The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-23

o1tEAEsE anu sWeeny, OF Chicago,
were fined 500 and sentenced to the
county Jail for six months for prize
fighting at Valparaiso. Ind, and the
referee was fined $500
FLAMES destroyed dozen stores and
dwellings at Fairport. o.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows on the l4th: Michigan,
First district, Hubbard Baker (Rcp. j;
Eleventh, John Lemer Dem.l. Ken
lucky, Fourth district. j. w. Long
lRep.). Florida, First district Harri-
son Reed (Rep.). Missouri, Fifth dis
trict q. II. Hiffner (Dem-). Iowa,
Seventh district tshort term), Z. r.
Hayes tRep.). Illinois, Fourth district,
s. w. Packard lpro.1.
AT Berryville, Wis, barns of Fred
Kroeger, A. i. Piper and w. +. Hanche,
together with e.even horses, thirteen
head of cattle, farming implements,
grain and hay, were burned by incen-
diaries.
THREATS to assassinate Governor
Steele, of Oklahoma, have been made
for vetoing the bill locating the Terri
torial capital at Oklahoma City.
At Marine CITY. Mich, Mrs. William
Wellhausen and her l-year-old son
were drowned in we'll. The woman
was trying to save her boy, who had
fallen into the we'll.
THIEF men. j. Bailey, William II.
Davis and J. Fisher, were killed by a
fall Of earth in the Ludington mine
near Iron Mountain, Mich.
CoLoRED people of Richmond, Va, on
the 18th celebrated the twenty-seventh
anniversary OF the signing Of the
emancipation proclamation by Presi-
dent Lincoln.
THE population Of Alabama is 1,5os,-
01i, an increase in ten years OF 245, sos.
CARMELITE nuns at Baltimore cele-
brated on the 18th the centennial Of the
establishment of the Carmelite order in
this country.
lN the Bessemer department of the
Cleveland tO.) steel works an explosion
injured fifteen men, three Of the num-
ber fatally.
CHARLES MILLER, lad only Is years
old, arrested as vagrant in Manhat-
tan, Kan, confessed that be murdered
Harry Fishbaugh and Frank Emerson.
who were found dead in freight car at
Cheyenne, Wyo., September %.
NEAR La Crosse, Ind, marsh fires
were raging and 10, 900 tons of stacked
hay had been burned.
AT Ispheming. Mich, the strike of
the 1000 miners has ended, the men re-
turning to work on the old terms.
Dn1 Da1 .
held its annual meeting in Chicago.
The financial statement showed that
the total revenue of the company for
the twelve months was SIS. 500, 961. 26, oil
which So, i73. l35.S7 was from earnings
Of cars. The operating expenses were
So. 274, COAST. The company employs
12.361 persons. During the year 5. 023, 057
passengers were cared for, against
4.242 54a tho previous year.
! IN North Carolina cyclone wrecked
/ houses and other property at HASTE and
Floral College, and two persons were
killed and many others badly injured.
THE r. G. Peters Salt and Lumber
Company of Manistee, Mich, made ar
/ assignment The liabilities were placed
at So. 900. 900 and the assets at SO, 600, 0O0
/ Speculation caused the failure.
! THE population of the State of Ten
nessee is given by the Census Bureau
at l. 7G3, 723: increase. 2al.3 State oil
! Texas. 2.a322. 800; increase, $40, All.
! NEAR Lebanon, Ind, William Budd
dropped dead when he heard that his
wife had applied for divorce.
Al St Louis Anna Baker, wife of Ma
Foo, a Chinese laundryman, threw lye
into the face of Walter Kelly, a lO-year
old boy. and he was totally blinded.