The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

confessed that in November, 1sSS, she mnr.
dered her husband, whose body was found
tied to o tree with his throat cut from ear
to ear. quarrel over property caused the
deed
FIRE destroyed the Narrow Gauge rail-
road shops at Oscecla. Ia, on the 10Th, TO-
gether with several locomotives.
A NAH. train on the Fan Handle road
was wrecked on the 18th near Steubenvillc,
o., and two postal clerks were killed, the
conductor and brakeman were fatally
hurt and half dozen other persons were
injured.
EARLY on the morning Of the 10Th thieves
broke into the post office at Waycross, Ga,
and robbed the safe OF 81 ,lO0 and . number
OF registered mail pouches.
OK the 18th Martin Burke. arrested re-
Gently IN Winnipeg rs an y0complice IN the
murder OF DIR. Cronin, was indicted for
willful murder by tho grand jury In Chi
cago.
TUBA and Jumping Frog, two Choctaw In
their possession, were found murdered on
the 18th in the woods OF Sugar Loaf Mount,
ain in Indian Territory.
The checker tournament between Reed,
of Chicago, and Barker, of Boston, for the
championship Of America and 400 stake
money, closed in Chicago on the 10Th with
victory for Reed the score standing: Reed,
9games; Barker, z; drawn, "a.
AT Nashville, Ark, twenty buildings were
destroyed by fire on the 18th.
DETECTIVE COLLINS, sent from Chicago to
Winnipeg to identify the man there under
arrest as one OF the murderers Of DR.. Cronin,
identified the prisoner on the 10th as Martin
Burke.
NEAR Hopcwell, O., Robert Howick and
Benjamin kIinger, two of the wcalthiest
and most prominent farmers in Mercer
County, were instantly killed by lightning
OH the 10Th.
The death of Rev. John Carroll, the oldest
Catholic priest in the United States, oc-
CURED in Chicago on the 10th. He was
ninety three years old, and had been .
priest sixty years
ELIJAH WooILET. while cutting down a
tree on the 3Oth ut Lima O., had his knee
cap taken of by the head of the axe which
flew from the handle. He lived but short
time.
On the 10th three hundred and twenty
five Mormon proselytes. under the guild
ance of Elders Ellis and Anderson, arrived
in New York from Utah and left immediate.
~ for Utah.
At Miami University in Oxford, O., the de-
gree of l. L d. was on the 2Oth conferred
on President Harrison and Secretary of tho
Interior J. W. Noble, both alumni of the
university.
THE Democratic State Committee of Ohio
on the oOth changed the date for holding
the State convention to August 36 and "a.
In Putnam County, w. Va, three murders
occurred on the 10Th James D. PAUL was
killed by q man whose daughter he had ae-
duced. John Moore killed neighbor, Hen
ry Bradley, and Doc Lawrence, . miner,
killed Tom Stevens, fellow-miner.
On the aGth Mrs Phoebe vennum died Mt
Morrison, Ill, aged one hundred and four
years, eleven months and twenty-six days
She retained her mental faculties to the
last.
Ar vcrmillion, D. r.. a wind-s.orm on
the 10Th wrecked the Catholic church and
other buildings, entailing losses aggregat-
ing $4,000.
On the 10th the steamer City OF Clcye-
lind went ashore on the north shore OF
Lake Superior, causing loss OF $l25,OO0.
In a jealous rage on the 10Th Conrad Bau-
man, Of Carbon, Ind, killed his wife and
then shot himself dead