The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-06-21
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On the 12th Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiteling,
Of Philadelphia. confessed that she had
poisoned her two children and that she
furnished her husband with the poison
with which, she declared, he took his own
life on account of despondency caused by
poverty
ANDREW HOWARD, q cash boy aged four
teen years, confessed on the 18th to starting
the great fire in Buffalo, N. Y, February /,
by which sl,OOO,OO0 worth of property be-
longing to Barnes & Hcngcrcr, dry goods
dealers, was destroyed He said he did it
because he was angry with floor walker.
Ok the 18th Frank Donovan, aged ten
years, was shot and killed at Oswcgo, n.
Y, by Lewis Clark, aged thirteen years,
while playing with IA gun
THE Legislature of Rhode Island on the
l2th reelected Jonathan Chace (Rep.
United States Senator, and then adjourned
until January, 1889.
THE Millers' National Association opened
their twelfth annual convention at Buffalo,
n. Y, on the 12th.
The Maine Republicans met in State
convention at Portland on the 18th and
nominated +. c. Burleigh for Governor.
The resolutions denouncc the Presidents
message, the Mills bill and free trade, and
censure the Government for its course in
the fisheries dispute
VERMONT Prohibitionists met at Mont
pelier on the 18th and nominated Prof.
Henry NJ Seeley for Governor. Resolu-
tions were adopted stamping the manu-
featuring of and traffic in alcoholic liquors
as a high crime; condemning intimidation
of voters, and favoring equal suffrage for
women.
One HUNDRED AND FIFTY Mormon immi
grants arrived in New York on the 18th,
and Immediately left for Utah.
HENRY NJ. DUBLEDAY, OF South Royalton.
VT, was on the 18th victimized to the ex-
tent of 5000 by the gold brick swindlers.
The parties escaped to Canada.
REPUBLICANS Of the Twenty-fi fifth Penn.
sylvania district nominated Charles C.
Townsend for Congress on the 18th.
WILLIAM WARD, of Newark n. j., was
chosen Supreme Chancellor, at the session
of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
at Cincinnati on the 14th.
On the l4th Tim Williams, Lebanon
Comm hermit, aged seventy-six years,
was stung to death by bees which he was
trying to hive.
ON the l4th Isaac Bronson and wife, o1
Pokeville. Conn, were found dead in their
farmhouse. 1t was thought Bronson
killed his wife and then took his own life
A FIRE destroyed the main building OF
the Salem (Mass.) Lead Company with its
contents on the l4th. Loss, $4,000
THE window-glass factories of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the West closed down on
the 18th to remain closed until September
l, or longer, unless the workers and en-
ployers agreed on a scale Of wages
AFIRE destroyed twenty four freight cars
filled with general merchandise on the 18th
at Ph iladelphia. Loss, $780, 900.
On Staten Island, N. V, tempest raged
on the 18th, causing great destruction oi
property.
On the 18th Mary N. Prescott, the gifted
and widely known authoress and poctess,
died ut the residence of her brother in law
Richard s. Spofford, at Deer Island, Mass
On the 18th bronze equestrian statue
of Israel Putnam, the Revolutionary hero
erected by the State, was unvailed at Brook
lyn, Conn.
The ice-house of English & Best, at AL
bany, N. ", was struck by lightning on the
18th and burned Loss, $4,000
On the 18th the American mills at Fal
River, Mass, were struck by lightning and
destroyed by fire. Loss. SlO3.OO0