The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-05
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.

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important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.
PHILIP STEISMETz, life prisoner at
the penitentiary in Columbu O., died
OF heart failure. lie was ~ years old
and had been in prison twenty-six
years
WHILE digging a public well at
Chandler. o. T.. large vein of gold
bearing quartz was struck at depth
Of SO feet in the rocky cliff.
The annual report Of Brig. Gen. Du.
barry. commissary general of sub
sistence in the army, contains q para
graph avowing the necessity for hav-
ing better cooks for the army.
THE jury in the libel suit of Ignatius
Donnelly against the St Paul Pioneer
Press for 100000 damages brought in
averdict giving Mr.. Donnelly one dollar.
The wholesale dry goods firm If
Richardson. Williams & Co. at N.w
Orleans has been victimized to the ex-
tent of SO, 900 by Thomas II. Kelly. the
cashier.
The planning mill OF J. Williams &
TO. a row of tenement houses and =
barn containing dozen horses were
totally destroyed by fire at Bowling
Green. Ky.
MARTIN, Of Detroit. won the six-day
bicycle race in Madison Square garden.
New York. making Laos miles and
hreaking all records Six OF the four
teen starters were in at the finish.
Lucy JEwETT and Sarah Praeter. OF
Paris, Ill, blew out the gas in hotel
at Terre Haute, Ind, and were as
phyxiated.
EIGHTY cars loaded with 1000 bales
Of cotton were burned at Birds Point,
Mo-. causing loss of 500. 600.
AT Topeka. Kan, an incendiary firt:
destroyed the livery barn of J. F.
Grouse. and ten horses perished in tn.
flames
THE schooner Franklin was wrecked
off Gnrney Point, Mass. and Capt.
Kelly, his two sons and three men were
drowned
NEAR Glasgow. Ky. the boiler at
John Quirley's sawmill exploded and
six persons were fatally hurt
A REIGN Of terror existed all along
the Mexican border Of the Rio Grande
river. and the inhabitants from over
there were fiocking into Texas in
1roveS
OFFICIAL figures issued by the bureau
of statistics at Washington show that
the foreign commerce of the United
States during the past year was great.
er than any other year in the history
Of the country.
THE 125th anniversary of American
Methodism was celebrated with appro-
pirate services in the old John Street
York, the first church of that denom-
ination established in this country.
FIRES along the Wolf river and its
tributaries in southern Wisconsin de-
stroyed over $4,000 tons of hay, and
farmers would have to sell their cattle
to prevent them from starving.
KATIE COLE. girl of Is years
dropped dead in the street at Potts
town. Pa. from tight lacing.
The visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 26th was: Wheat
OtsOffs.os UuSilclSs COTH, UuSH
els: oats. 4.44s. s53 bushels
FLAMES in Boston in the building oc
cupied by the New England Preserving
Com pany caused a loss of SlOo.OOO.
IN billiard match in New York be-
tween George Slosson, of New York
and Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago, for q
purse of $1,000, the former won by &
score of 500 to 39a.
AT Chadron. Neb. 17-year-old In
dian girl was frightened to death by &
gambler.
BUILDINGS on James Harper's stock
farm at Paw Paw. ILL.,, were fired b.,
an incendiary and ten valuable horse.
were burned.
RALPH CUNNINGHAM, aged 81, son o.
one Of the most prominent busines.
men in FOstoria, O., threw himself into
the furnace of his fathers factory and
was fatally burned. III health was the
cause.
THE discovery was made that George
Heidecker. farmer. who was supposed
to have died two weeks ago near Erie
Pa. of heart failure. was buried alive
A BOILER explosion in the works o.
the gas company at Louisville, Ky
started fire which caused = loss O
nearly $500, 900 and the fatal injury o
William Adams
THE Omaha (Neb.) Rubber Com
pany's plant was Quilted by fire, tn,
loss being 100000.
JOHN MATTEL. a Connellsville (pa.
striking miner, cut vein in his finger
and fed his babe ON blood to keep i
from starving.
FIRE at Pine Grove, KY, destroye,
the greater portion Of the hamlet.
A FIRE at Springville, Ala. destroyed
the Advance newspaper office and fiv,
other buildings.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were fel
at Columbia, Charleston and Summer
Vile. in South Carolina.
BURGLARS at Omaha, Neb, blew
open the safe of the street railwa,
company and secured $1,000.
LEE GREEN. who murdered the wifi,
and child of Farmer Lowe near Queer
City. Tex, was taken from Jail by
mob. fastened to a tree and burned I.
death.
SECRETARY TRACY has named tn,
2,000-to cruiser soon to be launched u
Baltimore the Detroit"
FREDERICK HIMkENs and william
Fitzpatrick, farmers, were killed by
Panhandle train near GAINESVILLE. q.
FOREST fires in Oklahoma territor.
destroyed the town of Cimarron City
and in the surrounding country hun
dreds of farms were swept of house
and barns.
The United States governmen
through Minister Egan formally de