The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-28

vile, Ind, Ia quarrel over the possession OF
q field. Smiths wife then knocked Finnick
down with hos and chopped his head int
slivcrs.
An Omaha telegram Of April % states
that the nood on the Missouri had severed
railway connections between that city and
every point. Several dwelling -houses Aoated
past the city that day. and half mile Of raal-
road track was washed away. All important
industries were drowned ont. At Sioux City
both rail and telegraph communication With
the North and West was cut OF. Four hum
lrcd houses were either submerged Or sur
rounded BY water, and communication with
their occupants was had only By RATS. At
Rockford the Wilson ice-house, containing
about 1000 tons Of ice, sunk into the Rock
river.
The printers on the Cleveland Leader
have been granted an advance in their pay.
Manager Haverly, Of Chicago, will
build in that city the finest theatcr in the
United states. The sigte selected for this Lew
dramatic temple Is Monroe street. opposite
HAverly's present theater.
A special train on the Denver and Rio
Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr, New
Mexico, and rolled down an em5ankment 4
$50 feet Seven men and ono woman wtre
killed, aad Ill the other passengers injured.
The wounded were taken to Denver.
While the population Of Chicago has
increased 10 per cent. in the past ten years, the
growth Of the churches in membership has
been only II per cent.
A fire at Salinas, Gal, burned the
residence Of Mayor Ball, and his wife and two
daughters perished in the flames.
A joint agreement has been signed by
the Chicago, Milwaukee and ct. Paul and sew
sral other railroad companies for tho erection
Of union depot 1t Minneapolis. The struc-
ture win cost about e6oo, 900.
The exodus Of colored people from the
South to Kansas has begun again.
A colored assassin was taken from Jail
at Quincy, Fla, BY disguised mon, and hanged
toA troe
Mrs. Mutt, Of Camden, Ark, in an in
sane ft, threw her Ave children into well,
where they per,shed.
Additional particulars respecting the
killing OF her ave children by Mrs. Mutt, near
Camden. Ark, mentioned heretofore, are, that
tho frenxied woman called her eldest child, .
boy II years old, from field where he was
pow,ng, knocked him on tho head, and threw
him into tho well, where she had previously
thrown her four other children. Finding that
ono Of the children WAS not drowned, but was
clinging to the side Of the well, she descended
into tho well and tore away its grasp and thrust
ii down iuto the ~ater, thus oomplet ns her
diAbolcal work.
At Uvnlde, Tex. = shooting affray oc-
currod between Gen. John II. Baylor and son
on one side, and Mr.. G,llhurst and two sons on
the other. Baylor escaped unhurt, but his son
was fatally wounded, and another well filled
with buckshot.
Thomas Do Jarnette, the young man
Who murderd his sister at Danvllle, Va, be
cause abe had entered upon . life Of shame
has been acquitted upon tho ground Of IN.
sanity.
A block Of the principal business
houses in sheridan, hiss., has 6een destroyed
by fire. Loss, $3.50, 600; insurance el25.OO0
The frs was the work Of On ipcendiary.
| Sheriff w. F. Beattie, of Crittenden
county, Ark, was killed and Deputy Sheriff
Maddox was dangerously wounded while At
tempting tho arrest Of negro burglar.
Asachel Of jewelry valued at 81, ,OO(
| was stolen from the room Of travelling sales
man, in hotel at Baltimore.
Fifteen men rode TO the house Of Mr..
McLausen, Of Edwards county, Texas, and tool
the lives OF McLanren, h,s wife, and youne
man named Lease, living with them. Nothing
in the house was disturbed. The whole affal
is shrouded in mystery % far.
Lucinda Fowlkes, q Virginia negres,
Who killed her husband. enjoys the honor o.
beiog the only woman hanged in the Southern
states in twenty years. On the platform sh,
| tremblcd violently.
The discovery Of . deliberate schcm,
OF general escape in the South Carolina peni
,entiary at Columbia was the means Of pre-
venting an extensive uprising among the con
victs, who had provided themselves with axes
knives, clubs and paecos OF chain, and will
these weapons intended to overpower and, i
necessary, kill all the prison officials. Tw,
negroes under sentence Of forty years for mnr
der were the ringleaders
| Louis Whitaker, negro murderer
was taken from jail at Gadsden, Fla, by thirt
masked men, aud hanged to tree.
| The Missouri Pacific and the Texa
and st. Louis railways have been having
hot fight over the right Of way through Waco
Tex. The militia had TO be called out