The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-14
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The stage Of the Ohio River Mt Gin
cinnati, on the morning OF the nth inst, was
kiNt,-nsc feet Ave inches. still rising. ana
s,i raining. A Wheeling dispatch of the
nth reports the calamity there ~ general
and appalling. Dwelling houses many Of
them formerly costly and handsome resi-.
dcnces, have been carried away. overturned,
ar battered To pieces 10y Ice and drift,
the debris filling the streets. alleys
and yards being piled In many
places twenty Foe, high. When the
Relief Committee took food and clothing to
them they almost ha their clothing torn from
them by the starving inhabitants, everybody
crying for the first supply. Several steamers
arriving nj Wheeling wcre nrea upon. the
inhabitants fearing that the waves crcated
by the boats would complete the work ot tie.
s,ractien. An unknown women was drowned
by failing from secand-story window into
| the river. \ baby Of a family named
LASH on the island also fell into the water
and disappeared from sight. Neither body
has been recovered. Many narrow escapes
are reported, an doubtless several lives have
been los, no, yet discovered. Tim Mc,arty,
on the island, lost 81, $40 in gold In his house.
which was swept away. Many other large
sums Of money have bcen lost. The estimate
Of the tatal loss in this vicinity on both sides
ot the river Is Sd,0u0,OIn. Miss Clara Barton,
President NJ the American National Asso iii.
tion of The Red Cross, accompanied by DIR.
Hahhell, Special Field Agent of the associa.
tion. left Washington ON the nth inst. for the
scenes Of the floods, She will 80 first Ia
pittsburgh and follow the ohio River down,
visiting such places as have suffered. Miss
Rartoa requests that He'd Cross societies
North will, until further notice. forward sup
plies Ia Cincinnati as the central point OF dis.
trihutlon, The Governor Of West Virginia
has telegraphci the Congressional delegation
from that State that the work of relief for
Sl,VNO,o oV.
Detective Giles Brown. who was shot
near Horton, Mich, is positive that Judd
Crouch WAS the assassin. and Crouch aud his
hired man. named Mc,mllum. we're taken
trum their residence and lodged In Jail M
jackson, hut were soaa released. Crouch
claims tina, he can establish an ali,i. The
people In tho ais,ric, ARE intensely excited.
A hand of 500 Indians recently at
tackled and murdered mos, al the prsncipa.
inhabitants of omitlan, in one of the south.
ernma>t provinces Of Mexico, The stores
and dwellings were p,undcrca and the
women and children subjected IN brutal out
raves, 4 larsc forcc Of Mexican soldiers
has heen dispatched IL 1acll the oa,ragcs.
An attempt of civil force n put down the
revolutionary mob WAS defeated with loss
Of twenty-five men killed
A Chinaman who has re sided in New
York Tor several years, received an English
eaacasicn, and Joined IN evangelical church.
was refused naturalization papers ON a.
coan, OF tho Federal restriction law,
II is reported that Gen Grant is
suffering from kidney and liver troubles
owing II the confinement forced on him
through the injury tn his hip and thigh, His
physicians seem Ia regard the complications
as rather serious,
Cetewase is again reported dead
this time from hear, disease.
The Parnellites are making poor
show in the House OF Commons. rarnel. so
far, has ncen able To coun, only twenty-five
followers.
James o'kelly, the Egyptian CORE.
spon,ient OF the London Daiis N,us. for whose
safety fears have been expressed has been
heard from in \ letter dated AT As.ioot, Jan. !
Bradlaugh has been defeated in his
appeal tn the Coar, OF Queens Bench against
the Sergeant, ai-Arms OF the House Of Conn
mons. That officcr in obesing the orders of
the House, removed the atheist header from
the floor. and Bradlauyh brought incfe stual
suit.