The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-06-29
NEWS OF THE week.
AMERICAN ITEMs.


AMERICAN ITElGS.
Hast.
Every seat in the Academy Of Music
at New York was filed to hear an address by
Michael Davitt, which was almost entirely Of
personal character. Tho audience received
him enthusiastically, and chcercd until they
were exhausted.
There wins m extensive conflagration
At Broclport, N Y. Johnson's barvester-works
wcro destroyed. Loss, $500, 900; insurance,
s2oo,0oO.
Michael Davitt Ind an audience Of
nearly 5000 people In Boston, to whom he un-
folded his theory OF land tenure.
The fifth great we'll in the Warren
county pa oil. field WAS struck the other day,
the yield bsing 1000 barrels One well caught
fire, Tho flames rising to . height Of ffty feel,
and causing loss Of $1,000 day whilo Il
burned.
James Fitzgerald, who played . bunko
game on Charles Francis Adams, has been sem
fenced to five years in the Massachusetts, pom.
itentiarY.
Editor Cowles, Of Cleveland, was fined
the costs in the case for his assault upon tho
private secretary Of Bishop Gilmour.
The railway lines between Chicago and
Omaha, which are working under pool, have
notified tho Postmaster General that they can
not put on fast mail
The cyclone which swept over Iowa
made two or three attempts At devastation in
Nebraska, but fortunately in unsettled portions
Of the state only. Along the Platte river, in
Butler county, is = stretch Of country a mile
long which was plowed mp by the storm. Trees,
grass, rocks and all else wero torn mp and scat
tered in every direction Quite : number Of
cattle were killed. Their bodies wero tossed into
tho air like feathers and torn to pieces BY the
fury of the storm.
Two young men were drowned in San
CANON county, ILL.,, while bathing, aud two
Young men were drowned the same day at
Hastings, Num-, by falling overheard from an
excursion boat.
Advices from Indian Territory show
that there arc 7l,ooo head OF cattle and II, 600
horses ON tho trail toward market.
Hon. J. B. Grinnell appeared on the
Chicago Board Of Trade in behalf Of the people
of Iowa made desolate aud homeless by the re-
cent cyclone. He Was introduced by Mayor
Harrison, all business was stopped, and prom
ises OF aid came from all sides. After listening
to his touching recital OF the devastation
wrought by tho tornado committee was APP
pointed to raise funds and supplies. John v.
Farwell, tho merchant prince, started the ball
by subscribing $1,000.
George Eddy, we'll known reporter
Of st. Louis, had an encounter with saloon
keeper and cut him slightly. The assailed man
followed Eddy homo, and fired three times
through tho door, intiicting mortal wounds up
ON Mn. Eddy.
BY the explosion of saw-mill boiler
At Wllliamsiicld. Ohio. four men were killed.
Under scaled orders, Indian Inspector
Pollock aud squad Of troops arrested Agent
Berry at the Uintah Agency in Utah.
The Des Moines Register estimates
y
Iowa AZ follows: Boone county, $40, 900; story
county, $4,000 Jasper county. $4,000; Pow
cshiek county. $4,000 kcoknk county, $780,
600, Henry county. S5oo.o Mount Pleasant,
s7oo e0o; Griancll. ssuo 600 Malcon,. siso, 900;
Fonda, rocahen,as county, $4,000; the Chi
cago and Rock Island railroad, train merchan-
disc, sa6, Chicago and Rock Island Rail-
road Company. $la,0o0 Central Iowa Railroad
Company, $4,000; unenumcratel, $500. 900.
Total. sa.27l,0Oo. Some estimate the actual
loss will exceed ss,00o,0oo.
A jury in Chicago awarded damages
Of elsooc to William ]. Connell for being put
OF a Pennsylvania train last year because hs
held a coupon ticket issued by the Wabash rail-
road.
At Danville, Ill.,, three young girls
employed ~ servants IN boarding -house hor-
rowed a6 cents OF the landlsdy, purchased
arsenic and poisoned themselves The ages OF
the girls were II, II and II respectively. One
Of them. aged n, WAS apparently sctuated by
fancy woman."as she expressed il in note
addressed to her little sister; and no reason il
known for the suicidal decision arrived at by
the other two girls.
One Owen, receiving teller Of the
Third National Rank Of st. Loals-who was
also engaged in the commission business has
been arrested for embesslingtelsc,0o coo Of tho
hanks funds. Tho banks officers give assur-
ance that tho stability Of the institution Is in
no danger.
George A. Woods WAS hanged at Dur.
ange, COL, for the murder Of N. q. Buchanan.
Large herds Of cattle are arriving at
Dodge City, Kan. and il il estimated that
within space Of eixty miles there are s.. 600
head.
Mrs. Henrietta Randall, aged SO,
hanged herself in the yard OF her residenoe, at
Springfield, No. By the uttering OF malcdic-
ton years ago she believed the curse OF God
was upon her.
Thomas J. Foster, editor and proprie-
tor Of the Fort Wayne und.l Erning Htaatt,
shot himself through the head. The Coroner's
jury rendered. a verdict Of temporary insanity,
superindueed by alcoholism.
A wave nearly twelve feet high swept
along tho shore OF Lake Erie, from painesyllle
10 Cleveland, accompanied by roar like thun-
der. tho Wind shifting from south to north.
The andcltow did great damage at Cleveland.
A lot Of steel rails weighing twenty tons were
thrown back ten feet, and one man was swept
cut into the lake and drowned. The eeht.inch
hawscr ON the steamer Northwest WAS snapped
like thread.
South.
Three men were killed and two seri-
o,,sly Injured ly bank of earth falling upon
them in Baltimore county, Md.