The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-17


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message was received announcing that the
house was organized and ready to proceed to
business, and committee was named to wait
upon the president. In the house Mr.. Crisp
was formally elected speaker, and Messrs
Reed and Mills escorted him to the chair.
The new members were then sworn in after
which committee was chosen to inform the
president that the house was organized.
IN the senate the presidents message was
read on the 9th. No business was transacted
-. In the house the message OF the president
was read. resolution was offered requesting
the speaker to appoint the committees OF the
house among the several states according to
population and that each state receive at least
one craftsmanship. Adjourned to the l2th.
DOMESTIC.
BY q boiler explosion at Pope &
Pulley's mill near Hornellsville, Mo-,
three men were instantly killed and
the building demolished
Il. d. WILSON entered Russell Sage's
office in New York city and demanded
y million dollars. On being refused
Wilson threw dynamite bomb, injur-
ing Mr. Sage and five other persons,
and killing Benjamin F. Morton, a
clerk. and himself
FIFTY-sEvEN sailors lost their lives
on the great lakes during the season
just closed. This was the largest num-
ber of deaths of any year since the
lakes were naSigated
THE Bellefonte (Pa) Nail & Iron
Company suspended with liabilities Of
f3O2, 200.
A FIRE among book kbindery estab-
lishments in Philadelphia caused loss
of $3.50, 1000.
PROF. W. H. McCUBBISs. of Mays
vile, Ark, shot and killed his wife
and then killed himself. The double
tragedy was on account of jealousy.
A PASSENGER train jumped the track
on a trestle near Evansville. Miss, and
fell distance of 30 feet, injuring six
teen persons, some of them fatally.
A LOCOMOTIVE struck a buggy near
Lima. O., containing William Mead
lowe and Harry Knipe and both mems
heads and Knipe's arms and legs were
cut off and the horse was killed.
THE Belle Center bank in Logan
county, o., was robbed of $4,000.
A WORK train on the Findlay, Fort
Wayne & Western railroad went
through a bridge near Ottawa, O., and
killed three italian laborers and
wounded a number Of others
THE cotton mill at Des Moines, Ia,
the only one in the state. was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of Sl25,-
OOO
THIRrY-FoUR horses perished i'm
livery stable fire in Durango, Col.
DURING November last 29.205 i'm
migrants landed at the port of New
York. against 32, LA during the same
time the previous year.
l. M. DANIEL, cashier of the West
Bend Ua) Exchange bank, left town
with his accounts $4,000 short, besides
owing $4,000 to various persons.
THE boat race between Hanlan and
Mclean for $500 side at Oakland,
Cal, was won by the latter in % min
utes and Al seconds
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NErTIEToN
has issued circular letter to all com
missioners of immigration instructing
them not to permit prohibited aliens to
land at New York.
DICK LUNDy (colored) was shot to
death by mob at Edgefeld, S. C.. for
the murder of James QUITS, son of the
sheriff of the county.
FouR trainmen were killed in a
wreck ON the Kansas City. Fort Scott
& Memphis railway at West Plains,
Mo-, and twenty were seriously in
jured.
+. BAUGHMAN, merchant at Fort
Worth, Tex, failed for over $780, 900.
THE South CarS:na house OF repre-
sentatives has passed prohibition bill
which absolutely prohibits the sale of
beer, liquors, wines, etc, in any por-
tion of the state or the transportation
of either by railroads, express CON-
panies. etc, under heavy penalties.
ONE of the men who robbed the bank
wounded in resisting arrest at kenton
and one-half of the g., 200 stolen was re-
covered.
SECRETARY BLAINE received cable
gram from Minister Reid at Paris con-
tirming the reports of the removal OF
the embargo from American pork.
FRANK MILLER. who died in Wash.
ington, confessed to the murder of his
father-in-law, l.. Billings, near Mason
City. Ia, in 1875. lie had been acquit.
ted by jury.
MARTIN ID. LoPPy was electrocuted
at Sing Sing. N. T., for numbering his
wife on July I, 1890, in New York city.
The United States supreme court has
postponed until the second Monday in
January the hearing OF the cases of
Fielden and Schwab. the Chicago an
archists now imprisoned at Joliet, Ill.
THE Visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 7th was: Wheat,
4l,653, l23 bushels; corn, 2, 2aG, 75S bush.
els: oats, 8. 755. .O66 bushels.
STEPHEN OLSON and his daughter,
aged 23 years, were frozen to death in
blizzard near their home at Dray ton,
N. d.
nine men and boys were arrested al
Peoria. ILL.,, for breaking open ears and
stealing the contents.
In the state prison ut Trenton, N. j.,
sixty-eight convicts received the sacra
ment of confirmation at the hands OF
Bishop O'Farrell.
LA GRIPPE in virulent form was
prevalent in Topeka, Kan. Three
Thousand cases were reported.
Gov. MERRIAM has issued a circular
letter asking the people of Minnesota
to help the poor in Russia
FORREST THOMAS (colored) was exc.
cuted ut Greenville, Miss. for the muir.
der of Hayward Bryant in November,
1890.
MRS. w. II. Lone. living near High