The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-06-02
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

A train on the Boston and Albany
road struck . light. engine near Ghent, N. Y,
by which the engineer and fireman Of the
passenger train were killed.
Over-production and high wages have
caused tile window-glass manufacturers o.
Pittsburgh to resolve to close their works for
the summer.
Commodore Mutt, the dwarf, whose
real name was. George W. Morrifon, died OF
ierisht's disease ut New York. He was 81 years
u age and faity-ihree inches In height. Of
late he has kept restaurant.
e. L. Godkin, Of the Nation, and
| ,arl senurz have purchased the New York
Ereing Post
Edward Desendorf, Brooklyn print
er, Liled his wife and then committed suicide
In the OLeary international pedestri-
an contest at New York, Edward ylnt a Brook
! lyn shoemaker, captured the belt. He made
57s miles in six days, which exceeds all previous
| records.
West.
A terrible catastrophe occurred the
other evening at st. Joe, Mo. In cellar be-
! meath saloon, frequcnted by colored men, Loo
| barrels of Danforth's fuid isnitcd, and wrecked
! the building, in which large number Of per-
sons were assembled. The number of lives
| lost is estimated, at this writing, ~ high -
twenty.
| Billy Leroy and confederate calling
himself Sam Potter were taken to Del Norte,
Col. An hour after arrival the prisoners we're
lynched by citizens.
The wheat crop of Indiana has been
seriously damaged by the drought, the chinch-
| bug aud the Hessian fy.
The report of the business of the
Northwestern railway shows earnings OF nearly
s2O.OOo,0OO, . gain OF about 10 per cent on
last year.
| A collision on the Denver and Rio
Granle road, near Granite, Col, caused the
death OF one man, mortal injuries to four
others, while four were seriously hurt.
Four children of Andrew Lewis, liv-
ing near Plain City, Ohio, set fire to barn
and perished in the flames.
Capt. Paul Boyton left st. Paul on
Il
rubber, hoping to paddle the distance in six
teen days. He then proposes to float down the
Missouri from Fort Benton TO st. Louis.
John E. Clapp, catcher and Captain
| Of the Cleveland Baseball Club, was ap-
preached by J. $. Woodruff, dry-goods clerk
Of Chicago, who attempted to corrupt him into
giving away games. The catcher was incor-
ruptible, and "gave away" Woodruff instead,
and the young man was exposed in the Chicago
papers.
Mr.. John Griscom, the New York
faster, who went to Chicago to fast forty-fiye
and perhaps fifty, days, began his task on Sat-
urday, May 2s, at noon, after partakng OF a
hearty meal with number OF professional
men and. others, among whom was DIR. Tan
ner.
South.
The explosion of condemned boiler
in the machine shops of Risk 4 Co., ut Men,
phis, killed two men and wounded three others.
Twenty-Five or thirty men made Jail
delivery at Morganton, Fannin county, Ga, Of
prisoners held tliero for violations OF tho in
ternal revenue laws.
AT the annual sale of yearlings at
Fleasness farm, near Lexington. Ky., eighteen
colts averaged .947 per head, and twenty til-
hes slo0 each. Not of the purchases were
made FOR James II. kcenc.
In Il quarrel between Mrs. Garrett and
her daughter, Of Cochran, Ga, the latter
seized shotgun and shot of the top of her
mothers head. The father then whipped the
girl nearly to death.
Jim Baker shot and killed Alexander
Osborne anl the two Ryn / brothers, and NOR
tally wounded another man. name unknown, at
Osborne's ford. Scott cou.its. Va