The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-02-10
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


By the burning Of . store and tene-
ment house 1t Union, Ct, Mrs. George Stone
and her two children lost their lives.
A mandatory OF lamp. burners at
Forestville, Ct, employing 500 men, has been
burned TO tho ground, the estimated loss being
sl50.O0o.
FIVE large buildings in Philadelphia
were destroyed by Gre, causing total loss Of
about s2sO.OOO.
BY the destruction Of house in Com
mercial street, Boston, Mrs. Johanna Hanlan
and her son William were roasted to death.
The boiler Of the steam yacht Carrie
exploded in the harbor Of Baltimore, four men
being killed.
The failure is announced of Loomis &
McAlaster, carriage manufactur. rs, Of Bath,
N. H.. with lisbih.ies At eli0,oOO.
George Smith and Catherine Miller
were executed at Williamsport, Ia, for the
murder OF Andrew Miller, the woman's husband.
John Browns Sons, manufacturers of
cotton goods in Philadelphia, havo failed for
e75O.00O.
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt has paid
the entire cost Of transporting the obeisk, ped
estal and steps from Alexandria to New York,
and erecting them in Central Park.
John J. Berry, the embezzling bank
cashier Of II ,ckensack, n. J., has gone to the
State pri son for five years.
Albert, who won second place in the
recent pedestrian match at New York. has been
selected by O'Leary 70 walk against Rowell.
next month.
The propeller st. Albans, bound from
Milwaukee to Ludington, was so badly injured
by floating ice that she sprang leak and soon
went to the bottom. The passengers and crew
took to the boats and reached Milwaukee III
safety. The st. Albans was loaded with -four,
aud valued 1t t50.0O0.
Eight Cinnamon were killed near
Santa Cruz, CAL, last week, by Al ava.
anche. They were cutting timber ON the
mountain side, when the earth came down and
completely buried thc,n-
Ex-Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, ha'
been indicted for the murder Of Dn,ry, o
Napoleon, Ohio. but will be admitted to bail.
Three Of the Mexicans who mnrderc.
Col. Charles Potter, Of the geological survey
were taken from Jail at Albuquerque, Ne'
Mexico, and hanged by citizens.
H. w. Fairbanks, of Petrolia, Ont,
student al the university ut Ann Arbor, Mich
shot himself dead in . hotel parlor in tha
city. in presence OF two women who had gon
from Detroit to see him, ono OF them claimin
TO be his wife.
The reservoir back of FranktowI
New, gave way and made clean sweep OF Il
place.
The Sheriff at Battle Mountain, New
in blissfnl ignorance of the responsibility !
takes, is seizing G ntral Pacific mail cars 4
delinquent taxes amounting to $4,000. IL
property Of the company in California ID q
sessed At $50, GOO, 900, under the now constit
ton, but no taxes have been paid.
A huge mastodon has been exhune
near pcnd,cton. Ind.
Thousands Of sheep have have su,
cumbed 70 the cold weather In Montana,
Peter Pelkey was executed ut Helen,
Mont, for the murder OF Charles Tackle.
Hiram Hackett, who was stolen fro,
his homo, near Coldwater, Mich, sixteen yea
! $50, has been found and restored to his parent
He had strawberry mark on his shoulder.
A review Of the numbering interes
Of Michigan, made by q commercial journal
o New York, states that good timber lands ran,
. from $50 to 800 per acre, and sre being
rapidly secured by syndicatss that they "
, soon bs controlled by few individuals.
; A. McCarger, the acting Indian Age
. at White niyer, expresses serious fears Of
= outbreak Of the Utes in the early spring.