The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-23
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ant. W. Va
TUscoLA, Osceola and CharlevOlx counties,
in Michigan, voted for local option on the
14th, the majorities being !. 500. 1000 and
500 respectively.
In the Eleventh Michigan district tho
Congressional election on the 14th resulted
in favor Of Seymour Repl who defeated
Breen Democrat-Labor).
DAVID r LOCKE, editor OF the Blade, at
Toledo, O. and widely known a. "Petro-
leum v. Nasby." died at 6:35 on the morn
ing q the 18th. The immediate cause Of
his death was consumption of the lunga
Mr. Locke was born Septesnber 20. 1888, in
vastal, n Y. His father, Nathaniel Reed
Locke, was soldier In the war Of 1872, and
10 yet living, at the advanced age Of ninety
four years, near Toledo Mr. Locke leaves
. wife and three sons
THREE boys while skating on the D,s-
peres river, in south St Louis, on the
15h broke through the ice and were
drowned
AT Dell Rapids, D. T., IRE on the 18th
destroyed eleven buildings. including seven
stores and two hotelA
Wholesale paper dealers at Baltimore, Nd.
Or the 18th one Of the worst blixsards
ever experienced in Dakota prevailed
A DISPUTE having arisen over the birth
place Of General Phil sheridan, his mother
stated on the 18th that he was born In
Somerset, O., March 6, 1891
Al Wheeling, W. Va. . State League Of
Republican clubs was organized on the
16ShL
AT the session of the Wisconsin g. A r at
Milwaukee on the 18th, A. G. Weissert Of
that city, was elected Department Com
mander.
Iowa Republicans will meet In State con-
vention at Des Moines March n to elect
delegates to the National convention.
The West Virginia Republican State con-
vention. to elect delegates to the National
convention, viii bs held ct Fairmont
May 10
THE bank at Cisco, Tex, was entered BY
four men on the 18th. who took charge Of
the cashier and other officials, collected
Sc, 600 IN cash. then locked the officers in
the back yard and decamped
PRoHIBTTIoNIsTs of Nebraska met in State
convention on the 10th ct Lincoln and
elected delegates to the National conven-
tion at Indianapolis
On the 18th the Illinois e. A r., in ses-
sion at Springfield, elected Colonel Sexton,
Of Chicago, Department Commander.
A BOILER exploded on the 18th on plan-
tation near Bastrop. La, killing four men
and fatally injuring four otherx
ON the 18th Martin l. Scott was hanged
at Deer Lodge, N. T., for the murder of his
wife in fit OF drunken Jealousy last No
vember.
WILLIAM b TAscoTr was on the 18th
charged with being the murderer Of Amos
J. Smell, the Chicago millionaire, and = re-
ward of $4, 900 was offered for his capture
Tascott is the wayward son Of . prominent
Chicago business man.
PETER VANNIcE, eighty years Of age,
dropped dead OF heart disease on the 18th
at his house near New Haysville. Ind , and
his wife. aged eighty years, was 90 shocked
by his death that she fell de8d from the same
disease few hours afterwards
The steamer City Of Pekin arrived on tho
18th In San Francisco with smallpox on
board This was the fifth successive steamer
to arrive there with that disease
A FIRE 1t Oscala, Fla. burned . dozen
business houses aud residences on the 18th.
ONE year ago Daniel and John O'Day, OF
Jackson, Mich. were convicted in Tennes-
see Of counterfeiting, and sentenced to fif-
teen and ten years imprisonment re-
spectively. It was discovered on the 18th
that they were innocent of the crime, and
they were released