The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-11


W. W. WELLS, superintendent of the Gin
cinnati Southern division OF the Queen and
Crescent system died suddenly In his car on
the 18th at Somerset, Ky.
JACOB HERSuNG, a New Albany lnd)
brewer. committed suicide on the 4th by
shooting. owing to financial losses.
Ina collision on the Louisville x Nashville
road on the 4th near Decatur, Ala. three
men were killed and many persons
wounded .
OS the 4th Dwight l. Moody, the evan
gelist, opened a convention for Christian
workers at the Chicago Avenue Church,
Chicago, on the 4th. The meetings would
continue from thirty to sixty days. accord
ing to the interest manifested.
MRS. BRIDGET DooDY, OF Mineral Point,
Wis, on tie 4th celebrated her one hun
dred and seventeenth birthday. She was
born in Knockmahon, Ireland, I'm 1172, and
was still in good health
UNITED STATES MARsHALs who attempted
on the 4th to make evictions from Des
Moines river lands near Fort Dodge, Ia,
were met with armed resistance and driven
from the field
PRAIRIE fires had on the 4th completely
wiped out three towns in South Dakota, and
hundreds OF farin-houses had been de-
stroyed also barns, with all their contents
and many persons were homeless and en-
tirely destitute. The losses were placed
at s2.Ooo.UO. Several lives were lost
PEor HARRY LEROY, an aeronaut, made
an ascension at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 4th, and
when at q height OF four thousand feet
dropped from the balloon and, with the aid
OF parachute, landed safely.
REPORTS on the 9Th to the Indiana Board
Of Agriculture from all over the State in
dicated that the growing wheat was in
splendid condition.
OK the 5th Daniel Baugh, pioneer Of
Seymour, Ind, reached the age of one hun
dred years. He was in good health
THE discovery was announced on the 9Th
of rich placer diggings in the Bear Paw
mountains, fifty miles north of Fort Benton,
NJ T.
AT Fordyce Ark, on the 5th the sheriff
OF Titus County, Tex. arrested Frank Shulze,
a young man, on a charge of having in De-
cember last murdered J. W. King, his wife
and six children, and then burned their
dwelling.
WILLIAM PRAY shot and killed his wife ut
Frankfort, Ind, on the 5th and then killed
himself Domestic troubles caused the
deed
OK the 9TH John Wolfnbarger, who mur-
dered Sheriff Greenbc, was taken from Jail
at Rutledge, Tenn, by masked men and
hanged to a tree.
CONGRESSMAN RYAN. of the Fourth district
of Kansas, resigned his seat on the 18th, hav-
ing been appointed Minister to Mexico.
FLAMES destroyed six business blocks at
Attica o., on the 9TH.
Six Winamac Ind men were on the 5th
sentenced to year each in the pcnitentiary
for robbing freight cars.
At Lima, O., Bette German, a two-year-
old child was scaldel to death on the 9Th
by her older sister. who accidentally upset
pot of boiling water on her face and
breast.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ORASGEMEN in mass-meettng at Ottawa,
Ont, on the I'd resolved to form a Protest
ant league in every municipality In the Do
minion
WALTER PIERCE, convicted of indecent as
sault on a girl six years of age, received
twenty laskes on the I'd at Milton, Ont.
The sittings of the parnell commission
were resumed in London on the I'd Sir
Charles Russell opened the case for the Par
nellites.
AT the opening of the Mexican Congress
on the I'd in the City of Mexico the President
in his message said that Mexico's relations
with the United States were excellent
On the Sd the Board Of Health of the City
of Mexico announced that 1t had been de
cided to admit American lard subject to in
speCtion.
In Paris on the 81 the trial of the leaders
of the League of the Patriots was resumed.
General Boulanger had fled to Belgium,
where he proposed to remain until he dis
covered what the Government intended to
do in his case.
MAssowAH advfces OF the Sd say that
King John of Abyssinia was defeated and
slain in a recent battle and that tho whole
country was in state of anarchy.
THIRTY persons on the island OF Tonga, In
the South Pacific, perished in the same
hurricane that destroyed the American and
German fleets at Apia. Somoa-
IT was voted in the French Chamber oi
Deputies on the 4th to prosecute General
Boulanger for treason.
News from Stanley reached London on
the 4th to the effect that he was seen In
February marching through the wilds with
Emin Pasha in the direction of Zanzibar.
He was ut the head of two thousand men,
and Emin pasha and he were said to be
bringing six thousand ivory tusks with
them.
n lEhhAbLE SUOI IL sWCpt OSCA u AAISc bOC-
ton of Southern Hungary on the 5th. Many
houses were demolished and In some cases
| whole villages were set on fire by lightning
and destroyed
LATER
HEAVY snow storms prevailed through
cut the east on the 9th, At Pittsbnrg,
Pa, the snow fall was the heaviest Of the
season.
| The American base ball p'aYers after q
trip OF 81. 900 miles encompassing the en-
tire globe, arrived at New York on the 9th.
HEBERT q. STOUT mail agent on the
Omaha road, was arrested on the 9th at
St. Paul, by Postoffice inspector Fleming
for robbing the mails. Stout's operations
have extended over q period OF ut least q
year. Most Of the letters taken by him
were those directed to the Louisiana lot
terry in New Orleans.
A THUNDER storm terminating In q cy
clone and snow storm visited Virginia the
lS.h. At Norfolk, the whole lower part of
the city was flooded, the water in the har-
Dor being higher than ever known before.
Houses were unroofe /. Fire broke out
lnd 800 bales of cotton and several build
ing, were burned. At Winchester, four
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