Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

days ago. His clothes caught, and when the
mother got home, called there by his screams,
he was burned to a crisp.
IT is said that twenty persons were
drowned by the washing away OF a bridge
over the Rhine in Baden, Germany, the
other day.
The boiler in a flour mill at Perry,
shiawassee County, Mich, exploded the 9TH
er morning, demolishing the mill and killing
the engineer.
A NUMBER of Dakota and Wisconsin
lawyers were recently disbarred from prac-
tice before the Interior Department on ac-
count Of their connection with land frauds.
TWENTY miles south of Beverly, w.
Va, farm house caught fire the other
night and Adam Currenz and four of his
children were burned to death. Mrs. Cur
REM received probably fatal injuries in
vain effort to rescue them.
A PHILADELPHIANf for forty-five years
had struggled through the world bearing the
name of Nathan Ruzanowskowski, but
sought and obtained relief few days since,
court granting his petition to change his
name 10 Nathan Rosenau.
A FEW days ago n. l.. Dukes, who
shot and killed A. C. Mutt at Pittsburgh,
Pa, was released on $4,000 bail.
AT Olson, Belgium. boiler in fac
tory exploded a few days ago while the
building was full of work people. A num-
Der of persons were killed. Three bodies
had been extracted from the ruins.
A MAN named Sullivan, a resident of
Salt Lake, Utah, carried broken neck for
week, but died few days ago.
A FEW days ago a robber strangled
passenger in compartment of the express
train between Nice and Marseiiles. France.
CHARLES BANKS, of Leona, New York,
was killed by the falling of 4 large icicle,
which pierced his brain the other day.
HENRY KING, farmer aged about
eighty years, was driving home with his son
in Seneca Township, O.,a few days ago,when
the team ran away, precipitating both to
the ground. The fathers skull was fractured
and he died in half an hour. The son re-
ceived slight injuries.
THE other day the French Minister to
Switzerland informed his Government that
a considerable quantity of dynamite had
left Switzerland for France. 1t was said
there had been several arrests of dynamite
conspirators in the Department of the
Rhone.
WHILE skating, five children broke
through the ice on brook near Hyde Park,
Boston, Mass, the other morning. Three
were drowned. re-
THE bursting of the Hammel dyke on
the Rhine near Worms. Germany, on the
Goth flooded the lower part of the town.
Railway travel from Frankfort on the Main
to Wiesbaden was interrupted. owing to.the
inundation of Castle depot.
For the murder of Dora White, his
sister-in-law, in June last, Ivason Slade,
colored, was hanged at VAUDEVILLE. N. c..
December 30. e
AT Meridian, Conn.,, two children,
aged eleven and eight years, acknowledged
that they placed an obstruction on the rail-
road track the other day to wreck the New
York passenger train, and said they did SO
because an employee of the road drove them
off the track.
RECENTLY a special agent of the
Treasury Department discovered that a
New York importer received an excessive
rebate Of $500 on damaged goods, for
which he paid $400 to the Examiners, who
for years had been in the Government serv-
ice. The merchant few days since made a
full confession to Commissioner Shields, land
the offenders had been arrested.
AT Madison, Wis, the Federal
Grand Jury indicted General Thomas Rey-
nods, late pension agent. a few days ago
for forging receipts and affidavits.
AT the burning of an extensive flour
mill a fireman was killed and three others
were seriously injured at Belfast, Ireland,
the other day. Property valued at f4o, 900
was destroyed. A sugar refinery at Green
ock was burned, causing a loss Of f35, 200.
HEAVY rainfalls had caused floods
in the midland counties in England the 9TH
er day. There was said to be great mortali-
ty among sheep in Notinghampshire and
Leicestershre.
THE other day at political meeting
in New York City some person dropped a
bomb, which exploded, blowing the entire
front of the store away
RENEWAL of the recent floods in
days ago. Several streets in Lyons were
and Lisieux was inundated. 1t was esti
mated that fully fifty-fve persons had per-
ished in the floods in Germany.
A SAD accident occurred the other
day at the house of Edward Capron, who re-
sides about one mile south of Farley, Iowa.
Miss Mary Capron was sitting under a
hanging lamp holding on her lap a little
son of Mr.. Capron, when the lamp fell and
set their clothes on fire. The child was
burned to death and Miss Capron was Sc
verely injured. -.st.....
TWENTY-FIVE bandits raided a ranch
near Matamoras, Mex, recently, and the
proprietor, Don Jose Trevino, was killed,
and his son was carried off. Several other
persons were wounded during the fight.
AT Salem, Mass, a new Mayor was
indicted into office on the 1st. The out
going Mayor hanged himself Immediately
on laying down the duties Of office.
THE other day Ex-County Commits
sioners Walker, Ehrman and Wilmoyer were
arrested at Lebanon, Pa, charged with mall
feasance in office. 1865
A YOUNG man was fatally shot by a
girl in New Philadelphia, o., a few days
ago while he was trying to break into her
room.