The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-10-06
NEWS OF The WEEK.
DOMESTIC INTELLIoENoE.

which can be devoted to no other purpose. One
check for $500 and another for $3.50 were sent
in yesterday for the aged mother OF the Presi
dent, and will be duly forwarded"
Railway lines and news-dealers in New
York are generally refusing mutilated silver
coins. One news agency found it, loss by
clipped money to be IS por day.
The schooner Guy Cunningham, Of
Gloucester, Mass, with fourteen fishermen on
board, is supposed to have been lost with all
hands.
A fire at Eldred, Pa, in the Bradford
oil district, burned sixty buildings in the bust
ness center Of tile town, valued at 100000.
West.
A car loaded with dynamite, resting
on the track near the Rock Island round house,
at Council Bluffs, exploded the other day, de.
molishing four engines, freight house, an ice
house, seven passenger coaches and eighty
freight csrs belonging to the Rock Island Rail-
road Company. Some oll-cars resting on the
track were set on fire. and the flames commune
Gated to some houses in the vicinity, and seven
Of them were burned to the ground. The loss
to the railroad is estimated at 100000.
The Maxwell bandits have made their
appearance in Calhoun county, Ill. An at
tempt to capture them resulted in tho killing
OF Sheriff John Lamme, and the wounding OF
Of John H. Churchman and Frank McNeff.
The Deputy Sheriff Of Pike county, G. w. Rob-
crts, pursued tho desperadocs, but was kept
back by steady firing.
A recent dispatch from Minden, in the
fre-deyastatcd region Of Michigan, says go
seph Vicokowsky, Of Paris, aged 10 years, has
died Of exposure. Walter johnson, OF Austin,
and Mary Kolar, aged 90, Of Mnden, are dy-
ing OF exposure. The latter is lying in an open
board shanty eight by ten feet, which contains
thirteen persons. Typho-malarial fever,
bilious collie and Inflammation OF the lungs
are increasing to an alarming extent. George
McIsary il dying Of his burns William Mclsaiy
is slowly recovering; Mrs. James White pa
tient in Minden Hospital No. 2. il in very crit
ical condition. The condition OF the people ii,
this section is simply terrible. /. will take g.,
100000 to place the burned-out in comfortable
circumstances. Not one.tenth OF that amount
has been raised. The prospects are gloomy
indeed"
A frightful accident happened on the
Dss Moincs Northwestern (narrow-gauge) rail-
road, in Guthrie county, Iowa. A construction
train, consisting Of locomotive, six fiat-cars
and caboose, which was carrying a party to
work on the line, left the rails and the caboose
was badly smashed. Three men wero killed
outright and thirty more or less injured.
! BY an accident on the Canada South
ern transfer boat at Crosse Isle, near Detroit,
a sleeping-car was pitched into the lake. No
lives were lost.
Nearly all the hostile Apaches have
surrendered at the reservation, and military
commi sion to try the murdcrers will be held at
an early day.
In crowd Of 10000 persons at the
Cleveland depot, George Schneider, the we'll
known Chicago banker, was seized and robbed
Of hls pocket-book and diamond pin.
The Illinois Supreme Court has de.
cided that the effect OF the constitutional
, amendment Of 1880 and the statute OF 1881
will be to prolong the terms of office of County
Ireasurers, County Clerks and County Judges
in Illinois for one year. There will, therefore,
be no election for those officers until Novem-
/ ber. 1882
Mrs. Garfield, Grandma Garfield
and the Garfield children, accompanied by
Gen. and Mrs. Swain, Col. and Mrs. Rockwell
and Private Secretary Brown, left Cleveland
! the day after the funeral for Mentor. The
train which bore the grief-stricken family to
their once happy home was the same which
bore them from Washington.
/ Bill Ryan, the Glendale train-rohber,
recently on trial at Independence, Mo-, has re-
coived twenty-five years penitcnliary SEN
! tence.
! John Sherman, United States Mar
sllal for New Mexico, q nephew Of Senator
Sherman, has been indicted by the Federal
Grand Jury at Las Cruces, N. NJ, for embez-
zling Government funds.
John Boyd, Of Chicago, who was bit
ten by sptz dog several months ago, died Of
hydrophobia, the other day, after suffering
horrible agony.
The depot at Irvington station, o few
miles north OF Fort Dodge Iowa, on . branch
of the Northwestern railway, was struck by
lightning, prostrating eighteen men. The frs,
one TO recover, finding the others apparently
dead, dragged them out into the rain. All re-
covered except one. Some had their clothing
entirely torn from their bodies. The building
was nearly destroyed.
Mrs. Garfield announces her intention
to reside permanently at the Mentor farm.
The sons have returned to Williams College.
The Presidents mother u very fraiL
Emery Storrs, the well-known Chica-
go advocate. was solicited by the relatives Of
Gui,eau to undertake his defense. He refused
to have anything to do with the case.
A strip of territory in the Cottonwood
valley in Kansas, thirty miles long BY fou,
miles wide, was devastated by .. cyclone.
Twelve persons are known to have lost their
lives. tornado, which swept over Nebraska
at an early hour ON the morning Of the SOth
nit, nearly demolished the town OF Madison.
which has population Of 1000, and two per
sons arc known to have lost their lives. In
the village Of Stanton twelve buildings were
blown down and twenty persons injured.
Victoria, the terrible Apache wal
chief, tssd recently at the San Carlos Indian
reservation, in Arizona.
Tho Directors Of the Chicago, Bur.
lnston AMI Quincy railroad have elected Vict
President Charles G. Perkins President Of the
company vice John NJ. Forbes, resigned.
Presley Cowan, Of st. Clairsville,
Ohio, at empted balloon voyage from Wash
nson, in that State, but OF. his descent struck
a trec.top aud fell fifty feet to the ground, dy
ms in a few minutes.
0outA.
A ferry-boat from the Isle Of Hope te
skidaway island, on the Georgia coast, sprung
a leak about 400 yards from the shore. Ths
oat sunk in few minutes OF the eighteei
persons on board twelve perished.
Two thousand veterans Of the Confed
crate army held reunion at Moberly, Mo
Gen. Marmadukc was elected President
! Nearly one hundred citizens OF Tex