The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-01-12
NEWS Cf THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.



Special precautions were taken to
guard President Arthur against tho attacks OF
"cranks' or evil-dsposod persons during tho
timo he spent 1t his house In Lexington ave-
nue.. special policeman constantly watched
the house.
A six days walking.match in New
York was won by Fitzgerald with record OF
$50 miles and IS yards, beating the best previ-
ons record-that OF Robert vint, 575 miles, In
lssi-by four miles and few yards.
The last year was unusually unhealthy
in New York, the total deaths In tho city Icing
$500, against 81, ,037 in 1880. Tho number OF
births was 26, l3o, while In 1880 II was 27.35G.
Three children were burned to death
in fro In . boardlng.hoase At Richburg. n. Y.
As train on the Boston and Maine
road was crossing the iron bridge at Colos'
Corner, Me-, the structure gave way, prccip-
itating foar cars down the embankmcnt, which
was speedily followed by their destruction by
fire. Ono passenger was killed, another fatally
injured, and the conductor and brakeman were
badly hurt.
Oscar Wilde, the English aesthetic,
has arrived in this country. He il 26 years old,
and six feet four inches tall.
J. Winslow Jones & Co., corn and lob
ster packers in Maine and Canada, have sus-
pended payment with liabilities Of 4182,0
james H. Hildebrand, jewelry mer-
chant at Mercer, Pa, has absconaed, leaving
creditors in the lurch to the amount Of about
$4,000.
West.
George 8. Reed, Of San Francisco, who
became deranged by too close attention 70
business, killed his mother-in-law, Sarah A.
and then took his own life.
John H. Russell, who murdered John
7. smarr, few weeks ago, At Kansas City,
died in Jail from the effects Of morphine, pro-
yided by some visitor.
Edward F. Ryan, Michael Ryan and
Richard Adkins, employed in . tunnel near
Silvcrton, Col, wero buried 100 feet deep in
: snow-slide.
w. E. Graham, who murdered and
cremated Philip Eglery at vcnango, Kan, was
hanged by . mob in front Of the Court House
door at Ellsworth.
At Louisiana, No., John NJ. Shaw,
one OF Bill Andersons guerrillas, was shot dead
by his brother in quarrel over the division OF
their fathers property.
The full bench of the Supreme Court
NJ Kensas in nm ssinv ,,vnn : n oCrced r.. m he.
made a decision which viii inyalidate nearly all
the laws passed by tho Legislature Of that
State in 1877 and 1879. The ground Of the de-
cision was that the act was passed with the aid
OF the votes OF four members who were not
legally elected. Among the laws thus made
void is the prohibition constitutional amend
ment.
Smallpox Of on violent type is pre-
vailing to All alarming extent in tho city and
suburbs Of st. Louis.
An unsuccessful attempt was made the
other day to capture Jesse James. Ed Miller
and Jim Cummings. three notorious members
Of tho James gang. Word was received in
county, and special train on the Wabash rail-
road carried largo party OF officers well armed;
but the gang had in som0 manner received an
inlimation of the raid, and when tho officers
arrived at their supposed hiding place they had
disappeared.
The business of fire insurance in Chi
cago during the year 1881 was not, on tho
whole, profitable ono. The companies
fell about 100000 short of making both ends
meet.
South.