The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

important lntelliQence rom All Parts.
DOMESTIC.
As DR. JOHN HALL, pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in
New York. was passing from the
church to the parsonage he was fired
at three times by John G. Rath, crazy
man, but none of the bullets struck
him.
THE third annual report on the ''sta-
tistics Of railways in the United States"
shows that at the end of the fiscal
year the railway mileage in the
United States was 1863, ,537 miles. The
number of railway corporations was
LIT. The total number of men en-
ployed on the railways was 749. sol;
total capitalization Of railway property,
50, 1874, 4S3. 400 The total number OF
persons reported killed during the year
was 6,sa0 and the total number report
ed injured was 29.O3i.
THE annual report OF Secretary of
the Interior Noble shows that the
numb ber Of agricultural patents. which
includes those for homesteads and
preemptions, issued during the year
was ia, 800, which, allowing 100 acres
to each patent. would embrace an ag.
gregate of ~, 297. 600 acres. Over 21,-
900 Indians have become cit zens of the
United States, and the total Indian
population was reported as 2aO, 4S3, ex-
elusive Of natives of Alaska.
A PASSENGER train on the Flint &
Pere Marquette road crashed into the
rear OF the Lake Shore express at To-
ledo, O., causing the death of seven
persons and badly injuring twenty
others
A NAIL car in the Northwestern rail.
way yards in Chicago was burned, and
eighty sacks OF mail mater were de-
stroyed.
Two EARTHQUAKE shocks shook up
Seattle. Wash. No damage was done
WILLIAM CUTAJAR. customs broker,
was under arrest in New York, charged
with deceiving the government out of
$780, 900 by means of alleged false en-
tries
THE state university for colored peo-
Pile in New Orleans was destroyed by
fire.
ID. c. THOMAS, an employe of Mar
shalltown Qa) packing house. shot
and killed John Hockridge, the pro-
prietor of a boarding house, and then
committed suicide.
FLAMES destroyed grain elevator
and contents at Escanaba, Mich, caus-
ing loss of Sa5O,0
The celebration Of the fiftieth ami
versary of the ordination 10 the priest
hood of Archbishop Peter Richard
Kenrick took place in St. Louis.
WILLIAM ROBERTS. William Graham
and John Graham were drowned near
Erie, Pa, by the capsizing of boat.
THE Mississippi river at Galena, ILL.,,
was frozen from shore to shore, this
being the first time such thing was
ever known in November.
A SPAN of bridge Of the Great North
ern railroad extension at Kalispell.
Mont, fell, killing five men and injur-
ing ten others
The annual report OF Superintendent
Leibhardt OF the dead-letter office
says that 7,aS9,240 pieces of original
dead mail matter were received during
the year, an increase of 3ll,9o4 pieces
over the previous year.
J. II. slime, editor OF the Whiteson
lOre.) Advance, was shot and killed by
n. C. Cook. section boss on the rail-
road. Cook then blew his own brains
out. No cause was known.
THE official count Of the population
of Alaska shows the mum Der of whites
to be 1. 1908; mixed Russian and natives,
1879; Indian, 23,274, and Mongolians.
a,2s7. The population of the territory
entire is 3l,7l9. Three hundred viii
lagos and settlements are enumerated.
In fire in Peoria, ILL.,, Miss Brown
was SO badly burned that she would
lose her eyesight.
THE report of Superintendent Pol
lock of the free delivery of the post
office department shows that the num-
ber of free delivery Offices at the close
of the year was SO. an increase of G5
over the preceding year The cost Of
this service was S9.OI2, 08l The local
postage for tho year amounted to SILL
174.754. The number of pieces of mail
handled was 1906. 354, $50.
The firm of }. Olkenheimer, of Du-
buque, Ia. will soon begin the manu-
facture Of white enameled pottery by
process hitherto known only IN Ger
many.
A GANG of counterfeiters operating
in Nebraska and river cities have bee N
arrested at Beatrice.
In the trial at San Francisco of John
White, late business manager of the
San Francisco Call. for embezzlement,
White confessed that he had stolen
s5O,OOO. most of whicL was sunk in
horse racing and speculation.
BENJAMIN BERENsEN, a dry-goods
jobber at Boston, has disappeared,
taking with him $4,000 belonging to
other Hebrews.
Mrs. EDWARD LYoS's clothing caught
fire while she was trying to thaw out
frozen water pipe in New York, and
she was burned to death in sight of 500
people in the street below.
THE window-glass works at Bellaire.
O., were burned, causing q loss of
100000 One man, James Stewart,
was burned to death.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 30th ult. was:
Wheat, 43,365.62S bushels; corn, 1926,
$50 bushels: oats. 4,l37,4 Al bushels.
THE western Cherokee Indians have
recovered judgment against the United
States for $sa4,0oo, money due them
since lS4O.
THE issue of standard silver dollars