The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-12-06


The clearing house exchanges last
week-sa6O. ~. ods- were sils.Ilassi less
than the preceding week, aud when COM
pared with the corresponding period In 1882
show u reduction of 81 per cent.
This has been the greatest wear
known in the sheep and cattle export trade OF
Canada, the sheep shipments alone being 30
per cent. In excess OF any other year.
A midnight fire broke out in block
Of frame buildings nj Albany. Wis, and hc
fore the flames were checked the entire
business portion II the town was de-
stroycd, cntaiinE n loss of fully 100000.
Edward Dodge was instantly Killed, as
the result OF powder explosion, and sew
eral were fatally and others seriously
injured. The weather was intensely cold
and tho refugees suffered greatly. Other fires
are reported MS follows; Evans glass factory,
Pittsburgh, loss $4,000: Lcshs wheel-rim and
binding factory, Warsaw, Ind. loss $4,000;
four stores at kerens, Tes., loss Sla,O00: the
Campbell hotel. Nerauil. Ont. loss $4,000;
a large portion OF the town Of Port
'Ht.s ites SiouVNts "eNN
hotel, Wenona. Ill.,, loss $4,000; State
Normal University. Carhondale, ILL.,, 5000, noo;
Office of the Ranasr. Hastings. Mimi. loss
Sl0.0O0; Jacobs store. Nayasota, Tex, loss
$4,000; eleven stores nj Wellington, Kan,
loss 81, 600: several stores III Troupe. Tex,
loss S2O.O00: the Lyman-Eliel Drug COM
pany's store, Minneapolis, Mimi, loss $780,
M. uHrr If ~ wuyagtt Tenn
less seo. 600: several business houses At HAT
Portage. Canada, loss $4,000; the Gilman
Terra Gotta Works Eldora, Iowa, $4,000;
several stores and shops at Ieaivile, Colo,
Joss $4,000; four business houses a. Am
heret. Mass, lose $4,000. four stores NJ
Hillshoro. Tex. loes $4,000; eleven business
houses at Monroe. Wis, loss sao,ooo.
H. II. Allingham. a telegraph oper-
stor at Fort Worth, Tex. and Miss Minnie
O,cll, employed in the Western Union office
nj 81. John, New brunswick, have for about
eighteen months been using the wires con.
sidcrahly In making each Others acquant-
ance. Lately an exchange of pictures took
place and soon afterward q proposal Of mar
ria2e was sent and accepted over the wires.
enc morning last week, and Rev. Mr.. Harrows
made them one
The Windsor formerly the Stadt -
thcatcr. In the Bowery. New York, was de-
stroyed by Are, together with the block in
which II was situated. and buildings in the
rear. The frc broke GU, after the
audience quilted the house, so
there were no accidents. The total
loss Will approximate ssoa.osa. A damage
of s50,Co, was incurred hy flames in the
Hotel Clifton, AT Boston. Stiekncs's shoe
factory a, Groveiand, MASS, was destroyed
by Are. The greater portion OF the town OF
ocala. Fla. was burned. causing a loss of
100000. Simpsons woolen lls, a, Salon
vile, Mass. worth S-aa.eoe. we're reduced TO
ashes Other losses hy Are: The Democrat
Office md Da,ids.n's furniture store. Ia
Sale H.. loss $50 600, ,hi,t, odd stores at
81. raris, Ohio. loss $4,000; AN elevator
| NJ Icavenworth. Kun, loss Saa,naa;
the Times building and four business houses
| nj San Angela. Tex, loss. Sia.ooa. the Law.
renee hotel, at Cape Vincent. \. Y, loss, So.
Ooo; Gray's cotton warehouse, Baltimore,
| store, Kansas City, Mo-, loss Slss,ooo: no
| tel aud other buildings. n Cortland. n. Y,
| loss, $4,000.
While attending Thanksgiving ser.
vices al the Methodist Episcopal church a,
Dixon, H., James l.. Camp died of arerlexy
As the Rev. Warren II. tudwarth wa.
leading In prayer at union service oi
i YEst..
with aroplexy ard fell dead in thu
| pulpit. Charles Nicholson, well know
| TO horse-brcdcrs throughout the country
died at jackson, Mich. Other deaths chron
| iclcd are those of Hon. William /. Greenly. o
/ Adrian, Mich. cx-toy. william L. stevenson
| of Virginia; Lieut. Col. George Il. tarse, L. !
A., rctircd; and Prof. Samuel X. Heshour. 4
golden wedding in 1870.
/ Richmond Stuart (coloredD wa
hanged for murder NJ shreveport, La. IL
led in prayer on the scafiold. and proclame
his Innocence. At the execution of Andres
West, an ls-year-old ne sro. ut Isabella ia
the rope broke nj the fall. causing the cul
| prit to tumble under the pihhet. After Al
| nour the youth "as again Iiacsu Oh tue TRAP
and death resulted speedily. Joseph Jewell
who was executed at San Jose, 1al., mui
derci N. +. Renowden To secure sat,ooa.
During November Si,97a,ilo wa
coined NJ the Philadelphia mint.
Last weeks failures numbered 231
according 10 Bradstreet's report. The nun
her II very large, being forty-s In excess G
the record for the same week In lss., an
seventy-four i'm excess of the record for tn
corresponding week i'm 1851.