The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-02-09
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

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Rev. DR.. 81. W. Bellows, whose work
in the Sanitary Commission during the war
gave him high honors, died in New York,
aged So.
Oscar L. Baldwin, the defaulting
cashier Of the Mechanics National Bank OF
Newark, N. J., pleaded guilty and was som
fenced to fifteen years in State prison.
Heavy snow-storms are reported
throughout the Eastern States.
Lockport, N. Y, was visited by dis
astrous fire, which nearly destroyed the -four
mills there. The loss Is about e2O0, 900.
D. O. Mills paid 81 900, 600 for lot
in Broad street, New York, and Was erecting
thereon . building to cost e. 600, 900. Tho
Building Commissioners found cracks in the
brickwork and breaks in the stone lintels, and
promptly condemned the structure.
The Grand Jury at New York has in
dicted Conductor Hanford and Brakeman
Melius for manslaughter in the fourth degree
in causing the Spuyten Duyvil disaster.
West,
The aged wife Of Gen. George r.
Doris was murdered near St. Louis, Mo-, By
her grandson, Russell Brown, and companion,
Patrick McGlew. Brown made . full confss-
sion that they choked the old lady to death and
stripped the rings from her fingers Young
Brown il the son Of prominent lawyer and
Prosecuting Attorney Of st. Louis county. The
affair creates great deal OF comment, on 90
count of the position OF the parties concerned.
Four men were drowned at New
Westminster, British Columbia, while trying to
cross river in canoe.
About 75O creditors Of Archbishop
Purcell met in Cincinnati the other day. The
claims against the estate amount to a, ,000, 900,
and the assets are s225. 900.
Near New Carlisle, Ind, q burglar
hailing from Chicago, claimed to be converted
at protracted meeting, gave up kit Of burg
lars tools to the preacher, and confesseda = case
Of safe robbing. for which he was arrested BY
the Sheriff Of Whitley county.
Near Logansport, Ind, q tramp named
William Steele called on Mrs. Buell. for supper.
Finding the woman alone, he outraged her per-
son, and hed. The neighbors Immediately pur-
sued, caught him, and, without delay, hung
him. Then they piled brush about him, and
burned the body past recognition. The Sheriff
took possession Of tho body and turned it over
to tho Coroner.
The Governor of Michigan has called
an extra session or the Legislature for Feb. q,
to provide relief for the fire sufferers and take
action on Congressional appoirtionment and tho
report Of the tax commission.
An anti Mormon meeting, which was
well attended, was held in Milwaukee last even
ing. Resolutions were passed condemuing
A fire on Lake street, Chicago, burned
out C. r. Reynolds, dealer in paints, and Whit
ney & johnson, crockery. Losses, 8l25,0OO
and $4,000.
| A dispatch from Walla Walla, WASH
ington Territory, says: " A fire broke out in
!, the farmhouse of Jullus Missick, five miles
| from the city. Mrs. Eliza Modler, aged A.; Ler
daughter, Emma Isadore Medler, aged 19, and
her son Arthur, we're burned to death. The
other inmates escaped
John w. Berry was executed at Pres
! colt, Arizona, for the murder Of Michael
Shore.
Slosson won the international billiard
match at Paris, making 5000 points to Vign-
caux's 1858.
It is believed that the damage by the
/ late floods in Tennessee 10 not less than $780,
COO.
George Williamson, prominent citi-
zcn of Louisiana, and ex-Ministsr to Central
America, is dead.
At Broadway Depot, Va, three young
ladies' were drowned while attempting to cross
the river in frail boat.
A mob of negroes in Union parish,
La, took Alph Davenport, = colored man, from
his home and beat him to death with clubs and
stones.
Elvira Sullivan, los years Of age, died
lately at Dallas, Texas. At the outbreak Of the
war she was . servant in the family Of Gen.
Sam Houston. She had been sold severa
times, lived in eight States, and had twenty
three children.
d. G. White was hanged at Canton,
Texas, for the murder Of George Conquest.