The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-17
The News Condensed,
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC,

HARRISON MURRAY, a coIored out
law, was killed near Archer, Fla, by
Hardy Early. negro lad II years old.
IT was reported that the British steel
steamer Carr Rock, bound from Dundee
to San Francisco with coal, was burned
at sea.
In the National league the percent
ages OF the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 5th were: Chi
cago, .625; Boston, SIT; New York,
$50; Philadelphia. .533; Cleveland. AGO;
Brooklyn, AS; Pittsburgh, Ala; Cin-
cinnati, .395. The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .705; St Louis, $50; Balti-
more, $50; Athletic, .531; Columbus,
.444; Milwaukee, .423; Washington,
1853; Louisville. 34S
THE state department at Washington
notified Minister Egan to formally rec
ognize Chili's new government
AT Race Track, Mont, in a saloon
row Bryant Mcdonald, farmer, killed
Lee O'Dair, miner.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 5th aggregated
81. 223, AS, 842, against 1854, 2S4, ,57l the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 40.
GEORGE Orr, aged %, fatally stabbed
his brother John, aged 10, at their
home in Allegheny. Pa
GEORGE PHILLIPS and J. II. Iced, of
Wellington. ILL.,, were instantly killed
while crossing the railroad track in q
buggy at Boswell Station, Ind.
FIVE persons died from drinking
poisonous water taken from a well on;
farm near Dundee. Mich.
WILLIAM NULL was killed and four
other persons seriously injured near
Findley, O., by the explosion of a
thrashing machine in which a dyna-
mite cartridge had been placed
IT was said that the wheat yield of
Minnesota and the Dakotas would
amount to 125,00O, 600 bushels, as
against 9O,OO0,O 900 bushels last year,
and that train $50 miles in length
would be required to haul the grain to
market.
JAMES CHAMBERS, glass manufactur er
of Pittsburgh, Pa, made an assignment
with liabilities of over $500, ,OOO
THE two daughters of Henry Hughes,
of Thomaston, Conn.,, Ellen, aged 10,
and Catherine, aged years, wandered
away from home and their bodies were
found in the Nanytuck river.
G. w. TREFEN, prominent business
man and mayor of Broken Bow, Neb.
absconded, leaving creditors to mourn
the loss of about $4,000.
A BALD eagle attacked an Indian
baby at Echo Lake. Mich, and tried to
carry it away, but it was rescued by
its mother and died soon afterwards
AT Elizabethtown, KY, Col. William
Wilson was fatally gored by bull
which he was trying to halter.
AFTER a long and earnest discussion
the board of lady managers of the
world 5 fair passed a resolution in favor
of the closing of the fair Sundays by a
vote of Sc to 80.
THE unwilling of the Grant statue at
Lincoln park, Chicago, will take place
October 8, and it was said that every
civil and military organization in the
United States would be invited to par
ticipate in the exercises.
LABOR day was appropriately OBJ
served in the various large cities
throughout the country on the 7th. Pa
rades, picnics and speeches were feat
ures of the celebration.
A sKIFF containing six young men
capsized on the Ohio river. near Port
Homer, O., and two brother named
Kinson were drowned.
NEAR Harrington, Neb., Dennis
O'Flaherty, wealthy ranchman, gave
three of his neighbors poisoned alcohol
Two died and the third would recover.
O'Flaherty was arrested.
IT was said that c. w. Villa ms, owner
Of the trotting stallion AHerton, re.
fused 5000, 900 for the animal.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, DIR. C. E. Bal
lard shot and killed Miss Bertha Ison
and then committed suicide. The mur-
derer had implored the young lady to
marry him and her refusal was the re-
suit of the tragedy.
EDWARD HENNEssY, charged with
many bold confidence games in Ohio
and Missouri, walked out of Chicago
police court while awaiting q hearing
and escaped.
Two PRISONERS in the industrial
school at Manchester, N. H., drugged
Watchman John Clough and then beat
him with baseball bat, infiicting ia.
tai injuries.
PRESIDENT H. A. CHRISTIE, Of Chi
cago. and Treasurer E. e. Wise, of the
Mcpherson, Texas & Gulf railway,
of Kansas, were arrested charged with
the embezzlement of $3.50, 900.
THE body of s. S. Avery, agent oi
the Standard Oil Company at Fargo, s.
D., was found in the Mississippi river
at Minneapolis, having committed sui
eide. Disappointment in love affair
was the cause.
In a Pan Handle freight collision al
Camden, o., two tramps were killed
and $50, 900 worth of property destroyed.
OFFICER KELLY fatally shot James
Dewyer at San Francisco for objecting
to the policeman's attack on a cripple.
+. L. CARROLL committed suicide in a
San Francisco hotel by exploding q
dynamite bomb. The windows were
shattered, and portions of Caroli's re-
mains were blown into the street.
A TRAIN fell from a trestle 40 feet
high near Clay City, Ky, killing the
fireman and seriously scalding the en-
gineer.
THREE masked robbers overpowered
the station agent at Diller, Neb., forced
him to open the safe and took all its
contents.
ABOUT 10000 veterans of the late war
convened at Kansas City, Mo-, for the
purpose of organizing Central States
Veterans association.
THE visible supply OF grain in the