The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-02-01

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A Carson New telegram states
| that a band of mounted and masked men
| rode up To store In Gold Mountain, a min
| ing town near there, and ordered the propri-
etor to give up MI his money. lie refused,
and was Mt once shot dead by the leader OF
the band Two Creek Indians. who were
| standing near were also murdered In cold
| blood. The road -agents then robbed the
| store ef everything valuable, rode to Silver
Peak. where they went to the principal store
and proceeded to plumber II The pro-
| prictor and one Of his clerks drew their
| revolyers and opened fire on the highway
me-. killing two OF them The fire was re-
| turned, and the proprietor and his assistant
| fell dead with buliet-holes through their
| hearts The road agents cleaned the store
out and made their escape unrccognized
a San Francisco dispatch SAYS il is
now asrer,ainca that the number of China.
men killed by the giant-powdcr explosion
was thirty
Nearly a block Of business buildinws
ut Nashville. Ill., valued at sleo,a0, were
| swept away by fire.
George G. Foster. cf Milwaukee, was
instantly killed by the fall OF an icclc which
crushed his skull
4 gang OF twelve masked men cap
| turcd 4 small station ~ the Central Pacific
/ railroad. itai miles west 81 Ogden, and
locked all the rai'road employees in the tank
house Wien the ca.'t-bound exrress-tlan
i sf, pft flS.,f Siif
/ tracked the engine, robbed the trainmen
and proceeded To 90 through the tram
| The messenger In charge of the express cai
was not only armed, but had the couia.,
| 10 use his weapons. and tho robbers, finding
that tl3cy had struck 4 fighting man. beat |
rctrea. without having attained any &c
markaIle degree ~ financial success
Frank James was talea from indie
pendcnce jail TO Kansas City last week In
dictments for completely lii the murder 81
Witcher and for the robbery OF the lnde
pend. nee Bank were dismissed An iEdist
ment for connection with the Blue Cut
train robbery found both sides unprepaled
and continuance to lay was taken, James
bail being fixed at 500
| The steel and axle works of Housto,
& Hay, nj coshocton, Ohio. We're destroyed
by fire. involving a loss Of $4,000.
The post suffers store at Fort MAJ
/ ginnis. Montana, containing supplies valued
ut sio.u,o, was burned
Another horror is reported from
| Milwaukee, The wife of John Zmbrick.
/ laborcr. killed her three children, the Oldest
aged years the Youngest ; months in III,
most brutal manner. litera,iS cutting then
to pieces and completely disembowclng
them. The ncighlors' attention was at
tracted To the scene by the wainans a.semp
| to han. herself in an outhouse They ca
| her down and took her III idle, when I'll,
horrib q spectacle was discovered Mrs
Ximbrick was at once ARE ted and took hel
arrest very calmly. saving she had read tina
she had 10 sacrifice the children in the gout
book
At Tire inquest in the Newhall House
disaster. Night Clerk Delaney said he hat
plenty Of time to warn the guests, but Ii,
considered the saving Of papers and vaiua
bes in c hotel safe Of more importance
/ 4 desperate named Cobb WAS hanged
| by mob a, Winfield. Ran. His crime wa
the cold -hlooded murder Of Sheriff win
had attempted 10 arrest him
/ J. W. Wilson, q ST. Louis crank. VIII,
had been fasting for seventeen days, was NJ
rested by the police. forced to resume hi
meals. and sent To the City Hospital
Adyices from the cattle ranches i
Wyoming are to the effect that the winter
ing the storm and that the loss of stock la
been insignificant.
Frank James occupied box in tn
theater a. independence. Mo-. the othe
night, with Deputy Marshal Holland 10
which adventure the latter was dismisse,
from his position as jailcr.
The Criminal Court Grand Jur,
made special report At ST Louis. statin'
that ~ per cent Of the crime and paureI
ism Of the city il attributable 20 the saloons
and recommend that the minimum liccns
OF places where whisky is sold be fixed a
sl,,cu, and that wine or beer dealers b
taxed s5On
All the leading business houses d
Milwaukee were closed on the occasion o
obsequies over the charred remains OF forty
six victims of the Newhall House calamity
Impressive services were held at 81. John
Cathedral for the Catholic dead, and Mt tn
Exposition building for those of the Protest
ant faith The chief civil and militar
societies Of the city took part in the sa
procession
Trains on the Connection Valley roa,
collided near Canton. Ohio, mangling an Ell
gineer and fireman and injuring several pas
sengers
George W. Traughber was hanged u
Tayloryille, Christian county, H., for til
, murder, a year ago, of Joseph Mckinne,
, The execution is claimed To have bee
one Of the quickest on record, the murdere
being dead in nine minutes from the time h
climbed the scaffeld stairs in his velvet slil
per-. The culprit dropped six feet, and til
neck broke with snap like the crack Of
whip.
The partial destruction Of the Cal,
well block, in Omaha, cntailed loss Of SIS
co.
, \ train dispatcher's error caused
, collision between an express and freigl
train near Canton, Ohio resulting in til
death of Fireman John Russell and I'll
probable fatal wounding Of Engineer job
J Stoneman One passenger had n leg badl
! crushed
Smallpox has broken ont in the lum
Der camps of the Rainy Lake River distric
! in Minnesota, and ten deaths from the di
ease have already been reported
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