The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-10
The News Condensed,
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
PosTMAsTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
has sent letters to the postmastcrs in
every county seat in the United States
asking them to visit each office in their
counties and make reports upon their
observations
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the Goth ult were:
Chicago, .617; Boston, .5S7; New York,
.561; Philadelphia, .524; Brooklyn, .46l;
Cleveland. 40; Pittsburgh, .4iO; Gin
cinnati, 1895. The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .7O4; St Louis, .6s3; Balti-
more, $50; Athletic, $40; Columbus,
.455; Milwaukee, .423; Washington,
BAT; Louisville. $40.
0MAJ. WILLIAM TILLMAN, late cashier
of the broken Falls City bank of
Louisville, KY, and one of the most
prominent men in that city socially,
has fed to Canada with nearly $780,
600 Of the banks money.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10Th ult. aggregated
$954, ,2S4,5 ST., against $1,O3s, 272,774 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 81.
FLAMES in the building of the Auto
matte Canning Company in San Fran
cisco caused loss of 100000.
MRS. l. LANGDALE and her sister,
Mrs. Lizzie Ludwick, were struck by
an engine while crossing the track at
Creston. Ia, and ground to pieces un-
der the wheels.
NEAR Brush Creek. Mo-. two freight
trains going at full speed collided,
killing four men and demolishing both
trains.
A FIRE devastated the whole country
from Faulkton, Faulk county, s. D., so
miles o the northwest and 20 miles in
width. Nothing was saved and the
farmers were ruined Not less than
twenty townships were desolated.
AT Nations, Pa, the bicarbonate de-
partment of the Pennsylvania Salt
Company was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing a loss of 100000.
TWELVE blocks of business houses in
the public square at Quinan, Tex,
were destroyed by fire.
ROBERT GARyINGER, of Portland,
Ind, while cutting a string slipped
and fell on the point of his knife. which
cut one of his eyeballs in two.
CENSUS figures make the total popu-
lation of Alaska $1,000, divided as fol-
lows: Aleuts, 900; Indians. 5000; Es-
quimaux, $4,000; Chinese, $500; whites,
1880. This is a decrease of 1000 in
ten years.
JOHN RUTTIMAN and his little daugh-
ter were killed by the cars at Dearborn,
Mich.
A Pearl. field has been discovered at
Council Bluffs, Ia. and a large number
of the precious stones have already
been found
JACK HOGAN fell $500 feet from a
balloon at the Detroit exposition
grounds and was instantly killed. His
brother was killed in the same way two
years ago.
FLAMES destroyed over $3.50, 900 worth
of business property at Winnemucca,
New.
TRAINS collided at Lodi. O., and ten
persons were injured, but none fatally.
IT was announced that the wool
product of Ohio would amount to 26,-
600, 900 pounds this year.
Two HUMAN skeletons of giant size
were unearthed at Lakewood, N. V,
by workmen. The thigh bone of one
was so inches long.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 3lst ult was:
10 "a l,,S alc
5s3 bushels; oats, ?, 439,6l bushels.
RUMsEY Bros. & Co., the Oldest firm
on the Chicago board of trade, failed
with liabilities of 100000.
A BUILDING at Palmyra, Mich. un.
dergoing repairs previous to being oc-
cupied by a saloon, was blown up by
dynamite.
AT Chardon. o., a train dashed into a
carriage containing Alanson Knox and
his daughter and both were killed.
FIVE persons were instantly killed
and thirty seriously injured by the de-
railing of a passenger train on the
Louisville. Evansville & ST. Louis
''Air Line" railroad miles east Of
Troy, Ind.
Mr.. AND MRS. HENRY F. BUsnEN-
HAGEN. aged SO and II years, respec-
lively, of Bloomfield, Conn.,, were mur-
dered by a tramp whom they had given
food, and then thrown into we'll
THE extra session of the forty-sev-
enth general as ssembly of Tennessee be-
gan at Nashville.
FIRE destroyed the business part of
the town of Ceres, N. Y.
THREE masked burglars held up the
cashier of the bank at Corder, NO., and
robbed the safe of 5000.
MAYOR GRANT, of New York. visited
the Park place ruins and discovered the
remains Of two more victims, making
sixty-two in all.
Bob SIMS and his illicit murderers
and distillers, seven in all, were cap
tured near De Soto, Miss.
ALL the union bakers in the United
States will strike May /, 1892, for re-
duction of hours and increase of pay.
THE American steamer George f.
Starr was seized by revenue officers at
Port Townsend, WASH, for smuggling
Cinnamon into the United States.
o. II. WISELY secretly married a
Miss Marvin at midnight near Findlay.
O., against her parents wishes. He
then rode home and shot himself
through the head.
The total yield Of wheat in Norti,
Dakota this season was placed at 81,
O0o. 900 bushels, the largest in the his
tory of the state.
THE annual report of the Indiana su-
perintendent of public instruction for
the current year shows the total mum.
ber of school children in the state to be
77O, 722.
The business part of the village of