The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-08-31
NEWS OF THE week.
AMERICAN ITElGS.
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Fire burned the Adirondack Hotel,
Nolette House and thirty buildings, comprising
stores and dwellings, At Keesville, N. Y. Loss,
t10O,OO0 insured.
Tue main mills Of the Syracuse IN. "
Iron Works wero burned. LOSS 42OO, 900 in
surancc, s54, 900. Three hundred men are
thrown ont Of work.
Hon. A. w. Sawyer, formerly Justice
Of the Supreme Court Of New Hampshire, died
in the hands Of physician, who was giving
him ether in or3er to amputate his foot.
Little Brown Jug made four attempts
at Poughkeepsie to beat his record OF 2:llHl,
but could only make 2:lS.
A Coroner's jury at Paterson, N. j.,
held James Kennedy for granddaughter, for
locking his children in garret when attacked
by smallpox.
The Erie railroad elevator at Buffalo.
valued at 200, 900, took fire from an explosion
Of dust, and was DESTROYED. Five men were
burned to death and another fatally injured.
By the use Of a magnetic rod, mine
locator has found OF the harbor OF Erie the
wreck OF the schooner vermilion, which was
sunk in : storm nearly half century ago, with
$50 tons Of copper on board, valued at $780,
600.
President Arthur, accompanied by .
large party Of representative men, visited the
torpedo station on Newport last week, and was
shown wonders in naval warfare until he grew
weary. At dinner gwen him BY Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the walls OF tho room were hidden
from view by flowers, and 1t each plate were
twelve glasses and $25 bouquet
Timothy Bailey. soldier in the war
OF 1912, tho inventor OF the knitting-machine,
died At Ballston, N. Y.
The leading importers Of dry goods at
New York report steady increase in the do.
mand for silks, cashmeres and velvets.
A desperate named Rymer, who
stabbed McGarvey, near Fort Lyon, was taken
from Jail At West Las Animas, COL, and
lynched BY mob supposed to be composed Of
soldiers from the fort.
A hunter named Gibbon killed man
named Aiken 1t Rock Creek, Wyoming. Within
five hours he was dangling from box-car.
Denver reports eighteen recent at
tempts at suicide, the last victim being Charles
Hutchins, prominent jeweler.
The widow of John Brown, of Osa--
watomie was brought from California to Chica-
60 to attend . picnic for the benefit Of tho
monument fund. About three hundred per-
sons attended, and the gate receipts, amount
ing to $3.50, we're levied upon and seized by .
constable.
Oklahoma Payne writes to friends in
Kansas that.ho Is encamped on Dry creek, in
Indian Territory, and that his mon are erecting
buildings.
Hon. G. A. Tucker, from New South
Wales, who is inspecting jails and insane
asylums, paid visit to tho mad house at Salt
Lake and expresses himself ~ deeply shocked
by the sights he witnessed. Among the patients
are two sane persons, bound hand and foot.
Joseph A. Shlrk, one Of the best
known postal clerks in the West, was killed near
Indianapolis by lurch Of the car, - he stood
near the door, throwing him out against the
beams Of Eagle creek bridge.
Coup's circus is in the hands Of the
Sheriff at Detroit where attachments amount
ing to $4,000 have been served.
Mules for the British army in Egypt
are being purchased It st. Louis BY Lieut. Col.
Swinney, OF the Royal artillery, assisted by ;
veterinary surgeon.
Maj. Sumner telsgraphs from Fort
Robinson that Red Cloud mas threatened to
drive away Agent McGillicrddy by force unless
he be removed within sixty days
Gov. Cameron, Of Virginia, refuses to
commute the sentence Of Mary Booth, aged IA,
to hang Nov. II, for poisoning Mrs. Grau and
Mr.. Jones.
Texas dispatches report the yellow
fever increasing at Brownsville. There were
$50 cases OF fever and Z, 900 destitute people in
the town. The Governor issued an appeal to
the people Of Texas for aid in money and food
to support and clothe them.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, re-
ports that two Of Fargo h Co.'S messenger
we're killed by stage robbers, who got away
with 5000. Only two robbers were seen.
They had breastworks alongside Of the road
and commenced firing - soon - the express
came in range.
The National Board of Health do not
think that the yellow fever now prevalentin tht
Rio Grandc region is epidemic, or likely to be
The citizens of Butler, Ala, recently
made the discovery that 400 negroes had
organized conspiracy, under the lead Of
Jack Turner, to massacre all the whites In thai
region between Oct. Is aud II. Seven leader
OF tho plot were speedily placed in Jail, whence
Turner was taken and hanged to tree on the
chief business street OF the town.
At Lunenburg, Va, while Garland
whitfield st OK IN the courtroom for fifteen
minutes, the jury acquitted him Of the murder
OF Addison in duel.
The hangman SWING nff Robert Par
ksr, a, Aiken, 8. c., for poisoning his vito LAST
Dece nbcr; William Bryan, 1t Jacksonville
Fla, for the assassination Of Jack Moore, and
James Rcdden, negro OF Newcastle, Del, fol
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