Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-23
A FIRE at Vineyard Haven, a Mas


| sachusetts summer resort, destroyed 6
number of cottages, mostly belonging to
| summer residents, the other night, the loss
being estimated at fully 100000.
L. E. WATKINS, charged with cattle
| stealing, was forcibly taken from the She-.
| iff at Canyon City, Colo, the other night by
| cowboys, shot to death and the body
| hanged from the timbers of a bridge in the
suburbs of the town.
The large tannery of P. & p. Cos
| tello, at Camden, n. Y, was destroyed by
| fire the other night, together with large
| amount of stock. Loss estimated at $780,
600; insurance $4,000. At Meaford, Ont,
Methodist Church two hotels and nine
stores were swept away, the loss being
! $4,000.
RECENT cablegrams announced that
the French Admiral Pierre had issued a
proclamation forbidding foreign soldiers
to land at Tamatave, and the British were
going to make further inquiries about it.
The wife OF United States Senator w.
B. Allison committed suicide at Dubuque,
Iowa, the other night by drowning herself
in the Mississippi River, while laboring un-
der fit of insanity.
A FEW days ago the mutilated remains
of four white men were found in railroad
camp on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad,
near Cumberland Falls, Tenn. The theory
was that the men fought double duel
over cards.
AT the farm of L. n. Carter, five
miles east of Kokomo, Ind, the other af,
ternoon his boy, four years old, set fire to
the hay in the barn. The barn was con-
o,,I n rrir ri ri Inv poI
to death. T,
THE steamer Charmer with a large
pleasure party on board sank off South
Chicago, ILL.,, the other day, but the Cupid
came along and took off the passengers.
THE Freedman's Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church received last
year more than S11S,000. .r
The centennial of the incorporation
of the city of Charleston, S. c., was cele.
brated on the 18th.
MAYOR WHITE and six ex-Fire Com
missioners of Baltimore, Md, have been
indicted for malfeasance in office.
The Hotel Deston, on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, twenty miles from Phila-
delphia, burned on the morning of the 18th.
SEVERAL American artists have been
Germany art exhibition.
A MONUMENT commemorative of the
defense of Paris was unveiled on the 18th
at the French capital.
ANOTHER slight earthquake was felt
at Casamicciola, Italy, the other day.
A vIRULENT foot and mouth disease
has broken out among Canadian cattle at
Bristol, Eng.
ID. o. MILLS has given the. State of
California, for the rotunda of the Capitol
at Sacramento, piece of statuary nine feet
in height, representing Columbus at the
court of Queen Isabella. Its cost was
So, 900.
The Associated Press excursion to
Yellowstone Park had returned to the
Northern Pacific Railroad on the 18th. The
Presidents exploring expedition was still
catching trout.
THE Emperor of Austria and the
King of Servia will have an interview in
Hungary next month.
RECENT advices from the Interior OF
Mexico state that at Tizimin, Yucatan,
Sotavento and Vera Cruz the supply of
corn is exhausted and all provisions axe
very high in price. A famine was feared
along the Southern Pacific coast.
IT is reported that General Cortina.
with three hundred Mexican revolution
lists, was in Queretaro q few days ago.
There We're indications of a revolt in the
northern States against what was deemed
a usurpation of power by the General Gov.
eminent.