The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-10-13
NEWS OF The WEEK.
DOMESTIC rNrELxIoENC..
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Franklin j. Moses, formerly Governor
Of South Carolina, Was locked up in the police
headquarters at New York for swindling Vim.
L. Hall ont Of $25.
Secretary Blaine IL now in Wash.
ington. A publishing house In Hartford
urging him to write = life Of President Gar
feld, but he deems the six months allowed him
i space altogether insufficient for tho labor.
Snow ut Bangor, Me-, ice in the Hud-
son river valley, n. Y, and thermometer
below frcczisig in all parts Of New England.
Flames destroyed the entire business
portion RI the villAg. OF Pulaski, N. T., involv-
ing loss of t20O, 900.
The will Of James Stokes, . New
York banker, which distributes 20, 200. 600
worth of property, will be- contested by his
daughter, Mrs. Dale. The will Of the late Mrs
Jennie McGraw Fiske, Of Ithaca, N. Y, gives
her husband 100000, her mother and i've
cousins each *lOO. 1000, and Cornell University
e29O, 900 and the McGraw building.
A Pittsburgh bartender, whose lin
gustic and musical abilities have been the sur
prise Of those to whom he doled ont the
foaming lager aud the inspiring cocktail, turns
ont to be mono othsr than German Prince
Prince ss!m salm. His family 10 said to he one
Of the wcaltLiest and most noble in Germany.
wose.
The reports heretofore sent East from
Arizona that the Indian troubles were about
over in that Territory seem to havc been 4
little premature, as the following telegram
from Tucson, dated the sd inst, wottld show:
alt seems that uen. Wilcox did not reach tho
Indians yesterday, but Col. Sanford, with
three companies, Capt. Demands, Licuts
Ovcrton's and Glass, arrived on the ground
about II o'clock. The Indians outnum-
horcd the soldiers and began tho Aght,
which continued after dark. Tho Indians
then continued their course south, crossing
Arivapa valley, evidently trying to make
through TO the 0aluri mountains, but they
uero headed OF by forces sent out from Will
cox. In the engagement ono sergeant was
killed and ak privatss wounded. During the
night the Indians proceeded south about seven
miles, but failed to make the mountains, and
Mcrp ovcrhaulcd near Hudson's ranch, on the
open plain, wherc tho soldiers could
fight to advantage, and it II believed that
Sachek and his whole hand OF Chi
rioahua Indians will be exterminated or
taken prisoners Before reaching tho point
where the battle took place yesterday, Nachez,
with his entire band, attacked Bartool Seminar
COS train near Cedar Springs, killing him aud
Braulto Gomez, Sastenose Estrada, Demetrio
Carmelo and Julian Ria !, teamsters. One mai,
is missing. The herder escaped. Since yester-
day morning up to this hour twelve citizens are
known to have been killed. and six others are
reported killed."
Orson Pratt, the ablest theologian in
the Mormon church, has just died at Salt
Lake, aged 10 years.
Mary Powers, the fat woman who
formerly Travelled with Barnum's circus, disd
at Danyillc, Ind, few days ago..
Central Park, in Chicago, has been
rcchristened, and will hereafter be called Gar.
ield Park.
While Ralph Durbin and wife, and
dughter aged -, and Miss Buck, sister Of
Mrs. DurLin. and three small children we're re.
turning from church, near Danville, Ohio, they
attempted to cross stream subject to high
floods. Mrs. Durbin, Miss Durbin, aud Mis-.
buck were drowned. Mr.. Durbin got out b,
his own effors, and Mr.. James Shel,cnbargcl
rescued the children.
The grain warehouses of Chicago are
chuck full, aud, ~ they will accept no NOR,
from tho railroads, the railroads refuse L
a condition OF things at this time in tho seaso,
has never before been known. Tho qusntit,
Of grain in store in Chicago on the 5tn Of Octo
bcr was u, 2,5s2, ,5l2 bushels, against 1927. .l5l
bushels in 1880
Gen. Terry has ordered three com
panies Of the Fifth infantry to march from
| Fort Keogh and endeavor to avert = collision
between band Of Yanksonnais and party o
500 buftalo-hunters. engaged in slaughterin!
the animals for their hides.
The Chicago grain firm Of J. B. Lyol
L Co. got badly squeezed in the recent whea
corner, and suspended. Liabilities, ESQ.,. 900
The steamer Dell Queen Was tori
from her moering at Kiihoune City, on tn
Wisconsin river, and carried over tho dam, an,
four men were drowned in the stream.
A remarkable disease has appeared il
Platte county, Mo-, which ID described BY som
~ black smallpox, and BY others - the orig
inA black seourge. Its victims rot befor
death, and instances are given Of their bodies
falling to piecea while being prepared 10
burial
The Detroit Post and Tribune, in "
approximate computation Of the losses by tn
recent extensive forest and farm conHagration