The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
Enaf.

The Paine & Sackett woolen manu-
factory OF Providence, II. l., has m de an
assignment. The liabilities arc Q timated as
san, ,OOn
Two farm hands in tho employ OF
Mrs Earnum, ut Hempstead, L l., wrs
found terribly mutilated and In dying con-
diion. 1t Is supposed they fought unit ex-
hausted from loss OF blood
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Provi-
dence, n. L There are between i,2oo and
800 cases in the city, and great uneasiness
prevails
Richard Hoffman. resident Of SON.
crset township, Pa, has for years been SO
badly rarayzed that he was compelled to
use a wheel chair. He s.atcs that while
praying behind barn he was ordered to
rise and walk, and now goes about in the
natural way.
d. w. Coolidge, grain commission
mel, ,hant of Portland, Nc, has suspended,
with liabilities Of $lo0,0Oa.
A company with capital of $3.50, 900
has been organized in Pittsburgh by promi-
nent iron men to erect W orks for the man /
fac.urc o. nails and spikes from stcs.-
something which has never before been done
In the United States
A water tower in New York, designed
for the usc OF the fir, department., was over
turned while being testei by which two
men were killed
The barge Signal and steamer City OF
Worcester collided in the East river, at
! h.
was be ng towed to the nearest p, mt she
sunk, carrying with her to the bottom seven
persons
A deed has just been placed on record
| in N.w Y rk, conveying a child year cid
to Mrs Mary Hohl until /, shall marry or be-
come Ct age, in consideration OF 81. The
instrument was executed IN 1s73.
The Drumlumon gold and silver mine,
near Helena, Montana, has been sold to
London syndicate for II, ,5oo,01.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks is improv-
ing SO rapidly that all fears as 20 the result
OF his illness have been disspatedL
The knickerbocker block in Mime
! apolis, Mimi, was burned 1t was valued at
| s40,tm, and the insurance ON the structure
il sao,ooa
A terr BILE collision occurred on the
Chicago aud Alton railway near Oak Grove,
| twenty miles cast OF Kansas Cty, Mo-, be-
/ tween construction train and a han i.c r.
which resulted in the death OF six men AMI
the dtc.ing of the entire train. The con-
struction train was in charge of Condu TOR
| Ham,c t, an at the time of the collision was
backins toward Blue Springs, when It en-
countcred the hand-car going east All tha
men on the hand Lear jumped, the loss OF
life being with the laborers AMI trainman
The caboose, six nit-cars, AMI enc box-car
went into the ditch Asths cars went in.o
the tch some Of the men jumped, bat
were caught und n the cars and crushe
out of all shape Beside the six killed u
large number were wounded
/ Careless handling of derrick
caused an accident in Cleveland wherein
riously injured
Joe Hughes and Marker Davis were
found murdered n the streets of st. Josepa,
Mo. 1t is believed they were killed by n man
named Harrington because they refused to
return to him money which they had won
from him at cards
A collision on the st. Paul end Omaha
road, twelve m les from HUI lson, Mimi ;,
caused the death of three cattle-mcn and
the killing of r-load of stock.
Spots seen in the suns disk by tele-
scopic observers at Keoknk, Iowa. formel
the figures -" and 4, or 81"
Brave Bear, the Sioux Indian chief,
convicted of the murder of Joseph johnson,
was hanged ut Yankton, Dakota
Stock in the Nicaragua Canal Com
pany to the amount OF 100000 has been
quietly subscribed in the wholesale quarter
Of san Francisco
Steamboats, Oh the Upper Mississippi
are going into winter quart RS. and nav ga
ton j. virtually closed
The towns of Greenville, Vandalia,
Coliinsyil'c, Sa'em, ccniralia AMI Pana, in
Illinois, were dist tlrhel hy earthquake
shocks Tuesday evening, Nov. H. The vi
bra, ons were distinctly fe.t, and in some
INST nccs were accompanied by brilliant
electrical lis, harges
Repor's from go townships in Michi-
gan >how the II, en- of seeded wheat t, be !:
pr eat less than in 1881, and the con litiou
TO be =. per c,ns
South.
II is stated that the Delaware and
Maryland ship canal will be completed with
out Government aid by European CAPT