The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-15


ton to be the best and highest price for
mining coal that the Coal Run Company
could pay to Its miners
Az explosion OF fireworks at Kensington
Gardens. st Louis on the 7th injured sew
cral persons. The .Siege OF SebastOpop
was being produced
TOLEDO. o., struck q vein OF gas on the
eth which yielded 20 $4,000 feet per day.
THE Alabama State Farmers Alliance in
session at Auburn on the eth reiterated
their determination to use cotton bagging
for wrapping cotton AMI would under no
circumstances use inte.
IT was decided by Governor Thayer, Of
Nebraska, on the 7th not to raise the quar-
antine against livestock shipments from
the Kansas City stock yards.
An express train on the Rio Grande West
ern road was attacked by train robbers
near Crevasse, Col, on the night OF the
9th, and after q vain attempt to break into
the baggage-car went through the train
and collected $3.50 and twenty watches A
posse was in pursuit with bloodhounda
A SEVERE rain storm on the 7th visited La
Crosse, Wis. Five houses were struck by
lightning.
TEE Northern Illinois coal-field opera
tors Oh the Sth refused to make any con-
cessions. insisting that the mines could not
be operated at less than q ten-cent roduc-
ton The miners offered to accept five
cents.
PASSENGER train on the Wisconsin Cen
trail was boarded on the Sth between Chip
pcwa Falls and Abbotsford by a single rob
bsr, who at the point of pistol compelled
the sleeping-car conductor, porter and one
passenger to g We up their valuables and
then leaped of the train and escaped.
The Western Wholesale GrOcers' Associa-
tion, by rising vote and amid great APP
plause, adopted q resolution favoring Chi
cago for the worlds fair at Spirit Lake, Ia-
ON the Sth-
The Illinois Board Of Agriculture re-
ported on the Sth an average yield per acre
OF thirty-seven bushels Of oats, which-ex-
cept last season-is the l rgest State aver
age ever grown.
IT was stated on tho sth that the man ar
rested at Scottsborongh, Ala, bore not the
slightest resemblance to Richard Tate, the
Kentucky defaulttng treasurer
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The Haytian Consulate at Now York re-
ceived advices on the 5th to the effect that
Hippolytc and bis forces made an attack on
Port au Prince July ., and was repulscd
with heavy loss.
count Of terrible riot occurring there be-
tween two factions of Chinese coolies, num-
bering about i've thousand Many were
Kill led. The Siamesc troops charged the
rioters, and after bayoneting a number OF
them, qnelled the disturbance, and capt.
ured nine hundred Of them, who were after
ward fined and released
CHRISTIANS and Moslems in Crete en-
gagged in battle on the 9th. in which ten
we're killed on cnch side and many
wounded The Government of Greece has
demanded Of the powers that they restore
order in Crete, or she will do so In order to
protect hef own subjects against the Turks
GERMAN advices on the 9TH stated that
the Government were prohibiting meetings
OF working men on various pretexts
A MAN named Bonningre was sentenced
in Paris on the 9Th to twelve years i'm
prisonment with hard labor, followed by
ten years exile from France, for selling
diplomatic documen 8: to German agents
while an employe Of the Danish Ministry In
Paris
REPORTS ON the 7th from Father Point,
Quebec, stated that the steamship Montreal,
which sailed from Montreal for LIVERPOOL
on July 81, was total wreck on Belle Isle.
The passengers and crew were saved
AT Liverpool, Eng, Mrs. Maybrick, the
American woman on trial for the murder
of her husband, a Liverpool cotton dealer,
by poisoning, was on the sth found guilty
Of wiliful murder by the jury and SEN
fenced to hang.
Ar Aldershot, Eng, Emperor vii fam. OF
Germany, reviewed 5000 English troops
on the 7th In banquet which followed
he said he would always make 1t his duty
to maintain the traditions Of good fellow
ship existing between the two countries
SEVERAL Irish members started across the
floor In the English House of Commons on
the Sth with the intention Of assaulting
Mr.. Balfuur, who was accused OF using an
insulting gesture toward Mr.. Harrington
After much uproar peace was finally re-
stored. Mr.. Balfour denying that he had
used an insulting gesture and Mr. Harring.
ton apolcgizing fer his llasty action.
STRENUOUS efforts were being made In
London and liverpool on tho Sth to secure
q reprieve for Mrs Maybrick, the American
woman under sentence OF death for the
murder OF her husband, the verdict OF
guilty being very unfavOrably received by
the people
At Tavistock. Eng. Oh the Sth Mr. Lin
coin. the American Minister to st james,
spoke at DINNER in honor of the fifty
"Scripps League" working-men from