The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-10-20
NEWS Of The WEEK.
DOMESTIC yNTEI.xIoUgo1.

DOMESTIC INTELLI01S01.
HAST.
A tire which broke out In the Fourth
avenue car-stablce, At New York, completely
destroyed tho block OF buildings and caused
the death OF 100 hoses Tho flames crossed
Th,r,y.sccond street and made an ash-heAp Of
Mowelrs furniture storage building, the loss
being estimated at S2.oo0.0oo.
John Mallon l. Sons, wholesalers of
shoes at Lynn aud Boston, have failed. liAbili
ties. si50.000.
Nearly $50 horses perishcd by the
burning OF the Fourth avenue car stable. New
York.
Washington Butchers Sons, whole.
sale dealers In provisions, baving headquarter
in Philadelphia, with branch house In Chi.
caso, have suspended. Tho liabilities Ale
placed ut a, ,00O,0OO The firm ws caught IN
the recent Chicago whcst corner
DR.. Josiah g. Holland, poet and nov.
clst, for eleven years editor Of Nsibnn's Nag
oaiae, died suddenly IN New York. lle was
born In 1919.
L.anderhergers mill, on Randolph
street, Philadelphia, burned. There were thir-
ty.iive persona in the building, and their shrieks
were terrible when thoy found the stairways In
flames. Most Of them jumped 10 the sidewalk.
eight being severely injured and elk others
badly burned. Tho loss u estimated 1t S7O,-
OOO.
by the burning of Landenbergcr's
mill at Philadelphia about twenty lives wcrc
lost. Criminal carclessnass In providing .lrc-
escapes ia charged to tho owners
The failure of John Mahon 4 Sons,
shoe manufacturers At Lynn, l. pronounced a
deliberate sWinde. In which the plumber was
sl5o,0o0 or more. The members OF the arm
have dccAmpcd.
Col. Edwin b Morgan died Il his
home in Aurora, N. Y. lie was one Of tue
stockholders In the Now York Tm-s, ono Of
the ori.inators u wclla, Fargo \ Co.'S Express
Company, and was elected to Congress three
times.
A dramatic journal of New York states
that a separation has taken place between Ed
win Booth and his wife, tho latter having Ioac
% reside with her father, J. II. Mcvrkcr. The
cstrangemcnt h said to bo no new matter, and
eliminated In tho discovery that Mrs. Booth
had w,llcd to her mother rnoperty in Chicago
given her by her hushAnd within . year.
The Anniversary Of tho great fire in
Chicago was made the occasion. by tho daily
prcss Of that city, Of reviewing n commercial
progress From the statistics printed by the
local papers wc CLEAN that Chicago became 4
city in 1887. In the thirty-foar years between
that time aud 1871 shc increased her poptla-
ton 10 ao6,ooo. gain in thsrty-four years cf
about 500. QUO, or All average gam PER yoar Of
about 1900. In the ten years between Oct =.
1871, anu Oct. ., 1881, tho gain in population
was 2so,0oo. or an average gain per var OF
aa,aa0. In tho thirty.four years from 1897 10
1871 tho business of the city grew in volume
, nth the yearly sales had "ancy value OF
$as0. .eo0. coo. In the ten years succeeding the
iiru Of 1871 the volume Of business was more
than doubled. A year after the are the hank
cieaiings for the week were 50. .Iuo. .O0o,
Nine years later tho elesrinSs for tho wsos
wcrc Ss9. 9.G0o.u 900. Ii 1871 the value u the
manufactured products Of Chicago was SS&-
sia,0oa. In lsSl tho value il saSs. 900. .00a.
Tho decade iu., ended h,gsn With h,c tha,
destroyed nearly lS0oo buildings aud s,an.
ooa. 900 worth Of personal property aud mes-
cAandlsc. The great ilrc of ISL cut cut Il
Chicago city AZ large and ~ repalcus A. MSS
the Washington VI that year, In the hs'
ten yeAn the lost ground has not only hecs
recovered, hut population larger thar
that of New Orleans or Ssn Francisco has eeer
added in other words, tho city that was ca'
cut has been restored and another city atmcS'
a. large a. the Washington Of to-day aud thai
Of ten years ago combined has been tuilt III
around L. This rapid rceap~lation from IA,
cticcts % great calamity, and steady growth
in population aud volume Of business, coasti
tates cue u tho wonders u tho ninctscntl
century,
Two desperasloes were recently
/ lynched At Seeorrss n. NJ, tor horsc-stcalE,
and general cassedness>
Tho fund for the benefit If Presiaen
| 0araclds family amounted to ssss.Sas ON tn,
| llth inst.
New York has raised over Sl0a. 900 ~
the benefit Of the Michigan sntfercr>
| Since the surrender Of Sitting Bull
whose camp lay dirscsly on the route vi the an
naal migration. buffalo have returned to h'
northern plaias.
l. RosenheiMer, = merchant At kewas
kun., Via, states that burglars obtained frou
his safs $2ooo in cash aud e6ooo in eoa.as,
William Wilcox, . dissipAted IN,
once wsll-so-do farmer ef Marion county. Ohio
murdered his wife, and then ended his owl
worthless existence by gong into The wood
aud hanging himself 10 trce.
Died. at Oarrollton. Greene county
H., Mrs, Martha Scales, aged no native Q
haafax county, Va.
Tho FARMHOUSE Of Ezekiel Perrin
ncsr dirara. H.. was invaded by three n,sske
men, who tied and gagSed tho family and ro.s
away with $500,
-Four masked robbers hnrglarixed til
the house of Allan fsillaak, IN Wayne town
slin napage county. ILL., The robbers gassc
Mr.. Fairhank. Mrs. faiihsnk and their ~
daughters. and then took from vsrioas Idin,
places $4,000 in registered Unitca Safe
bonds. about Saso in currency, and sonic 81 ,
~ in small SILVER.
Flames swept away the town ef Nc
KENO. Col, involving mcnes loss q Saaa eot
Capt Paul Boyten flaated out q
r,rre. Dakota, ON the 18th inst, on his yoyas
down the Missouri.
A freight train ON the st. Paul an
Omaha road was wrecked lay striking 60
near st. Peter, Mimi. Killing a brakeman al
the sirsaaa A Ger containing trottias hors
was thrown bodily over the engine.
The monument to President Carrie!
| which It's proposed To erect in LAX. We
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