The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-24
NEWS Of THE week.
AMERICAN ITEMS,
Ea|a1l,

AA6kSAOAN Ax6A0o
Uast,
Charles T. White u Co.. operative
chemists, Of New York. have suspended. Liza
bities amount to $25O,000.
G. A. ClaAin, boot manufacturer Of
Hopkinton, Mass, having liabilities Of &l10,.
600, has called meeting OF bis ere litors.
It il discovered that J. Howard
Wellcs, Jay Gould's blackmailer, IL : commis-
sary who dcfrauded tho Government OF about
$4,000, 900 and then went TO Europe during the
war.
The commission OF militia officers OF
Massachusetts, sent to Richmond TO investigate
the outrageous acts Of the Ninth regiment on
tho trip to Yorktown ind the charges against
that regiment fully sustained. Gov. Long las
ordered Col. Strachan to discover aud dis.
charge the guilty men within thirty days, OF
the regiment will be disbanded.
The boarding house keepers of New
England met in convention at Boston, to OF.
game for protection against beats.
Adelina Patti gave concert in New
York for the benefit Of the Michigan sufferers,
which realized $1,000 after al expenses were
paid.
George Law, = well.known New York
capitalist, died last week.
Twenty-Five firemen were seriously
injured while subduiug FIRE at Hopkinton
Mass.
West.
Smallpox prevails at South Bend,
Ind, TO q considerable extent, and many peo-
PIE arc alarmed. The local pest-house il full,
aud vaccination is being put in practice.
There are twenty cases at Fort Wayne. Du.
buquc has . smallpox scare and half the city
has been yaccinated within few days.
$. Loewenthal Il Co., wholesale and
retail dry. goods dealers, at Leavenworth, Kan,
have suspended payment
A shock Of earthquake at San Jose,
CAL, was violent enough to upset . pile Of
sacked wheat in the railroad depot.
The house of Jesse Baldwin, near
Youngstown, Ohio, was entered at an early hour
in tho morning by burglars, who took there
from between s3O,GOO and $4,000 in gold.
Baldwin il somewhat Of crank, and recently
exchanged some OF his Government bonds for
COIN He is probably sorry now. The burg
lars. five in number, belong to gang who have
been operating rather extensively in Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio.
The Clark House, the principal hotel
at Duluth. was swept away BY fire, causing :
loss Of $4,000.
A new kind Of cattle disease, SO for
attended In each case with fatal results, has
apoeered in Dubuque county, Iowa.
Western listillers held meeting in
Chicago, and formed the Western Export As
socation, the object BEING to export the sur
plus Of the hqaor distilled.
An accident occurred on the Spring
field and Northwestern railroad. near tire Sam
CANON river. about four miles from Spring
field. III. The mail aud passenger train fell
through . trcatle twenty feet to the ground.
No one was kille,, hut fifteen we're more or loss
injured.
The Asylum for Idiotic Children at
Columbus, Ohio. has been burned. It u be.
leved to have Eecn the work OF incendiaries.
Owing to the excellent discipline Of the teach.
era. the pupils were safely marched ont, and nc
lives were lost. The loss Of property 10 about
s25a.O0O.
South.
Through the carelessncss Of second
In loading : shotgun. \ mock duel between
Virginia negroes resulted in tho death Of John
Jasper, OF Norfolk county.
Miss Lillian Duer, who shot Ellis
Hearn because the latter wouldn't marry her,
has just become tho bride Of young man at
Wilmington, Del.
Gen. Sherman appeared as Mexican
veteran at the exposition At Atlantis. a city
which seventeen years ago vas reduced to ashes
by hi. orders, and was most enthusiastically
, received.
A gang Of poonshiners. convicted in
tho United States court at Little Rock, wer.
sentenced to fines aud terms OF Imprisonment,
ranging from $500 to $5oO. and from one Il
three years. Their operations dated back L
1877, and they we're only captured after ,
pitched battle.
James L. Ridgely, who since 1910 has
been Secretary Of tho Grand Lodge OF Ode
/ Fellows. Of the United States, died in Bslti
| more.
At Atlanta, Ga, Gen. J. b. Gordor
drove the first spike in the new Georgia Pacid,
railroad, which will 1t Is believed, he great ben
| sfit to the whole south.
| A negro named Augustus Smith suf
! fered execution 1t Rsnithhcld, N. G., Tor ,ut
| raging the person Of white girl years Of age
! 6e.ersl Thousand colored people assembled .
| Hs,nburr. Alk.. to Witness the execution o
Rohe jackson for the murder OF Reuben Jor
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