The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-13

on the 9TH. Liabilities between e6o. .OUO ana
20 90; assets nominal
On the 5th the enumeration Of Indiana
Fchool children showed that there was
40, 40 In the State. which indicated total
population Of 2. .as}. .066 The apportiOnment
OF school funds Is sl.3, per capita-an In
crease Of four cents over last year.
A FIRE destroyed the st James Hotel NJ
Stevens Point Wis. on the 9TH, and young
man and two girls perishcd III the flames
PIoHIBITIoNIsTs OF Nebraska met at Lin
coin on the 9Th and organized . state
league. and also arranged to establish local
leagues in every county in the state.
THE school census of Nebraska showed
on the 5th a school population Of 3l6. .so5.
which gives total population to the State
Of about 1.eOO.OOa
On the 9th five thousand men were en-
gagged in the work Of clearing away debris
and searching for bodies at Johnstown, Pm
The indications were that the estimate Of
1900 to COO would not exceed the actual
number Of lives lost when all was known.
The militia was in possession Of the town
and its approaches, and sight-scers and
curiosity seekers were debarrcd from enter
ing. Good order prevailed and the home-
less and destitute were being cared for -
amply as possible.
AT Johnstown. Pa. Eddie Fisher, aged
thirteen, whose mother and Ave sisters and
brothers perished In the flood. committed
suicide on the 9th by jumping from the top
Of building.
REpoETs Of the 9Th say that in Steuben
County, N. Y, and adjacent to It between
twenty and twenty five lives were lost and
about S5,OO,O0O worth OF property de-
stroyed In the recent Hood, and in Eastern
Pennsylvania nearly sOO lives were known
to have been lost, and property to the
amount of sl0, ,OO0, ,OcO were swept away
NEAR Girard, Kan, Karl Hahnmann, d
farmer. strangled his wife to death ON the
9th and then went to the barn and hanged
himself No cause was known for the
deed
FLAMES swept away the business portion
Of Seattle, the largest city in Washington
Territory, on the afternoon Of the 9th. Every
bank, hotel, place Of amusement, all the
leading business houses, all the newspaper
Offices the railroad depots. miles ef steam
boat wharves, the coal bunkers, the freight
warehouses and the telegraph Offices were
burned.
On the 9Th j. H. BENJAMIN, editor OF the
Deland tFla) News, shot and instantly
killed Captain J. w. Douglas at New Smyr-
ma The shooting was the result Of an old
feud.
Iowa Prohibitionists met in State conyen-
tion at Cedar Rapids on the 9th and made
the following nominations: For Governor
Malcolm Smith. of Cedar Rapids; Lieuten-
ant-Governor-J. Q. Murphy, Of Jasper
County; Supreme Judge w. A. Maginnis,
of jackson County; Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction Mrs @. A. Dnnham, Of Bur-
lington; Railroad Commissioner - J. w.
Noble. Of Ringgold County.
MRS QuIGLEY, the wife Of well-to-do
farmer living near Peotone, ILL.,. gave her
two children dose Of Rough on Rats
and took some herself on the 9TH while in
sane.
On the 9TH Lon Barrett. notorious horse
Terre Haute, Ind, for passing counterfeit
money.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In Russia the Ural silver miners who were
on strike set fire to the houses Of the man.
ayers and to q number of factories at Eka-
terinburg on the Sd and seven persons were
burned to death.
FouR HUNDRED Panama canal sharehold-
ers at q meeting in Paris on the I'd decided
to send commission to Panama immediate
" to inspect the canal works.
The firm of J. 4 H. Taylor. railway sup
ply merchants of Montreal, Cam, failed on
the 18th for $l0O,UN.
AT Reichenbach, Germany, . hurricane
and watcr-epout on the 4th caused great
loss Of life and property.
The death of Hon j. Hamilton Gray,
Justice Of the Supreme Court Of British
Columbia occurred ut his home in vict0ris
on the 5th
ADvIcEs received in London on the 5th
from missionaries reported that the
Mahdist fanatics had slaughtered thou
sands OF native Christians in Western Abys
sinia and sold thousands OF others into
slavery.
The fund b0tng raised at the legation IL
Paris for the relief of the sufferers by the
flood Mt Jamestown. Pa, amounted on the
9TH to $1,000
The Marchioness dc Chastelcr, m aged
lady OF noble family. was found slain in
her bed on the 9th at Mons, belgium.
Silcsia, a fire en the 9TH destroyed one hun
drcd and ninety-fivc houses, including the
village church and yicarage
In Offenburg, Baden, the cotton mills
were destroyed by fire on the 9th, involving
n loss Of 5000 marks Several women
were killed.
NINETEEN men were crossing the river al
Grcnville, Que, ON the 9th when the boat
capsized and five of them were drowned
LATER.
ArvicGs OF tho :th say ;hss the recent
fra In Seattle, W. l.. caused loss Of 1l5,.
O0O. .0no. with not more than cEc-thi2d GOV.
cred cs .ns.faace. The entire business
port.cn II the city and part OF the resi-
de.ce ue!yhborhood was destroyed, and
hl,nn reds of people were homeless. A mum
Ser OF lives " ere reported lost The burned
district comprised sixty-four acres
THERE were 22J business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 7th, against 2l5 the previous seven
days
The weather Mt Johnstown, Pa, on the
7th was warm, and fears existed that out
breaks Of disease would follow the flood
Five Cases Of diphthe,ia welo reported. and
dyse ,tesy had made it's appearance In
some places. The work Of recovering the
bodies was going on steadily.
A FIRE on the TT at Livingston, Ala do
stsoyed half OF the town
The western part Of Sedgwick County
and tho eastern part Of kingman County
in Kansas, were swept over by a cyclone OF
the .th and all the buildings In q space
twenty miles long by five miles wide were
wrecked and the crops destroyed 4
farmer named Rogers and all the member
Of his family werc killed
A ADIs1INcf shock OF earthquake was felt
In New Bedford, Mass, on the MOI ming o.
the 1th.
JOHN FEAsTEa aud Charles r. Calstol
were hanged on the 7th at Charlotte, s. c..
for tie murder oi W. G. Abcrnothy, mer
chart, IN January last
THE total appropriations of the Illinoi
Legislature Tor the next two years ninoun
to $3.50. .3Si.1S
THREE mon, G. l. Woods. George d. lewis
and H. n Gavin. were killed on the 1th q
Hutchinson, Kan. by boiler explosion.
The IIe.lich piano works ut Paterson, N
j., were burned on the 1th
WHEN the will of Mary J. Kennedy va
DrObated on tho 7th MT lndfanapoiiB Ind