Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

~ HcHlHssS On the IOtn. rive hundred mask
| ed men visited Cheboygen (Mich.) Jail,
overpowered the Sheriff and took Til w ar
| ner, the supposed assaulter of young girl
| named Nettie Lyons, to point outside the
town and hung him to the cross-ties of a
| railroad viaduct. Jordan Corbin, who muir
dered Benjamin Garden and seriously
| wounded his wife and son near Rockford
Coosa County, Ala, few days ago, was
| taken from Jail and lynched by exasperated
citizens.
By terrific boiler explosion in saw
| mill near Fortville, Ind, the other afternoon,
one man was killed, another fatallyscalded
and several others injured by flying debris.
CAPTAIN CLINTON SPENCER, Post
| master at Ypsilanti, Mich, has been sus-
| pended for deficit Of 81 800 in his accounts.
Great surprise was felt over the affair, as
he was highly respected. He lost leg at
Gettysburg.
A LARGE portion of the business part
of the town of Sterling, Ont. was destroyed
by recent fire, the loss being estimated at
$125,O0O.
WILLIAM A. SQUIRE, dry-goods COM
mission merchant at Philadelphia, Pa, dis
appeared the other morning on account of
900 shortage in his accounts as agent
of the Mount Vernon Mills of Baltimore.
THE yacht Hebe capsized in squall
on Lake Champlain a few days ago and
the Captain and Mate were drowned.
The British House of Commons has
passed the bill providing for grants to
Lord Alcester (Admiral SEYMOUR and Lord
Wolsley for services rendered during the
war in Egypt.
GEORGE AINswORTH & Son, cotton,
wooden and pottery manufacturers London,
Eng, have failed, with liabilities of ESQ.,
600.
THE value of exports of provisions,
tallow and dairy products from the United
States for the month of May was Sc, 265, 4l5.
THE President has recognized Aratu
Tatsuta as Consul for Japan at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
JAMES TAYLOR JONES has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats of the
First Alabama District.
In an interview at Peoria, H., the
other day Bishop Spaulding corroborated
the statement that the Archbishops of the
United States We're commanded to arrange
a programme for Plenary Council to be
held in America.
AFTER the bombardment of Majunga,
Madagascar, the French occupied the town
and are collecting customs.
GRANT GRANVILLE, a negro living on
Major Palmer's place, near Brinkley, Ark,
was lynched between eleven and twelve
o'clock the other night. He had murdered
a white man.
IT was said on the 18th that the esti-
mate of half million dollars as the cost of
the Government in the star-route cases
was considerably under the true figures.
A DOCK laborer cut the throat of 4
laundress and then served himself the
same way in Chicago, ILL.,, the other night
She died: he would recover.
AT school exhibition in Metcalf
County, KY, the other day, revolvers were
brought into play to quiet some noisy fell
lows. Mcfarland, a bystander.: was killed
instantly: Town Marshal Beauchamp was
mortally wounded; Miss Phillipot was shot
in the cheek, and a negro was missing and
was supposed to have crawled off into the
bushes and died.
BERNHARD J. MAHAN was fatally
stabbed in the neck by a woman in Boston,
Mass, a few days ago. She used shawl
pin.
AT Las Gatos, a small town tifty-siX
miles from San Francisco, Cal, the other
day, two Mexicans named Garcia and
Marvales had n quarrel over cards, during
which Garcia plunged knife into Mar
vales' bowels, killing him instantly. An
hour afterward the Constable cut down
Garcia's dead body from a bridge near by,
where he had been hung up by vigiiantes.
The failure of McGeoch, Everingham
& Co., for some time past the heaviest
provision dealers on the Chicago Ull.)
Board of Trade, was announced on the 18th.
The break in lard, which caused the failure,
is said to have been the biggest ever known.
Several other failures were reported in
Chicago and milwaukee,.
AT Mansfield. La, few days ago
Rev. j. Lane Borden, President of the
Mansfield Female College, was shot and
killed by Rev. Benjamin F. Jenkins.
JAMES M. BARROW, one of the best
known railroad men in Missouri, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed about six
O'Clock the other evening while making up
a train in the yards of the Hannibal & st.
Joe Railroad in Kansas City.
CHARLES MUNHALL fell from third
story window at Indianapolis, Ind. the other
day and was killed. His wife has been ar
rested on charge of having pushed her
husband from the window.
In Sunderland, England, at an enter
tainment given by a sleight-of-hand per- |
former on the 10th panic occurred among |
the large audience of children and 1SS were |
killed on the stairs.
GRAY's Opera-house at Boston, Mass,
was destroyed by fire few days ago, and |
many people had narrow escapes from the |
flames. The loss would reach probably
100000.
In the course of an alteration among
negroes at Twelfth and Morgan streets,
st. Louis, No., the other night Charles r.
Morton fired a shot at a man named Wilson, /
but missed him and killed Paul Lassoux,
3 bystander.
A MAN and woman who started in
balloon to cross the Mediterranean from
France, the other day were
picked up next day at sea.
Four Polish poets have been arrested
1t Leipsig, Germany, for giving informa-
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