Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

F1Ske, whereby COTuell university received
s., 500 900.
JOHN CRANE, a wealthy citizen of
New London, Ia, fatally stabbed his wife
on the 9th, for having him arrested.
MARTIN KALLER was killed by Con-
stable johnson in Highland Park, suburb
of Chicago, the night of the 9th. Kaller's
friends tried to burn Johnson's house after
the killing.
HE JacksbOrO stage was robbed near
Weatherford, Tex, recently by two men,
who secured two watches $3.50 in money
and several registered letters from the
mail.
FOREST fires were raging on the 9th
on the shores of Sandy Ponu, lying between
the towns of Sayer-Groton and Littleton,
Mass.
The lighthouse at Point Marion, Miss
issippi Sound, burned the night of the 5th.
The inmates, two young men, drifted off on
door, but were rescued.
The elevator operated by S. NJ. West
burned at Faribault, Mimi, on the 9th.
Supposed incendiary. 1t contained 1000
bushels of wheat. Loss, $4,000.
By the explosion of gas at the Fair
lawn Mine at Scranton, Pa, on the 9Th, Dan
Saurwine, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Fairlawn Coal Company, and D. c. Black
wood were fatally injured.
The natives of Zululand are reported
as waging a war of mutual determination.
FRED LAUER, well-known brewer
and first President of the United States
Brewers Congress, died at Reading, Pa,
on the 9th, aged seventy three.
CLIFFORD LLOYD, recently appointed
Inspector of Reforms in Egypt, sailed for
Cairo on the 9th.
AT Sandy Hilly, N. Y, on the night
of the 9TH NJ. S. Teller, druggist, shot
himself fatally with the same weapon, in
the same room and at the same hour that
his father had killed himself year ago.
A STEAMSHIP was recently discovered
driven ashore near Indian Harbor, N. S.,
and was supposed to be the missing White
Star line steamer Ludwig. The Ludwig
sailed from Antwerp on the Cd of July, and
had not been heard of since. She had twen-
ty-six passengers and a crew numbering
thirty persons.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR reached Wash
ington on the eth.
ENGLISH harvest work was being Sc
riously retarded by wet weather.
Ten leaders of the Vienna working
mems riot were arrested on the It'll.
The steamer Lilley recently exploded
on the Saskatchewan, 600 miles west of
Winnipeg.
ADMIRAL PIERRE, the recalled French
commander, was reported dying at Mar
settles on the 7th.
FRANCE was modifying her transport
service, but hoped the trouble with China
might be compromised.
LATE estimates placed the Michigan
wheat crop at 23,OOO,OOO bushels, being
slightly less than the July estimate.
REV. THos. OAKLEY, delivery clerk
in the Cleveland Postoffice, was arrested on
the eth, charged with stealing postage
stamps.
The musicians quarters at the Long
Branch Hotel burned ON the It'll. One man
was burned to crisp, and several were
saved with difficulty.
THE city of Pensacola, Fla, was re-
ported on the eth as still healthy, but
yellow fever was on the increase at the
been reported within thirty-six hours.
No deaths.
Mrs. JULIA P. SMITH, novelist, was
killed by runaway horse while driving
at Hartford, Conn.,, on the It'll.
A CONGRESSIONAL election has been
ordered for the First District of North Car
olina on November 20 to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Walter F. Pool.
AT the meeting of the American
Social Science Association on the 18th. Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton, of Cleveland, read paper
on employer and Employed"
RUDOLPH SCHLEGEL, who said he had
left his home in Chicago on account of fam
lily trouble, shot himself at East Cleveland
the night of the 9th and lay down in field
to die. 1t was thought the wound would
prove fatal.
The National Prison Association was
reorganized on the 7th at Saratoga, and
Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes elected
President. Papers were read on proven
ton of crime and prison reform.
The business failures reported
throughout the United States and Canada
for the week ending the eth number 156, as
compared with 1856 the preceding week, a
decrease of %, distributed as follows: New
England States, 10; Middle, %; Western,
4S; Southern, %; Pacific States and Terri
tories, IS, and New York City, 4.
AT session of the international
Labor Institute on the 9Th at Munich,
Bavaria, John T. Dillon, Professor of the
Law School, Columbia College, New York,
was elected an associate member.
HALF the village of Deep Creek, Nor
folk County, Va, was destroyed by fire on
the 9th.
JOHANN GOTTLEINTZ JACKSON, who
robbed his employer, merchant in Mos
cow, Russia, was arrested on the 9th by the
New York police.
EX-Gov. BEDLE, of New Jersey, fell
on the Sth at Courtlandt street ferry, New
York, and broke leg.
BRITISH residents il Chinese ports are
indignant that there is no British fleet in
those waters. Foreigners occupy pre-
carious situation there.
PROLONGED shocks of an earthquake
were felt at Lima, Peru, at eleven O'Clock
D. m. the evening of the 9th.
AT the instance of the Northern Pa
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