The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-11-22
WESTERN.

At Albany, Ore, Benson Finlavson,
10 pieces with an AK. robbed the house of all
the money and valuables it contained, and
lied.
Four robbers entered Peter Olsen's
house, near Denver. Col, and upon the old
man refusing 10 tell where his money was
concealed, scourged his lower extremi,ies
until he was covered with blood, built fire
In the yard. carried him out, and literally
roasted his feet. Then he was compelled 10
walk into the house. where a scuffie ensued,
In which the stove was overturned and box
containing $500 was revealed. With this the
robbers decamped.
Charles d. Thompson, son Of the ex-
Secretary of the Navy, died at Terre Haute,
Of paralysis Of the brain, aged IS years.
John Waffen, German laborer on
the docks at Cleveland, with wife and Ave
children to support, won 81 by drinking If
teen glasses of whisky in fifteen minutes. He
survived the feat only two days.
The hardware house OF Seneca d.
Kimbark, Nos. s. and 81 Michigan avenue,
Chicago, was destroyed by FIRE, the loss
being $l65, 600 on the stock and S35, 900 on the
building.
Fire damaged the large Chicago dry
goods house OF Mandel Brothers TO the ex-
tent Of $4,000 or $4,000.
Experts who have investigated the
Capitol disaster at Madison. Wis. find that the
iron columns were not only insufficient in
number, but were of such miserable material
that they tore like pine boards.
The Phoenix block at Mount Vernon,
Ill, was consumed by fire, causing a loss of
$4,000.
The Methodist Episcopal church and
two dwellings nj Youngstown, Ohio, we're
burned.
The boiler of tho Coal Bluff Mining
company at Fontinct, Ind, exploded, killing
one man, fatally scalding two, and burning
seriously ten others.
A terrible railway catastrophe oc-
CURED near Streator. Ill. The incoming noon
passenger train on the Burlington road. at
Otter creek. two and one-half miles from
town, had been tagged bya man from a
freight that had stuck on the grade this side
Of the creek, and had stopped just by the
north bridge. Another freight was following
close behind the passenger. A fiagman went
back, but he had not gone far before the train
was upon him. The grade is very heavy,
and before the freight could be stopped it
plunged into the rear coach Of the passenger
train, crushing the car into fragments A
scene of wild confusion ensued. Four of the
passengers were killed outright, while the
cries OF the wounded could be heard on all
aides. Two other passengers died shortly
after OF their injuries, and nine were badly
wounded, some fatally. The locomotive ex-
ploded after penetrating the cars, half the
victims being scalded to death. A passen-
ger, who was one Of the slightly injured says
It all happened so quickly that he could not
describe ii. There was q crash, the car filed
with steam, and then in few moments all
was still. He did not hear any cry or call
from the two women who were killed. They
were in the seat in front of him. He found
them breathing their last. Pearre, one of the
men killed. was sitting just behind him. II
1t had been a flash of lightning that struck
them II could not have come more suddenly.
A train conveying an excursion party
from Minneapolis TO Southern California was
wrecked near Jamesport, NO., and seven
persons were seriously injured.