Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-03
THERE was an explosion IN the Gov

- HERE was an explosion IN the GOV-
eminent small-arms factory at Enfield,
Eng, the other day. Nobody hurt and lit
tie damage done, but pieces of a tin box
were found after the explosion.
IT was reported on the 22d inst. that
the British Ambassador had been In
structed to ask the French Government for
the extradition of two Irishmen suspected
of completely in the dynamite conspira.
cieS.
News has been received of the death
of Mrs. Slower, sister of ex-Presideut John
son, at the Union Depot in Carter County,
Tenn. She was buried at Greenville q few
days ago. This leaves Mrs. Patterson, who
formerly presided at the White House, the
last survivor of the late Presidents family.
IT was understood in Quebec, Cana,
recently that the Central Railway would
lose $3.50, 900 by the failure of it's English
agents, Cooper, Hall & Co.
THE warehouse of Sir Edward Bates
and ship chandlery of Garner, Bibby 6
CO., Bancelot's quay, Liverpool Eng.,were
destroyed by fire the other night. Loss
over f10OOO0.
CAPTAIN DAVIS, of the Memphis
(Tenn.) fire department., was killed, by a
i
other night. Pipeman McManus had his
hip dislocated and was otherwise injured,
but would recover.
WYATT BANKS, .colored, an accomplice
in the murder of Add. WISER, the Robert
son County jailer, was publicly executed
at Franklin, Tex, on the 23d. ..z~s.. .-,
Two Chinese miners have been killed
in British Columbia by Indians. - 81 = =
The strike of the bakers, begun at
Vienna recently, is spreading to other
Austrian cities. ! - "a
e.. Two HUNDRED. persons left Berne,
Switzerland, for America the other day on
account of the agricultural distress.
IT is reported that Lynch, the APP
proven. and five Others were sent to Eng
land some weeks ago from New York by a
committee of the Fenian brotherhood,
NO'Donovan Rosa being one Of the COM
inittee = , - 80 ~ SltN - ~
THE death of Colonel Andrew Tai
colt occurred at Richmond. Va, on the 23d
He was the oldest graduate of West Point.
TIMOTHY KELLY, the alleged Phoenix
Park murderer, in whose case the jury
failed to agree the other day, was again
placed on trial ON the 23d. The, real name
of Featherstone, one of the alleged dyna-
mite conspirators, was Edmond O'Brien
Kennedy. 1t was believed he had turned
informer. -
= w. II. SINCLAIR, book-keeper, and L.
B. Halliday, salesman of the flour firm of
Lang, Robinson & CO., were reported to
have fed from New York the other day
after appropriating considerable of the
firms cash to their own use. i.l.s ~r5r -
MATT LEWIS, convicted for the third
time at st. Louis, Mo-, of the murder of his
wife in October, 1876, has been sentenced to
be hanged June g.
JOHN MORRISON, a carriage-dcaler of
Chicago, who recently made an assignment
to his brother, claiming that his safe had
been robbed of 5000, has been taken to
Columbus, Ohio, upon requisition charg-
ing him with obtaining $3.50 worth of
goods under false pretenses.
NEWS has just been received that
Las Minas, between Nenevitas and Puerto
Principe, Cuba, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst, two hun
dred buildings, including a church, being
destroyed. Many families were left desti-
tute.
Two missionaries of the Presbyterian
Church, named Chapman and Kenny, were
drowned few days ago on the northwest
coast of British Columbia.
In saloon row at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, the other day Wensel Kirchmer, a
Bohemian, was struck heavy blow on the
temple and died the next morning. Charles
Fraser was arrested for the deed.