The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-25
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record OF the Week.


A burglar entered Mrs. Sealey
sprague's house, mt Rockville Center. l.. l.,
and demanded her money. while handing
him = pocket-book she shot him dead.
At trial OF the Haskell multicharse
gun at san ~ Hook, q shot wei. hing lf2
pounds was sent nearly four III los nj tho
rate OF eighteen hundred feet per second.
Rev. X. I. Jones, Of Ithaca, New
York, native of England. has been arrested
for illegal voting at tho Presidential election.
He was brough. across tho Atlantic when an
infant, and was never nataratizcd.
The Connellsvlle Coke Association,
Of pennsylvania, Las now clos d % per cent.
OF its ovens. Product Is selling ut $l.lO per
ton.
Joseph Herzog, o. Lancaster, Pa,
has in ten years committed forxeries aggre-
ratinx ST.. OOo The banks arc heavy losers
by hts operations.
On information furnished by an
anonymous .etter the sanitary authorities
Of New York d severed huge hoap. OF IN Id,
human skccton, in loft 1t No. II West
Third street.
The velocity Of the wind on Mount
Washington during last week cod snap, CT
cceded leo milos an hour AMI the mercury
was fro. On. The split thermometer marked
nearly SO below zero. Tho weather was IN
terseiy cod n New York and New England
The burning Of the Brooklyn IN. "
Orphan Asylum. the first rs'ports Of which
wer, conaneI t. q few lines, has dcveloped
into first class horror. There we're between
200 and 90 children n the III fated structure.
AMI 1t was Mt ilrst believed or at east the
public was lnade to believe-thst all OF them
hsd been rescued. A few hour. af.erward
= panS Of lahorers were set t. work
clearing away the debris. These workmeu
soon came uron tho charred remains Of
half u dozen children. Similar find, we're
made at intervals, until ;,nall, the burned
trunks Of twenty-five unfortunate little ones
had boon brought TO light. Several orphans
loss OF life will reach thirty or forty. L
would appear shat the institution was
little better than Q are-trap, and that
although t;,ero was large fire.
plug In the yard, there was mot
foot of hose about tho premises. For some
reason best known to themselves, the Sisters
in caarge have maintained = puzzling reti-
ccnce in regard to the origin OF the disaster
or to the possible number OF the lost. Much
prai- Q Is given to the heroic but unfortunate
sister Mary Josephine who. Ut the cost Of
her own life, saved, by her cooinoss, the bulk
OF the scholars in the building.
An explosion in Pratt's Astral Oil
Works, In the eastern part o. Brooklin, N.
T., kind cd q oonflagraion that ,lcstro sed
over half million dollars worth Ut prop
crty.
The Cable Railway Company, ct
New York, have issued $4,000 tonls axero-
eating l5,0oe, ooo. and TO secure the raymen,
Of the same have transferred oil Of their
property and franchises to the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company.
The New England Tobacco Growers
Association adopted memorial To Congress
asking tho abolition of internal revenue tar
on tobacco and CHARS, the retention OF duty
on imported wrappers, and declaring that
reciprocity treaties were OF doubtful utility.
A fire on Water street, New York.
Destroyed property belonging to Weston
fske and Owen Byrnc, valued at $4,000.
A banking house in New York took
u, 5o0.0oo per cent. bonds o: the Rock island
road, to run nifty years, at n figure above l0S.