The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1878-09-06

II people drowned
DOMESTIC fMrxLt.iORMux.
1As~s.
A number oi deaths have occufrrd "a
hyde rAsl. mar i,ess.a. within fe~ days.
trim weskinr lcl u siberian ensissl hair.
srat frum New Yosk. II ~As IN = iihhy nsll.
uan when trc~iv~d, aud Ms sent tack. Tho
u~At lul contained eossse Also In had cosstls.
tion and Il was from this that ten r%orle ,.,esi.
New York failure@. George w.
Bcach, railroad contractor, liabilities ei2o.-
NO Joseph Stiurr, leA merchant, liA-
bl,isies sa7n,oooi NalhAtde Bnschill. hail,ler,
liabilities t7r~. .o00, no ~ Young. Einilh 4
o., impprtera u sugar. liabilities tsa5, ,0oo
Francis wIlliam~, merchandise brokcs, hAbli.
Ties tii2.no0, no assets.
Peters oil cloth factory, at Newark,
n. j.. has boon destroyed By nrc. Los1
tl6O.O00.
Ex.Collec,or Thomns Murphy. Of New
York, ~snt through tho bankrupt court inst
tics Are scheduled II 472a,OOo.
WEST.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says that
sheriff wtidowAcll aud man named Vincent
were lateiy killed, In canon of Elk mountain.
BY party oi highwaymsn.
Judge Hollins. of Doadwood, VIC.
tim Of tho stampede 10 tho Sinking Water
gold region, arrived 1t Dismsrck, d. r.. tho
other day. by steamer. He reports II fraud.
and the man Wclmofc. who led tho party Into
tho country, = liar. There war no gold, and
she DcAd~ood pArty II now struggling 10 yet
out. They found absolutely nothing.
Three highwaymen recently rode into
Coneortiia, = town of i,to0 Inhabitants In
Lafayette county, No., disniounted In front Of
tho principal hank, walked In, and. after In
.imldating thu cashier into silence, helped
themselves 10 all tho paper money In the
vaults, some tt,O0o, They then mounted
their hofses aud gallopcd on.
Two men were killed nnd another NOR
tally injured hy N slssatal sccden, III Kings.
land, Ferguson n o. i Lulliisg. IN St. Louis,
No.. last week.
Great forest fires, extending almost
continuously for distance II loo miles are
reported ~ raging along tho north shoro Of
Lake hnI erlor.
Frank A. George, superintendent of
thu money.ordcr department Ia the ~. l.onis
postofllee, has sbseoniod taking with him
about t6.0o0 Of tho possoilleo funds.
south.
Yellow fever bulletin, Ang. 70;
Memphis New cascr, 100, deaths, ~. II i. 4
saA and dreadful outlook, ~ awful a. doomed
city ever was forced 10 contemplate. The fever
breaks ont In nov spot almost every hour.
and tho death rate runs MP. ~ stranger
tho nttsr dosoiAtion u tho situation could not
bo realized. Now Orleans New cAsoa, l25,
deaths, II. Tho disesne In extremely mAiig-
nant. In tho town u Plaqusnline, below
Baton lsosgc, there arc now eases every hour,
almost invariably resulting In black soais aud
death. Grenada Fifteen deaths In twenty
four hours, and tho epidemic siill raging. Only
tcn sctlse men y . place. Physicians aud
nurses completely xhanseed. vlck1burE -
Doath-TAte aud suffering on the Increase. New
cascs In the twenty -four houra. 100, deaths, 2b.
A Washington dispatch says that
internal Revenue Commissioner lsnm has Or.
dercd Collectors woodcock and Cooper, Of
Nashville, Tenn, 10 employ forty additional
men zach. aud 10 make tho woods 10 hot eDr
tho moonshincrs ~ 10 compel thsm 70 sur-
render. Tho Commissioner II confident that
oil Illicit whisky y-dintilling In Tennessee will
csasc In thirty dAyA
Tho yellow-fcvcr reports from tho
South. on tho 3vth nls., wore mot encouraging.
~ Memphis tho plagno haA become mors
violent hut 5000 white people wsrs lsst In
tho city. Now cAsss, iipi deaths, ~. The
physicians were completely worn out, and wsru
resting, while friends Of the slck wore search.
Ing In vain Tor medical attendants. At Now
Orleans tho death rata Wa steadily advancing
deaths Tor tho procedtng twenty. y.fonr hours,
81. Al yicksburg : larger number Of new
cases were reported than on any prsviou.
day, though tho mortality wAs not n
great. Canton. Miss. which had population
of S.600 when ths plague appeared, VA almost
completsly deserted mt : single buslnes,
house ojAn except stores tho Court House W.
locked up, I'll The officials having lsft the town
nothing bnt hearsss aud collins wore 70 he .seu
on Tho streets. 0rcuada, Miss., reported
twenty deaths ~ tho issosdlng swsnty-sou,
hours. with tho exception u t,hyMciAns and
nurwss nearly every living soai In tho town ~.
down With Tho plague. AZ Port Gibson, Mlss.,
lhs fsver was extremely malignant, and showed
~ AbAtunieft.
A severe fight recently took place forty
miles northwest u Hl rsso. between ! squad
" Icsaa nests troops snd large body ol
Indians from Fort stanton reservation. sevsf
Indiana and ono Hanger wsse killed.
Ycllow.fevcr bulletin Tor Aug. III
New cA.es In vicksLurg for tho precedino
twenty. fous hours, l60s deaths, ID. Memphis
New cases, 100, deaths. 81. Nov Orleans
The deaths Increased 10 30. ths largest nunbs'
of tho season 10 date. Canton. Miss. m,
disease frtshtfuily fstali half the case. 70
parted had died, and very few hAA recovered
Grenada slight increase In tho death rase, y.
'natoriai Tor ths Spreading II tho fever.
Tho deaths In New Orleans on Hept
numbered eighty y-stxht, and tho fcvsr was VI
Tho inSssase whole number u deaths to lha
dAts, i.0os. ~ vIcksb.rg there were ninety
eight new cAHss " fsvsr and twonty-Av
dsaths. 4 nsmphis Dispatch " Hcpl. ! aAys
This sabbath day haa boon sAd onc "a
mGmphts. death having visited eigl,iy-on
housoLpida, and slchns~ mnro than iOO more