The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-12-06
9,1o5; Fisk, 1850; total vote, 4o4, 1870; Har.

! rison's plurality, 31,7ol.
| BAND OF armed men early on the morn
ing OF the 10Th ult. stormed and broke into
| the Jail at Wytheville, Va. and rescued
Wayman Sutton, sentenced to be hanged
the next day for murder.
FIRE destroyed fifteen houses at Durant,
Miss, on the 29th ult.
THE doors Of the Woodsdale kan State
Bank were closed on the 18th.
In the negro quarter Of Savannah. Ga.
| a drunken riot on the 18th ult. caused the
killing of one man and injuries to some
other persons, black and white.
THE Governor gave Maryland's new
Congressional delegation their cert ficates
on the 18th. II Is made up Of two Rcpub-
licAns and four Democrats.
AT THIN, O., three men hitched hand
| car to freight train, and the car was
wrecked and all the men were killed.
SEVERAL Democratic Grand Army Of the
Republic veterans met in Indianapolis on
the 18th and effected an organization to be
known as the Democratic Soldiers and
Sailors Veteran Association Of Indiana.
This organization is the result of what
has been termed the revolt against the G..
A. X
THE Legislature OF Alabama on the 2Sth
reelected John T. Morgan United States
Senator for the term beginning in March,
1880
NEAR Nevada, Mo, George Cobb, a
school teacher, outraged and murdered
Ella Wray, aged twenty one years on the
2sth. and after being arrested Cobb COM
mitted suicide with poison to escape lynch
ing
WI. WILLIAMS, u mail carrier, was shot
dead from ambush near Moulton, Ala, on
hn ,,if Of rod II
tanning about s4oO were taken from the
mail bag.
The Splnk County I'd. IT, treasurer was
on the Goth ull. said to be short in his &C
counts to the extent Of slOo, 600 His where
abouts were unknown.
OK the Both ult a fire was discovered in
No. 8 shaft OF the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine at Calumet, Mich. All but eight
of the miners escaped, and these, mostly
Cornishmen, persisted Indications pointed
to the fact that the fire was Of incendiary
origin.
| AT Minneapolis MINI mills the log cut
| for the season ended on the 30th ult. was
33s, OO0. COO
THE official canvass on the 3oth ult. Of
the vote OF Oregon showed the total vote
to have been 81, 9ls; the vote for Harrison,
,293, Cleveland, 1884 Fisk, 1,67,
Streeter, 1868; scattering, til. HARRISON
plurality. 6,769
A SEVERE storm Of snow extended over
the entire western and southern porto OF
Kansas on the 3oth ult.
CALIFORNIA; electoral vote, officially
announced on the 30th ult. was: Har.
rison, l2i. 500; Cleveland, ll7,7a9; Fisx,
5,76l; Curtis, 1891 Harrison's plurality,
1850
WILL ScHRIEBER, teller OF the First Ma
tional Bank of Columbus, Ind, fed to
Canada on the Both ult, with IS, 500 of the
bank's funds.
OK the farm Of John T. Davis, near
Chamberlain. d. T., large vein Of coal
was discovered on the 3Oth ult
Mis-. EMMA JACKSON. aged twenty years,
Of Glasgow, Mo-, attempted to whip her
brother, aged fourteen years, on the 3oth
ult. because he refused to bring her q
bucket Of water. The youth Immediately
procured gun and shot her dead.
A DYNAMITE explosion on the 30th ult. on
the Kentucky Midland railway near Lex.
ington killed four men and dangerously
injured several others
JOHN HENRY MYERS was hanged on the
Both ult. ut Placerville. Cal, for the muir
der Of John Lowell, a ranchman, last
March. and James Wood (coloredl was
hanged at Aiken, S. C., for the murder Of
another negro.
AT Sardinia, o.. White Caps on the night
of the Both ult whipped Mrs. Annie Jester
and her grown daughter.