The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-03-28
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stfoyed the finest building in the town, con-
tanning four stores, offices and the Masonic
Hail.
On the Blue mountains in the vicinity Of
Bethlehem, Pa, fierce fires were raging on
the 10Th and hundreds of acres woodland
and valuable crops had been destroyed
On the 10Th the Woonsocket Rubber Com
plny purchased the entire Butfum's island
estate OF eighty acres in Woonsocket, T. l.,
on which to erect the largest rubber boot
and shoe factory in the world.
The death of Mrs. Emma Gatewood fcol-
ored) occurred on the 18th at Scottdaje. Pa,
ut the age of one hundred and seventeen
years.
The failure Of Charles II. North & Co., an
extensive pork-packing firm at Boston, oc-
CURED on the 10Th for $50 CO.,
MAJoR-GENERAL ScHoFIELD will be mar
shall of the military parade at New York on
April 30, in honor of the centennial of the
Inauguration of President Washington.
NEAR Days Mills, Mass, house was
burned on the 10th, and Mrs. Russell, aged
seventy-nine years, and two daughters of
q neighbor named Truehart, aged five and
nineteen years. perished in the flames
EARLY on the morning Of the Goth the car
and paint shops of the Central railroad of
New Jersey at Ashley, Pa, were destroyed
by fire. Loss, slOO,OoO
ELEVEN collieries operated by the Le-
high & Wilkesbarre Company near Wilkes
barre Pa, which had been idle since Feb
ruary 2S, resumed work ON the Goth, Civ
ing employment to nearly six thousand
persons.
ABRAM s. HEWITT and Edward Cooper,
proprietors of the New Jersey Steel and
Iron Works at Trenton, N. j., would. it was
said on the Goth, move their works to Chat
tanooga, Tenn. They employ thirteen hun
dred men, paying them 100000 yearly in
wages.
Two BOYS and three women were arrested
on the 2lst at York, Pa, charged with the
responsibility of q recent series of fires in
that locality.
AT Atlantic City, N. j., four houses were
wrecked on the 2lst by high water, and other
damage to property was done.
On tho 2lst Robert Craven, of Philadel-
phia, treasurer of the Philadelphia, Will
mington l. Baltimore Railroad Company,
was said to be $1,000 short in his accounts.
CHARLES NIER, Of Scranton, Pa, ran q
needle into his foot week ago. and
surgeons sought in vain for it On the 3lst
Nier was taken to the plant Of an electric
railway, his foot held near one of the
dynamos, and in fifteen minutes the needle
was drawn out
RHODE ISLAND Republicans on the 21st
nominated Herbert W. Ladd, of Provi-
dence, for Governor, and Daniel G. Little
field for Lieutenant Governor.
JUDGE BENEDICT on the 2lst sentenced
Robert Sigel, son of General Franz Sigel,
who pleaded guilty to forging pension
checks In New York, to six years imprison-
ment at hard labor in tho Erie County
penitentiary.
The two thousand miners of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company were informed as they
were leaving work near Scranton on the 22d
that shutdown" had been decided upon,
to take place ut once.
UNus suALLY high tides and heavy seas had
on the 22d, wrought sad havoc along the
New Jersey coast and the damage to prop
erty would amount to hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars.
FIRE de troyed the court house and city
hall at Dover, N H., on the I'D