The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-17
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Col. J. Howard Welles, an elderly
gentleman OF high social standing in New York,
has been arrested for writing threatening let
tiers TO Jay Gould, the well-known capitalist, in
which he stated that God bad commissioned
him to assassinate Gould. It il believed that
the writer is insane.
AT Scandia, Kan, DR.. W. H. Wool
ward was mortally shot BY J. c. Humphrey. edi-
tor of the Telescope. The ARRAY grew out Of .
local POLITICAL contest.
BY the explosion of . battery OF ten
boilers in sawmln at Zlwaukee, Mich, four
men we're killed. There were no others in the
mill It the timA Low water was the cause Of
the explosion, and the damage to the property
amounts to about cas-
The cholera at Mecca swept away 884
pilgrims in one day.
Snow IN Central Russia impedes rail-
way traffic, aud prevents the sowing OF winter
wheat
Forty persons were killed and forty
one wounded by an explosion Of gas in sui
phnr mine 1t Gessolungo, near Catanicetta,
Italy.
An Irish farmer in County Kerry was
dragged from his bed BY band Of armed men,
and, when he admitted having paid his rcnt.
he Was fired at i've times. being severely
wounded. landowner named Curtin was
taken from his house at Mount Mary, beaten
and compelled to stop proceedings for the
eviction Of tenant
A duel at Paris between Paul de Cas-
| sagnac and Adrien Monticello lasted twenty
five minntca The latter. the challenger, was
wounded in the right arm.
The Massachusetts, Paper Company
| has failed, with liabilities Of tSOc. 900.
A court-martial has been ordered a
Trenton, n. J., to investigate the charge tha,
] Gen Madison Drake, of the State miiitia, said
!, Guitean did right in killing Garfield.
A skiff ferry-boat crossing the Hudson
from Troy to Fort Schuyler was swamped By
the swell from three propellers. OF nineteen
persons on board, seven were drowned and
three are missing.
Owing to the publication in the NORTH
AmY1cda Rsrie.r Of an article BY Robert G.
Ingersoll, which the arm o. D. Appleton 4 Co
regarded ~ blasphemous. the North American
Reraw's connection with that house hs,
ceased.
i Mrs. Edwin Booth, wife Of the great
| actor, died in New York, Of consumption, aftel
| long and painful iliness. She was tho step
daughter OF Mr.. J. II. Mcyicker. the veteran
theatrical manager Of Chicago.
The sseam-barge Brunswick and the
schooner Carlingford collided in . gale Of
Dunkirk, N. T.. and both we're sunk. Tn,
Captain and six men OF the schooner pnllet
twenty miles to the shore, but ono man VA
lost before starting. The barge lost an en-
ginecr and two cooks in the waves She wa
built by Capt. Berwick, Of Detroit, at cost O
sl50, 600, and was insured for $7AOO0.
/ Atlanta is to be discontinued as . mil
itary post. The Fifth Artillery, which for tw,
years has been stationed 1t NcPherson bar
racks, took its departure the other day for Ne,
York, amid rounds Of oheera
The Apportionment act passed by tn,
Legislature Of Minnesota provides for fy
Congressman, and puts Minneapolis and 8,
Paul in the same district.
The genial Nat Goodwin and hi
.prightly wife. Eliza Weathcrsby, are tho d
fractions at Acylcker's Theater, Chicago, thi
week. The Member from slocum," IN amul
ing comedy in three acts, adapted from ID
French, il the play in which they appear, III
it constitutes . pleasing entertainment. The
are supported by = 6rst-class company.