The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-11-08
WEST AND SOUTH.

WILLIAM II. BLAKE declined the Union
Labor nomination for Governor Of Mis-.
souri, on the 3Oth ult.
THE boiler of the tug A. ". Lawrence ex-
plodcd on the Both ult. while she was cruis-
ing in the lake off North Point, near Mil
waukee, killing four men.
THE death Of John p. Campbell, ex-mem
ber Of Congress, occurred at his home in
Hopkinsville. KY, on the aoth ult, aged
sixty nine years.
THE people in Meade County, Kan. were
on the 3Oth ult, said to be suffering for
food and cloth ng, owing to tho failure of
tho crops, and it was said that three
fourths Of the residents would starve un-
less aid could be procured.
FOLLY PHILLIPS, aged twenty years,
was watching political parade at Terre
Haute, Ind, on tho s0th ult. when a man
walked up to her and exclaiming, There,
take that shot her dead. The murderer,
whose name was said to be Galloway,
escaped.
THE four men arrested in Chicago on
the charge Of having placed dynamite on
the North Side street railway tracks dur
ing the recent strike, with destructive
intent, were discharged OH the 30th ult.,
the evidence being insufficient to hold
| them.
AN explosion of natural gas on the 30th
ult in Schulther's tannery at Lima, o.,
partially wrecked the building and killed
| three men.
| On the 3Oth ult. ]. A. IcAffee and
| Thomas Slaven engaged in fight in the
| latter's saloon at Indianapolis, and both
were fatally wounded.
On the alst ult. Mr.. Barnard, OF the Lich
Observatory in San Francisco, announced
the discovery Of another comet-thc SECOND
discovered by him within two months.
WILLIAM HARRISON, of Hinesville, Ga
in fit Of jealousy on the 3lst ult., killed
his niece and fatally wounded his sister.
ON the 31st ult. Joseph Dickennof, agci
seventy years, was assaulted BY high way
men at Akron, O., and robbed of S7,30t
which he carried in valise.
A GANG OF negroes in Mercer County, W.
| Va, waylaid four white travellers recently
and shot and killed two of them and robbed
them Of $780, The other two escaped
UNOPENED registered packages were
stolen from the post Office ut Topeka, Kan
on tho 3lst ult. All the clerks were de
coyed from the building by Il fire alarm.
| Ar Wichita Kan, Mrs. Striebel was ia
tally burned on the 3lst ult. aud her five
year-old child was burned to death by thei1
clothing catching fire from burning
brush-p pile
On the 3lst ult the fourth crop of straw
berries for this year was being gathered II
the Walla Walla valley, w. T. !; pear trees
had yielded three crops, apple trees thei
second crop, and the second crop OF nu
merous other fruits was reported.
A REToRr containing $40, 600 in gold wa
placed in bank for safe keeping at Cen
trail City, COL, on the 3lst ult. The gol,
was all produced in q single day by on,
mine. The amount was the greatest eve
taken from any mine in the same length o
| time.
A BUILDING in San Francisco occupic,
by several lumber companies was burne,
on the 3lst ult, caus ng a, less Of Sl00, 600.
ROBBERS ON the 3lst ult. held up Mex
can Central express train sixty miles be
low Ell Paso, Tex, forcing the enginee
and fireman to leave the engine and un
couple the passenger cars, and then sc
cured about s2, 600 from the express car.
ALADY descended ut Lexington, Mo-, o.
the 3lst ult. into a twenty foot cistern an,
rescued y child who had fallen into tn
pit. A number of men, who had refused +
attempt to aid tho little one, watched tn
heroic exploit.
JAMES LoNsoNETTI, of Denver. Col,
bartender who shct and killed A. o. Cas-
and was imprisoned, died in convulsion
on the lst, thinking his victim was toI
turing him.
TIRE Arm of jenkins, Hutchinson Il Co
dealers in notions and white goods q