The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-23

Manitowoc intends 10 dredge its river 70 0
uniform depth Ut sixteen feet from the har-
Dor piers TO the new coal dock.
MICHIGAN.
The Michigan Grand Lodge Ancient or.
der United Workmcn. ut their recent session
at Detroit, adopted legislation prohibiting
admission to membership Of habitual
drunkards or those engaged in the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating beveragea
1t is said that the State law of 1883, fix-
ing the status and powers OF social clubs,
is to be used by the anti-prohibition ele-
ment in evading the Local-Option law
where prohibition has bsen voted
An explosion ut the dynamite works at
Wooiside recently destroyed two packing
houses and killed three men. Joseph Un-
ond, Adam Usela and John Oieson, all sin
gle.
The trial Of Curtis for the killing OF
Wentworth ut Calumet ended the other day
in n acqu uttaL
L. e. Merck, q prominent vessel-owner
Of Detroit, dropped dead in the street q
few days ago He was eighty six years old
Richard Landon, who shot and killed
Peter w. Bursha in Detroit last July, was
acquitted of murder the other day. the jury
being out but a minute and half
A frightened horse near jackson threw
George H.rr from a cutter recently and
broke his neck.
Scion Preston. aged nineteen years, was
killed by falling tree two miles south of
Coral the other afternoon
Chaunccy Davis, one of the old st lum-
bermen, most liberal and highly-respect-
ed citizen, died at Muskegon the other
morning, aged seventy-sx years He was
president Of the Lumbcrmen's Bank, once o
member OF the Senate and House OF Michi-
gan and mayor of Muskegon twica
The report OF the Michigan Salt Associa-
tion shows 2, 200, 900 barrels sold in 1887
Amount on hand January |, 1883, $780,
600 barrels
The Grand Encampment Of Odd Fellows
ut its recent session in Battle Creek elected
Andrew Harshan, of Alpena, Grand Patri-
arch.
The Jury at Reed City. in the case Of Wal
lace Chaplin, charged with the murder OF
Gus Helbring, rendered a verdict Of not
guilty recently
Mr.. Gertrude Whitaker, woman of
Portland, succeeded in defrauding the Lam
sing National Bank out Of $1,000 o few
days ago.
Berry County residents have contracted
for New England granite monument ten
feet square ut base and forty feet high,
which will be erected on court house square
at Hastings as memorial to soldiers and
sailors of the late war.
Mrs Charles Davenport, OF Battle Creek,
aged twenty two, committed suicide the
other night by taking morphine. She left
note saying trouble with her mother-in-
Jaw was the cause.
MINNESOTA.
John Wilkins, charged with having eight
living wives, was discharged at St Paul a
few days ago, there being no evidence
against him except copies Of several mar
to prove few of them
A Apeculiar phenomenon was witnessed in
Western Minnesota recently. The ground
had been covered with several inches OF
snow. Rain fell upon this and froze The
whole country was covered by this smooth
glare of ice. Then "A heavy snow-storm
fell at the Black Hills. in Dakota The
snow WAS accompanied by howling bliz-
zard The big deposit Of snow AZ the Black
Hills was showed bodily over into Minne-
sofa by tho tempest 1t was q genuine
avalanche. A man would have been COW
cred in it to his neck in a second
A. Allan, the absconding cashier of To-
ronto, Can, has been locat ID in Minneapo.
lis
broken flangc on wheel on the engine
of NJ nitoba express going west caused
the train to leave the track half a mile east
of Ciontarf recently. and six passengers
were badly injured The thermometer reg
| istercd forty three degrees below zero al
the time of the accident
John Janauschek, farmer living near
New Prague. killed his wife, fatally wound
ed his ten-year-old daughter and killed
himself q few days ago. He had quarreled
with his wife over her property. and she
had sued for q divorce.
George w. Clark, real estate dealer at
Duluth. died few days ago. He was In the
Treasury Department at Washington sir
years.
bill has been introduced in Congress
proposing to pension Muck-a-Peck-W Wax
Ken Zah, otherwise known az John. an In
dian OF the Dakota claim of the Sioux tribe,
now residing at Hastings, who aided in saw.
ing the lives Of many white people in Min
nesota in 1862 and who aftcrward served
a. scout for the United States Army.
The records of Minneapolis and Hennepin
County show that eighteen thousand di-
vorces have been granted there since 1853.
recent fire in the Ryan block, in the
wholesale mercantile center of st Paul, de-
stroyed the boot and shoe establishment of
Foote Schulze Il Co. loss, about $500, 600;
insurance, $29O.OOO.
Hon. George Pillsbury, Of Minneapolis,
has offered to build college at Owatonua
to cost not less than $25, 600, and have il
completed within two years and to add $25,
600 more to the endowment fund, providing
the Baptists of the State will raise $50, 600
The City Council would appropriate So, ,OOO
and the proposition would be accepted
DAKOTA.
A school teacher in Buffalo County, whose
wife was one of his pupils, had occasion tc
punish her the other day The next day
the school house door bore this inscription:
School closed for one week owing to the
illness Of the school-teacher.
Coal Is now the tavorite quest OF pros
pectors in the Black Hills Late last fall
the discovery OF large vein of coal on the
| southern margin Of the hills, in Red canyon
on the line Of the old Rodney stage road
gave coal prospecting another boom, and
| since then tho search has been active. Nc
prospecting was needed to determine the
fact of the existence Of coal around the mp
lift that forms the hills proper.
In the absence Of something more suita-
BILE Dakota man kept team in his kitch-
| en- during the night of the blizzard.
The cold weather and deep SHOWS have
driven the wolves from their usual haunts
| and pinched by hunger they are becoming
altogether too familiar with barn-yards and
hen n-coopa
The reports Of the death in school-house
| at Taylor of George Patrick and live chill.
dren during the great blizzard are said to
| be untrue.
Mrs Dan G. Baker, the lady who was sc
| badly burned last fall by gasoline ex-
plosion in Watertown, died q few days age
| after months Of agony.
Early the other morning q strong wind
from the north developed into blizzard
| completely blocking the roads Reports
| received at Aberdeen showed that the
| storm extended throughout Central and
Southern Dakota