The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-18

William Montgomery. of Christian
County, ILL.,, a member OF the family invo we'd
ia the outrage on Miss Emma Bond, has been
. mortgaged horse.
A dispatch from Daggett, CAL, says
= mob OF twenty men surrounded
the officers in charge of william
Pitts, charged with having dubbed Jo-
siah o. Harris TO death with q wagon-spoke
on the night OF the 5th inst. The mob told
the officers to keep perfectly quiet and there
would be no iuss. They then marched Pitts
to the outskirts OF the town, put . rope
around his neck, and threw the other end
over tie cross-arm OF a telegraph pole, and
ho.stcd him up. He was dead In few min
utes. Pitts was q deserter from the United
States army.
Charles Stevens, alias Omaha
Charley" q desperate, was taken from jail
At Maryvillc, Mo-, by a mob, and hanged to
the railway bridge. In the skirmish between
the Sheriff and his deputies and the lynchers,
one Of the latter was dangerously wounded.
In front of the new City Hall at San
Francisco, Daniel Kennedy was killed by his
wife with revolver.
Reuben r. Springer, the Cincinnati
philanthropst died suddenly at his house in
that city.
Henry Bells, residing at South Bend,
Ind, undertook to break malarial fever ny
starving himself. He lived on water alone
for thirts-four days, and became SO faint
HhoH hn lid, e.
beef tea.
Such is the excitement at Redfield.
Dakota, In regard to the location OF the
county seat, that Gov. Pierce has sent thither
. militia company from Fargo, and arranged
to forward regulars from Fort sully.
The Federal Grand jury at Chicago
found indictments against Joseph c. Mackin,
Arthur Gleason, and Henry Biehl for COM
plicity In the election frauds attempted in
the Eighteenth Ward OF that city, and each
gave bail. Indictments had been previously
returned against the judges and clerks OF
the election precinct In which the frauds
were perpetrated.
Gen. Brisbin prints letter in Mon
tana newspaper declaring free cattle ranges
no longer practicable, and advocating Texas
cathedral. He states that one-sixth of the
herds west Ct the Missouri river are con-
trolled by En2lishmen. who get free grass
and drive citizens out Of the bushes
Fred Baignee, having been Tilted by
his inamorata, hanged himself in the Court
House tower at Peru, Ind. using the bell
rope to help him into eternity.
Neil Mckeague, who gained noto-
riety in connection with the murder of
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson, near Chicago, last
spring, has Just been sentenced at St.
GATHERINGS, Ontario to six months imprison-
ment Mt hard labor for assaulting clairyoy-
ant, who revealed some unpleasant things
In his past life.
Orrin A. Carpenter, who was &C.
quilted of the murder of Zura Burns, at
Lincoln, ILL.,, has fled from that place toayod
assassination by the girls father. His once
ample fortune has shrunk to quarter Sec
ton Of farming land.
The sudden breaking ont OF fire in
Gray, Toynton 4 fox's candy factory at
Detroit caused the girls employed in the
second story TO rush for the FIRE escape, I'm
descending which one young woman fell and
was sill htly hurt Three girls were seen at
q window, but a sudden burst uf the flames
drove them back, aud they were burned 10
death