The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-01-10
was 3,140,919 tons, which was decrease
from the previous year Of 16 732 tons.

A PETITION was adopted at Statehood
in Ellensburg, w. T., on the
8d praying Congress to admit Washington
with the Idaho pan handle annexed
GEORGE A. BAKER, one Of the original
stockholders OF the Standard Oil Company,
and at one time a millionaire, killed him.
self with morphine at Cleveland, O., on
the 3D.. Dissipation was the cause.
The total output Of the gold, silver, lead
and copper mines Of Montana for the year
1883 were between s35 OOO, OOO and SO UOO,-
coo, an increase Of SO. co., ,OOO over 1887.
A CONFERENCE in Chicago between the
General Grievance Committee Of the
Brotherhood Of Engineers and representa-
tives OF the Brotherhood or firemen and Of
fcials Of the Chicago, Burlington Il Quin-
cy railway, resulted on the 4th in the set
tlement of the strike on that road.
On the 4th James J. West, principal ed
itor Of the Chicago Times, and Joseph r.
Dunlop, its city editor. were arrested for
publishing accusations Of crookedness
against prominent police officials Of Chi
cago. Both were locked up, but after
ward. released in bonds Of a, 600 each.
On the 4th Miss Stella Sims, Of Hannibal,
Mo, killed herself because her parents op-
posed her marrying the man OF her choice.
A FIRE on the 4th destroyed the barn Of
John Craig. wealthy farmer living near
Schuyler. Neb, together with forty-three
horses, seventy cattle, twenty hogs .
large amount of farm machinery, oats and
hay.
In the Michigan woods lack Of snow had
on the 4th thrown hundreds OF men out OF
employment and many Of the lumber
camps had shut down.
DISPATCHES OF the 4th say that forty-two
persons were lost instead OF fourteen by
the recent burning Of the steamer Kate
Adams near Memphis, Tenn.
The death Of David Irwin, who was ac-
qua nted with Pres dent Washington, and
served in the war Of 1872. occurred on the
4th at Waseca. Mimi, at the age Of one
hundred and fifteen years
A HORSE belonging to Edward Tucker, q
farmer living near Columbus, Ind, was
bitten by a mad dog a few days ago, and
the horse died on the 4th Of hydrophoDia
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
MANY Socialists were arrested in Berlin
on the 1st for circulating inf1ammatory
and seditious pamphlets.
MCLEoD STEWART. Lord Mayor of Otta-
wa, was unseatei by the superior court
on the 3lst ult on o dozen different
charges of bribery by which he compassed
the election.
VIOLENT earthquake shocks were felt on
the 3lst ult. In Plauen, Saxony, and its
vicinity.
Apvicrs of the 3ist ult say terrible
floods, accompanied by great loss Of life,
had occurred in Manchoria. China. and
heavy rains in Southern Franco had flood
ed the country about Marseilles.
| ADvIcEs on the 3lst ult say that cholers
prevailed in virulcnt form at Quilon, or
the Malabar coast. 1t was reported thai
two thousand Christians had succumbed
to the disease.
| A FARMER named Brown, near Ballinas
/ loc, ireland, who had taken place from
which the tenants had been evicted, wa.
| set upon by tho evicted men on the I'd an
murdered.
RUSSIAN advices Of the 30 say that a
Sabunstschi train became blocked in 81
immense snowdrift, and before aid coult
be sent fourteen passengers perished from
the cold. A relief party which starte,
out to rescue the imperiled passenger
lost their way and died in the snow.
Twas announced on the Sd that man.
persons had been killed and q large mum
ber Of buildings destroyed by an earth
quake in Russian Turkestan, cxtendin
from Khojend to Kaslakos.
FIhE ucStTOycO tu0 DTltiSu 0tc8WC
Stephen ID. Horton at Pernambuco on th
81. Loss, $3OO. 600. Two lives were lost.
An explosion on the Sd in the Oller col
liery, province Of Austrias, France, kille,
twenty-seven men.
In Southern France floods had on the 3t
done immense damage to property, and
thousands Of people were homeless ant
destitute.
The election Of Hippolytc as provisiona
President Of Hayti was announced on ths
4th.
EMIGRATION from Germany during the
year 1883 numbered 96 000. against 81, 900 il
1857. The bulk of tho emigration was K
America.
SEVEN persons were drowned in thu
canal at Neurimburg, Bavaria, by thu
breaking of the ice upon which they were
skating on the 4th.
ADvIcEs of the 4th from China say tha
q terrible famine and drouth were prevail
ing in the interior. In the province O
SEatung the crops had been entirely dc
stroyed by the overflow of the yellow
river.
IT was believed in Cairo on the 4th tha
the mysterious white Pasha is Henry NJ
Stanley and not Emin Pasha