Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-14
pERSON4I. AND GENERAL.

and st. Petersburg, Russia, on the 3Oth ult.
In the former city the conf1agration ragged
along the river front, destroying property
of immense value. At st. Petersburg an
iron foundry was burned, the loss amount
ing to 100000.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND rejected models
of unpatentable inventions were sold at the
Patent Office at Washington the other day
for $762.
The National debt, on the LIST inst,
less cash in the Treasury, was ST SOS, 1ss, 40s.
The reduction for May was nearly five
millions.
NOAH r. STINER, Postmaster at Ster-
ling, O., and Secretary of the Russell
Wrench Company, was missing from that
place the other day and it was discovered
that he had forged his fathers name to his
bond as Secretary of the Wrench Compa.
ny. Other crookedness was being devel.
oped.
By boiler explosion near East Sag
NAV, Mich, the other day two men were
killed, two others were fatally injured, and
two others less seriously hurt.
JAMES NJ. BRAZELL, of San Francisco,
Cal, has sued j. c. Flood, the Nevada mil
lionaire, for one-eighth interest in the Mount
Cary Mine, valued at 81 ,Oo0, 900.
THE war ships built in Germany for
the Chinese will be delivered ON the coast
of China by German seamen.
The trial of the London dynamite
| conspirators has been fixed for the 18th inst.
SOME of the English newspapers OPP
pose the idea of appointing any of the
Queens sons to the Governorship of colo
MES.
THE Pennsylvania Senate has passed
the bill to prohibit railroad determinations.
DURING the absence of her husband
Mrs. Susan E. Douglas, of Cumberland
County, Pa, the other day cut the Threats
of her three children and then killed her
self. She was insane.
A GREAT rain storm visited Council
Bluffs, To-, and vicinity on the 1st. Indian
Creek, which runs through the heart of
that city, overlooked, causing a damage es-
timated at 500, 900. Seven iron bridges and
two stone culverts were swept away; also
several dwellings and barns. Several
losses of life were reported.
THE official ceremonies of the open
ing of the annual examination of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Nd, were observed
on the 1st with the usual eclat.
RICARDO MENOCAL, who fled from
Cuba seven years ago with $500, 600 of the
public funds, has been captured.
THE single-scull race of three miles
between Hanlan and Kennedy, at Boston,
Mass, the other day, was won by the
former by twenty lengths; time, nineteen
minutes and four seconds.
BECAUSE the company refused to add
five dollars month to the wages of each
man three hundred and fifty workmen EN-
ployed by the Tittabawasse Boom Com
PAW at East Saginaw, Mich, quit their
situations a few days ago.
THE law against the importation of
American pork into France is not being
rigidly enforced, and shipments are being
made from New York to Marseilles.
Ex-VICE-PREsIDENT DAVIS and his
bride arrived at their home in Blooming
ton, ILL.,, few days ago.
THREE men were drowned the other
day in trying to cross the Muskegon River
in a canoe at Jersey, Mich.
THE late A. X. Henderson, of Erie,
Pa, has bequeated to the city of Cleveland,
applied toward the endowment of an indus
trial school.
AT Fremont, Nebr., few days ago, a
Deputy Sheriff was shot in the mouth by
one of two desperadoes whom he and the
Sheriff attempted to arrest. The Sheriff in
turn shot the man dead, and after long
chase his companion was captured. The
Deputy Sheriff was dangerously hurt.
ALFRED WEIGEL, merchant, London,
Eng, has failed, with liabilities of FL ,OOO,-
600.
THOMAS CAFFREY, the fourth man
convicted of the Phoenix Park murders,
was hanged at Kilmainham Jail, Dublin ,on
the I'd.
The German Reichstag has passed
the measures relating to copyright conven-
ton with France and commercial treaty
with Italy.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies
has voted to appoint a commission to re-
port plan for monument to Garibaldi.
The anniversary Of Garibaldi's death was
commemorated on the I'd throughout Italy.
AMONG the requests named in the
will of the late Amasa Stone, of Cleveland,
O., were the following: One hundred
thousand dollars to Adelbert College, $10,-
600 to the Home for Aged Women, and $10,-
600 to the Children's Aid Society.
THE Salvation Army has been mott
fed to quit singing in the streets of New
Haven, Conn.
THE Car of Russia has granted new
privileges to dissenters from the Greek
Church.
MCGEoGH, EvERINGHAM & Co., of
Chicago, ILL.,, the other day claimed that
there was 81 900 900 worth of adulterated
lard in that market.
THE Board of Visitors of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Nd, has organ
lied, Rear Admiral Howell being chosen
President. So
THIRTY-NINE COWS and three horses
were burned to death in a barn near Nine
ola, Long Island, few days ago. ..t
AT Winterset, To-, the other morning,
a mob Of masked men broke into the Coun-
ty Jail with crowbars and sledges, being
refused the keys by the jailer, and taking
John Hammer, who was confined there on
the charge of having murdered William
Newell over a year ago, hung him to tree
in the Jail yard.
THE other night two negro patients