The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-03-27
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and Hobokcn, employing 200 butchers, have
been forced to close on account OF the CON-
petition OF dressed beef from Chicago.
| Frank L. Chamberlain, of Cleveland,
has perfected a machine capable or charging
1850 shotyuns FER hour. company to
manufacture the invention has been formed
with capital Of $4,000.
In the case of o. A. Carpenter, the
Lincoln banker. tried for the murder of 2or,
Burns, the jury ut Petersburg ILL.,, r. tirnad
a verdict Of mot guilty" This was expected
Carpenter was approached, after the trial,
for nm interview. The only statement he had
10 make was: II am innocent. was at
| home the sunday night the murder was com.
| mittcd. Twas treated fairly by the press
Some papers excoriated me, but ! could not
blame them. do not care at present to talk
more about the case"
An Associated Press dispatch from
Neosho Falls, Kan, SAYS: "Thc veterinary
surgeons here investigating the cattle dis
case arc now positive that they have dlscov.
ere the source of the trouble, and all agree
that it is not epizootic aphtha, lacking many OF
the important symptoms Of that disease. 1t Is
not lack of care. neither is it alkali water. 1t
IS no contagious disease. DR.. Salmon says
that rs soon as he saw the cattle he thought
of crgot. and they proceeded to examine the
hay. This had not been done before. They
found il to contain large amount OF wild
rye which was full OF ereot. Tho surgeons
all say they never saw one-twentieth part so
;r, N rcc 1sl,~
Is that the ergot, by contracting the blood
vessels and otherwise retarding the circnla-
ton In the cxtrcmities, caused the feet to
free e. This ends the great scare.
Bishop H. H. kayanaugh, of An
chorage, Ky. onn of the ablest OF the college
Of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
south, died recently while on pastoral
visit TO Columbus. Miss. lie was aged SO
years. He had been minister of the Cos
pei for upward of sixty years. and was
ordained Bishop in 1854. lie had been
sick several weeks, and suffered in
tenscly. His last hour was peaceful:
Madame Anna Bishop, once famous on both
sides Of the Atlantic as an operate singer,
died OF apopIexy in New York. where for
many years she had lived in retirement. She
was born in London in lsl6: Godfrey Weitzel,
whom Gen. Butter promoted from Lieutenant
to Briyader General at New Orleans and
who since the war has been Lieutenant
Colonel in the Engineer Corps passed
away at New York. Other deaths:
George Fuller, a landscape and portrait
painter of Boston; Edward Il. watkinson,
President of the Connecticut Trust Company;
Count Adeibcrg, distinguished Russian
statesman, agcl n; Judge Thatcher, of the
Bacz. cx-President of Santo Domingo:
Willis 8. Webb, retired banker Of Indian
apolis: Mrs. Sally Talmadsc, the oldest lady in
Rockford: Miss Fannie Moshcr, a resident of
Dowagiac, Mich, for half q century; cx-Statc
Senator Nathan ". Bitcly, of Iawton, Mich.
cnc of the most prominent fruit-growcss in
the West; Admiral Ecssofoky. commander of
tic Russian squadron in the American
waters during the civil war; l.. l.. Warner.
mer> hant-phiianthropist, OF Louisville,
Ky; Charles Laughcimer, known as "Dick-
ems Dutchman." who had served fifty years
in a convict's cell nj Philadelphia; Col. Nor.
man Curtis, the oldest Freemason in Illinois,
at Rockford; DIR. Ezra Abbot, of Boston,
noted for his great Biblica, and historical
learning; Rev. Henry Morgan, OF Boston, for
twenty-five years the relentless enemy Of
gambling and the social evil
IL the House OF Representatives, March q,