The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-11-20

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Matthew Arnold is about to make
another American tour.
Alfred Edmond Brehan, a celebrat-
oil German traveller, Is dead.
Drunkenness is greatly on the i'll
crease in England, especially among women.
The recent death of Baron Alexander
Won Ste:gitz. the head Of the Bank OF st.
Petersburg, is chronic'cd. He left So, oo0,-
geo TO re'atires and employees, including
the gift Of the reterhof Railway to Iaron
Fchcisen.
Slow progress attends the Nile ex-
petition, the Canadian boatmen having en-
pcricnccl great di iculty in ascending the
cafaracts,
In the cholera plague the municipal
authorities In Paris are glad to avail them.
selves Of the services OF the hitherto malignel
Sisters of Mercy. They arc to be seen wher-
ever the disease appears.
The American and English residents of
Paris have associated to assist their country
men, AMI for the establishing of soup kitch-
ems. they say there Is no need Of fear from
the cholera, and in a manifesto advise only
the weak, incorporate and nervous to leave
the city.
Twenty-Five leading business houses
at Goldsboro, N. C., were wiped out by fire,
causing n loss Of S25a,o0o. The fire resulted
from n number of Toys smoking cigarettes
near a lot of cotton.
When leaving the courtroom at
| Dallas, Tcx., lawyer named Frank l..
hba1 I'm hn hor bv,
politician named Fred Cullen. 1t appears
that The latter was an unwilling witness in a
murder trial.
j. Hadeker & Son, merchants. Can
ton, Miss, failed, with liabilities amounting
TO $4,000.
A fire at Petersburg, Va, destroyed
i,so0,o 600 pounds OF sumac.
The mill and building of the Eureka
Cotton Seed OH Company ut Arkansas ,ity,
Ark, were burned. Estimated loss, s200, O0o
partially insured.
Meyers Il Cohen, dealers in cloaks,
| New York, have made an assignment, with
| preferences amounting to S39, 900.
After n strike of nine months, the
coal miners of the Mononyahcla valley,
hungry and half naked. are resumny work
at the old rates There are sixty or more
still in jail in Washington County.
The entire business portion Of HUI
ron, Kan. was reduced to ashes, the loss be-
ing $4,000.
Arrangements have been concluded
between Schaefcr and Slosson for two billiard
matches i'm Chicago in January.
Two tramps entered the house of q
farmer named Danlon, at Desplaincs, Cook
County, dubbed his wife to death, aud ia
| tally injured the farmer himself Robbery
was undoubtedly the miscreauts' motive. but
all they secured was So. owing to the
| meager description of their persons, no ar
rests have been or arc likely to fe made.
The Office of the Texas Express
| Company at Bryan, Tex, was burglarized
of sl,,s5o. The robbers esea,ed.
The explosion of barrel containing
resin and turrentine. at No. loa Quincy
street Chicago, severely burned Adam and
Runncli poale, James Daley. Eddie and
Maggie Burke. Anna Ward. and steire Bas-
sett, children living in the neighborhood.
| They were attempting To make bonfire of
the barrel. and some Of them, IL is thought,
will die from their injuries.
A Halifax N. S. special reports that
while ii.e-boat with crew of eleven wreck
ers, from tho steamer Invcralt, stranded on
pctau Island. was returning to shore, dur
| ing northerly gale, the craft was capsized
| and ci2h, OF the party drowned. A man
from shore, putting of in dory TO attempt
| the rescue OF the others who were cling
ing tn the upturnea toat, lost an oar. drifted
/ to sea, and was lost