The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-17


,ided that woman has right to sue
any one for damages who alienates her
hus bands affections.
IT was estimated that there was not
weeks supply of soft coal in Iowa,
Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas
and Nebraska
ASHER G. MAsT's barn and sixteen
fine horses were burned at West Mil
ton. o.. causing loss Of SEQ, 900.
AN Indian outbreak was threatened
at the Cheyenne agency in Montana
and United States troops had been
ordered to the scene.
FIRE destroyed the John Dunlap silk
mills at Paterson, N. j., causing a loss
of 100000.
A STATEMENT prepared at the pen.
sion Office shows that during the month
OF November last %. 253 pension claims
OF all classes were allowed. upon which
the first payments aggregated 81, S6s,-
3333. The average payment to each
pensioner was therefore sl24.2O.
UNITED STATES gunboat No. 5 was
launched at Bath, Me-, and christened
the Machias.
One man was killed outright and
four others terribly injured by fall
Ing wall caused by an explosion dur
ing fire in q Buffalo IN. W planning
mill.
SIX PERSONS were drowned near
Stelacour, Wash, by the upsetting of
boat during storm on Puget sound.
+. A. HARTER. paying teller in the
Detroit national bank at Detroit, Mich,
was said TO be over $4,000 short in his
accounts.
Mrs. CHARLES Bliss, of Last Maine,
N. Y. was frightened to death by the
running away of her horses.
JOHN DERUsH and Lewis Rhodes, Of
ST. Mary's, had fight over woman
at Lima, O., and both were fatally in
jured.
AT Rochester. N. Y, Joseph l.. Deyo,
convicted of wife murder, was SEN
fenced to be put to Geath by electricity
at Auburn during the week commenc-
ing January lS
AT Cleveland. O., the Cleveland
theater was des troyed by fire, entailing
loss of 100000.
THE Richmond (Va.) city council will
buy Mrs. jefferson Davis city resi-
dence to cost SIS. 900 in the event that
She makes Richmond her home
Two MEN were killed and five injured
by tn. collapsing of frame ice-house
AT Lehightown, Pa
DURING the twelve months ended
September 30 the value of our exports.
Of merchandise was S9a3. 09l, 1856, against
$500, 177.l15 for the previous twelve
months, an increase of s62, ,9l4,0a1
Mrs. OLESA ScDEsKI, in Jail at Sun
bury. Pa. on the charge of stealing
500, hanged herself.
ENocH MoRGANs Sons & CO.. of New
York. have given $4,000 toward the
worlds fair.
THE coinage of the mints during the
last fiscal year was the largest in the
history of the mints in this country,
aggregating 119,547,s77 pieces. valued
ut S63, ,6ll, 159.35.
JOSEPH T. LAMPKIN, the night watch
man at the Santa Fe depot at La jun
ia, Col, was killed by j. w. knorsa. a
crazy man, who then took his own life.
THE average condition of wheat in
Michigan was reported at " per cent
against 102 per cent. one year ago
During the month of November 1858
9GS bushels of wheat were marketed.
TALToN HALL, who said that during
his life he had killed ninety-nine men,
was arrested at Memphis, Tenn.
FIVE firemen and five girls and one
boy lost their lives in two fires at
Louisville, Ky.
The American horse at Wankesha,
Wis, was destroyed by fire. the guest
escaping in their night-clothes.
THE annual report of Secretary Fos.
ter shows that the revenues of the gov.
ernment from all sources for the fiscal
year ended June 80. 1891. were Si5s. 54i.
233O3. The expenditures for the same
period were S4.l.:04. 47o.46, leaving
surplus of So. .39, .6s So. As compared
with the fiscal year 1899 the receipts
for 1891 have fallen of S5.4is. .ss7.5,.
There was an increase of So. .6.3s. 19s IA
in the ordinary expenditures. For the
present fiscal year the revenues are es.
timated at S433, 900, 900. The expendi-
tures for the same period are estimated
at S409, 600, 900, leaving an estimated
surplus for the year of Sa4. 600. OOO The
amount of money in circulation De-
cember was Sl.571, 26aa.0
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's statement in
his message of Chilian affair, was re-
garded by Chilians at Valparaiso as
meaning rupture between the two
countries, as it was not believed that
the Chilian government would consent
either to apologize or make any ma
terial indemnity.