The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-01-19
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MICHIGAN.
The internal revenue receipts for the
district ompris ng the northern peninsula
of Michig. n for 1887 foot mp $1O1.7l
against $28. 900 in 1856.
An economical Detroit merchant lighted
tho gas Jets one after another the other
night with . singio match until ho burned
his fingers. and then dropped It into Pile
damage Of 81 5O0
Mrs. Emma Kallam. Of Detroit BY mis-
take swallowed medicine prescribed -
liniment and died recently.
George Rugh. Of Charlotte. committed
suicide the other night with morphine He
had been on spree for over week
While three men wcre varnishin8 a iron
beer-vat at Detroit few days ago tho var
nish took 6re, and before the mon were
rescued two Of them were fatally burned
Fifty cords Of wood were distributed
among the poor of Charlotte recently. and
sacks OF nour 10 the poor Of West Bay City.
mo O0D6V1I AAXut 40X0AUAy Ax0AV0y w.
partially destroyed By nre tho other even
ing. Loss. $751; .OO0
Nra Fisher. living near Bay City, whoss
fessed recently that he was murdered BY her
paramour, Isaiah Wallace
Four OF gang OF burglars and cut -thyoats
were arrested at Detroit > few days ago On
testimony OF member Of tho band
4 ~ -
chant at Parma for years, failed recently.
900 each
sued at Grand Rapids was one 70 John j.
Patterson and Nn Edith 4 Patterson, his
deceased brothers wife.
Robert Mckinney. Of Jackson. was fatally
shot BY Jack King In Sioux City. IA. . FEW
days ago
Four thieves with wagon raidsd several
farms n Ecorse. Wayne County. tho other
night
Since December 6.266. 600 pounds Of
copper have been shipped from Houghton
to New England and the Atlantic seaboartl
W. J. McRoberts, . dealer In notions at
lansing, Mich. b financially embarrassed
His stock 10 worth $4,000
Prof Vaughn. before the State Board d
Health 1t Lansing. recently announced Tho
satisfactory result Of his attempt 70 pro
duce on an animal . disease similar - ~
pho:d fever, by the use Of germs found In
water used BY typhoid victimA
MINNESOTA.
The great -four train. with its ono hun
dred cars filed with tho best that the MIN
neapolls mills can turn ont. left for the
East tbs other day over the .S00s road IN
i've sections Of twenty cars ea0h half N
hour apart
Colonel Alexander Chamber, command
Ing tho Fourth Infantry at Fort Smelling.
died in San Antonia, Tex recently. q pleu-
ro-pneumoniA He came here for the boneiti
Of his health
| The members Of Cooper Assembly Of the
1 Knights Of Labor at Minneapolis mourn thu
absence OF their receiving secretary, w. p.
B:son, and with him Ill tho funds oe the
assembly.
Minnesota has go saloons, against S3l
ono year ago. The license revenue In 1887
was $23O.OO0
Rev. DR. q G. Smith, who recently 10
tired from tho pastorate Of the First Meth
odist Church at St Paul. held his 6Est eerv.
ice ~ the pastor Of IN ind pendent church
recently. His plan II to establish church
where pastor and people can b on the
same piano. and whore every body oar
worship without regard to belief In any Do
nominational creed
The saloon. keepers Of G Paul azs taxed
81, 900 for license. They are working ON I
scheme 70 consolidate the business q
liquor-selling on the .trust. principle. tn
brewers to furnish the capital and give en-
ployment to men now engaged IN the busL
neaA
The Itasca Lumber Company Of MIME
apolis recently sold its entire stock to g Z
Martin 4 Co, OF Chicago There were H.
OOO, 600 feet Of lumber. 1000. COO shingisl
and $4,000 lath
Governor McGili says that high license II
the State has proved success
Charles Campbsll. manager Of tho Dulutl
Gas Company. abscond q the other dal
with So. 600 OF ths company's fundA
Herman HearneA Of Utica Mtnn, d e.
ntcted with . strange disease, under th,
influence Of which he has slept almsst con
unuously for seven yeara
Squatssrs are rushing to the 0ovanmsn
land recently opened II Oass County. IN,
fully two hundred families have takel
claimA
Senator Davis has informed the Dulutl
Chamber OF Commerce that he viii In
troduce . bin to make Duluth . port o
entry.
A blast fred in 6 sewer excavation neal
tho Bay View House In Duluth recently
threw out several pieces Of rook, one 0
which went through tho roof Of the b,
View House The rock was picked Up an
. II strongly resembles iron orc u wa
carefully examined By expertA who said
was rich in iron ore,
DAKOTA.
Thomas Murray. Sioux City QAl aaleeu