Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-31
Two boys went into Wilkesbarre

(Pa.) mine few days ago, with naked
palms, and were killed by gas explosion.
PRAYERS were said in Catholic
churches at Toronto, Cana, the. other day
for the repose of the souls of the Phoenix
Park assassins, Brady and Curley.
The employees in Bolckow, Vaughan
& Co.'s iron works at Middleborough, Eng.
were on a strike on the 21st because of
reduction of wages. Four thousand persons
were affected ~l= 3 y -
A DISPATCH from Berlin, Germany,
on the 21st announced that the village of
Nuenkershen was totally destroyed by fire.
Even the fruit-trees were burned. The en-
tire population of 300 were homeless.
A BOILER exploded the other after.
noon at the Wolverine Paper-mill, Detroit,
Mich, blowing out one side of the building
and killing the engineer and fireman.
A LARGE number of the railroad coal
miners in the Pittsburgh (Pa.) district
have returned to work pending the arbi-
tration negotiations.
SHANGA, arrested for the murder at
Ofen, March %, of the President of the
Hungarian Court of Cassation, has made a
full confession of his guilt. .frt. .rf..r
In the case of William H., Bush,
charged by ex-senator Tabor, at Denver,
| Colo, with embezzlement of $1,000, the jury
| were out five minutes and returned a YER
dict of not guilty. '''.' - |f''" )fi
ELIAS DEvINE, William Dunwoodv and
Frank W. Loder, well-known citizens of
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., have been arrested in
| that city on a charge of arson to obtain in
| surance.
THE Marquis of Orovic, leader of the
| Conservative party in the Spanish Senate,
died at Madrid, a few days ago. '"Gfri
HARDY CLIFFORD has been sentenced
to life imprisonment, at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
for the murder of Captain Pugh, at Racine,
| about year ago. r., t.....
WHILE resisting arrest anegro named
Oscar Pollack was shot four times by the
Marshal, at Millersburg, KY, the other
| morning, and died Instantly. The negro
knocked the Marshal down several times
| before he was shot: az, .f5,f...4 ..
CHARLES AVERY, who was Professor
| of Chemistry in Hamilton College, New
| York, for thirty five years, from 1884 to
1869, died the other day at the age of eighty
seven years. .jt ts'H,T t-fH Ira =
A FIRE which originated by the burn
ing of brush near Groton, VT, the other day
!
| est fires ever known in that section, prop
| erty valued at $780, 900 being destroyed and
| a number of families being rendered home
| less. - .''47s-pEa's5 e. ift #aY
The Rev. DR.. Hornblower, of the
| Western Theological Seminary, was
stricken with paralysis while preaching a
few days ago in Pittsburgh, Pa.
TREvELYAN, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, informed the Commons on the DIST
that the office of special Resident Magis-
| trate in Ireland was to be abolished.
| A TRANSFER steamer sank disabled
pleasure yacht in, Detroit harbor and the
courts have given the yacht owners judy
ment for damages, holding that pleasure
| boat has as much right of navigation as
| any other vessel. & 90! = - gs.-. g..
| 1T is reported from London that the
Governor-G eneralship of Canada, in sue
cession to the Marquis of Lorne, has been
offered to the Marquis of Landsdowne. who
has accepted.
GEORGE H. STUART, President of the
| United States Christian Commission, has
| issued call for a. reunion of members of
the Christian and Sanitary Commissions
and Federal and Confederate Chaplains of
the rebellion on July %, at Ocean City,
| N. J. 4' 81 '-'i ..
VARIOUS points from Lake Erie south
| to the Ohio River reported heavy snow on
the 21st inst. The corn crop was threat
| ened with great damage by the cold, wet
| weather.