Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Schenlay to obtain possession of wharf
property at Pittsburgh, Penn, of the value
of nearly $2,OO0,000 has been nonsuited.
OWING to a threatened strike of bakers
at Vienna, Austria, the other day, bread
famine was feared.
T.. THE Fitzhugh levee, five miles below
Helena, Ark, in process of reconstruction,
gave way the other night, the break being
200 yards wide. This crevasse increased
the overfiowed area of the country one
third. "a.
HERMAN HARTMAN, Del Rhoades,
Grant Moore and Wiltz were drowned near
Wiliiamsport, Pa, few days ago by the
capsizing of their boat. a.f,r,,,
In fcave-in of the gangway of, the
Tunnel. Colliery, at Ashland, Va, q few
days ago, one house disappeared.
BOOTH EDWARDS, confined in the
Hart County (Ky.) Jail under sentence to
be hanged May is for the murder of Arch
Long, last December, shot himself through
the head the other day, dying instantly. 1t
was not known how he obtained the pistol.
THE Ohio Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 10Th. .,.,....... --, $500. (
KINGSTON, the alleged Irish Invinci-
BILE arrested on the 18th inst, is said to
have been for some time the head-center of
the organization. E3ii't "1.T
EIGHTEEN Nihilists were convicted
on the 10Th in st. Petersburg, Russia, six
being sentenced to death. .-r ....' 90
81 ABOUT three hundred cowboys in the
Texas Panhandle were reported on strike
on the 10Th, and threatened to kill any new
men who came in. I'D.
ROBERT MOVERS, of Wythevflle, Va,
refuses to leave that town on warning
from the men who lynched Bob Crockett a
few DAYS since. s. s'.y.' .. --i.If.: al
THE Parliament buildings atQuebec,
Cana, were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
= AT fire in, Sacramento, CAL, the
ether morning several persons were killed
and twelve wounded by the fall of roof.
b The American Express ,Company's
agents at Milwaukee, Wis, discovered
that package shipped from Newark, N.
J., few days ago contained twenty five
pounds of dynamite. The package bore no
mark to indicate it's contents. =, .r.i, .,.,
In the trial of Kelly, at Dublin, Ire-,
land, on the 10Th. for the Phoenix Pnrk
murders, the defense endeavored to estab-
lish an alabi. The case was given to the
jury and they failed to agree. A hew trial
would be had. -.'' ''' ''it g.
A PARTY Of trarhps took possession of
the bridge at Brainard, Mimi, the other
day, and extracted toll from all who passed.
The Sheriff and posse took the field and
captured eight. Two officers and one
tramp were wounded in the fight. 49,, -,
MILwAUKEE's only female lawyer
was fined fifty dollars a few days ago for
throwing a glass of water in the judges
face.
The body of Maggie Henneke, who
Wis, October oath, and for whom dilligent
search had been made in different parts of
the country since, was found in the river
at Milwaukee few days ago.
EDWARD Nook, the first man in the
United States to puddle iron, died at
Youngstown, o., the other afternoon of
paralysis, aged eighty-one years.
AN extensive cont1agration was
raging at Delhi, India, on the Goth. Two
thousand houses had been destroyed and a
great number of families were destitute
and homeless. At Hamburg, Germany, on
the same day, three of the largest oil ware
houses in the city were burned, fifteen
thousand hundred weight of oil being con-
sumed. lH,' ,'-....- 4....-... -.r54
FIRE on the Goth burned out three
wholesale firms at New Orleans, La, caus-
ing a loss of 100000, and a lumber mill
few miles from Texarkana, Tex, valued at
100000.
GEORGE J. KREGs, postmaster at
Fremont, O., was reported $1,000 deficient
in his accounts a few days ago, and steps
had been taken to remove him.
HELEN MARCOvITCH, the woman who
tried to shoot King Milan in the cathedral
at Belgrade, Servia, has made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to comm!t'suicide.
JOHN NOLAN, aged nineteen, William
RUSSELL. aged SEVENTEEN and Il Thomas
Nevin, aged eighteen, are a trio of young
villains who haye been burglarizing stores
and dwellings in New London County,
Conn, during the past winter. They have
been arrested. 80 81. ..-- o. 30 -itE d, .r;i'
THE Upper Genesee River at Wells
vile, n. Y, was full of floating oil the 9th
err day, caused by the bursting of the Rich
burg and WeIlsburg pipe line, which re-
suited in the loss of about 1000 barrels be-
fore it could be checked.
The net earnings of the Atchison,
Topeka 6 Santa ,Fe Railroad last year were
S6,l36,000.
TWENTY persons have been arrested
in the town of Midtown Malbay, County
Glare, 1relatid, ON d charge of conspiracy
to murder landlords, agents and officials.
Two of the prisoners turned informers.
THE death of Suleiman Pasha, who,
commanded the gallant but disastrous at
tack on the Russians in Shipka Pass, has
been announced. ...
STANDARD silver dollars issued for the
week ended on the a:,t was 500, 400; for
the corresponding peslod last year, $132,-
800.
A FIRE at Aurel:a, Iowa, the other
morning destroyed twenty-five. buildings,
the estimated loss being near 100000 Al
most the entire business portion of the
town was swept away and several persons
had narrow escapes from death. .e IF
A COMPANY has been formed in Gin
cinnati, o., to export whisky in bond and
house it abroad.
The Potts Colliery Company of Ash