Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IL Uniontown, Pa, the otter evening,
the jury which had been trYhas Dukes for
the killing of A. C. Mutt, rctuzued a YER
dict of acquittal. Cit1zens OF the county
were very Indignant. =@--~
ALEXANDER JEFFERSON, colored, has
been found guilty, OF tie morder of two col
ored people In Brooklyn, n. Y. Jefferson
tainted on hearing the verdict.
The Coroner's Jury in the Gases OF
Mrs. and Miss Wakeman, suffocatea at the
recent fire in the Cambridge Flats in New
Yevk City, censured the former owner OF
the building ana tire Inspector who let it
PASS when In course of erection. H-"
THE steamer Dora Cablo- collided
with the Enquirer near Lewisport, Ind., on
he Ohio River, the other nighe. The Cabler
sunk and burned to the bosisr- deck. All
hands were saved.
THE Rhode Island Republican State
Convention has nominated \. o. Bourne for
| Governor and o.. Rathbrrn, for Lieuten-
| ant-Govevnsr.
The Maine Legislature adjourned sine
| die on the 18th.
The prohibition against importation
of American hog products into Germany has
been officially gazetted and made rs sweep
| ing as possible. -. -...-.
TEE circulation of a dangerous coun-
terfs:t of the standard silver dollar in Ohio
and indiana has been reported. 1t has the
weight and ring Of the genuine coin, and
| resi>ts the acid test.
| WILLIAM SPRAGUE has been nomi-
mated for Governor of Rhode Island by the
| Independent State Convention.
J in tho
Huddersfield (Eng.) District struck re-
| Gently, owing to a disagreement with the
| masters regarding wages.
GENERAL CROOK has reported fifteen
Indians sick with smallpox near the At
lantic e Pacific Railroad in Arizona.
THE Garfield Memorial Hospital fund
has received $500, through United States
Consul Denny, from Shanghai.
:. AN engineer was killed and several
persons were wounded by collision ninety
miles east Of knoxville, Tenn, few days
| ago.
| CUsHMAN, the forger who swindled
the philosophers of the Concord, (Mass.)
school last summer, has been sent to prison
for five years.
| JUDGE WILSON G. HOOVER, Associ-
| ate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ari-
iona, has been suspended under charges of
| bribery. ... .... .-ts
| SPONTANEOUS combustion caused the
destruction of the Wabasha, Mimi, eleva-
tor warehouse and eight thousand bushels
of wheat the other night.
THE question of successor to Treas
urer Gilhllan has been settled by the pro-
motion of Assistant Treasurer A. W. Wy
! man.
| PATRICK EGAN was the recipient of
| marked attentions from Irish sympathizers
in New York City on the 18th.
IT was said lately that foreigners con-
victed of implication in the recent riots were
| to be expelled from France.
JAMES MULLETT, the informer, has
given information duplicating Patrick Egan
| and others in the Dublin Urelande murder
conspiracy.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.) cigar-makers
threatened strike recently unless their
wages were increased one dollar per thou
sand. .s.-
The explosion of a lamp the other
| night caused the burning of the SwedeSford
Bridge, by which the Reading Railroad
| crosses the Schuylkill River at Norristow n,
Pa.
TIE wholesale liquor firm of Pfir-
mann & Pau, Cincinnati, o., have placed
their affairs in the hands OF trustees and
| asked an extension of time. The liabilities
| were estimated at A25. 600, sixty per cent.
of which was secured by whisky stock.
AN increase of wages was lately
granted the molders by the Pennsylvania
Hardware Company OF Reading, Pa. The
| keystone Rolling mill would start again
| soon.
| BASS KAvANAUGH, a notorious des-
| perado, wanted for murder. has been cap
tured in Texas by couple of Deputy United
States Marsbals, who shot him through the
| leg.
IT is rumored that the Wabash sys-
tenn Of railroads will be leased to the Mis-
souri, Pacific or Iron Mountain in April.
| A RECENT strike for All advance in
the wages OF the helpers of the Pottstown,
| Pa.) Iron Company threw go men out Of
| employment.
THE Director of the Russian Postal
service has been suspended from office for
attempting suicide.
.lMoRE than $4,000 was found in the
| lodgings of a wretched old woman who died
the other day after having sold newspapers
for half a century i'll New York. .4
| DIR. FORBES, of the Jefferson Medical
| College, Philadelphia, Pa, has been ac-
! quilted of the charge Of completely with
body snatchers.
THE late Judge Taylor, of Newburg,
| n. ", did a heavy business in investing for
clients and his accounts the other day
showed a deficit estimated at $3.50, 900,
caused by depreciation Of real estate.
SAMUEL RUTH, defaulting cashier of
| the Washington (Pa.) Savings Bank, has
been found guilty of larceny.
THOMAS HoDGsoN, heavy produce
dealer, is charged with obtaining large adj
vances from the Bank of Montreal, Cana,
| under false pretenses.
AT an Italian christening in New York
| City recently Frank Alberto had his head
nearly cut off with razor and two other
guests were desperately stabbed.
AT Bloomington, Ind, an alleged in
cenliary fire occurred he other day and four