Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-28
feited its-eharter, after having spent largo

sums in construction.
THE trial of seventeen members OF
the Black Hand Society at Xeres, Spain,
for the assassination of Benacoaz, men,
Ter of the society who was suspected by
the chiefs of being ready to turn informer,
was concluded on the 18th. Seven of the
prisoners were found guilty and sentenced
to death, eight were sentenced to seven
| teen years imprisonment and two acquit-
ted.
PRESIDENT GREW opposes violent
measures by the French in Anam and
Prime Minister Ferry favors them.
Two brothers were SmOthered to
death at Milwaukee, Wis, few days ago,
| by foul gas in a well they were repairing.
THE catastrophe at Sunderland, Eng,
by which nearly two hundred children per-
ished, is said to have been partially due to
/ the fact that the doors had been adjusted
to suit the notions of toy-hawkers in the
vestibule.
JOHN BRIGHT was taken to task in
the House of Commons for the language
used in his Birmingham speech. He said
he would retract when the Irish members
disavowed their connection with disloyal
societies in America.
BECAUSE his wife applied for a di-
vorce Adolph Ehrke, Chicago en- brick
layer, the other afternoon fired two bullets
into her head and then blew out his own
brains, dying instantly. 1t was thought
the woman would die also.
AT Cincinnati, O., the other night an
old man, a non-union workman in Rogers
shoe factory, was assaulted and beaten with
brass knuckles by gang of men who were
supposed to be shoemakers, and who way
laid him on his way home from work.
PRESCOTT Bros. & Co., the largest
and oldest hardware store in Fort Wayne,
Ind, has made an assignment for the bene-
fit of preferred creditors, representing
claims amounting to $4,000. Liabilities,
10000; assets, 100000.
ARTHUR H. BLANEY, Cashier and
Head Bookkeeper of the Massachusetts, Loan
and Trust Company, Boston, Mass, has
confessed to embezzling $4,000 of the COM
pany's funds, owing to mining and stock
specializing.
SABADINI, who drove Overdank, the
bomb manufacturer, across the Austrian
border, and who was placed on trial at
Innsbruck few days ago on a charge of
high treason, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to death.
In attempting to ford Turkey Creek,
near Seneca, Kans., on the 18th, the stream
being much swollen by the recent rains, a
party of eight persons were drowned by the
upsetting of their wagon.
THE Turks and A,banians have had
another battle with heavy slaughter on
both sides.
THE schooner Ephraim was found
abandoned at sea few days ago and
lowed into Philadelphia. There are said
to be indications that her captain was muir
dered.
CAPTAIN GEORGE E. BELKNAP has
been ordered to take command of the Nor
folk (Va.) navy yard in place of Commo-
dore Mayo, who is under charges preferred
by ex-Congressman Dezendorf.
THREE men were cited before a
United States Commissioner at Galveston,
Tex, a few days ago, charged with kuklux-
ing colored man who was a witness in an
election case.
In a quarrel about a clothes-line at
New York, few days ago, Frank Rade-
Hollender.
In the new Lower California gold
diggings, about league from the old
Stagertrulies, several nuggets of gold nine
ounces in weight have been found lately.
PARNELL will start on his proposed
trip to America about the middle of Sep.
TENDER.