Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-22
Personal AND GENERAL.

nurderers was afterward captur cd and a
watch belonging to the dead Ch,namen
vas found in his possession.
AT Detroit, Mich, fire destroyed the
Albion Milling Company . mil, ,be other
morning, entailing loss of sIoo. 900.
A FIRE on the farr , Of p;orro Jor;,-
ard, at Jobstown. n. + the other dav ere.
mated twenty .four drsft-borses> and six
mules.
JOHN O'NEI T., wholesale LIQUOR
lealer ofTroy,r " after ss,,;,,sovo,tv.f orr
packages in V sr,,o,t ,vss foInd ,vi,h,n the
limits Oh Iat State few days ago aud
oiaeeu LII Jail. He had appealed to the
euefai courts, under the Fourteenth
'meno neut .ara- .,f.s .-.s.
M IETINGs to protest against the
pro position to take Yellowstone Park from
" coming, giving it to Montana, were re-
ported recently being held all over Wyom-
ing. -'' '-.f
FOURTEEN Socialists were arrested in
Spain few days ago charged with murder
ing peasant. t-s-. s5t
IT was stated on the Sth that more
than $50 bodies had been stolen from Mon
treal (Cana.) graveyards this winter.
THE French authorities at Paris have
released Prince Napoleon, the indictment
against him being quashed.
W. A. CHUD, a prosperous merchant
of Montgomery, Ala, was arrested few
days ago, charged with rifiing the mails. 1t
was thought his mind was deranged by
spiritualsm.
THE high price of crude India rubber
was the reason given by the leading factories
in the United States for closing up the other
dav, throwing eight thousand persons out of
employment. "sr
THE telegraph and elevated railroad
litigation, which had been in progress in
New York City for some time, was reported
compromised on the 10th. -
Two prisoners made a desperate at
tempt to escape by jumping from the Pen
itentiary wall at Jefferson City, Mo-, the
other day, but were recaptured. >
During the excitement over the
lynchng of a negro at Paola. Hans, the
other day, bank forger who kept perfectly
cool negotiated spurious check at the
bank in that place.
AYOUNG man named Freeman, who
eloped with farmers daughter near Char
lotte, Mich, few days ago, was pursued
by the father and shot in the head, it was
thought fatally. f....
THE Arlington cotton mills ct Will
mington, Del, closed a few days ago on ac-
count of strike. Five hundred hands were
thrown out of employment.
B. F. GRIER's saw-mill, at Charlotte,
Mich, blew up the other morning, instant
ly killing the proprietor and the engineer.
RONDoUT, n. Y, had a serious fire on
the 1lth. A steamboat and several business
houses were destroyed.
AT a late hour the other night a mail
pouch in the baggage room at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, was broken open and 40 registered let
tiers taken. The amount of the loss was I'M
known, though it was thought to be consid-
cradle. No cew to the robbers.
LOUISA MONTAGUE, the $4,000
beauty, recovered $3.50 from Adam Fore.
paugh recently, for breach Of contract. and
had sued for damages on account of falling
from the back of an elephant while in IL
linois two years ago. She received salary
of 500 per week during her travels.
HERMAN HARNER, a dealer in dry
goods at Jersey City, n. j., having been
convicted of knowingly receiving $4,000
worth OF stolen property, was recently sem
fenced to State prison for eighteen months.
AT an auction sale of uncalled-for
packages in the express office at Pueblo,
Colo. the other day, James Thompson
risked one dollar on box which he found
contained two gold bricks, worth over
ST. 900.
CITIZENS of Chihuahua, Mex, or
ganized company and attacked a band of
Apaches recently, killing twelve of them
and capturing thirty three. In a fight on
the border of Sonora, Mexican troops killed
one hundred Indians and took sixty pris-
oners. b..
AN organ valued at $4,000, which
was to be removed from the old into the
| new First Baptist Church Of Denver, Colo,
was the other day damaged 1000 worth
| by vandals, who broke the pipes and cast
ings.
WILLIAM BARLOW was arrested in
New York City few days ago on suspicion
of being the man who robbed Miss 1sh-
erwood, daughter OF the Chief Engineer of
the United States Navy, on the streets of
that city some time since. Miss sherwood
identified Barlow as the highwavmau.
AT New York bartender named
| Charles d. Seebach fired upon a party of
boys who were snowballing him the other
day and killed John Noonan, aged nine
years. SD
MORE Sophomores were ordered to
leave Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me-, a
few days ago on account of their connection
with hazing. This made. twelve who were
obliged to leave within two weeks.
THE places of the striking cotton mill
operatives at Wilmington, Del, had been
filled on the 10Th, and the mills were run
ming. .5Ht .r,
AT st. Petersburg, Russia, three ex-
Directors Of the Mutual Credit Society and
four other persons, convicted of forgery and
squandering funds of the society, were re-
Gently sentenced to loss of civil rights and
exile.
ALL the visible assets of the coal and
iron firm of Rogers & Co., one OF the oldest
houses in Chicago, ILL.,, established forty