Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

land, Ind, stood in the park listening
to the Fourth of July grafton, a liberty pole
beside them was shivered to fragments by
lightning, but no one was injured.
A sTREET-CAE in Brooklyn, n. Y,
was struck by L train on the Manhattan
Beach Road, the other day, killing wo-
man and injuring the driver.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9TH
of the death of Archbishop John Baptist
Purcell, which occurred the night before at
st. Martins, o.
The commission house of Whitcomb
d Kendall, of Chicago, ILL.,, was the other
day closed on an attachment by Philip D.
Armour. The liabilities of the banlSrupts
was about 100000. ID,
II. Mas, merchant of Benivides,
Tex, recently elected from his store
Mexican named Vela. The other night, at
fair, Vela revenged himself by killing the
merchant. ''t
SARGENT & NICHOLS ice-houses,
seven in number, at Lake Hentucket, near
Haverhill, Mass, We're destroyed by fire
few nights ago. ms . ... ....r....
A PRISONER at Copenhagen has con-
fessed to setting the Victoria docks, Lon
don, on fire, in 1881.
THE report came by way of Austria
liza on the 9th that the French had hoisted
their standard on the New Hebrides.
A TORNADO blew down trees, houses
and barns near Albany, N. Y, ON the even
ing of the 9Th.
JOHN CONE was legally executed in
the Jail yard at Houston, Tex, on the 9th
fo, in To-
1882.
1T is charged that the Jews on trial
for numbering a girl whose blood was to be
used in some of their religious ceremonies
at Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, have been
subjected to horrible tortures by the au-
thorities
LIGHTNING set mill on fire at
Amesbury, Mass, the other night and it
was burned to the ground, causing loss of
$780, 900 and throwing two hundred opera
tives out of employment.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Evans
vile, Mimi, the other day in which twenty
six buildings were destroyed, the loss be-
ing about $4,000.
BY the capsizing of a pleasure boat
off Staten Island, N. Y, the other day
three men were drowned.
NELSON HOWARD, negro, was
lynched at Mound City, ILL.,, on the 9Th.
Howard had killed John Kane, bridge
builder, on Wabash train at Mound City
ON the night of the Fourth.
GOVERNOR BARsTOw, of Vermont,
called out five companies Of militia on the
9Th to suppress a labor riot at Ely. The
strikers had one hundred and fifty kegs of
powder with which they threatened to blow
up the town.
AT Berlin, Germany, woman
stricken with hopeless poverty the other
day set fire to her house and cut the throat
of herself and two children.
GRIMsLEY, the aeronaut, who made
an ascension from Honesdale, Pa, July 4,
landed on the Catskill Mountains in a
severe storm.
DIR. CHARLES E. FRENCH, in Jail at
Erie, Pa, under sentence of criminal NAL
practice, was on the 9th discovered to have
been for years engaged in body-snatching.
Apparatus for grave-robbing had been
found in his house.
EDwARpO MARTININGO, q bank clerk,
who embezzled 100000 Tires in Turin, Italy,
has been arrested in New York.
were consumed in warehouse, which was
struck by lightning, at Atlantic, To-, few
days ago.
In collision with British troops in
Assam, the other day, fifty natives were
killed.
The Postmaster-Generalh has rendered
a decision excluding all lottery companies
from using the mails.
A SECTION of Coles circus met with a
railway disaster in Minnesota the other
day. Four cars were wrecked, and Assist
ant Manager Hart had two ribs broken.
HENRY SEAGER, while stopping at a
Des Moines, To-, hotel, became deranged the
other day, broke up the furniture in several
himself in the head. ..
Two parties it is said will soon be
sent from Washington to make Topographic
cal and geological surveys of Yellowstone
Park. The President will visit the park
in August.
The Bethlehem Iron Works, Allen
town, Pa, shut down on the 18th, throwing
over three thousand men out Of employ
ment.
The Vermont troops called out to
suppress the riot at Ely met with no resis-
lance. The condition of the unpaid work
ingmen was described as deplorable. Or
der was fully restored on the Sth and all
the militia were withdrawn.
TWELVE Bishops were absent from
the meeting of the Catholic hierarchy at
Dublin, ireland, on the It'll, which adopted
resolutions denouncing State aided emigra-
ton.
STORMS carried away bridges on the
Mexican Central Railroad to the value of
500, few days ago, and would delay
completion of a section of the road six
weeks.
THE proceedings of masked crowd
about to hang negro at Mt. Sterling, KY,
on the 9Th were interfered with by the
Town Marshall, who persuaded the mob to
give up the prisoner.
WASHINGTON and Aaron Detwiler,
two wealthy physicians of Reading, Pa,
were drowned the other night while bath
ing.
SEVERAL lives were lost the other day