The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-06-25
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and two other buildings ut Urbana, Ohio,
thirty.scven horses, some OF them Kentucky
thoroughbrcds, pcr:shing in the flames.
The remains Of Charles Luedeking, a
German Revolutions, OF Isis, have been
shipped from st. ioui, to the crematory at
Lancaster. Ia.
The Attorney General of Iowa has
decided that Mr. Cattell is State Auditor and
that the State Treasurer must pay warrants
drawn by him.
Mdlle Nevada was rendered an ova-
ton Mt San Francisco the ether night. Be
sides numerous floral gifts OF Il costly charac.
ter, her old schoolmates presented her with
q purse of saa,H0a in fye-dol.ar odd pieces.
She attempted to sing .'.iome, Sweet Home,'
but tears wclled into her eyes, and she fled
from the stage.
Miss May Simons, Of Buffalo, who was
visiting friends in Chicago, was arrested ut
the demand II State street shopkeeper for
attempting to s;cai i jersey, and was locked
up in police station With two disrcputablc
females. Tie mistake was speedily made ap-
parent in the courtroom.
j. Il. Mcs isker secured permit to
place two ADDITIONAL stories on his tbeater, al
u cost OF ssu9 g..
John Neil, a burglar lying in Cleve-
land Jail awaiting sentence to the peniten.
tiary. was married TO a servant who desired
something % worry about.
AT Muncie, mi. late at night, Olncy
Scott and William Iiaines went to the hen.
house o; Bishop Scott to l,lay joke by max
ing the chickens cac.,le. The owner of the
poultry Lad been lorewarnad and endeav.
orcd to rccipcocate .eod-naturedly by firing
an old hor-c-p.st vi the invaders. lie blazed
away into tie air. and Is now bowed down by
grief III having XII lei his friend Eaincs.
A Green Bay dispatch records the
death of Mrs. rink, widow o. the first Bap
list missionary in the Fox River valley.
Orville Cronkhite, veteran in the
insurance business in CHICAGO. and General
Anson stager. f.rmeriy one OF the General
Superintendonts OF the Western Union Tcle-
graph Company are chron!ced among the
recent deaths.
Lake men do not expect the resump-
ton OF navigation between the upper and
the lower lakes much before the LIST of June.
The ice III the straits OF Mackinac Is over
thirty feet in thickness.
A fire in the cooper-shop of the Ohio
Penitentiary ut Columbus caused a loss of
about slo,eoa.
An inquest was held at Chicago over
the remains OF the Iangham Hotel victims
Tine tasf imnnv wn = Snrh that tho 5nos he ~<,ld
not be attributed to criminal carelessnsss,
and averdict was rendered accordingly.
Five oil wells have this week been
completed ut Macksbnrg, Ohio two OF which
yield l5O barrels per day. Tho fourth iron
tank will be finished this week.
Eight deaths from smallpox are said
TO have occurred this week among the col
ored people at Mound City, Ill.
/. s. Hyatt, one of the inventors Of
celulcid, formerly Sheriff Of Henry County,
Illinois, recently died in Florida.
The wheat acreage in the southern
half Of Illinois is said not to be half what it
was in 1850. and the plant has suffered
seriously from frost.
Fourteen business buildings at Oak
land, Ind, valued At 100000, and the Miller
block at Valparaiso. worth about tho same
sum. were destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Sanford, Chicago was burned
to death by tho fall Of u hanging lamp under
which she was reading. She ran out to q
pool Of water In the yard, leaving trail or
hrc behind, aud soon succumbed to her In
jurics.
Judge Dickey has lately sold his
homestead on the blur at Ottawa, ILL.,, whore
he settled forty-six years ago, retaining the
family battle-ground containing the re-
mains Of Gen. W. II. 4. Wallace.
Ex-Gov. Thomas G. Fletcher, Of
Missouri, n prominent lawyer OF st. Louis,
has been missing from thnt city, and has
friends are unable to account for his mys-
tcrious and unacconntable absence from
homo.
indianapolis reports case Of blood
poisoning said to have resulted from vaccin.
alton with bovine virus.
Perry II. Smith, formerly Vice Presi.
dent of the Northwestern Road, died ut hie
residence in Chicago, Of congestion Of the
liver. For some years his health has been
extremely poor, and a conservator was ap
pointed for his estate.
Tho Court House at st. Joseph.
Mo-, was burned, with the court records and
law library. W. y. McMctt, Chief OF the
Fire Department. received fatal injuries.