The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-15
WEST AND SOUTH.

WARRANTS were issued by Judge st. John
on the 5th for the arrest OF the White Caps
that recently whipped Mrs Street and
daughter near Marion. Ind, but inquiry
showed that the guilty parties had left the
country.
MARTIN BURKE, the man who was sup
posed to be deeply implicated in the muir
der OF DR.. Cronin and who was captured at
Winnipeg and fought SO hard and long
against being brought back, reached Chica-
go on The night OF the 5th.
STANDING Rock, D. T., advices of the 5th
are to the effect that the necessary num-
ber Of signatures have been secured from
the Indians, and the Sioux reservation will
be opened.
IT was reported on the 5th that jake
Kilrain had been arrested by order of
Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, at Nor
folk, Va, and would be taken to Mssis-
sippi for trial John l. Sullivan. after be-
ing in Jail all night, was released on bail
on the 9Th and wOnldrepair to Purvi.. Miss,
to give bond for his appearance on August
~
THE Illinois State Board of Agriculture
received reports on the 9Th making :ne
aggregate yle 4 0f winter and spring
wheat in the state for 1889 to be about "a, :
UOO OUO bushe y.
JOHN METcALr confessed at Jancsville,
Wis, Oh the 5th to the murder Of Miss
kyasOn, saying he committed the deed
ut his house while drunk and carried her
home and put her in bed
THE murderer of Mrs. Hall and her three
children, ]. s. Howell, was sentenced on
the 9th at Iinneus No., to be hanged No
vember II. 1883. A motion for q new trial
was denied
STEPHEN &. SHARP, Democratic candidate
for Treasurer OF Kentucky, it was thought
ON the 9th was reelected by majority
ranging from DC, ,0OO to 10000.
KANSAS City was on the 9th visited by 4
heavy storm and tornado, demolishing
chimneys and out. buildings; rain fell in
torrents, deluging the streets and delaying
traffic
GEORGE ScHLIcK shot and killed Richard
Sisco at Madison, Ind. on the 9TH. Schlick
had qnarreled wi Sisco's brother, and,
finding Richard In saloon, killed him. The
night before William johnson shot at his
sweetheart, but missed her. Thinking he
had killed her. he killed himself
THE defaulting Treasurer of kentucky,
Richard Tate. was said on the 9th to have
been arrested at scarborough, Ala.
AFTER vigorous ami exciting campaign
Of three weeks prohibition was defeated on
the 18th in Floyd County, Ga, by a majority
of tiO1 out OF q vote OF 1 COO.
DIR. TowNsLEY, tho brother of Chicago
lawyer. shot and killed George Stevens, son
Of the president of the First National Bank
Of Niles. Mich, at Guthrie, l. T., on the 9th.
The arbitration committee appointed to
settle tho differences between the mine-
owners and striking employees at Streator,
ILL.,, were Oh the U:h unable to come to an
agreement A conference would be held
between the bosses and men to try and set
tie their differences
ELECTIONS held in Salt Lake City on the
Gth resulted in o decided victory for tho
Gentiles. aud the downfall of Mormonism
was predicted by many in a very short
time
A NUMBER Of Milwaukee citizens on tho
9th waited c. the railway authorities ask
ing them to reconsider their refu al Of
granting q one-cent ratio to the encamp-
ment of the Il. A. r. to be held In that city.
The railway officials refused to alter their
former decision.
NEAR Weston, Neb, a serious wreck oc-
curred on the 9TH by tho breaking through
. bridge Of . tram ON tho Omaha & Re-
publican Valley branch Of the Union
Pacific. Two lives were lost and several
seriously. II not fatally, injured
The saloon keepers OF Cincinnati,
through their lawyer, on the 9TH asked the
court for . continuance of their cases.
they promising that In the future they
would respect the law and keep their
places closed on Sunday.
ONE Of the best-known lawyers In Min
neapolis, J. Frank Collom, confessed on the
7th to forging the name OF John r. Blais-
dell, pioneer millionaire of Minneapolis,
to notes and papers valued at $2:a.7, ,OOO
J. &. WILLIAMS and Lyman J. Gage, two
Of the arbftrstors to whosn wero referred
the differences existing between the llli-
hcis Goal Hin C-rtpAay and its miners,