The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-24
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
FIVE persons, two of them brothers
named jackson, were drowned while
crossing the st. Louis river near Clo-
quet, Minn.
THE Delaware iron works at New
castle were gutted by fire and 500 hands
were thrown out Of employment. Loss,
100000.
By the fall of scaffold at Salisbury,
Pa, nine workmen dropped SO feet and
four were killed and the others badly
injured.
WILLIAM LANDsTRoMP, Swede 60
years old, killed himself in Chicago
after shooting his wife. % years OF age.
Jealousy was the cause.
THE stallion Wyandotte, valued at
$4,000. died at Cleveland, o.
HoLLIsTER r & JEWELS sawmill at
Garden River. Mich, was burned, caus-
ing loss of 100000.
CHARLES DosT, of Dayton, O.. found
at st. Cloud, Mimi, his only daughter
from whom he had been separated
since 1864, when he was drafted into
the army.
A SPECIAL train of three coaches on
the New York Central railroad went
from New York to Buffalo, distance
of 436L miles, in 40 minutes, including
three stops of IA minutes. This eclipses
all records of fast time for long runs.
ALLERToN went the two fastest con-
secutive heats ever made by a stallion
at independence. Ia, making them
both in exactly the same time-2:114.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 14th was: Wheat,
2l,935, SAL bushels; corn, $3.50, .09 BUSH
els: oats. 4.O4a,912 bushels.
TRAIN robbers tried to wreck fast
express on the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne
& Chicago railroad 20 miles from Chi
eago. but the train was stopped before
striking the Instructions placed on the
track
JUDGE BEATTY, in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco, held
that Chinese merchants could not be
permitted to land in the United States
without the certificates provided for in
the Chinese restriction act of 1884.
IT was estimated that the yield of
wheat in Michigan for the present sea-
son would exceed $4,000. 900 bushels.
Four men were drowned in the Del
aware river near Philadelphia by the
capsizing of a skiff.
THE nine icehouses of the Indianap-
oils Ice Company. owned by Armstrong
& Co., were burned, the loss being
$4,000.
THE Michigan board of equalization
has fixed the valuation of property in
the state at 81, l30. 100000, against
S9i5. 450. 900 five years ago.
JOSEPH ENGLAND, the wealthiest
farmer in Shawnee county, Kan, fell
into well on his farm and was killed.
A YACHT while cruising in Staten
Island sound was run into by tug
boat and capsized and Henry Fairchild
and Walter Dodd, young men, residents
of Orange, n. j.. were drowned.
In saloon row at Franklin, Ind. !,
Miles Scott and William Smith were
fatally shot by Officer Cox.
A RAIN and hailstorm in the vicinity
of Ashland, Wis, did great damage to
crops.
IT was reported from Baltimore that
the supply this year of marketable
oysters would be about 80 or 40 per
y
NEAR Hyndsdale. Ind, white caps
invaded houses and fcgged two men
and three women with hickory
switches, in the belief that the victims
had been pilfering from farmers
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb.. was flooded
with spurious s. gold pieces and silver
dollars.
DURING the month of August the
United States exported SIS. S53, $40
worth of breadstutfs and $500, 05O
worth of beef and hog products.
PRAIRIE fires have devastated large
tracts in Texas and North Dakota.
AT Bay City, Mich. Alexander Ne
ware. aged 35, shot and killed his wife,
aged II, and then took his own life.
Jealousy was the cause.
THE president and cashier of the
wrecked Philadelphia Spring Garden
bank have been sentenced to ten years
imprisonment
ROBBERS went through two Pullman
coaches near the Nevada line. securing
over S3, 500 from the passengers.
A FIRE al the corner of Fulton ani
Nassau streets in New York caused 9
loss of $500, 1000.
THE two Gilliland brothers. in Jail al
Somerset, KY, on the charge of assas
sinating Sheriff McCargue, were
lynched by mob. The boys declared
to the last that they were innocent.
THE post Office at Summerton, Tenn.
was blown up with dynamite by un
known persons.
A NEW three-story building in the
course of erection at Barberton, o.
suddenly collapsed, killing three men
AT Meridian. Miss, the new South
ern hotel, costing Sl5O.OOO and JUS
nearing completion, was ruined by fire
and two firemen were killed
THE Morrell coal mines near Dun bar
Pa, caved in, and several men were
killed.
The Ohio tobacco crop will this yeal
be the largest ever raised in the state.
THE Tennessee legislature killed the
bill to abolish the convict lease system
AN eXamin alton of the books of Mai
j. S. OBrien, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
embezzling treasurer of the Catholi,
Knights of America, develops the fac,
that he is short $4,000.
WEATHER reports from all parts O
Minnesota and the Dakotas indicated
that the 10th was the hottest Septem
Der day in the history of the sigma
service, the thermometer registering
100 degrees in the shade at some places
HARRY WHITBECK, the 7.year-old Sol
of millionaire Whitbeck, of Portland
Ore, was found at Homestead, Pa.
by Government Detective w. c. Negus
having been stolen from his parent
xuhap I months old