The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-01-19
The GREAT NORTHWEST

THE GREAT NORTHWEST
News Items from Various States
and Territories.
ILLINOIS.
The Illinois Soldiers Home is very much
crowded at present but relief ID looked Tor
| In few days, when several Of the new cot
tages will be finished.
The post-ofices ut Gray Willow and Win
ters have been discontinued
| The Touring mill OF Moenning Bros, ut
On ncy was DESTROYED by are recently at .
loss Of S33. 600; insurance, sic, 900.
The office of Deputy Surveyor Of Customs
at Ga!ena has been abolished By command
Of the Treasury Department
Rockford had $65. 600 blaze recently.
wnen the cooper tive furniture factory
was burned to the ground
John Blackmore, one Of the oldest set
tiers In Northern Illinois, aged eighty three
years, died the othor night In Warren, 10
| b v.css County, OF paralysis. and Thomas
tutledge d.ed at Heyworth, Mclean Coun-
ty. aged eighty-two years.
Jamie Gassoway. eleven years old. son Of
DR.. James ~ GassOway, Of tho United
states Marine Hospital Serv c,. stationed at
| Cairo, was blown from Lake Shore train
| In Western New York the other day, while
passing between two cars. and instantly
killed.
| The total amount of money paid for cat
| tie received at the Union Stock Yards in
Chicago during 1887 was about 500. co.,
600. Tlis for cattle alone, saying nothing
ol sheep, hogs and horses
| The body OF Mra Sarah Huffman was
found the other morning In an old hut on
the Wilkin farm, two miles north OF Mar
shall She had starved to death
| The First Baptist Church Of Bloomington
celebrated its aftieth anniversary the other
day.
| A corn binder agent succeeded IN
sw'ndl ng Mr. Hshness. Of Graymont ont
OF $500 few days ago
| The total disbursements from the Chi
cago Pension ONCE during tho past yea,
W re SO, 733, 5O734. The number Of pom.
sioners on the roll was Sc. 500.
.Post-offces have Leen established ut Nor
tonville. Will County. and Temple Hill, Pops
County. Ill
Mra Mary Swords slipped and fell on I
sidewalk in Nokomls the other night, caus.
ing concussion Of the brain, which resulted
In death In few minuteA
A company with 81. OOo. 600 capital haa
teen licensed to estabn h an aquarium and
fish market in Chicago
Chicago Board OF Trade was held recently
and resulted in the choice Of Charles L
Hutchinson for president
IOWA.
| Fifteen hundred head Of cattle have beer
denorned in the southern part OF Osceols
County during the present winter.
The infant son of William ]. Walker. o
g. Soux City, drank large quantity Of con
centratod lyc recently and died soon after
wards
About eleven acres Of tho leading Goa
mine at Altoona, on the eastern edge .
Folk County, were flooded with four feet o
water recent y, throwing one hundred mel
out Of work
Daniel Nauman 4 Co. 3 block at waterio,
wss burned the other night, causing los
OF 81. 500.
For many years an old lady over ninet
years Of age, known a. Aunt Kitty" Fender
gast lived all alone In little shanty in q,
/
ago her home was burned and shs perisho,
In the fiameA
Sioux c.ty's annual 'possum supper. givel
by q co'ored lady named Auntie Wooden
took place few evenings ago
Governor Larrnbee has reappointed Prof
M Stalker a. Slate Veterinarian with III
following deputies: W. B. N los, State Cen
ter; J. A Campbell, Dss Moines; R N
N cholson, Sac City; Charles H Flynn. De
corah; n E johnson, Red Oak; q 4 Cary
,okuk; John Tillio, AmeA
Tho Dubuque cooperative grocery stor
ass gned recsntly. The concern did fai
business, but the profits were not larg
enough to keep 1t afoat
A singular instance Of long and faithful
public servics was that Of the late A
III lonsy, OF d enison, who held the Office Q
au .itor OF Crawford County from 1861
un il hs death few days ago. . period q
twenty-seven years, or since tho count
was organised
1t was discovered few days ago that
p Hill, recently treasurer Of H .rrison Coun
ty. was behind in his accoun.s to the ez
tent OF $4,000
County has refused permits to three who.e
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sort OF compromise which will enable ther
to run until May. After that drug store
will be the only place where liquor can
legumately obtained
An unsuccessful attempt was made nea
Ottumwa the other night to rob the q
press-car of the west-bound train on th
Chicago. Burlington / Quincy railroad
An incendiary fre at Colesburg tho othe
day destroyed Thomas Coles general stOE
and the Walker Hotel Loss, $l3, 900; IN
suranoe, $1,000
General James Wilson died at hts home
Newton the other night aged eighty-nv
years
wISCONSIN.
As Mr.. palmerlee's little children W0l
coming across the Trempealeau river ,
Dodge few days ago five large wolves o
tackled them, tore their clothes and hui
them quite badly before they were frigh
ened away.
The Wisconsin Shoe Company's factory
Janesville was damaged by IRE to the e1
tent Of $3. 900 the other day
C. F. Crosby, Of Wausau, has been a
pointed municipal Judge Of Marathon Cour
ty, vice s n Alban. resigned
Robert Wallace, machine tender In q
Badger Paper Mill at Kaukauna. W,
caught In the gearing the other night IN
killed.
r A. Odell. of Whitehall. has been q
pointed county judge Of Trempeaules
County, vice N. Mulligan, resigned
A Council Bluffs check forger, name
Harry Winn, was recently captured
Nebraska and brought back for trial
The GAINESVILLE Hospital Association b.
been incorporated, with capital stock
&2OO, 600
; In tho woods north Of Thorp few da,
ago E. ]. Shipman ran across two lar,
deer with their horns locked together