The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08

MRS. HENRY KEssLER, wife Of lead
ing business man at Erie, Pa, was
burned to death by the explosion of q
Gasoline stove. Mr.. Kessler in trying
to save his wife's life was disfgured
and crippled for life and his aged
mother was badly burned
THE total number of immigrants ar
riving in the United States from for
eign countries during the month ended
August 81, 1891, was 45, 172, against 81
sS1 in August Of last year.
/ A MARBLE statue of Pope Leo MIL
was unveiled at Washington.
THE forest fires in Wisconsin, Min
nesota and the Dakotas have been
checked by rain. The losses are enor-
nous and hundreds of families are
homeless and penniless.
! IT was estimated that the output Of
sorghum sugar in Kansas and beet su.
gar in Nebraska, Utah and California
would reach fully $1,000, 900 pounds the
present season.
In the nine months of the year 1891
the failures numbered S,sas, with liza
bilities of $136, 900, 900, as compared
with 1851 failures and 500, ,OOO,O0 of
liabilities for the same period of 1890.
. FOREST fires in Eldorado county, Cal,
destroyed farm houses and barns, and
left over forty families homeless.
+. b. WALLACE & Co., New York
brokers, failed for S69O,00O; assets,
1923, 535.
THE steamer Teutonic, of the White
Star line, reduced the eastward record
by making the trip from New York to
Queenstown in days 21 hours and 90
minutes.
/ THE John Seller Brewing Company
of Covington, KY, has failed for $780,
900.
1 DURING a heavy gale the tug Bertha
Endress went down near Point Iro-
quois. Mich, with six men on board,
and all perishcd.
(. FRANK SWEENEY was elected grand
master of the Switchman's Mutual
Benefit association at the annual meet
ing in Philadelphia.
/ MANY persons were reported killed
at the opening of the new land in
Oklahoma.
THE biggest oil well ever struck in the
United States was opened near Pitts
burgh, Pa. Its product was estimated
at 10000 barrels day.
! JOHN APPLEMAN. of Buckhorn, Pa,
was swindled out of $500 by two
strangers with gold bricks"
7 Ed POWELL and James Leper were
hanged at GatesviIle, Tex, for the
murder of John 7. Mathiason.
( AT Lebanon, Pa, Mrs. Thomas Bonn
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by the cars.
The Kentucky savings bank at
Louisville closed its doors. Depositors
would be paid in full.
r. A. WILSON'S stables at Woodlake,
KY, were burned, together with ten
valuable trotting horses.
SAM JONES and Sam Small. the noted
revivalists, have been summoned be-
fore grand jury at Rome, Ga, for
saying in one of their meetings that
Rome was hotbed of cussedness and
corruption
WILLIAM ALLEN, aged SO years, who
spent small fortune and fifty years
of his life in efforts to ameliorate the
/ condition of workingmen, has been
sent to the county poor-house at Co
lumbus, o.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS was re-
elected president of the National Civil
Service Reform League at the conven-
ton at Buffalo, N. Y.
AN American EXPIRE car was robbed
by two masked men between Little
Falls and Utica, N. Y. A package con-
tanning $1,000 was overlooked.
d -
dale, Pa, suspended payment on ac-
count of the embezzlelnent of S45, 900
by the teller.
! A TEXAS judge refused to naturalize
an applicant for American citizenship
who is q socialist. The judge said the
principles of socialism were not in har-
mony with the constitution of the
United States.
| AT Murfreesboro, Tenn, j. II. Al
lens livery stable and eleven fine
horses and residence were burned by
an incendiary fire.
Two MEN were struck and instantly
killed by an express train on the Pan
Pandle road near Nobletown, Pa
A wATERsPoUT near Elizabeth, Ark. :,
ruined the corn and cotton crops and did
other damage.
THE twenty-second annual conven-
tion of the National Association of In
surance Commissioners met in St
Louis.
! LARGE numbers of hogs in South
Dakota were dying of cholera.
THE First national bank of Clcarfeld,
Pa, closed its doors on account of .
run amounting to nearly $4,000.
OTHE receipts of the government
since September l amount to $27, 1885,
900, being an excess of 81, 2S7, 900 over
ordinary expenses during the same
time. The net cash balance in the
treasury on the 3Oth ult was $42, 900,
600.
MCCARTNEY's exchange bank at Fort
Howard, Wis, was robbed of $4,000
in cash and bonds.
BIRD & WELLS sawmill and lumber
yard at Wausaukee. Wis, were burned,
the loss being $4,000
ADvICEs from Fort Yates, N. D., nc
the Missouri river. say that scope OF
country 800 miles long and 200 miles
wide had been burned over. destroying
farmhouses, stock ranches and many
herds of horses and cattle.
Four persons were killed and thirty
injured by collision on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio near Kent, o.
Mr.. and MRS. AOoLPH BAsDoRF, liv.
ing on their farm near Oak Glen, q
suburb OF Chicago. were assaulted by
William Mante, farm hand, and would
both probably die from the injuries re-
ceived.
NANCY HANKS trotted q mile at Rich.