The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-17
NEWS OF THE week.


AMERICAN ITEMS.
East.
| A tenemcnt-h at the corner Of
| Laight and varick streets, New York, In which
| sixteen families resided, was burned. and sev-
eral persons perisned in the flames.
Cashier Baldwin, Of the wrecked bank
At Newark has been released ON elOo, 900 bail.
Marchbank, the defaulting clerk, gave bond In
the sum Of $4,000.
! The schooner Della Hodgkins cnp-
sized in squall on the New England coast
The Captain and crew succeeded In getting
aboard again, and launched . boat, in which
they left the schooner. During two days ex-
posurc to the storm, five men died OF hunger
and cold
A collision of Erie freight trains on
| W. mountain near Port Jervis. N. r., caused
the death Of Conductor George Dor and En-
gineers Jerome Grover and Mark Coxson.
Hill, Moynam \ Co., Of New York,
failed. Liabilities heavy. ClaHin 4 Co. arc
preferred creditors to the amount Of el4o, 900.
BY the collapse Of two three. story
tenement houses at the corner OF South Fifth
avenue and Grand street, New York, ten Of the
occupants were killed, several fatally and others
seriously injured. The buildings were Of brick
and about 80 years old.
Through the breaking Of . steel
| twisted rope the elevator OF the Belviders
Hotel, New York, fell from the fifth door 10
] the basement, fatally injuring John Mercer, .
porter, and seriously iniuring four other par
sons.
| A party OF hunters near Fort Steele,
| Wy. Ter, used arsenic by mistake Tor cooking
| purposes, instead Of baking powder, and near
y all Of them died from tho effects Of the doss.
Capt. J. n. Dubois, well-known
member Of the Kansas City Board Of Trade,
! and prominent wool and hide dealer, swindled
parties by means Of forged and raised bills OF
lading to the amount Of over eSO, 600, and has
dcd to escape arrest
| A Chinese missionary student named
All Kim, 1t Marietta (Ohio) College, committed
suicide with dose OF chloral or chlorOform
because servant girl had rejected his prof.
fered love.
The damage done by the recent over
| dow Of the Mississippi, in the Warsaw drainage
district il estimated At $780, ; in the Indian
Grave district At S75O,000 /; in the Sny Island
district at 81 ,000, 900 in Quincy bay and city,
| t3o, 900 in and about Alexandra, NO., $780,
| 600; and at Keokuk and vicinity, elOO, 900.
The total damage is estimated 1t %, 0O5, 900.
Mrs. Sarah A. Mosely, aged Ill, died
| ct Madison, Ind.
Ed Williams, one of the notorious
williams brothers, WAS arrested at Grand
Island. Neb., and taken back to Wisconsin.
Two cowboys were arrested for deal
| ing in stolen stock. and werc imprisoned 1t
Shakespeare. Arizona. A dozen masked men
entered the Jail, oyerpowered the guard and
hanged the two cowboys to joist.
John T. Smarr, prominent wholesale
grocer OF Kansas City, vas shot and killed by
H. ]. Russell, = liveryman, without provoca-
ton
Sergeant John Hamm, who went to
old Fort Howard, Wisconsin, in 1920, and has
never since been out Of town but once, has
passed avay from earth.
4
The Governor Of Louisiana has called
an extra session OF the State Legislature.
At Marion Station, Miss, on election
day, band Of negroes opened fire on the
whites at the polls, by which four white men
were killed aud two seriously wounded A. I.
Harvey, Democratic candidate for County A.
SCISSOR. was slain Two armed squads went to
the scene Of the trouble from Meridian. and
found 100 negroes banicaded in tho house OF
Edward Vance. After fight in which John
Vance, colored, and A. q. Warren, Of tho
Ghorif's posse, were killed, about thirty negroes
escaped TO the woods, under hot tire.
Philip E. Sullivan, one Of the Arkan-
sas train robbers, . young man OF intelligence
and good manners. died of . broken heart in
the penitentiary at Little Rock, to which he had
bean committed for seventy years.
The conductor and engineer Of rail-
road train have been indicted for murder 1t
Danville, Ky., for having by recklessness caused
collision in which five men were killed.
The State House ut Austin, Tex, has
been destroyed by fire. The archives Of the
republic Of Texas, the battle nags, and tho
Alamo monument were destroyed. The fire il
mppostd d to be the work Of incendiaries. The
loss 10 estimated at s3o0.00l.
The cotton crop Of Georgia this year
y about 80 per cent. short Of the crop Of last
year.
A Georgia distiller, who had been
mulcted OF 4 package Of Illicit whiaky, shot and
killed the man whom he suspected OF being thu
informant. Commissioner Raum mas Issued
orders to use every possible means to secure
the arrest Of tho murderer.
A horrible railroad slaughter occurred
near Corsicana, Texas. A freight train on thu
International and Great Northern road ran into
gang OF consicts, killing twenty-three and
wounding = large number. The accident Wal
caused by an open switch.
Rains for two months in Southwestern
Tex have raised the waters Of the Rio Grande
Ia the Ii shest point known since the Mexican
war; Matsmoras is badly flooded.
Joe Harris. colored. was hanged al
. Glcensbolo, Ga, Tor the murder Of Ezekie
Langston. Henry Jepkins WAS hanged 1t Fay
c,teyille, W. Va, for the murder OF Win6olt
Saunders Oh the 10th OF May last. Felix Nun
shower WAS hanged at Frederick, Md, for th,
murder of J. /. Wetzell IN August, 1879.
=