Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

post-Omce VIII parcel containing Tu,ouu
the other day. He distracted the money
and substituted waste paper. He was ar
rested and confessed his guilt. ~
SUIT for $4,000 was instituted against
| leading dry goods house at New York the
other day by j. +. Ridday, who claimed
| that they sold him for one dollar q pair OF
| stockings, the color of which was not fast
and which poisoned his flesh.
A HORRIBLE suicide occurred at New
tonville, o., few days ago. A young man
named Fletcher Reid became melancholy
because his suit was rejected by young
lady to whom he had been attentive. He
climbed upon haystack and set it on fire
and then cut his throat from ear to ear. The
body, charred almost beyond recognition,
was recovered from the flames.
THE Lucinda Furnace at Norristown,
Pa. went out of blast on the ID. The rea-
son assigned was that it was impossible to
obtain coal, owing to the suspension at the
mines. 5H -. s..tr.-4...
On the I'd a serious mutiny was re-
ported to have occurred in India.
GEORGE A. MASON, who had served
a term of ten years in the Albany On. Y. }
Penitentiary for counterfeitihg, the other
day made the charge that he was the victim
of the malice of Elmer Washburn and
Bluford Wilson. He had been detective
in Canada, and was employed by, the
American Secret Service to trace out coun.
terfeiters in the Western States.
WILL BRUCE and Moses Stroyer, two
boys, while skating south of Franklin, o.,
the other evening, broke through the ice
and were drowned before assistance arrived.
THE inquest on the victims of the
Newhall House at Milwaukee, Wis, was
closed on the ID, but the jury had not
agreed upon verdict. ''ii' NJ
THE Union Steel and Iron Works at
to financial trouble, and about two hundred
men were thrown out Of employment. "E
A STRIKE was threatened in the Pitts
burg (Pa.) bottle factories on the Sd, on
account of ten per cent. reduction in
wages.
- EIGHT men were arraigned at Dub
lin, ireland, on the Sd, charged with the
late Phoenix Park murders. Several Of
them were identified as having been about
the park just previous to the assassination
and one as the driver of the car in which the
assassins escaped. ,...
TIE steamship James Gray foundered
off the English coast few days ago and the
officers aud crew were lost. l.
EMANUEL OJELA was arrested with
his wife and son at Jersey City, n. j., the
other day, charged with making and passing
money.
A DESPERATE fight was reported to
have occurred near Salinas, Mexico, the
other day, between Custom house officers
and smugglers. The latter were said to
have carried off the contraband goods and
killed four officers. .--y !
Mrs. WILLARD ORDwAY was shot
and instantly killed at London, n. H., the |
other day by her step-son, aged twelve
years. He didn't know it was loaded.
THE Receiver of the defunct First
National Bank of Buffalo, n. Y, the other
day obtained Judgment for $l4S.957 against
Herman J. Hall, on bail as an accessory of
President Lee, now in the Penitentiary
charged with disposing of the funds of the |!
bank. .s.g sd.
AT Hamburg, Iowa, a fire in the High |
School building the other day caused panic,
ng were rescued with the greatest difficulty. |
The Coroner's Jury in the Newhau !
House inquest at Milwaukee, Wis, returned |
/ verdict on the 9Th holding the proprietors |
Of the hotel guilty of cupable negligence.
Four persons were hanged at Alex
lndria, Egypt, on the 9Th for murders COM
nitted at the time of the riots last year.
A UTAH silver mine was said to have
wrecked the house Of Ferry s. Bro. of
1rand Haven, Mich, in which Senator
Ferry was partner. 1854"
TIE Kansas Rolling mills, in the SUBJ
lrbs Of Rosedale, Kans., closed down a few
rhe mills were said to be among the largest
vest of the Mississippi River, and had been
n operation since 1874. They employed 500
men. tl- I'D. s'
INSANITY caused by too much alcohol
mpeled George Mahon, in the Bellevue
Hospital of New York, the other day to
rain Michael Kelaher with a stool and Sc
iously wound James Corners, an attend
mt. with spittOon.
THE rolling mill of the Reading Iron
Works and Orr, Fainter & Co.'s Stove
Works at Reading, Pa. employing 600
ands, resumed operations few days ago
fter six weeks idleness.
EX-SENATOR THOMAS j. DREAMER, 8
Jew York lawyer, who was ten years ago
forth half million, was arrested a few
avs ago for breaking hack window, and,
aying for that, he was q few hours later
rrested in an Intoxicated condition. He
assed the night in police station.
SEVEN convicts from the Atlanta, Ga,
en had a desperate fight with their two
yards while returning from work in camp
bout mile distant, the other day, but
rere finally overpowered after the leader
ad been ridaled with bullets. r 81 t
AN ex-Roman Catholic priest named d,
ohm O'Connor was egged and stoned off the
,cture platform in Hamilton, o., the other ,
light, and the police arrested him to prevent ,
riot. 10 t.' -'i* .
NINE men were arrested in New York
ity, the other day, who had for months ,
asst amused themselves by sending false ,
larms of fire. In the confusion that ensued -,
hey would commit various robberies and ,
iefts. Several Of the prisoners confessed.
A PASSENGER train on the Buffalo, ,
ew York &c Philadelphia Road plunged !,