The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-07-06
NEWS OF THE week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

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Pepper has been ccrnered in the New
York and Boston markets, driving tho price to
II cents per pound. The syndicate holds in its
grasp ali the cargoes to arrive up to October.
Miss Annie Louise Cary, the famous
opera singer, Vas married It Portland, Me-, to
O. II. Raymond.
Several persons were killed or fatally
injured, and twenty others hurt, BY IN accident
on the Long Branch division Of the Now Jersey
Central road, 1t the bridge at Parker's creek.
Gen. Graz. was in the smoking-car, but es-
capped uninjured. William r. Garrison, son
o. Commodore Garrison, was fatally injured.
james L. Bradley, wealthy New Yorker, was
killed outright G. W. Demorcst and James
q. Mallory, Of New York, and Charles NJ. Wood
ruff. Of Newark, oil prominent business men,
have since died. About 1O0persons were wounded
more or less seriously. The accident seems to
have been due to the criminal carelessncss Of
the railroad company. The track had been al
tered to provide for the running Of excursion
trains, and frog had been left unsettled by
one OF the laborers. Proper supervision and
discovery Of the defect and its cure but par
simonious, shiftless management had not pro-
vidcd for such chance.
The celebrated Malley trial, which has
been the sensation II New Haven for long
time, resulted in the acquittal OF Walter aud
James Malley and Blanche Douglass OF The
charge Of having murdered poor jennie
Cramer.
A gambler named Bradley died at
Ration, New Mexico, with rope around his
neck, placed there by his unappreciatiye neigh
bors.
Owens embezzlement of the funds OF
tho Third National Bank OF St Louis, accord
ing to the figuring OF the Government Bank
Examiner, will foot up GOO. 600; but the solid
ity Of the bank will not be impaired
Crop reports from all over Minnesota
agree that corn is making mp lost time. In
Kansas and Dakota the wheat and corn pros
pect is gloriously encouraging, and Nebraska is
figuring on the biggest grain yield in her his
tory.
A horrible tragedy was enacted at Gin
clnnati Henry G. Cole, = lawyer Of some
prominence, his wife, and their only child,
glrl about 20 years Of age, were discovered
dead In their beds. Each one or them had
been shot through the head, and the pillows
and bedclothing were stiff with blood. The
evidence went to show that Cole had first shot
his wife through the temple with 48-calibcr re-
oliver, when she Was sleeping at his side. Then
he went into the adjoining room and shot lis
daughter, who had wakcned and partly risen at
the sound OF the discharge that killed her
mother. Seeing that both shots were effectual,
Cole then returned to his wife's room and took
his place in the bed at her side. Placing one
Of the dead woman's arms about his neck, a.
though she were sleeping with his head on her
shoulder, the man finished the terrible tragedy
by placing the muzzle OF the revolver at his
own forehead and pulling the trigger. Cole
was Of o wealthy family who formerly lived IN
New York.
4 negro attempted to enter the house
Of Mrs. Howe, Of Elizabethtown, ILL.,, who was
alone at the time, but she screamed for assist
ance and the fellow skunk away. A posse started
in pursuit, found negro in the vicinity, and
brutally beat and then hung him. though Mrs.
Howe failed to identify him as her assailant.
The new town of Larrimore, Dakota,
was swept BY = confagration that destroyed
property OF tho estimated value Of $50, 900.
One man lost his life, aud another was badly
burned.
Half . dozen laboring men we're
drowned At Mai.dan, Dakota, while crossing the
Missouri river in small boat
John McAuliff, once a noted labor
agitator OF Chicago, killed himself in his room
At Denver, and the corpse was not found for
several days.
New Orleans has had genuine case
Of yellow fever, accompanied. by black vomit.
Extraordinary precautions are being taken to
prevent tho spread Of the terrible pestilence.
At Frenchburg, Menifee county, Ky.,
. cloud burst and flooded the streets in some
places to the depth Of eight to ten feet. Three
dwellings were swept away and six inmates
drowned-Mrs. John Fox, Mrs. Byrne, and two
grown daughters and two Misses Watkins
The postofice and contents were washed away.
Hail fell with such violence - to crush men to
tho earth.