The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-08-04
NEWS OF THE week.
DOMESTIC INTELLI0ENOE.
East.

DOMESTIC INTELLI0ENOE.
East.
Judge Robertson has taken the oath
Of Office - Collector Of Customs q New York.
At Troy, N. T., William Gavin, suf.
fcring from delirinm tremens, leaped headlong
from : prccipice t25 feet above the Poestinkil
creek, and. although badly cut and bruised,
will recover.
A man armed with gun was stopped
at the door Of the Capitol, 1t Albany. because
no declared himself to be Secretary of State
It was thought he had designs upon Gov. Cor
nell. but tho weapon proved to be unloaded.
William r. Dickinson and Joel VAN
aradalen, two Philadelphia lawyers, have been
convicted Of forging the viii OF Robert Whit
aker, that $500, 600 worth OF an estate might
fall into their own hands.
A collision Of freight trains on the
New Haven road at Rye, N. Y, killed Eli Lalin,
conductor, aud mutilated Henry Hallock, q
brakeman. Both engineers were injured.
Eight cars were wrecked. the total damage to
rolling-stock being 100000.
Maud s. failed to beat her record at
Pittsburgh. She trotted the first heat in 2:l2,
the second heat Gin which she broke) in 2:ls1S<,
and the third heat III 2:l2lS. These three COLI
secutive heats are the best trotted by any horse
in the world. Vanderbilt watched the wonder
ful feat Of his mare.
Copper and ver-bearing ore has
been discovered nesr Fort Laramie. Wyo. Ter.
Surface assays vary from e60 20 el5O. A town
is being built on the spot, and big emigration
has set IN from Cheyenne.
A pedestrian statue Of Gen. J. B.
Mcpherson WAS unveiled It Clyde, Ohio, in
presence Of twenty-one posts Of the Grand
Army, tho audience numbering $4,000. Gen.
Sherman was present, and ex-Prssident Hayes
delivered the address.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road will in October iss6e 1t par 70 the stock
holders rs, OOO, 900 in new shares, al OF which
has been subscribed.
An engine on the Colombo Central
road ran into culvcrt near Berthoud. Frank
Whitney, the engineer, and an unknown tramp
were killed, and W. Tillery, the fireman, badly
bruised.
The Northern Pacific viii be opened
to the Yellowstone for passenger travel on Aug.
l. On the same day the Denver and Rio
Grande viii be in operation to Durango.
A Kansas City paper prints startling
and somewhat apocryphal bit Of news regarding
Frank James and the la&s robbery on the Rock
Island railway. It IL TO tho effect that 1t the
time Of the robbery the vito and child Of the
noted bandit were stopping at the st. james
Hotel in Kansas City, and that he WAS at the
same place immediately preceding and follow
ing the affair.
Gov. Crittenden, OF Missouri, In
vited the railway and express chieftains Of the
Southwest to meet him for secret conference,
which was held in . st. Louis hotel last week.
As result, the chief magistrate offers re-
ward of $4,000 for the arrest Of the men who
10000 for the James boys, and ", 600 each
for the other five members Of the party. The
railway managers pledged themselves to pay
the rewards upon satisfactory evidence Of the
arrest Of the scoundrels.
A Chicago paper reports that . party
| Of detectives and Deputy Eheriffs will leave
that city At an early date to capture tho Mis-
souri outlaws, for the reward OF e5O, 600 offered
BY the authorities and railroads.
Jay Gould has purchased the st.
Louis, Jerseyville and Springfield railroad, and
will merge it in the Wabash combination.
Hon. John J. Baglcy, Ex-Governor oi
Michigan, died at San Francisco, whittier Lie
had gone for tho benefit Of his failing health.
A hotel, drug store and telegraph Of.
zoe at Hamburg, lows, valued 1t eA5,OoO, were
destroyed by fire.
Sitting Bull and his immediate follow.
ers have been loaded upon steamer and rent
on to Standing Rock Agency. The fallen chief.
tain keeps aloof from AL persons.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has "absorbed" the Northwestern Te,e
graph Company Of Wisconsin. The trans
fer, il appears, Vas made on tho 9Th OF Ma,
last.
The gauge Of the Illinois Central ex
tention to the gulf was changed to the stand
ard width from Cairo to New Orleans. TIL,
track is $50 miles long, and 5000 men com
pleted the task in eleven hours ct . cost o
| 100000.
Five children of Thomas Killeen, O
New Orleans, aged /, 8. 6, 3 and 10 years, re
spectivcly, were poisoned by oolored servan
girl, who put rat poison IN some soup. Thu
| girl, when arrested, confessed the crime, and
said she put the poison in to make the children
sick. ont Of revenge, they having thrown rock
at her and called her "nieger." One Of tn
children has died.
!, Drought has ruined the cotton ant
corn in Middle and East Tennessee, Souther,
Kentucky and North Alabama.
At shOrt-horn sale at Winchester
Ky seventy-six animals brought S3s,6sO, Al
average Of $500 each.
Montpelier, at Orange Court House
Va, the birthplace and home Of Prcsiden
Madison, was sold at auction tho other day fol
&2O.O0O
The oyerturning Of lamp in . liver.
stable at Lebanon, Tenn, started blaze
which swept away eighteen buildings on tn
public square, valued It Sl5O,OO0.
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANIN0s.