The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-03-16
NEWS OF The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.

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East.
Ex-Gov. Milton s. Latham, OF Gal.
ifornia, died in New York last week.
Charles A. Sweet & Co., Of Boston,
bankers, have suspended payment Tho la
bilities are bet tween e3.OO0.OOO and $4,000, 900.
Magnin, Guedin & Co., Of Union
Square, New York, importers Of watches and
jcwelry, have made an assignment. The liabil-
tiles Of the firm are stated At el7O, 600, and thu
assets are $4,000.
The Grand Jury at New York has in
dicted Gen. N. NJ. Curtis, Special Agent Of the
Treasury, for soliciting campaign funds from
Government officials.
DR.. Pancoast, the eminent Philndel-
phia physician, is dead.
At a Pittsburgh dog show 500 CANNES
wero on exhibition, some Of which we're valued
As high - $4,000.
A steamship agent at New York esti-
mates tho arrivals at Castle Garden from the
present time to January II 100000.
Five men were drowned by the sink
Ing Of q drcdge boat At Rice point, Mass.
Gen. "Bill'' Wright, chief topograph-
ical engineer on sherman's stan during the war
was picked up in rhiladelphia in : drunken
stupor. He died in : police-station cell.
wosa.
The Grand Jury at Chicago has in
dicted large number Of gamblers, and several
wealthy citizens who rent their property to
gamblers.
Alice Wright, an actress, jumped from
th,rd-story window Of Cleveland hotel,
while delirious from typhoid fever, and was
dashed to death.
At Marquette, Mich, the lower pack
Ing house Of the Lake Superior Powder Com
pany's mills exploded tho other day. Four men
were blown to atoms and the building annihi.
lated.
The Ohio Supreme Court decides that
the railroads in that State purchased BY Van
derbit and consolidated under the name of tho
Ohio railway arc competing lines, and the
grouping is declared illegal
A new paper has been started at Jack
son, Mich.
Two men charged with stealing cattle,
and imprisoned At Del Norte, Col, were taken
from the Jail by band OF 100 men and shot
while attempting to escape One was mortally
wounded and the other killed outright.
Two Of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers
passed away last week-Nicholas Kenny, at
Kirkville, Iowa, and Christian Schaefer, at
Mineral Point. Wis. Kenny was also soldier
Of the United States in the war Of 1872 and In
the war OF the Rebellion.
At Las Lunas, New Mexico, Charles
shelton. John Redmond and Harry French
we're taken from the Jail and hanged to tho
nearest tree by masked men. All three had
been guilty Of one or more cold-blooded mur-
ders The mob also took two negroes from
Jail, beat them numerically. and turned them
loose.
The Michigan Legislature has passed
a bill appropriating s265.oo for tho further
relief OF tho sufferers by last fal's fires.
Thurman Tronson, aged IA years, of
New Lisbon, Wis, was chokcd to death BY
stomach worms which crawled mp into his
throat. The post-mortcm disclosed the fact
that the boy had been literally filled with mag
gots.
South.
The Virginia Legislature convened in
extra session March I.
The bar of Louisville mourns the
death Of Henry G. Plndell, = veteran member.
Mary Sigman, disreputable woman,
and her mother, Rhoda, were assassinated d
Mount Vernon, Ky.
Richard s. Fay, of Boston, an officer
in half dozen great corporations. committed
suicide ut Fortress Monroe.