The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-02
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Association at Harrisburg. Pa, adopted a
resolution on the oath requesting PRESIDENT
Harrison to mention the name OF Christ in
State papers, especially In Thanksgiving
proclamations.
THE ex-rostmaster OF Mount Carmel, Pa.
J. w. Brockie, was arrested on the cath
charged with issuing $4,000 worth Of fraud
ulent money orders.
THE Mammoth Hotel at Rockaway Beach
L. L, which cost over 81, ,Oo0, 90 a few years
ago, was sold 10 q second hand dealer on
she ath for $4,000
On the 9th it was ramcred that a plug
tobacco trust which will embrace all the
Leading manufactures In the country was
oeing formed.
An explosion OF natural gas In the cellar
Of the Landmark Hctel Ut McKeesport, Pa.
on the 9th destroyed the hotel and four
adjoining residences Loss, S25tO0; in
surance, Si2GM
At Philadelphia fire on the a4th de-
stroyed the saddlery hardware establish
ment Of Conrad B. Day & Co., causing loss
Of $33,0C0
The season OF the National Baseball
League opened on the oath, the games re-
sulting. At Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, 8; Chi
cago, 5. At New lork-Boston, s; New
York, Z. At Indianapolis-Indiana 10;
Cleveland, 3. At Washington - Philadel-
phia, s; Washington, T.
THE Harlem electric light works In New
York were damaged by fire on the evening
Of the 25th to the extent of Sl25,0O0
THE death Of Edmund Lowell Dana, dis
tinguished veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, occurred on the 25th at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, aged seventy two years.
OWING to financial losses and illness An
drew W. Bogart. real-cstate dealer thew
York committed suicide OH the 18th.
AT Legronville, IA, ON the 2sth a
'gusher' oil-well was struck. The oil
.purted one hundred and fifteen feet in the
air, and commenced flowing Mt the rate OF
seven hundred barrels day. to the intense
excitement OF the inhabitants.
OLIVER PERRY LEWIS of New York, fixed
the day and hour of his funeral on the 9th
sent invitations to his friends asking them
to attend, and then. arrayed in a full dress
suit, he went to Central Park and drowned
himself in reservoir.
The 'big woman" of Dover, n H., Mrs. D.
9. NJ ri rec, was buried on the 18th. 1t re.
luired eight persons to put the body in the
,asket and all the trimmings had to be re.
moved to allow the casket to pass between
the doors
4 JURY at New York on the 25th declared
Joseph Dion. the well-known billiard
player, to be insane.
The Legislature Of Connecticut voted or
the 18th to submit prohibitory amendment
to the people.
FREIGHT trains on the Pennsylvania rail
road came in collision near Trenton, N. J..
on the aGth, and an unknown man riding In
the caboose of one OF them was killed.
By the explosion of dynamite and EN-
mensite at tho factory OF the Enlnensite
Gun Explosive and Ammunition Company
near Harrison, n. j., on the a6th. Charles
Anderson, the fireman. was fatally injuret
and the building, valued at $4,000, wa
totally destroyed
The failure OF Warren Monsur, a man
! ufacturer OF crackers and biscuits Il
Boston, was announced on the 26th- Hi
debts amount to $500, with assets o
| s12,624
The x-city clerk of New Britain, Conn.
Charles T. Woodruff, confessed on the s6tl
that In the past six years he has forged note
1for s5Oo, 600. but has managed to make al
good save about $4,000 He was ARRESTED
and placed in Jail
by collision of:trains on the Baltimor,
Ia Ohio road on the Goth the lives OF Vice
President Morton and other Governinen
officials were endangered, and several em
! ployes of tho road were injured -,
| THE Governor of Pennsylvania on th,
oUth signed the bill making September l.
known rs Labor Day--a legal holiday II
that State.