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

ton, Mass, was suppressed six years and
found recently among his wife's effects af-
ter she died. There We're several outside
requests. The discovery would result in
litigation between the heirs.
TWENTY duelS between German and
Austrian students are reported to have re-
suited from exercises held at Vienna in
honor of Wagner's memory.
IT was reported on the 21St that the
Chilians were marching on Lapaz, Bolivia
The other day the entire population
of Hermopolis, headed by the Bishop, at
tended the funeral of Frederick Hildner,
one of the oldest American Missionaries in
Greece. s.-...... -...5,5-
FOUR prisoners confined in the Terri
tOrial Penitentiary, at Boise City, l. T.,
overpowered their two guards the other af-
ternoon and made their escape. ''''
j. b. MARSToN, interest clerk of the
Equitable Trust Company, New York City,
has written to his brother acknowledging
that he had appropriated $4,000 of the COM
pany's funds. ~
FIVE men were executed in different
parts of the country on the Esd. Fred. E.
Wait was hanged at Franklin, Texas, for
JdlIcis w dihSly az LitliS
Rock, Ark, for killing Thomas Jenkins !;
two negroes, William Burks and George
Cunningham, at Lafayette, Ga, for murder
and robbery, and James Holt, at Graham,
n. c., for a criminal assault on Mrs. Will
liam Tirrell.
A CHILD of five years who was bitten
by dog at Sioux City, Iowa, died of hy-
drophobia a few days ago.
LOUIS and Nathan Lay, farmers near
Bozeman, Mont, had a quarrel the other day
with Irving Hunter, another farmer, and
the next morning Hunter was found dead in
his field, where he had been seeding, with
his gun near him. The Lays had fled, but
the Sheriff's posse were after them. .,..
ANDERSON THOMAS, who had been
fearfully stabbed by Sim Wilson, died at
Dallas, Tex, few days ago. The Coroner's
Jury returned verdict charging Wilson
with the murder and he was remanded to
Jail. '.a
WILLIAM ii. STEWART. the pOSt-Ottlce
clerk who was arrested at Cincinnati re-
Gently for stealing from letters, made con-
fession on the odd, and seemed disposed to
make restitution. He was III good circum-
stances, the son OF respectable, well-to-do
citizen.
A RECENT San Francisco (Cal.) spe-
cial recounts the discovery of an embezzle-
ment in the office of State HarbOr Commits
sioner John S. Gray, who fled when the
shortage, estimated at $4,000 to 100000,
was discovered.
The statement of Master & Raney,
ship-builders, Baltimore, Md, who made
an assignment recently, shows nominal as
sets of S22S 1856; available assets, $14, -449;
liabilities, $144, 066.
THE jury in the case of George w.
Levi, on trial at Louisville, Ky, for COM
plicity in the City Hall frauds, disagreed
on the ODD and were discharged. A number
of other indictments remained to be tried.
THE other night three boys under
sixteen years of age, students of Wabash
College, at Charlottesville, Ind, We're ar
rested for setting fire to the south hall of
the College. They made a confession, and
also said they broke into a store in the city
some time since and then set it on fire.
THE deficit of Ray, late bookkeeper
for the Merchants Bank, Montgomery,
Ala, is placed at 100000. The cause was
cotton futures and cards.
THE following persons were indicted
for completely in the recent Philadelphia
CPa.) Alms-house frauds: William Z. Cur
rem, John c. Albertson, Charles Fl. Kirke,
j. H. Parke and Henry H. Myers, contract
ors; ex-Store-Keeper James F. Brown and
Boarding House-Keeper Kate Adams. ,
AT day break on the 23d, at Lake Val
lev, Colo, Major Fountains command sur
prised two notorious rustlers-Jack Walls
and William Gillard. They had 200 yards
start when Fountain ordered his men to fire
and both rustlerS fell dead riddled with
bullets.
THE jury in the case Of Nugent and
twelve other members of the Armagh AS
sassinatiOn Society on charge of con-
spiracy to murder, at Belfast, Ireland, re-
turned verdict of guilty on the 23d
TwENTY-THREE smacks and one
hundred and thirty-five persons were lost
in the recent gales on the English coast.
EDRIE A. BLAKE, the defanlting Cash
Ter of the Chicago & Alton Railway freight
office at Bloomington, ILL.,, and who was
rested and taken back to Bloomington from
Massachusetts had a preliminary examin-
alton the other morning, and was held to
bail in the sum of 5000.
NEAR Scranton, Pa, Peter Ward. q
farmer, killed his mother-in-law the other
night. He said she made his life miserable.
a VERDICT of guilty has been rem
dered in the case of Nugent and his twelve
associates in the Armagh Ureland) Assas-
sination League. The crown counsel, in
closing, charged O'Donovan Rosa, P. j.
Sheridan, James Redpath, and John Dewey,
now in the United States, with promoting
conspiracy.
CAPTAIN CAREY, who commanded
the party of English soldiers with Prince
Napoleon when killed, in Zululand, died
recently.
M. SIGIsMUND LACROIX, a Radical,
has been elected to the French Chamber of
Deputies in Gambetta's district in Paris.
THE Williams sewing machine fac
tory at Montreal, Cana, burned the other
night, causing loss estimated at about
quarter of million dollars.
The steamships Fuldy and Salier,
which arrived from Europe on the 24th,
brought 2,155,O0O francs in gold for this
country.