The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-01-02

exports from the United
States during November were valued at
s03, COZ, $3.50, against S76, s7s, ,6O9 in No
vember, 1883. Imports were $50, OO7, 173,
against s53, $40. 7S9 in November, 1883.
ABOUT Ave thousand miles of main
track railways were built in the United
States during the past year, being the
smallest construction recorded since
1855.
THE twenty-second annual conven-
tion of the Woman Suffrage Associa-
tiou will meet in Washington February
Is to 81.
THE East.
ANOTHER body. that Of . man, was
found in the Conemaugb ut Johnstown,
Pa, on the 2Sd. One of the bodies
'ound on the e1st had been identified
AZ that of Mrs. Lucinda H. Roberts, the
first white child born in Johnstown,
that event occurring in 1907.
MRS. KATE HoUsroN and her two
year-old daughter, Of New York, were
fatally burned by the explosion of ker-
osene lamp on the 23d.
On the 23d Emma Cole, aged thirty
years, was arrested In Bradford Pa,
for making and circulating counterfeit
money.
In the Monongahela (Pa.) valley
nearly five thousand miners who had
been on . strike for two months re-
sumed work on the 23d.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, twelve contestants
started on the Esd in seventy-two-hour
go-as-you-please, twelve hours q day,
walking match.
Ar Tarentum, Pa, Mrs. Ruttert, the
wife Of Paul Ruttert, jeweler, was
murdered on the 23d by burglars who
broke into her husbands store, and with
whom she grappled.
On the 95th Prof. Brooks, director of
Smith Observatory at Geneva, N. Y, dis
covered new comet.
Miss MAMIE CAMPBELL and her escort,
BENJAMIN Lovett, both of Williamsburg,
Pa. were struck by train and killed
while returning from Christmas eve
dance early on the morning Of the 25th.
FIVE THOUSAND coal miners in the vi
! cinity Of Scranton, Pa, were thrown ont
of work on the 25th by the shutting
down OF mines.
In the Mexican and Allegheny (Pa.)
oil fields wind-storm on the 26th lew
eled hundreds of derricks and two
houses at Bradford were wrecked.
In November 29,O97 immigrants came
to this country, against 25,419 In No
vember, 1883. Germany furnished 6, 7S3,
England and Wales 3,7s3, Italy 4,l47,
Austria 3,16O, Hungary 2,2O1, Russia
2,319, Sweden and Norway 1868 and
Ireland 1909.
ON the 28th Sarah Demerett, aged
eighty years, and Charlotte Thompson,
aged seventy years, were sufocated by
coal gas at Dewitt, N. Y.
In the western portion of New York
State wind-storm on the 36th did great
damage to property and caused the loss
Of Ave lives.
JOHN BAssETTE, . mill-hand at Lud-
low, Mass, killed his wife with an axe
on the o6th and then killed himself.
WILLIAM H. PALMER and John p.
Jones, Of Bangor, Pa, blew out the gas
on the 26th in . hotel at Bethlehem,
Pa, and were suffocated.
WGoT ANo SOUTH.
fnSIxrEEN men were killed by an acci-
dent in . mine on the 23d at San An
dreas, CAL. and thirty we're injured.
In quarrel on the 33d at Potts
Camp. Miss, over dog, two negroes
| and one white man were killed.
THE commission which negotiated
the recent treaty with the Sioux In
| education of Indians In schools erected
on the reservations, rs the Indians are
opposed to sending their children to
schools in the East.
THE death Of Nellie Thatcher, the
| fifth victim of the recent Tilden school
| fire in Detroit, Mich, occurred ON the
Esd.
FIRE destroyed the cotton compress at
Fort Worth, Tex, on the Esd. Loss,
| Sl5O,0O0.
THOMAS EMERY's Sons candle-w1rks
| at Ivorydale, O., were destroyed by fire
on the Esd. Loss, 500, ZOO.
Carr, the discoverer of natural gas in
Ohio. occurred in Findlay, o.
In Ashboro, Ind, Robert Thresher and
Fred Williams, brothers-in-law, quar-
relied on the 23d, and Thresher shot
| Williams through the heart.
JAMES J. WEST, ex-president Of the
Chicago Times Company, was found
! guilty on the 2Sd of over-issuing stock
and sentenced to five years imprison-
ment and fine of 1000.
| CARROLL 8. MAcGILL finished his task
| ut Baltimore, Md, on the Gath Of eating
thirty quails in thirty days. He said
hereafter quails and himself would be
i strangers.
ON the 25th Anna c. Jones, the seven
! teen-year-old daughter Of Rev. Sam
Jones, the noted evangelist, eloped from
Cartersville, Ga, with William NJ. Ora
ham, stenOgrapher, and the couple
were married at Chattanooga.
On the oath three sailors were drowned
at Yaquina City, Ore, by being washed
| overheard from the tug Resolute, and
four men met like fate in the harbor
at Vallejo. Cal.
| JOHN A.WEHNER, aSBaltimore grocery.
/ man, discovered his wife in the COM
pany of her lover on the oath and cut Oh
her nose with razor.
/ DIR. MUNRoE, of Larch wood, L., shot
and killed his wife and then took his
own life In At Of jealousy on the Gath.
MIKE MARKER, James Hardie and
Tug Wilson perished in q snow-storm
ON the Blue mountains in Oregon on the
gath.
UNKNOWN persons killed James Hick.
erson and wife In their home near st.
Albsns, w. Va. on the oath.
TIE Kansas corn crop this year Il