Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| over 500, 900 of the firms money.
. NINE boys between the ages of nine and
! twelve years were srraigned in Justices
] Court at Denver, Colo, the other morning
ON charges of burglary, and all but two
were sentenced to three years confinement
each.
Two heavy failures were announced
on the Goth, that of the Manchester Iron
and Steel Company, capital stock 500, 900,
at Pittsburgh. Pa, and that of E. w. Hol-
brook q Co., cotton goods manufacturers,
with liabilities of 900, at New York.
/ GUM, CURTIS & Co., printers and
stationers, Boston, Mass, have suspended
payment, with liabilities of some $1aO,OOO
| HE heaviest storm of the season Wis
tied Dubuque, To-, and vicinity on the 10Th.
A number OF barns and outhouses and the
tower Of the Boring Company, in Linwood
| Cemetery, were Frustrated. In the country
the grain was laid fiat on the ground. AT
Georgetown, Wis, barns and fences were
| blown down, trees uprooted and many fields
| ruined. Similar destruction was reported
at Washington Mills, To-, and considerable
damage was done in other sections.
AT q church picnic near Cincinnati,
O., the other day Otto Hagen quarreled
with an eighteen-year-old boy named Nein,
pursued him to the river and stabbed him
| to death.
FIFTEEN cigar factories in New York
| City have locked their doors against en-
ployes numbering ten thousand.
GILBERT j. HINE, leading citizen of
Middleport, n. Y, undertook to pick cher
ries from a housetop the other day, but lost
his balance and was instantly killed.
TWELVE officers of the Egyptian
| army have been sentenced to penal servi-
tude in the Soudan for completely in the
riots at Alexandria last summer.
| MAJOR ROBERT SMITH, of Davenport,
To-, died a few days ago from injuries in
fiicted by himself. 1t was said that he
lived ten days with a bullet in his brain.
SEVERAL of the crew of the United
States steamer Lancaster were arrested at
Hamburg, Germany, the other day for riot
| Gus conduct.
GEORGE KILLMER was killed by a
| train at Allentown, Pa, the other day
while escaping from the scene of a bur-
| glary he had committed.
| DURING a storm at New York on the
ed twelve inmates of Bellevue Hospital,
seated on balcony, were Frustrated by
| lightning. All were considerably stunned,
but fortunately none were seriously in
| jured.
A TRAIN went through bridge on
the Knoxville Branch of the Louisville &
! Nashville Railroad, at New Haven, KY,
the other day, killing the engineer, fireman
and one brakeman.
NJ. ALFRED NAoUET, a Republican
member of the French Chamber, has been
| elected Senator.
RICCIOTTI GARIBALDI has been de-
| feated for a seat in the Italion Chamber of
| Deputies.
/ LIGHTNING struck house containing
! 1000 pounds of dynamite. at the salt mines
on Avery's Island, near New Orleans, La,
the other morning, and the terrific explosion
which followed did much damage to build
| ings, cars, etc. The windows in building
| a mile away were shattered. No lives were
| lost.
THE deaths from yellow fever at Ha-
vana. Cuba, on the 21st were thirty-nine.
Among those stricken with the disease was
! General f. o. c. Ord, who was dangerously
! i'll.
| FIFTY-sEvEN indictments for fraud,
! false entries of public lands, etc, were pre-
| SeHpeu dO santa re. ~ NJ OH tuc -lSt, as
the result of an investigation which had been
| in progress in that State for some months
by Special Agent Eddy, of the interior De-
partment-
| NEARLY five hundred employees of the
Birmingham (Ala.) Rolling mills struck the
other day against a reduction of wages.
| They also induced strike of puddlers at
the Brinfield Iron-works.
| FIVE more corpses of the victims of
the steamer Daphne disaster at Glasgow,
Scotland, were recovered on the 2lst,
making the number of bodies so far found
| 123.
LATER accounts of the alleged sack
ing of the American Consulate at Monte
rey, Mex, say it was but an ordinary rob-
berry. The acting Consul was not danger
ously injured.
The Russian Government has sent a
commission to inquire as to the civil rights
of Jews in England, France and Germany.
ADvICEs from Washington, D. c., on
| the 21st said the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital had been informed that
| smallpox and yellow-fever had appeared
| in Matanzas and Cienfugos, Cuba, and that
| cholera existed in Campeachy and Oaxaca.
Mexico.
The majority report on public char
| tiles made to the Legislature of Massachu-
| sets pronounces the charges made by Gov
ernOr Butler against the management at the
| Tewksbury Almshouse groundless and
| cruel.
| JUDGE BLODGETT, of Chicago. ILL.,,
decides that national bank stockholders
| are liable for debts of the bank to the
| amount of their stock, and that individual
suits to recover on this liability can be
begun without the Intervention of re-
| ceiver.
! A YOUNG man from Clinic n, H., was
arrested at Red Fork, Ark, the other day
for trying to leave without paying a debt.
He was convicted and sentenced to work in
the field with the chain gang, where the
overseer, Alfred Werner, had him whipped
by negroes so that he died. The Sheriff ar
rested Werner and three negroes and was
| taking them to Arkansas City on the
steamer Ida Darragh At Burnett's land
! tho boat allv