The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-02-02
NEWS OF the WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

The weather was intensely cold
throughout Now England and tho Middle States
on tho Gath. Il ives found impossible to heat
the school-houses At Newport, aud the students
wore sent home.
Gov. Hoyt, Of Pennsylvania, hns is.
suod death-warrants for tho execution OF six
mnrderers on tho Gath OF March next.
The Hartford (Ct.) public high school
burned last week. Loss, sl20, 900 insurance,
$4,000.
Thomas H. Hringham. who wus to.
tally disabled by tho fall ot an elevator in the
storehouse Of Mrs. A. I. Stewart, 4 Garden
City, was awarded $4,000 damages, aud the
court gave him $3.50 extra.
DR.. Samuel L. Griswold, ono OF tho
oldest practitioners Of New York city, died, aeed
73years.
Hon. Edmund Burke, who died at
Newport, r. l., was three times member of
Congress, and was Commissioner Of Patents
under President Polk.
Mrs. Judith Twombly died ut Lowell,
Mass, aged 1o3. Nearly fifty years ago she
took razor and removed from her side n can
Ger which extended 10 tho bone and weighed
twenty pounds.
A ladle of molten metal overturning
in Wallace II. Brink 4 Cos foundry ut Bur
lington, Vt. tho building was gutted. aud Pat
rick Donnelly, Benjamin Wright, Thomas
Crewley and James Hayden were fatally in
iured.
A loss of $l5O, ,UOO was incurred by the
burning Of tho Office Of tho Lancaster (Pa.l
MYni,sr and two adjoining buildings.
Violent gales caused great destruction
OF property throughout New England on the
27th and 2sth ult. Three persons were injured
at Pttsdeld, Mass, and church steepo was
blown down. Extensive brick buildings were
toppled over at North Adams. A four-story
shoe factory at Nashua, N. H., was moved two
feet out Of line, stampeding 400 workmen. A
building filed with carriages was overturned at
Rochester, N. II. The roof Of tho gas house at
Rockland, Me-, was destroyed. Three buildings
at Burlington. Vt, were robbed Of coverings,
aud the leo was swept out Of the bay in almost
an instant.
Died in Cambridge, Mass, Theophi.
Ills GleOAlUS tuV NNtVUA0SOM AsAw WAAkSAs ia tuN
Seth year Of his age.
Eastern furniture dealers in conven-
ton have decided TO advance prices 10 per
cent.
A bitter war between the Times and
the Maii-Erpress is exciting Journalistic circles
III New Yo.k city.
~ est.
In an interview in tho Indianapolis
Tones W. II. English acknowledges that s3o.-
900 slipped out of his barrel in the campaign Of
1850.
Iowa has l7.7l4 special taxpayers, Of
which number i.soa are liquor dealers, i2,779
tobacco dealers. and 566 brewers aud dist,llers
A controlling interest in tho st. Louis
and San Francisco railway has been purchased
from Messrs. seligmsn by Jay Gould and c. r.
Huntington.
A bill has been introduced into the
Wisconsin Legislature. imposing tax Of u
cents OH every 1000 feet OF logs run out Of tho
State to foreign markets.
The house Of Henry Cleer, Of Des
Moinea, took fire in tho absence Of his wife,
and two small boys were burned beyond recog-
milton.
Mrs. Catherine Brearton. native At
Ireland, who wildly remembered the scenes Of
| the revolution Ut l7ss, died in Cincinnati At
tho age Of lo2 wears.
The open winter is causing much in
jury to tho losging interests OF Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota.
Five hundred citizens Of Dakota, rep
rcsenting twenty-thrce counties, gathered q
Sioux Falis to urge the admission Of the south
mittee OF l3i WAS selected to visit Washington.
1t is feared that tho Utes. riutes and
Navajos are getting ready to so on tho war
path in the spring.
The Oklahoma warfare between Gen.
| Pope aud Capt. Payne and his party Of in.
vaders il to BE- renewed III tho courts. Payne
has brought SUIT against Popc for s,00t
damages sustained hy reason OF having been
arrested, imprisoned AMI finally elected from
the Indian Territory.
Neal, ono Of the mnrderers OF the
Gibbons family ut Ashland, NY, las been sen
fenced 10 death.
H. G. Caldwell, District Judge at Lit.
Ito Rock, Ark, throw into the crate smsl
package 81 white powder which he found os
tho maatel. A terrific explosion followed. i,
which the Judge was blown across tho ,oom
the flesh torn from his arms, aud hts Lalr an,
whiskcts scorched on.
Two negroes were executed in Lonis'
lana ON Friday. Jan. "a August Davis at New
Orleans and Ed Belton at Mansfield. negr'
named John Morris was hanged at Shelby
C.
Wash Roberts shot his wife to deatl
and then committed suicide VI MeMaais. Jesl