The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-08
NEWS Of THE WEEK.



Newport, Liouts. b L. Edes and Lyman @.
spaulding we're instantly killed BY an accidental
explosion.
A fire at Beaver Falls, Pa, destroyed
Weldon Sons flour mill and partially burned
tho cutlery works and the trestle Of the Pitts
burgh and Lake Erie road. Tho loss will reach
$l4O, 900.
At Shortsville, near Rochester, N. T.,
fire destroyed the Empire Drill Works, BY
which 100 men are thrown out Of work. Loss,
100000.
Horace Montgomery and Kate Bar
tholomew, both OF Washington, Lawrence
county, N. Y, were drowned while making .
foolhardy attempt TO run the Rapids du Platte
in small boat.
BY the explosion of machine used
in loading cartridges in the Winchester arms
factory, At New Haven, small building was
blown down. Two mon were badly burned and
seven others injured
Gen. Grant has declined for the pres
ent the reception rendered him BY tho people Of
Asbnry Park, N. J., in consequence OF the oon-
lition OF President Garfield. He says that hs
would consider II unbecoming In him TO partic-
ipate in Joyous festivals while the life Of the
President Of tho nation hangs BY . thread.
Farmers in New York State are dig
ging their potatoes to save the crop which u
being ruined ythe drought.
The Changers Of Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia gave picnic 1t williams'
Grove, Pa. Fully 10000 persons were present
Forest fires in Western New York and
Northwestern Pennsylvania have caused great
havoc.
The rubber works of Eugene II. Clapp,
at South Hanover, Mass, valued at e75, 900,
have been burned
Ex-Congressman Hendrick B. Wright,
Of Pennsylvania, Is dead.
wese.
A horrible tragedy was enacted in
Milwaukee the other day. A young fellow
named Hermann Holden, aged 2S. shot and in
stantly killed bis stepfather. J. Kramer, and
then fired twice At his mother, both balls pro
ducing mortal wounds. Holden came from st.
Louis, and, after drinking some, went to the
house Of his mother and stepfather, with whom
he was not on very friendly terms. He picked
quarrel with his mother, who was lying on
the bed at the time, shooting her twice, %
stated. At this Cramer entered the door, and
Holden, turning In his track, shot him, the ball
passing clear through the body. He then
made his escape.
The peaceful Menominee Indians have
been driven away from the agency, and Agent
Stephens aud his daughter are held - prison
ers. Federal troops have been ordered to the
scene.
The town Of Sierraville, CAL, has
been almost totally obliterated BY fire. The
loss il estimated at e3OO,0OO
While a purity Of farmers from Lock
port, village few miles south OF Terre
Hante, Ind, were fishing in the Wabash river
about twenty miles south Of that city, four Of
them Henry Berkard, Marshall Ferrill, Emery
Lespie and Jamos Rudsell-wero drowned.
| The corner in August wheat obtained
by Cincinnati parties in the Chicago market
| was successfully carried out The manipula-
| tors Of the corner are said to have cleared
| $4,000. 900.
| Thomas II. Lowerre, compositor,
was shot during fight with James B. Duncan,
| a photographer, with whom he boarded ON
Wabash avenue, Chicago. Duncan was ar
rested, but claims that ho only acted in self-
defense. There ia scandal connected with
| the affair.
When the east-bound express on the
Central Pacific road reached Colfax, Cal, two
engines and one car we're thrown from the
track, the rails having been removed BY high
waymen. 4 fireman and tho express messen-
ger, who sprang to the ground, werc ordered
| to keep quiet, but just at that moment
| the robbers became alarmed and rode on in 1
wagon, leaving large invoice OF masks, pow
der and tools.
The Convent Of St. Francis, situated
about five miles from Manitowoc, Wis, was
struck by lightning and entirely destroyed by
fire. There were over eighty persons in the
building. several Of whom were injured in their
efforts to escape. The loss on the building and
furniture was S65, 900, with insurance OF only
$4,000.
A lunatic named Neil ran a-muck in
the streets Of Chicago, at the hour Of mid.
night, shooting Ave men whom he encountered
in his wild race, two OF whom, it is feared, can
not recover. He was himself shot by police
man.
A dispatch from Deadwood announces
the discovery, thirty miles from that city, Of /,
vein which runs e.10, 600 to the ton.
Reports aa to the yield Of the Mime.
sofa wheat crop, telegaphed to the Chicago
journals, indicate that the average yield pei
acre this year is about ll4O bushels, and tha
the aggregate yield OF the whole State will b,
about 50. ,5ll bushels. THIS is 5000, ,OO'
bushels less than the yield for the last year
The crop Was best in the western counties
OF the State and poorest in the southern coun
ties.
A strip of land in Nicollet county
Minn., four miles long and two wide, was wis
tied by hail-storm which beat the corn ans
grass into the ground.
Nana's band Of Apaches are commit
ting mnrderous depredations in Southern New
Mexico.
James B. Duncan, who killed Lowerre
the printer, in Chicago. has died from, the ef
feet of the injuries received in the fight.
South.
james Wolf, o wholesale merchant o
IAttle Rock, and his wife and child wen
crushed TO death in . steamboat accident .
Savannah.
Ella st. Claire, formerly . variet.
actress, in Mobile, marrleda : negro, who wa
indicted for miscegenation, whercupon sh
sprang into the river and ended her career.
One of the most destructive storm
which ever visited the South Atlantic coast pre-
vailed there. The loss OF life and property i
very great. The wind blew over Savannah, Ga.
at the rate Of forty miles an hour, unrooin
houses. sweeping the sea into houses along Ia
Mhars.s, and playing LAvoc with shade an
, fruit trees. An infrmary was wrecked
and the patients barely escaped. Man
ef them were badly bruised. Sailing craft i
savannah bay suffered badly, and many pei
SONS on board perished. The loss Of life anon