The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-09-27

towns In Georgia An hour before the nrSO
shock there was brilliant meteoric dis
play, the stars in the western sky leaping
like balls of fire from place to place
THE Society Of the Army Of the Cumber-
land began Its nineteenth annual reunion
in Chicago on the 10Th.
AT the nineteenth. annual reunion a. the
National association Of cx Prisoners Of War
at Indianapolis on the 18th Thomas N. Nc
Kee, of Washington, d. c., was elected
president for the ensuing year.
On the 10Th Mrs Martin, of Huntingburg,
Ind, convicted of infanticide, was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
In a quarrel over the rent Of q house on
the 10th between two farmers living near
Muncie, Ind. jackson Hunter shot at Mr..
Fleming, missing him, but killing his son.
FROM thirteen Western States, repre-
senting seventy-seven per cent. of the
crop, estimates on the Goth indicated
total production Of 2,Ol5, 600 600 bushels Of
corn this season, or $50, 100000 bushels
more than the 1887 crop.
SEVERAL cases Of yellow fever developed
on the Goth at Decatur, Ala, causing great
excitement. Stores were being closed,
and the people were fleeing from the town.
jackson, Miss
On the 10th the Society Of the Army Of
the Cumberland in session at Chicago
elected General W. s. Rosecrans president
and adjourned to meet in Chattanooga,
Tenn, next year.
The total salmon pack in Alaska the
past season was seven thousand cases.
The winter was setting in at Silver Bow
basin, and mining operations had been
suspended. A free gold deposit, fifteen
feet in width, had been developed at
Berner bay.
THE following were on the 10Th named
for congressman: Michigan, Fourth dis.
trict, e.. L. Yaples (Dem). Wisconsin,
Sixth district. &. b. Clark (Rep.). Illinois,
Third district, c. G. Davis (Pro). Mis-
souri,, Eighth district, F. g. Medringhaus
(Rep); Fourteenth, Moses Whybark
lRep.). Nebraska, First district, w. ].
Connell (Rep.).
Wis, father of ex-United States District
Judge Charles f. Dyer, departed this life
on the 2lst at the age Of eighty-two years.
He was prominent in the early political
history of the Territory and State of Wis
consin. and was member of the State
Legislature in 1S57-5S.
The President on the 2lst nominated
| General Parkhurst, of Michigan, to be
Minister tn Belgium to succeed Lambert
Tree. who had been transferred to St.
Petersburg.
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Inde-
| pendent Order OF Odd Fellows, in annual
| session at Los Angeles, Cal, on the 2lst
| decided to hold its next years session at
| Columbus, O.
Two BALTIMORE & Ohio freight trains
| collided near Bellevillc, O., on the 2lst,
| through an operators carelessness, doing
| damage to the amount of $4,000.
WHILE cutting corn with o mower on the
| 2lst Henry Bauer, Of Center. Wis, fell in
| front of the knife, was cut on the leg, and
| bled to death.
MAMMOTH SPRINGS, Fulton County, Ark,
was visited by cy clone on tho 2lst which
| did considerable damage to crops. Several
| people were injured.
AT Kansas City, No., Mrs. William b.
Murphy was found dead on her husband q
grave on the 2fst, having committed sui.
| eide.
THERE were us new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, during the
twenty -four hours ended on the 2lst and
IA deaths. Total cases to date, 1,52S; total
deaths 1876