The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-08-25
NEWS OF The week.
DOMESTIC INTELLI0EN01.

Hast.
Leo Hartmann, the noted Nihilist, ap-
peared In the Superior Court in New York and
renounced bis allegiance to the Emperor Of
Russia, filing declaration Of his intention to
become an American citizen.
Charles Stockley was executed at Be-
tavia, N. Y, for killing John wilker. who re-
fused him the hand OF his daughter in mar
rage. Stockley feigned insanity in prison,
and it took four strong men to shackle him.
A duel has taken place in Indian Ter
ritory between T. o. Carpenter, . Choctaw
chief, and Col. Amos Price, = prominent Creek.
The latter vas killed, and the former fatally
injured.
It Is reported in st. Louis that the
two chief barge lines on the Lower Mississippi
have been consolidated, with = capital OF e3,-
100000. The amalgamation will give . neet Of
twenty-three tugs and 149 barges, having . ca
pacity Of 5000, 600 bushels.
The jailer at Kansas City made the
discovery that Bill Ryan, the Glendale train
robber, had bunch Of burglars saws in his
cell, and had cut three sides Of > large square
in the iron floor.
Indian-Agent Hunt reports the dis
covery Of extensive silver mines near Fort Sill,
in the Indian Territory. Adventurous miners
have already made their way to the scene Of
the discovery, much to the annoyance Of the
Indians. Secretary Of the Interior Kirkwood
has ordered troops to the place to protect the
rights Of the red men.
The report Of the massacre by Indians
Of Prof. Snow and party, Of the Kansas Uni
versity. was canard.
The Western Newspaper Union (ready-
print) Office, at Omaha, has been burned.
A fire at Oconto, Wis, destroyed An
son Eldred's large sawmill and numbering e.
tablishment The loss is placed at $4,000.
A party Of Americans encamped IN
Guadalupe canon, 100 miles from Tombstone,
Arizona, near the Mexican line, were attacked
by Mexicans aud i've Of the number killed-
William Lang. Dick Gray, Jim Crane, Charles
Snow and Thomas Clinton. Two others were
wounded. The trouble arose from . cattle
raid across the Mexican line some months ago,
and counter raid BY Mexicans recently. The
Mexican raiders were overtaken and the cattle
recaptured. The Mexicans who killed LAre
and Gray's party arc supposed to be some Of thu
defeated raiders. A party Of 200 Arizonians
has organized to avenge the recent murders
and great fears are entertained for the Ameri'
cans living on the Mexican side, ~ war Of ~
taliation 10 sure to follow.
A prominent physician Of Cincinnati
reports twenty well-defned cases OF typhoid fe
yer among the 400 English colonists ct Rugby
Tenn. corps Of physicians and nurses In,
been dispatched to the afflicted settlement
Bad drinking-water was the chief cause Of tn,
epidemic.
The Temperance bill, which was re
ported on favorably by q special committee o.
the Georgia State Senate, Was rejected by tina
body by vote OF 20 to 10.
The Senate Of Georgia has passed /
bill forbidding any person to encourage the Vi
olation of the laws prohibiting polygamy o
bigamy, under penalty OF hard labor in tn
penitentiary from two to four years. Tn
blow il aimed ut the Mormon elders new labor
ing in that State.
Lieut.. Flipper, colored graduate o
West Point, is in tho guard-house at For
Davis, Texas. charged with defrauding tn
Government Of $1,000 while acting as ccm
missary OF subsistence.
Military and citizens are endeavorinl
to maintain order at Orange, Texas, wher
Sheriff Mitchell was dangerously wounded by
party OF negroes. Of whom two were subse
quently shot and third hanged.
News comes that the inhabitants o
Rugby, Tenn.-the colony founded by Thoma
Hughes-are suffering terribly from typhoi
fever, the disease being caused by bad water.