Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-06

REPORTS from Washington state that
there is no thought of recalling Minister
Sargent from Berlin.
Ex-Governor r. D. HUBBARD, of
Hartford, Conn.,, died on the 18th.
AwELL-KNowN surveyor of Denver,
Col, named James R. Miiburn, while sur.
veying a farm on Fryer Hill, fell into a
shaft 200 feet deep. The shaft was hidden
by snow-drift.
On the 2Sth w. r. Mcdowell, a con-
victed murderer, broke Jail at San Bernar-
dino. Cal, and escaped into Mexico.
SERGEANT jerks, of the st. Louis
(Mo.) police, who was murdered by negro
virago in that city last fall, proves to have
been secret agent of the British Govern
ment to watch the movements of mischiev-
Gus Irishmen in st. LOUIS.
CAMP and Fitzpatrick, the murderers
VINO were to have been hanged at Column
bia, KY, on the Goth ult., for the murder of
Miller Brewster, were respited until March
21st.
Two brothers, Luke and William,
Jones. were hanged with the same rope at
Jackson, O., on the 18th ult-, for the muir
der of Andrew Lackey in April, 1888.
On the 29th Secretary of State Kelsey
of New Jersey was blown from the plat
form of a railway car on the New Jersey
Central Railway, i'd landed in soft bank
of mud, where he was found apparently
uninjured. 1t was a narrow escape.
On the 2eth Mrs. Mary Brown, widow
of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry notoriety,
died in San Francisco, Cal.
I'D I'D
ney D. Wells for Postmaster OF ST. Louis,
Mo-, on the Goth.
In Washington on the Goth ult.,
Senator Fair, OF Nevada, gave a grand
dinner at Wormley's, which was partaken
of by large party of fellow-Senators,
members of the Cabinet, and other nota-
bles.
On the 2Sth Ex-Treasurer Polk, of
Tennessee, convicted of embezzling $780,
600 from the State ami under sentence of
twenty years in the Penitentiary, ed at
East Nashville, Tenn, of heart disease.
NAVAL cadets Jastremski, Parker and
Maxey have been dismissed from the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Nd. for
hazing.
The funeral of General Ord was held
with military honors at Washington, D. c.,
on the Goth.
CRIMES AND CAUsUALTIEs.
On the morning of the 25th two small
hotels burned in Denver, Col, and four
dodgers were roasted to death. Others es-
capped only by leaping from upper win
dCws.
On the Goth false alarm of fire at
the Royal Theater, Montreal, Can, during
a matinee, caused panic. Women tainted
and were trampled ON, and several were
badly bruised.
OK the 9th a dynamite explosion in
a London railway station caused damage
to the amount of S20,0HO.
On the Goth two passenger trains col
lided on the Air Line Railway near Louis
vile, Ky. Both engines were destroyed.
Oh the morning of the 9th the Gu
nard steamship CephaIonia ran down and
sunk the steamer Glen Island in New York
harbor. Charles Feltz, engineer, and Hen
~ Green, deck hand of the Glen Island,
were drowned.
A FREIGHT train on the Grand Trunk
Railway went through bridge near Mon
treal, Can, on the 9th, wrecking seven
cars.
On the 28th Cornelius Van Ripper and
his two children were burned to death in a
New York tenement-house fire. Mrs. Van
Ripper jumped from third-story window
and was killed.
On the 2Sth passenger train collid-
ed with freight near Paris, Ill, resulting
in many severe injuries and some loss of
life.
THE month of February was wound
up in Philadelphia, Pa, with five fires, in
volving total loss of nearly two million
dollars. The Chemical Works of Powers
& Weightman were destroyed.