The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-10-03


against 81 .0oo On feet q year ago.
REPUBLICANS of Mississippi in State con-
vention on the 25ih at Jackson nominated
General James r. Chalmers for Governor.
W. G. Mathison tcoloredl for Secretary OF
State, and James D. Lynch twhiteD for
Lieutenant Governor.
CHEYENNE was selected by the Wyoming
Constitutional convention on the 18th as
the seat OF government for ten years, o.
until the people voted . change.
Mrs. WiLKIE, seventy years old, was
burned to death on the Goth at Aurora, Ill
her clothing having ignited from lighted
pipe which she had dropped in her lap.
Don CossacK. one OF the most noted
stock horses in the West. valued ut 5000.
died on the 18th at the Stass fair grounds
at Peoria. Ill lie was owned by Arthur
Cation, OF Chicago All Here, another
stallion, valued at $1,000, died on the
same day.
The Maryland Democrats in State con-
vention on he 3Gth at Baltimore nominated
L Victor Baughman, Of Frederick County,
Tor Comptroller.
MAYOR CHEGIEn revoked the licenses of
thirteen saloons In Chicago on the 18th for
not keeping their blinds closed on Sunday.
In Northern and Western Wisconsin
brisk snow-storm prevailed on the 96th
The temperature was low.
In Chicago on the Goth William J. Collins,
. teamster, killed James Cosgrovc, another
teamster. for calling him liar.
ALLEN PETTUs killed Alfred Barnett on
the Goth near Columbus, s. G., in quarrel
over Carrie Black. o young woman. and
when Miss Black heard OF the murder she
committed suicide by taking poison.
The American Bankers Association, n
aaee}On ne Knuaoa Cifr fho Cfsth "a oil ~.
cd President Parsons and yice-Presidcnt
Michael
GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN was reelected
president at q meeting Of the Society Of
the Army OF the Tennessee at Cincinnati on
the Goth
CoUNTERFEITERs were on the Goth circu-
lating spurious dollars on tho North side
In Chicago
OVER 81, ,oOo. coo worth OF pasturage and
timber was destroyed by the recent forest
fires in California The fires spread over
one hundred miles north and south and ten
to eighteen miles east and west
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE Emperor and the members OF his
council were on tho o3d debating me-
mortal demanding the expulsion OF Amer
leans from China There was also strong
agitation for an increase Of tho restrictions
on American merchants and missionaries
at treaty ports
WnKIE COLLINS, the famous novelist, who
had been i'll for some time, died in London
on the 2sd, aged sixty i've years.
The official returns on the Esd from the
recent election in France showed that tho
Republicans had elected their candidates
in 22i and the anti Republicans in 153 di-
visions Re-ballots would be necessary In
lii divisions. The result was q crushing
| defeat for the Boulangists who only 70.
| turned twenty-five members
On the cath Joseph Kemp, aged seventy
two years. was rescued alive from the
ruins at tho scene OF the recent Quebec
landslide. He had been imprisoned one
hundred and eight hours
CRETE dispatches OF the o4th say that the
Christian inhabitants Of the island were
fleeing to the mountains. and that their
cattle and other property was being stolen
by the Turks Many Christians had been
| cast into prison.
The death Of Eliza Cook, the English po-
| etess, occurred at Wimbledon on the 18th
at the age of seyenty-one years
| At Naples terrific storm ragged on the
18th and q large part Of the city was sub
merged
| In Odessa, Russia, a teacher named
Sause committed suicide on the 25th His
wife was SO much affected that she lost her
reason, killed her five children carried
their bodies to third-story window and
threw them to the ground She then threw
herself out. receiving fatal injuries
| The steamer City OF New York. which ar
rived at Queenstown on the 18th. made the
| trip in six days. five hours and twenty five
| minutes.
| By the collapse Of house in Milan. Italy.
on the 10th five persons were killed and
twenty injured.
The Government on the 26th declared
| void the votes cast for General Boulanger
| at Montmartre and for Henri Rochefort at
| Belleville, in the recent elections In
| France. and tho candidates receiving the
next highest number OF votes were de.
clared elected.
A FIRE on the 28th destroyed the Temple
of Heaven at pekin, China containing the
great throne OF the Sacred Dragon.
| THE United States Minister to Germany,
William Walter Phelps, presented his
credentials to Emperor William on the
.6th
On the c6th the body OF Richard Maybury
was recovered in the ruins Of the recent
landslide ut Quebec. Can. Forty four bod.
| les had thus far been found