The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-01-26
NEWS UF The WEEK.


AMERICAN ITEMS.
Hast.
Ex-Governor Bullock, Of Massachu-
setts, dropped dead on the sidewalk at Worces-
ter, from stroke Of apoplexy.
The Grand Jury at New Haven re-
ported true bill for murder in tho first de-
gree against Walter E. Malley, James Malley
and Blanche Douglass, for killing Jennie Z.
Cramer, Aug. &
Gov. Cornell made the Spuyten Duy-
vii disaster tho subject OF special message to
the Legislature Of New York. He pronounces
the occurrence an absolutely inexcusable one,
and recommends that trains be required to
carry appliances for breaking into wrecked cars
and extinguishing fires.
Katie Manton, Philadelphia girl Of
IA years, died in that city OF delirium tremena,
after indescribable suffering. She became
drunkard before her 18th year had been passed,
and drank tho vile liquor Of the slums with oil
the abandon OF an old topper.
At Hampton, Pa, while William Cork
was dying Of smallpox, Lis wife placed light
ed candle in his hands and knelt beside the bed
in prayer. She instantly succumbed to OK.
haustion, the bedding was set on fire, and sho
and her child were overcome by smoke. The
neighbors saw the situation, but only one dared
to enter the house. The flesh was bun ID from
not recover.
Deacon w. w. Ellis, Of Providence,
r. l., cut his hand while opening . bottle Of
communion vino, and has besn seized with
lockjaw.
West.
Advices are received by way of Tomb
stone, Arizona, Of an Indian battle near Yanyn
river, in Mexico. body of Mexican troops
were pursuing q band Of Apaches, by whom
they were ambushcd. After . desperate At
tempt to dislodge the enemy, the troops were
compelled to retreat. They lost five men killed
and several wounded.
The Illinois Supreme Court, in case
against the Board OF Education Of Quincy,
decides that colored children have the right to
attend tho public schools and receive the bene-
1T Of the school fund the same - white chill
dren.
George Scoville, counsel for Guiteau,
the assassin. has begun suit for libel against
the Chicago Herald, edited by Postmaster
Palmer.
At Wilmington, Ohio, child died Of
what was supposed to bo chicken-pox. After
the funeral, which was largely attended, fifty
cases Of yirulent smallpox were developed.
The six-story building Of the Ameri-
can Ok Leather Company, at Cincinnati, was
| swept away by flames. Tho structure, grounds
and appliances, which were among the best in
the Union, cost SSOO, 900, and business had but
! recently commenced. The damage Ii estimated
at el75.OOO.
The breaking Of wheel on a passen-
ger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad caused the smoking and the ladies'
cars to be thrown from tho track and down an
embankment twenty feet high. The accident
/ occurred three miles from New Albin, Alamakee
] county, Iowa. Twcnty-threo persons. in all
were injured, for the most part not seriously,
ono child was killed, aud three people so badly
/, hurt as to have little chance Of recovery.
/ It is stated in dispatch from Tucson,
Arizona, that Gen. Carr was placed under ar
rest by order Of the President. The cause il
not definitely ascertained, but it is currently
reported on good authority that it was on &C.
count OF certain facts brought ont at the recent
/ trial of the Indian scouts.
! At Mankato, Minn., the opera house
was swept away by fire. Insured for $4,000,
which will not nearly cover the loss.
H. B. Lockwood, Of Chicago, dealer
in tea and tobacco, has made an assignment te
cover debts Of 100000.
Meyer Bros, wholesale notion dealers
Of Chicago, we're levied upon by their cred
itors. Liabilities, sl7s, 900; about equaled b,
their assets.
Fire broke out in Metropolitan and
Court House blocks, at Abilene, Kan, aud
ragged furiously for hours. The loss is placed
at $4,000, beside large portion Of the public
records.
In suit brought by the State Of Hi
nois against the Alton road and the ferry ant
bridge companies Of St Louis, to break VI
the pooling arrangements, Judge Zane, ol
Springfield, decided that the contracts between
the companies are contrary to public policy
and ordered an injunction against I'll parties
Judge Drummond decided in til.
United States Circuit Court of Chicago Gin th'
case Of Rawles W. Tho Toledo, Peoria and War
saw railroad, the plaintiff having been injurct
while alightlng from train), that . passenge
has no claim for damages who attempts 4
alisht from car until it has actually stopped
One man was killed, three fatally in
jured and four badly wounded by the explosion
OF saw-mill boiler at East Liberty, Ohio.
Michael Mooney was hanged at Frank
lin, Id no. FOR the murder OF Huyckley, agen
of tie T.. on Pacific railroad.
Ar Ironton, Ohio, one Of the muir
der,rs OF DIR. Joseph Beggs (who was kile'
near the Etna lion Works two months ago
IVES taken from the county Jail by band 0
nea AMI lynched Another Of tho murderer
confes I'd that money was the incentive of tn
kill ny.
A detective from Chicago has for som'
time b en- a. work about the Asylum for Feeble
Minded Youth ut Columbus. Ohio, and ha
iina " traced to Elmer L. GNynn and Davis
q odrach the crime Of firing the institution Il
November. by which the State lost 100000.
South.
Hon. Joseph J. Stewart, one OF Mary
lands most prominent citizens is dead.
Gr,gory Sternoni, IN italian mer
chant oi Petersburg, Va, was convicted Of n
&C yin. stolen lbaeeo, and sentenced to n
c.ive tw,nty stripes y, the public whippine
pot
Anderson Jones, colored, was hange'
ut Augusta, Ga., for tho murder OF John !
liaialssn.
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS,