The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-04-07
Eli B. Williams, ono Of tho pioneer
settlers Of Chicago, who WAS Receiver OF tho
Land Ofice thirty years ago, died In Paris. He
left large estate.

lott large estate.
The explosion Of . boiler In . mill 1t
Youngstown, Ohio, mangled and scalded four
mon to fatal degree, and indicted grave In.
jurics On ten othora
In the mining carap Of Ivanpah, Gal. I,
. astock-raisor was ki).od by renegade Indian.
A party Of reds delivered him TO tho authori-
ties, and baal Of masked men seized and
hung him.
A gang Of bogus-coin manufacturer
nave been arrctod ncar Cadillac, Mich., and
their molds ard metals seized.
In quarrel about . patcnt right, At
Gilman, Inj., Ira Miller slot Soth Mckinney
through thu heart.
Mrs. Nary Bemer, an insane woman
Of Milwa, kee, after escaping from the asylum,
killed her.elf with dull table knife, cutting 4
largo piec, Of fosh out OF her throat
A fire vt Leadyille destroyed McDan-
iovs Thcate~ aud restaurant and saloon ad-
joining.
Gen. BENJAMIN F. Loan, who made
an cnviable record In the Union army and
served three terms In Congress, died at 81.
Joseph, Mo.
The Superior Court at San Francisco
III ono Of tho suits i,sti,uted by Burke agaills
Flood and other bonauza kings, has rendered l
decision which will folce the latter 10 disgorg,
over $780, 900 to victimuod stockholders.
The Indians at HI ocheno. Alaska, r..
Gently burned 1t tho stal two OF their numb !
for some crime.
Several stores having been robbed Al
Pierre, Oak. hfty vigilsns, armed with rifles
picked up oil tho qucst.ona Vie mon IN town ant
drove them away with warning.
Aparty Of ten cowboys engaged in |.
lark 1t O'Neill City, Neb, tnd kliled Slieri
k,arns aud seriously wou ,sss. his depat.
because they objected to the roaking up Ut VI.
auction. The mulderers esca ed.
Mark Mata, formerly Of Chicago, waa
mortally wounded in an ARRAY in newspaper
ofice at Deadwood, By Texan named Ebelin.
Mrs. Albright, residing near Youngs.
town, Ohio, hanged herself with : skein oi
yarn. leaving hve children. Tho receipt u III,
news caused her uncle, John Elisera, % fAl
dead.
Reports from the winter wheat il Uhi,
show large Increase IN acreage and : proa.i..
4ng condition of the plants, oven beneath th,
snowy covering.
by collision on the St Paul, Mime
apolis aud Manitoba road, near Rothsay, two
mon were killed and dve seriously injured.
In the slang OF that section. the people
Of Sidney, Mob. had = roundup Of thieves, aud
lodged them in jal.
Included in the railroad projects char.
tered in Indiana arc narrow-gauge line from
rerre Haate to Meron, aud . road from T.rr,
Haute to Columbus.
The indianapolis, Bloomington anu
Western road has swallowed the Springfield
Southern, : limo lls miles IN length.
Charles 6choonover, Of Michigan,
who = delivering temperance lectures In Cen
tral Iowa, l. but Il years Of ago.
Grain-dealers at st. Louis send out
reports Of great damage to winter wheat in St
Clair and Clinton counties. III.
In the bull redistricting the State d
Wisconsin, tho Legislature, by an unaccount.
able blundcr, omitted tho town OF Ridgcway
in Iowa county, and disfranchised 500 voters.
At Irving, Mch., Martin Texter was
visiting at the house Of neishbor named nen.
iamn Trego when the latter stepped from the
room, returned with an nx. and split Tcxter's
head to tho chAl. jealousy was apparently the
c~ue.
In the case OF the slaughter on the
St Paul and Manitoba road. the coroner's jur,
Ind criminal carelessness on tho part OF Con
dactor Calvin and Brakeman pearcc. Th.
former Is m jail.
Forget e-Not," the new play, viii
Miss Genesievc Ward in the principal role, i
tho attraction this week ut Haverly's, in Chi
cago. This remarkable play some time sine,
was presented to overflowing houses At Wal
lacks Theatcr New York, when tho drama wa
cnjoincd from further production there. Thi
play has excited moro intelligent comment tha,
anything produced this season. Miss Ward
impersonation Of tho heroine il SO clearly
great creation that ii has already taken ranl
among tho striking impersonations Of tho age
and, once seeing it, ono can readily under
stand the reason OF its remarkable success il
England aud the United States.
South.
Mrs. Betsy Givens, tho first girl baby
born in Louisville, has gone to tho better land
She was los years Of ago, aud had never en-
tered = railroad coach.
The Chesapeake and Ohio road 10 I,
commence work ct once ON . limo from LAxins
| ton to Louisville q. r Huntington has %
cured control Of the kiizahethtown and Padu
cah road. and will take immediate steps 10 clos
the gap southwark 70 Memphis.
The Denver and New Orleans roo
has ordered ffty miles Of steel rails from Liver
pool, and closed contract Tor building ths lin
to connection with tho roads In Northwestern
Texas.
A cyclone in Randolph county. Ga.
killed Jack Emhrey, his wife and two children
The fiendish murder Of Ben G. Porter
the actor. at Marshall, Texas, by Jamcs Curti
/
Through the efforts Of Texas jMy the villai
escaped unpunished. One week ago. in
drunken ft 1t Las Vegas. he threatened ID
iives OF several people. aud WAS shot dead by
bartender. Some Of Gurrie's friends aitempte
q lynching. but were foiled. aud Coroner
jury justified tho killing.
The Legislature Of Tennessee ha
passed bill forfeitinx the Office Of any Sheri
who shall permit prisoner 70 b. taken frol
his custody aud lynched.
The world was too hasty in congratu
lating itself that tho butcher, currie. had gon
under the daisies. The man killed at Las Va
gas was mot the assassin Of Den c Porter. but
namcsaks whose biography shows inciden,
equally bloodthirsty.
During : frcshet Of the Coosa rivel
in Georgia, it inundated the farm OF II
Frank Perry. A the waters rscsdoi bnrie
battlefield came to view. Skeletons and par
Of skeletons lay strewn upon the field. an
| hones Of every portion of the human fran,