The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-05-29

IL. being s3s $751; % more than the re.
ce pts Of the previous year.
On the 2lst . man under arrest at
Clayton, Mo-. confessed that he was tine
man who, about year ago, made Presi-
dent Moffat, of the First National Bank
Of Denver, give up $4,000 at the point
Of pistol.
AT Cleveland, the casket containing
the remains of ex-President Garfield
was opened on the 2lst in order to quiet
forever the rumors about the boly not
being in the casket. and the body was
found to be in . good state OF preserva-
tion.
AT Lima, O., . new competitor for the
Standard Oil Company in the ''Manhat
tan Oil Conn any" was formed on the
21st. The company owns several thou
sand acres OF territory and has con.
tracted for 500 tank-c lrs.
THE sudden death OF DR.. W. II. BY.
ford, one Of the ablest and most popular
OF Chicago's physicians, occurred on the
21st, aged % years.
A PAPER in San Francisco reported on
the 21st an alleged scheme to capture
Lower California, interested capitalists
being at the bottom of the plot. After
Wrestling independence from Mexico i,
was planned to secure annexation to the
United States.
THE Montana Supreme Court decided
the Silver Bow County sheriff's contest
on the 2lst in favor Of John E. Lloyd,
the Republican candidate.
NEVADA Republicans will meet In
State convention at Virginia City Sep.
tember T.
JAMES .HENDRrcKsoS. Of Chicago. IA.
tallv shot his wife and then killed him.
self on the 21st while drunk. Nine
children were left orphans.
THE death Of Mrs. Lydia Brown
Smith, Of Adrian, Mich, occurred on the
2Ist, aged 1O2 years.
In the Calumet and Hecla mine al
Calumet, Mich, five miners were killed
on the 2Ist by falling rocks.
A WINDS oRM struck Hammond. Ind.
on the Q d, shattering windows, unroof
ing horses, tearing down awnings and
filling the streets with debris.
FIRE destroyed largo portion o.
Milford. Utah. on the gid.
THE Grand Lodge of Old Fellows o.
the State of Missouri voted at st. Loui.
on the I'D to expel all members of the
order who are saloon-keepers.
On the ed E!zo Allen, confidcntia
clerk at X ,nsas City of the Austin In
vestment COMPANY. fed to Canada with
S2O, 900 of the comb rms money.
THE failure Of the Bank of Middle
Tennessee at Lebanon, Tenn, occurred
on the :2d for $4,000, with assets o.
Sos, 900.
In Chicago on tho 2.l Mrs. Sarah
Rothschild celebrated her lO3d birth
day. She was in excellent health.
DEMOCRATS in Georgia will hold thei
State convention upon August at At
lanta.
EDWARD LANE DENY was rcnomi
mated for Congress on the ed in tn,
Seventeenth Illinois district.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
In recent battle between the French
forces and natives at osebongon
Africa, the latter were completed,
routed, with a loss of $500. all killed
while but fifteen Frenchmen were
killed and seventy-two wounded.
THE failure of Sir Alfred Kirby, o
the Deptford (Eng.) distillery works
was reported on the 10th for 81. 1GO, OOO
In England the list anniversary o
the birth OF Queen Victoria was cele
brated on the 2lst.
BUENos AYREs adviccs Of the 21st ga,
that twenty-six people were killed an,
forty-one wounded in the recent upris
ing at Puerto Allegro.
AT the inquest on the 2cd IL wa
shown that fifty-six persons lost thei
lives in the recent Montreal insane asy
lum fire.
THE 60Oth anniversary of the found
ing of the University OF the Mors peliel
in France, Was celebrated on the 22d.
In Nova Scotia the party which favor
closer commercial relations with tn
United States elected thirty out of thil
ty-eight members of the Provincial Par
liam mt on the 22d.
DURING services in church at 8,
Mahlen. Germany, on the 32d thunder
storm came up and the building wa
struck by lightning. Six persons wer
killed and twenty injured.
lAIE3
a bad E.ssdlng.
FALL RIVER, Mass, May 25.-At Wa
tuppa lake to-day q party OF thirteel
persons hired boat and went rowing
There was strong wind blowing. Tn
boat into which the party embarked wa
too small to accommodate SO many pee
pie. When about 20 feet of the shor
child rocked the boat. Some mel
standing on the bank cautioned tn
child to remain quiet, but the child wa
unmindful Of this advice. Sud
denly, withouta a moments warning, tn
boat capsized. Heart-rending cries rem
the air, and the women were strugglin
in the water. Seueral parties on shor
cried to them to cling to the boat, bu
their failing strength was unequal t
the task, and women and children san
out Of sight. Five of the party struc
out for shore on their own hook an
succeeded in reaching it in an exhaus,
ed condition. The following wer
drowned: Samuel Whites, aged fift,
Mrs. Whites, aged forty-fve; Henr
Whites, aged ten; Samuel Whites, Jr
aged twelve; Levina Buckley, age
thirty-fve; Fred Buckley, aged three
Willie Buckley, aged eight; Will
Turner, aged nine.
Under Falling walls.
LAREDO, Tex, May 25.-I.ast nigh
during heavy thunder storm, a stron
gust OF wind struck the power house {
the electric motor street car line, eau
ing the brick walls of the building
which was $50 feet long by so feet wild,
to collapse, and the whole structure fe
with crash. There were four men |
the building at the time, three Of who1
two white men and one negro, wei
killed.
WHILE the store Of ]. s. Charles, /,
Lucas, O., was burning on the 25tl
twenty-five pounds of dynamite explo'
ed and killed Jerry Jones and Il.
Smith who were removing goods fro
the building.
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