The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-24
DOMESTIC.

United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the llth aggregated ST.
2l3,O7O, s72, against S1.O07, 400, ,63Y the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1890 was 11.6
FIRE at San Francisco destroyed
Thomas dye house and the California
Motor Company's works Total loss,
Sl25.OOO.
THREE convicts were killed at the
Anamosa la penitentiary by the CIV
Ing away of a scaffold on which they
were standing.
Miss A. II. BRUCE, Frank Puckwood.
Mrs l.. d. Hatch and her little son
were all found murdered in house
miles south Of New Smyrna, Fla
lNIAs BIsLAND, q planter, drunk,
quarreled with Conductor Turner, of
the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
railway near Canonburg Miss, and
while pursuing Turner, shooting at
him, fell of the train and broke his
neck.
TWELVE persons were wounded in q
battle which took place between a
sheriff's posse and striking miners near
Crested Butte. Col.
MIDDLETOwN, q Maryland village.
held q big celebration in honor of the
Tooth birthday of Miss Elizabeth Ap-
pleman. one of its citizens
MRS. n. MASON was burned to death
at Melbourne. Ark, by falling into the
fireplace while in fainting fit
WHILE on a drunken spree John
Miller fatally wounded his wife and
then committed suicide by sho oting at
Mount Olive, ILL.,, on the 18th.
HANK LOvETT and two companions.
all notorious cattle thieves. were
lynched 80 miles east of Custer City. s.
D., and their bodies riddled with bull
let's.
FIVE men were killed by the explo.
sion of dynamite which they under
took to thaw out in stove at Grand
junction. Col. on the 18th.
MINISTERS at Mexico, Mo-. have de-
clared against = ball which is to be
given on Christmas night for the bene.
fit of the ex-confederates' home.
MRS. MARY MILLER, of ST. Peter
Mimi, was acquitted of the murder OF
her husband on the ground of insanity.
JoRN LAW crushed Lew McCracken's
head with a stone at Boston, Pa, be.
cause McCracken danced with Laws
girl.
DIR. II. S. DOUGLAS. house surgeon o1
the city hospital at Kansas City, Mo-,
killed himself with morphine because
~ \, A..nnl Of Tho hos
pital management.
Six children were burned to death at
Paris, Tex. since the cotton picking
season began.
WARREN SPIKER, living near Spike
vile, Ind, was fiourishing his revolver
while walking home with the woman
to whom he was engaged and the
weapon was discharged, fatally wound
ing her.
THE best part of the town of Oalses,
N. D., was destroyed by fire. and q.
Nelson, a newspaper man, perished in
the flames.
In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the 18th was: Wheat
2s5 bushels; corn. 3,065. 1865 bush
els: oats. 4.4a5. 133 bushels.
JAMES McCABE. of Lima, O., was
murdered by Solomon Folk. The
trouble originated over some chickens
CHARLES SMITH (colored) was
hanged at Canon City. Col. for murder
ing Taylor Sillman.
COL WILLIAM +. MERRILL. of Cincin
natl, United States engineer in charge
of the Ohio river and all its navigablt
tributaries, dropped dead OIL a trair
near Edgar. Ill
A MOB broke into the Jail at Way
cross, Ca. and shot Welcome Colder
and Robert knight, leaders in u recent
riot.
THE exports of beef. hog and dairy
products from the United States fol
eleven months ended November so
1891, were Sl0s, sa9,9l9, as compared
with Sis, 1876, Or for the same time il
1890.
HENRY FIrzslMMoNs, aged 10, and hi
brother Michael, aged "a, were asplyx
lated by gas in Chicago
THE exports of breadstuffs from tn.
United States for the eleven month.
ended November 30, 1891, amounted IL
value to Sl04,O11. .G07, against Sla6. 7l9,
100 for the same period in 1890.
THE eleventh annual meeting of thu
Federation of Labor convened at Bir
mingham, Ala.