The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Hog cholera is causing considerable
damage to farmers In Champaign County,
Illinois, and In tho vicinity OF Easton, Pa.
Louis &. Shafer, proprietor of two
billiard halls IN baltimore. was run over and
killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train.
The extensive snuff factory Of A. 7.
Campbell &C., in the suburbs OF Petersburg.
Va, valued at 100000 was destroyed by fire.
At Livingston, Wis, the safe of John
Allen was broken into aud robbed OF money
and securities amounting 10 Ss3,0,o
Since Jan. / the Union Pacific has
sold i,:ss,.ss acres of land, obtaining thcrc.
for Ss.alo,las against ,aa.aii acres and
S,sii,s;a for the corresponding period oil
1883.
Ex.Gos. st. John, Prohibition candi.
date, In n letter just issued, declares that he
will not retire from the canvass.
Tho Prohibition State Central Com
mittcc OF Kansas have put L. II. Phillips at
the head of their State ticket, In place OF A.
h. Jett,nore, who declined the nomination
for Governor.
A brigade Of the French army in
Africa, II is reported, Is to he sent to Ton.
quin to rc-enforce the army there.
Catania has been visited by another
earthquake. thirty persons hcng killed.
Spies report that the Mahdi is send.
ing two large armies to attack Dongola- -one
coming across the desert and the other along
] the Nile, Native merchants state that Col
+ Il ~ ~.
Gen. Wolseley complains to the Brit.
ish War ONCE that his advance has been par
! alyxcd by the failure OF the commissariat and
/ transport service.
| As a result OF consultations among
tho English Conservatives II has been decid
cd to reject the distribution scheme, to main
/ tain opposition 10 the franchise hill. aud try
10 fo'cc dissolution Of Parliament.
A duel between Lavier, editor of thu
National Retae, brussels, and Gautier. of tn,
Ndtianale, of Paris, was fought In Belgium
the weapons being rapicrs. Iasicr receive,
n serious wound IN the breast.
Eleven pupils of the School of Agri
culture u, Bordeaux have died from the effect,
OF eating mushrooms gathered in woo'
near by
The International Electrical Exhibi
ton n, Philadelphia closed last week. Tn.
not profits of the affair were ahou, $50. 600
The New Haven Morning Ners an
! nounccs that prcsiden, Theodore woolsc,
has resigned from Yale College, the reason
! assigned being his advanced years.
! Joe Buzzard and gang, the terror oil
] Pennsylvania towns, were released from
jail ut Ephrata, and celebrated the event h,
| committing several daring robberies, The.
/ were pursued, buy escaped.
| In the cholera infected districts oi
! Italy there were 30 fresh cases aud IL;
deaths ON thu 18th inst. The spanish osctt,l
! Gas.t'e announces the cholera epidemic
ended in Spain.
| The contest for tho championship
/ between tho baseball clubs composing thu
/ National League has ended. and the Provi
dcncc Club will fly the pennant for the mex
year. Tho following Ia the record OF tn,
games won by the several clubs: Provi
dcnee, sa. Boston, -; buffalo, ~. Chicago
g. New York, ~. Philadelphia, ~
Cleveland, II; aud Detroit, -. The Metro
politan Club, Of New York, has won tn,
championship of the American Association
The record OF the games won is rs follows
Metropolitan, Is; Louisville and Cincinnati
% cachr Columbus, IL; -. Louis, 80; Bait
mere, 81: Athletic, -; Toledo, Al: Brookiyr
81. Pittsburgh, 81: indianapolis, 81; an
Virginia, -.