The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-25
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
EaoM WASHINGTON.

gers Taylor occurred at Washington on the
18th
ON the 10th Emancipation Day was cele-
brated by the colorcd people of the District
OF Columbia by . parade Of military and
civic associations.
THE President on the 10th appointed WILL
lam r Hepburn, of Iowa. to be Solicitor of
the Treasury. and James A. Sexton to be
postmaster at Chicago.
The President made the following APP
pcintments on the 18th: Z. y. Lacey, Of
Michigan, Comptroller of the Currency;
Robert P. Porter. Superintendent Of the
Census; and William H. Calkins, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court Of the Terri
tory Of Washington.
WH1TELAw REID, the newly appointed
Minister to France. took the oath Of Office
on the 18th ut the State Department
FRoM all parts OF the country reports on
thc 18th indicated that the peach crop this
season would be the largest ever known,
that the crop Of fruit generally would be
good, and that the yield OF vegetables
would be enormous
THERE were 2l1 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
ON tho 10Th, against 9: % the previous seven
days
On tho 10Th q new cOmmandery of the
Union Veterans Union at Washington was
named for Philip H. Sheridan.
THE EAST.
On the 18th the pilot boat Enoch Turley
was reported as lost while trying to reach
the Delaware bseakwater. Ten men, resi-
dents of Philadelphia, were on board and
lost their lives
The death OF Mrs. Hannah Battersby. said
to be the largest woman in the world, oc-
Cured on the 18th at her home in Frank
ford, Pa, at the age of forty seven years.
A few years ago she married John Ba ters-
by, living skeleton" and when married
weighed 6sS pounds At the time Of her
death she weighed 800 pounds
GENERAL FRANZ SlGEL resigned the Office
Of Pension Agent at New York ON the 10th.
He Is sixty-fve years old and much broken
down by his sons disgrace.
JOSEPH p STEWART (colored). after spend
Ing twenty mine years Of his life in prison
at Trenton, N. j.. was given his freedom on
the 18th.
THE Standard Oil Company, it was said on
operations from the Pennsylvania fields to
FLAMES nearly swept away Centerville, R
l., on the 10th.
THOMAS DOMINIQUE, Spaniard. killed
his wife and himself with razor on the 10th
at Buffalo, n Y. Jealousy was the cause.
PATRICK McATAMNEY, o switchman, at
Jersey City, n. j., on the 18th jumped be-
fore an engine and saved the life Of q ten
year-old boy, but he was run over and
killed.
On the 18th Fred Grant, the newly-ap-
pointed Minister to Austria. left New York
for that country. Hon. Albert G. Porter,
United States Minister to Italy, sailed on
the same steamer.
The failure of Thomas F. Scanlon. a
piano manufacturer with offices at Boston
and New York and q factory at Roxbury,
Mass occurred on the nth with liabilities
Of s2OO,OOO
MRS JAMES FIELD. Of Butler. Pa, shot
and killed her husband on the 18th. The
shooting was in self-defense
AT Hartford, Conn, John H. Swift was
hanged ON the 18th for the murder of his
wife ON July Z, 1857. He shot her because
she refused to live with him.
Two MEN engaged on the 18th in tearing
down telegraph wires in New York were
pulled from the window OF building by
the sudden falling of pole and killed
On the 18th Charles Rice, living near
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'ubbing kerosene on his breast While thus
engaged the can exploded, burning the house
and fatally iniuring Rice.
On the 18th Edgar King, son of Joseph
King, wealthy farmer near Montgomery,
Mass. murdered his father, set fire to the
house and then killed himself He was sup
posed to have been insane.
CHESTER COLLINS and Frederick BrOder-
ick we're arrested on the 18th ut Roundout,
n ", for making and circulating counter
felt money.
IT was SO warm in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
18th that two men were overcome by the
heat and would probably die.
FLAMES among elevators and warehouses
in New York City on the 18th did damage
to the extent of s3.5N,0 ,0O The east bank
of the North river was swept clear from
Fifty ninth to Sixty-fifth street Five men
probably lost their lives in the flames, and
several others were injured
HAVING taken the Office under the Gov
eminent of Minister to France, Whitelaw
Reid retired from the editorship and direc-
tion OF the New York Tribune on the 10Th.
The failure OF the Calendar Insulating
and Waterproofing Company Of New York
occurred on the 10Th for $400,0 ,0OO
The battle Of Lexington was fought one
hundred and fourteen years ago, and at
Lexington and Boston on the 10th ami !
versary exerciseswere held.