The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-20

NEWS was brought by the steamer city oil
Tekin which arrived In San Francisco on
the 18th from Hong Kong of the burning OF
the city of Luchow. and ten thousand peo-
pie were said to have lost their lives in the
fire
W. b. EonEErs, who was sent to Brazil,
Ind. by Governor Hovey to investigate the
condition OF the Clay County miners, said on
the 18th that there were thousands Of
people in the mining district who were
destitute and near the verge OF starvation,
and many Of the families had eaten nothing
but bread and water for weeks
NEAR vincennes, Ind. Seth Murray, a
farmer aged fifty-five years, and having
five or six children, became jealous of his
wife on the 18th and shot her and then killed
himself.
AT Louisville. O., on the 18th Lawrence
and Edward Streb, business men, and two
Catholic orphans named Seifert. whom the
Strcbs had adopted, were struck by nm ex-
press train while crossing the track and all
instantly killed.
FLAMas on the 18th ut Grinncli, Ia. de-
stroyed forty one buildings. causing loss
Of from Sl5G.000 to s2Ja.gn. partly insured
FOREST fires were doing much damage in
Minnesota on the 18th. At Ely from twelve
to fifteen buildings had been destroyed.
The Iowa Republicans will meet in State
convention al Des Moines on August IA tC
nominate State officers
OK the 18th Bonafacio Martinez, one ol
the most noted desperadocs on the Mexican
border and Mexican reyolutionist leader,
was arrested at Eio Grande City Tex.
MAJOR WYMAN w. STALEY, of the First
Regiment, Michigan National Guards, was
killed by a train on the 18th three miles
west OF his home in Lansing
II was decided at the annual session In
Denver on the 18th OF the international
Typographical Union to establish o printers
home at Colorado Springs, Col, the citizens
having offered eighty acres of land near the
city as free gift.
NEAR Havre dc Grace, Md. trains collided
on the 18th and two cars loaded with pro
visions for the JohnstoWn sufferers were
wrecked.
A CALL has been issued for q territorial
convention at Guthrie Oklahoma, July IL
MRS CATHERINE BOYLE oged sixty-five, o
Louisville, Ky, and her children. Nora
aged twenty-five, Frank, aged thirty. ant
William. uged twenty three years. were nj
declared insane on the 18th and sent to ar
asylum.
On the 18th the Chippewa Indians a,
Mile Laos lake in Minnesota commenced
killing and driving out the white settlers
and six whites were killed and otherl
wounded. All were inoffensive Swedes
OK account OF dependency Patrick A
Ward eixty-two years old and the mos
prominent Irishman in indianapolis, Ind
committed suicide on the 18th.
IT was said on the 18th that a castor-oi
trust was forming in tho West, the capita
stock to be between so, ,OOO and $4,000
There are but seven castor oil manufactur
ing plants IN the country.
GEoIG. COFFEE (colored,, in custody u
, Norfolk, Va, confessed OH the 18th that h,
set fire to the residence ef Rev. T. c
Clarke, In which five lives were lost re
Gently.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
On tho 10th the town of sebaraz, in Aus
| trian Galicia, was almost entirely dcstroye,
| by fire. and many lives were lost
| RUSSIAN authorities on tho 10th sen
fenced forty-one students OF the Cracoy
University to three days imprisonment an,
| to pay fines of five hundred fiorins for sing
ing Polish airs while on an excursion t
! Oitkoff
IT was decided by the Dominion Govern
ment on the 10th to remove the export dut
i Ou lCES CltNCH luCuCS Allu uuglSI CUT u
Canada by American lumbermen an
| hauled to mills on the American side.
A REJECTED suitor Mt Vile NOuville
| France, murdered a farmers daughter, tn
father, mother and q man servant ON Jh
10th.
A LETTER received on the 18th Mt Zanziba
from Ururi, on Lake Victoria Nyanzs
stated at Stanley, the explorer, was ther
on the I'd of December last
\ NEAR Armagh an excursion train ladc
with Sunday-school scholars was wrecke
OH the 18th. and seventy-two persons wer
killed and many others injured Most q
the killed ranged from sixteen to twent
years of age.
ON the 18th the Canadian order of Odd
Fellows in session at Toronto voted down
motion to provide for the eligibility OF Co
orcd men Tor membership In the order.
In the Bay of Quinto. near AdolphustowI
Ont. Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil, the evan
| gelist, was drowned on the 18th. Lor
! Cecil was q soI of the second Marquis {
Exeter and was born in 1S4l.
/: AT the races at Belierbeck, Eng, th
crowd became SO excited on the 18th til;
they pushed one another on to the cours,
| and many were rum down by tho racers an
four were killed
AT Glasgow, Scotland six thousand doc
laborers struck on the 18th for highe
wages.