The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-25

tWo years. professional beggar, OccurTo4
In New Orleans on the 18th Of debility ana
neglect in an old shanty where she ha4
lived twenty years She was supposed tc
be very poor. but the coroner In inspecting
the circumstances of her death discovered
hidden around her shanty 43S, 800.
On the farm Of Richard Davidson, near
Charlottesville, Ind, a large barn was
burned on the 18th with its contents, In
cluding SIX horses and q number OF cattle
ISAAC JONES (colored) broke nearly every
bone in the body OF his four r-year-oid child
with an iron bar and then beat his wife to
death on the 18th ut Jacksonville, Fla. He
claimed to be subject to fits. and that he had
one Mt the time.
TRAMP assaulted Mrs Henry Bennehoff,
scventy-five years old, on the 18th near.
Iffiin, O., and SO badly injured her that she
died in short time.
On the 18th the steamer Everett, raft
boat belonging to the Burlington la Lum-
ber Company, was sunk at the head OF Otter
island. and five of the sixteen persons on
board were drowned.
AT Isabel, Kan, wind storm on the 18th
destroyed five houses and ruined crops.
On the 18th 4 bag containing si5, 600 in
gold disappeared from the Northern Pa
cific Express Office at Brainerd, Mimi, and
OuCl6LS GWu ClCKk6 WGI6 COulklGU6Iy EU0
dark as to it, whereabouts
CHARLIE HAYES. aged four years, and his
sister Mamie, aged two years. were fatally
burned by their clothes catching fire while
playing near q burning brush heap on tho
18th at Upton, Mo-
FLOODS had ON the 18th ruined the pota-
to, pea and bean crops in portions Of vir-
ginia-
AN incendiary fire destroyed the business
part of Cheney, W. T., on the 18th.
NEAR life-saving station No. 81, near
Norfolk, Va, vessel went ashore on the
18th, and all on board were drowned before
any assistance could reach them.
JAMES MILLS. half Indian and half negro,
and Michael Allen. a one-armed negro. were
hanged on the 10Th at Fort Smith, Ark, for
murder.
AT vincennes, Ind, Sylvester Grubb was
hanged on the 18th for the murder of his
Gertrude Downey, at Prince
ton, Ind, September Is, 1888
THE town OF Hinckley. ILL.,, was struck by
a cyclone on the 10Th plowing path one
hundred feet wide through the village, un-
roofing or blowing down every building In
its course. No one was killed.
On the 10Th five Mormon missionaries
were whipped, tarred and feathered and
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THE thirty ninth regular session OF the
Wisconsin Legislature terminated on the
10th.
A. g. SPALDINd and his band of baseball
players arrived in Chicago on the 18th and
were given a hearty welcome after an ab-
sence OF six months on q tour around the
world
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
H. Al.
residences of General Boulanger, Count
Of more or less compromising papers were
seized.
Mr. PARNELL instituted suit against the
London Times for libel on the 10th, claim
ing 9lOO, 600 damages
BY an explosion five persons were killed
on the 18th in the Rothschild colliery at
Iiefblau, Austria, and six other workmen
were missing.
CHOLERA was raging on the 18th in the
Philippine Islands, where, out Of fifteen
hundred persons attacked, one thousand
died
In Paris on the 18th warrants were issued
for the arrest OF sixty more members Of thu
Boulangist party.
ADvIcEs Of the 18th brought details Of the
slow starvation OF thousands in the north
Chinese provinces In one town on tho
banks Of the Yellow river women walked
the streets and publicly offered their chill
iiren for sale to save them from famishing.
Missionaries were feeding eighty thousand
persons, but this was not more than a If
tieth part Of the number that were starv-
ing.
On the 18th six thousand emigrants sailed
from Liverpool, a few of whom were bound
for the Argentine Republic and the rest for
the United states.
Ar Bicze, Wang and Bistritz, in Hungary,
q famine was raging on the 18th, and hum
dreds Of persons were starving and dying.
FRENCH-CANADIAN papers stated on the
10th that the volume OF emigration from
Quebec to the United States this year
promised to exceed that OF any previO0R
year in the history Of the province. O1o
paper said it would reach one hundred
thousand.
A NIHIL1sTIc plot to assassinate the Cxar
was discovered on the 18th at St Peters
burg.
EMIGRATION from the southwest Of Ire-
land was on the 10th causing alarm, as tho
country was being rapidly dcpopulated
A FIRE on the 18th nearly destroyed the
Indian village OF Iroquois, In Canada, hav.
ing q population of eleven hundred, al In
dians
LATER.
The, steamer Missouri arrived at the
Delaware breakwatcr the alst having on
board $40 Of the passengers Of the steam-
er Danmark. The Danmark became dis
abled April 4th. The next day she met
the Missouri and was towed by her for
two days. AS soon as the Danmark be-
gan to sink her crew and passengers were
transferred to the Missouri which pro-
ceedcd to tho Azores island where the
4irst and second officers and $40 OF the
passengers were left.
AAAN registered at the Windsor Hotel,
ST. Paul. as Albert Buscler, Fairfax,
Minn., was found in his room dead the
morning Of the Goth. Upon retiring he
had blown ut the gas and death resulted
from suffocation.
WILBUR NJ. RAY, q man about 20 years Of
age living near Medford, Mimi, was found
burned to death the 3Oth. He was engag-
ed in burning brush and it 10 supposed
fell into the 1ire and could not cxtricate
himself.
BUcKBEE. a small town in Wisconsin,
was entirely wiped out by tire the 2lst
Loss estimated ut 800. 900.
DANIEL TABI.ER was killed at New Lenox,
Ill, by the Rock Island express tho after
noon Of the Goth.
AT Sellers coal mine, Morris, H., on
the 2Oth, VIM. Cummings was crushed by
. four-ton rock.
A FIRE in Dehn's hotel, Detroit, Mich,
the 2lst, caused the death Of three men
and serious injury to the fourth.
A SHOWER OF snails was reported from
Thin, o., tho 10th, during thunder