The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-11-06
WESTERN.

Lake underwriters are suffering large
over the inland seas recently. The large
iron steamship Scotia. valued at 500. 900. is
total wreck on Lake Superior. Several
vessels Of the Chicago grain feet have been
wrecked.
The FIRE in the Calumet and Hecla
mine has been extinguishcd and work has
been resumed.
A. Jeffrey, of Hallville, ILL.,, has en-
tered for the Chicago fat-stock show IA hog
said to weigh l,4o0 pounds.
Hogs are dying by the hundred in
Sangamon and Goose Creek Townships,
Champaign County, Illinois, of cholera.
A majority of the Ohio Supreme
Court rendered q decision that tho Scott
liquor tax statute 10 unconstitutional and
void.
An assignment has been made by H.
Lyon 4 Son, dry goods, furnishings, and no.
tions, at St. Louis. the liabilities amounting
to $4,000, with assets reported at $4,000.
Three masked men bound James
Grain In his house. near Brookston, Ind, and
maltrcated him when he refused to disclose
where his money was concealed. They found
$500, but 81, 200, hidden In secret place, es.
capped their clutches.
Portland (Ore.) dispatch: Two In
dams are reported killed at Long Creek,
Grant County, by party of unknown
whites. The band had campcd on the stream
for the purpose OF hunting and fishing. and
the whites crept within rine.rangc and fred
into their camp, killing two braves, and
made their escape. 1t Ia said these Indians
took an active part In the recent Bannock
war, and committed several outrages and
murders among the whites. In that county
hatred Of the Indians Is intense. The matter
10 to be investigated. as trouble Is feared,
and an Indian outbreak Of serious proper.
tons 10 thought very probable.
A six-story building on the corner of
Michigan street and La Sale avenue, Chi.
cago, owned by Charles E. Culver and occu-
pied By several manufacturing firms, was
destroyed by fire. the loss being 500, 900.
James Carr, foreman of cigarbox manu-
factory, conducted thirty of his employees to
the nre-escape. and lost his life by falling
from window-sill.
Denver (Colo.) telegram: "Rumors
have reached here of the lynching, by yigi
lants, OF . gang OF seventeen cattle-thieves,
captured while in camp on Rock Greek, in
the Gore range of mountains. twenty OF
thirty miles west OF Georgetown. No par
ticulars are at present obtanable. The re-
port Is thought to be exaggerated"
&. d. Cobbitt's Peoples Bank, al
Canton, H., failed for 100000. The asset:
are placed at $4,000.
Owing to internal dissensions. the
Ohio State Dental Association, which has
been in existence since 1856, disbanded al
Columbus, after a two.days' session.
Lena Haberland, aged 10, died at ST.
Louis of trichiniass, the muscles and ,Issue:
OF her body being found infested with pork
parasites. Her little brother is I'll from tho
same malady, and her mother, who passed
away month ago, IL believed 10 have died
Of the disease.
r. Power Palmer, connected with al
insurance as ency in Chicago poisoned him
self in hotel with laudanum, evidently OF
account of poor health.
+. ]. Moses, formerly Governor o
South Carolina, having been jailed a. DE
troit for swindl ng IA clergy man, nearly sue
ceedea In hanging himself in his cell. wheI
cut down he was black In the face, aud ha,
lost consciousness. TN recovering be wa
sentenced To ninety days in the House q
Correction.
An explosion in the gas-works n
Milwaukee. caused 10y stoppage in a PIP
leading to the purifiers, inflicted damag
amounting 10 $4,000.
Two men were killed at Duluth b.
falling from scafold On the side OF MI eli
yator loo feet high.
The Federal Grand Jury at CinciI
natl has indicted Police Lieutenants Mieha.
Mullen and John Burke and patrolmen kea
ing and Cunningham for preventing part
of eolored men from voting, At the recel
election, by locking them in the station hous
all day.
The Presbyterian Synod OF Ohio
Ia session al Cincinnati, deplored the dss
GRAFTON of the Sabbath, and favored prohtb
ton of the manufacture and sale Of intoa
eating liquors