Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-25
PERSONAL An. o GENERAL.


THERE were 2c1 business failures In
the United States. during the seven days
ended on the 1874, an increase of thirty
eight as comp red with the previous seven
days.
1T was reported the other day that
Henry a. Stanley. the African explorer had
reached Congo with 3 600 tons of goods.
An explosion of a barrel of benzlne in
the color department of the paint works at
Pittsburgh. Pa. the other night fatally
burned Joseph IngIesby and slightly in
jured Thomas Inglesby and Daniel Greer.
The building caught fire, but the flames
were put out with a loss Of So. 900.
A PACKAGE containing dynamite was
posted at the Limerick, ireland, Post office
the other day. Not being addressed, it for
tunately escaped being stamped, whereby a
terrific explosion was avoided. The police
were inquiring into the affair.
AT Oak Harbor, O., the jail took fire
a day or two ago, and a man locked up the
light before for being drunk was burned to
death.
A DAY or two since it was reported
that there had been 125 arrests at Rome.
Italy, on account of the Overdank business.
Some Of the prisoners were to be tried for
treason.
In the New Hampshire Penitentiary
a convict named Cook died a few days ago,
leaving q confession that the testimony on
which he sent a man to the gallows two
years ago was false.
THE British ship Wild Deer, from
Glasgow, Scotland, to New Zealand, with
200 passengers went ashore on the Irish
coast day or two since and it was said
would become total wreck. The passen-
gers were saved.
WHILE crossing the track at Cohoes,
n. Y, in sleigh the other day three boys
were struck by a locomotive and killed.
IT was said that Patrick Higgins con-
victed of the Huddy murders, in Ireland,
must hang. The Lord Lieutenant having
refused to interfere.
SroUeHToN, Wis, eighteen miles
from Madison, reported 500. 900 fire a few
days ago. The carriage works Of F. G. Mann
were destroyed.
AT Fall River and Somerset, Mass,
a general strike of IRON workers was threat.
ened on the 10Th, when a fifteen per cent.
reduction OF wages would take effect.
FIRE destroyed one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth of property in the
business heart Of Neenah, Wis, the other
day. Several business establishments, a
national bank and the Russell Hotel were
burned.
In the Planters House at st. Louis,
NO., on the morning of the 14th fire caused
a tremendous excitement among the guests
and employees, and three of the latter-Carto
Ribali, Dennis Raponti and Henry Blaney-
lost their lives and Mary Kerns, laundress,
jumped from a second STORY window and
broke her leg. The loss to the hotel was es-
timated at $25, 900.
By the burning of circus three hum
dred lives were lost few days ago at Ber-
dichev, town in Russian Poland.
THE residence of Henry Pierce, near
Sioux City, Iowa, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently and two children aged five and two
years were burned to death. Mr.. Pierce
and his wife were both badly injured.
Two kegs of gold coin were shipped
by the Treasury Department to pay the fleet
In the Pacific. At Panama the kegs were
stored in the Panama Railroad Company's
vault over night, and in the morning one of
them containing $50, 600 was missing. Sew.
eral arrests had been made.
THE paper mill of j. & B. Crossley g.
Co., with its contents, were destroyed by
fire at Bangor, Me-, the other day.
JOHN WELLEs HALLENBECK, of Pitts
College with second $50, 900 to endow the
chair of President.
Miss HERzLEBEN, a Brooklyn Jewess,
sued A. v. Dicks for breach of promise re-
Gently, asking $15, 900 damages. AS he was
not Hebrew, it was said he expressed his
willingness to marry her on condition that
they live separately from her family and ig-
more his religious views.
JOHN B. HOFFMAN,, 8 Cincinnati
tailor, killed one son five years ago and re-
peated the crime day or two since.
THIRTY persons were injured by
railroad collision in the suburbs of London,
Eng, on the 18th.
IT was reported that twenty-seven
jured by railway accidents in Massachusetts,
last year.
THE police recently closed Jesuit
Church at Lemberg, Germany.
THE steamer France, on her recent
passage from New York to London, Eng,
lost overheard 202 oxen and 107 sheep.
DAVID j. O'LEARY, a Pittsburgh,
Pa, letter.carrier, was the other day ar
rested for robbing the mails for years.
IT was believed that 100000 would
not cover the amount Of funds missing from
the City Bank Of Jersey City, N. j. All
that was left Of the assets, it was said, was
cheap office furniture and 81 200 accidental
y left in the cash drawer.
A BODY of snow nearly quarter mile
long. one hundred yards wide, and fifteen
feet deep swept down the side of Mosquito
Mountain. near Leadville, Colo, few days |
ago, and carried away two miners.
FIVE men were seriously injured and
4 passenger train wrecked by collision on
The Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railroad at
N. Y, a day or two ago.
SINCE the butchery of the Cooke
family by Frederick Mann, in Canada,
young girl died from Inflammation of the |
brain on seeing stranger with an AK over
mis- shoulder, and several persons in the