The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-27
The News Condensed,
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
CHRISTIAN BENECKE, agea 80 years,
living near Fort Wayne, Ind, was
burned to death while trying to extin-
guish fire that was burning his fence.
In the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for
the week ended on the 18th were:
Chicago, $50; Boston, .5s2; New York,
.5S1; Philadelphia. .5a7; Brooklyn, .4s4;
Cleveland. 1853; Cincinnati, .404. Pitts
burgh, .376; The percentages in clubs
of the American association were:
Boston, .6s4; St Louis, .637; Balti-
more, .5s5; Athletic, $50: Columb bus,
.4sO: Cincinnati, .434; Louisville, 337;
Washington, .3l9.
LEONARD WEAVER and John Schuster
were overcome by gas and drowned
while cleaning cesspool at Pitts
burgh, Pa
FLAMES in the building of the Nor
folk tVa.) storage company caused a
loss of $3.50, 900.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 10Th aggregated
s94o,a79,94o, against $1,000, 245. .a67 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 1911.
AT Somerset, Ind, Lincoln Cochran
and a young lady were thrown from a
wagon during a runaway and killed.
IT was reported that farm profits
would be worth 81. 900. 900, 900 more thi
year in the United States than they
had been during the recent years of de-
preston.
THREE persons died in Milwaukee
from drinking impure water from q
well and several others were danger
ously ill.
GREAT damage was done to property
by a cyclone near Eddyville, Ill.
HARRY CoURsIy, 90 years of age. and
his 12-year-old sister, were drowned
near Mckeesport, Pa, while bathing.
JAMES BUCKINGHAM, an aeronaut
cuse. N. ". and was drowned.
Mrs. MARY Bolt, a white woman,
died in New Orleans of leprosy. There
were other cases in the city.
MONROE EVANS and his son John, ar
rested at Baileytown. Ala, for shoot
ing Pierce Mooney, were taken from
Jail by a mob and lynched.
f. B PRESTON, lumber merchant o.
North Ottawa, Kan, shot and killed
his wife and then fatally shot himself
Domestic trouble was the cause.
FIVE houses at Elizabethtown, Ind.
were struck by lightning and Ezra Sis
CO, Charles McCully and DIR. Thompson
were killed.
DIR. JUDAH, the proprietor of the Av
enue hotel at Bedford, Ind, fatally
shot his wife and then blew his brains
out
The Saranac lake clubhouse neal
Plattsburg, N. V, was destroyed 10y
fire, and seventy five guests lost nearl,
all their personal effects.
In fight on train at Texas City
ILL.,, Otis johnson and Mike Witzl,
killed each other.
AT Independence, Ia, Nelson trottet
mile in a:l0, thus beating the world
stallion record.
THE rope and twine firm of Joh1
Bonte Sons Company at Cincinnati
failed for 100000.
FIRE almost completely destroye,
the machinery in the mine of the New
Pittsburgh Coal & Coke Company a
Alum Cave. Pa. Loss, 100000.
In Severns county, Ca, the three
sons of Wallace Williams. all preach
ers, were fatally struck by lightning.
In attempting parachute descen
from a balloon near Cincinnati Mis-
Annie Hardness was killed, and Prot
Wash
THE visible supply of grain in tn
United States on the nth was: Wheat
1856, ,639 bushels; corn, 1855, 1O4 bush
els; oats, 2,20s, ,22- bushels.
j. L. RAY. clerk for the bondsmen G
defaulting Treasurer Woodruff. of Al
Kansas, was arrested on the charge @
stealing 500, 900 of state scrip.
THE lowest estimate of the whea
crop of Minnesota and the Dakotas
10000, 900 bushels.
In riot at Shinndon, w. Va, Ber
iamin Stout. wealthy farmer, was a
most instantly killed and Manly Cham
fatally wounded.
THE dry goods and house furnishin
establishments of Goldstein & Mige
and Curtis g. Grand at Waco, Tex
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss
$3.50
By sudden rise in the Platte rive
near Agency, Mo-, fifteen farms wer
ruined and houses, barns and stoc
were swept away.
SECRETARY FOSTER says there is
marked improvement in the monetar
situation in the country.
NEAR Burr Oak, Mich, an attemt
was made to wreck fast mail train o
the Lake Shore railroad by placing tic
on the track.
REV. WILLIAM T. CURRIE, rector {
st. Paul's Episcopal church; Miss Rut
Currie. his daughter, aged Is, and Mis-
Dora Van Kirk, aged IA, were browne
while bathing in the Red river opposit
Grand Forks. N. d.
MRS MARY SWEET, of Little Rocl
Ark, has been given a verdict Of $50
600 against the st. Louis 4 Iron Moul
tain railroad for killing her husband.
THE issue of standard silver dollar
AAoHA SAC uulAhb eA1 "CSn SASS
August Is was S455. 232. The issue du
ing the corresponding week last yea
was $625, 46S.
A FIRE at Jacksonville, Fla, move
path two blocks wide and six blocl
long. Thirty firms were burned o,
and sixty dwellings and four hote
were destroyed. The total loss w.
over 81, 100000.
A TERRIFIC hailstorm ut Deer Creel
S. d., destroyed 1000 acres of grain.
X. ]. L. WEBSTER, ex-sheriff of Co,
ington county, Miss, was assassinate