Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

night hire in L. X. MOore'S store destroyed
it and four adjoining buildings, all devoted
to business purposes.
IT was reported from Washington, d.
c. The other day that the Mutual Press AS
secession and American News Exchange OF
Cincinnati, O., had been placed on the Post
office fraud list, and that money orders
and registered letters would not be de-
livered to them.
THE failure of Alfred Monarch kino,
tailor, London, Eng, for more than $500,
600. was announced the other day.
THREE explosions occurred in gun
powder factory eight miles from Amster-
dam, Holland, the other day, and twelve
corpses were recovered from the wreck.
THE anarchist trials at Lyons, France,
few days ago, resulted in sentences of five
years. imprisonment and fines of 1000
francs. for Prince Krapotkine, Gautier,
Bernard and Bordat. Four Of the accused
were acquitte and forty others were or
dered fined and imprisoned.
THE railway strikers in Scotland were
lately reported as beginning to show dis
union, and a compromise was anticipated.
PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES ALEX
AMBER, brother Of the Emperor of Germa-
ny, died on the 21st, aged eighty-two. In
consequence of the death of Prince Charles.
the festivities in honor of the silver we'd
ding of the Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam have been abandoned.
ARTHUR SCHOLFIELD, an aged and
wealthy bachelor residing in a New York
hotel, invented machine to raise or lower
the gas without leaving his bed, and evil
IDENTIFY persisted from its defective operation,
as his room was found filled with the illum-
mating material the other day.
AT Richfield Springs, New York,
Harvey Taylor killed his wife and mc:her-
in-law and then committed suicide few
days ago. He was insane. He had regu-
larly laid out the corpses of his victims.
MICHAEL BARRON shot himself in
Baltimore, Md, the other daylin the pres
ence of his sweetheart.
A NUMBER of cotton mills at Atlanta,
Ga, stopped the other day on account of
inches the river was falling slowly, and the
danger from an overflow had passed.
The Giant Powder Works at Berkeley
Station, Cal. blew up few days ago. On
the odd the bodies of twenty one Cinnamon
and one white man had been recovered from
the ruins. Officers of the works placed the
killed at forty. There were five distinct
explosions, which were heard as far as San
fourteen miles away. The tinan-
cial loss was said to be over 800, 200.
THE largest gasometer in Glasgow,
Scotland, exploded the other night, injuring
eight persons. As this was followed by the
blowing up of railway she'd, the citizens
were enjoying Fenian scare.
By premature blast at the mines of
the Harrisburg Copper Mining Company,
Adams County, Pa, recently, four men were
injured, two probably fatally.
THE boilers at the Ledger Paper Mills,
Nd, exploded with terrific force
on the ODD, wrecking half the immense
building. Patrick Mccormick was killed
and John Garrett was missing.
THE bail of M. T. Polk, the alleged
Treasurer of Tennessee, has been
fixed at 100000.
MASKED men robbed a store at Gold
New, few days ago, killing the
and two clerks.
THOMAS WILSON, of Philadelphia,
Pa, jumped into the Niagara River the
other day and was carried over the falls.
FRIGHTENED citizens of Bath, Me-,
made run on the Peoples Bank a few days
ago and forced it to suspend. The bank
examiner since reported that the institution
was solvent.
GEORGE G. FOSTER, of Milwaukee,
Wis.,, was instantly killed lately by the fall
Of an icicle, which crushed his skull.
TIE police of Berlin the other day
confiscated as immoral pamphlet giving
alleged incidents in the private life of eX-
Empress Eugene.
A FIRE the other morning destroyed
tho frame residence and stables in Avon
dale, O., owned and occupied by Samuel
Pogue. The inmates barely escaped with
their lives and in their night clothes.
THE dye-house and cloth-room of the
Boston Duck Company at Bondsvile, Mass,
was burned the other day, causing loss Of
about $50, 200. Insured. 1t was said the
burned buildings would be rebuilt at once
and the mill would remain idle but a few
DAYS.
The Coroner's jury investigating the
railroad accident on the Southern Pacific
Railroad near Tehachepai, CAL, found
verdict on the odd that the victims came to
their death by neglect of Conductor Reed
and Brakeman Patten. The verdict was
not yet approved by the Coroner.
IT was reported from Weeksville,
Montana, few days ago that vigilantes
had taken two desperadoes nicknamed
''Dick, the BARBER and "Ohio Dan," from
Sandy Point to within two miles Of that
place and hung them on separate trees.
Both made confessions, it was said. stating
that they were guilty and had committed
enough depredations to have warranted
hanging them long ago.
A STOCK train reached Elkhart, Ind,
the other evening, on which were twenty
one cattle which had been frozen to death
On the wal
A PAINTER named Joseph H. Biener,
while at work in the dome Of the rotunda of
the new Courthouse at Marysville, Ohio,
recently, fell distance of forty five feet to
the marble floor. He had been working in
the building over year, and in half an hour
would have finally completed his job.
By an explosion in the oil-works of
Some & Fleming ut Newton Creek, n. Y,