Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-12
Personal AND GENERAL.

THREE hundred Chinese shoemakers
at San Francisco, Cal, have struck for an
increase of twenty cents a day in wages.
Tue college boat race between Har-
| ward and Columbia freshmen the other
| day was won by the former
THERE was another lynching at JEFF
| ferson, Tex, on the 9th, the victim being
| an accomplice of the negro who was lynched
there the day before.
AS a result of negotiations between
| Russia and the Vatican the conclusion OF
which was announced on the 27th, the hier.
| archy will be allowed freedom i'm matters OF
faith. but interference in temporal matters
| is forbidden.
GENERAL Crook has telegraphed to
| Washington that the report that the Chiri
| cahua captives had been forced on the San
Carlos Reservation was false &, ,asraT
| The Pennsylvania Senate on the 9th
passed the Republican Congressional Ap.
| pprtionment bill and the House passed the
Democratic Legislative Apportlonment
| bill. N. . 'a .,.-' l7-aa2-
A DOCK with 800, 900 feet of lumber
| fell into the lake at Muskegon, Mich,
| the other afternoon, preeipitating TWEEN
| ty men at work on it into the water.
| Three or four of them were not rescued and
| two immense piles of lumber which threat
ened to fall prevented search for their
bodies. A boy was also crushed to death.
| CONTRIBUTIONS toward a pedestal for
the Bartholdi statue of Liberty at New
York have been made by several represen-
| tative men of Ohio recently, and the com
| mittee, has reported the possession of over
III,
prise. 80 a.s'-' E.-. 'tT -.-a
Dr. HATHAWAY, the Philadelphia
| (Pa.) abortionist, in whose cellar were
found the skeletons of twenty infants, has
| been fined 500 and sentenced to seven
years in the Penitentiary.
AT Brownsville, Texas, the other
afternoon three ghls, named Inez and
Manuella Mora and Juana Flores went to
take bath in the river above town and
were drowned. This is the third of a re-
markable chain of accidents all alike.
About two months ago three girls We're
drowned at Regnora, fifty miles up the
river. Last month three girls were drowned
near Santa Maria thirty miles up the river,
and then comes this accident exactly like
the others.
Mas. POPE was stung on the nose by
a bee at Milan, Tenn, a few days ago, and
death ensued in a few minutes.
THERE was another bad break in the
markets at Chicago, H., on the 18th, and
more failures We're reported. 3.
THE telegraph reported on the 2Sth
that twenty three collieries in the vicinity
of Ashland, Pa, had been flooded by the
storm which occurred there the day before.
THREE men were killed by an explo
sion of the boiler in saw-mill at Whittle-
sey, Wis, few days ago. The mill was
almost totally destroyed. ..
On May 81 Lieut.-Col. Schlayer, of
the Austrian army, and Lieut.. Bolgar, eli-
tor of the Military Journal at Vienna,
fought duel, in which Schlayer was slain.
A trial at Vienna the other day ended in
acquittal of Bolgar, the evidence showing
he was the challenged party, and was
forced to fight.
The bill legalizing marriage. with a
deceased wife's sister in England has been
rejected by the House of Lords. ~:
REV. MIR. WICHBORNE, an English
clergyman, while travelling from Calais to
Paris, few days ago, was attacked and
stabbed five times with chisel. He fought
desperately, and on arrival of the train at
Amiens the would-be murderer, also an
Englishman, was captured. The minister
was fatally hurt. The object was robbery.
ANOTHER hero in humble life has
been discovered. His name was j. Samuel
Smith, a locomotive engineer, and when
his train on the Sumnerville Railroad, in
South Carolina, jumped the track the other
day he stuck to his post and saved the
lives of many passengers, sacrificing his
own. = r.s t...-.i IF f,asfr. Il .t %. a.
INVESTIGATION shows the recent
charges of cruelty against the man
ayers of the Soldiers Home at Bath, NY,
are untrue. . ...T-, - ., a..
LAwLEssNEss in Montgomery, Yell
and Garland counties, Arkansas, has called
forth proclamation from Governor Berry,
urging officers and citizens to do their duty.
DURING a fire in the warehouse of J.
H. Ashdo:vn, at Winnepeg, Manitoba, the
other evening, "A number, of kegs of powder
exploded, tearing the building to splinters,
lnJurinS twenty persons more or less, and
smashing windows in hundred, principal
stores to atoms. 1t was thought several of
the injured persons would die and all the
doctors in the city were busy taking care
of the wounded. ...., '-.,rt e
R. H. kILBY, wholesale hardware,
Montreal, Can, has failed, with liabilities
of $4,000. .F .- ..ft.i -.
AT Murray, To-, man selling Wizard
oil on the street corner, the other evening,
was toe free with his tongue, and as re-
suit was hit over the head with a baseball
bat. He died next morning.
THEI rational fiscal year ended June
80. Approximately accurate figures show
the aggregate receipts of the Treasury to
have A.n $S97ooo, 600, against $4O3, OOO, 900
last yedr.
STEK1EN S.. PRICE, of Philadelphia,
Pa, sp4 ulated with the funds of an estate
of whi{1 he was executor He, was re-
ported $780, 900 short few days ago, and
was he'd as an embezzler.
FOUE murderers were hanged on the
29th: William Finch and Martin Joseph,
colered. and Tualisto, an Indian, at Fort
Smith, Ark; Tony James, also eelored, at
Darien,e GA. George Lake, colored, was
legally executed at Cambridge, Md, on the
same da. for a felonious assault on q wo-
man. "a ..... ''+