The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-04-19

THE Banks and Monroe feud broke Oh
afresi on re 1th in Writ County. W. Va,
and in the fracas three OF tile Monroe fam
lily were killed.
The William Anson Wool reaper aad
mower works ut Youngs. own. o.. were
burned on the 18th. Los. a25D,OoO live
hundred men were thrown ont OF employ
ment
That part of Oconto, Wis. known as
Frenchtown," was under water on the
18th, and m:ny families had been forced
to move
WILLIAM r. GATES, OF Chicago. and George
W. Gates, of Oshkosh, Wis, (bro hers, Gel
ebrated the silver wedding on the II h as
Frankfort, N T., where they were married,
the clergyman who united them being in
Attendance.
In Chicago on the 18th Willie Grady.
nged seven years, shot and killed his sister
Ella. aged three years while playing with
pistol supposed to be un.oaded
f A. CoNsIGNY was on the 10Th elected
Department Commander Of the Iowa g. A
r. at it's session in C,dar Rapids
DAVE WALKER, the chief OF the Bald
Knobbcrs,s was convicted OF murder In the
Ers. degree at Ozark, Mo-. OH the 12Lh, and
sentenced 10 he hanged May Is.
The ice carried away a rairoad pontoon
bridge and ono million feet OF lumIer at
| Wabasha. VIZ. on the 12.il
KENTUCKY Prohibitionists met at Lon e
vile an the 10Th end elected dele2ates' 10
the National convention who favor Green
| Clay Smith for President
FIRE des. royed the village OF Massevs.
MD, on the 18th, only one luilding being
| left standing.
employees Of tho several brcmeries in
| Chicago struck on the L. Ii because the
| proprietors clairned the right to employ
| non-union men ii they des red to.
| On the 18th j. 8 Simon, the defauiting
/ cx-;reasurer of DarSe County. o.. was SEN
fenced to six years impr r.sonment in the
ptnitentiary AMI to pay a fine Of $jS 900
DETROIT detectives who had been inyesti-
eating the matrimonial record of W. J.
Brown stated on the 18th that Browa rad
| no less than TWEEN v living wives in differ
/ ent portions of the country.
THIRTY families were driven from their
homes at Montevideo, MINI, on the l..h
by high wafer
On III, 18th two hundred people living
| on the flats on the west bank of the Missis-
sippi at st Paul were driven from their
homes by rapid rise in the river
EXECUTIONS took place as follows on the
18th: At Warsaw. n. T., Robert Van Brunt,
for the murder of William Roy. October q,
1856; At Fergus Falls Mimi, Nels Olsen
Holong. for the murder of Lilly Field, Nay
2S, 1887, AMI chillers Banks icolercd) at
| Wailisville, Tex. for the murder OF Martha
henderson. June 10 last.
A FIRE destroyed tho California House
and twenty other buildings a. Depere, Wis,
on the 18th. Loss $4,000
In railroad wrac on the 18Th near Biz
minyhaln, Ala. four persons were killed
and ten injured
The Red river was OH the rampage i'm
| Dakota on the 13.h. At Wahpcton tie
water was running through the main
streets, while BrecS.nridys. just across the
river, was completely innn lated. and great
damage had been done TT both places.
On the IS h forty houses At New London.
Wis, were surrounded hy water owing 10
freshet in the Wolf river and the country
roads were washed out and other damage
had been done.
REPUBLICANS of the Eleventh district of
Ohio on the 18th renominated A. c.
Thompson for Congressman.
AEBoE DAY was general y observed in Lii
nois on the 18th At Springfield eight hun
dred trees were pl; nted. Governor ogiesl Y
ass; sting. ani at Normal the pupils Of e
Soldiers Orphan Home planted xty trees.
The wife and five-year-old daughter Of
Thomas Baker. living near Wellsville, o..
We're burned to death on the 18th
Two BOILERS used by the Arms cad Lum-
ber Company at Pa ahatchee Miss, ex-
ploded on the 18Th, killing four men.
JOHN BROTHERS, q farmer living IL ar CAM
ton. O.. was swindled out of $1,000 on the
18th by bnnco men.
In tho Ohio Legislature the bill for clos
ing saloons on SUNDAYS and taking from
municipal authorities the power to permit
saloons 10 lie open on that day was passed
| on the 18th