The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-09-07
NEWS Of THE week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

A temperance worker at Augusta, Me-,
secured warrant against the officers of IN
express company for bringing liquors to the
city. The Deputy Sheriff broke the locks Of
the storehousc and seized sixty two eases Of
beer. As it was being loaded upon the way
ons the crowd drove away the drivers and
carried off about half the cases, several per-
sons being seriously hurt.
Martha and Flora Croslev and Min
ME Pcddick, aged respectively "A, II and II
years, were drowned in the Juniata river,
near Huntingdon, Pa
The reports Of the mine inspectors Of
the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania
show that during the past year ~ MINER
were killed, and over 1000 injured
President Allen, of Girard College,
is dead
Tug Wilson has returned to England.
Flames swept away 100000 worth Of
property at Haverhil. Mass.
One hundred and eleven Russian ref
ugees were sent back to Liverpool from
Philadelphia
A mysterious fever is raging among
the operatives of the knitting mills at Little
Falls, N. Y.
The failure is announced Of II. & II.
Adams, of New York, manufacturers of silk
ribbons and nettings
H. Wallenstein sold seat in the New
York Stock Exchange for $4,000.
The Reading Railroad and Coal Com
panies have executed Joint mortgage for
sl6o,0OoOO to secure the payment Of their
5 per cent. consois.
The British ship Arbanbahm, Of Porto
Rico, with three cases of yellow fever on
board. is at quarantine in Boston harbor
The legality of the prohibitory amend
ment to the Iowa constitution adopted June
- is to he tested in an agreed case, wherein
a brewery firm sues saloonkeeper to re-
cover the value of beer furnished the first
two weeks in August The defendant admits
the purchase Of the beer, but denies the
right of the plaintiffs to recover in a suit at
law for the reason that at the time of the
purchase the plaintiffs were engaged in the
business of brewing and selling beer, con-
trary to the amended constitution The
case is to be carried through the highest
courts
The Hooking Valley Manufacturing
Companys works at Lancaster, Ohio, burned,
causing a loss of s135,OW.
Thirteen Indians who we're engaged
a., 49,, c.on,f r.halliap in tho Crock nafinn
were given a formal trial at Muscogee and
punished with 100 lashes each on the bare
back.
The British Government has two Of
ficcrs in Cincinnati buying mules for ship
ment to Egypt.
w. G. Depauw, of New Albany, Ind,
offers to give II ,0N,U ,UN to Asbury University
on condition that a like sum be raised by the
other Methodists OF the State
Richard Weeks, veteran Methodist
OF Indianapolis, who for years has been bent
with rheumatism, walked upright into re-
vival meeting and announced his cure by
faith and amounting OF Evangelist Barnes
4 snow-storm ragged for twelve hours
ut Leadville, Aug. 3o-,l.
The Utah Commissioners. in appoint
ing Registers for twenty -four counties, have
selected seven Gcntiles nine apostate Nor
mons, and eight Mormons.
The Porter Guards, of Memphis, took
the first prize of $1,000 at the Dubuque mill
tary encanpment, and the Branch Guards,
Of st, Louis, were awarded the second prize,
S.n
The Tariff Commission opened bnsi-
ness in Detroit Sept l. Richard Hawley ap-
peared before it to represent that depreci-
alton OF 80 per cent in real estate and in
business in certain portions of the city had
arisen from the termination of the rcciproci-
tv treaty. Giles B. Stevens argued that the
charcoal furnaces of Michigan would close
If there were any reduction OF the duty on
pig Iron.
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