The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-30

desert her, committed suicide ON tie I'D,
shooting herself through the heart.
For highway robbery, Minnie Noses.
negro woman in Alabama, was on the I'D
sentenced to be hanged June 2s
GOVERNOR LUCE, of Michigan, on the I'D
issued proclamation prohibiting the i'm
portation OF Texas cattle into the State un-
til November next
THROUGHOUT Eau Claire County. Wis.
immense damage was done to crops by .
hard frost on the night Of the 21st. leo
formed and potatoes. corn, strawberry
plants and other garden crops were der
stroyed everywhere.
In the Carter divorce case, which had
been on trial IN Judge Ja,nieson's court in
Chicago for over five weeks the jury re-
turned verdict for the defendant, Leslie
Carter, on the I'D.
NEAR Santa Monica, Cal, two thousand
acres Of wheat caught fire on the I'D and
the entire tract was destroyed
Two STRANGERS managed to pass 900 In
counterfeit money in two hours on the I'D
on the merchants Of Rushville. Ind
DAVID s. WATSON was sentenced at Rock
vile. Ind, on the e3d to the penitentiary
for life for the murder Of John Hudson Mt
Judson on September 2S
TACOMA IN. IT, advices of the 23d say
one Robert Shields had secured Judgment
from the United States Supreme Court for
q, 900 COO for hts rights to land partly Occu-
pied by the city of Omaha, Neb., and which
was acquired by him twenty or thirty years
ago and jumped by the Omaha Town Site
Company.
The house Of Rev. f. c. Clarke, Baptist
minister, near Virginia Beach, Va, was
burned early on the morning of the ed,
and he, his two daughters and a son and q
niece visiting him were consumed by the
flames. His wife and two children escaped
The fire was OF incendiary origin.
PERRY JONES, OF Seymour, Ind, was ut
the circus with his family on the sd when
his house was entered by thieves, who
stole $500 worth OF money and iewelry.
NEAR Murdock, ILL.,. George Cutler and
the team he was driving were instantly
killed by lightning on the 2Sd. Not an
abrasion of the skin could be found on
either man or horses.
| ON the 23d three brothers named Read
and their wives celchEated their golden
| wedding at the old homestead near Scotts-
vile, Ky 1t was probably the most re-
| markable event OF the kind In the history
of the world.
NEAR Plaquemine. La, forest fires were
doing great damage on the 23d
| DANIEL COLLINS, of Alliance, o., aged
| seventy-five years, made desperate by cruel
acts OF his wife and her brother, hanged
himself in nm orchard on the asd
| THE death OF Judge H. J. Albeit, said to
| be the oldest Odd Fellow in the United
! States, occurred on the sd ut Warsaw, Ky,
at the age of seventy-nine years
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
/ IT was said on the 18th that the plot against
-
covered by the st Petersburg police was
far reaching one. ltinvolved over hundred
military officers Of more or less promi-
nence, several of whom had committed sui
:. eide.
/ The House OF Lords ON the 10th, by q
vote of i0s to %, rejected a proposal made
/ by the Earl of Meath to allow women to sit
| in county councils.
| In Austria the number OF persons drowned
in the recent floods was on the 3Oth placed
at one hundred.
CoAL-MINERs who were on a strike in tho
Dortmund, Bochum and Essen districts in
Germany resumed work on the olst.
FoRTY-FIvE persons lost their lives
through the recent floods In Bohemia
ON the aist the City of Paris arrived Mt
Queenstown, having made the run from
4 New York In five days and twenty-five
hours, thus beating all previous ocean rec
ords.
The steamer German Emperor, from Lon
don for Bilboa ran into the steamer Beres-
ford on the 2lst, and the Emperor was sunk
and six of her crew were lost Both were
British vessels
The Ella and Quatre Freres, two fishing
vessels, which left France some time ago
for the Newfoundland fisheries with one
hundred and seventy-fise men on board,
were on the I'D given up as lost and all
hands drowned
On the 222d post of the Grand Army OF
the Republic WINS established at Ottawa,
Can, and branches would be formed IN
other cities There was said to be- three
thousand veterans in Canada
CHINESE advices Of the I'D say that eleven
Chinese were decapitated in the province
OF Hupel for numbering a man who was
attempting to arrest one of them.
The steamships Polynesian and Cynthia
cOllided opposite Tongue Point twelve
miles east Of Montreal, on the I'D, and the
latter sank and ninc lives were lost
ON the a9d Robert +. Lincoln, American
Minister to England, reached London.
In Vera Cruz, Mex, the spread of yellow
fever waa very alarming ON the 22d
IN the Lauterbach district of Germany
nine persons We're drowned or killed by
lightning during storm on the 23d
LATEa.
THERE were 40 business failures In the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 24th against l9l the previous seven
days. Total of failures in the United States
from January to date is 1900, against 3Ss
In 1883
A NUMBER of Frenchlnen were arrested or
the Ath by the German authorities ut Saltz.
matt, Alsace. on u charge of treason
COLONEL SAMUEL SHocH died on the 2itl
at his home in Columbia, Pa, eyed ninety
two years. He was pensioner OF the wal
OF 49,.
AFALLING bucket on the 9th in the Pet
tibone shaft OF the Delaware I.ackawanna
& Western railroad ut Wilkesbarre, Pa,
killed one miner and fatally injured five
others
A cLoUD-BURsT occurred on the 34th al
Nashville, Ind, flooding the first floors oi
business houses and residences and doing
much damage.
THREE men, Anthony Zeensnhold, Henry
Wiltholder and James Dolan, were suffo-
Gated on the oath In colliery at Branch.
dale. Pa, by the sudden outburst of gas
The crops in the Pressburg district ol
Hungary had on the cath been wholly de.
stroyed by floods. Many buildings were
submerged and large number OF houses
had been undermined and wrecked
JOHN G. BRADLEY, cashier OF the Mer.
chants National Bank OF New Haven
Conn. was on the 24th said to be 41OO,OO(
| short in his accounts.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 9th ap
pointed b. I. Gilkerson, OF Pennsylvania,
to be Second Comptroller Of the Treasury.
The dormitory attached to the Orphans
Home at Wabash, Ind. was burned on the
24th. None of the children were in the
building at the time.
The monument to the Confederate dead
at Alexandria, Va, was unvailed on the 24tI
by Governor Lee.