The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-09-17

In two lengthwise by the saw.
The great council Of the Improved
Order of Red Men began its fifty-6 h
annual session at Cleveland, o., with
200 delegates in attendance.
NINE persons were fatally poisoned
at dinner at the home OF George
Gregg at Belleville, Kan. 1t was not
known what the poison was or who ad-
ministered it.
AT Columbus, O., John Henry Web
ster, negro. was killed by an officer
while resisting arrest.
p. III. PATRICK and son Of Hon. j.
Is. Brown, of Pembroke, Ca, came to
blows about a small settlement. and
brother of Brown tried to separate
them. Revolvers were drawn and all
were mortally wound i.
MACK BEss (coloredl was lynched
near Nearland, N. C.. for an attempted
assault on Mrs. Peterson, q white
woman.
GUSTAV BERGER, German count,
killed his wife and committed suicide
at Topeka. Kan as res Of quar-
rel over dollar
NEAR Celina, O., James Lewis acci-
dentally cut Tom Johnson's hand while
thrashing, whereupon johnson pushed
him into the machine and his head and
body were ground to pulp. Lewis
brother then seized pitchfork and
plunged it into Johnson's body, killing
him instantly.
COUNSEL for Timothy Hopkins, adopt
ed son of the late Millionaire Hopkins,
fled a notice of intention at Salem,
Mass, to contest the will of the widow,
who left all the property to her second
husband, +. s. Searles. About $7O, OOO,-
600 are involved.
THOMAS BELFoRD, aged 20 years, was
accidentally shot and killed at kirwin,
Kan, while cleaning revolver.
DURING quarrel J. X. Sullivan was
thrown into Grand river, near South
Carrollton, KY, by Dick Keith, and
drowned. Sullivan was vice president
of the Central City deposit bank.
THE storage warehouse of r. C. Lay
ton was totally destroyed by fire at
New York; loss, $500, 900.
BERT GARwooD, an employe of the
Marshalltown Ua.) Electric Light Com
pany, was fatally injured by coming in
contact with an electric wire.
THE Keystone Lumber Company of
New Orleans received an order from
the German government for $4,000. 900
feet of pine lumber. the largest order
ever given, and it was said it would re-
quire 100 ships to transport it.
Col. JOHN g. LEE, formerly of the
United States army, was found dead in
bed at New York hotel
OLIVER G. WILSON, JR., paying teller
of the Produce national bank of Phila-
delphia, was arrested, charged with
the embezzlement of large sum of
money.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a
locomotive at Jamaica, L. L., Engineer
Donaldson, Fireman Dickerson and
Brakeman Mahoney were killed.
ADMISSION day." commemorating
the admission OF California into the
union, was generally observed through
out that state on the 9th.
The twenty second annual conven-
tion of the Master Car and Locomotive
Painters Association of the United
States and Canada began at Washing
ton. j. A. Cohen. of Huntington, Va,
was elected president.
LII was said that the ltata was to be
returned to the Chilian government
upon the payment of the expenses Of
this government in her pursuit and
capture.
DIR. C. n. PALMER, charged with bur-
glarizing store and post Office at Ray
mond, Wis.,, was suspended from the
medical board of pension examiners by
Commissioner Raum.
IT was said that the shipments of
wheat in Kansas had become SO heavy
as to blockade the railroads.
AFTER four days confinement the
jury in the Davis contested will case at
Butte. Mont. reported that they were
unable to agree. Millions Of dollars
were involved.
A TEST of the new high explosive
called terrorite was made at Fort Ham
ilton. New York harbor, and it was
found to have four times the force OF
dynamite, and is smokeless.
JOHN BARNARD, of Hancock county,
Tenn, was fatally shot by Tilman
Sutton, who in turn was Immediately
shot and killed by a brother of Bar
nard.
A. c. FAvoRs, prominent farmer OF
Merriweather county, Ca, was shot
and mortally wounded by his 12-year.
old boy while beating his wife.