The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-05-01
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is estimated that some $4,000
animals, including thoroughbred bulls, stall.
lions, and young cattle, will be shipped over
the Northern Pacific Road to the Montana
ranges this season.
The steamer Grand Pacific, in pass
ing through the drawbridge at Burlington,
Iowa, struck the pier, tearing hole in her
hull, and sunk in twenty feet Of water. She
is valued At $4,000, and will likely prove a
total loss. No lives were lost.
News comes from Fort Wingate of q
serious Indian uprising on tho tie rescrva.
ton. A battle between Utes and ranchers
resulted in the repulse of the Indians, with
several killed and wounded.
At Hot Springs, Ark, the jury in
the trial of S. A. Doran and Ave confcderates
for murder in the irst degree in the killing
Of Frank Hall, an innocent party, in the
tragedy of Feb. o, returned a verdict of not
guilty. The same parties will be tried for
murder in the first degree in the killing of
John Flynn.
Near Audubon, Iowa, an old man by
the name OF Hiram Jefferson was taken out
of his bed by three men, and after bein 6
dragged by the men about 300 feet was hung
to the limb Of q tree.
A New Orleans dispatch says that
returns of the recent State election in
Louisiana, mainly ofiicial, from all the
parishes but five, with estimates for these,
give the total vote Of the State as lee. 03s,
being the largest cast since the exciting
campaign of 1875. II stands divided be.
tween the two parties as follows: Demo-
Gratis, s5,l0s; Republicans, 42,931-a Demo-
cratic majority Of 1926. The Legis-
lature will stand: Senate-Democrats, 80:
Independent, 1; Republicans, 5; a Democratic
loss of .. House-Democrats So; Independ-
ent Democrats, o: Republicans, 10; the He
publicans losing l seat. The first amend
ment to the State Constitution is carried.
This amendment provides that the interest
on the State bonds which had been fixed by
the constitution at per cent. for fifteen
years, from Jan. l, 1885, and thereafter, shall
be raised to per cent. from Jan. !. 1885 for
the whole term of thirty years. This Is be-
lieved to be the first instance in which a
State by tho vote of the people, raised the
interest on its public debt
A band Of fifty-three Haytians landed
in Cuba to reinforce Gen. Aguero.
Twenty persons were killed by the
railway accident near Ciudad, Spain.
The French Government is prepar-
ing TO reduce its squadron in Chinese waters.
Herr Kaiser, a member of the Ger
man Reichstag, who was expelled from Bres-
lau, has asked permission to return to adjust
some family affairs, but has been refused.
Republican uprisings are threatened
in Catalonia, Valencia, and the South of
Spain generally.
The tunnel under the river Mersey,
connecting the cities of Liverpool and Dir
kcnhead, will be formally opened to traffic
June IA.
Gladstone is being called "the
sphinx" in Parliament. His words have been
so vague and mysterious that he is badgered
with merciless iteration by the Tories, and
the people begin to say that this thing cannot
go on much longer.
1t is reported that Mr.. James J.
O'Kclly, member Of Parliament for Roscom-
mon, Ireland. who went to the Soudan about
six months ago as correspondent for the
London Daily NeTs, has been arrested by
the Egyptian authorities on the charge Of
having given aid and advice to the Mahdi
Suspicious documents were found with him,
among them letters from Frenchmen to the
False Prophet
THERE was no session of the Senate on
April %. The HOUSE Of Representatives passe d
the free ship bill with IN amendment provid-
Ing that any American citizen may import free
Of duty iron or steel steamships OF not less than
four thousand tons measurment
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