The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-06-23
Brooklyn's big bridge has 10 far COS

ulclOu mortal WOunu ON niu cnAu.
The heavy iron firm of Il. +. Cutler 4
Co., OF Boston, has suspended business, with
liabilities Of &G00, 900.
Two Of the Pierrepont warehouses in
Brooklyn were burned, causing damage 70 the
amount Of 100000. Ono man was burned
alive and another fatally injured.
Silas NJ. Waite, ex-President of the
First National Dank Of Dattlcboro, w., plead
cd guilty to the charge q making false retutl,a,
and war sentenced 10 six years imprisonment,
= tho House of Correction.
The Adams white-lea,t works, near
Baltimore, we're destroyed by fire, involving a
loss of $4,000.
A passenger train on tho Schnylkill
and Ichi,h railroad war thrown on tho track
near Reading, Pa, causing the instant death
Of fireman Charles Matthews and injury to sev-
cral passengers aud tho engineer Tho seci-
dent was caused by = 10y which was placed
across the track.
Alexander g. Walker, . liquor-dealer
of New York, lost = package Of railroad bonds
representing yaluo Of eiOo, 900 walking along
Broadway.
II il said that Trenor w. Park, the
late chief Of the Panama railroad, IL 10 found an
orphan asylum at Brattleboro. VT, with e5Oo,.
900, as q memorial TO his wife.
An earthquake at Newburyport, Mass,
very early on tho morning Of the 10th, mus,
have suggested tho end Of tho world to tho clti-
zens. No serisus loss occurred.
As tho Chicago express train on the
Wabash railroad, going north, passed through
Raymond, Montgomery county. H., ON the
night Of the 18th inst. II ran into wagon con-
tanning seven persons, killing fonrof them out
right and moro or less injuring the others.
The wife Of I respected farmer named Albert
Creswell, hen child and two nepnows were tho
victima
A flock Of l6O Hooded shcep were
killed BY lightning on the farm Of Col d. 4.
Alkcrt. in Nodaway county. Mo.
The villages Of King City. Rosendale
and Berlin, situated in Northwestern Missouri,
were visited on Sunday night. tho l2th inst.
by catastrophe Of appalling dimensions.
Early in tho morning cyclone swept down on
tho devoted villagers and their rural neigh
bors with resistlcss fury, aad marked
its pathway with desolation and death,
Scarcely had the people begun 10
comprehend tho calamity that had befallen
them, when : second cyclone appeared 70
complete whatever destruction the first had
left undone. The resultant loss Of property
10 placed ct from &AO0,0 10 e5o0, 600
while the death list il large hut mol
definite. 4 most destructive hanican,
also swept through Central Iowa On TIL
afternoon Of tho 18th, killing and manning
. lumber Of persons. causing immense damage
to the crops, killing cattle and poultry. AM
dcMolishing many residences and onto0ildings
Tho number Of human lyes lost has not ye'
been definitely ascertained, but il will not b,
much II any less than twenty. The storm q
some ponts was Of tremendous force. ans
there Was no withstandng it. Tho hallstone'
which fell we're Of immense size. in some Case
a. large as soose-egga and caused great hAvo'
among birds. rabbits and game Of oil kind
throughout the storn AREA
The vicinity Of Wells. in Minnesota
suffered from cyclonic visitation on the latl
inst. Houses, barns and fences were Prostrat
I'd. and two or three people killed.
A Breckenridge (Col.) dispatch say,
that near that town four feet Of carbonate
have b.en struck 1t depth Vi lu0 feet. III,
ORC assays ls5 ouIces Of silver aud i've ounce
Of gold to tho ton.
Leo Chin. u Chinaman in Cheyenne
Wy. T., having been srfested for misessens
| tion. he being married 10 white woman, VA
acquitted on the ground that the marriage va
considered legal in Colorado. where hewasas
! ried. His eompatrioss. however, declare tha
Leo Chin has dissrased himself by iaaffsiis
MEXICAN" woman. and have "cast h'm out. :
1 Juan Mon,erea, Of Taos, New Mexico
killed Lem aallagcr With hoo fos iatsrfere
| in a ti,sht w;sh his mother \ lvnchlns pSlt
swuns Monterea from the Court Honse ralha
ON tho same evening.
Bob Iagersoil has struck il rich in hi
Investment iii New Mexican mines.
The particulars Of the recent great tol
nadoes in Northeastern Kansas, Nogshwestes
Missouri. aud Central Iowa shox that MLel
ever the cyclone struck tho earth the destsa,
ton OF buildings. orchards. forests and grow
ms crops WAS complete. Many persons ~ea
injured, bat only few killed. a. far as cam
ascertained. Scores Of people lost their hoan,
and all their property. The terrific force al
destructive effects u these toxnAdoes wel
similar to those which dcsolAtoi the Mss
ern and Southern localities Of former yeArA
Eight coal-heavers were drowned
Cincinnati by tho oyer.arnsns Of sAln in u
middle Of the Ohio river.
The suspension bridge over the All
eheny river 1t Httshursh. which cost sSaa.oe
and MAS considered fse-rroof. took tire n
Was damaged about $4,000.
| Henry :. Lame, who died last week
Crawferdssille, Ind, at the age Of ~ .va,
represented that distriet IL Congress in lsi
aud was elected Governor at the oatt4esk
the war. but resigned the ofice on being ehes,
United States Senator.
/ South.
/ Ice-cream poisonsd twelve persons
Atlanta, Ga. but it is believed that al will i
cover.
| A colorel roastaboat appeared hefel
Commissioner Lane. 1t Menros, L.. and ma,
affidavit that Charles Haneen mate VI Il
steamboat d. Stein. killed three deck-Aals
with brass knuekles and buried their eol.ss v
der tree.
They have been having some exces
iyely he, weather in the South. Many ss.es
saastreke occurred at New Orleans Al Nlel
burg the Thermometer reached lol in /
shade.
Hishwaymen robbed tho stage /