The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-10-12
NEWS Of THE week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

U6UO VI I'LL U66Ns
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East.
A fire Mt Bridgeport, Ct, destroyed
Watsons iron works and the factory OF the
craighcad 4 Elwell Company, the loss aggre-
eating s55000
The Pennsylvania Steel Association
held its annual session at Philadelphia The
secrctary's report showed that the produc-
ton had been increased ,Gls, ,So4 tons in ten
years
The funded debt Of the city of New
York is se7, ,.,sl ,9ai, adecrease of over $4,000
having been made In September.
A fye-story building on Broadway,
near Canal street, New York, occupied by
several dry goods firms wiped out sl5o,0O0
In burning
A train on the Santa Fe road was
boarded by robbers near Grenada, Col Two
men Mt Grenada mounted the engine with
driiWn reyolvers and compelled the engineer
to run the train mile and a half out OF
town, where fifteen men with revolycrs took
possession Of the entire train. The only
shots fired were at Conductor Dces, who had
gone forward to learn the cause OF the stop
ping Of the train The conductor ran back
into the smoking car where Sheriff and
Deputy Sheriff from Ration, also the Sheriff
from las Vegas, were. They drew their re-
vovers, which saved the passengers from
losing their valrablcs The ruffians then
robbed the exprcss-car of $500 in money,
ordered the engineer to pull out, got on their
parted safe In the rear car, containing
$1,000. was not molested
At Fargo, ID. T., the wholesale
grocery house OF Raymond 4 Kingman was
destroyed by fire. Loss, sss,ooo; insurance.
! $a5.Oo0
I. ]. Dunkle. one of the party who
robbed the First National Bank at Kewanee,
J Ill, was followed by detective through
three States and two Territories, being
/ captured at Butte, Montana, where he had
Just finished n pony ride of week alone
On his person was found II $50. He states
! that Welsh and himself walked away from
! the bank with 81, $40 in currency and 500 in
gold
! In the United States Court Mt Pitts
| burgA Judge Turnkey decided that rail-
road company must honor its tickets, by
whomsoever sold
! The Supreme Court Of the State Of
! New York refused to grant writ OF
habeas corpus in the case of Sergt Mason.
At the same time the news comes from
Washington that Gen. Sherman, acting as
Secretary of War in the absence of Mr. Lin
coin, recommended the pardon OF Mason by
the President
BY tile accident to the Cannonball
train ut Salem, Kan, five persons were killed
and four others severely injured, one Of
whom has since died. The bodies of the
victims were 80 badly burned as to be scarce
ly recognizable.
A granite monument, fifteen feet high,
Is being made at Muscatine Iowa, for Jesse
James grave.
4 brilliant aerial phenomenon was
witnessed ut Dubuqus the other evening,
consisting Of luminous band spanning the
whole heavens from northwest to southeast.
II lasted half an hour, and then gradually
faded away.
A granite monument, in three sec.
tions, to be placed by the Government Oh
the field in Montana where Gen. Gibbon
fought the Nez Perccs in l>ss, was shipped
from ST. Paul
4 misplaced switch near Muscogee
Indian Territory, sent freight train into q
ditch. Engineer spiar was crushed to a Jelly
and Fireman Walker had both legs severed
from his body.
South.
Richmond tVa.) telegram: "Private
information received here is to the effect
that the political riot ut Lancaster, :. G., wa
much more serious than represented i
now turns out that there We're seven col
orcd persons killed and some twenty-on'
wounded. None Of the whites were serious
ly injured
Two convict guards oh cotton plan
tation south of Houston, Tex, named Towe
and Thompson, fought duel with resolvers
Twelve shots were fired and both fell dead
James Rhodes was taken from Jail a
Charlottesville, Va, and hanged to tree TO
the murder Of the Massie family. He mad
confession OF his crime.
Robert L. Carruthers, of Lebanon
Tenn, ex- Governor and eN-member Of Con
gress, is dead.
4 party Of Iowa capitalists will i'm
mediately build another iron blast-furnac
. In the Birmingham district OF Alabama.
judge Woods, late proprietor of til
Denisan trexasl Daaocrdt, hut lately cit
zen of the Indian Territory, where no hs
been engaged in getting out black walnt
timber, had an alteration with one OF h
mill hands named Slaughter, in whic
Slaughter was killed and Woods shot twc
through the body, from the effects OF whic
he died three days afterward.
At carencro. La, Adolph Marcean
became offended about some imagine
wrong got up a party of friends in milital
fashion and marched to "A hall where fest
val was being held Arriving there, the
opened fire on the assemhlage, killing ri
named Dominique instantly and mortal
woundiny her brother.
Isaac Carton and wife. at Goodwate
Ga locked three children up i'll the hous
which burned To the ground. The childr,
weie .lemated.
At Jacksonville, Ala, John Brooks.
negro, who had confessed to ontraging
little girl, was taken from the Sheriff by
crowd and hanged in the outskirts OF Il
city.
The bodies of sixteen victims of I'll