Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
ROBBERY BUrrER. colored, s-;fTered the

I RoBER; BUTEER, colored, Suffered the
extreme penalty of the law at Columbia,
Caldwell Parish, La, on the 4th, for the
murder of George Burris. b.
y THE amount of the recent defalcation
of Kerr, the clerk of Preston, Kean & Co.,
Chicago, ILL.,, was about $4,000 instead of
$150,0Oo as published at the time.
1.-Two colored children burned to death
in dwelling at the corner of Eighteenth
and Clark streets, Chicago, I'LL, few days
ago.
THERESA FAIR has filed suit against
Senator Fair, the Nevada rnillionnire,1t or
divorce. \ ~ Il - - - - =
A REGULAR epidemic of horsesse1a-
ing is reported to haye broken out in the
city of Dallas, Tex, and adjoining coun-
try, upward of score Of animals having
been stolen within one week recently
/ In Winchester, Mass, the other day,
John Callahan forced his three-year-old
child to drink whisky till it died in convul-
| sions.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
| for the week ended May 5was 1857 900; cor
responding period last year $143,0O0.
CHIEF WADE, of the Pemberton
pOllCc, DUSbOu, hdSS., was SuOV IA
t'-" places a few days ago by a crank
named Brennan.
GEORGE w. EVERETT, Millersburg,
! O., has been disbarred from practicing as
an attorney before the Department of the
| Interior. ..,t
| AT Dallas, Tex, on the 18th Simon
Wilson was sentenced to sixty seven years
| Imprisonment for murder.
THE United States Supreme Court
has declared void the Downton patent on
the roller process of making -four.
T. A RECENT dispatch from St. Peters
| burg, Russia, says official reports from the
Governments of Samaria, Simbrisk and AS.
| trakhan state the crops are total failure
| and famine is expected. y, 500,
THREE Vienna (AusLria) newspapers
! have been confiscated for reporting a meet
ing in support of the Liberals. H.
| THE, Louisiana Supreme Court has
decided that municipal bonds can mot be
] taxed.
Ex-TREAsURER POLK, Of Tennessee.
has given bail in the sum of $4,000 and
| again been released. 81 80 .s.+ !
AN incendiary fire at Lexin gton, KY,
| on the 7th destroyed the stable of J. A.
Grinstead, containing six thoroughbred
yearlings, all imported, and all the animals
| were consumed. Loss, $4,000. ~
! A NUMBER of men were overcome at
the Continental Colliery, Ashland, Pa, the
! other day by gas generated by a small To-
connective in the mine. Allwork was stop
ped.
| GOVERNOR SPRAGUE, the famous stall
| lion owned by J. I. Case, of Racine, Wis,
| died at Lexington, Kentucky, few days
ago, of pink-eye. The animals winnings
| on the turf last year amounted to $4,000.
| HENRY MERRorr and. Mary Pesun
| were placed on trial at New York the other
day for robbing jeweler at Paris, France,
Of So 900 worth of diamonds. r. 7'i' .-s
THE Apache Indians have been de-
| feated in an engagement with Mexican
troops in the Sierra Madre, with the loss
of twenty-seven killed and thirty-six pris-
oners. tr..} ....u. .' - - ...
THREE children walking under an
umbrella during slight thunderstorm at
Winona, Mimi, recently, were struck by
| lightning, two of them being killed and the
third partially paralyzed. .,I..
JAMES F. SPENGMAN, clerk in the
Proyident Institution for Savings at Jersey
City, N. j., is reported to have gone to
Richmond, leaving a deficiency in his cash
account.
| A. A. TINTsMAN & Co., coke manu-.
facturers, Pittsburgh, Pa, have made an
assignment, with liabilities of $4,000, on
| account of the depression in the coke
trade.