The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15


extension over the Indians of the pro-
lection and privileges of our courts.
The enrolment Of Indian pupils for
the year ended June 30 was 1926, an
increase over last year of 1,549. The
commissioner regards the education of
the indian as the only solution of the
Indian problem.
A FIRE which started in blacksmith
shop at Columbus junction Ia, burned
two blocks of business houses. entail
ing a loss of Si5O.OOO.
DEPUTY SHERIFF GAsToN and bar
tender were found dead in saloon at
Arthur City, Tex, with bullet wounds
in their backs.
AT Charlottesville, Ind, William
Donley and John Davenport, two cir
Gus performers, were sent to prison for
two years for stealing half pint of
whisky.
A WAGON containing man, woman
and two children was struck by train
at Giffords, n. Y, and all four were
killed.
ACTING GOVERNOR MURPHY, of Ari-
zona, in his annual report to the secre-
tary of the interior recommends that
the territory be admitted to the union
as a state.
AFTER being speechless for nearly
seventeen years Otto Wirthner. we'll
known German at Youngstown, o.,
regained his speech by the use of elec-
tricity.
5. w. CHIPMAN. q young merchant of
American Fork, u. T., was swindled
out of $1,000 in cash by ''Mr. Smith
in bogus cattle deal at Kansas City.
DANIEL, son of Rev. A. l.. Chilcoat,
of Orbisonia, Pa, fell from a tree and
was killed. His mother went insane
from the shock of seeing his fall.
RIVERS in Oklahoma. swollen by the
heavy rains, have destroyed the prop
erty of 'boomers" and washed out
railroads.
WILLIAM CANFIELD confessed at New
] Lisbon, o., that he wrecked the train
at New Palestine O., recently in which
three men were killed for the purpose
of plumber.
A FRAME building was destroyed by
fire at WILDER. Wash, and Mrs. Wag-
ner and her two children were burned
! to death.
FORTY per cent. of the wheat crop
| in North Dakota was said to be in the
shock and a large proportion was
| sprouting, SO that it would be worth
/ less.
| THE trial of Dr. Briggs on the charge
! of heresy has been set for November 4
in the Scotch Presbyterian church al
New York.
REV. SAMUEL BENEDICT, aged &C
| years, rector of st. Paul Protestant
Episcopal church at Cincinnati, O., was
almost instantly killed in an elevator
! accident.
FoRTY-FIvE horses in livery stable
at Manhatton, Mont, were burned to
death.
A FIRE at Braddock. Pa. caused by a
lamp explosion, destroyed row of six
| frame houses. James McGuirc was
burned to death.
| BY the sudden folding up of patent
bed at Warsaw, Ind, Mrs. Mary Nye
had both arms broken and her daughter
| was severely injured.
At Sacramento. Cal, blacksmith
named Richard Van Olinda murdered
his wife and then killed himself.
A COLLISION on the Norfolk & West
ern road near kenova, w. Va, killed
/. Hiram Lowell and wounded five others
two fatally.
THE equestrian bronze statue O
Gen. Grant in Lincoln park, Chicago
was unveiled with elaborate and i'm
pressiye ceremonies Mrs Grant wa.
present.
! AN accident occurred on the Penn
sylvania railroad at L Uniontown, Md, il
which two men were killed outrigh
and three fatally injured.
! EDWARD CHICK. aged 50 years. wa
found dead in bed at his residence il
San Francisco. A coffin was foun,
under his bed which he had made fol
himself twenty years ago.
TWENTY of the leading cigar man
ufacturers of New York city held !,
meeting and organized a trust to in
clude all the prominent cigar manu-
facturers in the United States.
A CABLE car crashed into crowd a
Kansas City, injuring thirty persons
three fatally.
DIR. FELIX Il. THOMAS died at Wilma
mae, Ind, from wound received fou
years ago by the bursting of gun. Ill
established the Winainac Democrat ant
edited it for more than twenty years.
WHILE drilling for water near Me
daryville, Ind. workmen struck veil
of oil that was flowing at the rate 0
200 barrels day.
FIRE in Lima, O., caused loss o
SlOO,U0O The Times office and severa
mercantile houses were destroyed.
A MOUND on the borders of Wood
stock. VT, was opened and found +
contain sixteen skeletons, evidently 0
Indians
THE anniversary of the landing o
the first German emigrants in Americ;
in 1858 was observed in many cities.
The accounts of eX-TreasurerG Georg,
w. Morgan, of Baltimore county, Md.
have been found Ss4.3905 81 short.
The courthouse at Washington, Ind.
which cost 1926, 1000, was ruined by fire
and all the county records were burned
AT Clifton, Ala. Pink Scales mistool
his wife for . burglar and shot he
dead.
GEORGE s. DUNCAN and Sheldon A
Burlinghame were burned to death II
Detroit by the explosion of oil in I
stove they were repairing.
THE annual convention of the Societ
of the Army of Tennessee met in Chi
cago. The annual address was deliv
cred by Gen. Andrew Hickenlooper, O
Ohio.
THE recent cyclone in Itasca and Bel