The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

important inlehigence from All Par&
DOMESTIC.
JACOB Brown, of Minneapolis, has
confessed to committing a murder in
Centralia, ILL.,, eight years ago, for
which Thomas Gray is serving life
sentence in the Chester penitentiary.
SECRETARY RUsK, who is establish
ing meat inspection stations at South
Omaha, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Bos-
ton, Chicago and other cities, says that
1t has been found by experts that wom-
en- are better inspectors than men.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the Goth were: Chi
cago, .62S; Boston, .6l5; New York,
.567; Philadelphia, SIT; Cleveland. .45O;
Pittsburgh, .4a6; Brooklyn, .42O; Gin
cinnati, .379. The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .697; St Louis, $3.50: Balti-
more, .531; Athletic, $50; Columbus,
ASS; Milwaukee. Asa; Louisville, 3S4;
Washington. .31s.
JOSEPH BLACK, his wife and three
daughters were killed by the cars at q
crossing near Centreville, Ind.
ELEVEN stores and bank building
ut Maquon, Ill, were destroyed by fire.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
81, 393, ,0s6, IA, against 81. a2O, $50. 4O4 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the increase
amounted to 7.6.
FIRE destroyed the warehouse and
mill of the Plant Milling Company in
st. Louis, the loss being S25O,OOO.
In quarrel at Faxon, Mimi, over
the dividing line between two farms,
James O'Neill killed Michael Collins
and fatally wounded his two grown sons.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed
Jeremiah Coughlin, of New York, to
be secretary of the legation and consul
general of the United States at Bogota.
AT Swainsboro, Ca, Charles Mock
(colored) was lynched by a mob.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt
in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee,
Missouri and Kentucky. In some
places buildings were rocked and per-
sons fed to the streets.
In Emmons county, N. D., hundreds
of families were homeless from prairie
fires ana six persons were burned to
death. In Wisconsin whole villages
were destroyed, and in Minnesota q
vast area was burned over and several
lives were lost
In freight train wreck near Buffalo,
N. D., Engineer Curtis. Fireman Dodge
and sixteen cars loaded with cattle
were burned to death.
A MOB of white caps took a defense
less woman from her home at Birds
Eye, Ind, and nearly fayed her alive.
A CENSUS bureau report shows that
there were in the United States in the
census year 596 farms, with total of
169,s51 acres, devoted exclusively to
seed-growing, of which 96, SOFA acres
were reported as producing seeds.
THE Pennsylvania senate will meet
In special session October Is to investi-
gate charges against the auditor gen.
eral and state treasurer.
ANDREW GAGE, clerk of Madison
county, Ark, was assassinated at his
home in the suburbs of Huntsville.
A CYCLONE in the counties of Bel
trami and Itasca, in Minnesota, de-
stroyed 200, ,OOO, 900 feet Of pine timber.
FREIGHT trains collided near Cum
berland, Nd, killing Engineer Charles
Earnest and William Thorpe.
JACOB Brown, who confessed at Min
neapolis that he had murdered tramp
in Centralia, ILL.,, for which crime an
other man is serving life sentence,
now denies his story.
THE Greenville, ILL.,, export mills
were burned, the loss being $l2O, 900;
insurance, 500
THE Iowa agricultural authorities
report that this has proved the best
all-round crop year n the history OF
the state.
THERE were s0s 7S7 gallons of rum,
valued at $685., ,604, exported from Bos-
ton to Africa in the fiscal year 1891.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
26,s81, 537 bushels: corn, 8, sS7, ,OO9 bush
els: oats. 5,47O,a a24 bushels.
JOHN DRESSED, q German shoemaker,
died at New Orleans of the worst form
of leprosy.
A TRAIN with John w. Mackay, the
California millionaire. Miss Fair,
daughter Of Senator James G.. Fair
and others on board made the TRIP
from San Francisco to New York in
four days, twelve hours and twenty.
eight minutes, beating all previous rec
ords by twelve hours.
ANnuncnN Mov<:r Nnleo,,
and q man unknown were drowned by
the capsizing Of q rowboat near Ash.
land, Wis
HENRIETTA MURRELL (colore6 was
hanged ut Smithville, Va. for the muir.
der Of her child.
A FIRE among warehouses in Phila
delphia caused q loss to Jessup &
Moore and Phillips & Cunningham of
Ssoo,0
THE total value of exports of mer.
chandise from the United States dur
ing the twelve months ended August
81, 1891. was 5000, 264, 4ss. The value
of the imports was Ss39, ,039, ,241.
The annual convention of the Amer
ican Bankers association will be helG
in New Orleans November II and ~.
Lou STEVENSON, a colored woman
and Grant White (colored) were
lynched by mob at Hollandale, Miss
for the murder of John Davis
Morrs' cider refinery and storage
houses at Rockville, N. Y, the largest
in the country, were totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, 100000.
Miss MATTE REYNOLDS. Mrs. Mer
ritt and Miss Alma Kohlheim wer.