The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC
THE giant powder works at Clipper
Gap. Cal, blew up, killing five men
and seriously wounding one boy.
THE price of admission to the Worlds
Columbian exposition in Chicago will
be fifty cents.
M. B. GoBLE, an extensive dealer in
lumber at Catlettsburg, KY, has failed
for $4,000
SECRETARY RUsK in his third annual
report estimates that the increase in
the value of agricultural products this
year over last will not be less than
$700. 600, ,00O
THE discovery of rich copper mines
in Alaska was reported.
JOHN HESRY's OK team ran away
with him and his family in the wagon
near Knoxville, Tenn. and the family
OF four were thrown over a precipice
and killed
THE Cory PA. national bank closed
its doors with liabilities of S7OO, 900 and
assets of S450.o00
The dairy and barns of John O'Con-
nor at Homer, N. ", were destroyed
by fire with their contents, including
152 head of cattle.
FOURTH AUDITOR LYNCH in his an
nual report to the secretary of the
treasury shows that the naval expend-
itures for the fiscal year ended June 80
last were ss7.O16.3l5.
II. F. FARSswoRTH shot and fatally
wounded Miss Emma Neal at Colusa,
rnl ~ 1al L.
ousy was the cause.
AN explosion in No. shaft of the
Susquehanna Coal Company at Nanti-
coke, Pa, killed ten men and injured
six others.
A STABLE and the sheds belonging to
the Cincinnati Ice Company were
burned and thirty-one horses perished.
A GASOLINE tank exploded in the
rear of Washburn's block ut Orange,
Mass, starting fire that destroyed
$500. worth of property.
THE village of Buffalo Gap, S. D.,
was wiped out by fire.
ALL the business portion of Terry,
Miss, was destroyed by fire.
THE Western & Atlantic passenger
train was thrown from the track by
train wreckers at sharp curve near
Atlanta. Ca. and six men were killed.
NORMAN l.. MUNRo's steam yacht
harbor in a:l2h.
FRANK II. DOYLE, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
suicided because his face had been dis
figured in an explosion.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
3S,97t,9 ,95l bushels; corn, ASH 1881 bush
els: oats, 4,3S4. 39S bushels.
Four persons and thirty-four horses
lost their lives by the burning of Man
sions' livery stable in Denver, Col
WALTER LOCKE, half witted, killed
his idiot father with an AK near Ozark.
Mo.
THE loss to shipping by the Septem-
ber and October hurricanes vas esti-
mated by marine underwriters at Phil
adelphia to have been over 10000
600, and ninety persons were known to
have perished.
A LARGE deposit of rock salt was
found near Dansville, n. ", at depth
of 200 feet.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices
during the week ended November was
1856, $50, against Ssl1.4ss during the
corresponding period of last year
TIE famous war horse Comanche,
which was ridden by the only mar
that came out of the Custer massacre
alive in June. 1876, died at Fort Riley
Kan, aged a5 years.
FIRE in the huge coal piles of the
Northwestern Fuel Company at Duluth
Mimi. had caused loss of Sl0O, 900 anG
was still burning.
MAJ. CULVER {. SSIFFEN. army pay
master, was robbed at Fort Clark. Tex.
If $500.
GEN. BATcHELIER, United State.
minister to Portugal, saws that country
is very much in favor of a reciprocity
treaty with this country.
In a country store near Jacksonville
Fla, Martin Itjen and his clerk
Charles Moranz. were shot and killee
by burglars, who secured but SIS.
The court of claims at Washington
has rendered decision against tn,
states OF Ohio, Indiana and Illinois il
the suit to recover the ? per cent. funt
retained by the national government
from the sale of the Cumberland Gal
road. The sum in dispute was $1,000,
O09
THE ocInulgee river was opened t,
navigation from the ocean to Macon
Ga.
AT Cincinnati three men were killet
at the burning of Oscar Onken's pictur,
frame manufactory.
Gov. PATrIsoN has issued a procla
nation calling on the people of Penn
sylyania to prepare their exhibits 70
the Columbian exposition.
TIE Walton architectural iron work.
al Cincinnati, o., assigned with liza bill
ties of 100000.
John kopp, a member of a suicid,
club at Bridgeport, Conn, took his owl
life by hanging. Seventeen member
of the club thus far have slain them
selves. But two remained to die.
CAPT MEREDITH, superintendent o
the bureau of engraving and print
ing, in his annual report says that dur
ing the last year the delivery of Unite'
States notes, treasury notes and gol,
and silver certificates aggregated
face value of sos. .96a, $50, and the rev
enue and customs stamps numbere,
25a, 900, 600. The expenditures durin;
the year were Sl,265, 263.
l.. L. FORD. inventor of the Ford
Whitworth ear coupler, under sentenc
of death for murder, escaped from jai
at Magnolia, Miss.
The total value of the shipments o
breadstuffs from the United State
during the ten months ended Octobtl
81 was $3.50, 4ss, 463, against S1l9, 9,0a7, Is
for the ten months Of the prior year.