The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-07-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

On the 18th William Bickle Philip Hearst
and the son of the latter were capsized
from boat III tho Ohio river at Ports
mouth. O.. and drowned
VIGu.ANTEs lynched Maupin, the leader
Of the Keya Paha County cattle 'rustlers"
on the 18th at Spring View, Neb.
MAYOR CREGIER issued the requisite proc
lamation on the 18th declaring Hyde
Park. the town of Lake. Lake View, Cicero
and Jefferson annexed to the city of
Chicago as 4 result of the recent election
The death Of L. 9. Jordan. proprietor OF
the White Sulphur Springs at WincheShcr.
Va, occurred on the 18th from the effects
Of blood poisoning.
At the farm OF Joshua Wartield, near
Florence. Nd, three horses were killed and
eight men stunned by stroke OF lightning
on the 18th.
Two BROTHERS named Heller, doing busi-
ness in St Louis as foreign bankers, left for
parts unknown on the 10th, taking with
them about $4,000 belonging to poor for
eignerS
The failure of John T. Burton, OF Elk
horn, Wis, known as the Gogebic Iron
King, occurred OH the 10th for sSN,OO0
DEMOCRATS in Mississippi met in State
convention on the 10th ut Jackson and
nominated J. NJ. Stone for Governor.
The annual session OF the National Edu-
cational Association began in Nashville,
Tenn, on the 10th, with about $50 dele
gates in attendance.
On the 10th John Abram Ortez, a Mexican,
was haEged at Antonit0, Col. for the mur-
der of q miner named Q. T. Leduc last
March On the scaffold Ortez confessed to
having committed the crime.
A MOB attacked Deputy Chambers near
Waynesboro, Tenn, on the 10th, took q
prisoner from him named Brown, under ar
rest for murder, and lynched him.
FLAMES on the 10th destroyed the French
brewery. one of the largest in Indiana,
owned by Centlivre Co., and situated one
mile north Of Fort Wayne. Loss, s3O.0O0
NEAR Paola Kan, Addie and Kate Cor
don and Myrtle Cranky. ranging in ago
from eleven to fourteen years. were
drowned in the river ON tho 18th while
bathing
In Chicago on the 10th Judge Horton de-
MED the third application OF John +. Beggs,
the senior guardian OF Camp 20, under in
dictment for the murder Of DR.. Cronin, for
writ OF habeas corpus.
On the Cairo 4 yincennes road q passen-
ger train went down an cmbankment on
the 18th near Mt Carmel. Ill, and fifteen
persons were seriously injured.
ON the 18th fro at Columbus o., which
started in the building of the German
Furniture Company, caused loss OF $3.50
coo.
At the annual meeting OH the l7th, Of the
Western Associated Press at Detroit, Mich,
L. Mack was elected president
At Columbus. Tex, the Colorado river
was thirty -one feet high and still rising on
the 18th. The low lands were all inundated,
and crops were entirely destroyed The
damage to the cotton crops alone In that
vicinity was estimated at half a million dol.
lars.
FIRE destroyed the business portion ol
Shell Rock, Ia, on the 18th.
FouR men while endeayoring on the 18th
to recover watch which had fallen into 8
cesspool at Lincoln, Neb., were overcome
by gas and foul air and were killed.
The car shops Of the Eel River division OF
the Wabash road, located at Butler, Ind.
were almost entirely destroyed by fire or
the 18th, throwing over one hundred meI
out of employment Loss. slUO,O0O.
FOREST fires in the woods of Multnomal
County, Ore. and in Southern Washington
Territory had on the 18th done damage K
the extent OF million dollars
The four children of Joseph Hunter,
planter living near Star City, Ark, wer,
fatally poisoned on the 18th by eating foot
in which arntca had been placed. Tht
criminal and the motive were unknown.
EARLY OH the morning of the l1th JOIN
Elkins, farmer living IN Elk township
Clayton County, Ia, and his wife wer.
found murdered In their bed. An eleven
year. old son was suspected OF the crime
HARTMAN PlAAV, twice tried and con