Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-14
j. HENRY LANGLEY. who for years

j. HENRY LANGLEY, who for years
had been operating in the leading cities in
the East and West as the promoter of STOCK
jobbing corporations, organized on paper
for swindling purposes, and who was known
as "King of the Peter Funks," has been ar.
rested at Boston, Mass.
THE tin plate manufacturers of the
United States have organized an associa.
ton.
AT Troy, N. Y, the other day, dur
ing the absence of his parents Theo. Mar
tin, aged seven years, found revolver.
He and his fourteen-year-old brother were
examining the weapon when Theodore
pulled the trigger. The ball entered his
brothers. throat. The wound was probably
fatal.
A TORNADO in BARLEY County, Ala,
the other day demolished the houses on
| several plantations. One colored man was
killed and several other persons were Sc
verely injured.
THE editor of the Kerry Sentinel was
| arraigned at Tralee, Ireland, ON the I'd. He
declared that the notice inviting volunteers
to join the 1nvincibles was printed in the
office without his knowledge.
A BAND of robbers from Mexico
crossed the Rio Grande and stole 5000
worth of money and goods from a store in
Hidalgo County, Texas, a few days ago.
THE first train into Knoxville, Tenn,
by the new line from Louisville arrived on
the 4th inst.
A FENIAN plot to blow up the We'll
land Canal is reported to have been frus-
| trated the other day by the vigilance of the
Canadian authorities.
w Motor cooratoyx- ar1 e
Listenwalter, manager of the Marriage
Fund Mutual Trust Association, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, were arrested few days
ago on charge of conspiracy to defraud
and using the United States mail for that
purpose.
The schedule in the recent assign
| ment of Maxfield & Co., fruit dealers and
importers, New York, shows liabilities Of
$16O, S94; nominal assets, $151 200; actual
assets, S6S, 6S9.
The failure of the Grafton Iron Com
pany of Lectonia, Ohio, has been announced,
with liabilities placed at 100000.
WHILE looking for criminals in the
Chickasaw country, I. Ter, Deputy
United States Marshal and posse recently
reported having encountered and killed
three desperadoes. 1t has TRANSFERRED that,
having stumbled upon a woman and two
children sleeping out of doors, they fred
without waiting to investigate further kill
ing the children and wounding the mother,
who fed to her house. Thither the posse
followed her, and, finding third child, shot
him dead.
OSCAR G. DEWoLF, City Health Com
missioner of Chicago, ILL.,, gives it as his
view that the statement that large amount
of adulterated lard is on that market is a
pure fabrication. 81
FRANK BROWN and John Anderson,
notorious desperadoes, undertook to run"
the town of Wiota, Iowa, the other night,
threatening peaceable citizens and firing
their rsvolvers. AS they passed up the
street, public-spirited citizen fired load
of buck-shot into them. Anderson died,
and Brown could not recover.
THE Massachusetts, authorities have
stopped the running of Sunday trains on
the Housatonic Railroad.
MCCOAN, member of Parliament for
Wicklow, has notified Parnell of his with
drawal from the Parnellite party.
AN immense fete was given in
Petroffsky Park, near Moscow, in honor of
the coronation of the Gear. Five persons
We're crushed to death in the tremendous
crowd who sought admission.
THE Dakota Capital Commission has
fixed upon Bismarck as the site of the new
capital of the Territory. The opponents
of removal will continue the fight in the