The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-05-05

sion Of the sAwdust storehouae threw the wal.
over upon the crowd, three OF whom were
fatally burned and Ten others singsd The
loss y o7t,ooo.
Joseph 4 Isaao Bloom. dry.goods deal
~ n Boston, failed for eio0o0o. and Tho
ssnior member Of tAs arm committed suicide.
The 0irard elevator in Philadelphia,
and several warehouses in the vicinity, wers d.
stroysd By arA The loss was 100000.
Royal 5. Carr, convicted Of numbering
". W. Mnrcommuck, Dec. z, 1879, was hanged
a Windsor. w.
John w. Minturn, ore Of The famous
shippers Of New York, killed himself with 4
pCvolvcr In his private olace. A hs had large
means and happy domestic relations, the deed
= attributed TO temporary insanity.
West.
E. w. Bond 1 Sons saw-mill, TO-
gcther with AO0o, 900 feet of humber, were Do
stroyed ny 6rc q Fife Lake, Mlch.
A physician q Cincinnati claims to
have found genuine trschins imbeddsd IN tho
backbone Of some ash.
The Commissioners u Health of Chi.
cAgo advises The people Of that city 70 abstain
from the ~ of wafer = beverag& The
river has sot mixed up with ths lake.
The Directors Of the Chicago Board Of
Trade have passed resolution declaring the
action oe the joint executive committee Of ths
railroads In advancing ratos to tho East with
out giving The customary notice : positive
breach oe good faith toward The shlpping trade.
They also cnArActerise ID action % 80 trcachcr-
ous and tyrannical = - invite united t6ort By
he people toward commercial political and
legal relief.
A colt with seven perfectly formed
fses i ono of ths curiosities Of Normal, nj
One fore lcg sports thrss fset and the Other
Two.
Hon. William E Cramer. senior pro-
prietr Of the Eecsiss WISCONSIN, vas placed
in cell in tho Jail 1t Milwaukee, on suit 70,
criminal libel brought by Matt Finch, an attor-
ney, and kept thcre nearly all day.
The Grand Jury q 81 Louis returned
seventeen indictments against Robert Lindsay
and nins against John nEady, fos connection
with the Missouri land frauds.
The beautiful little city Of Elgin, nl.,
has been tho sccns 81 most distrcssing calAm-
ity that caused mourning in many families.
When ths iron bridge across the Fox river at
that point gave way, sAort time ago, the City
Council ordered small fes.y-boat 10 b pro.
pclled by cable stretched from bank to bank.
Il bad Just been completed, and the
sccv. frall little structure, only eleven by
eighteen fect, running on puleys on wire ca
ele, and profcllcd by the rapid current. made
several trips safcly, though showing il waa not
safe On ons Il these trips tho boat, heavily
laden With human freight, vas snatchcd by tho
swstt current. turned half round and tilled with
water. The panicserioken children (sor half
h,r passenEcrs were children on their way to
and the craft carccned over. In moment \
sccsc and half Of struggling human beings
wreetlcd witA the swift current in the mad
waste Of waters. There they were. in plain
vie~ OF hundreds watc, ling from the shore, on
both tho east and wsst sidss right in tho lusi-
sINe k<AtAVeA ~ Wv NSAvs SAsNt SsAO NSsCo
Of victims and friends On the shore
were heArtrendlng. Ons after another the
struggles endsd. Boats put out - soon
AZ possiblc ard many were rescued. Some
good swimmers reachcl the shore from quar-
ter TO halt : mile below. Six pcrsons are
known 70 have found watsry grave. Their
| aaa,cs arc: Thomas Murphy, aged IS; John
Cxhin, aScd s5s Leo TAyio,, agcd i6s Elmer
Foster. aged Is, Guy CArllslc. aged Is; Fran
cea Creighton, aged u
Aformidab,e strike of the conductors,
drivers and sta leaca Of tie St Louis
s,res&-cAr compaaies for an incr ~ OF
wsxss e . reduction q the hours Of
l.br WAS brought to IN end only by
,hc calling out Of the militia and the appear
| snce az the Governor Of Missouri at ths scene
| Of sle tronblc.
The latest strike in Chicago is that Of
the narsss II tho smallpox hospital
Tho situation as Kansas City, On the
SolA 1lt., was terrible The Nissoun river
couaanned 70 riss q IN alarming rate. And I'll
he sasvatoss and tAe great packing Aousea
were surronnded By watcr. OF the ten rail
roads running into the city but three were abls
10 ssnd out traans over their own track. ths
CAacsso and Alton alone running their Eastern
trsina dlcct frcm the Union depot Fully
s,eoo pcop,s were homeless, and many
Nof them hAd lose everything they
possessed in the world. Box-cars railway de-
pets teats and everything that could Be used
Cor shelter were bong psessed into service, ye'
thousands were compelled to sleep in tho orer
air and depend upon charity for food Man,
q The hoosss had been moved to railwa,
trsekA but several had gone down stream, anJ
mere wsrc expected 10 follow. The HAnniba
railway bridge which cost q, s00, 600. was in ,
periloas sataation.
A horrible tragedy is reported iron
-. Paul. Howard county. Nch Mrs. Koch
tho wife of CarsstiaG Koch, railroad nigh
xa,chnaan, while lahoring under 6t u tenn
pcrary insanity, killed her three children i.
cutting their throats With ra3os and then Gu
her o~n throat Quo boy vas ycau old, tn
ss>eessd boy was years and the third child
sal sSel aon,hA
Col. James H. Bowen, in former year
oac ot tho leading sprits In the business cir
clss of Chicago, ~as killed the other day BY b
ing thrown from buggy.
4 convention Of delegates from tn
Land Leagues OF ninois ~ ncld in Chicago
and . State organization formed b perpetual
The agitation in Ireland aud England. The a.
ISOLATION pledged itsclf 10 raase this year $aso,
90 o. more 10 aid the cause.
Nrc destroyed NJ. Frost { Co. s wood
nctroat, causing ! loss Of about Sl5O.oo0.
South.