The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-12-27


among the colored people Of Jefferson
white lad seventeen years old, named
Harvey Smith.
FIRE at Russell, Kan, destroyed q mum
ber Of business houses on the 18th.
Four OF the negro participants in the re-
cent tragedy at Wahalak. Miss, were over.
taken by armed men on the 10Th, who shot
one dead and hanged the other three.
MARTIN REQUA's house near Hunting
ton, w. Va, was destroyed by fire on the
10Th, and two OF his children and his
mother perished in the flames
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, five hundred people
professed Christianity during three
weeks revival which ended on the 10th.
EIouT men were fatally injured by \
boiler expl osion in spoke factory at North
Vernon, Ind, on the 10th.
EAMUEL MILLER, ninety-six years Of age,
and Anna Hagan, aged seventy -one years,
were married on the 10th at tJeffersonville,
Ind.
The nre in the Calumet & Hecla mine in
Michigan was pronounced extinguisbcd
by the officials on the Goth after having
burned just month.
l. H. CUTLER, Cincinnati cattle buyer,
was robbed Of 81, 0OO near Winchester, O.,
on tho 2Oth by three m ,sked men.
mrs. MOORE, . widow, was absent from
her home in Indianapolis on the 10th when
the house was burned, and her two chill
dren, aged two and four years. who were
locked up in the building, perished in tho
flames.
Ar Unionville, Mich. diphtheria pre-
vailed on the Goth to such an alarming ex-
tent that children under eighteen years OF
noA all hn 80
Or the Goth bill to punish fraud and
corruption at primary elections was passed
by the South Carolina Legislature.
F. E. AND W. J. MURPHY. sons OF Francis
Murphy, concluded their temperance
meetings ut La Porte, Ind. on the Goth,
over three thousand persons having signed
the pledge.
CHARLES PIArr, aged sixteen years, and
Edward Meare, aged fifteen years, sons OF
prominent Columbus lnd.l farmers, were
arrested on the 2Oth for horse-stealing
FLOYD and Lawson Todd (brothers) were
killed and . man named Choate fatally
wounded In . row on the Goth at Monk
town, Tex
MRS. MARGARET HOLLAND CAREY died at
Wheeling, w. Va. on the Goth. in the one
hundred and eleventh year Of her age.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE steamer Jasper was foundered of
the WigtOwn coast on the 18th, and her
crew, numbering eleven persons, were
drowned.
THIEVES stole mail bag containing 1850
In cash and other valuable letters from the
Grand Trunk railway station at Ottawa,
Ont, on the 18th.
WoRD was received in London on the
18th from Mr. Thompson, the African ex.
plorer. that it was only too probable that
the Mahdi had captured Emin Bey. He
expressed unhesitatingly the conviction
that Stanley never reached Emin, but was
annihilated with his whole party in the
region to the west OF the Albert Nyanza.
A SPECTATOR in COPPER named Bex dis
appeared from Paris on The 18th, taking
with him II. 0O0, OOo francs.
In London on the 18th the Honorable
Artillery Company, the oldest military or
ganization in the world, was disbanded.
SIxrY-FoUR tenants on the Marquis OF
Lansc owne's Luggacurran estates in Ire
land rece we'd eviction notices on the 18th.
CANADA advices Of the 18th say tn a
fierce blizzard had been raging for two
days Trains on railways were blockaded
by snow. fifteen persons lost their lives
near Montre ! by the breaking up of the
ice on the river which they were driving
on and several other persons were buried
in the snow.
FLAMES partially destroyed the civil
service stores in London on the 18th.
Lnss, 300 600.
On the 18th three men, named johnson,
Oaks aud Dockey, were drowned while
crossing from Iroquois, Ont, to the Amer
lean side Of the yer.
DlsPATcBEs of the 18th say that Legit
imist gun boats had bombarded the village
Of Hayti, doing great damage to the towr
and killing over twenty persons.
FoRGEp bank notes in large number.
were scoyered in London on the 10th.
ADvIcEs of the 10Th from Samoa state tha,
the natives under Mataafa had succeeded
in capturing Atna after long battle with
Tamasse's forceA The losses included
one hundred killed and several hundred
wounded.
RADICALS and peasants in the vicinity o.
Belgrade, Servia, celebrated their recon
victories at the polls by setting fire to thu
homes Of their political opponents on tn,
| 10th.
BRITISH and Egyptian forces at Suakiu
made IN attack on the rebel position o.
the oOth, driving the enemy from their in
trenchments with the lossobof four hun
| drod men.
lAT80s
The dead body of a woman was foun IN
London on the 10th. She Lad been XII led
by strangulation and 1t is thought she Il
another victim Of "Jack the r pperS
although the body was not mutilated as be
fore.
| BRADsTRErrs report for the week ending
Dec. 2lst suys: Business failures In the
United States during the week numi er 33s
against 800 last week and 264 this weel