The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-03

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cranberry crop in Wisconsin and did
great damage to corn and potatoes in
some localities.
THE assessed valuation of real and
| personal property of the United States
and territories, as shown by a circular
issued from the census bureau. is Ss4.-
249, 9,5s9. s94 This is an increase Of ST.
346. 59G.26 since 1890.
/ BANKERS MALorT, Decker and
Dougherty, of indianapolis. Evansville
and Bluffton. Ind, respectively, were
fined $500 each and ordered committed
until the amounts were paid for refus-
ing to disclose the account, of deposit
ors to the board Of tax commissioners
ANDY FORD. a noted criminal, was
lynched by mob at Gainesville, TIA
NEAR Nicholasville, KY, Mrs. Mary
Richardson and her two girls. aged :
and years, were knocked from a rail-
road bridge to the rocks 80 feet below
by an engine and instantly killed.
! DANIEL SHEREkY, q wealthy farmer
near Lincoln, ILL.,. was shot and killed
| by a chicken thief whom he had over
taken.
A NEW military post is to be estab-
lished at point l5O miles northwest
OF Duluth. Mimi, to prevent Canadian
thefts of American timber.
JOHN FITZGERALD, president of the
Irish National League of America. has
issued call for q national convention
of Irishmen to meet in Chicago Octo-
DER l.
NEARLY onc.half the village of
Charleston, Ark, was swept away by
fire, including the courthouse and all
the records.
! EDWARD ALBERTsoN, secretary and
teller of the Fidelity Trust Company
bank at Tacoma. Wash, took 5000
from the safe and fled.
THE national convention of the
Daughters of Liberty commenced at
! Waterbury, Conn. on the 25th.
In an old trunk which belonged to
Edward Baker, who died recently near
st. Louis, was found $1,000 in money.
Baker left widow and three children,
none of whom suspected his having the
money.
WHILE handling gun supposed to
be urloaded George Decker, of Will
liamston, o., shot and instantly killed
his l5-year-old sister.
AT Tullehoma. Tenn, Will Lewis
(colored, aged Is years, was taken
from jail by eight masked men and
hanged. Lewis was drunken rowdy,
but had been guilty of no great crime.
i. NJ. WoODLocKE, of Odell county,
Neb.. was run over and killed by the
ears. He was 3. years old and the old
est resident of the county.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Grand Mound. la.
LARGE barn belonging to Mrs. DIR.
RICHTER near Columbus. Ind, was
burned, and nine valuable horses per-
ished in the flames.
+ THE Morton Backus Lumber Com
pany of Detroit failed for 500. 900.
( A LARGE section of country around
Bangor. Pa. was flooded by the burst
ing of a mill dam and great damage
was done.
| THE African fever has again broken
out in Atlanta, Ca. and hundreds of
negroes We're talking of emigrating to
Liberia.
AT Marion. Ind. an old soldier
named Saltzgaber, while preparing pa
walked in front of moving train on
the clover Leaf railroad and was in
stan.iy killed.
ArTER one of the most sanguinary
battles in the history of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America the national
camp in session at Philadelphia defeat
ed the proposition to admit colored
mem bers.
FArsTINo won the s.. 600 stake for s.
year olds at Independence. Ia. max
ing the last three heats in 2:1S14, 2:17
and a:lslz. the best three heats ever
trotted by 3-year-old.
THREE HUNDRED San Francisco en-
ployers have formed an association to
fight trades unions
A. II. WHITNEY, of Toronto, Ont. !,
and A. II. Whitney, of Quincy. ILL.,,
both died suddenly in the Russell
house at Detroit within few hours of
each other. These brothers in death
were neither relatives nor known to
each other.
SINTY-oNE persons lost their lives in
the falling buildings in Park place,
New York.
/ IT is estimated by the special agent
of the government who has just re-
turned from Alaska that the poachers
have secured 10000 seals this year
THE fourteenth annual meeting of
the American Bar association convened
in Boston.
! A PASSENGER train was wrecked near
Grantsburgh, MINI, and twenty per.
sons We're badly injured.
+, WALTER LoMAX and AL Morgan,
prominent business men and politicians
of North Arkansas, fought duel at
Little Rock with revolvers and both
were fatally wounded.
BECAUSE of refusal to do away with
a sewerage nuisance the Altoona pa
city school board had the entire city
council and mayor arrested.
The two daughters of j. Il. Morrison,
aged II and IL respectively, were
drowned near birmingham, Ala, while
bathing.
EASTERN capitalists have bought GAO
acres of land near Pomona, Cal, and
will set out $4,000 fig trees.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to colonize
with negroes the Indian lands in Okla
homa soon to be thrown open to settle
ment.
The business portion of Fonda, la.
was almost entirely DESTROYED by fire.
I Gov. BYRD. of the Chickasaw nation,
says no permits will be granted white
settlers to remain in the territory after
the permits they now hold have ex-
pired.
S. S. ioDER was elected president of
the Union Veterans Union at the na-
j tiOnal encampmenf Mt Hlavaland n