The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-20
WEST AND SouTH.

HARRISON BLACKBURN and Wesley Clark,
both co.Ored. were hanged on the ilth at
Aberdeen, Miss, for the murder of Major
Pat Hamilton last December.
On the 18th Ross Schoonover, a wealthy
farmer living near kewanee. Ill. was
swindled out OF 5000 by two men who pre-
tended that they wanted to buy farm.
The drowning of Cole Younger, notori-
GUS outlaw of Western Wyoming, while at
tempting to ford a river, was reported on
the llth
DISPATCHES of the llth from Shepherds
town. w. Va, say that great destitution
existed In that neighborhood among the
canal boatmen ON account Of the recent
Hood.
On the 1lth an unsuccessful attempt was
made to wreck and rob passenger train
on the Louisville 4 Nashville road near
Falkville, Ala
s. I. FIELDS, State Senator was shot and
killed at Dalton. Ga. on the llth by his
stcpson Dennis Taylor, whom he attempted
to chastise.
In Indiana high water was doing great
damage on the l1th. In Owen County two
Thousand five hundred acres OF crops We're
under water, and in Morgan, Bartholomew,
Clay and Greene counties it was estimated
that over ten thousand acres more were in
undated
On the llth ]. D. Haggerty, witness in
the CrOnin inquest in Chicago, swore that
Alexander Sullivan told him in 1885 that Dr..
Cronin was a traitor to the Irish cause aud
should be exterminated. The jury found
that Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sulliyan,
Woodruff and Alexander Sullivan were
either principals or accessories to the muir
der. Alexander Sullivan was arrested In the
evening and placed in Jail.
THE statement was made on the 1lth
that in October, 1855, Miss Emma Bond,
victim of the outrage at Tayloryille, ILL., i,
in 1857, was married to G. T. Justus, a
young wood merchant OF Hcpler. Kan. and
that the wedding was kept secret until re-
Gently
The death Of Mrs Esther Rhoa.is, the old
est resident Of Bartholomew County, Ind. !,
occurred at Hartsville on the llth, at tho
age of one hundred and one years.
FOREST fires were raging near Superior,
Wis, on the 18th, and up to date over $500, :
900 worth Of pine had been destroyed.
On the l2th the Michigan monuments of
the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa, were
dedicated
AT Corydon, Ind, James Deavin and
Charles Tennyson were lynched on tho 18th
by two hundred masked men. for robbing
the residence OF james LIE May and serious
~ shooting him.
MOB attacked the jail ut huntsville.
Tenn, on the 18th and secured L. L. Rey-
nolds and Thomas J. Lloyd and hanged
them. Their crime was the killing Of Mrs
j. Harness and her son.
On the 18th the special grand jury impan-
eled in Chicago to act upon the verdict of
the coroner's jury In the Cronin murder case
began taking testimony.
COLE YOUNGER. the desperate, was in the
State prison at saltwater. Minn., on the
18th with his two brothers, and not
drowned. rs reported, in Wyoming.
THE Millers' National Association at their
meetipg in Milwaukee on the lath elected
T. 1. Greenleaf, Of Minneapo Is, president.
WILLIAM W. SIMPSON, aged eighty six
years, postmaster at Silver Springs, Md.
was married on the 18th to Miss Winnie r.
Willis, who is but nineteen years OF age.
The death OF Charles Williamson, q
survivor OF the wsr of lslai occurred IN