The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-01-25
NEWS Of the week.
ANERIoAN ITEMS.
Hast.

mas uecfued Jn0C saloons c0nnOt eXlst WlInln
400 feet Of school house.
A fire in Tweddle Hall Block in Al
bany, which contained an opera house, .
bank and ten stores, caused . loss Of $780,
co..
Nichols Felix died in the Allegheny
City Home, from starvation, self-imposed
Small quantities Of milk and whisky sus-
tanned him since last July.
The contest at Philadelphia between
Engineer Melville and his wife for the custo-
dy OF their children was ended by the Court
awarding the two younger ones to the
mother and directing that the elder be sent
to college at the expense OF the father.
The anthracite coal shipped from
Pennsylvania the past year was q. 9.l2o096
tons
At Richfeld Springs, N. Y, Har-
vey Taylor killed his wife and mother
in-law and then committed suicide He was
insane Hehad regularly laid out the corpses
OF his victims
The Chicago smelling works. situ-
ated ut the corner Of Fortieth street and
Wentworth avenue, Chicago, took fire from
stove-pipe and were totally destroyed, the
loss being 100000
The nail department Of the Calumet
iron and steel works. at South Chicago, was
burned, causing loss OF 100000
The hospital belonging to old Fort
Crawford, ut Prairie du Chen, in which
Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis have
seen service, was destroyed by fire.
Clay Sexton, chief Of the fire depart
ment OF st Louis, detected fellow insult
ing ladies on Olive street He sprang from
his buggy and belabored the mashers for
ten minutes with heavy whip, attracting
an immense crowd
Bishop Talbot, of the Episcopal Dio-
cese Of Indiana, died Of paralysis at Indian
apoliR
The notorious Western desperate,
known Is Billy the Kid, was asrecently lynched
in Montana Territory.
Conrad s. Co., tho st. Louis manu-
facturers Of Budweiser beer, have failed for
about s5oO, COO The concern did . business
reaching sl ,5oo, 600 yearly.
| The weather in the Wisconsin PIN
cries is most auspicious, and full cut is an
ticipated
A dozen business houses ut Law
renee. Kan, were burned, involving loss
Of $4,000, upon which there Is sss,ooo in
| surance.
Several lives were lost by the explo-
| don Of the boiler of steamer In Port Susan
| hay, Pacific coast
The next Nebraska State Fair will be
held ut Omaha
One square of the business section
! Of McArthur Ohio was burned. involving
loss of $5O,O ,O00. upon which the insurance Is
4a0.4oa
Freddie Gebhardt called st. Louis
reporter q liar and threatened to thrash him
| for publishing an alleged interview with
Mra Langtry and himself.
Zerelda Garrison, who figured in
the abduction case at St Louis, has boen
sent East for treatment, as her mental fac
ulties are not Of high order
Col. A. b. Cunningham, the st.
Louis reporter who wrote up Freddie Geb-
| hardt and the Iangtry in the Globe Demo
c,as. for which Freddie called him o liar and
q scoundrel, sent a challenge to Geb-
hardt, which the latter, 1t is alleged,
was about to accept. but, at the
earnest pleadings Of -the Lily" wisely con-
cluded that discretion is the better part OF
yalor Cunningham is nn ex-Confedernte
cavalry officer, and il reputcd to be dead
shot
The Supreme Court of Iowa has de-
clared invalid the prohibitory amendment to
the constitution. on the ground that the
journal Of the House does not show that the
amendment was passed, and also that it va
ried in form and substance from the measure
adopted in the Senate
Elihu Palmer, st. Louis printer.
nephew Of cx-Gov Palmer, of Illinois, shot
and wounded his wife and then inflicted .
mortal wound on himself. The affair was
occasioned by domestic difficulties Of long
standing
| The bursting of a calcium light ma
chine in q theatcr ut Milwaukee injured five
persons on the stage. two OF them fatally,
saspending the play.
At Ogden, Utah, on Jan. 10, the
mercury was :5 degrees lower than was
ever before known there. Butte City re-
ported q temperature 40 degrees below zero
The worst snow storm for years prevailed In
Kansas and Nebraska, and the loss OF sheep
and cattle will undoubtedly be very great
The Key City Block at Moorhead,
Mimi, containing six stores, was burned,
with loss Of $4,000
4 fire at Portland, Ore, DESTROYED
the wholesale grocery house Of Corbett 4
McLeary, valued ut $4,000, and inflicted
considerable damage upon the adjacent
buildings
The Quincy House, one of the larg
est hotels in Quincy, Ill. took fire ut break
fast time the other morning, and the uppel
stories were burned away. Over 100 person.
were hurried cut of the building The los
Is about $4,000
A Milwaukee dispatch OF Jan. p
says: evidence accnmulates against Schel
Ter, who, 1t 10 alleged. fired the Newhal
House II has been ascertained that h,
recreted some of his stock OF liquors an,
removed seven sets of billiard balls befor
the fire occurred The prisoner was re
turned to the Milwaukee Jail yesterday, ant
no one IN permitted to see him. Anothe
body hos been taken from the fire ruins
making total OF forty six The lives los
, are now figured ut fifty-nine
I The weather throughout the West an
. Northwest on the 18th, 10th and ath OF Jar
uary was intensely cold. the mercury !
4 some sections ranging between twenty an
thirty below. At Omaha some Of the publ
!. schools were closed. Railway traffic w
much impeded by snow accommodating
the cuts, In SOME instances trains bein
abandoned great snow-storm prevaile
i'm Ontario during the same tima
South.