Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-06-21
BIDGooD, JONES & WILSON, London

bIDGOOD, JONES u WILSON, LONDON
(Eng.) wooden warehousemen, have failed,
with liabilities estimated at $4,000.
SIX hundred assisted emigrants
sailed for America from Galway on the 9th.
A RECENT Washington special to the
Cleveland Herald states that POSTMASTER
General Gresham denies the published
| statement that he has decided to exclude
patent insides' from the mails as second
class matter" In view of the law of Con-
gress passed in 1874, providing shat news
papers, one copy to each actual subscriber,
residing in the county where the same are
printed, in whole or in part and published,
| shall go free through the mails" such de-
cision by the Post-office Department as
that limited at would be in violation of law
and of no binding force.
THE recent explosion in the powder
magazine at Scutari, Turkey, caused by
| lightning, killed ten soldiers and seven civ
ilians and wounded forty soldiers and fif-
teen civilians. A portion of the bastion
fell on a bazaar adjoining the magazine,
causing great destruction to property.
| DURING the week ended on the 9th
inst, there were thirty-two deaths from
yellow fever at Havana, Cuba.
FRANCES M. Scoville, the sister of
Charles Guiteau, who was divorced from
her husband, George Scoville, last January,
has filed petition in the Circuit Court at
Chicago, ILL.,, to have her name changed to
| Frances Maria Howe.
| CHARLES Pollock, aged twenty-eight
| years, and the son of a wealthy resident of
| Nincennes, Ind, murdered his wife,
| eighteen years of age, and killed himself at
| his fathers residence the other night.
The cause of the tragedy unknown
The couple had been married about six
months, and had lived happily together,
although the husband was addicted to
strong drink.
HENRY COLBERT was taken from jail
at Hickman, KY, early the other morning,
and had not been heard of to the 18th inst.
1t was supposed he had been lynched.
THE trial of the dynamite cOnspira-
tors, DR.. Gallagher, Bernard Gallagher,
Ansburgh, Curtin, Whitehead and Wilson,
charged with treason and felony, was be-
gun at London, Eng, on the 18th. Lynch,
alias Norman, the informer, repeated his
testimony in regard to the doings of the
conspirators previous to and after their ar
rival in England from America.
THERE was murder at Troy, n. Y,
on the afternoon of the 18th, and two other
men were so badly wounded it was thought
they would die. The trouble grew out of
the strike of moulders at the Maleable
Iron Works in progress in that city.
Tom SMART, a negro over thirty years
of age, was arrested at Milwaukee, Wis,
the other day for clipping from Fond du
Lac with Lille Schmaelig, white girl,
sixteen years old. He was employed as
cook at the American House at Fond du
Lac, but was formerly of the Newhall
House, Milwaukee.
ANOTHER twenty-five mile section of
the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana
has been accepted by the President.
DIR. BUCHANAN, of bogus medical di-
ploma fame, was arrested at Philadelphia,
Pa, the other day at the instance of his
daughter, charged with transferring prop
erty belonging to her.
A YEAR ago the large ornate and
costly elevator of the Navy Department at
Washington fell a considerable distance
and injured several persons. 1t fell again
on the 18th about twenty feet. Seven pas
sengers were severely shocked and bruised,
but none of them seriously injured.
THE suit of Mary Alice Almont Liv-
ingston, the young lady who sued Henry
Fleming, wealthy New York oil broker,
for breach of promise, has been settled by
compromise. At the trial Miss Livingston
got verdict for $75, 900 damages, and a
motion for q new trial was made on TIL
ground that new evidence had been discovo
cred