The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-20
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

Belle Siegler were drowned. All the
young people were residents of Mil
waukee.
CALVIN PAGE, of Boston. has just re-
covered his two daughters who were
stolen from him in Dakota twelve years
ago by Indians.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
1864, ,O34 bushels; corn, $500, Al BUSH
els; oats, 2,103, AL bushels.
NEARLY the entire village of Camp
Douglas. Wis, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being over $50, 900.
PAUL B. TATE, bookkeeper in the
Merchants national bank at Omaha.
Neb., left for parts unknown, taking
with him $1,000 belonging to the bank.
IT was discovered that the National
Capital Savings, Building and Loan As
sociation of North America, with head
quarters in Chicago was gigantic
swindle, and that l.. L. Mortimer. the
manager, had escaped with $50, 900 in
his possession.
A SLIGHT shock of earthquake was
felt at North Stonington and Preston,
Conn.
The grand army post at Vicksburg.
Miss, has declared that it will persist
in refusing to recognize negro posts,
although the latter are received by the
national organization.
j. o. WYNNE. of Atlanta. business
agent of the Georgia State Alliance ex-
change, was said to be over $40, 900
short in his accounts.
THE Glenion Lumber Company of
Boston has failed for over $500. 1000.
ACCORDING to census bulletin the
population of Iowa has increased 2S7,
29l, or l1GS per cent, within ten years.
The total population was given at
1,911.S96.
THE state of Pennsylvania has begun
suit against the late Treasurer Bards-
ley for S5a1,O.4. and against the county
of Philadelphia for 6.a, 900 taxes said to
be due the state.
In a free-for-all fight over pint of
whisky at Atlanthus, Mo-, Frank
Coffey was killed and two young men
fatally wounded.
IN New York city on the 10th the
thermometer registered 81 degrees in
the shade. and there were twelve fatal
cases of sunstroke.
THE new directory of the city OF
Cleveland, O., makes the population
o99,475, against a77,496 the previous
year.
DIR. II. w. BALDWIN and his newly
made bride, of Norwalk. Conn. arrived
in Chicago, having made a bridal tour
of nearly 900 miles on bicycles in thir-
ty-two days.
A WINDsTORM swept over Decatur
county. Ia, unroofing many buildings
and causing other damage.
NINE Italian laborers were injured,
three fatally. in railway accident
near Bradford, Conn.
The new two dollar silver certificates
soon to be issued will bear yignette
of the late Secretary Window.
THE two children of David Schwenk
living near Detroit Mich, were burned
to death while trying to start fire
with kerosene during the absence OF
their parents.
A CLoUDBURsT at Redlands, Cal.
flooded all the business houses and
washed away many small buildings.
THE total assessed value of Illinois
property for 1891 is $751;, ,sl6, 4o5, agains,
$727, ,4a5. 7O7 in 1890.
A YACHT was struck by a squall of
Presque Isle. Mich. and capsized, anc
three young ladies were drowned.
THERE were 100 cases of prostratior
in New York city on the 11th from the
intense heat.
The Chippewa Indian village neal
Sawyer, Mimi, was destroyed by {
hurricane.
IT was reported that 10000 negroes
Were to colonize in California with the
assistance of Senator Stanford.
AN attachment for SlOl,1.4 closed
the Ozal Lumber Company of Little
Rock. Ark.
ALL the property, rights and fran
chises of the Chicago, Kansas & Ne
braska Railway Company have bee,
decided to the Chicago, Rock Island
Pacific Railway Company for So, aaaaa,
600.
JEALOUSY caused woman to at
tempt with dynamite the destruction
of the family and residence of DIR. r.
NJ. Juvenal in Kansas City, Kan. Nc
serious damage was done.
A YACHT capsized in the bay a
Toledo, o.. and Miss Sullivan, Mr.
Ober.y and Mr.. Fitzgerald wer,
drowned.
AN express train on the Grand Rapids
& Indiana railway ran into freigh
at Briant. Ind, and Engineer Dick and
Fireman Brown were killed.
A. G. MoFFETT. a prominent Cleve
land co. physician, was drowned a
Chautauqua, n. y.
X. h. GuRLEY, of the San Francisc,
Examiner, dropped dead in a Mime
apolis street.
FLAMES in the wool houses of George
Oberne and Hosick & Go. in Chicag,
caused a loss of 500, ZOO.
An effort to produce rain by the fir
ing of dynamite in balloons sent up fol
that purpose was successful at Mid
land, Tex.
Boys while smoking cigarettes Sc
fire to the barn of Sanford Moss a
large amount of hay. grain and farm
ing implements were destroyed.
Gov. PAGE, Of Vermont, has called
special session of the Legislature to con
yene August 25.
THE total value of the exports O
breadstuffs from the United States TO
the month of July was Sl6,379,291.
INDIASAPoLIs has been decided upol
as the location of the national Farm
ers' Alliance convention, to be held No
vember II.
A BOAT containing party of sever
persons capsized on Rice lake. nea
Bowmanville, Ont, and Mr. and Mrs
Hawkins and Miss May Bee wer,
drowned.
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