The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-02-17

The Northampton bank robbers-Dra-
per, Red Leary and Billy Conners-are con-
stantly guarded BY armed men. Tho bank viii
give tho thieves el0O, 900 for the return Of the
other securities.
Gen. Herman Uhl, business manager
Of the New York Staa,s Zettung, accidentally
shot himself while cleaning . loaded revolver.
He died within half IN hour.
Charles Cotton, Treasurer Of the DOL
lar Savings Bank at Hartford, Ct, whose death
Is announced, was the seventh in direct limo
from one Of the pilgrims who came 70 MAssa-
chusetts bay In l64O.
Peter Cooper's 9Oth birthday received
fitting celebration In New York. He sent
check for 10000 to the trustees Of the Cooper
Institute.
A tank Of the Standard Oil Company,
At Bayonneport, N. J., exploded and took fire,
several thousand barrels Of naphtha being con-
sulnsd.
Aunty jackson, q ncgress, aged 112
years, has just died 1t Normal, III.
John Forester, 1G-year-old boy, Of
Kossuth, Wis.,, committed suicide by hanging.
A fire at Omro. Wis, destroyed one
half Of the business part Of the town, includ-
ing ten stores, planing-mill, Thompson 4
Hayden's carriage works and large business
block. The loss 10 not less than S2OO,OOO
]. @. Ferguson Z Cos extensive
pork-house, at indianapolis, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss estimated at e5O0, ,0C0 !;
insurance, eSs5,0OO.
A collision on the Ohio and Missis-
sippi road. near Owaneco, Ill, killed three H.
boren and wounded several others.
Sitting Bull is again located at his
old camp at Woody Mountain, British Terri
tory.
The population Of Indiana il classified
thus: Total census, l,s7s, ss2, OF whom l,olo,-
676 are males and S67. .6s6 females, and 81, 96S
colored, including 2SS Indians and half-breeds,
thirty-three Chinese, and four japanese.
Several Chicago grocers have been ar
rested and fined for selling bogus butter.
A fleeing band Of Apaches was thor
oughly whipped BY party Of New Mexicana,
who killed eight and sent the remainder Oh in
hot haste for tho frontier.
-Four men were swept into eternity by
the explosion OF fire-damp in Warmers coal
bank, Robbins Station, Ohio, and ave others
were badly injured.
The details Of drunken tragedy come
over the wires from New Mexico, where Julian
Vigil chopped his wife and daughter into
pieces, mortally wounded his sou, and hanged
hinnself to rsftx.
The interior Of the Michigan Avenue
Baptist Church, in Chicago, was destroyed
BY an incendiary are. The loss WAS about
$50, 900.
Six laborers were burned to death by
an explosion in the Belmont mine, near Helena.
MT.
Omaha is to have Q grain elevator
with . capacity OF 100000 bushels. The Union
Pacific railway will subscribe $6O, 900 toward it's
construction and leading citizens have pledged
el0.Ooo.
After an extended tour in "fllrrin
parts" the well-known comedians Baker and
Ferron appear at Mcvicker's Theatcr, in Chi
cago, in new comedy entitled the "Emi-
grants" It il said to be very amusing, and
nas made . great hit abroad. The en-
yagement Of Sig. Tommas Salvini will
begin at Mcyicker's Theater, on Feb.
p. The programme for the week will be a
follows: Monday, .Othello;" Wednesday.
!. Hamlet !" TLur-day, "The Gladiator = Sat
urday evening, "Oihello." On Tuesday and
Friday evenings and Wednesday aud Saturday
natinees, the Boston Globe Theater company
will perform, during tho Salvini season, the
latest London and New York success, 1.-THE
Guv'nor."
South.
The steamship Josephine, running
between Havana and New Or cars Was wreckt a
near Ship island, the passengers and crew be-
ing rescued after floating in small boats for
seven hours.
The Southern Oil Works, in Memphis,
were destroyed by fire. The loss was Ga. 900.
A loss Of SS5. 900 was incurred at Deni.
on. Tex, BY tho burning Of Kuhn's groc cry
house, Goodsell's dry-eoods sstablishment ~
the Herald Office.
The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
railroad Was sold at auction Ut Richmond, Va.
under decree Of the United States C,rcui
Court. Clarence II. Clark, Of Philadelphia, b.
came tho purchaser ior himself and associate
for Ss,6O5.OOO. The intention 10 to use ths
4 - Avn,S R,.n
seaboard to the West and Southwest
Green jackson, colored. was hanged
at Marion, Crittenden county, Tenn.
| A landslide at the tunnel near Ash
vile, N. G., was being removed BY force o
twenty convicts, when largo mass Of eartl
fell into the cut, burying the whole number
Four Of the men were killed, several other
sustained serious injuries, aud some OF then
are expectA to die
The murder Of F. FL. Peterson, d
Madison, Fla, by I negro named Savage, ere
ated intense excitement The assassin VA
sent to jail and the Governor sent two militi,
companies to keep guard over him.
A volcano has been discovered in th.
Allegheny mountains, in FAyette county, Va
steam rises in considerable volume, and stone
thrown in were heard plunging down the abys
for several seconds.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The official census footings for tn,
State Of Pennsylyania are a. follows: Males
q 1S6 635. females lac XXI Nsfiva q coz
253 foreign, 5S7, $50. White. 4,l97, log; col