The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-10

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SAG. 9s1 ,695: cash in the treasury, s74s.-
$50. $50: debt less cash in the treasury.
sos, ,6O4.945. Decrease during Novem-
Der, S2,570, i39.
CHARLES BIsso was sentenced at In
to twenty-one years in the
state prison for criminal assault upon
Blanche Station, aged years. An in
effectual attempt to lynch Bisso was
made.
The New York court of appeals has
decided that person riding upon a
railway pass can recover damages in
case Of an injury.
A. i. SPIES wagon factory at Ster-
ling, Ill. was burned. Loss, SEQ, 900;
insurance, S35,O0O
THE report of Prof r. Mendenhall.
chief Of the United States geodetic and
coast survey, concerning the Indiana
Ohio boundary line. shows that it is
one mile east Of its proper place, thus
giving Ohio nearly 100 square miles Of
Indiana territory.
THE issue of the Window two-dollar
certificates was begun at Washington.
No. l was allotted to Mrs Window.
THREE workmen were thawing out
dynamite at Corunna, Mich, when it
exploded, killing one and fatally
wounding the others
THE Grand hotel at Leadville, COL,
was burned. sick guest named
Mathews perishing in the flames.
THE postmaster general has issued
an order directing that all promotions
of clerks in the fifty post offices now
under the civil service law and rules be
made only after a competitive exami-
nation.
Two FREIGHT trains on the L., n. A.
& C. collided near Lafayette, Ind. and
one engineer was fatally injured. The
damage to property amounted to
$50 900.
GEORGE f. BARR, proprietor of the
Hotel Warwick at Springfield, Mass,
shot his wife and then committed sui
eide because she refused to give him
money.
THE annual report of the first assist
ant postmaster general shows that at
the close of the last fiscal year there
were a,9S4 presidential post Offices in
the United States. The gross receipts
amounted to $50, ,3o5, O57, being an in
crease Of s.. 696 over the previous
year. The aggregate expenditure for
compensation to postmasters amounted
to Sli, 5.6. 800
Four women lost their lives in fires
in New Orleans.
THE boiler in planning mill at Lodi,
Tex. exploded. killing Jack Bickham
and W. s. Warner.
WHAT appeared to be huge ball of
fire was observed to shoot across the
heavens in the vicinity of Valparaiso,
Ind.
THE treasury of the state of Arkan-
sas was for the first time in its history
without q dollar.
FoUR persons were killed and two
were wounded by the derailing of q
car at switch in New York city.
A PRAIRIE fire swept over the north
ern part of Lyons county, Kan, and
many haystacks. granaries and orchards
were destroyed. The loss would amount
to thousands of dollars.
In his annual report to Secretary
Foster on the operations and condition
of the treasury Treasurer Nebeker
says the net ordinary revenues of the
government for the past fiscal year
were Ss9a, 447s1, or $40. 46s. 535 B.!
less than those Of the year before.
The net ordinary expenditures, ex.
elusive of the amounts paid in premium
on bonds purchased. were S355, ,372,
6s474. The postal revenues amounted
to Sos, 49,, 90s.55 and the expenditures
to S1a.O67, ,5SO.65. The reduction ef
fected during the year in the principal
of the bonded debt was SIG. $50, 273.
The amount of money in circulation
was Sl.676, ,07s. lo2. The disbursements
during the year were S.3l, leg, $40. 22,
leaving q balance of S.a6, aaa, ,ssa. 90.
JOHN T. HER. aged 81, was shot and
fatally wounded by his jealous wife al
East Buffalo. N. Y.
GEORGE j. REFS, a Detroit mich. J
groceryman, his wife and three sons
were smothered to death by the de-
struction of their store and dwelling
by fire.
The new cruiser New York was sue
cessfully launched at Cramps ship
yard in Philadelphia in the presence oi
Secretary Tracy and other distin
guishcd persons.
SAMUEL PoL.AK. aged 81, shot his
wife in Philadelphia and then killed
himself. Jealousy was the cause.
AT Haverstraw, N. ", the Clinton
dynamite works were blown up and
five men were killed.
THREE children were burned to death
in Capt Maxwells store at Little Rock
Ark.
AT Cleveland, O., the steambargt
Edward S. Pease was nearly destroyed
by fire, and Philip Stutsman and Gus
Ringer. engineer and fireman respect
lively, were drowned.
THE steamer Eastern Oregon was de
stroyed by fire while on the dry dock.
at Olympia, Wash: loss SlSO.O0o.
THE latest figures indicated that the
six men who robbed the Frisco expires,
car near St Louis secured in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
BURGLARS blew open the safe of the
Hopkins county (ky.) bank ut Madi
sonville and obtained $1,000 in golt
coin and bills.
THOMAS CASAvAN was arrested FOL
the double murder of Mrs. LeggeD
hager and her son in Chicago on No
vember Is
THIRTEEN alleged anarchists were
fined from SlO to Sl0O each by Justice
Woodman in Chicago
r. BLOOD, an oil operator at Warren
Pa. who was thrown from his hors.
and killed, carried life insurance O
100000.
THE annual report Of the comptroller
of the currency shows that during thu
year ended October 81 last 1913 new