The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-09
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The managers OF the Boston 4 Maine
railroad on the .9th ult ordered heads ol
departments to allow no work on Sunday
except to run regular trains.
IN New York City the centennial celebra
tion on the 30th ult was grand and impos-
ing one. This continent had never seen its
like before. In the great parade nearly
every state and Territory was represented
In the evening the Metropolitan Opera
House was the scene Of probably the great
est banquet ever held within the recollec-
tion OF man. On the evening OF the 9th
the great ball took place
The death of Hon. William IL Barnum
chairman of the National Democratic Com
mittee, occurred Mt Lime Rock. Conn, on
the morning OF the 3oth ult. at the age
OF seventy one years Mr.. Barnum had
been confined to his bed but two or three
days, but Tor several months had been in
poor health.
c The formal opening of the Erie canal
took place on the lst
In the Hyde Park colliery near Wilkes
barre, Pa. Patrick Ritchford, Michael Finn
and Patrick Reagan tminersp We're crushed
to death on the lst by the falling OF o por-
tion of the mine roof.
The schooner Shiloh with crew Of four.
March p, on a fishing trip, was on the Isl
given up as lost.
In Boston on the 1st the twenty-seventf
anniversary of General Buffers occupa.
tion OF New Orleans was observed by the
Butler Club.
OK the lst Senator John Sherman, Johr
G. New, Consul-Generai ut London; w. W.
Thomas, Minister to Sweden and Norway
n 70 Hn,a
duras, sailed for Europe on the steamer
City of New York
Ok the third and last day of the New Yorl
centennial celebration the feature was ,
mammoth civic and industrial parade OF
the 1st. President Harrison reviewed the
procession from stand in Madison square
He left for Washington in the afternoon.
In Pittsburgh a strike of builders, affect
Ing five thousand men, was inaugurated OF
the 1st for an advance of twenty five cent?
a day.
BARTHOLOMEW CURRY and Joseph Evans
of Lowell, Mass, were fatally injured OF
the lst by having barn which they were
moving fall on them.
ANDREW LAWSON and Joseph Luton, botf
farmers accidentally drove into deer
creek on the lst near Manchester, Conn
and were drowned.
AT Germantown, Pa, a building attached
to Catholic college was burned on the I'd
and Ignatius and Michael lillian (students)
were killed
On the 2d the Meriden Conn Maileable
Iron Company failed for $lS0,OOO
BURGLARS entered tho savings bank a
Portersville, Pa, carly on the morning o
the I'd, and carried OFF $50 in cash and ri ).
aOD worth OF jewelry.
On the I'd Jacob Blessing committed sui
eide by jumping over Niagara falls. Disap
pointment in love was the cause
In the E.lblic schools of New York State
the first general observance of Arbor Day
took place on the Sd.
SIxTY-oSE strikes involving Il, 19
strikers, were reported to Bradstreets dur
ing April last, against l23 strikes with 2u, ,ol1
strikers in April, 1885, Since January /
lssa. there We're reported 22l strikes ant
4s aa4 strikers, against 3l3 strikes and ~ ,..6
strikers during the same four months o
1855, and 393 strikes and 1880 strikers II
1881
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN In New York o,
the Sd passed his fourteenth day Of total alb
stinence from food and drink excepting
water and a little weak lemonade. He say
a great pestilence is soon coming and h
will be able to meet IT better by reducin.
his weight
In Leroy, N. Y. a fire on the Sd destroye,
W. D. Matthews 4 Co. Is malt house and con
tents. Loss, saoO,ooo.