The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-07-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.
Hast,

Tho Secretary Of til. Treasury called
for the resignation Of superintendent Davis, OF
the New Orleans Mint for ineficiency.
DIR. A. P. King and wife. of London,
Ohio, were drowned in Chautauqua lake by the
capsizng Of sailboat in sqnall.
John L. Sullivan, Of Boston, and Tug
Wllfon, Englands crack pugilist, had bout
with boxing gloves in the Madison Square Gar
dcn New York, Wilson having made the voy-
age expressly to try conclusions with
tho American champion. After four rounds,
during which sullivan knocked his man down
twenty seven times, the Englshman's remark
able capacity for enduring punishment en-
ablcd him to stand mp, and he was declared
winner o. tho wager Of $1,000 The fight wa
viewed by multitude Of $4,000 people.
More than forty boys have died in the
vicinity OF Boston since the Fourth OF July, OF
lockjaw, caused from wounds by the toy pistol.
A number Of the striking employees of
the Pittsburgh iron mills have accepted stua-
tions from q Colorado firm at an advance on
the scale demanded BY the Amalgamatcd Asso-
ciation.
Miss Fanny Parnell, sister of the
Irish leader, died suddenly at Bordentown, N.
j., from paralysis OF the heart. She had been
managing her grandfather's farm.
| Four mills and four factories at Fair
field, Me-, valued at 100000, we're reduced
to ashes.
Johr F. Walsh was executed in the
Jail at Brooklyn for the murder OF Barbara
Groenthal. The knot slipped around to tho
back Of his neck and he died from strangulation.
Officer Reynolds. of New York, saved
the lives Of three women and eight children in
blazing tenement in Washington street. where
| they were cut on, by holding onto . window
and catching them as they dropped.
| Blaine's coal and iron syndicate, rep
resenting 5000, 600 Of capital, has purchased
the Columbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo
road.
! A party Of $50 Russian Hebrews were
thrown upon the charities OF Cincinnati, with
out the slightest notice. While vigorous ef-
| forts for their relief will be made, the Jewish
Relief Committee has givennotice to the agents
in London and Hamburg to ship no more.
Since the Fourth of July there have
been twelve deaths from locklaw in Chicago,
all OF which were caused by wounds inflicted
by the toy pistol in celebrating our national in
dependence.
Three men, named Bonestein, Jansen
and Wharton, fought about blanket in Pitts
man Valley. N. NJ Wharton was terribly mutt
lated, but killed Jansen and mortally wounded
I Bonestcin.
| Maj. Chaffee, who had been follow
ing the renegade Indians from San Carlos,
ing twenty-six and capturing all their equipage
and thirty-two horses. Licuts. Morgan and
Converse. Of the Third cavalry, we're wounded.
and one enlisted man was killed.
| Reports of yellow fever in the South
are being put in circulation by unscrupulous
spectators.
! Mrs. Abraham Lincoln was buried at
Springfield. Ill Her remains were pnt IN the
crypt Of the Lincoln monument by the side OF
her husband. The funeral services were simple
! and impressive. 1t was the special desire Of
Mrs. Lincoln that no sermon should be
preached over her. The preacher was content,
! therefore, to say much Of her family and littlo
of herself.
John Springer, aged 1Os years, died
at Marietta, Ohio, and George Imhoff passed
away at Richmond Ind, at the age OF 1O7
/ years.
| A band Of White Mountain Apaches
attacked a train about forty miles from San
f, Carlos, killed one driver and run OF fifty head
Of cattle.
A planing-mill and railway supply
store, on Cass avenue, st. Louis, were burned,
causing loss of $125.0O0.
! South.
Fifteen lives we're lost l.y the sinking
| Of the steamer John Wilson in the Atchafalaya
river, in Louisiana.