Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

chants, London, Eng. have failed. The
liabilities were put at 100000.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton, in session at Columbus on the 2lst,
nominated Judge Hoadley for Governor
ernor. =. L
WILLIAM T. Cook & Co., goods
manufacturers, of Foxboro, Mass, have
failed for 100000.
M. EICHLER, Second Secretary of the
Russian legation at Athens, has been seri-
ously wounded in a duel.
AMONG the effects of Dr. Hathaway,
the Philadelphia ghoul, in whose cellar
were found the bodies Of over twenty-one
infants, was an account-book with the
names Of two hundred women and charges
for services rendered. -.r.5 .-.
A HEAVY explosion of gunpowder oc-
CURED during fire at Salt Lake City,
Utah, the other day. The damage was over
500, 1000. :
IT was reported on the 21st that a
tornado had destroyed twenty-five or thir-
ty houses fifteen miles southwest of Chill
icothe, Mo. r.--.s..-l. .....a.. -.. .-.s
THE Empress of Germany has
written Queen Victoria expressing deep
sympathy with the sufferers by the recent
disaster at the children's entertainment at
Sunderland.
The cable announced on the 21st that
disastrous floods were occurring in Sile-
STA.
: The failure of the Crescent Silk
Manufacturing Company, Paterson, N. j.,
has been announced. ''
THERE is great excitement in Hun
gary over the trial of number of Jews
charged with having murdered a Christian
girl to use her blood at the Passover SER
vice. Pc. 80 -'| t.'t " -H
AT Pulaski, near the lime between
Tennessee and Alabama, two negoes were
lynched by a mob on the 22d.. The negroes
were charged with being implicated with
Warren, who was lynched aifew days be-
fore for the murder of a young man named
James Price, at Prospect. '-t-. -f
The four Arkansas train robbers, Cove
Johnson, Monroe Mcdonald, James Hern-
don and young James G. Johnson, who in an
attempt to rob Little Rock & Fort Smith
train near Van Buren,, Ark, in March last
killed Conductor Cain, were hanged at
GAINESVILLE on the 22d. Lewis Carter, the
negro who murdered his wife in South
ampton County, Va, on the 9th of Jan
uary last was also hanged near Jerusalem,
the county seat of Southampton County.
The Treasury Department has pur-
chased $4,000 ounces of silver for delivery
at New Orleans and Philadelphia mints.
STORMS on the.22d unroofed a build
ing at the State Penitentiary, Jefferson
City, No., and did considerable damage to
public buildings and private residences
and crops of corn and wheat, fruit and
ornamental trees in the vicinity of Co
lumbia. --..... .., -.s
The cost of star-route mail service
in Texas, and Louisiana was $14l,97S less
last year than the. year before. ,..-....,.
The dixie at Fish Lake, opposite st.
Louis, Mo-, had given way on the 22d and
flooded an immense area OF growing crops.
The Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis narrow
gauge embankment broke on the same day,
north of East st. Louis land let the water in
on the town of Brooklyn. Great damage
was being done by the overflow at other
points.
SERIOUS riots against the Jews oc-
CURED at st. Gall, Switzerland, on the 22d.
A number of Jewish shops were pillaged
and the police were stoned while endeav
oring to stop the excuses.
The report that the staff of the British
North Borneo Company had been massa-
cred by the natives of Borneo has been de-
MED. 81. ....
A CONNECTION was caused among
the officials of the Erie Railroad the other
day by the mysterious disappearance of
SAC, 900, in transit from New York to Sus-
Quehanna, Pa. A package that should
have contained that amount was found to
be full of brown paper.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of c. T. Goodwin, cashier of the
freight department of the Lake Shore Rail-
road, who had been missing from C1eve-
land, o., for several days, was partially
explained on the oath by the finding of his
ton showed a defalcation of 5000 in his
accounts, ,.. - s,,.-l .. .....- r,f .rq ..s
: The cable announced the other day
that, Mormon missionaries were making
many converts in the mining districts of
England and Wales. A large party had
already started for Utah.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed D.
B. Barker Postmaster at Washington, D.
c., vice Tullock, deceased. ..
A NEGRO named Duke, who entered
the sleeping apartment of two young ladies
near Vienna, Kennebec Parish, La, two
weeks ago, supposed with criminal intent,
was found by a body of his pursuers the
other day and shot to death.
In drunken brawl in the southern
part of Jackson County, o., the other night
Constable Mike Reilly fatally shot Thomas
Smith and then escaped.
A BOILER exploded at an oil well
near Bradford, Pa, the other day, killing
the engineer and destroying the rig.
FRANK CLARK, for thirty-three years
of the American Express Com
pany at Cincinnati, O., died at Newport,
KY, a few days ago. Il. 49, ,r
AT Richmond, Va, on the Esd, L. F.
Mason stabbed DIR. w. T. Crutchfield
Both belonged to highly respecta-
BILE families. An old feud. -fs.s...-
The steamers Hurunui and Watara,
both of the New Zealand Shipping Com
pany, left London, Eng, together a few
days ago., That night the two vessels
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