The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-01-20

During the past year there were erect
ed In Chicago s,s6s now buildings, It ! total
cost Of es.lOo.ooo.
Pool-selling i now : crime in Ohio,
under new law Just passed and approved.
A convention Of the farmers OF Kan
sas, In session at Topeka, adopted resolution
In favor Of Congressional enactment control
hng al interstate transportation.
Ihe Union fouring-mills. at Detroit,
were completely wrecked BY tho explosion Of
the boiler. Tho engineer, nroman and otlse
were killed. The damage was 4soooo.
A policeman at Alton, H., caught
three Burglars 1t work, and indicted upon ono
Of them mortal wound.
Tho St Louis Central Railroad Com
pany, which proposes 70 build line from Mur-
physboeo, NJ, to the Mississippi river, has been
incorporated at Springfield.
The farm residence Of John Wiskow,
near Oshkosh. Wis, Was reduced to ashes ,
few nights since. An investigation revealed
the fact that, in At Of insanity, Wiskow had
killed his wifa, attempted the life Of his daugh-
ter, fired the house and outbuildings, and then
shot himself dead.
The late Joseph F. Armour, Of Chi
cago, bequeathed to thrce trustees the sum
Of 100000 to establish mission church and
school, 70 be exclusively used Tor charitable
purposes.
A snow-slide on Brown mountain, near
Georgetown, Col, carried down 70 death two
men and : soman.
A Salt Lake dispatch says that ''snow
has fallen almost continuously in tho Wahsatch
range OF mountains since Christmas. A slide
on Wednesday evening. At the littl, mining
hamlet Of Alta, swept away house, killing
four persons, and another avalanche buried two
unfortunates. On Friday night . slide half
. mile in width, which would have demolished
the town but for q nat area intervening, caus.
four deaths, aud swept away the buildings Of
the Joab Lawrence Company, People are 1ce-
ing from the Big Cottonwood region, a. sew
eral other avalanches are impending"
A socomotive company Of Providence,
r. l., has purchased thirty acres OF land near
Chicago, and will erect shops there, the only
ones Of the kind in the West.
Indians attacked the stage running be-
tween Messila and Fort Cummings, N. NJ, and
killed tho driver and four passcngers, ous Of
whom was womaA
William Belden, step-father Of Gen.
Garfield, died, few days ago, at his residence
in Kent county, Michigan
The neat novelty ut McVickcr's will
bc the production Of "Saml Of Posen, the
Commercial Drummer" in which Mr.. NJ. B.
Curtis il said to have found fresh aud favor
an. The play puts forward the Hebrew Of to-
day with his comic side foremost. Mr.. Curtis
is considered by critics in the American Orient
to "play the drummer for all he is WORTH"
South.
A band Of Indians captured Texas
stage in Quiiman canon, killed the driver and
horses. and sliced up the mail-bags.
A bill is before the Legislature OF Ten
nesseee to settle the debt OF Memphis with
bonds at Is cents on the dollar, bearing pei
cent. interest
Mrs. Anne Wood, who resided in
Hampton, Va, when tho British troops entered
il, in 1872, has passed away from earthly
scencg.
A negro who had outraged = white
girl, near Marians, Ark, was taken from Jail b,
An armed mob, some Of whom ridd!cd the vii
lain with bullets before tho hanging faction
could reach tree.
Frederick Wintz, President Of the
New Orleans City Railway Company, has beer
arrested for the embezzlement Of CSC, 200, OBJ
tanned on check evidently intended to grease
the Council