The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-16

lMd.. caught nrC during ncT aWSencC OH Gn6
9Th and two OF her children psrished and
the third was fatally burned. The shock
had made the Woman insane.
BY runaway on tho sth ut Lawley~ Fla.
Mr. and Mrs J. VI. Churchill. Of Iowa, and
Mr. and Mrs J. d. Burdett were thrown Som
their wagon, and Mr.. Hurdctt was killed.
and the two women fatally hurt
REPUBLICANS OF the Nineteenth Cone5es-
siOnal district Of Illinois on the eth n0mi-,
mated Thomas $. Ridgway for the vacnscy
caused by the death OF X. W. Townshenl
On the eth the Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Baltimore. Md. was formally opened LIS
construction was begun more than t&n
wears ago, and the total cost was 81. .00. COO
The village OF Beaver Dam. o., was visited
by a fire on the 7th which destroyed the en-
tire business portion. besides many axsi-
, tlences.
AT Peoria. ILL.,. an incendiary fire on the
eth destroyed the packing house Of Wi l..
lam Reynolds and spread to ZeD, Schwa-
backer 4 Co. IS distillerv sheds, which were
burned, together with eighty CATTLE
OS the sth 4 switch engine on the Michi-
gan Central railroad struck strect-car in
Kalamazoo. Mich. killing six women and
injuIinE four Otlier persons.
! FLAMES destroyed the business portion OF
North Judson. Ind, on the Sth
In Moreland. Chicago suburb. seventy.
houses were destroyed by fire on the Sth,
rendering sevaityfive families homeless.
II Michigan forest fires had on the Sth de-.
strOyed the villages of BrIce's Crossing and
UBricn. and partly wiped out Spalding.
sullivan ami Stambaugh The flames.
reached the Vulcan mines near Norway. de
stroying twenty dwellings,. Hundreds Of
persons were no neless
IL Southern Arkansas cut-worms werts
on the sth said to be ravaging the cotton
fields.
MS CARRIE FrRREI.L was mysteriouslv
murdered on the sth near Sibley. Ia. while.
returning to her home from her parents
house.
OVER the largest portion Of Wisconsin
(. rain fell on the sth. extinguishing the for
est fires and saving the burning crops and
grass of the farmers.
i AT Lima, D., Mrs. Mary Brentline was
] dragged to death on the sth by cow she
vas leading to water.
/ ALor of sioux Indians were said to be on
! the war-path in Montana on the Sth
MAN in San Francisco OH the 9Th offered
/ = purse of $50 to the single scullcr who
1 would break the worlds record for three
milcs
Ar louisville on the 9TH the kentucky
/! q
! spokane by a nose in ...:34it. the fastest
Derby time on record Proctor Knott was
second and Once Again third
/, THE Bellaire goblet works at Findlay, o.,
| were destroyed by fire on the nth. Loss,
Sll5.O0O; insurance. S65,O0u.
! IN Mcdowell and Wyoming counties W.
! Va, fifteen moonshiners were arrested ON
the 9TH.
i The death Of General William Sibley
Rarnev. hero OF the Black Hawk and Mexi-
can wars and the Oldest officer in tho
United States army. occurred ut Orlands.
; Fla, on the 9th. Mt the age of eighty nine
years
ON the 9TH Governor Francis, of Missouri,
signed the bill which prohibits all dealing
| in grain options unless the parties dealing
in such options actually hold the grain
MILES of forests were on fire in the Home
stead district in Michigan on the 9TH, refu-
| gees were seeking safety in swamps, bitches
and cellars, and many persons were
| missing
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
| OS the ith the volcano of Nesuvius was
in an alarming state OF eruption. streams
/ of lava were coursing down the mountain
on the Pompsii side.
lS the vicinity Of st Alphone. Que, dis
astrous floods prevailed on the 9TH and
much suffering had been occasioned among.
! the inhabitants in that district.
THE Paris exposition was opened ON the
= afternoon of the 9TH
I, BY the capsizing of a sloop on the 9TH
near st John, n B., six men were drowned
The death of Jose Riva tialban, a Span
lard, occurred on the 1th Mt Bordeaux,
] France, at the age OF one hundred and
eighteen years.
TN the .sth eleven unidentified victims OF
the recent Grand Trunk wreck were given
public burial Mt Hamilton, Ont. An inn
mensc crowd was in attendance.
Is the State Of Chiapa, near the City Of
Mexico enormous deposits OF copper were
found ON the Sth.
IN conflict between striking miners and
the military ON the Sth at Essen, Germany,
the soldiers fired upon the strikers, killing
three men and ,wounding five others.
DISPATCHES of the 9th announce the death
OF Father Damien, the celebrated leper
priest, 1T Mdlokai, Sandwich Islands For
the last sixteen years he had been laboring
In the leper settlements
ADvIcEs from Rome say that in q recent
battle between Abyssinians and dervishes
n thirty thousand soldiers we.c left dead on
I the field.
LATER.
DURING the seven days ended on the 10th
there were III business failures in the
United States. against lal the previous seven
days. The total OF failures in the United
States January to date was 4,570, against
4,O69 in lSSS.
JOHN p. SALISBURY, Secretary oil State OF
Delaware. died at his home in Dover on the
10th, aged thirty six years
\ 4 wi md rat., ~ Ina
10th did great: damage in Pittsburgh, Pa.
/ and vicinity, and several lives were lost. :,
MRS. JAMES H. McGAHAN, wife of Bap
tist minister ut Johnson Creek. \. T., wal
fatally burned On the 10th by the explosion
OF gasoline stove
AN order was issued ON the 10Th by the
Window Glass Workers Associations that
, alien glass workers who come to this coun
try for work hereafter shall be blacklisted
. MRS: HANNAH WHISTLER, who died on the
10th near .Loeansport Ind. was the mother
] of thirteen children and had sixty-nint
grandchildren.
The thirty fourth session Of the Southern
Baptist Association assembled Mt Memphis
Tenn. on the 10th
A FIND of gold Of great value was made
: on the 10th only n few,miles from lshpem.
. ing, Mich. but several miles from where
gold had been found before
some boys fishing on the 10th at Shelby.
vile; Ill, found soap box containing the
, remains of man. There was no clew tG
, the mystery.
+. L. CRuNip. a millionaire Of Columbus
Ind, entered plea Of guilty on the 10th to
the charge OF renting rooms for gambling
, purposes
! MANY horses in the vicinity of Danville,
, ILL.,, were suffering from giaEders ON the
10th. Two had been killed and others were
. quarantined
; COLONEL CHARLES L. FISHER. president