Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-15
Personal AND GENERAL.

BAvIER BROTHERS, silk merchants
| of Lyons, France, have failed for 100000.
E. A. SHANNON, who had recently cut
quite a swell in Dallas (Tex.l society, has
| been arrested and taken to Waco, where he
| was wanted on charge of theft.
THE property of Brown, Bonnell &
Co. at Youngstown. o.. was released from
seizure on the 1st, and arrangements were
made to light the fires soon.
THE Receiver of bankrupt Savings
Bank at New Haven, Conn, has been ad-
vised by letter signed ''Justice'' TO pay
| ten per cent. dividend Or see his grave
within six weeks.
A SNEAK thief stole $1,000 worth of
bonds from the Guarantee Trust Deposit
Company Of Philadelphia on the ID.
A GENERAL suspension of the Pitts
burgh, Pa, glass factories was threatened
on the I'd.
THE Bank of England discount rate
has been reduced to three per cent.
A JURY at Buffalo, n. Y, has given
Erie County for 81 900 for the burning of a
passenger car by a mob in the riots of 1877.
MASKED burglars robbed the houses
Of Farmers Bixler and Wiffenbach, near
Strasburg, o., recently, by gagging and
binding the daughter in each house and
making her tell where the valuabes and
money were kept. They got several thou
sand dollars in the first and Il, 900 in the
second.
SING LUM. Chinese murderer I'M
der sentence Of death in San Francisco. CAL,
got ahead Of the hangman on the I'd by COM
uniting suicide.
HANK Monk, the Nevada stage driver,
has gone to Join Horace Greeley, who gave
him national reputation as dare devil on
the mountain slopes.
WILLIAM SMITH was fatally shot the
other evening at Elgin, ILL.,, by George Pan
ton, son of Free Methodist clergyman.
THE French Senate has passed bill
organizing French jurisdiction in TunIs.
THE election of the new Archbishop
of Canterbury has been formally confirmed.
THE Dunlap Elevator at Albany, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
Three men were killed by falling walls.
THERE was still twenty-one feet of
water in the Braidwood (Ill.) mine ON the
4th, but it was hoped it would be pumped
out in week.
G. o. kALB has resigned the Secre-
taryship of the ST. Louis (Mo.) Fair Asso-
citation, having held the position twenty
seven years.
THE cantonal Government at Berne.
Switzerland, has complained of irregular
action of DIR. Cramer, United States Charge
d:Affaires.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, has adopted
the new charter by a very small majority.
TELEGRAMs announced on the 4th
hat the Spanish authorities were arresting
members of the Black Hand Society by
wholesale.
THE New York Herald fund for the
relief of the Ohio flood sufferers had reached
nearly $4,000 on the 4th.
PHAREs CASSIDY died on the 4th at
Lebanon, Pa, at the remarkable age of 102
years.
ONE of the Texas train robbers was
arraigned at Dallas on the Sd.
AN expedition has sailed from New
York for the Marquesas Islands to observe
the eclipse of the sun May 6.
THE death of Governor Alexander H.
Stephens, Of Georgia, occurred at three
O'Clock on the morning of the 4th.
HARVEY n. FoLLANsBEE, clerk of the
Superintendent of the Boston Mass Po-
lice Department, confessed having en-
bezzled some soc. 900 and has been held for
trial. c. D. Whitman, late clerk in the AL
ALBANIA State AUDITORS office, is also in !
trouble, having been arrested on a charge !
of embezzling about 81 200 of that States !
funds. !
A GREAT portion of the turnpike be-
tween Shenandoah and Pottsville, Pa, caved |
in the other day. Further cavings were ap- |
pretended.
Two Touring mills in Red Wing, |
Mimi, owned by the Red Wing Mill Com
pany, were totally DESTROYED by fire few |
days ago. The mills had combined ca
pacity of ! 900 barrels day, and employed |
sixty workmen. Loss, 900. Insurance,
$50, 900.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the fund for the |
erection of an Exposition building at st. |
Louis, Mo-, had reached S540,025 on the 9Th. |
CHARLES 7. BOYLE, agent at Boston,
Mass, for Burlington Uowa) grain firm,
confessed to appropriating 81, 900 Of his EN-.
ployers' money and has been arrested.
JEALOUSY caused Robert Magee, of
Buffalo, n. V, to shoot his wife through
the eye the other day and put a ball in his
own forehead.
A MEXICAN woman Ill years of age
died a few days ago at New Laredo.
DURING the session ended on the 18th
Congress passed $50 bills.