The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-10-06
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Details Of the destruction wrought by
the recent storm in the Northwest prove 1t to
have been one Of the most violent yisitants OF
the kind experienced for long time. II orig
mated, it seems in Nebraska, and, taking .
northcasterly course, swept over Minnesota
and the western portion OF Wisconsin. In
Nebraska the town OF Madison, . place OF
about 1000 Inhabitants was almost completely
demolished, and hundreds Of it's people
we're rendered homeless. At Stanton, Neb.,
twelve buildings were blown down and twenty
people injured. The cyclone swept through
the southern part Of Minnesota, doing great
damage ut Owatonna and elsewhere, but hap
PLY causing no loss Of life. A black cloud, the
size OF an eighty-acre farnl appeared on the
sky, thickened, contracted and swooped down
upon the earth, in myriad convolutions,
the tornado that followed making track half
mile wide. Great damage was done in the
northern part Of Wisconsin, devastating 4
track OF eighty rods in width. About dozen
persons were injured near Wautoma, and
the town Of Lima suffered great loss.
Branches OF the same storm swept
through Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and ILL.,
nois. A passenger train on the Fort Dodge
and Des Moines road was blown over near
Farmerstown, Iowa, and q number OF passen-
gers injured. In Kansas it swept the Cotton
wood and Ncosho valleys, destroying property,
niuring people and killing four persons near
Emporia. Maryyille, No., felt the storm
| severely.
At Cincinnati three smart thieves
grabbed package containing $4,000 in United
States bonds from tho Presidents room Of
national bank. Thay have not yet been cap
| tured.
A supposed plot to kill ex-senator
Conkling has been discovered in New York.
The extensive linseed-oil works OF
| Grove 4 Bro, on the Delaware river. below
Philadelphia. valued at Sl3O,OOO, were swept
away by fire.
The New York Tribune says that
| present figures indicate that the total number
Of deaths III that city this year will reach 3S OOO
or 5000 more than in 1880.
Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske, who died
ut Ithaca, n T., left fortune estimated AT
| Sl2,0oO,OO0. She was building residence es-
| timated to cost $4,000, 900, intending to make
| il the finest in the United States. While in
Europe last year she was married to Prof.
| Fiskc. Of Cornell University.
Owing to the red-tape process in the
transmission OF orders through the War De-
| partment, the order to the arsenal command
| ant, at Washington, to fire daily salute in
honor Of the late President Garfield, was not
received until nearly two weeks after his death.
Mrs. Garfield told the Rev. DR.. Rob-
inson the other day that, had the Trustees of
Lake View Cemetery not offered burial lot for
the remains Of President Garfield, she would
have purchased one there. She said that the
late President had lntimated that he would pre-
fer to he buried there. She said that the ques.
ton OF burial is no longer open and viii not be
reopened.
A Ind Of 3 years, residing at Gray's
Mills, Miss, had quarrel with a girl OF 2years,
and bliudfolded her and threw her into a well,
where she persisted.
| Hon. John w. Foster, Minister to
Russia, has rendered his resignation.
Following is the regular monthly
| puhlic-dcht statement, issued at Washington
/ on the 1st inst:
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