The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-07
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Brooklyn, n. Y, Axel Paulsen
skated twenty-five miles in ! hour 8. min
utcs and II seconds, beating all previous
records.
Frederick l.. Anes is director in
fftytwo railway companies, Jay Gould IN
twenty-four, and Hugh J. Jcwctt in twenty
Ex-senator Dorsey, being interviewed
at Washington as to President Arthur's
chances for the Republican nomination at
Chicago, said that ninetenths of the poo
pie were against him tArthnr), and that his
chances of nomination were no better than
his tDorsey'sl own.
Farmers in the vicinity of Shabbona,
ILL.,, find ready market for seed corn Mt
from 81 to So per bushe
Well -borers near Urbana, ILL.,, struck
gas vein at depth of eighty feet. which
can be heard roaring at a distance of two
miles.
The Secretary of the Illinois Board
of Charities has teen collecting autographs
from theatrical companies, with which to
amnsc the insane patients.
A negro, named Sandy Robinson,
was lynchcd in Leon county, Tex, for the
murder Of Deputy Sheriff Lathrop.
Stages running each way between
Whitesboro and Gainesville, Tex, were
robbed by three men, who secured $500
At Lancaster, Tex, Robert Halsh,
o maniac, who had been kept confined ut his
brothers house for six years. escaped from
his room, secured knife in the kitchen, and
after a desperate conflict killed his brother
and made for the woods.
Washington dispatch: "The Randall
men are not pleased that Mr.. Morrison has
SO nearly completed his tariff measure, aud
that there Is probability that the subject will
soon come up for discussion. The Morrison
bill will provide for a general reduction of
20 per cent, but the silk and liquor sched-
ules will not be changed
Mr.. Denny, American consul Gen
cral Mt Shanghai, Is said TO have received
peremptory orders from Washington to rent
an Office building owned by George II. Sew
ard, at an extravagant price, and In conse-
quencc rendered his resignation and came
home. Representative Springer threatens to
pers in connection with the case.
Capt. Austin, an American marks
man, Is giving exhibitions Of his skill in Great
Britain. At Leicester he twice shot potato
from the head Of his daughter, but Mt the
third attempt the bali plowed the scalp, and
he was placed in arrest.
The chambers of agriculture in sew
eral counties of England have requested that
the importation of cattle be restricted, in
order to prevent the spread Of disease.
Gallmeyer, the singer, who has just
died Mt Vienna, left will directing that her
body be dissected i'm the death chamber and
then consigned to a paupcr's common grave
like that OF beggar. She wished that there
should be no flowers no service, and no
coffin.
William Meagle, witness in the
Phoenix park trials at Dublin, complains of
constant persecution and assaults ut the
hands of sympathizcrs with the assassins of
Cavcndish and Burke.
A recent dispatch from Tombstone,
Arizona, says: "A messenger has just ar
rived from Oposura, Sonora, and reports
that the Apaches are numbering and rayag.
ing that section. Four men have been killed
since Jan. rs. The savages are thought to
be a portion of Geronmo's band, for whom
Capt Rafferty,, with troops, is on the look
out"