The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-11-09
LATER NEWS ITEMS,

LATER NEWS ITEMS.
A recent telegram from Washington
": James f. An crson, tho former Lou
isiana statesman, who went to a warm ell
m ,tc" BY way OF Eureka. New, hut not as
Consu', Is well remembered here, where he
achieved considerable n,toriety as q witness
btfore the Potter invcstig ltiny committee.
Eght or ten years ago hc was an emp'oyc In
the Government printing Office. He lcfs
here and he,a politician IN Louisiana
lie was the chief election officer Of East r.
Il lana Parish, III that State, in 1876. md, af-
ter making one return favorable to III den,
subsequently nude another giving Hayes
tn. y rish The ccction OF tho State
turned upon Anderson and his return Of the
pa'ish vote. Tha Returning Eoard counted
his tlIayeso return. AM Anderson aftcrward
claimed the rewad which he alleged had
been promised him for making 1t As .
witness before tho Potter COMMITTEES, he
produced certain co,respon lence between
himself and Hon stanley Mat hews Among
the letters was one that attracted much
notice, recommending that Anderson be ap-
pointed to a &C ,nsulsh'p in warm clim1te"
Anderson won notorious hut unenv,able
reputation M witness He went to Nevada,
and for me WIS connected with paper
at God Hi. subsequently he Wen to
Eureka, where he rounded up his career by
dying with his boots on.
Belmont and Simmerman, who COM
mittcd tho triple murder recently ut Min
den, Neb, were ovcrtakcn in Southwestern
Kansas by Charles Fouts and Frank Mart n,
from whom they had stolen . horse, nad
Belmont was shot dead on refusing TO sur
render. while Simmerman was made pris-
oner, ana lodged in jail ut Lincoln.
Great distress prevails in County
Clare. Ireland, on account Of tn iailu g OF
the potato crop and prevalence OF IN cpl
demic that killed near y all the -
Baron Treskow, the German Consul.
has b en- instructed TO inform the Khedive
that England's rolis,yr gar ling Egypt meets
with the cordial approval of Bismarck.
Enlistments at Cairo for the expedi-
tion agains. the False Prophet are progress
Ing satisfac. orilv. and many Germans and
amncst cd officers have ten Tered their
services
Herr Bebel, the German Socialist
leader. adjudged guilty Of abusing the Gov
ernment through the press. has began to
serve his three months sentence in Il L.ip-
sic Jail.
The wandering Socialist paper. Die
-
is to be sc, ed by the Swi G G,vernaent as
a dangerous publ cation Herr M,st. the
edit r, thinks Of res aiming its pu olicatoa in
England, aud has asked for the necessary
permission.
An explosion occurred in the Chap.
field, Conn which resulted in the injury Of
eish, men, one of whom will die,
4 drove of twenty-five ostrichcs has
been placed in Central Park, New Yo;k, to
await the selection Of n suitable place in tho
South for breeding. They are valued n,
q. 40 each. and white feathers command
sisa per l,ound
The international h,lf mile running
ma ca between ". G. Geors q of England.
and Lawrence E, Myers, of New York, which
took llacc ut the New York polo grounds.
was won by the latter in minute and 81 Sd
/ seconds
! Several New York banks have been
ewin,llcd by counterfeit bills prnt,d from
/ p'ates similar to thosa captured in the West
| In February. 1884, II is supposed that one
Of the men who then escaped arrest has a
/ plat, in his possession from which he has
struck off quantity OF notes
Five business places at Shreveport,
la. valued at sloa, ,ooc. were swept away by
] fire,
The total expenditures of the Ma
tional Board of Health at Pensacola, from
the outbreak of the epidemic of yellow fever
to Oct Ii. were s6, .M The total numhe,
of cases as Pensacola has been a.o.a with
1 IL deaths At Brownsville there have been
/ 1871 cases and ll4 deaths The disease il
! gradually declining in the South Ague il
said to be increasing to an alarming extent
in Brownsville
"pago Pete an italian fruit-yenier
of New Orleans. inspired by Jealous, killed
his luadroon mistress and her mother with
lazar.
Luke McCray, prominent young
poi ian, was run over and killed by train
NJ; lnii mapolis. his remains being scat
e. q along the track for mile
4 girl l. years old. living with the
family of a colorel blacksmith, at keokuk
Iowa, has received IN inheritance of 500,
otN. and large amount of diamonds and
jeMelry, by the death Of her father in Spain
The blacksmith will get sjS.O0N