The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
Hast.

A whale caught fire on a railway dock
In Boston, and the fire department was called
ont to save the skeleton. He had been mounted
for exhibition, and the loss IL stated at 50, 500.
There was serious rioting at Jersey
City arising out OF the freight handlers strike.
Italian workmen were assaulted by the strikers,
and retaliated with pistol shots, killing ono
person and woundiny several One Italian, in
fleeing from the strikers. was drowned.
The safe of the Bank Italo. Americana
in New York was broken open and robbed Of
$1,000.
While workmen ON the North Shore
road were blasting near Milton, N. Y, pre-
mature explosion killed three Italians aud seri-
ously injured eight others.
Three disastrous confagrations oc-
cured in New York city at nearly the same
time. They broke out, respectively in White
hall, Pearl and Washington streets, and the
damage occasioned will reach 100000
West.
Two sensational murders occurred in
Chicago within few hours. Charles stiles,
noted operator on tho Board Of Trade, and
caller OF the Call Board at salary Of $4,000 .
year, was shot dead at his room in the Palmer
House by an Italian woman with whom he had
been living for five or six years. An old and
respected gentleman named DR.. Joel Prescott
the proprietor OF bathing establishment was
murdered by burglars, who beat out his brains
with a hammer and made their escape.
Aivices from Arizona announce that
forty Apache bucks attacked the town Of Globe
and were repnlscd after a hard fight by the cit
izcns. The fight lasted halt an hour, during
which the Indians tried to set fire to several
buildings without success One white man was
wounded. Indian casualties unknown, as they
carried nff their dead and wounded.
At Flagstaff, New Mexico, Jim Brown
aud "Blind" Jim murdered two men named
Storey and +. p. Dietrich. The whole town
pursued, caught and hanged the murderers.
A party Of Germans made an attempt
to batter down tho doors Of the Jail at Las
Vegas, in order to lynch H. G. Brown for the
them ample warning, and then ordered the
guards to open with Winchester rifles. When
the smoke cleared away. four men lay on the
ground badly wounded, two Of whom will die.
A party Of 100 Indians captured every
hone belonging to band OF citizens who left
Globe City, Arizona, to protect settlers in the
Salt river country, and the rangers walked
homo.
For the fourth time in the past eight
years the mill of East & Lewis, at Lima Ohio,
has been burned, the losses aggregating $780,
oOo
The charges of infidelity and skepti-
cism often repeated against the Michigan Uni
versity are answered by the fact that more than
80 per cent OF the students. 81 per cent Of the
faculty and 81 per cent. Of the teachers and as
sis,ants are processing Christians.
Juan B. Alvarado, who was Governor
OF California from 1856 to 1sis. died at San
Pablo
At Dayton, w. T., every store, hotel
and hank in the town WAS consumed by fire,
which destroyed six business blocks. Loss,
&soo.ooo.
Crop reports have been received by tho
Michigan Secretary OF State from ts5 townships.
T4c acreage OF wheat this year is LIS, l55. and
the estimated yield Is 81. ~. .s3i Bushels. Last
years acreage was l,s6a.io5. which yielded
~ l73.t1l bushels.
South.
T. L. Jones. photographer Of LOU
isville, Miss. who has already murdered four
men. killed Toy nanesake in cold blood.
Editors Gaines and Sears, of Louis
vile. indulscd IN street fight over a journal
istie quarrel. Several shots were fred but no
serious damage Was inflicted. A storckccper, a
block away from the disturbance, was more Sc
vuielv injured by stray bullet than either Of
the bel,igerents
Philip Haison was hanged at Clinton,
N. C., for the murder OF Henry Sellers.
A mob OF white and black men over
powered the jailer at Henderson, Ky, took ont
ancgso named VIM. Ritter. and hanged him to
a tree on the outskirts, for the rape and muir
der of a colored girl.