Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-05

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Ger, Horace Wheaton, was won by Morton
in twenty steps, Lancashire style test.
A BAND of prospectors, while inspect
ing some coal fields near Charleston, Arizo-
IA, recently, We're attacked by Indians,
and several of them killed.
A FEUD between cattlemen culminat-
ed in a fight near Fort Huachcua, on the
Mexican border of Arizona, lately, in which
six men were killed.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the MINIS for the week ending March
"a was $21S, 495; corresponding period last
year SIS, 800. ..a.
The statement of the United States
Treasurer showed gold, silver and United
States notes in the Treasury on the 24th
as follows: Gold coin and bullion, S1S2, $780,
155; silver dollars and bullion, S106, 4S7, 1872 !;
fractional silver coin, $21,709,5 19; United
States notes, $H,s179 800; total, 1851 ,625 1856.
Certificates outstanding: Gold, $4O,075,94 40;
silver, 500, 1O5, $40; currency, $9,s19,5oo.
The poetess, Mrs. Helen Hunt jack
son, has been commissioned by the Govern
ment to investigate the condition of the
Mission Indians of California.
A DUBLIN Qreland) newspaper cor
respondent said recently that the person
referred to as '' No 1" by James; Carey in
his testimony at the hearing of the assassin
alton prisoners, was known to be in Mexico,
beyond the reach of the English authorities.
EDRIE A. BLAKE, defaulting Cashier
of the Chicago & Alton Railway freight
office at Bloomington, ILL.,, and who was
arrested and taken back to Bloomington
Mo- rb1,So 70 had iroi
animation the other morning, and was held
to bail in the sum of s. 900.
IT was believed that the debts OF
James Dunn, who disappeared from Long
Branch, n. j., recently, would aggregate
S15, 900 to $4,000. Daniel Ferns, his father
ill-law, who Endorsed heavily for him, had
transferred his property to his son.
THREE soldiers of the One Hundred
and Eighth Regiment, who were arrested at
Paris, France, on charge of Socialism,
have been found guilty and sentenced to
join regiments in distant parts of Algeria.
SNOwDEN & Co., Montreal Cana
shoe dealers, have failed for 100000. Also
the wool house of Harrington 81 Symonds
of Boston, Mass, liabilities $4,000.
G. P. MARKLE & Sons, the largest
vania, have made an assignment.
THE attorney who defended Sergea Mt
Mason in his trial for shooting at Guiteau
has sued him and his wife Betty for So, 800
counsel fees.
THIRTEEN buildings in Duluth, Mimi,
including the Central House, We're destroyed
by recent fire. The total loss was esti-
mated at $1,000, upon which there was an
insurance of So, O00
CHARLES MITCHELL, an English pu-
gilist, arrived at New York the other
morning via the Republic. He came over
under the auspices of Billy Madden to fight
Sullivan.
FERGUsON, the Louisville (Ky.) de-
faulting Back-tax Collector, was given five
years imprisonment under plea of guilty
on the 10Th. %
In the Indian Territory General Por-
ter's forces had disbanded on the Goth and
the United States troops were after Spie-
chez.
DWIGHT f. WHEATON, accused of the
murder of Engineer O'Niell at Bloomington,
ILL.,, has been acquitted by the jury.
EDWARD NOBLE, who with his father
stood trial in Peoria County, H., few
weeks ago for murder and was acquitted,
was shot from ambush and killed the other
night in Tazewell County.
LIEUT.-COLONEL FRANKLIN HAIR
wood, United States Engineer Corps, was
found dead in his room at Boston (Mass.}
hotel ON the goth. Congestion of the brain
was the cause. ..,t. .s,..-.... ...: