The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-12
The News Condensed,
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


THE Chicago Times has been sold to
Carter II. Harrison for $500, 900.
CHARLES SCHNEIDER & Co., dealers in
dry goods at Brooklyn, n. Y, failed
for $4,000
Mrs. Lucy TODD GILBERT. mother of
Bishop Gilbert. was found dead at st.
Paul, Mimi, lying in pool of blood on
the sidewalk fronting the bishops resi-
dence.
A FIRE destroyed block of business
houses at Eiwood City, Pa Loss,
500. coo.
IT was estimated that over twenty
settlers had lost all their possessions
by the recent prairie fires in Oliver
county, N. d.
GEORGE kERN's barn at Frankfort,
Ind, was burned, and seven valuable
horses perished in the flames.
FLAMES at Beverly, Mass, caused a
loss OF 100000.
THE secretary of war has reduced
from 35 to 80 years the maximum age
at which recruits will be accepted for
the army.
THOMAS WILLIAMSON was hanged a.
Sedalia, Mo-, for the murder Of Jeffer-
son and Thomas Moore in that city in
May, 1890.
TnE Maverick national bank of Bos-
ton has suspended with liabilities of
s1O.000.000.
THE Blair county almshouse at IIol-
lidaysburg, Pa, was destroyed by fire,
and the sixty inmates narrowly escaped
with their lives.
THE state bank at Homer. Neb., was
robbed of $l,6oo by two masked men.
A FIRE at North Baltimore, O.. de-
stroyed fifty eight business houses and
dwellings with their contents. Total
loss, $500. 900.
GOLD was found on the banks of the
Missouri river at Kansas City, Mo-, at
depth of III feet.
As THE result of temperance re-
vival in Ottumwa, Ia, nearly 5000 per-
sons signed the pledge.
JOHN j. MORTON. secretary of the
Mutual Building, Loan and Savings
association and Peoples Building and
Loan association ut Evansville, Ind,
was charged with Il shortage of So, 700.
A WEILs-FARGo express Lackage
containing $1,000 for the Planters ma
tional lank of Honey Grove, Tex, was
spirited away between the depot and
express Office.
LARKIN Nix was hanged by a mob
at Camilla, Ga, for criminally assault
ing girl named Mize.
Tux public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed the total debt to be ST.
540,6s9, $50; cash in the treasury, $14o.-
$50. .a5S; debt less cash in the treasury.
5000, 159. les. Increase during October,
$1,000. 52l.
A FIRE at Albany. Ga, did 100000
damage.
ASA =. POTTER. president: Jonas II.
French and Thomas Dana. directors of
the Maverick national bank of Boston,
were arrested on the charge of embez-
zling $4,000. .00o
WHILE Mrs. keifer and Mrs. John
son were driving in the country near
Lima, o., their horse took fright and
.unning away dashed down 60-foot
embankment and both women were
killed
MUCH damage was being done in St
louis county. Mo-, by forest fires.
SEVENTEEN houses We're burned at
Waterville, Me-. leaving thirty families
homeless.
THE receipts of grain at Duluth for
The year ended October 81 were "a
20, l06 bushels. against 9,747, 9y9 for
he previous year.
FIRE destroyed Mears' barrel factory,
warehouse, out buildings, two dwell
,.ngs and q railroad trestlc at Martin S
Ferry. o., causing a loss of 100000
MRS. ELIZA RILEY (colored). of War
saw, ILL.,, went on an errand, leaving
.wo small children locked up in the
house. which took fire. and both were
burned to death.
THOMAS SHEPHERD, prominent
merchant at Georgiana, Ala, and his
wife were murdered in their home by
unknown men.
THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices
during the week ended October 81 was
s755,975, against Ss4s,3l3 during the
CORE spending period Of 1890.
FOREST fires were doing great dam
age in the vicinity of Vernon. Ala
THE Mcdonald oil fields near Pitts.
burgh. Pa. touched the worlds record
by producing $1,000 barrels of oil in
twenty-four hours.
CHINESE highbinders fought in San
Francisco and three Cinnamon were
killed.
Two SMALL. children of Luther M.
Tiffany. of Fremont, Mich, were
burned to death in their home.
Two HUNDRED more convicts work.
ing in the mines of east Tennessee
were liberated at Oliver Springs by ar
armed mob. This made I61 prisoners
who had been set at liberty.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the I'd was: Wheat
s6,a3l.75s bushels; corn, 3,05a. AS bush
els: oats. 4.ISS, AS bushels
WHILE boring gas well in the Ale
gbeny cemetery at Corapolis. Pa, an
explosion occurred and hundreds OF
lead lodies in the cemetery were
hurled from their resting place and
many costly monuments were shat
tered.
WILLIAM BOWMAN, aged so years
living near Martinsville, Ind, was Wis
ted by fifty whitecaps, who beat him
probably fatally with hoop poles.
A COMMERCIAL congress will be held
Kansas City, Mo-, December Is and
rs to.urge upon congress the systematic
improvement of the Missouri and lower
Mississippi rivers.
THE long strike of the coal miners o
The Pittsburgh. Pa, district for an ad
rance of ten cents a ton is over and tn.
$4,000 men who had been idle for three
months returned to work at the opera
tors terms.