The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-01-24

for nearly thirty-three years hal been
editorialiy connected with the Chicago
Evening Journal. twenty eight year, as
its managing editor, announ ced his retire.
mcnt on account Of poor health.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
| DISPATCHES Of tho 18th say that An earth.
quake IN Costa Rica destroye the cilitol
| building in San Jose and the cathedral
which required ten years of labor to erect
at an expent tn 9 Of 81. 900. 600. The dam
age throughout the country was estimated
ut q, 600 O00
IL London on tho 18th pedestrian
named Green began an attempt to walk
| fifty-one hundred miles in one hundred
days, " tn the object Of beating Weston's
record Of five thousand miles.
| Orr Singapore on the 18th the Indian
steamer Pyahpeket was run into by
another vessel and sunk, and Of the pas
sengcrs and crew forty-two were
drowned.
| NATHAN KENNEDY, OF Montreal whole
sale c tile dealer, failed on the 18th for
$3.50, 600
In Marseilles, France, house occupied
by Italians collapsed On the 18th. and
seven Of the occupants were killed.
ADvIcEs Of tho 10th from Zanzibar say
that the insurgents captured one hundred
natives and three male and two female
m ssior aries at Dares Salem and sold
them into slavery
! Wiru the assistance of . little girl an
unknown man tricked the teller of the
Villepnarie Rank at H III, Que, on the 10Th
and got away with 1860
| Ar Millhaven, Ont. Herbert Mill gan
lost his life on the 10th while trying to
rescue two drowning lad. HIS bride Of
two weeks witnessed the scene, and had
become mani &c.
A LETTER wr item by Henry NJ St,nley
from the interior Of Africa to the Arab
T.ppOo Tib was receive at Brussels ON
the 10th. 1t was written August H.
IT was decided by tho Spanish Cabinet
on the 18th to grant annesty to polit. cal,
military ind press offenders.
| DISPATCHES of the 18th say that the
Arabs had destroyed the German mission
ary station at TuGu, Zanz bar, whore o
majority OF the slaves captu ed by Ger.
man man -of-war werc lodged. One mis-
sionary succeeded In escaping from the
| Arab. but eight others were massacred.
The death Of Nine. Di Murska. the once
famous singer, occurred at Munich on the
nth in extreme poverty. at the age of
forty.six years. Her daughter was heart
broken and committed suicide by taking
pois u.
| OK the nth a portion OF the walls or the
| ice palace in prs cess Of erect on ut Mon.
| treal. Que, collapsed owing to the warm
weather.
NJ DE LEssEps was elected president OF
/, the Panama Canal Company on the 18th n
Paris.
A FIRE burned cotton warehouse on the
Liverpool docks on the 18th, entailing q
loss OF s25O. .000
OK the 18th over one hundred miners
were buried by an explosion Of f,e damp
IN the Hyde co liery, near Manchester.
Eng, and the number of killed WIS placed
ut thirty. Seven bodies had been taken
| from the mines.
TnoMAs A. STEVENS, with the intention
| Of penetrating Africa in search OF Henry
N. Stanley, left London for Zanzibar on
the 18Th.
JOSEPH NOEL aud Dennie Couture were
blown TO atoms on the 18th at Sherbrook.
Que, while trying to thaw out q stick Of
dynamite
! LATER.
An employe OF the Wilkeboro ra1road at
Wii;on, N. j.. was approached on the
A.ght OF the 18 h. ~ band Of negro 9
VINO deman ed his money or hi. lie. He
rest OF he band he'd.
A CoLoEED WON n R~chacl II ,nry, was
arrested e Knoxville, Tenn, on tho 2Uth
upon the charge Of roasting her baby. The
infant was found upon q bed Of Goals alone
In roam. The woman claims It was an
accident
On ths night Of the 10th the house Of
MrA Minnie II IL, q young widow with four
l<Yni n.n nN.N NJ hvr~~
down and with II the i've occupants OF the
Iuilding Foo prints ON the fresh sDow
an other Appearances gavc color to the
suspicion OF ,oul ply tn, tracks led to
the house OF J m A. Howard. . cousin OF
the widow. He was arrested
In Young County, Texas, on tho 10 b
VIII le deputy U. = Marshal, and \ p0sso
were escorung six pr soners to j Ill mob
OF 30 cinSsns attempted o take the pris-
oners and lynch the them Tho marshal
and posse defended the prisoners and q
general tight ensued In wnich firing was
general The result was ,hat two Of ths
prisoners and i've citizens were killed Ths
rest Of the prisoners escaped bnt were
wounded
News rsceivei at San Francisco, Cal, on
the 10 from Samoa reveal most serious
st to OF affaira Germ my h - three wax
SHIPS at he island to promote German o.
o .ndaDcy. On the 2lst British officers
were fired ut by the German bouts, the
American nag was fred upon and several
Amsrican citizens arrested
1HE outgoing express train on tho Rock
Island railroad at Chicago on the 20ih col
iided with street. Cur at crossing The
car driver " Is fat l y injured and two pas
sengers seriously nurt
TIE Detroit stave & II aiding Company'a
m in building was destroyed by fire on the
n ght OF the 10Th Jam, r Middleton the
n g,t watch was burned to death The
tre WIS undoubtedly Of an incendiaEy ORR
gn.
ROBERT HAssFELDT. . respectable citisen
OF Ra .usburg, Mont, was sho, and killed
on the 1Ssh by John r. Freeman Tho
trouble grew out despute labout pastur-
Ing some horses.
THIEVES ut Duluth, MINI, on tho night ol
the 18th stole can OF dynamite and took
1t to room In hotel and pounded 1t open
with coupling pin. The frozen state OF the
stun prevented terrible explosion
THE Grand Opera House ut st. Paul waa
heavily damaged by fire on the morning o1
the 2lst
THE United States msn-of-war vaudalia
left tho California navy yard 1t Mare
island for Slmoa on the 20 b and will meet
tho ships Nipsie and Trenton.
TEE White Star steamer Teutonic wss
launched at Bslfass Ireland. on tho 10 b
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