Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-26
pERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tempted to arrest him for murderous as.
sault ON his wife. @
F | WILLIAM NJ. CROCKETT, who it was
alleged murdered J. F. Hunt in Wytheville,
Va, was lynched the other day by one
hundred masked men.
THE steamer WILLY struck the bridge
at Fort Gaines, Ga, the other day and sunk
| immediately. Ten persons were reported
missing.
THE largest order for blank forms
ever given the Public Printer has been is
sued by the Commissioner of Internal reve-
nue. at Washington on account of the rebate
on tobacco and cigars.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at a
saw-mill three miles north of Armada, Ma.
comb County, Mich, the other day. Philip
Short, while oiling buzz-saw, was caught
by the sleeve and had his right arm and leg
cut entirely off, the saw ran the entire
length of the other leg from the thigh to the
foot and then threw him sir feet away,
striking his head on a bolt, making frac-
ture three inches deep. He lived three
hours after the accident.
ONE of the most destructive fires in
the history of Denver, Colo, occurred in
that place the other night in the total de-
struction of the Continental Oil and Trans
portation Company's Works. Two hundred
thousand gallons of oil and the extensive
tankage buildings were consumed, involv-
ing loss of 100000. Incendiarism was
suspected.
JOE BRADY was convicted at Dublin,
Ireland, on the 18th and sentenced to be
hanged May IA for the Phoenix Park MUIR
ders.
WHILE Nicholas Sheron, of Milan,
O., was putting on q tin roof at Chicago
Junction the other day he was blown off
the building by the wind, the fall breaking
his neck.
In the trial of Scheller on the charge
of setting fire to the Newhall House in Mil
waukee, Wis, the chief engineer testified
that Scheller's attorney tried to get him to
swear that the fire started from a gas-jet.
THE wages question involved in the
Cincinnati, tO.) cigar-makers' strike had
been settled on the 18th, but other demands
of the men had not been conceded, and
work was still interrupted.
THE Union Trust Company of ST.
Louis, Mo-, has been blacklisted by the
Post-office Department.
AT Lake City, Colo, Alfred &. Packer
has been convicted of numbering five men
in San Juan County in 1872.
THE jury in the case of ex-Mayor
Debevois, Long Island City, N. Y, who
was tried for the wrongful conversion of
city bonds, has found a verdict against de-
PENDANT for 800, 700. A motion for new
trial was denied, as was also motion fer
stay of proceedings.
ROBERT MASSEY was executed in Fort
Smith, Ark, on the 18th for the murder of
Edwin P. Clark in the Chickasaw Nation,
December IA, 1881. At Carrollton, Miss,
on the same day, James E. Robinson was
hanged for the murder of William e..
Adair.
CHARLES SMITH, living near Earl
vile, Iowa, killed his wife and two sons a
few days ago and then committed suicide.
BRADsTREET's Commercial Agency.
the Remington Arms Company and the
Hall Safe and Lock Company were burned
out in New York on the 10Th. Loss, $780,
600. ...
IT is reported from Dublin, Ireland,
that only seven of the eleven men indicted
for the Ppnix Park murders will be tried
on capital charges. =
THE London Eng.) police were re-
ported to be watching for cargo of dyna
mite from Antwerp on the 18th.
A FIRE at Plymouth, Ind, the othes
morning destroyed the best business bloch
in the town, containing ten stores and other
buildings.
A LARGE number of evicted Irish ten
ants arrived in Boston and Philadelphia On
the 18th. They had been furnished passage
by the British Government.
THE mother of lyman, the man WHOM
informer Carey testified was "No. l." YVES
reported to have said recently that she be-
lieved he was an officer of the Irish Invinci-
bles.
THE Indians were reported raiding III
West Texas on the 18th and the Rangers
were preparing to take the field.
The crew of wrecked Norwegian
vessel were picked up off the North Care"
lima coast a few days ago. Three haf
broken legs and the Captain had several
ribs broken. tf.
OLNEY BURGESS, Rhode Island des-
perado, after killing two men at killinglys
Conn.,, has committed suicide in Jail.
A CAvE-IN occurred at the COPYRIGHT
Mines at Plainsville, Pa, the other day.
The surface settled five feet, extending
across the main roadway.
IT is said the Pope has decided that
no priest who has participated in the Irish
agitation shall become Bishop.
Two THOUSAND arrests were said to
have been made in Moscow, Russia, to a
late date on suspicion of conspiracy against
the Cars life.
ALL the roads in the Deadwood poI'-
ton of the Black Hills were reported ON tho
10Th to be blocked by heavy snow-stori,
SECRETARY FoLGER has appointed y
committee to investage charges of officisl
misconduct recently filed against James G.
Hill, Supervising Architect of the Treas:
ury.
A NEGRO, who at Windsor, N. c.,
grossly assaulted daughter of James
Freeman recently, was captured there anl
taken from Jail by mob and hanged.
CHARLES E. ENDICoTT has instituteI
proceedings against Representative Ar
drew J. Browne, of Boston, Mass, for IA
alleged malicious attack in the Legislature