The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19


district, Mark H. Dunnell lRep.); Georgia,
Fifth district, J. D. Stewart DEM, renom
mated; Missouri. Third district, A. n
Dockery DEM, renominated.
HoT weather prevailed in the Northwest
on the 11th. At Minneapolis the thermom-
eter marked 100; at Fort Sully, 104; and at
Huron, ID. T., 10o.
On the 1lth stephen Freeman (colored),
convicted Of assaulting white woman,
was hanged at Wilmington, N. G.
A HAILrsToRM on the nth near North
Manchester, Ind, damaged all the crops
and pelted number OF hogs to death.
J. T. MoREHEAD was nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Fifth North
Carolina district on the 18th.
ALL the principal county officers (all col
ored) at Marion, Tenn, were escorted to
trains by white men on the 18th, given
tickets and warned never to return.
OK the 12th eight persons were killed
and twenty five injured by a passenger
train on the Virginia Midland railway
breaking through trestle near Orange
Court House, Va
GOVERNOR MoREHoUsE, OF Missouri, on
the 12th refused to commute the sentence
Of Hugh NJ Brooks, the murderer of Arthur
Preller, but granted him q respite until
August 10
Reports on the 18th from crops in the
Northwest gave indications of good
yield and q prosperous season for the
farmers.
&. M. RIDER was hanged at Marshall, Mo-,
on the 18th for the murder Of r. r Tallant
two years ago.
ON the 18th great suffering was reported
az the result Of the recent floods in West
Virginia. Fully five hundred persons were
completely destitute of the necessaries Of
life.
In Chicago the examination OF the alleged
dynamiters, arrested at the instance Of the
Burlington railroad, was begun on the 18th,
and some very startling testimony was
brought out. Witnesses swore that they
sold dynamite to Bowles, and Informer
Kelly declared that he had seen the dead
ly stuff in Chairman Hoge's room at the
hotel.
A RISE of the Wabash river on the 18th
to eighteen feet flooded hundreds Of acres
Of bottom land near Terre Haute, Ind, and
destroyed over half the corn crop.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ADvIcEs from Batavia, Java, say that
Bantam insurgents had plundered Tielegon
and killed the native chiefs and the Euro
pean inhabitants. Troops had been dis
patched to quell the revolt.
THE electoral colleges of Mexico voted
on the Sth, re-electing President Diaz.
Mr.. PARNELL said on the 10th that the
home rule movement would ultimately re-
suit in the establishment of an Imperial
Parliament in which the colonies would be
represented, each province having q Leg
islature for its own local affairs.
In London snow fell on the 1lth for the
first time ever known in July, and unsea-
| sonably cold weather prevailed in England.
MONTREAL Knights Of Labor on the 1lth
called a mass meeting to protest against
pauper immigration to Canada
THE police of Berlin on the 18th arrested
fve Socialists for pasting seditious pla-
cards over copies Of the speech from the
throne.
HEAVY gales prevailed in the English
channel on the 18th, and number of small
vessels were wrecked along the French
| coast.
DISPATCHES of the 18th from Cape Town,
| Africa, say that the Debcrs coal mine at
Kimberley had been burned, and that five
hundred persons lost their lives.
OK the 18th General Boulanger resigned
his seat in the French Chamber Of Dcpu
| ties.
A BILL passed the Italian Chamber oi
Deputies on the 1oth giving electoral rights
| to every one who is able to read and write
and who pays the minimum taxes.
NEWS reached Paris on the 18th that an
insurrection had occurred at Port au
| Prince, and that the insurgents had burned
| five hundred houses, including most of the
| public buildings.
| HEAVY earthquake shocks were felt
| throughout Greece on the 18th.
| The question Of granting the ballot tt
women was defeated by narrow ma
| jority in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
on the 18th.
ON the coast Of Spanish Honduras 9
hurricane was reported on the 18th to have
destroyed y number of fruit plantations
creating heavy losses.
NJ FLoQUET and General Boulangel
fought duel with swords near Paris or
the 18th. The battle was fiercely con
tested, and in tho second round BOulangel
received thrust in the neck which NIGH
prove fatal. Premier FloQuet escaped with
1 q few scratches.
| THE business portion of the town o.
Ripley, Ont, was nearly destroyed by firt
on the 18th. Twenty-six buildings wert
burned.