The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-29
The News Condensed,
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

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cLEAvER & LETcHER, hardware deal.
ers at Gainesville, Tex. failed for
500, 600.
THE Columbia bank and the Bank oi
Columbia, both located at Nashville,
Tenn, have closed their doors.
REV. DAVID MArrfsoN, of Mount
Vernon. O., prominent Methodist,
dropped dead in the depot at Oberlin
from heart disease.
JOHN HoEY has resigned his place as
manager Of the Adams Express Com.
pany, which he had held continuously
since January Z, 1879.
THE dissolution is announced Of the
partnership extending over nearly
City years between Alvan G. and
George B. Clark, the famous telescope
makers Of Cambridge, Mass.
Gov. STEELE, Of Oklahoma, has re.
signed, and the resignation has been
accepted by President Harrison.
MRS. ANN A. DODGE, an inmate OF
the poorhouse at Butte, Mont. and sc
gears of age, has received notice that
she is the heir to an estate worth
IS, 900. 900 in England
A BIG find of gold was made at Old.
ham, N. 5. There were twenty five
tons ct quartz in sight. which it was
estimated would yield at least IN
ounces to the ton.
FOURTEEN bicycle riders. including
representatives Of America, Germany,
England, Scotland and Ireland. started
On six-day race at Madison Square
garden, New York.
THREE negro rioters were lynched al
Clifton Forge, w. Va, by mob Of SOC
men.
OFFICIAL reports from registers OF
leeds in ffty-five counties show that
over S2,OOO,O 900 in farm mortgage in
iebtedness was released in Kansas dur.
ing September.
The Lucy Webb Hayes Deaconness
Home and Bible college for home and
foreign missionaries was dedicated q
Washington.
THE Ecumenical Methodist council
in session at Washington adopted q
memorial looking to union of the
various branches of the church. A me.
liquor traffic was also adopted.
The explosion of large cannon al
Fort Recovery. O.. tore the side of q
dwelling out and killed two children
and seriously injured three men.
THE great shipbuilding firm of Har.
rison, Loring & Co, of Boston, failec
for $500. 600; assets, $500, 900.
SErru 81 l1inv, 60 Il1asca ,,,Do cnll ol
New York to Charles Reed, of Gala.
tin. Tex. for 100000.
THE State bank at Gretna, Neb.
closed its doors.
THE Chino valley (Cal.) beet-suga,
factory reports the manufacture of 50.
tons of granulated sugar since i,
started. August 25.
lr was denied that there was a pos
sibility of a natural gas famine in In
llama.
The production of anthricite coal in
This country during the past nine
months was 2S, 1858, 273 tons, an Increase
Of 2.S4O,5lO over the corresponding
period of 1890
THE two daughters Of Edward Clark
wealthy Syracuse IN. " manu-
facturer, both became insane at about
the same time. The cause was un
known.
THE wreck Of a locomotive on the
Santa Fe road near Wichita, Kan. re
suited in the killing of two men ant
fatally injuring three more.
LATE colleagues of Balmaceda, ths
Chilian dictator, say their leader is no
Head, and that they will meet him il
New York.
A RECENT visitor to the Grand fall.
Of Labrador says the falls are greatel
than Niagara. The abrupt descent o
the water is 3l6 feet.
THREE men were killed and one NOR
tally wounded by the explosion of !.
boiler of locomotive near st. Clair
Pa.
AT Armourdale, Kan. the Alcot
Packing Company failed for 500. 900.
The Methodist Ecumenical council
in session at Washington set aside tn,
week beginning November Is TO
prayer in the churches of that denomi
nation.
FARMERS in the east were making al
organized effort to secure free mail de
livery in the country towns and among
the farmers.
The statue of Admiral Farragut
made for the city of Boston by II. II
Kitson. is completed. 1t is said to b,
masterpiece.
The visible supply of grain in th'
United States on the 18th was: Wheat
S1,0Ss, 9sl bushels; corn. s,753. s5S bush
els; oats. 4.274, 337 bushels.
JUICE HIGGINBoTHAM. of Frankfort
Ind, q leading Indiana attorney, wa
found dead in bed ut Plainfield, Ind.
DURING quarrel at q dance at For
Seneca. O., Frank Workley fatally sho
Frank Lewis and George Williams.
JONATHAN STEWARD, a wholesal,
grocer ut Trenton N. j., failed for $500,
OOO
THE United States supreme court ha
advanced the cases of Fielden an.
Schwab. the Chicago anarchists, to tes
the legality of their sentence. Tn,
cases will be heard early in December
GEoRaE SMITH, the negro who wa
lynched by mob in Omaha, Neb., re
Gently. had bis back broken in thre,
places and sixteen wounds on his head
Notwithstanding these facts, the coro
ner testified in court that Smith die,
of fright.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago
Burlington 4 Quincy road was ditche'
by an open switch near Monmouth
ILL.,, and the engineer and five passen
gers were reported killed and larg
number injured.
PROF. }. c. RUSSELL and his explor
ing party arrived ut Port Townsend
Wash, from Alaska. The party wa
absent five months, and in that tim
lost six men.