The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-11-21

their clothing. Two men perishcd in
tho famcs.
IN session on the 18th at Denver. Col.
the silver convention adopted a rcsolu-
tion recommending that Congress pro-
vide for tho coinage Of at least $1,000
600 OF silver cacii month.
Is the cronin murder trial in Chicago
the prosecution rested its case on the
18th, and an adjournment was taken un-
til the 18TH.
IT was said on the 18th that tho Hoke
family, of st. Louis. had fallen heir to
s45. 900. 600 by the death Of relative at
Birmingham, Eng.
OK the nth the bones Of Svenska
Torgcson and his wife were found in the
smoldering embers of their home near
ST. Peter, Mimi. There was . strong
suspicion Of robbery and murder.
Az explosion in a pyrotechnic factory
at Petersburg, Va. on the 18th destroyed
six thousand pieces of fireworks and
killed three Italian workmen.
Lock & SNITH's stock barn near
Louisville, KY, was burned on the l4th,
and seventeen brood mares and sixteen
ycarling colts perishcd in the flames.
NEAR White Rock, Col, William
Richardson. Ralph Shaffer and Lou
Waltham were killed by the premature
explosion of giant powder on tho 14th.
BY the falling OF o mass Of coal at
Middle Creek colliery, near fremont.
Pa, Francis Klein. John Jones, Henry
Knauber and Thomas Jones were killed
on the 14th.
A BLAST on the 14th killed six men
who were at work on the Northern Pa
cific road in jefferson County, Mont.>
and two others had their eyes blown out.
On the 14th an organizati ton to DO
known as the National Reform party
was perfected in Chicago.
In Salt Lake City applicants for
naturalization swore on the 14th that.
they had to 60 through the endowment
house in order to be married, and that
they were sworn to hostility to Uncle
Sam and to avenge Joe Smiths blood.
They also told of murders done by the
Mormons.
SEvESrY-FIvE families in Eolette
County, n. D., were on the 18th said to
be in starving condition.
FIRE destroyed James T. Gill's livery
stable at Clarksville, Tenn, on the 18th
and fifteen fine horses were burned.
THOMAS HaIDISsoN and wife were
fatally and their two children danger
ously injured by the explosion Of can
of powder on the 18th in their dwelling
near Winslow. Ind.
TIE investigation into the character
of the oaths administered in the Nor
mon ceremonies in the endowment
house at Salt Lake City was continued
on the 18th, Levi Axtell and others
swearing that the penalty for divulging
secrets was death.
A MOB hanged George Washington
(colored) on the 18th at Magnolia.
Miss, for assaulting white lady.
OK the 18th John Dawson, of Terre
Haute, Ind, celebrated the one hum
dredth anniversary of his birth.
T THE death of Samuel Clemens occurred
at Manchester, H., on the 18th, at the
age Of nincty-six years.
| On the 18th DR.. r. A. Gerard, prac-
ticing physician. was placed in Jail at
Chattanooga, Tenn, for bigamy, he hav-
ing ten wives.
| FOREIGN lNTElll6ENCes
At Belfast, Ireland, a branch Of the
| Knights of Labor was formed on the
| llth by tho rope workers.
THE death OF Ambrose D. Mann, Sec
retary OF State under President Pierce,
| occurred on the 18th in Paris, at the age
Of eighty-ninc years.
NEAR Alton. Ont, . dam gavc way on
the 18th, wrecking six mills and several
dwellings, and an old man named Harris
and his wife were drowned.
A PIT caved in on tho 18th in coal
mine at Ratibor, Prussian Silesia, and
twenty miners lost their lives.
THE firm of Il w. Morris & Bro, pro-
prietors OF plaster and cordage works at
Montreal, Can, failed on the 14th 10,
81. 100000.
In the royal powder factory at Hanau,
Germany, an explosion on the 14th killed
eight persons and injured twenty-cigh,
| others.
! DISPATCHES Of the 18th say that q rev.
olution had broken ont in Brazil, and
that the movement aimed ut the over.
throw of the Government and the proc.
lamation OF a republic, and was sup
ported by the urmv.