The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-08-30

THROUGHOUT Ohio and West Virginia
the damage by floods had on the I'D
reached <3,0O0,00a Six lives were lost in
Ohio.
NINE new cases Of yellow fever were re-
ported at jacksonville, Fla, but no deaths
during the twenty four hours ended on tho
22d
CoyGHEssioSAL nominations were maize
rs follows on the I'D: Fifth Ohio district,
Wilson Vance tRep): Second Indiana. T.
N. Braxton tRcp.); Tenth indiana, judge
Owens (Rep); Ninth Kentucky, Thomas
Paynter DEM.
The Repu blicans OF West Virginia met in
Charleston on the ed and nominated Gen.
eral N. Golf for Governor by acclamatien.
Mr.. Gof now represents the First district in
Congress
ADvIcEs Of the osl say that nine persons
lost their lives in the recent cyclone at
Still Pond, Md, and othc:s were badly in
jured.
DEMOCRATS of Missouri mot at Jefferson
City on the I'D and nominated ID. X.
Francis, now Mayor Of ST. Louis, for Gov
ernor.
On the 23d candidates for Congress were
nominated as follows: Ohio, First dis
trict, Benjamin Buttcrworth Rep1 re-
nominated; Second, John A. Caldwell
{Rep.); Fifth, Nelson j. Vance Qtcp).
Indiana, Second district, Thomas W. Brax-
ton Nsep.). Kentucky, Ninth district,
Thomas H. Payntcr DEM. Iowa, Third
district David B. Henderson lRep.l re-
nominated; Seventh, w. L. Carpenter
Union Labor. Virginia, First district,
Ii. b. Browne Rep rcnominatcd. Mary
land. Fifth district, Sidney Il. MIdd
(Rcp); Sixth, Louis f. McComas tRepl
renominatcd. Idaho, James e. Hawley
tDem,.
In Musaingum County, O., storm on
the 23d washed away bridges and culverts
and crops sustained considerable injury.
GOVERNOR THArER was renominated by
the Nebraska Republican State convention
at Lincoln on the ed.
APAPER-MILL caught fire on the aad at
Menasha, Wis, and when tho firemcn
turned water on the immense revolving
bleach in the heating room an explosion
resulted and ten tons of boiler debris wero
hurled into the crowd of spectators. kill
ing fourteen persons outright, fatally in
juring seven and wounding many more.
ON the 23d Nicolo Fcmmeaetta was
hanged at Buena Vista, Col. for the mur-
der of Michael ID. Casey at Granite in
March last
OS the @4ta j. u. McGlnnlS was nOm-
mated for Congress by the Republicans Of
tho Third district of West Virginia, and
q. A. Mathews received like honor in
Dakota.
JACOB MoxTER, of st. Louis, prominent
dealer in pianos, sat down 10 one OF his in
| struments on the 2th, played the dead
March," and then blew his tl aims out.
Business trouble was the cause.
AMONG the negroes on the rice rlantA
tions on the Santcc river near Columbia
s. c., black measles OF virulen: type pre-.
| vailed on the 24th. Fifty deaths had oc.
Cured, and the disease had become cpl
demic, creating panic
THREE persons were struck by lightning
| and killed at a colored religious meeting
! on the oath at Cartcr's Wharf, Va.
In the drying-hous Of the Grand Pow.
der Company, near West Berklcr, Cal,
| u ton of powder exploded on the 2ith, kill.
| ing two white men and three Cinnamon
A FIRE at Clinton. Ind, destroyed a
dozen business houses on the 24th.
FREDERICK OBERk AMPr. the Chicago ma /.
| box robber, was on the 24th held for trial
| in 5000 bail.