The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-26
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THE EAST.
ON the 18th the Franklin and Marshal Col
lege at Lancaster. Pa, entered upon it's
one hundred and third year.
The two Nicely brothers, under sentences
OF death. escaped from Jail on the 10th at
Somerset. Pa. by overpowering the sheriff
and mortally shooting one of his deputies.
Ar Langdon, N. H., Miss Della Walker.
aged nineteen years. beautiful aud &C.
conplished, committed suicide on the 18th
by drowning. Two girl friends with whom
she attended the Vermont Academy killed
themselves last winter
ON the 18th the Nicely brothers. con-
demned murderers who recently escaped
from the Somerset tPa) jail, were recapt-
urod
PIANO and organ manufacturers held q
convention in New York on the 18th for the
purpose OF forming . protective associa-
ton.
On the 18th q Hungarian living near
Wiikesoarre, Pa, awoke from a fourteen
days sleep.
The Kennebcc Ice Company's dam at
Hibernia Pa, gave way on the nth, and a
large amount of water rushed down the
Brandyw:ne. causing it to overflow its
banks, carrying away one bridge and sew
cral buildings
The New jersey Republicans met in State
convention ut Trenton on the 18th and
nominated General L. b. Grubb for Gov
| ernur. The platform indo,ses the National
Republican platform OF 1888, expresses con-
tidence in General Harrison, and practical
ly declares in favor of local option.
On the 18th Pat Brady, convict at AL
burn, N. Y, was pardoned by Governor
Hill He is forty-seven years old and had
hOan ~, s,ri0nn G;ncn ha Nso SiNfc
FLAMES destroyed tho business portion
| of the village OF Rushville, N. L., on the
18th
THE bursting OF . dam on the 18th at
Hprington Forge. near Coatsville, Pa.
flooded the district and caused farmers to
fee to the hills for safety.
MRS ELIZABETH s. MCCLELLAN, aged nlnc.
ty years. mother OF General George B. Nc.
Clellan. died on the 18th at Philadelphia
The house of Martin Freeman, farmer,
near Napoli. n Y. was entered by burglars
on the 18th and robbed of $l.00o that had
been hidden in various places IN the house
| A FIRE at Seaford. Del. on the 18th de-
stroyed the town hall, Masonic and Odd
Fellow halls ten stores and several dwell
lnga
| In the vicinity of Orange, N. j., great
iama.e was done Oh the 18th by floods
/ HE ucdUu D. DI LOUIS NhisuS, u IIlIlOuS
pianist and composer, occurred on the lSsh
| In his residence ut jamaica Plain, near
Boston, Of peritonitis
| JESSE w. PAYsoS. the well-known author
md publisher OF school copy books, died
OH the 18th at his home at Hyde Park,
Mass, aged seventy -four years
! The recent wet weather has done meal
culable damage to the peach crop in New
Jersey.
On tho 10Th Eva. the alleged wife of Rob-
ert Ray Hamilton, was convicted ut Nays
Landing. N. j.. Of stabbing Nurse Donnelly.
| and sentenced to two years In State prison.
| JOSEPH DE BARRON. an eight-year-o d
| boy. stabbed and killed Herlick Lopez
aged thirteen years during quarrel on
the 10Th at Warcham, Mass.
SPEAKING OF newspaper advertising the
Buffalo IN. " Courier says: 1.-The charac
| ter and quality of the advertising material
| which the New York Central has been put
ting out this season is much superior to any
thing the company has offered its patrons
| in some time 1t is an evidence of the pro.
gressivc, cnterprising and liberal policy
which has marked the administration OF
the passenger department. since George H.
Daniels was appointed General Passenger
Agent Mr. Daniels Is o man OF ideas and
knows how to give them practicable shape. y