The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-04-03

W0ll-IO-OO l3Tm0r u1m0Q SnIpl0y, -
companied BY two other boys, names
unknown, were drowned on the 95th By
the capsizing Of . boat
L r. ROOT's house at Medicine Lodge,
Kan, was burned on tho 25th, and his
three children perished in tho nameA
ON the 26th the Lima (O.) Oil Com
pany was sold to the Standard concern,
the reported consideration being 81, 125,-
600.
GOVERNOR JACKSON. Of Maryland, was
informed on the 26th that State Treas
urer Archer had misappropriated the -
curities In his possession.
A LARGE part Of Pioneer. . town of
about 1000 inhabitants in Williams
County, O., was burned On the 96th.
THE Maryland Legislature on the soth
passed the bill suppressing pool-rooms,
and IL was signed BY the Governor.
JACK" the old chestnut horse that
carried Brigadier-General Geddes
through several campaigns during the
Wal, died q Des Moines, IL, on the s6th.
at tho advanced ago Of So years.
In Arkansas the low lands seemed 70
b doomed on the 26th. Levees were
continually breaking and the floods
were practically beyond control. Work
on the crevasse at Arkansas City had
been suspended. which meant devasta-
tion for that section.
Of John Werlich, Of Shipshewan com
mitted suicide on account Of domes-
tic troubles, and MrA Hattie Norris
committed suicide at La Grange be-
cause she had been deserted BY her hue-
band
In front Of Skipwith, Miss. the levee
broke on the Goth and the crevasse was
more than 400 feet wide, the water
reaching TO the caves Of houses In Skip
with. A large section Of country was
flooded
On the 96th Justice James w. Camp
bell. Of tho Michigan Supreme Court,
died suddenly at his home In Detroit
aged 81 years.
on Lake Superior navigation opened
on the 90th.
WILLIAM SnARP. aged % years. the
oldest veteran in Indiana. was found
dead In his bed on the 27th at La Porte.
Ina mill-dust explosion at the Chi.
cago sugar refinery eleven msn were
killed and seventeen wounded on the
9th.
THRoUaHoUr the entire Northwest
the worst blizzard Of the season pro
vailed on the eth.
On tho 27th counterfeit ten-dollas
bills on the Germania Bank of New
Orleans were in circulation in Cincin.
natl, Louisville and St Louis.
A TORNADO swept over the western
portion Of Louisville, KY, about .
o'clock on the evening Of the 27th,
wrecking 2O0 or 800 houses, and killing
300 or moro people and injuring many
others. The path Of the cyclone was
about . square and halt In width.
Ar the Farmers convention at Colum-
bia, S. G.. on the s:th b. B. Tilman was
nominated for Governor and c. Colt fos
Lieutenant-G Governor.
Ar Jacksonville, Ind, hundreds Of
houses were wrecked by . cyclone on
the 27th, and the loss Of life was esti.
mated at from $50 to 200.
In Maumee bay, near Toledo, O., the
tug May French was wrecked on the
9th. and Captain Tom Cary. Engineer
George Reynolds and two deck hands
were drowned
AT Birds Point Mo-, tornado on the
97th blew down several houses.
ON the 9th James Hubbartt, living
near Maple, Ind. was los years old.
He was in good health.
ADvIcEs Of the 27th say that Metrop.
oils, small village in Illinois, had been
destroyed by cyclone and that several
hundred people were killed and injured.
Many buildings at Olny and Nashville,
ILL, were also wrecked.