The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-10-07
EVENTS uF THE WEEK.
Domestic News.

There were 25j failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ending Oct /, against 156 ia the pre-
ceding week. w. H. Parting on was ar
rested In Omaha Oct. l, charged with being
fugitive from Justice. He is wanted for
emb zz'ement of county funds in the sum
Of 100000 at Evergreen, Ala. An exten-
sve ca in the river basin occurred Oct.
l, at Plaquemine, ITO miles abova New Or
leans, in the Mississippi, which carried into
the river more than four acres OF land,
causing the des ruction Of property be-
longing to several people. The threatened
strike Of the brakemen on the New York,
PennsyIv vania Il Onio rairoad Is believed
to have been avertad, temporarily 1T least.
A movement is on foot 10 organ - /. ma
has its movement in Pittsburg and will be
confined to the East. The III q xbificens pro-
cessiOn of the wbeelmen At st. Louis, Get.
/, is said 10 Rave besn enc Of the finest
sights of the kind ever seen in this coun-
try. A l7-yeaT old boy shot his playmate.
= girl II II and blew his own brains out.
near Waterloo. I.i., b.c inae she did not
love him. :. mon in St.elvtile, Mo-, .ung
up T. r. Wallace, charged with the murder
OF The Logan family, but cat down " hen
half deaA anu allowed tire law TO take lis
course. BrHdstreet's business review shows
satisfactory increase in the general vol
ume OF business Throughout the country.
Parties y ho nave visited Ell Covote last
battle field III Mexico report fading several
bodies killed whites, and identified the
body Of the rebel. The Rochester iumbier
Co. will divide among their employees Il
por,ioa OF their profits at the end OF the
term teginning Oct. 4. 1856, ard concluding
Oct. IL, 1851. The Chicago packing houses
.t is rumored, wilt shut do wn until tn. 5 or
1U-nour day question Is settled The pub
lie aebt statement shows reduction OF
-1O.631 0l3 for the mouth If September.
The ru,.ior that Senator Mcpherson was o
succeed Secretary Manning is denied, as
Mahning's health Is restored ind he viii re-
turn TO he cabinet. Tie Uni.sd States
treasurer has issurd a circular 10 the effect
that lii order TO supply The demand for 81
notes he would in sue them iu suns of 81 OoO
Lo each bank on demand. Commissioner
Coleman mas received report from the
expert ut TO Virginia 10 Inspect the sick
cattle from Chicago who says the disease
is Texas fever anu not plenro-pnaum MIA.
A committee of the Union Veterans union
called upon the pubic printer at Washing
ton III benalf of th' ir comrades who had
been disc arged from the government
printing e. Mr.. Benedict ssured them
hat the alon soldiers in his office need
lot fear d.schnrse il com.,e ent ani atten-
tive 10 business. dispatch from o tawa,
ILL.,, conveys The Inform .tion that the SUI
preme court has denied the application Of
Attorney Richberg for the release nf Joseph
Chesterfield Mackln from the Joliet peni-
roniiarv Oh writ of haheas corpus At
N.w York, Driscoll, the leader of the
..Whyo" gang, was found guilty of mur,ie,
in the first degree, he having killed his
mistress, Betsy Gerrity,.in an f E,st side
tenement some months agn Andrew Lucas,
cOlOred, died at Bradford, Oat., Thursday
morning at the supposed age Of l2s years.
he was born in slavery at tennessee, and
was Gen. Jackson's sUvant.