The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-27

On1O river near cincinnati Dy the cap
sizing of q boat
IT was announced that Il. p. Hutch
inson, of Chicago. familiarly known as
''Old Hutch" made over 5000, 900 in the
recent wheat furry.
MARY HEATING and Mary Duffy were
drowned while bathing near Bath, Me.
L. ID. KEEL, one of the most promi-
nent business men OF northern Indiana,
dropped dead of heart disease on the
street at Fort Wayne.
THE Damon iron works at Cam
bridge. Mass, were destroyed by fire,
causing loss of 100000
AT Danbury, Bethel and Wilton, in
Connecticut, buildings were shaken and
people badly frightened by violent
earthquake shock.
THE Peacock canning establishment
+, and some adjoining structures at st.
Louis were destroyed by fire, causing
| total loss of Sl5e.0o0.
DURING Hungarian christening
party at Ashland, Pa, all hands be-
came drunk and free fight occurred,
in which four men were fatally hurt.
RICH veins of lead ore have been dis
! covered about 25 miles from Ogden, u.
Il.
JOHNSTON. TALLMAN & Co.. import
ers of fireworks at New York. failed
| for 100000.
| PUTNAM & Co.'S mattress manufac-
| tory in Boston was burned, the loss be-
| ing 100000.
In Minnesota hailstorm ruined
nearly $4,000 acres of grain.
ASSISTANT CASHIER LAWRENCE, OF
the Keystone national bank of Phila-
delphia, who pleaded guilty to being in
the conspiracy to rob the bank, was
sentenced to eight years in prison.
| w. 4. MURPHY, a New York bicylist,
made q mile in 2:2a 3-5 at Springfield,
Mass, beating the American record
2 4-5 seconds.
LARGE numbers of cattle in Kansas
have died from sunstroke.
Avon TAYLOR, a farmer near San
Matoe, Cal. while drunk beat his wife
and s-year-old son to death.
| j. CRoMPToN, a railway agent at Car.
| bon. Wyo., while drunk set fire to the
depot and perished in the flames All
the records of the Union Pacific Com
pany and large amount of money in
the safe, the doors of which were lef,
open by Crompton. were burned.
On account Of domestic troubles Mrs
Dickinson drowned her 14-year-olG
child and herself near New Auburn
MINI.
| WILLIE AHMITAGE and his two little
sisters were drowned in a creek al
Birmingham, Ala. The little girl.
were trying to save their brother.
The supreme legion, select knights
A. o. L. W., in biennial session al
Kansas City elected j. w. Carre, o.
Omaha, as supreme commander.
THREE men-H. q. Mulligan, Johr
Lawton and j. F. Hickey-were killed
by the cars at Utica, n. Y.
ANsON l.. PRATT, q fireman, wa.
killed and John Calvin, an engineer
and another man fatally injured by ;
collision near Kane. Pa.
THE steamer Teutonic arrived at New
York five days. sixteen hours ant
thirty-one minutes from Queenstown
This lowered the fastest previous rec
ord one hour and thirty-seven minutes
THE Frederick Homer Brewing Com
pany of Brooklyn failed for $500, 900.
PRESIDENT HARRISON was present OF
the 10Th at the dedication of the monu
ment erected at Bennington, VT, t,
commemorate the victory of the Yer
mont and New Hampshire militi;
under Gen. Stark over detachmen
of Burgoyne's army. 1t was also tn
centennial anniversary of the admis
sion Of Vermont as q state into tn
federal union.
ANNA GoRosowsKI and CATHERINE
Schmidt hanged themselves with piece
of bed-clothing in the Erie county jai
at Buffalo, n. Y.
HENRY c. DAHNCKE and George A
Gilpatrick, the bicyclists who lef
Helena, Mont, July l. reached Chicago
on the 10th, having travelled 1850 mile
on their wheels.
HOUSES were flooded in the eastern
portion of the city of Indianapolis b.
the rising of Pogue's run and thre
boys were drowned.
OVER 500 pieces of skin have bee
at Lima, o.. who was scalded in tn
Standard oil refinery July 4. Thi
eclipses all previous skin-grafting ope,
ations
THE Elberon (N. j. hotel. includin
the cottage where Garfield died. wa
sold at auction for $4,000.
EDWARD LAMBERT, DR., bookkeepe
of the San Juan Smelling 4 Minin
Company and mayor of Durango. Col
was said to be defaulter in the sum q
$4,000.
GOLD and silver have been found i
paying quantities in the kiowa an
Comanche country in Oklahoma.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE widow of James X. Polk, tn
eleventh president of the United State.
died at her home in Nashville. Tenr
She was in her sSth year.
JOSEPH p. HOWE, member of tn
Eighteenth and Nineteenth congresse.
died in San Francisco, aged so years.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON lectured q
Goshen, N. V, on Joan of Arc" an
showed no signs of insanity.
THE funeral of the late George c
Jones, editor of the New York Times
: took place on the l4th.
THE funeral of Mrs. James X. Pol
took place at Nashville, Tenn, on tn
10th