The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-14

ire fully confirmed. The commander and all
lie Flenchmen OF the expedition were killed
Dy the natives after brave resistance against
heavy odds.
thomas Carlyle willed to Harvard
University tho books he used in writing the
lives of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the
Great.
DolGEgTI0 INTELLI0ENO1.
East.
O'Connell, one Of the persons who
planted the bomb At the Lord Mayors manaion
in London. has reached New York.
Charles Scribner 4 Sons have sold
their interest in Scribmer's Monthly, 81. Nicho-
las and the Illustrated Magazine for Boys and
Girls to Mr.. Roswell Smith, the busines, mana
ger Of these periodicals. The editorial and
business management win b continued % at
present
Capt. Boycott, whose treatment in
Ireland by the members Of tho Land League
gave rise to the term 'b0ycotting,' arrived in
New York last week.
On the ground that the compensation
offered is inadequate, the Mayor of New York
has vetoed the bill perm tting the Edison Elec-
tric Light Company to lay tubes in the streets
A boy of IA shot and killed his sister,
Il girl of II, in Sanbury, Pa, whlle the family
were seated ut dinner. His reason was thai
they would net give him enough 70 eat.
Internal revenue officials found al
illicit still III ravine about fourteen miles FROM
Somerset, Pa, aud captured four moonahiners
aud lou barrels Of whisky.
A Gutenberg Bible, printed in l450,
trough, $500 At nm auction sale in New York.
The large jcwclry store Of William
Wise, in Brooklyn. n y. was burglarized a few
| aights ago Six large Loles were bored in a
| .afo containing 100000 worth OF diamonds. but
nc steel plates broke the drill Another safe,
| scishlns 40 pounds, was lifted out Of the wal!
In. kscrews, and robbed Of 100 watches, val
led It $1,000.
The food in the Upper Missouri hal
swept away nearly Ill the buildings in Yer
million, OAK.
Smith F. Manson, General Passenger
| Agent of the Wisconsin Central railroad, was
killed while trying to board freight train.
A vigilance committee has been or
ganized At Sidney, Neb., for the purpose .
driving thieves, cut-throats and despcradoe
from the place, they having run the town TO
some time past.
/ Mrs. Sargent, of Santa Barbara, Gal.
was brutally murdered by . shecp-herder, who
in turn WIS hanged by mob OF indignan
citizens.
In the Mormon Conference, at Sal
Lake CITY, john Taylor, President Of th
church, declared that the Saints proposed :
obey AL Gods revelations, including even III
one on lolySamy.
| Nearly all the live stock IN the Mis
souri, river valley between Jefferson and Fol
Thompson i reported to have been destroye
Ly the Hood.
A Winona (Minn. dispatch Of the 81
INST. says: "Thc work Of raising the biockad
on the west end Of the Chicago and Nortl
western railroad is proceeding slowly. Thei
still remains $40 miles in blockaded stat
or this all but fifty miles can be easily raises
The fifty miles consist Of ice and frozen sno
, INIT will have to be picked step by step. Thel
: are from 400 to 500 men at work, and it
thought that two weeks will see the road opt
TO PIERRE Oak. No trains have been run
Watertown, Oak, since the Goth Of Januar
All stations Of the blockaded portion report
scarcity Of -four, oil and groceries, but no su
fering from the lack Of these or other hvil
necessities"
Moody and Sankey have finished 70,
! months Of continuous labor in San Francisc
A coal firm in Cleveland has sued ~
! railroads running into that city, claiming ~
100 for freight discrimination in favor or 9th
dealers.
A company which proposes to bnild
: railway from Pekin to Grafton, H.. has b.
Incorporated at Springfield, with . capital
= s2.0oO,o0O.
e Van Hise, Linn and Corwin, vi
were arrested at Cleveland for connection wi
l. the Missouri land frauds, have been dischars
/ for lack OF evidence, Detective Tyrrel failing
Is appear to testify.
Tho municipal officers Of Dodge Cit
Ram, having refused to surrender to their 81
cessors, body of seventy armed men proceed
II to break the locks Of the Jail doors, and hi
issued a notice to all thugs to leave witt
tw.ns-four hours.
u Fifty fe t OF the Government riprap
Omaha has been washed out by the i!oo
Two nlen were swept out among the ice cal
o ani drowned.
I. Tho conductors and drivers on I
h. West Division Railway Company, Of Chica
:. struck for an advance Of ~ per cent in ii
ha pay. Over half the city was deprived Of sire
he car facilities for thlrty-six hours, and pco
ha had to foot it to and from their pla
ef business. The synpathies Of the Ammu
Is wefe with tho strikers, and the corporal
- finally Yielded to tho demands Of the |
- ployes.
nd A strike Of the journeymen carpent
Of Cincinnati resulted in the concession
Il. .2.25 per day by l26 builders.
ID ALI Luck, Chinaman, was hanged
ms Nevada City for the murder Of . countrynl
Col. NJ. G. CARRIER, Postmaster at NJ
ty ison Ind, and proprietor Of the Courier, {
ls. from u aralytic stroke.
ut Great activity is apparent in the W,
cd Of grading the Northern Pacific up the VA
nj oi the Yellowstone, where 5000 men will Z
BE be employed. preference being given those
intend setting IN the region.