The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


AMERICAN ITEMS.
Fast.
The new penal code OF New York, so
far as 1t relates to the observance of Sunday,
IL being enforced in New York city.
The wild speculation in oil has lel to
the hankr,,pting of hundreds of hitherto
prosperous business men In Western Penn
sylvania
The cotton-mills Of G. S. & J. p.
10 es, of Philadelphia, have been levied
NJ on to saisy judgments Tor s3S?,Ai,
while the firm owes $1,000 more. The
buildings AM stock are valued at 100000
Samuel L. Worcester, brother OF
the lcxicographer, formerly Judge AM
member Of Congress from Ohio, died at
Nashua, n H., aged 6i years.
The M lchine-shops Of the Lackawan-
ma road. Mt Kingsland. n J., valued at s7o,-
o0. were destroyed by fire.
Gov Cornell has pardoned Joe Co.
burn, the pugilist, out of Sing Sing prison
The Government has brought suit at
New York against Harrison Johnston, form
crly treasury agent, for tn, recovery of
nearly ss,0Oto arising from the sale of con-
fiscat. d cotton, for which he has failed /,
account
H. G. Fero's vegetable soup works, at
Rochester, n. Y, were destroyed by fire.
The use OF cider an an extingus sher saved
many adjoining buildings
Two Mexicans stopped a stage in the
vicinity of Iordsburg, New Mexico, disarmed
the driver and took the mail pouch Two
Chinese passengers were ordered outside,
robbed of their money and coolly shot dead
Five thousand citizens and 80 po-
licemen joined in an exciting hunt in Chi
cago for black desperate who had fatally
assaulted fellow African and then killed a
policeman who was sent to arrest him
After lurking about the city several
days the murderer's place Of conceal
ment was discovered. He again
resisted arrest, shooting aud dangerously
wounding another officer and ag ln made
his escape. He was finally hunted down and
found hid IN a coal box Without summon
in. h nj to surrender, the police opened fire
, on the desperate, and riddlcd his body with
bullt t.
! In raid on the Chicago gambling
dens by the police Of that city, the other
night, five houses were cleaned out, over a
| hundred gamestcrs arrested, and thousands
Of dollars worth Of gamblers implements
confiscated.
/ Affairs at several Indian agencies
! around Salt Lake City are reported in very
/ bad condition and needing immediate atten-
/ ton
| The widow of Col. Alonzo w. Slay-
/ back, Of st. Louis, mas entered sui against
1 Editor Cockerill, Of the st Louis Post and
! Dispatch, for 600 for killing her husband
Jewelry to the amount of over $5, 900
was taken from the residence of Col W. II.
! Harris, in Cleveland, while the family were
I at the tea table.
The Ohio Editorial Association held
it's annual meeting ut Dayton on the 9Th inst,
/ elected T. F. Mack, of sandusky. President.
were rendered banquet in the evening, and
! started the following merning by special
! train for Florida
t At Mexican wedding at Saballo, n.
M, man named Naten, while drunk, shot
and killed two brothers, and then went home
and cut his wife's ears off.
! The Denver Fire Insurance Com
pany. organized fifteen months ago with an
alleged capital Of 81 ,ooOooo, has collapsed.
A loss OF nearly Sl7O.OOO was incurred
at Saginaw city, Mich by the destruction OF
the worss OF the Barrel Company and its
stock Of lumber.
South.
! Flames destroyed the international
cotton compress ut Houston, Tex, with $,
., o bales of cotton, and three residences
The loss is estimated at 100000.
For insults offered in court at key
West, {. Il. Pendleton. an editor, horse
whipped Lieut.. Gov. Bethel
At Manleyville, Tenn. young man
named Forest beat out his mother in laws
brains and killed his crippled grandfather,
who in,erfered
Col. W. H. H. Tilson, Speaker Of the
Mississippi House of Representatives, was
shot and killed ut Baldwin. Miss
The propeller Morning Star, plying
between New Orleans and Magnolia Plants
ton, exploded its boiler near New Orleans
killing three persons instantly, blowing ints
the river and drowning fireman and sever
ro,,stabouts. and probably fatally scaldins
six Others.
Fire swept away fifteen buildings a
Coyirgton, Tenn. Loss, s5o,0oe.
At krkadelphia, Ark, Sallie Stoke
was acquitted of the murder OF Malind'
Stephens
Gen. Sidney Burbank died at New
port, Ky, at the age OF IL.
Tom Robinson and Bill Cephas Were
taken from Jail at Bastrop, La and lynched
Previously, negro named Wesley, who ut
tempted to kill white man, expiated hi
crime at the hands of a mob
Eleven convicts Mt work in the peni
tentiary ut Little Rock disarmed the guar,
and escaped. Bloodhounds Were put ol
their track, but the fugitives killed three o
them.
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