The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-12-06
TIE EAST,


Edward Newton went to pieces on the
Massachusetts, coast and fifteen Of her
crew were drowned. At various points
snow fell to considerable depth, serious
~ interfering with railroad travel. Thir-
teen coal-barges were sunk in New York
bay. but no lives were lost as far as known.
Five scamen were drowned of Nantasket
Beach, Mass At Long Branch, N. j., many
cottages were carried out to sea.
On the 18th dock" Haggerty was I'M
loading glycerine at Pleasantville. Pa,
when it exploded by some means and Hag-
gerry was blown to atoms. Parts of his
two horses were found in neighboring
trees, and piece of the wagon was found
half mile away.
THREE mon were killed Mt Centeryille,
Pa, on the 10Th and one badly injured by a
boiler explosion.
In George Palmer's store at Scrufftown,
Pa, key OF powder exploded on the 18th,
fatally iniuring him, killing ten-year-
old daughter and wounding three other
persons.
The steamer Allentown went to pieces
. in the recent storm on the coast near Co
hassetts, Mass, and eighteen lives were
lost. The losses caused by the storm at
Atlantic City, N. j., were greater than had
been experienced since the incorporation
Of that city.
In jealous rage Jewet Dargenton, pro.
| prietor of a boarding house at Amesbury,
Mass. shot his wife on the a7th and then
killed himself.
THE Reading pa City Council on the
| 18th passed an ordinance making it unlaw-
| full for contractors to employ any but citi-
zens of the United States ON municipal
| work.
| IL Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 27th John
| Woods, aged sixty-hve years, and his bed.
/ ridden sister Mary, aged sixty -one years,
were burned to death by the destruction oil
their house by fire.
On the 9Th the official canvass of the
vote Of New Jersey gave Cleveland Isl, 49a,
Harrison l44.344 and Fisk 1904. The
plurality for Cleveland is 7,149.
THREE men were killed by boiler ex-
| plosion on the 9th at Ralston's saw-mill
| at Adams Corners, Pa.
The Vermont Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 2sth.
ALFRED WILDER, young man, was ar
rested on the asth at Clean, N. Y, for
making and passing counterfeit nickels.
The death of the wife Of General w. T.
Sherman occurred in New York City on
the 2Sth. The cause Of her death was
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four years Of age, and was the daughter OF
General Thomas Ewing, Ex-Governor OF
Ohio.
RUSSIAN and Italian miners fought on
the 18th in the streets Of Mount Carmel,
Pa, number on both sides being stabbed,
three fatally.
HENRY SToDDARp purchased the New
York Graphic on the 18th in behalf Of a
syndicate. 1t would be made Republi can.
On the 2sth lodge of Good Templars
| was formed at the Tuscarora Reservation
| near Lockport, n. Y, with thirty six char
| ter members This was the first time that
| temperance lodge of this character had
been formed among the Indians.
THE vote of Maine officially counted on
the 3Oth ult. gives Harrison 73,734; Cleve
land. 80, 4sa; Fisk, 1850; Streeter, LAS
Harrison's plurality. %, $50
| The death Of William II. Foster. cashier
Of the Asiatic Bank of Salem, Mass, from
1925 to 1884, and probably the oldest bank
| official in the country, occurred on the
Both ult., at the age of ninety-one years.
THE coal mines on the Monongahela pa
river shut down on the both ult for an in.
definite period. The cause was overpro
duction. Over six thousand miners were
thrown out Of employment.
EIGHTY-THREE new wells were opened
in the Titusville pa oil district during
November.