Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-17

Ii a tit OF jealousy, on the 10th, Charles
Turner, aged ffty-one, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
shot and killed his wife, Augusta Turner,
aged forty-fye, and then blew his own
brains out.
THE people Of Buffalo, N. Y, are dis
posed to hold the natural gas company re-
sponsible for all damages occasioned by
the series of explosions which TOOK place
in that city on the 10th.
THE House committee on post-Offices
and post-roads ordered favorable re-
port, on the 18th, on the bill to provide
for post office buildings, at a cost not to
exceed So, 900 each, at all places where
the gross receipts of the post-office
for two years or more preced-
ing shall have exceeded 5000 in each
year.
THE House committee on acoustics and
ventilation agreed, on the 18th, to report
the Durham bill, making an appropria-
ton of $50, 900 to enable A. De Bauset to
build an air ship to convey passengers
and freight through the air, and for other
purposes.
THE Senate privileges and elections
committee devoted an hours conSidera
tin, on the 18th, to the Turpie case, and
decided that Senator Turpie was entitled
to his seat.
Up to the 10th, rain had fallen at Wa
terloo, Ia, on fifty consecutive days, the
aggregate rainfall being over seven
inches. The precipitation was general
all over Northern Iowa.
THE Secretary of the Treasury sent to
the House, on the 18th, communication
recommending that $4,000 be appro-
priated to supply deficiency in the SAL
aries of government store-keepers and
gaugers.
JOHN DILLON, the Irish patriot, was sem
fenced to six months Imprisonment with
out hard labor, on the 18th. on a charge
made against him under the Crimes act.
In the British House of Commons, on
the 18th, Mr.. VIM. Smith, government
leader, declared that the statement pub
lished by the Dublin Catholic Weekly
Herald, that the government had decided
to endow an Irish Catholic college was
utterly baseless.
THE temporary bridge used in the con-
struction of the new iron bridge over the
Thames river. at Glencoe, Canada, gave
way, on the 10th, precipitating six men
into the water below. Alexander Wat
terworth and William Lamb were in
stantly killed. The others were seriously
injured.
THE Democratic members of the ways
and means committee, on the 18th. took
up the consideration of the various
amendments to the Tariff bill that had
been sent to the committee.
JAMES H. MURRAY, a lineman in the
employ Of an electric light company in
New York City, was killed, on the 18th, by
a shock while repairing an electric-light
wire.
IT was authoritatively reported at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 10th, that Judge
Woods had received an intimation from
Washington that the decision in the cleo
ton conspiracy case against Coy and
Bernhamer, the Democratic politicians
convicted of tally-sheet frauds, would be
reversed by the United States Supreme
Court.
THE new barracks at Newport, KY, will
be named Fl. Hancock, and will be used
as a resting place for troops that have
been on active duty.
A FINE portrait of the late Secretary
Manning will grace the center of the new
twenty-dollar silver certificates.
REV. DIR. JAMES DRUMMoND, a prominent
minister of the Episcopal Church, who
died recently in Cadiz, o. aged eighty -four
years, left a large proportion of his estate
to the Church Extension Society.
EIGHTEEN miners were killed outright
and many injured by a fall of rocks in
mine at Stassfurt, SaXony, on the 10th.
THE Government of New Zealand has
adopted the novel expedient of proclaim
ing all Chinese ports as infected, to put a
stop to the admission of Chinese immi-
grants to the colony.
1T is suspected that Enoch Mcmahon
and his farm hand, who were cremated in
the burning residence of the former, near
Summittville, Ind, on the 9th, were first
murdered by robbers, who afterward fired
the house.
SEVENTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in a rear-end collision on the Erie
railroad, between Orange and Newark, N.
j., on the 18th.
HENRY MUNZEBRoCK, the first saloon
keeper found guilty in Cincinnati, under
the Owens Sunday Closing law, was
fined $50 and costs and sentenced to ten
days in the work-house.
GEO. MCDUFFIE, a negro preacher, was
hanged at Greensboro, Ga, on the 18th,
for the murder of William Cheney, also
colored.
THE trial of the notorious Diss Debars,
in New York City, has been set for the
sd.