The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-11-29
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT the recent election in Dakota
Mathews (Rep.) for delegate received 80
600. Every member of the lower House
but one is Republican, and there are
three Democrats and twenty one Repub,
licans in the upper House OF the Legisla-
ture The total vote of the Territory was
la, 600, which indicates n total population
of $4,000. The population of North
Dakota on this basis is 2l5, 900, South Da-
lsota, 2a5, 900. The increase in the vote
over 1856 was 10000
MRs. BERENIcE CHouTEAu, the first white
woman settler of Kansas City. Mo-, died
on the 10th, age eighty-seven years.
THE Mississippi Republican State Execu-
tive Committee met at jackson Oh the Goth
and decided TO contest the elections i'm the
Second, Third ami Seventh Congressional
districts
OK the 2lst Jake and Joe Tobler {col-
ored) were executed at Wichita, Kan, for
the killing Of james Cass aud John Goody-
kuntz in the Indian Territory on August
%, 1881
A TELEPHONE line between Boston and
Chicago was satisfactorily tested on the
2lst
AT the Knights of Labor convention in
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 2lst i resolution
was adopted to appoint committee to in
vestigate the methods of the general Off.
GERS of the order.
q. +. ADAMS, city treasurer of Macon,
Ga, was reported $20 600 short in his ac-
counts on the 2lst.
THE suspension of the Home Savings
Bank OF Norfolk, Va, occurred on the 2lst.
The directors stated that the depositors,
most of whom were colored, would lose
little if any thing.
WIItTAN NnpNAN hn xkroS t,hi h,y
the White Caps, brought suit at Blooming
ton, Ind, on the 2lst for $1,000 naming
eleven defendants.
THE Nebraska Supreme Court decided
on the 2lst that when usuriou, interest has
been paid by the borrower of note he can
recover double the amount OF interest so
paid.
AT Bivinsville, KY, Robert Hellesty,
who had bet his farm and stock on Cieve-
land being elected President, committed
su eide on the 2lst.
IT was reported on the 2lst that Prcsi-
| dent-elect Harrison had rendered to Elijah
w. Halford, managing editor of the Indian
apolis Journal, the position Of private sec
retary.
The Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
was in annual session at Indianapolis on
the 2lst. Secretary Foster stated that the
expenditures uuTiilS tuc year
were $50 3S5 GS rho order has an act VIC
membership of 90 $50 The expenses, in
cluding relief, amounted to 1926 241. 40.
On the 2lst Mrs. Waters fell from the
West Virginia Central railroad bridge into
| the river at Siias Ferry and was rescued
| unconscious. but her husband. who had
plunged in after her. was drowned. The
| couple had only been married one day.
On the I'D the official canvass Of the
| electoral vote of Michigan gives Harrison
| a plurality of ~, 966 The total number of
votes cast was 475, 2GO. an increase of II, 500
over four years ago, divided as follows:
Harrison, 236, $40; Cleveland, 2l3 40S; Fisk,
20, Al; Streeter, 4, Ha.
1T was claimed by Mormon missionaries
| in Alabama on the ed that ten thousand
converts We're being added to Mormonism
| annually, and that the Territories OF Ari-
zona, Idaho. Montana and Wyoming We're
| being rapidly colonized by their people.
ADAM BRRKEs, who was whipped recent
iy at Sardinia. o., BY the W''se Gaps,