The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-12-28
NEWS Of THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
East,


James r. Keene, speculator OF
twenty years experience. testified before
the New York Senate committee that he
never knew a corner i'll any production to
work injuriously to the public. lie thought
the bucket-shop system should be crushed
out by legislation, but legitimate specula-
tion was of the greatest benefit to the people
of the country.
A steel-rail maker states that Penn
sylvania mills have sold Vanderbilt ~, OOC
tons at s3S
A runaway couple from Oneida
county, n Y, named Thomas DOYLE and
Katie A. Morgan, were found to have been
suffocated by gas in their room in a hotel in
Rochester
Henry James, ST., the philosopher
and metaphysician, an associate of Greeley,
Emerson and Thoreau on this side of the At
lantic, and Of CARLYLE. Mill and Tennyson on
the other. died in Boston.
Earthquakes are generally supposed
to be luxuries within the reach only OF
dwellers in tropical climcs, but the people
of Concord Dover and other towns in New
Hampshire were the other evening treated
to a genuine shock. which lasted some eight
or ten seconds and was accompanied by .
rumbling noise
Lewis Thompson, a mulatto, 81 years
of age, the first man ever committed to Sing
Sing prison, has been sent back for sia
months for stealing door-mat in New
York Over forty wears OF his life have beer
passed behind grated windows
The City Bank of Rochester, n. Y,
has closed its doors Its President, Charles
Z. Upton rot on the wrong side of the oi
market and sunk s35a.No of the bank
money in trying to get even. Several small
savings institutions in Rochester deposited
with the City Bank, and many poor peopl,
will suffer by its failure
Eastern manufacturers of all descrip
tions of iron, Mt a meeting at Philadelphia
| while not approving the changes propose,
by the Tariff Commission, expressed the he
lief that the reductions would not paralyz
the industries affected
\ negro in Brooklyn, named Aleyan
| der Jefferson, sent the contents a double
barreled shot gun through the window of
residence, killing Henry Hicks ami wound
| ing Celestial Jefferson He then entered tn
! house, cut Mrs Emma Jetfcrson's throa
and severely slashed Annie Jackson
A loss of $50 was incurred at Os
wego, n. Y, by the burning of the Mansar,
| block and the Union Hotel
The Coma,erriai tirertiscr buitdin,
Mt Buffalo and Miller 4 Grciver's grocer
house and other structures adjoining wer
destroyed by fire. The loss is placed a
$3oo,ooa.
| West.
A fire in the Barton Block at Mime
apolis inflicted a loss of ss5,en
The transfers of real estate ut Bis
marck, Dakota, aggregated 81, ,oo, ooo i'll tn
past month
Trains on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
and st. Louis road collided OH a high curry
at Kings Station, Ohio. Poke Peters, an er
gineer, was bchcaded, W. IL. Wharton. post;
clerk, was killed, and four other postoi,ie
employees were seriously injured.
4 connaeration DESTROYED halfa bloc
in Third strert, Grand Forks, ID. T., causin
heavy losses To a number of merchants IN
rea, estate owners. One hundred thousar
dollars worth OF property was consumed
The Western breAers held a confe
ence Mt Chicago, and resolved 10 advan'
the price of beer 81 Il barrel,
For the year ended June 30 the raj
roads i'm Wisconsin earned SIS, iG5, i.S an i
crease of S3,3ao,ooO over 1851. During Il
aboye-named period 100 persons were kille
by accidents, and 81 were injured
The farm house of John Clark,
Linn county, Kan, was burned and thr
small children pcrished in the flames. Cia
had removed two children and while he W
searching fer a third the other two wander'
back in the house and all We're consumed
A DAYTON dispatch chronicles Il
death of Rear Admiral James T. Schenck, !
tired. who entered the naval service in Is
rs Miishipman on the Hornet.
The auction-house of w. H. Hagar
L Sons st. Louis. was ruined by fire, and,
considerable damage was done to adjace
buildings, the loss is placed at sl5a,oM
4 murderer who has been in II
Michigan State prison for sixteen years pill
the contents of his cell against the do,
poured over them the oil in his lamp n
applied a match As he was naked ii to
but few moments to literally bake him.
South.
James Lyons, an octogenarian
Richmond, Va, who was member OF
Confederate Congress, died the other day
At Hazel Dell, Texas, two brothe
named Fralcy, charged with stealing cotts
were swung up to the limb of tree
The medical students aud their ASST
b ants recently caught while robbing gray
near Richmond, Va, were sentenced To
a months imrsonment each.
1t is believed that the cotton CT
will be fully 100000 bales, and labor is
!, scarce along the Mississippi that much OF
q staple will be wasted.
4 Mrs. Pigeon supposed to be Nj
:. Ialbouehcrrl, who WAS married in Engiai
- entered suit for divorce ut Richmond, Va
In Il hail-s.olm near Huntsville, Al
ID Deans milling house was blown down, k