Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT the Wimbledon international rifle
match there will be two competitions COM
plimentary to the American team.
THE store of William johnson, at
Madrid, Iowa, was burglarized the other
night, evidently by professionals. A heavy
safe was rolled to another part of the build
ing, drilled and blown open and $500 in
cash and several hundred dollars worth of
notes were carried off. A clerk sleeping
twenty feet distant heard nothing of it.
BY collision on the Grand Trunk
Railroad at Olivet, Mich, on the 9th, three
persons were killed and eight others in
jured.
ANOTHER nitro-glycerine factory is
reported to have been discovered by the
police at Northampton, Eng. ...-.
THE City Council of Des Moines,
Iowa, has fixed the saloon license in that
city at 81 900 year. ....
THE discovery of a deficiency of $24,-
GOO in the accounts of County Clerk Arch
Rowand, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has, been an
nounced. rr.... .I
The trial of Michael Pagan for the
murder of Burke was concluded at Dublin,
Ireland, on the 9th, the jury finding a ver-
ulCI VI no StuUeuCtu uiIl
to be hanged May %.
WHISKY, supplemented by a threat
ened prosecution for theft, caused William
Macduff, financial broker at New York,
to shoot and kill his wife, his six-year-old
son and then himself, at Brooklyn, a few
days ago. ....' g. .'.I .a4
AT the little village of Ehnabethtown,
in Essex County, n Y, on the 9th, Henry
De Bosneys was hanged for the murder of
his wife, committed in August last. Frazer
Copeland was hanged at Walhalla, S. c.,
on the same day for the murder of William
John Hunnicutt the I'd of December last.
THE New York police have managed
to get up diplomatic tangle with Dem
mark by aiding the Danish Consul to bull
doze an alleged embezzler on his arrival in
that port.
THE Tar River in North Carolina was
reported very high from rains on the 9th.
The lowlands were overlooked and people
were abandoning their houses in boats.
Many bridges and dams were washed
away.
Two boys were burned to death in
sugar house at st. Thomas, Quebec, the
other night.
DoohS vi tlIlCC LCAStS " dI
ships were received by the Governor at
Austin the other day from a gentleman in
Indiana. They give the record of several
engagements which occurred from 1910 to
1913.
AT Columbus, O., few days ago, a
colored barber made a murderous assault
on his wife with Ratchet and then cut his
own throat with razor. 1t was thought
both would die.
Mrs. JANE ANTHONY, of New York,
attempted to cross the railroad track in
front of an express train at Jersey City, N.
j., the other day, when Lawrence O'Brien,
switchman, attempted to save her, but she
resisted and both fell upon the track. The
woman was killed instantly and O'Brien
lived ten minuets after being struck.
O'Brien lost leg short time ago in res
cuing child.
REV. c. d. BoYNToN, aged seventy
seven years, for twenty-five years pastor
of the Vine Street Congregational Church at
Cincinnati, o., and who had also served
two terms as Chaplain of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington, died in the
former city few days ago.
PHIL b. THOMPSON, member of Con-
gress from the Fifth (Ky.) District shot
and instantly killed Walter Davis, a grocer,
at Harrodsburg, KY, on the 9th inst.
Thompson Immediately surrendered him
self to Judge Hardin of the Circuit Court,
and was released on 5000 bail.
Four inches of snow fell at Quebec,
Ont, on the 9th. Sleighing was again re-
sumed.
THE Philadelphia Pa. banking firm
of George F. Work 6 Co. is accused of en-
bezzlng something like 100000 from the
Peoples Passenger Railway Company of
that city. Two members of the firm were
arrested a few days ago and warrant
awaited the third partners return from
Florida.
THIRTEEN arrests were made at Lari-
more City, Dak., the other day for the re-
cent murder of the Ward brothers, former
ly of Chicago. -.+-,.i
The workmen at the end of the Can
ada Pacific Railroad, in Manitoba, were
threatened by Indians recently, who COM
planned that their country was being in
vaded. The Indians had shown an I'M
friendly disposition for months previous,
and trouble was feared.
THERE were eight deaths from small
pox at st. Louis, Mo-, during the week
ended on the 2Sth inst
A MOB of disguised men stormed the
Jail at Florence, Lauderdale County, Ala,
the other night, took George Ware, con-
fined therein on the charge of numbering
Robert Bethune, and hung him to a tree. A
reward has been offered for the arrest of
any of the perpetrators of the outrage.
A FIRE which started in q livery sta
BILE at WeIlsburg, w. Va, the other morn
ing destroyed half of one of the best bust
ness blocks in the city.
In religious riot at Port Said, Egypt,
on the 29th several lives were lost. British
troops were called out to protect the Greek
Church.
AT Newaygo. Mich, on the goth,
Brooks Hotel, the Exchange Hotel, two
churches and fourteen other buildings were
swept away by fire, causing loss of $780,
600. The Great Works Milling and Manu-
featuring Company's saw-mills at Bangor,
Me-, were burned on the same day, the loss
being $4,000.
By the capsizing of a man-of-war
boat at Toulon France the other day