The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-01
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
G. B. BLANcHARD's stallion Dom
Pedro, valued at $4,000, died at Mar
shall, Mo.
K. II. DUNCAN was hanged at Eagle
Pass, Tex, for the murder of the
Williamson family -four in number) in
Sansaba county, Tex, in February,
1889, and Albert Morea, negro wife
murderer, was executed at Savannah,
Ga.
JAMES f. OsTRANDER, treasurer Of
the Ulster county savings institution
at Kingston. N. Y, was said to be q
defaulter to the amount of 100000.
AMOS CHAPMAN, an Indian scout,
quarreled with two cattle -herders
named Sharp and Mason on the Cher
okee strip at Keystone and killed both
men.
By an explosion in Van Sandt's jelly
factory at Monteville, O., three men
were killed and two little girls were
fatally injured.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has signed the
proclamation opening to settlement
and homestead entry the newly ceded
4uuIdH IdHuS III Tile cdSCcFn part OF
oklahoma.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the 10Th were: Chi
cago, .612; Boston, 1898; New York,
SOS; Philadelphia. .524; Cleveland. 40;
Brooklyn, .4as; Pittsburgh, .435; Gin
cinnati, .392. The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .69l; St Louis. .637: Balti-
more, .54s; Athletic, .5ll; Columbus,
ass; Milwaukee. .444; Louisville. 377;
Washington. 1888.
FoR many years Robert James, aged
70, of Blue Lick, Ind, had been blind
and had given up all hopes Of ever re-
gaining his sight. Recently his wife
was taken dangerously i'll and in his
distress he wept necessarily. Sudden
ly his sight came back to him and he
now sees as well as he ever did.
AT the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
81, 22O, s59, 4O4, against $1.O67, 7Os, 5s7 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the increase
amounted to 3.4.
AT Columbia, s. c., q slight earth.
quake shock was felt, accompanied by
the usual rumblings. No damage done.
In Boston Sadie and Mary Cullen,
aged and years, were burned to
death Ut their homes They had been
locked in their bedroom by their par
ents when they went to church.
FIVE men were killed by q collision
on the Union Pacific road near Pocatel-
10, Idaho.
The Cleveland hotel and ten busi-
ness houses at Sheffield, Ala, were de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $4,000
RALPH b. STANLEY was killed at a
baseball game at Carson, New, by be-
ing struck on the neck by the ball
CAPT. WILLIAM HERRING. postmaster
at St Johns, O., was murdered by
chicken thieves.
JOHN TONGRAss was convicted Of the
murder of Albert Vanriper, at Celina,
o., two years ago, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life. The boy has re-
turned to his home uninjured.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Glenwood Springs, COL, and three men
and thirty five head of cattle were
killed.
AT Reno, New, Louis Ortiz. q well
known desperate character, was
lynched by mob for fatally shooting
Officer Nash.
The remains of another food victim
were found in Johnstown, Pa, being
unearthed by workmen.
THE business portion of the town of
Needles, Cal, was totally destroyed
by fire.
AT Independence, Ia, Allerton made
mile in 2:O94, lowering all previous
stallion records three-quarters of a Sec
ond.
THE International tunnel under the
st. Clair river at Port Huron, Mich,
connecting the United States with Can
ada, was opened on the 10Th. The tun-
mel cost S3.OOO.O 900 and is $3.50 feet in
length, being the longest river tunnel
in the world.
GEORGE w. JOHNSON and his SON,
living in Emmons county, N. D., were
burned to death while fighting prairie
fires.
OoAn ullUCTL 0uU
Eric Jarvola fell down shaft at the
Republic mine in Marquette, Mich,
and were killed.
THE extra session of the Tennessee
legislature adjourned after a twenty
days sitting. The convict lease sys-
tenn was left in statu quo
AT Port Angeles, Wash, August w.
Shultz shot and killed his wife and
then blew out his brains. Domestic
trouble was the cause
FLAMES in the barn of C. +. Daubey,
q Chicago coal dealer, caused the death
OF seventeen horses.
Bishop TURNER is trying to have an
appropriation made by congress to
carry out his plan of colonizing Loo, 900
negroes in Africa.
FRANK kAMMERER, wife murderer,
committed suicide in the cleveland
(O.) Jail.
The steel tug Lady Ellen, which left
Grand Rapids, Wis, on the 7th inst.
with six men on board, was lost off
Long Point ID Lake Winnipeg.
FIRE destroyed the fair ground stables
and two barns of II. B Sanborn at
Dallas, Tex, with nineteen valuable
horses
THE twenty-second conclave of the
sovereign grand lodge Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows convened Mt St.
Louis.
THE visible supply OF grain in the
United States on the 2lst was: Wheat,
24,543,6l4 bushels; corn, 9,a49, ,335 BUSH
els: oats. L. 4s0, ,946 bushels.
CHARLES HOWARD, the train wrecker
from Crown Point. Ind, was sentenced
at that town to ten years in the peni-
tentiary.