The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

VN the llth Il. irving Latlmer, convicted
in jackson, Mich. Of numbering his mother,
was sentenced to imprisonment for life.
Patrick FoRD. Of Chicago "A man sixty
three years old, shot AMI killed his young
bride and then wounded himself fatally
Cnfoundcd jealousy was the cause
OVER three hundred cOlured persons were
baptized in the James rivc.' near Richmond,
Va. ON thc l:.th
TRcuslE. which had l,e y, brewing for
some time between the whites and blacks
of Gre na. La. ended ou the lIth In the
wOunding OF four negroes and the burning
Of the negro fire company's enginc-housc,
the negro Baptist church and four small
houses occupied by negroes
Al baltimore, Nd. a six-days' walking
match for women began mt midnight on the
18th. There were seven CONTESTANTS
WILLIAM KELLAR fatally sts bbed his wife
Mt Anderson, Ind, on the 18th. They had
lived unhappily fQr some time
A NEW. building WAS wrecked by wind ON
the 18th at Tacoma, W. T., and Of the TWEEN
ty men at work on the .trus turc twelve
were killed by falling timbers.
GEORGE LOOMS. Of OsceOla. Wis. killed
his wife by cutting her threat mud then
killed himself on the 18th. H6 was insane.
AMOS HsaLEy and Edward Han tshOrn were
killed and four other men were badly hurt
by the explosion Of a boiler on the 18th at =
saw-mill near Payne, q.
Ar Memphis, Tenn. George Werd, an en-
gineer, shot and killed his wife ON the 18th
because she refused to live with him, and
then killed himself
WHILE drunk on the 18th Fred Medley.
proprietor, Of the Pueblo House ut Denver,
Col. shot and killed his wife because she
tn 1sis Ia .laon
beer.
On the 18th 1. Cornwall. Mt Se,lalta, Col,
was robbed of s35 OO0 worth of jewe,ry by
q clerk named Strauss who. in his en-
ployer's absence, packed up the goods and
left town.
The youngest son of 4. Ellis, Of West
port, Wis. was instantly killed on the 18th
by his older brother, aged thirteen years,
who shot the child's head off with q shot
gun with which he Was playing
DIcK SINEx. local tough at Richmond,
Ind, in q fight on the 18th with John Bris-
tow, a wandering soldier, bit the latter's
nose on. 1t was an unprovoked assault.
AHEAvY fall of snow In Minnesota and
Dakota occurred on the l4th.
On the 18th the Supreme Lodge Of the
knights of Honor met In sixteenth annual
session at indianapolis The secretary's re-
port showed q total membership OF l.s,OOO,
divided among 2. 500 lodges, which paid $3, :
. 2lp 600 death benefits last year.
AT Dayton. u, Walter Keller, nine years
old, fell into vat Of vinegar on the 18th
and was drowned.
10. HOOKER, the famous trotting horse.
killed himself ut Parkcrsburg, W. Va, on
the 18th by running away and cutting his
head nearly OF against barbed- wire fence.
At Lumberton, N G., y gale Oh the lith
unroofed many small houses and utterly
obltterated the crops
A CYCLONE did great damage OH the lath
at Danville, Va. to roofing fences, shade
and fruit trees. Three tobacco factories
were unroofed, the bridge over tho Dan
river damaged, and a house in course oi
construction and the Colored Baptist
Church were blown down.
Ar the annual conference of the Hotel
Mems Mutual Benefit Association Of the
United states in Chicago on tho lith N. =
Gibson, Of Portland, Ore, Was chosen pres.
ideut for the ensuing year.