The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-03-15
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DEMOCRATS Of Alabama win meet in State
convention at II ontgomery on the 9th Of
May to elect delegates to tho National con-
ventiOn.
AT Middleton, No. freight train was
ditched on the 7th> and much live stock
was killed
IN Indian Territory three squatter were
killed BY cowboys on the 7th and their
houses burned
The Democrats Of Virginia viii meet in
Richmond on May 10th to select delegates
to the National convention at st LouiA
In the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy
strike the outlook was more peaceful on
the 9Th, and the probability Of : general
strike on all the Western roads decreased
The Burlington officials made application
to Judge Gresham for injunctions restrain
Ing the Wabash road from further refusing
to receive or deliver Burlington freight and
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
and its officers from issuing orders to en-
gineers and fremen to refuse TO haul Buy-
lington freight
CHARLES RICHTER shot and killed Louisa
Schmitt on the Sth at Evansville, Ind. !.
because she had rejected his addresses. and
then killed himself
On the 9th the Prohibitionist majority
Of the Atlanta (Ga) Board Of Aldermen
rejected the ordinance for free books In the
public schools because the books have to
be purchased with money accruing from
saloon licenseA
In Clark County. Ga. political quarrel
on the Sth between Sheriff George w.
In murder and suicide. Allen shot Carter
dOod aynd then kil1od hiy,na0lp
CHARLES PAkKHURsT. ngcd twelve years,
while fooling with . gun on tho Sth near
Attica, Kan, shot and killed Charles Slep-
py and fatally wounded George Sloppy
DEMOCRATS Of Indiana will hold their
State convention in Indianapolis April %
to elect delegates to the National conven-
tion.
ONE Of the buildings Of the Williamson
County (Tennl poor-house was burned on
the sth. and William johnson and Dora
Shannon (colored), both insane. persisted In
the flames
On the sth the Mississippi Legislature adj
journed sine die.
FIRE on the 9th at Harrisburg, M, de-
stroyed eleven business houses and i've
dwellings
THE Methodist University building At
Mitchell, D. T., was burned on the OH, and
OuU OI 1OIGy jUWAIcS ten were O1QIy IN
jured, one having died. while others were
thought to be fatally hurt q
FIVE men and four women committed sui
eide in Chicago during the seven days end
ed on the 9th, and three other persons fail
ed In their attempts to take their lives
In the Chicago, Burlington Quincy
| strike there was no change on the 9th In
Judge Gresham's court in Chicago action
on the petition Of the Burlington Company
| for IN order compelling the Wabash road
! to transport and deliver cars rendered BY
the Burlington was postponed until the
18th In Omaha Judge Dundy issued an
| order enjoining the Union Pacific Railroad
Company and Its engineers from refusing
to perform their duties under the Inter-
State Commerce law and enjoining tho en-
gineers from organizing or combining to
direct any strike.
AT Emmettsburg. Ia. the veterinary
stable Of DR.. Hayes was burned on the 9th,
and several valuable horses were lost
ON the 9th the Illinois League OF Repub-
iican clubs was organized at Springfield,
with William W. Tracy, Of that city. as
| president
FIVE Italian counterfeiters were captured
| on the 9th at Norfolk, Va They had flooded
the city with silver counterfeit dollars
MACEY WARNER was hanged on the 9th at
Jeffersonville. Ind. for the murder, April
Is. 1887, OF Frank Harris