The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-20
VOL. XXXII. NO. I7---WHOLE NO. 1869.

Martinsville, La.
THE two children of L. L. Horton,
living near Ohio Pyle, Pa, were fatal
ly burned by the explosion of an oil
can.
w. f. ScHMERTz, boot and shoe dealer
at Pittsburgh, Pa, has failed for $780,
900.
INVESTIGATION of the National Cap
ital Savings. Building and Loan asso-
cations books in Chicago shows that
over 3, 100 victims were swindled out of
sums aggregating $4,000
WILLIAM A. LEvERISG, a lumber
merchant of Philadelphia, has failed
for Sl50,OOO
THE census office has issued bull
letin showing the population of West
Virginia to be 762. 194, an increase of
IA, 331 over 1890.
A HURRICANE at Landenburg, Del.
demolished several buildings. killed
two persons and many cattle and ruined
crops.
A HAILsToRM near Melrose, .Minn.,
leveled thousands Of acres of wheat,
many farmers losing all their crops,
even corn and potatoes.
SIxTEES persons were killed and
twenty others injured at Cold Spring.
L. l., by the deck of an excursion
barge falling upon them.
In answer to inquiries made by for
eign consuls the state officers of Iowa
deny the presence of any contagious
disease among the cattle of the state
THOMAS l.. DAVIS. farmer near
Crothersville, Ind, in boring for water
struck heavy flow of petroleum.
WoLFGANG BALLEsTRoM. a German
tramp staying at Santa Cruz, Cal, has
inherited fortune of 5000 and the
title of count by the death of his father
near Berlin.
The village of Ellsworth. Mimi, was
almost entirely swept away by a tor
nado
A THICK vein of extremely fine grade
of silver ore, which assayed from 2, 900
to 1000 ounces to the ton, was struck
at Leadville. Col.
B. Y. SMITH, prominent resident of
Brownsburg. Ind, was smothered to
death in a grain shute in his elevator.
THE exhibits of the Columbian ex-
position in Chicago are to be insured
for something like $500, 100000.
THE factory of the Henry C.. Hart
Manufacturing Company in Detroit
was burned. causing a loss of Sl2O,O
THE state department ut Washington
received dispatch from Lord Sails.
bury expressing the sorrow and regret
of Queen Victoria at the death of Mr..
James Russell Lowell.
HENRY HENSON. wife-murderer.w was
hanged in st. Louis, and Chris Young
was hanged at Lexington, Mo-, for the
murder of George Ferguson.
A. w. WILCOX, a well-to-do farme,
aged 20 years, living near Gaylord
Mich, killed his l9-year-old grand
daughter with an ak and then shot
himself dead
GEORGE WIEMAN, farmer of st.
Clair county, ILL.,. was held up by three
/, masked men and robbed of $50.
A BOILER of thrashing machine ex
ploded at Hiawatha, Kan, killing the
engineer and injuring two other men.
jon HAss. wealthy coal dealer a,
Mount Airey, a suburb of Philadelphia,
was found murdered in his office.
AT Harrisburg. Pa, Charles L. Wolf
who had just been elected executive
officer of the worlds fair commission
from Pennsylvania, dropped dead OF
his way to his home.
IT has been decided by Acting Post
master General Whitfield that postal
cards the edges of which have been Gu
and the shape of the card materially
changed for advertising purposes can
not be sent through the mails.
INDIANA bankers have decided t,
fight the proposed effort of the stat,
board of tax commissioners to compe
them to expose the accounts of the de
! positors.
| Mr.. AND Mrs EUGENE BoNNIcK, o
Denver, Col, committed suicide by TAX
ing morphine. Domestic infelicity wa
the cause.
A wINDsToRM at Keokuk. Ia, blew
. down over one-half of the shade tree.
in the city and wrecked several build
ings.
THE st. John & Marsh Lumber Com
! pany of Chicago failed for Sl46.O
JACOB FRANzREB. ex-secretary of tn,
| Camp Washington building association
of Cincinnati, was charged with embez
| zling $4,000.
THE National Association of Fir,
Engineers in session at Springfield
Mass, elected as president A. p. Les
mere, of that city.