The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-12-13
arrest of William B. Tascott, the supposed
murderer Of her husband.

arrest Oh william b. laScOCt, tue supposed
murderer Of her husband.
IN Detroit on the 5th an engine collided
with u street-car, demolishing the car and
injuring ten persons five OF whom would
probably die.
AN incendiary fire destroyed FIVE acres
of sawed lumber in the yards of Woods,
jerks Il Co, at Cleveland, o., on the 5th.
A RoBBER stopped the stage from Men
docino, Cal. to Ingrams on the 5th and
secured the express box and two mail
sacks.
By the derailing of car on the 9th on
the Cairo Short Line near Coulterville,
ILL.,. three stockmen were killed.
SHIPMENTS Of iron ore from the Lake
Superior region during 1883 exceeded all
previous annual shipments from that dis
trict.
HENRY BLAcKMAS, convicted of the mur-
der of Stonewall Fondee, in Schley Coun-
ty, Ca, has been prepared for execution
four times, the date each time being put of
by new trials. He was to have been hanged
ON the 9th, but OIL account of new evidence
the Governor respited him until next
March.
Mrs. BARBAR, SMELL was burned to
death on the 9th at Lima q.
BURGLARS attempted to rob the Knob.
noster Mo- Bank on the 9th, but only
succeeded in getting away with s400 after
doing $500 worth of damage.
JOHN, William and Joseph Pavne. moon
sinners. were captured on the 7th at Cedar
Creek. W. Va, by large posse of revenue
officers and deputies.
AT Columbus, O., the joint convention
of miners developed into the National
Progressive Union Of Miners and Nine
I4aborers on the 1th. and officers were
elected, with John Mcbride. Of Ohio, as
president.
AT the session Of the American Forestry
Congress on the 9TH at Atlanta, Ga., Gov
ernor Beaver, OF Pennsylvania, was elected
president.
ADoLPHrs WHEELER and Sam Phifer,
colored murderers, were executed on the
7th at Yorkville, s. c. Both confessed
ther crimes on the gallows and acknowl.
edged the justice of the sentence.
SrITs were entered on the 7th by the
United States Government against various
corporations and individuals Of Eureka.
New, for amounts aggregating $4,000, 0OG
for cutting wood from unsurveyed Gov
ernment lands.
The official vote Of Colorado was de.
clared on the 7th as follows: Harrison,
80, 166; Cleveland, 81, 52; Prohibitions, 100;
Labor. l, 256 This shows an increase over
the vote Of 1884 of over e., 600
ABorT seventy Kansas sportsmen were
arrested on the 7th in the Indian Territory
by United States scouts for trespassing
In and near Tiffin, O., typhoid fever was
epidemic on the 1th. One man had lost his
wife, mother and two daughters. and an
other daughter was dying.
| FOREIGN IIlcENcE.
! HARRIS MYERS, a hosiery manufactures
at Montreal, fled to the United States on
| the 4th with go, 900 belonging to creditors.
! NUMEROUS arrests were made on the 4th
at Trieste, Austria, in connection with a
| revolutionary plot to kill Emperor Francis
! Joseph.
! AN attempt was made to blow up the
! registry office in Paris with dynamite
! bomb on the 9th.
| A FIRE burned forty two houses on the
5th at Isabella De Sagua, Cuba. rendering
one hundred families homeless.
| ON the 9Th the British steamer Bartle
| pools was wrecked at Egersand, Norway
| and only four Of her crew of twenty one
were saved.
/ The house of Michael Dwyer, three
| miles from Plymouth, Ont. was burned OF
| the 9th, and Mrs. Dwyer, her daughter ane
three grandchildren perished in the flames
| NEAR Quebec on the 9th three mel
named Fournia, father. son and nephew
were found dead in their boat, having diel
j from exposure.
! Dir. McBRIEN an Oshawa tOnt.) drug
gist and practitioner, absconded on the eth
| leaving debts amounting to $50, 600 and n,
! particular assets.
| GENERAL CAssoLA resigned the Minister
of War portfolio at Madrid on the 1th.
On the 7th Lord Sackville West, lat,
British Minister at Washington, arrived
! in London.
/ A SHOCK Of earthquake lasting nearl,
half a minute was felt on the 7th a
| Rimouski, Saint Flavia and Trois Pistoles
! in Canada.
! JosErH kARNEY and Charles Hansdor
were fatally burned on the eth at Toronto,
! Can, by the explosion of vessel full o.
molten resin.
! In various districts in Ireland, especial
/ ly in County Limerick, the prevailing dis
| tress among the agricultural population
was on the 1th said to be Of enormous pro
portions, and many laborers were demand
| ing means to emigrate to Buenos Ayres in
preference to the United States.
! ADvIcEs of the 7th from the City of Mex
! leo say that in that vicinity number o.
goats aud sheep had been frozen to death
LATER.
| The Central State Norm Il School at Lock
Haven, Pa, was totally destroyed by fire
on the afternoon OF the oh. One hun dret
boarding students were in the building a