Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-21
CRIMES AND CAUsUALrIEs.

CRIMES AND CAUsUALTIEs.
ON the 18th eighteen drunken men
boarded coal train at Dayton, O., and
beat the train hands numerically. One
brakeman will die. The engineer cut the
locomotive loose and escaped.
Two desperadoes, Mike Mcdonald
and Ed. Carey, were consumed in the Jail
at Wausau, Wis, when that structure
burned down the morning of the 18th.
FIRE destroyed an entire block, in
Guiding the Post-office, Odd Fellows Hall,
Town Hall and stores, at Albion, Pa, on
the 18th.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from London
says Captain Gardner and seven men of
the bark Champion, from Baltimore for
Hamburg, were washed overheard. The
remainder of the crew were rescued by the
steamer Sirocco after being in the rigging
four days without food and badly frost-Dit-
ten.
WHILE coasting at Biddeford, Me-. on
the 18th, Henry Colbroth was killed and
several others were injured.
In Philadelphia, ON the 18th, pair of
comic valentines led to murder.
On the night of the 18th the Bluff
City Hotel at Council Bluffs, Ia, burned
Emma Neiser, of Crown Point, Ind, was
burned to death.
On the night of the 18th, burglars
stole from DIR. H. Brainard, of Cleveland,
O., the finest collection of coins in this
country.
On the 14th, George Emory, engineer
in the Hoosier -four mill at Indianapolis,
Ind 1,er,f c1af
to pieces.
On the 10Th some miscreant fired two
charges of buckshot into Rock Island
train near Belfast, Ia. Nobody hurt.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MEXICO has appropriated 100000
for its exhibit at the New Orleans Cotton
Centennial Exposition.
The manufacturers and workingmen
of Pittsburgh, Pa, will send a joint delega-
tion to Washington to oppose the Morrison
tariff revision bill.
AT Niagara Falls, on the 18th, three
boys were arrested on a train for theft.
They had three revolvers, a Life of the
James Boys and a lot of stolen money.
The press throughout Germany is
poking fun at the British policy in EGYPT.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, Board of
Trade was organized on the 18th. Josephus
Cobbett was elected President;. r. G. Har-
vey, Vice-President, and NJ. Warren, Treas
urer.
THE American Institute of Mining
Engineers will hold its annual meeting in
Cincinnati, beginning on the 10Th, and to
continue for four days.
The authorities disinterred the body
of a man named Cooper, killed recently in
the Teton basin, Utah, and his death was
found to have been caused by two shots
instead of one, as claimed by two men,
who gave themselves up as his slayer.
On the 18th the Red Cross Society of
st. Louis, No., collected $535 for the flood
relief fund.
THE negro, Allen Moore, charged
with the murder of Preacher Hankin at
Cote Brilliante, a suburb of st. Louis, No.,
has been released.
On the 18th the Expressmen's Aid
Association convened in Jacksonville, Fla.
Addresses of welcome were made by Gov
ernor Bloxham, Ex-Governor Bullock and
others. The Association has ,072 members
and within two years has paid 800 to
the families of deceased members. H. B.
Plant was reelected President.
THE treaty of commerce with Spain
takes effect March 1.
A TOMBSTONE (Arizona) dispatch
states that legal proceedings have been set
on foot to delay the execution of the con-
victed Bisbee murderers, but that the peo-
pie will have no delay. II the authorities
do not hang the men a mob will.
On the 18th the well-known trotting
horse Compton Boy, dropped dead in his
stable at Quebec, Canada.
The flood reached its height in Gin
cinnati on the 14tn, the gauge showing over
seventy-one feet, after which the water be-
gan to recede. The cold weather, as antici
pated, has caused terrible distress in the
towns all along the Ohio. Re-
lief measures have been thoroughly organ
lied and every effort making to effect the
most systematic and useful distribution of
the funds available
The Geographic cable between Hal
Phong and Saigon has been completed.
THE National Council of the Union
League meets in Washington March s.
The faculty of Harvard University
has adopted the rules of the intercollegiate
A MILITARY band and cadet corps
will be among the attractions from Mexico
at the New Orleans Exposition.
AT Davenport, Ia, a company has
been organized to build another bridge
across the Mississippi river.
THE Commissioner of the General
Land Office claims that 274,O 900 acres have |
been patented to the Burlington & Missouri |
River Company in excess of the quantity |
they are entitled to. He wants to cancel |
the patents.
THE stir made in Congress over the
hog products restriction is painful to the
Nord Deutsch Zeitung, which says it hostile |
legislation is enacted in America Germany |
will simply make reprisals by increasing |
customs duties.
AT Dubuque, Ia. Mr.. Joseph Quinn
fell into a quarry thirty feet deep recently, |
and now sues that city for $4,000 damages. |
The Legislature of Wyoming was Of
ficially received at Salt Lake Guy, on the |