The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
The News Condensed,
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


DOMESTIC.
JOSEPH HoBE attempted to kill his
wife at Fremont, O., and failing, took
his own life.
The call-board warehouses of Cali
fornia contain 22S, 900 tons of wheat.
against 156, 600 tons on September l.
THE National league base bali season
closed with Boston in the lead, the
percentage OF that club being $3.50.
The other clubs stood: Chicago, .6O7;
New York. .53s: Philadelphia, .495:
Cleveland, .46s: BROOKLYN, .445: Gin
cinnati. 400: Pittsburgh, .407.
A LARGE thrashing machine which
was being taken across bridge near
Bluffton, O., fell through and crushed
Frank G. Goss and Emanuel Rink to
death.
In his annual report w. T. Harris,
commissioner of education, says there
were enrolled in lsS9-9O in the public
schools of the United States of elemen-
tary and secondary grade l2,6Ss, ,973
pupils, as against 9,s67,505 in 1850.
The amount expended during the year
was $l4o,a17, ,4s4, against S7s,094,67S in
1850.
The canning works Of the Van Camp
Packing Company at Indianapolis were
destroyed by fire. the loss being $780,
900.
Two FREIGHT cars were run off q
transfer steamer at Memphis, Tenn,
and four men We're drowned.
THEODORE VAN DuYNBRooK and Pc
ter Rauch were asphy xiated by gas at
Portland. Ore.
AN explosion of gas in the Richard
son colliery at Glen Carbon, Pa, killed
twelve men.
AT Walla Walla, Wash, Fritz Form,
an old soldier, shot and killed his wife,
and then shot himself.
THE Ulster county savings institu
tion at Kingston, N. Y, was robbed by
its treasurer and assistant treasurer of
S463. OO0.
JOHN HARTMAN drove over the edge
of an almost perpendicular bluff 100
feet high at Warsaw, ILL.,, and escaped
unhurt.
THE boiler of the tug C. w. Parker
exploded on the river in Chicago, kill
ing instantly eight persons and injur
ing ten more, some of them fatally.
MRS. WILLIAM c. PRATT, widely
known as Universalist preacher. was
drowned in q pond at North Montpel-
Ter, Vt
HORACE HAMIIN, a prominent busi-
ness man, drowned himself and his
three children at Corpus Christi, Tex.
An English company with 1000, 600
capital has been formed to work the a.
legged ruby mines of Montana.
ELEVATOR A of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company's system, situated at
Locust Point, Nd, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500. 1000.
association has closed. The clubs stood
as follows: Boston, .692; st. Louis,
.625; Athletic, SEQ; Baltimore, .523
Milwaukee, All: Columbus, .43;
Louisville. 1896: Washington, 32s.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat,
27,755, ,O56 bushels; corn, 7,546, 5S4 bush.
els: oats, 5, ,S54. aSl bushels.
THE Greenwood gold stamp mill near
Deadwood, $. D., was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $3.50. 600.
In quarrel over a billiard game al
Pittsburgh, Pa, Edward Scott stabbed
his brother Richard, fatally injuring
him.
THE 6-year-old son of Robert Kirk. OF
Purcell. Ind. was killed and almost de
voured by hogs.
A ROYAL blue train on the Baltimore
& Ohio made the run from Canton to
Philadelphia, a distance of 90 miles, in
exactly o. minutes.
THE arrest of two men at Niagara fol
smuggling in Cinnamon has disclosed 9
conspiracy with a United States mar
shall to bring Celestials across the line
and have them captured, tried, etc, foi
the sake of the fees.
THE total collections of internal rev
enue during the first two months oi
the present fiscal year were SIC, 135, 1873
an increase of S632, ,557 over the cor
responding period of last year.
AT Green Bay. Wis, Victor Lambda,
shot his wife because he was jealou!
of her and then committed suicide.
The Greenlee and Forst oil well a
Mcdonald, Pa, has been drilled
deeper, increasing the flow to 14,40'
barrels per day, making it the largest
oil well in the world.
JOHN HosTErTER, of Lexington. Va.
accidentally killed his 2-year-old baby
by stepping on it.
AT Dubuque. Ia, Matilda Kochen
dorfer poisoned herself because he
parents forbade her to keep compan,
with a young man.
GEN. PATRICK KIRBY, aged 81, dropped
dead in the hall of his residence in New
York
THE packing establishment: of Johr
p. Squire 4 Co. in East Cambridge
Mass. was partially destroyed by fire.
Loss, $3.50, 900: fully insured.
THE Atlantic steamships arriving il
New York reported severe storms of
the banks of Newfoundland. TIL.
brigantine Minnie Elkin. of st. John
was lost with her crew Of twenty mel
in gale.
THREE persons lost their lives in ,
tenement house fire in New York.
THE business portion of the village O
Kane, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
AT q meeting of the New York pres
bytery Prof. Briggs was indicted TO
heresy. The principle charge agains
him is disbelief in the Bible as the onl,
true source of divine authority.
NEAR Fairbury, Neb., Albert Her
man with his family attempted to fort
the Blue river, but they were caught
in the current and Mrs. Herman ant
two children drowned.
SEVERAL teams ran away ut funera
In Altoona Ia and Edwin Drestel