The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-22
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don, resolution condemning the opium traffic,
with an addendum calling on the Government
u deliver the country from the guilt Of support
ing it. was passed. Upon . suggestion for .
missionary conference to ohviate the rivalry and
confusion between different Methodist bodies
in the work OF conversion, Mr.. Reid, Of Amer
ica, raid he had only been able to find one case
forth to tho world that there were dissen-
slOns.
Advices from Arizona to Sept. 10 state
that Cen Carr had left Fort .Apachson scout
OF fifteen days in the Gbicu valley. He took
200 men, City Indian scouts and twenty pack
ers, all rationed for the full term. Gov. Cos
per had placed coo muskets in the
hands Of regularly organized minuts-men.
The cowboys Of Cochiss county wsre gathering
in force near San Bernardino ranch, declaring
their intention TO raid the frontier Of Mexico.
The Mexican Consul at Tucson had sent word
to the Mexican forces along tho border - b
prepared.
The schooner Van valkenburgh found.
cred OF whitefsh bay, Lake Michigan. and Al
on board except One seaman were lost
Ten men employed in cutting trees
and clearing the track Of new railrosd line
near Multwora fall. Columbia river, in Oregon,
got into small boat to cross tho river. Tho
boat swamped and five Of tho occupants were
drowned. Their names were not ascestained.
From Douglasville, Ga, small town
twenty miles from Atlanta, come details OF
most thrilling fight between . party Of young
men, during which William Nottingham WAS
killed BY receiving two loads Of buckshot in his
side, and two others-Cook and Mitchell
tally injured
Simon Silverman, q merchant at In.
dian Bay, Tenn, was robbed in the highway Of
lottery ticket which had drawn 3l5,O00.
Sergt. Mason has addressed an appeal
to the public, in which he admits thai, in shoot
ing 1t 0uiteau, be did wrong-not because Of
! the injury be intended to inflict on 0uiteau,
but because he had offended the law Of the
land. He 10 yet Of opinion that 0uiteau
ought to have been killed-in fact, that all
assassins and would-be lssassins OF the chief
ruler Of nation ought to be killed, and sug-
gests . rather curious way Of dispatching
/ them. They shonld, he thinks, be put into !
ditch ten feet deep, and I'll persons who hate
assassins should Be permitted to throw mud on
] them, and when the ditch l. filed the place
over the assassin's body should b covered with
birthstone, that no grass might grow thereon.
He thinks that it il rather degrading to United
States soldiers to place them to guard the life
Of the worthless sconndrel Guiteau.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
having pronounced the old railroad bonds fos
e5,00O. 600 valid claim against the State, Gov
! PillsbuEy has decided to convene the Legislat.
ure in extra session Oct 10, 70 mature plans tc
adjust the debt on the basis Of SO cents on thu
dollar, in accordance with the proposition oi
the bondholders.
At Rockland, Me-, Charles Smith, .
laborer, shot and killed his wife, infant son ans
mother-in-law, and attempted to kill Mrs. Met
cali, on old lady living in the house. but she
with two children, escaped. Cause, jealous,
OF his wife.
Footpads stopped the carriage of Ny
ron Press near Champion village, N. b., fires
several shots and cut his coat with dagger
but he escaped by whipping his horse. Th
highsaymen are believed to be those who per
petrated the outrage on the Glen House stage
who have since been steadily pursued BY OH
GERS.
Erie freight trains collided near Ell
mira, n. Y. BY which Engineer Fuller ans
Brakemen Barrett and Pomeroy were instantl
killed, and Conductor Jones and Brakema,
Durham mortally injured.
In regard to the complaints Of th
prbhc A. to the telegraphic delays, Gen. Eel
ert pleads the transmission Of two million hui
letins of the Presidents condition, the rrostra
ton Of lines by forest fires, and an increase o
50 per cent. in commercial, messages