Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-12
Personal AND GENERAL.

(. 3Oth uit., upon charge of being member,
of a secret society having headquarters a
| Cork. The object of the society was, &C
| cording to the claims made by the arlthori
| ties, to commit murders whenever it wa.
believed such a course would advance the
interests of their organization, and to blow
| up buildings in the principal cities of the
British Isles. Upon a preliminary examin
alton bail was refused, it being strongly in
| timated by counsel for prosecution that g
number of witnesses were ready to testify
| in support of the charges.
CONSIDERABLE uneasiness has beer
reported among the people of Lorraine, who
| nourish bitter anti German feeling.
A DAUGHTER of eX-Secretary Hamil.
ton Fish is to marry son of Sir Stafford
Northcote.
AT Greenfield. Mass, Conductor E.
| l.. Hasley, of the New Haven & Northamp
ton Railroad, has been found guilty OF
| manslaughter, he disobeying the orders and
| causing collision on the State Road last
September, in which three persons were
killed and others wounded.
CAssIUs G. MERKLE, alleged abscond-
ing member of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) paper
| manufacturing firm, which recently assigned
byreason ofhis withdrawing large sums of
money from the partnership fund, has been
arrested at Cincinnati, o.
The President has appointed E. 0.
Graves Assistant Treasurer of the United
States to fill the place of A. q. Wyman,
promoted.
THREE hundred and fifty emigrants
left Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland, the
4 a..
of people witnessed the departure.
LOUISE MICHEL has been arrested
at Paris, France, charged with taking part
with mob in plundering bakery.
AN Austrian Count, President of the
Court of Cessation, was found murdered at
his residence in Ofen a few days ago. He
had been strangled and his tongue had been
cut out. The house was ransacked by the
murderers. A hussar, who was on the
premises, has been arrestd.
AN analysis of explosives seized in
Liverpool, Eng, the other day showed
them to be of a composition so easily conf
bustible that it was said to be a wonder they
did not explode while being carried through
the street.
BIZ landslide on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, forty miles from Gin
cinnati, o., on the 30th ult., train was
wrecked and sixty persons injured, some it
was thought fatally.
Mrs. MEAKER, protesting her inno-
cence to the last, was hanged on the 3Oth
ult., at Windsor, VT, for the murder of her
little niece. For the murder of F. N. Nc
Dowell, Oliver Bristow was executed at
Camden, S. c., and Charles William Bea-
yer paid the penalty of an assault on
little girl with his life at Leesburg, Va, on
the same day.
A FOREST fire was reported raging on
the Blue Mountain, near Lehigh Gap, Pa,
on the 3Oth ult., and much valuable timber
was being destroyed.
THE failure of Antonio Lewis, Schultz
& Co., general merchants and cigar I'M
porters, London, Eng, with liabilities of
Esq, 900, has been announced.
The death of Rev. Derment Cole
ridge. son of the celebrated poet, occurred
at London, Eng, few days ago.
LIEUTENANT VEsY, United States
Navy, and other members of the expedition
sent by the American Government to Pata-
gonia to take observations of the transit of
Venus, arrived at Liverpool, Eng, on the
18th on their way nome.
DAVID WHELAN, an informer, was
shot dead at marlborough, Ireland, on the
10Th. One arrest was made.
THREATS having been made to blow
up the Post-office at Cork, Ireland, that
building was being guarded by military ON
the 3Oth ult.
REPORTS from the Scottish coast on
the Both ult. said a terrific and destructive
gale had visited that section. Three YES
sells had gone ashore in the vicinity of
Aberdeen. A bark was reported ashore at
Hollyhead and the crew of twenty-three
persons drowned.
DIR. GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, son of the famous bogus diploma
doctor, John Buchanan, was convicted re-
Gently of having caused the death of Eliza
beth Holstein by criminal surgical oper-
ration.
DURING the recent terrific gale off
Yarmouth, Eng, six fishing smacks went
down and forty sailors were lost.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in a
drugstore at Rushville, Yates County, n.
V, the other morning, and stole over $780,,
600 in notes, bonds and mortgages, and
$1,000 cash.
THE towboat Polar Star blew up the
other afternoon near Henderson, KY, and
from fifteen to twenty-five persons We're
reported missing
IT was reported from Cork. Ireland.
on the lst that the police believed an in
fernal machine factory had been estab-
lished in that locality.
In the collision the other night on the
Vandalia Line, near Brazil, Ind, William
Stewart, fireman, was instantly killed, and
William Brennan perhaps fatally hurt.
The loss to the railroad was large.
THE st. Petersburg (Russia) police
raided house full of Nihilists recently,
capturing eight and about la pounds of
dynamite. Three of the officers were
wounded and one of the Nihilists committed
suicide.
A BOILER explosion at St. Dizier,
France, on the 1st killed twenty-six per
sons and injured thirty-eight.