The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-05

W9SnlngCOn on the JOtn ulC Consul stevens,
Of Victoria, B. C., said ther. were over
twenty vessels, valued ut about SIG. 100 and
employing 40 men, engaged In hunting
tur seal.
the EAST.
FIRE destroyed the lumber mill and bob
bin factory Of J. E. Smith 4 Co.. at Black
Falls, Vt, ON the 9TH, causing heavy loss.
JOHN 8. MCINTosH, wool dealer at MIL
ton, Mass, failed on the 27th for lOO,OO0
TEE steamer Wyoming landed 125 Nor.
mons at Castle Garden, New York, on the
27th
The Conemaugh ,PA) valley school
boards appealed on the 27th to the charita-
BILE people and friends OF education
throughout the country Tor aid to buy
books, 40 the general flood relief fund can
not be applied to that purpose.
In . nail factory ut Towanda Pa, .
boiler exploded on the eth killing Richard
Ackley, Sanford Smith. John Bostwick
Isaac Brantford and Guy Reman. and fatally
injuring two other men.
THE marc Belle Hamlin was sent al
Rochester, n T., on tho 9th to break hel
record OF 2:l3a, and she made the mile
without skip in 2:l2s%.
A. CoBURN, SoN 4 Co. g shoe factory Al
and over three hundred workmen were
thrown out Of employment
The ocean race was won by tho steamer
City Of New York on the 9th, making the
trip from New York to Queenstown in sis
days, two hours and fifty minutes
ON the 18th J. B. Johnston, of Pittsburgh
was nominated for 81 ate Treasurer by the
Pennsylvania Prohibition convention at
Harrisburg.
THE steamer City Of Paris reached New
York on tho 2Sth, her time for the voyage
being five days. nineteen hours and eight
cen minutes
The Honton pig Iron works, located few
miles north of Buffalo. N Y, were started
up on the oSth, after being shut down for
sixteen years.
THE representatives of six great coal pro.
ducing companies met in New York on the
18th and decided to restrict the coal pro-
duction for September to three million
tons, . decrease of one million tons from
the corresponding month last year.
II. H WARNER, OF Rochester. N Y, agreed
on the 18th to sell his immense business fol
81 ,OOO, ,OOO to British syndicate The sale
includes the Warner proprietary medi'
cinos, yeast business and q safe manufac.
tory.
FLAMES sWOpU away tu0 DUHlnceS pOIlOn
Of tho historic village OF Sacketts Harbor
N. Y, on the 10Th.
In Boston ON the 10Th Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the genial poet and ''autocrat, y
celebrated his eighticth birthday.
WOMAN suffragists of New York will hold
a state convention at Saratoga October .
and g.
AT the New Hampshire State fair on the
18th at Manchester Mr.. James T. Boyd and
Miss Addie Brooks were married in bal
loon and took wedding trip among the
clouds
The death OF Miss Ann Jones. q residen,
of Jay Bridge, Me-, occurred on the 10Th,
aged eighty seven years She had been an
invalid for seventy years, during the last
sixty years Of which she had been confined
to her bed
ON the :,oth ult. William j. Fry, young
man sent to the Jail at Pittsburgh. Pa. foi
drunkenness. committed suicide in his cell
by stabbing himself In the heart with lead
pencil
AN explosion of hot metal on the 3otl
ult. in the Homestead steel works at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, resulted in the killing Of two
men and the serious burning Of seven 9TH
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