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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-31
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A SHOEMAKER at Namur, Belgium,
was sentenced to death for trying to
poison his brother. 1t was proved that
he had killed his sister and three other
brothers
OTEIsA, late secretary of the treasury
In Cuba, has been sentenced to eighteen
years Imprisonment for stealing $780,
900 from the government
THE Russian pianist, Anton Ruben
stein, has accepted an offer of sl25, 600
for series Of fifty concerts to be given
in the United States
THE president Of Brazil has appealed
to the governors of the different states
to aid in restoring order throughout
the republic
THE Mexican revolutionist, CARA.
offered to lay down his arms for slO,-
900 in cash or a consulate in the United
States.
In severe gales along the Baltic six
teen fishermen belonging in Berlin
were drowned.
A PRIEST and a thousand native
Christians were killed during the recent
Chinese riots
CRoPs in the Argentine Republic
were said to be the largest ever known.
In Italy 200 laborers were returning
from work on railway when they
were overtaken by terrific snow
storm, and twenty five were suffocated
in drifts
THE Guion line steamer Abyssinia,
bound from New York t. Liverpool.
was burned at sea. The passengers
and crew were rescued by the steamer
Spree. The Abyssinia was valued at
600, 900 and the cargo was valuable.
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PEORIA, ILL.,, Dec. a3.-Diphtheria OF
that malignant type known as black
is prevalent across the river from
this city. Near Deer Creek five
children have died from the
disease in the family of James
Ravens. The only other child
and the father and mother are
down with the disease and are
not expected to recover. The oldes,
child of the dead in this family was a
young woman, who was to have been
married Christmas day. The people in
the vicinity are terror-stricken at the
deadly nature of the disease.
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CONGRESS URGED TO ACT.

The Waterways Convention Mt Detroit
Requests tho Government to Construct
Deep Route from Chicago to the At
lantic.
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 19-When the
deep-waterways convention reassem-
bled Friday the committee on reso-
lutions reported a lengthy memorial to
the senate and house of representa-
tives, setting forth the history Of lake
navigation and dilating upon the i'm
portance Of the 20-foot channel from
Buffalo to Duluth and Chicago The
memorial abounds in interesting sta
tistics. all of which go to show the
advantage to be derived from the pro-
posed action. and earnestly appeals to
congress for such legislation as will pro-
vide for the immediate beginning Of
work at each of the required localities,
SO as to insure the completion of 20
foot channel along the whole line by
the time the works now in progress on
the st. Mary's river are completed.
The resolutions accompanying the
memorials and which were adopted,
urge congress to authorize immediate
commencement and speedy completion
of an unobstructed channel not less than
20 feet in depth and sufficient width
through the lakes and connecting wa
tiers between Chicago, Duluth, Superior
and Buffalo, and that the secretary of
war be authorized to make contracts
for the entire work. and q sufficient
sum of money be appropriated there
for, as every consideration Of prosperity
in time of peace and protection in
time of war demands the construction
u waterway Of sufficient capacity
to allow the free passage of vessels
drawing 20 feet of water through
our own territory from the great lakes
| to the Atlantic ocean. The convention
strongly favors the Improvement of
the Hudson river to navigable depth
Of 20 feet from Coxsackie to Troy. It
respectfully urges upon congress the
necessity for the most liberal ap-
preparations for the establishment
and maintenance of all needed light
houses, fog signals. buoys and beacons
throughout the entire chain of lakes, to
the end that added security may be
given to life and property.
A committee of legislation was ap-
pointed to place the matter before con-
gress-
There is a general feeling that tie
best results have been accomplished
that were feasible at this time and the
Lake Ontario people are satisfied in
the prospect of having the merit of the
Niagara ship canal further looked
into by experts. The convention will
do good The sentiment represented
here has been broadened and actual
progress has been made. A perma-
| nent organization has been effected and
when the 81 foot channel has been pro-
| vided for larger work will undoubted
| ly be cut out While the matter has
not developed as far as the sanguine
could wish, good seed has been planted
which will bear future fruit
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FRiGHTFUL TRAGEDY.

Brooklyn Man. In y Fit Of Insanity,
bhoots Thee Persons, and Then Kills
Himself-One Of His Victims Is Dead.
New YORK, Dec. 19.-Mic.,ael liar
vey, 81 years old, boarder at No. 1873
Van Dyke street South Brooklyn. be-
came suddenly insane Friday after
noon and shot John Conncrton,
sam Dickerson and Mamie Dick
erson. Catherine Duffy jumped
from second-story window to
escape him and broke her
ankle Connerton and Sam Dicker-
son were dangerously injured and were
taken to the hospital. but Connerton
died in the ambulance shortly after
leaving Van Dyke street Mamie Dick
crson was shot in the arm by the des
perate maniac.
After shooting the others Harvey
placed the muzzle of the revolver in
his mouth and pulled the trigger. The
top of his head was virtually blown
off. Only two days ago Harvey was
discharged from the flatbush insane
asylum as cured and Immediately
went to bord with Mrs. Duffy at No.
1873 Van Dyke street.
Shorty after noon Friday while at
dinner the crazy fit came suddenly on
Harvey again. lie jumped from the
table. ran to the bureau, and snatched
from an open drawer Sa-calibre Brit
ish bulldog revolver. With this the
mad man began firing into tn" crowd
at the table.
The first shot struck John Connerton
in the head, and in less than five min
utes he was dead The second bullet
laid Samuel Dickerson low. Young
Dickerson and Mary Dickerson had
come on a visit to Mrs Duffy.
the right arm, but made for the win
dow, and before the maniac could fire
again jumped to the street Miss Dick
erson's turn came next. The crazy
assassin's bullet tore hole in her right
hand, and she ran out in the hallway
crying murder. Mrs. Duffy. who was
in the next room, hearing the shouts
and the cries and suspec,ing the truth.
jumped out of the windc " at once, sus-
tanning painful injuries.
While she lay groaning with pain.
vainly trying to crawl out Of the reach
of the murderer, the fourth and last
shot rang out. 1t rang the death
knen of the maniac. Being alone at
the scene of carnage, he had put the
pistol in his mouth and blown out his
own brains.
Policemen McCabe and Murphy ran
in, and the street began to fill with
wildly excited and yelling men and
women. Ambulances were summoned
and came 1T dead ga!lop. The three in
jured were at once removed to the hos
pital. The mad murderer and his FIRST
victim were dead.
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LOCATING A CANAL.

The following was adopted by the
Chamber Of Commerce of the City Of
st. Paul the Cd Of December, 1891:
WHEREAS, The matter Of building
canal to connect Lake Superior with
the Mississippi river at the Twin Cities
has been agitated from time TO time for
several years. Competent engineers
assert that the practically OF such
work depends solely upon whether the
ground admits OF sufficient storage OF
water at the point of highest elevation.
No survey with respect to this has ever
been made and no one can now say
whether such work would be practic-
able or not. Considering the immense
benefit such q canal would confer upon
the public in case it should prove FEAST
bic; considering, too. the enterprise
which other countries exhibit as to
canals-for example the great ship
canal, twenty-six feet in depth being
built to the city of Manchester, Eng
land, and the ship canal which Germa-
ny is building to unite the North and
Baltic seas-it does not seem unreason-
able that the United States should at
least cause q survey to be made to
ascertain whether or not the proposed
canal would be practicable. Therefore
RESOLVED, That the United States
Senators from Minnesota and the Rep
resentative in Congress from this dis
trict are hereby requested to use their
efforts to obtain an appropriation OF
$4,000, or SO much as may be neces-
sary, for thorough examination and
survey to determine what, il any, prac-
ticable line exists for canal with ca.
pacity for barges and vessels that could
navigate the lakes), to unite Lake SUI
perior with the Mississippi river at tho
Twin Cities.
RESOLVED, That the Secretary com.
municate copy Of the foregoing to the
different commercial organizations in
this State and that such organizations
are hereby requested TO promote its OBJ
iect.
This simply calls for survey to de-
termine the feasibility of canal. II
found practicable, it would prove .
national work, uniting as it would the
two greatest navigable routes in on,
country. The probable route that will
be surveyed would include Saltwater,
Mimi. Shell Lake and other towns in
Wisconsin.
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BATTLE ON THE BORDER.

Americas Troops Fight with the Forces
OF Cara, tho Mexican RsvoIutionisf.
snd One OF Their Number In Killed.
Rio GRASDE CRY, Tex. Dec. %
Capt q. Burke, with nineteen cav
alrymen and infantry. met sixty revo-
lutionists at q place called the Reta-
NAL. in Star county, miles
from where Cara crossed into
Mexico near Sagoulla, at 1880
Monday, and as the result
Corporal Chatiles s. Edstrom lies
dead at Fort Ringgold with two bullets
in his head and body. while Lieut.
Charles Hayes, in the fight, was
knocked from his horse by a bullet
glancing across his chest but slightly
wounding him.
Capt. Burke had but nineteen men,
cavalry and infantry. They were i'm
formed that Garza's gang would at
tempt to invade Mexico at La Gruella
crossing and started out to prevent it
They mounted the infantry behind
cavalrymen and followed the bandits
trail. Approaching their camp about
midnight they were challenged by the
odhuilo piShSto anu NeTc uTcu Ou
twice, when the United States troops
responded with a volley which scat
tered the bandits.
The troops could not pursue them
through the dense chapparal, so they
made their way to La Gruclla
crossing, expecting to meet the
bandits again there. Not seeing
anything of them, the troops re-
turned to the scene Of the encounter
and ran on to the bandits again
and gave fight, dispensing and putting
them to fight. The troops had Cor
poral Estrom, troop C, Third cavalry.
killed, and Lieut. Hayes Eighteenth
infantry, slightly wounded. The ban
dts were sixty strong and their object
was to sack the town of Camargo, Mex.
1t is not known how badly Garza's
forces suffered, but he must have lost
heavily. It was learned ny Capt.
Burks' forces that the outlaw bandits
were commanded by Eustagio Ramona
and Julio Flores. Among the
captures made was q complete outfit
of one of the outlaws. consisting of
Winchester, 100 rounds of ammunition,
a saddle. etc, and a badge bearing the
words: Free Frontiersmen." A dozen
or more revolutionists' horses got away
during the battle. There is no doubt
that Capt. Martin prevented the sack
ing of Camargo The revolutionists
came from the coast and formed one
section of force of several hundred
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THE EAST.

Four leaders of a gang that had been
flooding Philadelphia with counterfeit
money were arrested.
In tunnel near Catawissa. Pa.
freight trains collided and Engineer
Fisher and Fireman Smith were killed.
THE Drexel institute in Philadelphia
has been presented by George w. Childs
with almost his entire collection of rare
prints manuscripts, autographs, etc. !.
valued at 800. 900.
FLAMES in the wholesale millinery
house of Porter. Donaldson & Co., in
Pittsburgh, Pa, entailed q loss of
S150,OOO.
IT was claimed that New York to-
bacco importers had swindled the gov
eminent out of over $1,000, 900 in duties
within the last few months.
A MANIAC named Michael Harvey
shot and killed John Connerton and
wounded two other persons in BrooS-
lyn. N. ", and then took his own life.
In New York the Seventh ward liv-
cry stables were Bhrned and forty
three horses were cremated.
AT the age of 11s years Mrs. Nancy
Britt Kennedy died at Augusta, Me.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

A MOB lynched two negroes suspected
of the murder Of young Parramore at
Branford, Fla.
AN English syndicate has purchased
the Ell Dorado and Ruby Bar sapphire
fields near Helena, Mont. for 81, 900. 900
in cash and an equal amount in stock
NORTH DAKOTA's population as given
by the official report of the census de-
partment is ls2,719
THE death of Edward Russell oc-
Cured at Minneapolis, Mimi, aged GO
years. He was editor of the Daven-
port Qa.) Gazette 10 years and post
master there II years
RESOLUTIONS were adopted by the
Women's Christian Temperance union
at Yellow Springs, o., to boycott all
merchants and storekeepers of the
place who sell tobacco in any form.
WHILE delivering sermon at Mount
Pleasant. Ky. Rev. j. w. Morgan. a
Baptist minister aged 60 years, dropped
dead.
ROBERT BLAIR and Phillip Davis
were instantly killed and George Crews
was fatally hurt by the explosion Of a
boiler at Springfield, Mo.
NEAR Graceville, Mimi. an explosion
of dynamite blew off the head of Ira
Bell and blew out the heart of Henry
Gordon.
HENRY HESS dairy barn near Bay
City, Mich, was burned, and seventy
COWS and three horses persisted in the
flames.
AT Muncie, Ind. a gas We'll was
struck with capacity of $4,000, 600
cubic feet day.
AT a railway crossing at Pawnee
City, Neb., A. l.. Ferguson and wife
were instantly killed and their little
babe fatally injured by the cars.
il St Louis John Dodd found his
sweetheart, Sophy Antony. in the arms
of his rival, Andrew Chancey, and
killed both of them.
In Iowa the total value Of the prod
ucts for 1891 was SAC, s97, COS.
THE business portion of La Grange,
| Wyo., was burned by an incendiary
fire.
The death of jerome ]. Case, a ia.
nous manufacturer and horse breeder,
| occurred at his home in Racine, Wis,
aged nearly 70 years
On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
| railroad train was wrecked near Ard.
more, I. T., and the engineer and fire.
men were fatally injured.
Two BROTHERS, John and Nicholas
Raad, who resided in Elkhart, Ind.
were instantly killed by Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern train in Chicago
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No More silver Dollars,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-The CONVEX
sion of trade-dollar bullt n into stand
are silver dollars was completed Tues
day. The coinage of standard silver
dollars is therefore at an end unless a
change shall be made in the policy OF
the treasury department. or through
congressional enactment or other
wise. Mr.. Leech, director OF
the mint, said that, while he
was not authorized to speak
of the future silver policy of the de-
partinent, he thought there is scarcely
any doubt that the coinage of standard
silver dollars will be continued at the
San Francisco and Carson City minis in
amounts sufficient to meet the neces'
stiles of the service. He estimated this
at 500, 900 a month for each mint
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/ THE firm Of Lusk l. Co., dealers Ii
canned and dried fruits at San Fran
cisco, Cal, failed for 500. 900.
| THOMAS II. ALLEN & Co., the oldes,
cotton firm in Memphis, failed fol
s544.933.
On the Chicago e. Alton a special
train broke the record between Chicago
and Kansas City. making the run oil
40 miles in III hours, or at the rate
of IS miles an hour.
AN American sailor named Patrich
Sheald. who arrived at San Diego, Cal,
from Valparaiso. said he was recently
arrested by Gillian police without
cause and beaten into insensibility.
MASKED men entered the Jail at De-
Witt, Ark. and shot to death j. A.
Smith, Floyd Gregory and Nose Hen
derson. Smith hired Henderson to
shoot his divorced wife.
AT Waynesboro. Warrenton and
Newmarket, Va, private banks closed
their doors
A TORNADO at. Marshalltown, la !.
destroyed many barns, uprooted trees
and wrecked several houses. The
storm travelled in streaks, lcveling stalk
fields as il by roller.
The doors of the bank of Greenville
ut Greenville. Miss. were closed. with
liabilities of sl.OOo.00o.
In Isaac Ravens family near Deer
Creek, Ia, five children died from black
diph:heria, and the only ether child and
the father and mother were not ex-
pected to live.
FIRE ruined the oilcake department
of the Union mills in Detroit, Mich.
Loss, S15O,OO0.
The steamer West Coast was hauling
alongside the wharf at Point Arena.
CAL, when her moorings parted, she
was driven on q reef and nine of the
crew were drowned.
AT Peru, Ind, John Mongoza. chief
of the Miami tribe Of Indians, died sud-
denly in a saloon.
FANNY THOMAS, a colored woman
who lived near Portland, Ind, died at
the age of l03 years.
FRANK VASDEwALKER completed his
fortieth quail in as many days at Ann
Arbor, Mich.
IT was said that Cation Hall, an out
law imprisoned at Bristol, Tenn, had
killed twenty-seven men.
The execution of Joe Hanford tool
ored) took place at Forest, Miss, for
murder.
In at jealous rage Nicholas Fox
shot his wife at South Omaha, Neb.,
and then cut his throat with a razor.
In Cincinnati and suburbs there were
5000 cases of grip, and the disease was
proving fatal beyond all precedent
FIRE destroyed the post office at
Millersburg, KY, with its contents
w. w. STEWART at San Diego. Cal. i,
received the first full cargo of Ameri-
can tin ever produced from an Ameri-
can tin mine.
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JANUARY II is the date of the one
hundred and fourteenth anniversary of
Vermont's independence from Great
Britain, and the Sons of Vermont in
Chicago propose to celebrate the &C.
casion in magnificent manner. Ex-
Minister Phelps and Senator Proctor
have been invited to speak, but even
sweetcr than their honeyed words will
be reproduction in maple sugar Of
Bennington monument At the ban
quet everything will be served on
dishes of Vermont marble.
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LATER.
VIII Chilli Settle,

New YORK, Dec. o5.-Herald's valpa.
raise special says: The United States
cruiser Boston arrived here to-day. It
is said upon high authority that de-
cision in the Baltimore case will be
rendered Immediately by the supreme
court OF Chilli, and that the government
will at once proceed to settle with the
United States. There is no doubt that
Gomez and Rodriguez, who respectively
admitted stabbing Coal HEAVIER Turn
bull and Boatswain's Mate Riggin, OF
the Baltimore, who died of their
wounds, will be punished to the utmost
legal limit.
For the past two nights there has
been unwonted activity baoard the
CHILEAN warships in this harbor. The
crews have been reused from their
quarters and electric lights have been
thrown on the forts, and the sailors
have all been armed with Mannlicher
rifles. Extra vigilance has also been
shown also in guarding the arsenal.
All these things, it is said, have been
done as matter of precaution and to
prevent any attempt at q row when
President Monnt is inaugurated Satur-
day.
AN unknown murdered man is lying
at Hammond, Ind, awaiting identified
cation. burglars entered the store of
j. M. bradford. Wednesday, and break
ing open the safe, secured SIs7. While
qaarreling over the swag, one of the
gang was killed, as on the 25th his body
was found in the store with his skull
crushed and a bloody hammer lying
near. There is no clue to his identity.
The three-story brick dwelling of NJ.
Pritcharn, Pittsburg, Pa, was blown
to atoms the a5th by an explosion of
natural gas. Mr.. Pritchard, wife and
three children, a hired boy named
David Bennett and Barbara Reich, a
servant girl, were buried in the ruins.
The cause of the explosion was leak
age ia the cellar. Mr.. Pritchard keeps
grocery store in his building and went
to the cellar to get a basket for GUS
toner, which he had stored away. He
| struck match and the explosion oc-
| Cured.
a COLLISION occurred on the New
York Central railroad the 24th at last
| ings, N. Y. Several cars were tele-
scoped and eleven persons We're killed
and twenty wounded. Many of the
dead and injured passengers wcrc
robbed by heartless thieves.
FRANK MouLToN, dissipated barber
OF Lowell, Mass. beat out the brains of
his wife the 25th. He gloats over his
deed.
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DIED IN POVERTY.

John Davies, = Famous Miner Who Had
Made and Lost Several Fortunes, Passes
Away In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-John Davies, one
of the best known mining experts j.,
the west, died at the Sherman house
Monday night of pneumonia. Mr..
Davies had made and lost several for
tunes in Colorado and California lie
the original owner of the Little
Chief mine. near Leadville. which he
sold some ten years ago for $500, 900 to a
Chicago syndicate headed by J. v. Far
well and the late Writ Dexter. After
every member of the syndicate had
made fortunes ont of the mine it was
sold for s., 100000. The Little Chief is
still being worked.
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live Thousand Grip Cases.

CINCINNATI. O., Dec. 23. There are
5000 cases of grip in this city and sub
urbs. The disease is fatal beyond all
precedent. Not for years. If ever,
have so many funerals been seen ON
the streets Besides this, pneumonia,
lung fever and diphtheria prevail to
an alarming extent and the increase
in the death-rate is startling. Re-
ports from the nearby rural districts
are painful, showing even a greater
aeath-rate than the city. In ten
back counties of northeastern Ken
lucky people are said to be dying like
sheep
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GEN. BOOTHS WORK.
Its Progress and What It Has Cost
Ing Twelve Months.

Its Progress and What It Has Cost Dur
Ing Twelve Months.
LONDON, Dec. 19.-Gen. Booth pub.
fishes an account of what he has done
the first twelve months for the redemp-
ton of the masses. The total expendi-
ture on capital account is given as 900,
600. but liability of GlO, 900 in addition
has been incurred on the strength Of
sums promised but not yet paid in
The farm colony has cost E34.-
900 and the working expenses
of the food depots and shelters have
been es3,l4 The receipts have been
sa6,57O. There have been $500. Ooo
meals and 81. 200 nights lodgings given
to the homeless Sum work has cost
sa.So7, less f570 donated by sympa-
thetic Summers The worksh ops
show deficit of Ell, l40 in spite of the
fact that some of the branches show a
profit. For instance, the sale OF
matches has Melted EATS. knitting work
slO0, and book binding E400.
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DA.IEL WEBSTER was an acknowl-
edged leader in congress when he was
30 years of age; Gladstone was lord
OF the treasury at "a and in parlia-
ment at a2; Palmerston was lord of
the admiralty at %; Henry Clay. in
spite Of the constitution. was United
States senator at 20; Washington was
colonel in the army at %; Napoleon
commanded the army of Italy at 25.
and William Pitt was prime minister
of England at "A, and at 35 the great
est individual authority IN Europe.