down their colors and sixty lone law
less rakers cried for quarter. Eighteen
shots were fired through the rigging of one
of the schooners and she was chased 30 miles
before being brought to.
REVENUE officers raided an illicit dis
tillery near Franklin, Macon County, n. c.,
on the 14th, making two arrests. Jesse
Estes and Noah Wilson were left to guard
the still, while Ray and Birch marched the
prisoners to Jail. During the night Estes
was killed by bullet from the woods, and
Wilson managed to escape by crawling
through the bushes on his hands and knees.
In a recent report to Congress the
Secretary of the Interior says there are no
lands in Indian Territory open to settlement
or entry, the tracts to which the Govern
ment holds title being reserved by treaty
stipulations. proposition that the Grim
inal laws of the United States be extended
over their lands has been made to the Indian
delegations now in Washington, and will
evidently meet their approval.
THE Coroner's jury investigating the
fire in the old World building, New York
City, found that the fire originated from a
defective flue; censured Potter and his en-
ployees for neglecting to apply for a proper
permit for repairs, and the carpenter for
not giving the alarm of fire promptly, and
commended McDaggert, fireman, and
Charles Wright (colored), bootblack, for
bravery in saving life.
THE confagration at Hayerhill, Mass,
Feb. II, destroyed nearly the entire city.
The losses will reach over g, DOC, 900, with in
surance of about 81 100000. Over 100 shoe
manufactures, with their contents, were
burned. The scenes were indescribably
grand. The loss of life has been narrowed
down to three, though many persons are
missing. The telegraph Office and wires be-
info
not be obtained.
FATHER O'FARRELL, an esteemed
Catholic priest, committed suicide in Peo-
ria, ILL.,, on the 18th, by cutting his throat
and vein in his arm. For several years he
had suffered from painful dropsical COM
plant, and got into the habit Of taking
drugs to relieve the pain. The doses were
recently reduced by his superiors because
they thought he was taking too much. 1t
is supposed these circumstances produced,