The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-19

9th and brutally horse-whipped them
and warned them to leave the country
A county-seat war was the cause.
Mr.. TITAMAN McDERMED, q school
teacher, and his wife were drowned on
the 10th by the upsetting Of boat on
White river near Shoals, Ind.
On the 10th the First National Bank
Of Abilene, Kan. closed its doors, with
liabilities Of Si16.25l.
INDIANS on the Sisseton reservation
in south Dakota voted on the 10th TO
sell their lands to the Government. This
throws open to settlement one million
acres.
Hoas in Greenwood County, Kan, were
on the 10th dying by thousands from hog
cholera.
Ex-PRrsoNERs Of war from al over the
country held . reunion on the 10th It
Libby Prison Museum In Chicago.
Mrs. CLAUD AUGUSTINE and her threo
children were drowned on the 11th at
Saukville, Wis. A six-year-old son had
broken through the ice, the mother
went to his rescue, and the other two
children followed their mother, all per-
ishing.
Ar Madison, Wis, General David At
wood, editor and proprietor Of the Wis
consin State Journal, died suddenly on
the 11th, aged seventy-four years. He
was one Of the most widely-known jour-
nalists in the Northwest.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was buried at New
Orleans on the 11th with elaborate cere-
monies. Public buildings and residences
were draped in black, and there was q
large parade Of military and civic bodies.
The settlers of Big Horn Basin, John
son County, Wy. T., attacked Kettle
Jacks gang Of thieves and cut-throats
on the 11th, lynched eleven of them and
drove the rest out Of the country.
HUNDREDS Of families In North and
South Dakota were on the 11th said to
be suffering for want Of food.
Ar Perry's Mills, CAL, . cloud-burst
on the l1th washed away Ave houses.
and Joseph E. Eastman was drowned,
and at Colusa, CAL, the levee gave way,
flooding thousands Of acres and drown
ing C. T. Jones.
In the vicinity Of Cambridge City,
Ind, q cyclone on the nth wrecked
several houses and destroyed other prop
erty.
Iowa Prohibitionists will hold State
convention at Des Moines on the 9th OF
January next.
SEVERAL opium smugglers. with So.
600 worth Of the article in their posses
sion, were captured on the 18th near Ia.
coma, Wash.
JOHN ZIMMERMAN's farm barn near
Wooster, O.. was burned on the 18th,
and twenty-five head Of blooded cattle
perished.
SOME two hundred and fifty families
in Norton County, Kan, were on the
18th reported to be in . destitute condi.
tion.
DIR. REILLY. of Detroit. treasurer oi
the Irish National League, on the 18th
cabled $4,000 to DR.. Kenny, treasurer
of the Irish League, for use Of the ten.
ants defense fund.
TWELVE thieves were captured on the
18th near Cairo, ILL.,, and much valuable
plunder recovered.
In the vicinity OF Elkhorn, Wis,
farmers were plowing on the 18th, the
weather being warm and no frost ap
pearing.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE death Of Henry E. Searle, the
champion oarsman Of the world, occurred
on the 9th at Melbourne, Australia, OF
typhoid fever.
ADvIcEs Of the 10th from Zanzibar say
that the German troops attacked party
of Bushiris, headed by that chief, and
routed them, killing twenty-eight and
wounding large number.
ALL the jewels OF the ex-Empress oi
Brazil were on the 11th reported to have
been stolen. The collection embraced
the finest diamonds in the world.
ROBERT BROWNING, tho poet, aged
seventy-seven years, died In London q
ten o'clock on the evening of the 18th
He had been i'll for some time with bron'
chitis.
DESPITE the amnesty declared in Crcy
twenty Christians were brought before
the authorities there In chains recently
and beaten with canes.
The death Of Edward Bradley, more
commonly known as Cuthbert Bede, &C.
CURED in London on the 18th. He Was 8
contributor to nearly all the English
periodicals..