The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-06-26
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

June q was the hottest day of the
| season in New York; the temperature in va
| rious parts of the city marked a temperature
from 95 TO 1903 degrees in the shade. A large
number of cases OF prostration by heat were
| rel orted-two Of them fatal.
A cable dispatch announces the death
of Alexander. Prince OF orange, hcir-ap-
parent To the throne of the Netherlands.
The deceased Prince was an Admiral III the
navy Of the Netherlands, a Major General in
the army, and the last male HEN OF 4 famous
race.
Atelegram from Mountainburg, Ark,
states that Sheriff c. T. Chandler, Of Linn
County, Kansas, who, with two deputies, had
been tracking Louis Wampler tthe fiend who
murdered the Anderson family of six per-
sons near Pleasanton, Kan, some weeks ago.
came upon wampler in the mountains near
that place. He fired two shots ut the Sheriff
and then fled. The pursuers gained upon
him, and when within forty yards Wamplcr
placed pistol at his own head and fired, and
died within a few minutes The body was
sent to Pleasanton.
A cable dispatch from Rome reports
the explosion of the powder mills at Pom
trcmoli, killing thirty men and wounding
seventeen others. Pontremoli is in the Prov
ince of Massa Carrara, at the southern de-
clivity of the Appenine range of mountains
and twenty.three miles northwest of Carrara.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
and his son have abandoned their proposed
trip to Constantinople through fear of dyna-
mite plots.
A sensational murder is reported at
Prague. A civil engineer had his head and
leg cut of, and they were carried from the
bedroom to the kitchen. Ills money and
other valuables were not touched.
BY the burning of the wholesale
bakery establishment of A. d. Hassman in
Williamsburg, N. Y, three fremen named
Henry Tyeck. George w. Haght, and stephen
Allen lost their lives by falling walls.
Canadian Indians on reserve near
Ba,tleford drove OF the Government officers
mounted police sent to the scene were met
with defiant acts.
The committee appointed to notify
Mr.. Blaine Of his nomination by the Repub-
| Iican National Convention for President
waited on him in a body at his home in Au
gusta, where Gen. Henderson, Chairman OF
| the committee, made the address of
| notification under an elm tree in the
grounds surrounding Mr.. Blaines residence.
| In reply Mr.. Blaine expressed the profound
| gratitude which he felt for the great honor
bestowed upon him, and promised q more for.
| NAL acceptance at a future time. After the
addresses the committee, with Mr.. Blaine,
| were entertained at luncheon at the house of
| Col. Csgood, u ncghbor OF Mr.. Blaine.
On June q, the Chair laid before the Sem
ate bill amending tho Thurman act relative to
the Pacific railroads. Mr.. Van wyck desired
| that this bill be referred to the Committee on
| Public Lands rather than to the Committee on
| Judiciary. 1t was with some surprise that he
| had for the first time learned from the public
| press that the judiciary Committee had resolved
not to act on any bin of this kind this session.
| Mr.. Hoar said the Senator from Nebraska was
| wholly mistaken fof course unintenti ,nally,
| as 10 the action of the Judiciary Committee.
| Mr.. Van Wyck insisted that for twenty years
| the railroads had controlled the Government,
as shown, in his opinion, by the operations of
| the Land Department, the opinions of the At
| torncy Generals. and some IL the opinions OF
| the Supreme Court. Mr.. Garland said the spe-
| cial matter referred to by the press differ-
| ent matter 10 that covered by the bill from the
| House. After some further discussion, Mr..
| Van Wyck withdrew his motion to refer the
| bill to the Committee on Public Lands, and
| II was referred TO the Committee on Ju-
| dietary. In the House. the electoral count
bill was taken up, and Mr. Hart addressed the
| house in favor Of the Senate measure Mr.. Par
| ker made constitutional argument against the
| Eaton bill. Mr.. Springer favored the Eaton
bill, asserting that IL safer 10 leave the deci-
| sion of disputed Presidential election to joint
| convention and the House than to a returning
| board or committee which might he provided
| In any State. Mr. Peters spoke In support 81
| the Senate bill. The previous question was or
| dered uron the bill and amendments, but No
| further action was taken