The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-10


Orleans cotton exchange, reported the
total crop for 1891 as S,652,697, as
against 1911, 322 bales last year.
Four persons were seriously and
three fatally hurt by a runaway team
near Vandalia, Ill.
GEORGE G. ANDERSON, superintendent
Of the Madison QlL) car works, was
shot at ST. Louis by Warren Colbott.
Colbott then put bullet through his
head, expiring shortly afterward.
A. Is. PATTON, q bookkeeper, was
murdered in his residence in San An
tonic, Tex, by burglars.
p. j. BERLo, of the Manhattan Ath-
letic club, broke the American record
for half mile at Springfield, Mass,
making the distance in is S-5.
The efforts of Melbourne, the Spring
field (O.) man, to produce rain at
Cheyenne, Wyo, were successful. A
half inch of rain fell when. according
to the governmental signal service OBJ
server, there had been no premonitions
of q storm.
MRS. MARY RYAN and her 7-year-old
daughter, Of Oklahoma. were attacked
by q negress, Mary Hewitt, with .
hatchet and fatally injured.
CENSUS COMMISSIONERS PORTER re-
ceived the last card showing the exact
population Of the United States to be
62. 622. $50.
IT was decided that a tower would
be erected at the worlds fair to exceed
/. 100 feet in height and to cost 81. .OO0,-
900.
ALoNsoN KNOX and daughter were
killed at Chadron, O.. by train DASH
ing into the carriage in which they
were riding.
MOSES GUYETTE, landlord of the Guy
ette house, Sheboygan Falls, Wis, was
killed by fall from his bus. He was
one of the pioneers of the county. hav-
ing arrived in lS4s.
By the collision of two steambarges
on the Detroit river three persons were
drowned and one of the vessels sunk.
A NEW submarine cable line, which
for the first time provides direct tel
egraphic communication between Bra
zil and the United States, was formally
opened for business.
ROBBERS held up train near Canon
City, Col, and robbed the express car
of $1,000.
THE public debt statement shows
that the decrease of the bonded debt
during the month of August amounted
to S1,091.2l6. Total cash in the treas
ury, S766, ,6O2,3
JAMES A. CHAMBERS, a window glass
manufacturer, of Pittsburgh, Pa, as
signed, with liabilities exceeding $780,
600.
JAMES PATTON and his son, aged
years. were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed their home in Johns
town, Pa.
JACOB RANEY, horse dealer of
Myerstown, Pa. failed for about $3.50,
600.
ROBERT WIELAND. a rich brewer of
San Francisco who was at Dayton, o.,
on visit. was found dead in his room
with two bullet holes in his head
RICHARD NASH. Reading engineer,
| was decapitated by some obstruction
beside the track while passing through
Oreville, Pa, with his head out of his
cab window.
FARMERS of Grand Forks and adioin-
| ing counties in North Dakota organ
ICED the Northwestern Farmers Pro-
tective association for the purpose OF
handling their own wheat.
FIRE in the business portion of Will
lows, Cal, did damage TO the extent oi
$3.50, 900; partly insured.
BANDITS robbed train at Del Rio,
Tex, of several thousand dollars
FRANK ScoFIELD, who resides about
miles from Cold Spring, N. Y, shot
| and killed his father and brother while
quarreling over pickle crops.
The Indiana state board of equaliza-
ton gives the grand total of all prop.
| erty in the state at s94l, 721,2l1, as
against S7sa, s7a, 1870 in 1890.
DAVID BELANGER a Lowell Mass
| shopkeeper, was stabbed to death in
his store by an unknown intruder.
AT Monmouth, Pa. Susan Tins
fred q shotgun at two strange men who
had entered her home but missed them
both and fatally hurt her little brother.
HENRY VAN Oosr was stabbed and
fatally wounded at his own wedding
in Chicago. The assailant was the best
man in the wedding ceremonies. A
sudden quarrel was the cause.
w. +. MURPHY, of the New York
Athletic club. rode solid-tire bicycle
| three-fourths of mile in 1:43 a-5,
breaking the worlds record for that
| distance.
THE worlds fair directory's executive
committee unanimously communicated
to the commission an expression that
the government he asked to loan
S5,OOO.0o to the fair on the security OF
the first gate receipts.
EDWARD LINN, a member of the New
York produce exchange, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head.
PETER RENFROw, who was found
guilty of murder in the first degree,
was sentenced at Springfield, Mo-, To
hang Friday, October Q. He murdered
Deputy Sheriff Doris in Texas county,
! July ls, 1883.
FIRE at The Dalles Ore, destroyed
property worth 100000.
BY the death of an uncle at Newark,
N. j., Thomas Kennealy. of Dubuque,
Ia, was made heir to an estate valued
at Sl,0OO,OO0 Kennealy was a miner.
GEORGE r. WooDs became entangled
in the meshes Of balloon while it was
making an ascent at Oswego. N. Y,
and fell a distance of 100 feet, alight-
ing on his head. Ten thousand people
witnessed his terrible cath.
THE body of Alexander Drelier-
| work, who was buried at Dubuque,
Ia, nineteen years ago, was exhumed
for removal and was found to be per-
fectly preserved, although not petri-
fed Even the grave clothes showed
no signs of decay.