The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-16
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.

NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Happenings In the Northwestern
States and Territories.
ILLINOIS.
The cholera is epidemic among the hogs
near Lena, Stephenson County. and large
ffty-two hogs
The remains of DIR. Frank Wetzel, OF Chi
cago were cremated the other day at Pitts
burgh, Pa
Henry Tierney, a seventy -year-old mlser
living at Lincoln, was found dead in his bed
the other morning, leaving ST., 900 worth
OF property behind him.
Benjamin Tinkham, for fifty-two years
prominent resident of Warren County and
for seventy years member OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, died suddenly few
DAYS ago.
Frank Flowers was arrested at Princeton
recently for fatally shooting Spring Valley
saloonkeeper in a quarrel over a game of
billiards
All hores Of good yield OF peaches next
year in Central Illinois are said to be at
amined the buds declare that they are all
winter killed, and that the crop the coming
season will be extremely light
Allen Thurman, Of Atwood, Kan, and
Miss Amanda Hunt of Columbus, O., were
married at Galesburg the other day The
couple had never before met, and had mere
~ corresponded and changed Photographic
w. E W-sthrook. who murdered Joseph
~ re hnc han nxAA
to be hanged on March 80
The twenty third annual meeting OF the
Illinois Press Association was held recently
at Bloomington.
Bird W. Price, well-known resident OF
Laomi, hanged himself in his barn recently.
Engineer William Cobb, of Taffee's wagon
shop at FaIrfi Id. was killed recently by .
boiler explosion.
The ST. Louis 4 Springfield Railroad Com
pany, to construct q line from Mt Olive
to East St LOUIS was incorporated at
Springfield recently; capital stock. $1,-
6OO.OOO
An accommodation train on the Jackson
vile Southwestern road was derailed
near Athens the other night. and the ca
boose rolled down an embankment, all OF
the eight pass ngers being more or less in
jured
The Tiskilwa bank BURGERS, Fan Burnes
AMI Jimmie Wilson, We're brought from
Clinton, Ia, to Tiskilwa the other day on Q
requisition from Governor Oglssby.
The will OF Nicholas II. Ridgely, banker,
Of Springfield. provides that his estate, val
ued at over S., ZOO, 900, shall remain intact
for twenty ". rs. the revenue to be equally
divided among the heirs meantime
IOWA.
Ayoung man named Scion Simpson, re-
siding in Melrose town hip, committed sui
eide the otaer day because OF unrequited
Iowa
schools of Iowa There are 24,675 pub
lie school teachers in the State, Of wnoln
IL, ,74S are women. The army Of them b; 9
increased more than four thousand In six
years In the same time male teachers
have decreased from z. 253 to 5.927.
The Illinois Central road will erect six
story building at Dubuque for the gen raj
office OF the Iowa division
Jack King, who was under Indictment for
conspiracy to whip Rev. DR. Haddock, At
torney Walker and Witness Walker, dur
ing the first days Of the temperance cru
SADIE that was the direct cause of Haddock's
death. was few days ago sentenced to six
years in The penltentiary for an assault
with intent TO kill Robert Mckenzie on New
Years d&y.
DR.. Henry Cox, one of the oldest and
best known physicians in Des Moines, died
recently.
The public schools ut Washington were
closed recently on account OF the prev
alence of scarlet fever. and all public meet
ings had been suspended
The Central Iowa has q record of not q
single passenger being killed in the past
ten years
The Boston Tea Co q store at Council
Bluffs was recently closed by the sheriff
Liabilities, $12. QUO; assets, $2O.OOO
An excavation for a frozen water pipe at
Council Bluffs the other day showed that
the ground was frozen to depth of twelve
feet
A convict named Parke, who was sent to
the Ananosa penltentiary from Sioux City,
committed suicide the other night BY hang
ing himself with pair Of suspenders In his
Gel He had two years to serve.
The State Board of Health was recently
notified that six cases Of smallpox existed
in a small town in Southern Iowa
Judge Given having decided that permits
to sell liquor for legal purposes can be used
only by persons to whom they are issued,
the stock of every wholesale liquor firm in
Des Moines was seized few days ago
Each firm has been doing business under q
company title. and the Judges rulings for
bids such latitude.
Mrs. George Lees, aged sixty years,
dropped dead at Council Bluffs the other
afternoon on hearing Of the news of the
death Of her SON. She had suffered for some
time with heart disease
At recent distribution by an Atlantic
merchant a poor wash-woman drew the
capital prize, . $500 piano
WISCONSIN.
Two miners at Hurley were overcome by
gas while descending the Germanis shaft
the other morn ng and fell to the bottom
and were ins antly killed
The Iron Mound Cranberry Company,
which sued the Chicago, St Paul, Mime
apolis 4 Omaha Railroad Company, at
Back River Falls. for $75. 900 for damages
done to its cranberry marsh by fire, got q
verdict Of $36. 500 90 q few days ago
William Hughes, who is charged with kill
ing q w-workman named Howard In
Milwaukee October "a. was handed over to
Detective Pringle in New York few days
ago. to be taken to Milwaukee
jackson Wright. an old colored man,
long res dent Of Racine. recently disc0v-
cred that his wife and son, from whom he
was parted in slavery days. are living In
st Louis
Carrie E Whiteside. Of California, claims
to be the owner of thirty valuable lots in
the city of Madison upon which mauy resi-
dences stand
At Ashland sixty million feet Of timber
lies buried under snow-driftA
Three men wear ing belts and revolver
caused considerable excitement in Trem-
pealeau few days ago by raiding the
saloons aud driving out citizena They
finally left without doing injury to any
one.
Tha Chinnawa Lumbar 4 Rnoun Cam.