The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-03
The News Condensed,
important intelligence From All Parts.
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STORMS in and around Kansas CITY.
Mo-, and Huron and Leavenworth.
Kan. unroofed stores and farm build
ings. destroyed corn and Frustrated
telegraph wires
ACCORDING to expert figures the per-
manent tramp population of the United
States numbers 10000.
JOHN FLENGEL, of West Cooper.
Mich, aged rs years, set fire to the
house while smoking in bed and was
burned to death.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for
Chicago. Ola; Boston, .5ss; New York,
SIT; Philadelphia. $50; Brooklyn, 40;
Cleveland, .456: Cincinnati. 800. Pitts
burgh, 1884; The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .692; St Louis, .635; Balti-
more, $50; Athletic. .5l4; Columbus,
1866; Milwaukee. AL; Louisville, BAG;
Washington, .346
At the leading clearing house in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 22d aggregated
Sl.O3S, 272,774. against $40, 279, $40 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1916.
CHARLES HAWKINS, desperado, was
Iynched by mob at Shelbyville, Ind,
for fatally shooting Dan Bruce, the city
mashal.
A FREIGHT train on the Louisville,
New Orleans & Texas railroad went
through trestle near Tula. Miss
killing two men and fatally injuring
three others.
JAMES GoRMAN, a bachelor, who
lived with his sister near Middleton,
Wis, was attacked by an unknown
man, who robbed the couple of $50, 900,
the savings of a lifetime.
ALBERT MAPEs, the weli-known
Columbia college athlete, was drowned
in the surf at Fire Island, N. ", while
bathing.
The Minnesota monument in men,
ory of the New Ulm massacre by the
Sioux in 1862, by which 1000 people
lost their lives. was dedicated.
CHARLES KING was discharged from
the insane asylum at Columbus. O., and
went to his home in Circlevillc and
killed MS mother.
A FRAUDULENT cooperative company
collapsed at Wheeling, w. Va. after
swindling $4,000 persons out of over
SsOO,O
THE Kansas Farmers Alliance has
perfected a scheme to establish sys-
TEN of cooperative stores in every coun-
ty in the state.
THOMAS STEVENSON and John SAT-
ford, two farmers, of Ottawa county,
Kan, took refuge during a storm in q
barn and the building was crushed by
the wind and both We're killed.
RAY PORTER tcoloredD was lynched
by mob near Clanton. Ala, for the
murder of Henry Parr, a young white
man.
BY the collapse of two brick build
ings in Park place, New York, over
eighty lives were lost and over seventy
other persons were missing. An cxplo-
sion caused the accident
A cLouDBuRsr at Pottsville, Pa,
flooded many buildings, causing loss
of over 100000.
HARD frosts were reported through
out the northwest on the 23d. In por-
tions of South Dakota ice formed on
shallow water, and in Colorado snow
fell
FRITZ ENGLE, one of the oldest citi-
zens of San Antonio. Tex, and worth
100000. killed himself because he had
cancer of the stomach.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the cath was: Wheat,
1885,, ,96S bushels: corn, 4. 197, ,573 BUSH
els; oats. a,14l, $50 bushels.
Mrs. REBEccA RUBENsTEIN, aged As
years, arrived at the barge office in
New York from Odessa with her twen-
ty-four children.
PETER TEcHEKELLA. his wife and
two children were out driving at PEN
dleton. Ore. when the horse became
unruly and backed over precipice.
instantly killing Mrs. Techekella and
one daughter.
DURING storm in the northern part
of Lancaster county. Pa, seven bridges,
q number of buildings, sheds and
fences were washed away and many
cattle drowned.
The secretary ofthe interior has di-
rected that the third payment of ST.
600 be made to each state agricultural
NOlASSC WHICH u1S Compllcu With LHe
terms of the act of August 30. 1899.
A CYCLONE struck Long hill in Pas
sale valley. New Jersey. and whole
orchards. cornfields and hundreds of
tons of stacked hay were swept away,
causing loss of 500, 900.
DIR. DAVIS, prominent stock raiser
of Beaver county, o. T., circulated
scandalous stories about Mrs. Thomas
Inflow, and the woman's husband
whipped Davis to death with a black
snake.
IT was reported that the crews of
two whalers in Alaska, sixty in num-
ber, had been massacred by the natives
of that region.
Two LITTLE boys who were playing
with the three Hamilton children at
locked the three little ones in the chest
where they were afterwards found
dead. They were playing Jail. After
locking the chest they were called to
supper and forgot all about it.
The tenth annual lencampment of the
Sons of Veterans began in Minneapolis
on the 24th with about 5000 members
of the order in attendance.
AN incendiary DIRE at Moody, Tex,
destroyed half the business part of the
town.
LUcIus ANDREWS (colored) was
hanged by a mob at Magnolia, Miss
He was accused of horse stealing.
TREES were uprooted and buildings
moved on their foundations near Boyd,
Wis, by cyclone.
), RIVAL clans of moonshiners fought