The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-01


stroyed the Ellis hotel, valued at $780,
ANDREW PoTosNoK, his wife and
child and two men were drowned by
the upsetting of boat in the river
near Newbrrg, n. Y.
MISS MARY LINcoT. of st. Louis was
fatally shot by Frank Richart, a dis
carded lover.
THREE masked men held up the
clerk and several guests in the Pacific
hotel at st. Joseph, Mo-, and robbed
the safe of 81. 900 and escaped.
ABOUT twenty Cinnamon sneaked
across the river at Detroit from Wind
sor, Ont
MICHAEL KARoFA shot and killed
Kate Rohaly at Cleveland. O., because
she refused to marry him and then
took his own life in the same manner
Mrs. DELL RATHBUN, wealthy
widow Of Buffalo, N. y. drowned her.
self at Cedar island, on the Canadian
side, near Niagara falls. She was re-
turning from visit to friends in Chi
cago.
FOREST fires were doing immense
damage in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
South Dakota. In the first-named
STAT the village of Finlayson was
burned. and in Wisconsin the village
of Comstock was nearly wiped out.
RICHARD EGERToN, one of the oldest
citizens of Independence, Ia, was given
carbolic acid by mistake by his wife
and died in ten minutes.
Two CHILDREN Of D. b. Snow. of OF
tawa. ILL.,, died within few hours of
each other of diphtheria.
AT Abilene, Tex. w. H. Frizzell was
sentenced to be hanged November 5
for the murder of his wife last March.
THE heat in Minnesota has been al
most unbearabe for seven days, the
thermometer ranging from 80 to l0S in
the shade. In ST. Paul all the public
schools were closed until cooler
weather.
Mrs. ISAAC WIMETTE. of Salisbury,
Vt, and her l2-year-oid boy were car
ried into the river by frightened
horse attached to their carriage and
drowned.
THE Sac and Fox and Iowa reserva-
tions in Oklahoma were thrown open
to settlement. There were three home
seekers to every quarter section of
land, and two persons were killed in
the rush for the lands.
OSCAR GRUNDMAN, of Chicago, shot
and killed his wife while she was sit
ting at the breakfast table and then
shot himself through the temple. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
+. M. ROBERTS. a well-known plant
IL 1.s1 IL
by unknown parties near Roberts, Ark.
w. H. DAVIS, who murdered his
mother and her alleged paramour.
James Arnold, at Pueblo, January I,
was executed in the prison yard at
Canon City, Col.
GREEN BAY forfeited . game to Mar
quette. giving the latter club the PEN
nant of the Wisconsin league for 1891.
5. V. WHITE & Co.. one of the most
widelyknown of Wall street firms in
New York. have failed for 100000
JAMES Fl. MEAD, well-known
banker of Sheboygan. Wis.,, fell dead
from heart disease while walking on
Seventh street
SEVERAL persons were killed or hurt
in q wreck on the Western & Atlantic
railroad AZ smyrna, Tia.
ID. Cool, a Saunders county (Neb.)
q 'mer, received at the Omaha post
orfice letter written by a former
sweetheart May 8. 1875. The letter
was sixteen years, four months and
thirteen days in reaching it's destina-
tion.
JAMES HALEY, the lightweight
pugilist, died at New York from blood
poisoning, the result of striking q
mans teeth in fight
THE entire business portion of Brad
ley. s. d., was swept away by fire.
A MAN named William Lewis shot
and killed Molly Sells and John Moore
in Chicago They were all colored.
BECAUSE his wife insisted on going
to circus ''Hoke' Adams, of Eliza
beth, Nd, wealthy farmer, commit
ted suicide by taking poison.
THREE boys-Peter Foster, George
Brocken and Ernest Garlo-who were
stealing q ride on a freight car loaded
with lumber. were crushed to death in
Chicago by lumber sliding upon them.
DANIEL SULLIVAN and his brother
and Thomas johnson perished in the
prairie fires at Hinckley, Minn.
ALBERT +. MoRErousE, aged 5s syears,
who was governor of Missouri in 1887,
committed suicide at his home in Marys-
vile. Ill health was the cause.
THE wheat crop of North Dakota was
estimated at 5O,OOO,O00 bushels.
THE towns of Perley and Comstock,
in Wisconsin, were destroyed by prairie
fires.
THOMAS II. CHAPMAN, of Hartford,
Conn, was elected national councillor
of the United Order of American Me-
chanics at the national convention at
Troy, N. Y.
A PETITION signed by Mrs Harrison
and the wives of all the cabinet min
listers for the pardon of Mrs. Maybrick,
who is serving life sentence in Eng
land for poisoning her husband, has
been forwarded to Minister Lincoln to
present to Queen Victoria.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued q
full pardon for Robert Sigcl, son of
Gen. Sigel, convicted of forgery.
A VERY severe and long-continued
shock of earthquake was felt at Halds-
burg. Cal
The report of the department of ag-
riculture at Washington on the condi-
ton of the corn cropof Wisconsin. Iowa
and Illinois indicates very favorable
condition.
TRADE schools are to be established
in Boston and opened evenings. All
regular indentured apprentices are to
be given instruction therein.
In quarrel at Carthage, Mo-, Henry
Weherkamn attemnted Tn shoot h;s