The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-10-22


convalescent.
WESTERN.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
decided that . wife ID entitled to sue for ALI
mony. even though the husband had been
granted decree Of divorce.
Austin J. Doyle, Chief Of Police Of
Chicago, has resigned.
Gen. Howard has ordered the re-
moval Of the troops from the coal mines in
wyoming where the Chinese laborers were
slaughtered.
A refugee from Montreal has spread
the smallpox at Marinette, Wis, where
twenty cases now exist and four deaths have
occurred.
II. w. Shaw, known to fame as "Josh
Billinss" died at Monterey, CAL, Of apo
plexy.
Charles Mitchell, the pugilist, and
william Muldoon, the wrestler, rowed boat
race ct Dubuque, Muldoon winning BY three
lengths. A large amount changed hands on
the result.
John w. Coffee was hanged az
Crawfordsville, Ind, for the murder Of .
man named McMullen and his wife In Jan.
uary last, the house being burned after
ward to hide the crime. He made three
confessions during his imprisonment, impli-
eating at various times several other par
ties in the pHpetration OF the deed.
Coffee was utterly Frustrated. and had to DO
carried to the scafold. Before the drop fell
he made . short speech. The rope broke
twice, but was finally adjusted satisfactorily
and in twelve minutes life was extinct.
The farmhouse Of Peter Hingin,
near Waterloo, Neb.. was. the scene of o
double murder and suicide, the perpetrator
being the younger brother Of Hingin. who
set nre to the building as he lay dying
Lead ore in vast quantities has been
discovered at Montfort, Wis.
Eighteen lumber mills at Menomo-
nee, wis.,, are reported to have shut down tor
the second time this season on account Of
the conduct Of the mon employed there. It
IL understood that II they remain closed the
remainder Of the season. which is probable,
| the fact win lessen the shipments of lumber
| By some sixty million feet, and parties in the
trade say that such diminution Of the sup
pay would probably cause an advance Of 81
20 g per thousand In the price Of lumber in
| the Chicago market.
The most horrible murder that ever
disgraced woodbury. County, Iowa, oc
CURED in weN Fork Township. Says Z
Sioux City dispaten: James and John John
ON, brothers, lived together on farm
John vss marrtsd, and james is single
man sbozs - years old. They hsd = lsusa
raising, after which ! key Of beer wal
tapped. The two brothers Quarreled. and
| james was ordered from the house. He
went out on the prairie and remained until
about II o'clock. He then returned to the
house and found his brother John asleep IN
bed. Taking an old army ride, he loaded it
placed tho muzzle to johns head, and blew his
brains out. Not satisfied with his fiendish
work, q: loaded his gun again and fired an
other charge into his bro...' : Aoa1' eoAs'ot
ing the brains and blood over the beu ~.
walls OF the room. The wife Of the muir
dered man stood by and saw the crime, agree
ing that it was the proper thing to do. She
has not been arrested
Near Ozawkie, Kan, q farmer and
his family were driving homeward with 6
package OF ten pounds Of powder in thu
wagon. His wife attempted to light pipe
ana dropped Q spark. The explosion which
followed killed the woman and fatally in
3ured the other three persons.
The sum of $3.50, 900 has been sub
scribed by citizens of Minneapolis for til.
establishment Of an annual exposition.
Dingham's planing-mill, at Detroit
was burned, loss $4,000: also Mitchell 4
Sons feed-mills loss Sl5o,ooo.
The bridge across the Colorado
River at Yuma, Arizona, was burned; los,
100000. and cause unknown. A prairie firt
In Dakota destroyed $50 head Of sheep 70,
one farmer.
The United States Grand Jury, q
Blackfoot Falls. Idaho, indicted twenty-nins
Aormons for unlawful cohabitation.
The Chicago exposition, which closed
last week. had an average. paying attendant,
OF eight thousand pers0ns daily, and the re
ceipts wore $4,000 moro than those Of an,
former year.
| Frederick Greiner was hanged o.
Franklin. Ohio. for tho murder Of his sweet
heart He grew impatient at waiting ans
sent for the Sheriff, and when the time cam,
stepped on tho scafold with . smile ant
smoking cigar. He looked as II he has
prepared for an evening party.