Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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liabilities Of $505 900; assets $40, 200. y
OvF Of fifty six Deaf hsat Salt Lake,
Utah, in April, twenty-six were children.
The latter was attributed to the peculiar
Mormon administration termed slayfrg ON,
of hands,"
THE Connecticut Legislature ad-
journed sine die on the Sd.
AT Oneida Castle, n. Y, the other
day Mrs. Burlison saturated her clothing
with kerosene, applied lighted match
and was burned to death.
FIRE az Fort Fairfield, Me-, on the Sd
destroyed nine stores and shops and turned
twelve families into the street. At Bur
lington, Iowa, street-car stable, together
with twenty head of horses, cars, ETC., and
two adjoining residences, were consumed.
At Peterboro, N H., the Barker Paper
mill, with the entire stock, was swept away.
The bond of NJ T. Polk, the default
ing Tennessee State Treasurer, has been in
creased to So, 900 on information that he
contemplated flight.
THE New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 4th inst.
A MANUrACToRY of explosives has
been discovered at Cronstadt, Russia.
GUMA Bros, heavy sugar dealers
at Matanzas, Cuba, have failed for 500, 700.
THREE murderers were hanged on
the 4th inst: D. F. Walker, at Trenton,
Ga, for the murder of S. S. Hamburger;
Governor Hilson, colored, of Lewisville,
Ark, for the murder of Major Ashley, and
John Lee, celored, at Gainesville, Fla, for
the murder of c. p. Crockett. ...;s
THE other afternoon a train on the
Detroit g. Lansing Railroad struck a
wagon on a crossing near Howard City,
Mich, and killed two women and man
named Johnson. .i..s ..f. 80 ID rglt4if
"a THE Boston (Mass) rubber shoe fac
tory has resumed work after two months
idleness on account of the, high pride of
rubber. 1t employs 1000 hands. ''''' r..
A FIRE which originated in a humber
yard at Union City, Ind, "on the 4th, sup
posed to have been ignited by q spark from
a passing locomotive, destroyed a territory
of several acres,p including a number. of
business houses and residences, OCCASION
ing loss of fully 500, 200. '' -'4'+ ''''
Fritz ANDRES, cotton merchants,
and other cities, has failed, with liabilities
Of f159,000. irlq ai aaiEho7, q. -, ri
THERE was an explosion of gas in the
Terrence shaft of the Lehigh (Pa.) Coal
Company on the 4th, while a number of
men were working ii the shaft, and Ed
Rinker and Henry Baker were almost
roasted alive. ajfu'.g.a. u90Ea. s...
q ONE of the most extensive machine
shops IN Northwestern Pennsylvania, be-
longing to Foster. & Mckay, manufactur-
ers of boilers and engines Titusville, has
Been closed BY the Sheriff, fthe'liabilities
being estimated atfrom 500, geo to $3.50 900.
FIVE Socialists were sentenced at
Hamburg, sGermany, the other day, to i'm
prisonment from enc to three monthsl for
pamphlets eslandering Bis
rnafck. J., cuFi .79i-'iD Ill I5 Ez9 -.
Ar Terre HATTIE, Ind, some sacrile-
giods thieves tore the cornerstone out Of a
cofored church the other night and stole
the coins deposited therein. '.t ...r
THERE was a terrific rain and hail
storm, accompanied by thunder and light
ming, throughout the Scranton, Pa, section
on the 4th, and an immense amount of prop
erty was damaged. The Wyoming House
and other large buildings and factories
were struck by lightning and telegraph
wires were FRUSTRATED. II 49,.
The bakers strike in Vienna, Aus
tria, has resulted in riots and street barri-
cades.
THE Massachusetts Supreme Court
has refused to admit to bail Charles I. Free
man, the religious fanatic who killed his
child at Pocassett in 1879. The application
was made ON the ground that he is now
sane.
AN earthquake was reported on the
9Th to have destroyed a great many houses
and caused the death of a large number
of people in the vicinity of Tabreez,
Persia. - ..-a
THE recent gas explosion in the coal
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by which several
men were killed, was caused by a stroke of
lightning, which passed down the bell-rope
in the shaft.
SIX persons were killed the other day
by an explosion of powder used in filling
shells at the Portsmouth Navy-yard, Eng
land.
THE Vice-President of the New York
Coffee Exchange has been expelled for vio-
lating the rules. .ti,.., sr.-.g
THE Philadelphia and Reading Pa.)
Rolling-mill has shut down temporarily.
: PROF. H. +. PARKER, of Dartmouth
College, Hanover. N. H., had his skull frac-
tured the other day by fall from ladder
while assisting to extinguish a fire. '' Tri
Two children burned to death the
other morning ina fire which destroyed five
dwellings in Rondout, n. Y. .. .ai
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT sailed for
Europe on the, 9th in the steamer Britannia.
The burning of the steamboat Crap
pier on Puget Sound was worse affair
than first reported. Later news shows sew
enty Cinnamon lost their lives. s9
PHIrPs, the ex-Almshouse Superin-
tendent of Philadelphia, Pa, has been con-
victed Of forgery. -, ...,... t..e. .
AT Millbury, Mass, few days ago,
Frank Mann killed Mrs. Mary E. Moore
and then committed stficide.s.
Two Americans, supposed to, be W.
II. Sinclair and S. B. Halliday, clerks who
robbed their employers, Lang, Robins on &
Co., flour merchants, New York, were ar
rested at Havana, Cuba, the other day.
They would be sent to New York. T..
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