Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

STEVE RAYMOND, the English fOrger,
who passed forged Union Pacific coupons,
was sentenced in New York on the 1st to
life imprisonment.
THERE were 1.21O miles of land grant
railroad constructed the past year.
The Zura Burns jury at Lincoln, ILL.,,
gave verdict on the 1st of death at the
hands of some unknown person.
THE Postal service sent out twelve
per cent. more foreign mail last year than
the year before.
A DWELLING in Cincinnati caught fire
| child were suffocated.
THE International Labor Conference
at Paris held that emigrants should not
work for less wages than the workingmen
of cities they abide in.
The French have seized and occupied
the west coast of Africa from Gaboon to the
mouth of the Congo.
"PETE'' EMERSON, convicted of at
tempting to rob bank cashier in rail-
road car at Hoboken, n. j., was sentenced
on the LIST to ten years. Imprisonment.
MOST of the saw-mills of Dubuque,
Ia, will shut down in a few days for the
season. The total cut of lumber for the sea-
son is about 100000 feet.
THE New York Chamber of Com
merce has adopted resolutions condemn
ing the watering of stock by corporations.
The City of New York began on the
LIST the payment of 81 ,OOO,O 900 for interest on
the city debt and 81 JAS 900 on the princi-
pal.
CHISHOLM, the Newark, N. j., wife
murderer, has demand I'D a new trial.
The bullion receipts in Salt Lake, q.
T., last week were SIG, 2OS,063.
THE International Labor Conference
at Paris closed on the I'd.
The Bishop of Rochester commends
the Moody and Sankey mission.
GERMANY is exporting more and i'm
porting less grain than last year.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of New York
call on all sheriffs for a strict enforcement
of the bribery act.
THE schools at West Boylston, Mass,
are closed on account of an epidemic of
diphtheria.
Mrs. L. WoLFsTEIN, of Cincinnati,
was killed on the I'd by fall from fourth
story window.
AT Huntington, Ind, Charlotte Epps
has been found guilty of numbering her
husband with poison.
NONE but members of the English bar
will be allowed active participation in the
defense of O'Donnell.
The Sophomore and Freshman classes
at the Troy Polytechnic Institute have
been suspended for indulging in class riots.
The Coroner's jury on the Fort Ed
ward bridge disaster censure the engineer
ing department, the railroad company and
the chief engineer of the road.
DEWEY, alias Halper, the Montreal
forger who victimized Boston banks and
about whose arrest in California so much
fuss has been made, has reached Boston in
custody of an officer.
DANIEL NEwITH. of New Albany,
Ind, disinherited by his father, who lately
married second wife, committed suicide
with laudunum the night of the 1st.
The Standard Consolidated Mining
Company, of San Francisco, has declared
the Bodie Tunnel Company made an assess
ment of fifteen per cent.
BURGLARS, on the night of the LIST,
blew open the safe of the Post-office at
Anoka, Mimi, carried off the stamps, then
DuTRldTlZcu private
stole two horses and carriage and drove
to Minneapolis.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE B. FURLONG, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was on the I'd sentenced
to six and half years. Imprisonment for
causing the death of Charity Lewis.
The New York Grand Jury censures
the excise commissioners for granting sa-
loon licenses to thieves and notorious Grim
inals.
CRANKs are writing letters TO Cana
da's new Governor-General threatening his
life.
MOODY and Sankey, the evangelists,
are in London and crowds are fiocking to-
hear them.
FAULKNER, the chief of the great
gang of counterfeiters of Southern Indiana,
has been trapped.
EDWARD SHATTO has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree at
Omaha for the killing of Martin Knight
last July.
THERE was a riot on q small scale in
the streets of Philadelphia on the 4th, in
which several persons were badly hurt. 1t
grew out of political dispute.
DISCOVERIES of smuggling on an ex-
tensive scale along the Rio Gfande led to
the arrest of a number of Mexican customs
officers at New Laredo on the 4th.
RACHEL LAYTON, colored, died at
Trenton, N. j., on the 4th, in her 106th
year.
AT the Martin Luther celebration by
the Germans of Cincinnati, on the 4th, 4, 900
people gathered in Music Hall to take part
in the exercises.
THE steamer New York, from New
Orleans, is reported aS having struck and
sunk the steamer Blanche Hopkins of Phil
adelphia. No lives lost.
ANOTHER New York police officer is
in Jail for murder. His name is William
Conroy. He used both his club and pistol
recklessly, and as result Peter Keenan,, a
furniture mover, is dead.
"A FIRE entailing a loss of over $780,
600 occurred in Glasgow, Scotland, on the
night of the Sd.
AT Sioux Falls, Dakota. on the Sd the
police cut down the telegraph poles, the
comnanv having disregarded an order to