The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-11-16
NEWS OF THE week.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
Nsaet.e

A great checker match was played at
Boston between Wylie, the great Scotch
player, and Baker, the American expert
Fifty games were played, each contestant
winning one, while forty-eght were drawn.
Mrs. Langtry's debut in New York
w.s Il pronounced success She is said to
have displayed no remarkable dramatic tai
ent, but to have captivated her audience by
her refinement and grace.
Nine. Adclina Patti in Lucia" at
the Academy OF Music, New York, was
greeted by an enthusiastic audience, and
her singing OF the role was voted Il great
success
A number of stores and Offices on
Commercial wharf, MT Portland, Me-, were
burned, eans NJ Il loss of $4,000
Barrett, Bach & Hart, wholesale deal
cIs in notions and auction goods. New York,
have assigned. Liabilities, 100000
Property valued at S25O,OO0 was
wiped out by flames Mt Red Bank, N J.
4 hotel proprietor of Elberon, n. J.,
has forwarded to the Auditing Board a bill
Tor sl,lG2 - for entertaining the Garfield
suite for fifteen days.
The people of New York State adopt
ed the free canal amendment at the recent
election
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are
causing great mortality among children at
Birdsboro, Pa
The mansion of Albert Bierstadt at
lrvington- on the Hudson, with its wealth Of
paintings and relics, was burned, the loss
being estimated ut 10000 A fire nj New
bern, n G., destroyed eight buildings val
ucd at $4,000
During the absence from home OF
John Hcpler a farmer near Gratztown,
Penn, his residence took fire in the II ght
His heroic wife rescued five children from
the fiames but ON entering the burning
house for the fourth time she died with her
youngest child in her arms.
The puddlers mt Terrc Haute. Ind,
Iron AMI Nail Works and at the Wabash Iron
Company's Works went out on strike the
other day, demanding 81 per ton until the
LIST of next June.
Four hundred cars of corn arrived at
Kansas City in two days, and the elevators
are unable to keep pa,e with the re ,cipts
The cereal is being shipped to Eastern mar
kers as rapidly as possible.
An earthquake shock was felt at Lar
annie City, W. T., and points westward on
the evening Of tile 1th last Plastering fell
from the walls OF bui ui.dings Mt Rawlins and
other points
4 dispatch from Hampton Court
| Hoas. = O. savs that 4 negro namss. lake
CAN'T collected about twenty cplored men
to prevent Policeman Reid from taking
| away his tGantts, pistol When the diiii
cu.ty recommended, Reid was killed by he
negroes. and three white citizens w.r cut
or beaten 4 white man who started for
help was stabbed in the thigh and lett on
the road
All the prisoners in the Prince
G orge county Mi) Jail escaped by burning
lock from the door.
Four negroes. charged with robbery
and attempted murder were taken from the
Vienna la ja,l hy mob. 0necScaped an
other was given u chance tor his life, and the
9th two were taken short distance from
town and riddled with bullets.
Half the distillers of Kentucky have
signed an agreement to reduce the produc-
! tion OF whisky for TIE Eext five years.
The gas in the New Orleans city of
fees, police stations, prison and in the streets
was turned off by the gas company, and the
entire city plunged into darkness Due and
| unpaid gas bills are the cause.
! Two negro murderers, Sam and Mill
] Ho'ge, We're hanged in large op space
/ in the outskirts of Knoxville. Tenn. The
gal'ows was of the primitive sort IA cross.
beam supported by two uplights--and the
/ men were nany, d from wagon which was
driven from under the gibbet, leaving the
condemned to stranel. 70 death.
! Masked men fired the stable of Mr.
Bra, denhury. living near Erin, Ga, and
viii the proprietor was trying oput on'
the fire tie incsw,iarics cnt' r,d the resi-
lcnce. shot at Mis-. .Rrandenbury AM hel
niece, and carries on trunk containing
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