The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-03
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Important inleifigence rom All TarlS.
DOMESTIC.
THE National Mining congress in
session at Denver, Col, adopted reso-
luton in favor of the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver by vote of
aS1 to 8.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has decided to
withhold the appointment Of Secre-
tary Proctor's successor until congress
meets.
The steamer Samuel Mathcr was
sunk in Lake Michigan in collision
near Iriquois point The steamer was
valued at 100000 and her cargo of iron
ore was worth about $4,000 more.
JOHN HELLINGER. a 17-year-old boy.
was killed in prize fight in New
York.
Two PROMINENT doctors, Boyes and
McAdams, were arrested at Gardner,
ILL.,, charged with attempting to rob
the bank at that place.
In fit of jealousy Harry Ewes shot
his wife and William $. Cooper at Elk
hart, Ind, and then took his own life
LANDLORD DRAKE, of the Grand Pa
ci6c in Chicago, gave his thirty-sixth
annual game dinner.
WILLIAM BLACK (colored) was hanged
by white caps at Moscow, Tex, for in
sulting ladies.
DURING the first twenty-one days of
November the treasury department at
Washington paid out $40, 500, 900 on &C.
count of pensions.
uvnrn.o 1s~,ary eAcl~1c Tcc-~-
worth. Kan, was burned, and twenty
one horses perished in the flames.
GOLD has been found in paying
quantities in the dry creeks in the
vicinity Of Elizabeth, Col.
THE house of David Cooper (colored)
near Svlvania, Ga, was burned, and
his four children perished in the flames.
NINE business blocks in Middlebury.
VT, were destroyed by fire.
JACOB HosLEY. a well-to do German
farmer of 80 years, hanged himself at
his home near Charleston, Ind. No
cause was known.
REV. EZRA MARSH BORING, d. D.,
aged IS years, one of the oldest minis
ters OF the Rock River conference of
the Methodist church, committed sui
eide at Evanston, Ill, while tempo
rarity insane.
THREE THOUSAND bales of cotton and
portion of the compress platform
were burned at Paris, Tex, the loss
being 100000.
LOOSE sand caved in upon trench
in Brooklyn, N. Y, and four men
were killed and three injured.
FRANCIS McCARRY committed suicide
by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge
to the water. distance of l40 feet.
THE visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the cath was: Wheat,
A,0l4,5l4 bushels; corn, 1850, ,0s0 bush
els: oats. 4.645. $50 bushels
IT was reported that wagon train
of immigrants were frozen to death in
q snowstorm in the mountains south OF
Knoxville. Tenn.
THREE servant girls and child los.
their lives in . hotel fire at James.
town. N. Y.
A TRUNK containing dynamite ex.
ploded on q west-bound train on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Irwin, Pa,
tearing out one side of the car. The
trunk belonged to q hungarian, who
refused to say what he intended to dc
with the dynamite. lie was arrested.
A BILL. was passed in the Cherokee
providing for the removal of all in
truders now in that nation contrary te
law.
Lou ANNA WELLS committed suicide
at Knoxville, Tenn, because her lover
an escaped convict, had been recap
tured.
DIR. ANDREW MCFARLAND. a we'll
known authority on insanity. commit.
ted suicide at Jacksonville. Ill.
THE British bark Samuel Brothers
Capt. Inness, reached New York from
Antwerp with four of her crew gone
They were swept overheard during &
storm.
A FIRE which originated in a boo'
and shoe house in Minneapolis caused
q loss Of s35o,0oO.
A CYCLONE swept over Ohio doins
great damage at Lawrence, Akron aae
Ashtabula and killing several persons
GEORGE LACFFER and an unknown
German were killed by an explosion o
nitro-glycerine at gas well near NORTH
Washington, Pa
A TERRIFIC windstorm swept ovel
the cities of New York, Pittsburgh ane
Baltimore. doing great damage and in
juring several persons. some fatally.
NICHOLAS ELLENs. of Houston coun
ty, Minn., was killed by falling ane
driving the stem of his pipe into hi.
throat
A l6-YEAR-oLD son OF L. B. Cochrans
and a lO-year-old son of f. Walton
merchants of Medicine Hat, Man, were
frozen to death in blizzard.
THE total earnings of the Michigan
railways from January l, 1891, were
$50, ls4.439, an increase over 1899 o1
$7O2. 127.
A GREAT amount of damage was done
in Washington, d. c., by q hurricane
and two persons were killed and sew
eral others were injured. A section Of
stone balustrade around the roof Of The
white house was blown down, carry
ing with it portico at the eastern
basement entrance.
AT Dubuque, Ia, two highwaymer
shot . street car driver fatally and
made of with the cash box
AT Paragould, Ark. fire did 500, oOt
damage.
A BREAK in the East New York con
duit precipitated q water famine II
Brooklyn, and big factories had te
close down for want of steam, throw.
ing SO, 900 persons out of work.
LOTTIE TEMPLE, trotter owned b,
O. P. Afford, of Lexington. KY, and
valued at $500. was shot by an un
known person.
In Boone county, Neb., Fred Fritz
who had been wanted for thirty-eight
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