The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-01-04
NEWS OF THE week.
AFRICAN ITEMS.
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AA606AVAN A13A0s
EAST.
Capt. A. G. Mutt, cashier Of the Penn
sylvania State treasury, was shot and killed
at Uniontown, Pa by N L Dukes, men,
Der OF the Fayette county bar and member
elect Of the State Legislature. Both were
men Of high social and political prominence,
and the affair has cast the deepest gloom
over the community in which they resided.
A serious business failure is reported
from Philadelphia, James Smyth 4 Co., the
proprictors OF two large mills where ging-
hams and cottons are manufactured, having
allowed their paper to go to protest. Their
liabilities are estimated at ejOO,O00
In the matter Of Sunday trading by
Hebrews, In New York, Judge Arnoux holds
that Jews and Gentiles are alike under the
constitution.
Kate Fields Cooperative Dress As
sociation in New York closed it's store, with
assets Of s244, 600 and liabilities OF sl25,Oo0
Joseph Gray, the English champion,
beat Henry Borkes, Americas best man, in
match game of rackets at New York for the
worlds championship and 85OO
From Packardville, Mass, comes the
news Of most horrible tragedy. Merriam
A. Montgomery. " years Of age, who had not
lived with his wife for nearly a year, visited
her ut her fathers farm at Packardville.
Jealousy on his part was the cause Of the
separation, and he asked her II she would
live with him again, and she refused on the
ground of former abuse He got angry, and
went outdoors where he saw his two chill
dren-George, years old, and Eva, years
old-playing. Hepulled revolver from his
pocket, and fired ut the boy, killing him
instantly. He then fired ut the girl The
firing attracted the inmates of the house,
and ON their rushing out he fired at his wife,
and then ut her father, Horatio Marsh, but
fortunately missed them both. The old
gentleman grappled with Montgomery,
threw him, and took away the weapon, and
finally dragged him into the house and Sc
cured him
There is . strong feeling among the
importers of steel in the Eastern States
against the changes in the customs duties
proposed by the Tariff Commission
Oliver H. P. Belmont and Sara Swan
Whiting were married at Newport, r. L, be-
fore an exclusively select assemblage. The
presents were valued at 100000
An icicle falling from a store at
Laona, N. T., instantly killed Charles Banks
and seriously wounded Wm Smith
A block Of land in New York which
was bought at auction ten years ago for
10000 has lately been mortgaged for
4S9l COO
A horrible accident occurred at Es-
telline, Mimi. During the absence of Mr..
Barker, his wife left three children, two Of
them aged and years, and her little baby
months old in the house, while she went
out to do the chores about the barn, and it is
thought that the children commenced play
ing with the fire and set fire to themselves
Mrs Barker saw the fire and fastened to the
house, but two of the little ones were
charred corpses, and the fire in the house
was under such headway that in rescuing
the baby, which afterward died from burns
received, she herself came near perishing in
! the flames and Is now in q critical condition
In an affray at Chicago, Theodore
Nooy killed his brother Bohemiel with a re-
volver.
Johann Most, the noted London So
cialist, arrived in Chicago last week
The Western Association of Com
mercial Travellers held its fifth annual con
yention at st. Louis
Thomas Kerr, formerly OF Lexington,
ILL.,, killed William Hartley in cold blood in Q
saloon ut Pioneer, Arizona for which he was
lynched by the citizens
The citizens OF Prineville, Ore,
horse thieves shooting John Thorp and John
Weston, and hanging Sid Houston and
Charles Lester.
Henry c. Kiesel, City Treasurer Of
Tucson. Ari. has fed to Texas, being o de-
| faulter to the amount Of s3lO0
Col. Z. H. Wolfe, Auditor of Indiana,
| while going home In indianapolis, Mt an ear
| II hour in the morning, was halted by
merchant policeman and fired upon, the in
dignity being increased by an arrest and i'm
prisonment. He was promptly released by
the Police Justice.
Two great-grandsons of Daniel Boone
received mortal wounds at the hands OF WILL
lam Vaughan, Of Ladonia, Tex.
By decision Of Virginia court the
school fund OF that State has been increased
by s50O. 900, one-fifth Of which sum is TO be-
devoted to the maintenance OF colored
normal school.
A collision Of trains occurred on the
Chesapeake and Ohio road, near Millboro
Va, by which five men were killed and two
wounded, all but one being employees
John Townsend, Bert Cowan and w.
Rain were killed during an afiray in saloon
near Pine Hill. La
English 4 Huguenin's warehouse,
containing o.aa56 bales OF cotton, and Henry
4 Shcarwood's grocery, at Macon, Ga, were
consumed
Near Beverly, w. Va, on Christmas
night, Adam Currence and four children
were barncd to death
Five negroes were drowned by the
oyerturning of ferry boat Mt Darien, Ga.
Two blocks of buildings ut Prescott.
Ark, were destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated a, sluO,Un
Jay Gould has come into possession
of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson
railroad in Texas. thus giving his South
western system an outlet to the Gulf OF
Mexico.
Clarence Weight deliberately applied