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


In tho Gaylord mines ut WillScsbarre, Pa.
six men were killed on the 10th by q fall Of
coal All were married and leave families
A TRAIN was thrown down an enbank-
ment on the 10th near Sugar Notch, Pa,
causing serious injuries to sixteen pass.n-
gers. some of whom might not recover
THE people OF Renova, Pa, were greatly
In need Of money on the 10th, large ror-
ton of the town having been destroyed by
the food, and the people being too destitute
to rebuild without aid
In Lewis and jefferson counties, n Y, a
furious gale of wind did considerable
damage on the 10Th At Port Leyden houses
were moved. u church steeple blown down
and trees uprooted
CAPTAIN FRANCIS ALEXANDER, we'll
known ship-builder. died at his home OH
staten Island. n T., on the 1Ith
In New York City there were five cases OF
sunstroke and a like number In Brooklyn
on the 10th
In New England thunderstorm on the
llth caused heavy damage. especially In
New Hampshire towns. Roads were washed
out wires levelcd and houses wrecked by
lightning.
ON the llth three drunken men jumped
off a Baltimore 4 Ohio freight train near
suter, Pa, just as an empty engine passed
in the other direction, and all were killed
Uric DULAC chief of band of outlaws
who had been terror to the towns and
villages on the Maine Canadian border, was
arrested ON the 1lth.
LUCIEN FREEMAN killed his mother, Mrs.
Daniel Freeman, and a ncighbor. John
Morgan, with an axe on the ii TIL at Mcriden,
n H. He was insane
ONE of the canal banks gave way at
Holyoke, Mass on the 1lth, undermining
the foundations of the Cabot mills, which
collapsed, causing a loss OF slGO Co.,
At Johnstown, Pa. a more che erful and
hopeful feeling prevailed on the 18th. The
work all over the valley was being pushed
with yigor. The channel OF the river above
the stone bridge was being fast cleared and
while comparatively little impression had
been made on the great mass of debris near
the bridge, the results along the channe
were very marked.
In New York City and Brooklyn storm
of wind and rain on the llth did consider
able damage, and three persons were killed
by lightning.
chairman OF the National Democratic Com
mittee.
AT Wilkesbarre. Pa, mine caye-in on
cipal buildings and caused gas to escape in
great volumes. The men and boys in the
mine underneath the city narrowly escaped
The loss to property owners was placed at
S3N00a
ON the l2th the work OF restoring order
In JohnstoNn passed into the hands OF the
Pennsylvania State officials, with Adjutant-
General Hastings in charge The report Of
the registration bureau showed nearly thir-
teen thousand persons yet unaccounted for.
The Army OF the Potomac held its
twentieth annual reunion on the 18th at
Orange. n. J.
THE Legislature of Massachusetts, on the
18th passed bill making it penal offense
to dock horses tails
On the 18th the American Relief Associa-
ton, an organization to succor and assist
communities in distress or calamity OF any
nature, was formed In Johnstown, Pa, by
prominent Pennsylvania and Ohio gentle
men with General Axline, of Ohio, rs pres
ident
AMONG well-posted people at Johnstown,
Pa, the general opinion on the 18th was
that the loss Of life in the flood would be
between 5000 and 1000 The total Of bodies
recovered to date was .9.A