The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-05-07

farewell sermol Is pastor OF the MUIR y
street Presbyterian Church New York.
WESTERN.
Az . north bound passenger train on
the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Rail-
road stopped for water Il Harrisburg, Ind.,
atout midnight . masked man, armed only
with green hickory club. entered the bag
gage car. Instantly he fractured the skuilo Of
the express messenger, George <. Davis. and
followed the act By shooting him in the head
with . revolver snatched from hi.
hand. The ba9gagc-man. Peter Web
Der, was forced to open the safe
from which about $4,000 was taken, and Va.
then given bullet in the left side or the
head. The robber pulled the bell-cord ant
made his escape rs the train Stacked up a
Bloomington. The first Information Of the
crime was given to the passengers By thu
wounded baggageman. Davis was mortalJ
wounded. Weber will recover.
George Mack, Q colored murderer,
was taken from the officers near South Bend
Kan. and. with rope about his neck, va.
dragged by . galloping hqDse into town
where lie was suspended to an awning II
front OF billiard saloon. One Of the mol
then sent . bullet through the hangina
corpse, and In fifteen minutes the Coroner
cut down the body.
A collision on the Milwaukee and st
Paul, between Forreston AMI Leaf River, 70
suited in tho killing OF Conductor Bromley,
Of Amboy, III.
Phillip Schlss, Terre Haute cloth
Tor, made IN 81 .nment. His liabilities arr
placed at slO),uOo. assets 100000.
State Veterinarian Paaren has quar-
antined al cattle In the towns OF St. Charles
and Geneva, ILL.,, owing 10 the prevalence O
pleuro-pneumonia.
F. F. Hardy, travelling salesman fol
the Detroit Stove Company. comm tied sui
eide In the Union Hotel, Galesburg. by shoot
ing: Edward Bushman. in New York, b.
hanging; Alice Gostel, Of Davenport, Ia, b.
poison, on Wabash train near Lafayette
Ind.
The Mormons gathered in every di
rect on in tah on the ct inst. to discus
their grievan> cs. John T. Cnine. Delegate ii
Congress, presided al the Tabernacle. In Sal
Lake and attributed the troubles OF tn,
Saints to vicious Federal o cials. An addr 8
10 he President AMI people of the Unite,
States was unanimously ado pted, den0uncini
the present Governor Of tho Territory -
petty tyrant and protest. ng against tn
breaking up Of famil, re ations formed pre-
vious TO the passag. II the Edmunds law.
Four m n were killed in battle Will
cattle thieves IN the He'd River district. In
dian Territory.
The corpse sent in trunk from Chi
csgo TO Pittsburgh has beer fully iIcntine
q that OF Pictro Coroso. . railroad laborel
Francesco Cor0s0, OF Chicago. states that hi
brother left his house. No. IS Tilden avenue
nj . o'clock on the ev, ming Of May l. wit
| over 500 In he possession. Within two an
half hours bis corpse was delivcrol at tn
railroad station. Nine Italians wcrc arrestc
In Chicago for connection with the mystery
and ono OF them confessed that he purchase
! the moncy-ordcr found on the corpse.
The Ioice State Leader, Des Nome
| (Democra,i J, has been sold to C. NJ. Ma
thews, Of Colorado. the consideration bein
1000.
Mayor Harrison, Of Chicago. liza
brought annther SUIT ainst the Inter a
newspaper, or pub hin. an objcctionabl
cartoon. pa ing his damages 1T s35,0OO.
SOUTHERN.
The capital OF West Virginia ha
been removed from Vince ins to Charl stor
A boiler-exploeion ct the Tremon
Hotel. In Galveston. Tex. shattered tn
building. demolished three houses, kille
four people outright, and badly wounds
several others.
Indian Commissioner Atkins vi
make tour several Indian agencies
the Northwest this summer. Secretar
Lamar is considering the idea Of going wit
him.
Exporters of bonded whisky are try
Ing to secure tho reversal Of the recer
Treasury Department ruling that goods :,
turned to this country wcro not exported
good faith and therefore are not omitted I
Warchousing privile res nor to leakage y
lowance from the time they were taken OF
Of bond.
Secretary Endicott denies that ther
has cen amy clash Of authority betwec
himself and Gen. sheridan.
The President has appointed f. ]
Hale, of North Carolina. {, be United STATE
Consul ut Manchester. Eng. vice A.
Shaw: John Goode of Virginia, to be Sole
tor General, vice Samuel +. Phillips, resiyl
Cd, and william ID. Mcrrick, of Maryland, ,
be IN Associate Iustic Q. the Supreme Coul
| OF the District o, Columbia, vice Andre
Yylie. resigned.
The Controller Of the Currenc
has app inted Kent X. Hayden. OF Omah,
10 be u Natoaal DanS Examiner. He wi
Nebraska. The President also aplointe
Hora;l0 d. Lowry 70 be snartermaster In l
Cni cd s Ates Marine Corps. with the ran
OF Ma or. aud Il .charl !. Colinm TO BE- 4
| sis,ant Quarter aS,c. with the RANK I
Captain Tho President app intei tho 10
lowing named Ire .dantial Postmaster,
John X. Iarshall. Fncihau.L Mimi
vic, 4. Iescao, John II. Golden Nil
onk, ILL.,. 60 NJ. A. CusL mr., rcsgnet
Henry \ i.owcll. Waterfowl, Wis
wee j. T. Moak co minis sicn expire 1; .Oh
b. arktn. tttsbursh. Pa. vice william
Nee cary. resigned, w. II t.rown LAX
Gcneva. VS., vie G. H. Noyes: Tomas
Seaman, VA sa~h, lnl., vice Daniel Sa ne, r
signed. The ccrctar; OF the s'ireasur
has appointed Thomas I. farraw, OF Sou,
Carolina. ind Atonso Dickson, or Ne
Jersey, To he chieis OF divisions In tho six,
Auditors olcc vice William II. Gunniso
| and Thomas Woods, suspended. John
Oborly has been appointed Indian In specte
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