The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-04-10

lost their lives on the 1st by the caving
Ing in Of sand bank near Vernon, Tex.
In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska
and Illinois on the list license carried in
. majority of the towns whore 1t was an
issue in the municipal election.
THE death Of General T. G. Anderson,
. member of the famous Louisiana re-
turning board Of 1876, occurred on the
I'd 1T New Orleans aged 70 years.
In the West the number of hogs
packed during the winter season. No
vember l to March 1, was 8,663, ,8O2,
against 5. 49,, $50 during the same period
. year ago.
KEPUBLIcANs Of Iowa who are op-
posed to prohibition met in convention
in Des Moines on the I'd and adopted
resolutions asking the General As
sembly to 80 modify the law IS to give
to each community the right to decide
whether 1t shall have prohibition or
not
In = quarrel over the latter's farm
near Grand Haven. Mich, Michael Mill
man shot and killed his wife on the I'd.
On the I'd Mrs. Ann Kise, Of Vim
cennes, Ind, aged 70 years. fell into an
open fireplace and was fatally burned.
FEMALE crusaders on the I'd emptied
ffty-one kegs and twenty-one cases Of
beer into the streets Of Pennington and
De Lassus, Mo.
In the flooded districts along the Mis-
sissippi river the water was gradually
falling on the ID.
AT Hamilton, O., Dolpha Grabham
was killed and his younger brother ia
tally injured by piece Of falling scant-
ling on the Sd.
WILLIAM Hicks and Robert Mccoy
(colored) were hanged on the Sd at
bonneville, Ga, for the murder of Will
lam Hughes and his wife last Novem.
Der.
THREE children Of William Brown,
who had been locked in their home
near Huron, s. D., were burned to death
on the Sd.
A CYCLONE at Galena, Monmouth and
Champaign, in Illinois, on the Sd un-
roofe1 houses, leveled fences and up
rooted trees, causing great damage. No
lives were lost.
The retirement OF Murat Halstead
from the editorial management of the
Cincinnati Commercially Gazette was re-
ported on the Sd.
DEMOCRATS In Tennessee will meet in
State convention at Nashville July 15.
On the Sd the female crusaders at
Pennington, Mo-, destroyed another
wagon-load Of beer and attempted to
enter several saloons but found them
barricaded.
PLANTATIONS near Greenviile, Miss,
which were always considered above
high-water mark, and were never before
submerged, were inundated ON the Sd,
the flood being the highest on record.
The death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Price,
said to be the oldest person in Central
Illinois, occurred on the Sd at Blooming
ton in the Tooth year of her age.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Ar Bridgeford, Eng, Testers spin.
ming factory was destroyed by fire on
the 31st ult Loss, $500, 900.
On the 3lst ult. the contract for con
structing the submarine telegraph be-
tween Brazil and the United States wal
awarded to two French companies.
AT Vienna 10000 builders employees
and 500 bakers apprentices were ON q
strike on the 1st
PRINCE BIsMARcK's 18th birthday va,
celebrated throughout Germany OF
the LIST.
MExIco's Congress was opened on the
| I'd. President Diaz in his message sale
that the finances of the Republic wer,
fourishing and the affairs of the country
generally were in satisfactory condi
tion.
THE Cosipuiriachic reduction work.
near chihuahua, Mex, owned by . New
York company, were recently destroyed
by fire at loss Of 81, 00O. 600.
Ar Szegedin, Hungary, man wa
hanged on the I'd for the murder 0
eight women.
ON the Sd the State Treasurer of tn,
canton of Ticino, Switzerland, was ar
rested on the charge of embezzling 1000,
900 francs.
A DISPUTE in : restaurant at Debrec
Gin, Hungary, caused forty challenges
to duels to be issued ON the Sd.
Two WOMEN and negro girl wer
burned to death in . fire on the 8,
which destroyed the Chamber Of C0u
merce at Santiago de Cuba.
- LATER
| water Still Rising.
VIcKsBUR0, Miss, April 6.-Nineteel
negroes, the survivors Of the party o
refugees which attempted to escape from
the overflow down Bogue Falaya on ,
raft, have arrived here on the steame
Hill City. They report that twelv'
women and children were drowned whel
the current dashed their crazy vesse
against tree, and they escaped will
extreme difficulty.