The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-22
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An unusually heavy hail aud thunder
storm visited Brown County, Kan, on The
night OF the inth. A laborer on a farm
near Hiawatha was struck by lightning and
killed.
In convention on the lath at Helena it
was decided that that city should remain
the capital of Montana until lS9. when 1t
would be submitted to q vote of the people.
On the 18th Governor Foraker declined
to issue warrant for the extradition of
Richard Carroll. general superntendent of
the Queen & Crescent road, wanted by Gov
ernor Lowry, OF Mississippi, as an alder in
the Sullivan Kilrain prize fight, on the
ground that he was in Ohio when the fight
took place.
Iowa g. A. r. veterans decided on the
18th that they would attend in body the
encampment Mt Milwaukee to be held the
latter part Of this month
Two THOUSAND people were rendered
homeless and over five hundred houses
submerged ut Lincoln, Ncb, on the 18th
River railroad was washed ont IN many
places. Several persons were reported
missing.
In Brown County. Ind r1h deposits of
gold bearing sand have been found along
Beanblossom creek, and OH the 18th a
mining expert visited the place to make
arrangements for testing the quality of the
ore.
FOREST fires at Portland, Ore, on the 18th
Were rapidly consuming forests ala around
that section. Smoke was SO thick III that
city that the sun was completely obscured.
Tramps suspected of starting fires were
caught strung up by the neck, let down
and soundly thrashed.
AT San Diego, Cal, Judge W. L. Pierce
was shot and seriously wounded on the
afternoon Of the 18th by w. = Clendenin.
against whom Judge Pierce had rendered an
unfavorable judicial opinion.
The reports Of the damage done by floods
at Lincoln. Neb., was on the 18th said to be
greatly exaggerated The railroads had
not suffered much, except the Burlington &
Missouri, near Tecumsch, where nearly
twenty miles OF track must be rebuilt. No
houses were washed away
FALLING wall in Chicago on the 18th
killed one man and seriously injured two
others
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS boiler exploded on
the l4th eighteen miles southwest of Aber-
deem. D. r., causing the instant death OF
three men and severely injuring several
others
1hE CulUOI VI tu0 WcstcIu Su1lntldu aOs
vocate. Rev. DR.. Bay iss died ut Bay View,
Mich. on the lith aged fifty y-four years
On tho l4th eX-Judge David S. Terry was
shot and killed by Deputy United States
Marshal David Nagle at Lathrop. Cal.
Justice Stephen J. Field. of the United
States Supreme Court, and Deputy United
States Marshal Nagle were sitting in the
depot diniEg-room at breakfast when
Judge Terry came in. walked over and
slapped Justice Field in the face. Marshal
Nagle fired two shots at Terry, one of the
bullets going through his heart and The
other through the floor. He never spoke
after being shot The assault on Justice
Field was provoked by Judge Terry being
committed to Jail for contempt of court in
the celebrated Sharon Hill divorce cas- ;,
Justice Field presiding over the court at
the time.
MANY thousand acres were on the 18th
ablaze i'm Montana The timber north and
south OF Miles City, it was thought, was
struck by lightning, starting the fire.
A SERIOUS accident was caused ON the nth
by the breaking through trestle of a pas
senger train on the Evansville 4 Terre
Haute railway twelve miles north OF Mount
Vernon, Ind. Twelve persons were serious
ly injured.
The Monon route ON the l4th granted a
one cent a mile rate to veterans desiring to
attend the G. A. II. encampment ut Mil
waukee, that being the first railroad to
make that reduction
THERE were twenty persons reported
killed on the l4th in the district adjacent to
Kansas City, No, by the storm wAich passed
over that section on the night of the 18th
REPUBLICANS In State convention ut Des
Moines, Ia, on the 14th passed q resolution
favoring Chicago for the Worlds Fatr in
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