Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


| reaped rich harvest during the recent re-.
union at Springfield, Mo-, quite a number
| of persons in attendance there having lost
their valuables in the crowd.
A PRESBYTERIAN clergyman named
Sweet cut his throat and jumped overheard
from the steamship Manitoba in the straits
of Belle Isle few days ago.
The liabilities of Charles w. Cope
land & Co., of Boston, Mass, who failed
recently, s., l01 800; assets, 81 603, 700, of
which S6l6,i00 is claim against Shaw
Bros. of the same city.
A RECENT fire in Baltimore, Md,
swept off a tinware factory, a synagogue
and twenty houses, causing loss of $50, 900
The Shenango machine-shop at Sharon, O.,
was also burned.
The Irish informers who were refused
permission to land at Melbourne, Austria
liza, recently, because of the alleged discov-
cry of plot to murder them, have been
| transferred to British iron clad.
The Ohio Liquor Dealers Protective
Association met in convention at Toledo n
the 9th to organize for the fall political
campaign.
Mrs. {. E. LITTLE, of Indianapolis,
Ind, who recovered her reason after con-
finement in a lunatic asylum for twenty
seven years, has brought suit for possession
of real estate in that city, now divided
between thiTty-three owners.
THE steamer William Lawrence col
lided with and sank the schooner Maria
Lavina ON the morning of the 10th in the
Chesapeake Bay. The Captains wife and
two children and the cook were drowned
1atorti,-nS cold To ho
in Chicago, Ill, the other day, working up
case against conspirators who have plot
ted to destroy the Weliand Canal.
WILLIAM HENRY OsTRANDER was
hung at Utica, n. Y, on the 10th for the
murder of his brother, George Lyman Os-
traDder, on December Goth, 1880, near West
Camden, in that State, and Running Bird,
an Indian, was executed at Talequah, /. T.,
on the day before, for the murder of Run
ming Water, another Indian.
AN explosion of fire-damp occurred
in the shaft of the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company at Shenandoah, Pa, a few days
ago. One man was killed
The Maryland Republicans will hold
their State Convention at Baltimore, Sep
TENDER 81.
PATRICK O'BRIEN was convicted at
Liverpool, Eng, on the 10th for circulating
pamphlets damaging to jurors in Dublin
courts and sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment.
A. Ross, editor of the Boston
-ddrertiser, was severely hurt at Scranton,
Pa, the other day, while trying to board
moving train.
A MOB made demonstration in front
of police headquarters in Vienna, Austria,
the other day, and were dispersed at the
swords point.
AUGUST cotton returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington are less
favorable than those for July.
- SEVEN fine trotting horses valued at
$4,000 were burned to death in a stable at
the Fair Grounds at Lexington, KY, few
days ago.
Four masons, at work on the fourth
story of a building at Boston, Mass. the
other day, were thrown to the ground by
the fall of staging. One was fatally hurt.
AT Worcester, Mass, on the 10th,
William H. Coburn was killed by the fall
ing of chimney from burning building.
BARON NOLDE, German land
owner, was shot in Russia a few days ago.
His assassins were supposed to be Lithu-
anian peasants, who are bitter against Ger
man landlords.
The British Canadian Lumber Com
pany's mill and yards, at Midland, Ont,
valued at 100000, were swept away by fire
a few days ago.
A HEAVY wind and rain storm at
Paris, KY, the other afternoon damaged
crops and blew down the tent of O'Brien's
circus during the performance. Mrs. DIR
Hurst had leg broken and several other
persons We're slightly injured.
A WAREHOUSE containing seven
floors, stored with cotton, sugar, ETC., was
destroyed by fire at Liverpool, Eng. the other
day, the damage being f40,000. The Rash
leigh Woolen-mills, at Huddersfield, also
burned. Many hands were thrown out of
employment.
ANOTHER collision occurred between
troops and the populace at Ekaterinostav,
Russia, on the 10th, and one hundred people
were killed.
THE Kimball House at Atlanta, Ga,
was burned to the ground on the 18th, hap
PLY without loss of life. The fire occurred
at five o'clock in the morning and as soon
as the fire found to be beyond control
the proprietor had the guests awakened,
the porters breaking down doors where nec-
essary to get the people out. The loss in
property was about $1,000,00O. A bank
which occupied part of the building had
100000 in its vaults, the fate of which was
still in doubt.
JOSEPH FULFORD, white man, and |
Harry Bradley, a negro, were lynched by a |
mob near cambridge, Miller County, Ga,
the other night, for the murder of Fulford's |
wife.
A MAN went into 4 New York market |
the other day, picked up a cleaver, chopped |
off one of his fingers and walked away |
without making any explanation.
WELLS, FARGO & Co.'S express was
robbed of $500 near Pioneer, Ariz., the |!
other day, and the agent killed.
A FEW days ago the Atlantic & Pa
cific Railroad was formally opened for !
Pacific coast business via Albuquerque, N. |
NJ.
THREE fourteen-year-old boys were
struck by lightning near Lincoln, Neb., the |