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

a FREIGHT traic dashed into q number
Of workmen at Wilkcsbarrc, Pa, on the
4th, and two were instantly killed and
three fatally injured
Az express gUing East on the Penn
sylvania road was wrecked on the 4th
near Grccnsburg. Pa, and dozen per-
sons were injured. some fatally.
Ok the 5th the Union Hank Of New
York City went into voluntary assign
ment. with assets Of SAG, SO. Is and liza
bilities of S256.Os2.5 81.
Ar the Tomhs prison in New York
Harry Carlton was hanged on the 5th
for the murder Of Policeman Brennan.
October 2s. 1888.
FIRE on the 5th damaged the Monon-
gahela House at Pittsburgh, Pa, one Of
the Oldest and best-kDown hotels in the
country, to the extent of 100000.
WEST AND oourH.
WILLIAM HANSON and James and Will
lam Henderson were drowned in the
river at Guyandotte, w. Va. on the I'd.
On the Sd the Central Elevator Conn
pany IT. A. Cheek. preAdent.) At Chat
tanooga, Tenn, failed for sl69, ,29e.
On the Sd Mrs. Mound was burned to
death by the explosion of gasoline
stove at Kansas City, Kan
MRs. c. r. Mills, wife of the Episco-
pal rector at Kalamazoo, Mich, gave her
infant child morphine on the Sd and cut
her own throat in three places. No
cause was known.
THE Agassiz Mining Company. Of
4
on the Sd, with liabilities Of S114,OOO;
assets, 500. 600.
AT Memphis, Tenn, cotton dealers on
the Sd estimated the maximum cotton
crop Of the United States for 1Ss9-90 at
7,124, 900 bales.
WHILE temporarily insane on the Sd
Mrs. John Slowbaugh. young married
woman Of Stanford, ILL.,. drowned herself
and her child in q we'll.
On the Sd Joe Vermillion was taken
from Jail at Upper Marlboro, Nd, and
hanged by a mob. He was accused Of
wholesale incendiarism.
THE Legislature of North Dakota con-
vcned at Bismarck on the Sd.
In Chicago on the 4th delegates repre-
senting cattle commission men from all
parts Of the country met and organized a
National Live Stock Exchange.
PAPERS were filed at Columbus, O., on
the 4th by w. v. Marquis tDem.) con-
testing the election Of +. L. Lamson
tRep.l to the Office of Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor.
At Pullman, ILL.,, a fire ON the 4th
destroyed 100000 worth Of car lumber
belonging to the Pullman Company.
FLAMES destroyed one-half the busi-
ness portion of Shell Lake, Wis.,, on
the 4th.
w. w. NIvIsoN contested at Youngs-
town, O., on the 5th 10 Obbing the
United States Express of $500 five
years ago. 4 sad feature Of the case is
that his chief clerk was driven insane
over being suspected of the crime.
At East Tawas, Mich, the Miner
House was partially destroyed by fire on
the 5th. Two charred bodies were found
in the ruins and five men were injured
in fighting the flames.
THE death of Jefferson Davis, the
| leader of the Southern Confederacy, oc-
Cured in New Orleans at 12:45 o'clock
on the morning of the 9th. at the age
| of eighty-one years. He had been i'll
for some weeks. His wife and several
friends we're present when the end
came.
A BOILER in Calhonn's gin at Colfax,
La, exploded on the 5th. killing six
men and two women and wounding
many others-all negroes.
THREE Apache Indians, sentenced to
be hanged for murder, strangled them
selves in their cells on the 5th in the
| Jail at Florence. A. +.