The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-02-28
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Union Hall Block and five frame
buildings at Jackson, Mich, were destroyed
by IRE. One corpse was taken from the
ruins, and four persons were fatally injured.
The loss Is estimated at sl.5,0Oo
A passenger train on the Hannibal
and st. Joseph Railroad crashed through a
bridge over the Charlton River, killing boy
and wounding score of passengers, three
being so seriously injured they we're not ex-
pccted to live.
AT Cincinnati Allen ingalls, and Ben
Johnson. negroes, confessed to numbering
the Taylor family at Avondale and immed-
ately delivering the corpses to the Ohio Mcd-
cal College. Ingalls, also stated that he was a
professional resurrcctionist. Al the funeral
of the three murdered negroes lynchng was
advocated by two preachers, the sentiment
evoking great applause.
w. b. Cash, Of Cheraw, $. c.. son
OF the famous duelist, killed Ma, shall Rich
ards and MORALLY wounded James Coward.
Ben Thompson, the famous desperate
of Austin, Tex, held n passenger train at the
city limits with revolver for some minutes,
cuot u tHIouSu uH OfSaIl beItlg RFOuuu
near his residence and fired salute of six
shots after Gov. Ireland AMI PARTY at the
rock quarry.
A negro boy Is years old, arrested
in Franklin, La, for criminal assault upon
white girl, was taken from jail and hanged
by mob.
Before the Copiah Investigating Com
mittee ut New orleans, J. II. Thompson testi-
fed that the Matthews family had been .
bad lot for forty-five years; that they had
harborcd thieves; that Print Matthews, who
was killed on election day, was q menace to
the peace Of the community, aud
that he was always irritating the negroes
and melting them to bad acts against
the whites. The Copiah people were peacca-
BILE. They had been patient under a bad
government. Elcctioneering with guns was
confined to no single party. W. w. Cook,
ex-Sherif of Copiah County. corroborated
Thompson. Matthews had arrayed the ne
groes against the whites. There could be no
quiet while party lines were drawn on basis
of race and color. The negroes were used
by INSCRIPTIONS leaders. Several other wit
nesses testified to the same purport
A call has been issued for a national
convention Of wood-growers, TO be held in
Chicago, May :.
The English press unites in con-
dcmning Bismarck's letter on the Lasker
resolution.
The Iowa Senate has passed bill to
impose license on dogs, Oh the representa-.
ton of farmers that sheep-raising had ma
terially declined throughout the State.
The suppressed papers in the star
route cases have been furnished to the Post
Office Committee Of the House of Representa-
tives. They show that stephen d. Ekins, of
New Mexico shared the profits of the kerens
combination that T.. ]. Ellis, Congress-
man from Louisiana, was paid dividends and
received fee for his influence with the POST
Office Department, and that Delegate kidder,
of Montana, sold himself to the Dorsey COM
bination. Senators Plumb and Maxcy are
involved by documents connected with the
Las Vegas and Las Cruces routes. 4. NJ.
Gibson, q special counsel of tho Department
OF Justice, Is charged with accepting 81, 500
for services rendered the accused.