The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-26


slaves stolen in 1896 by Indians in Ala
bama. Interest for fifty-four years is
also asked.
In New York George II. Strattcn
ended fast of forty-one days at
museum.
SEVEN persons lost their lives in
tenement house fire in New York
city.
Mrs. GEORGE w. FRANKIE. of Fort
Wayne, Ind, stepped on rusty nail,
lockjaw developed and she died in ter
rible agony.
INDIANA raised So. 3o5 794 bushels of
wheat the past season, against 90, 35s,-
346 in 1890. The corn product was 1885,
.O92. $40 bushels, and 7,sss, 79l bushels Of
potatoes were raised, against 2,6S5, S57
bushels last year.
THREE of the crew of the barkentine
North Bend, bound for the Fiji islands,
were drowned at Port Townsend,
Wash.
AT Helena, Mont. thermometers
registered IA degrees below zero; at
Aberdeen. S. d., Is below; at Bis
marck, N. D.. 10 below, and at Huron,
5. D.. s below.
THREE Yuma Indians were sentenced
) to death at Los Angeles, Cal. They
murdered a medicine man who failed
to produce rain at the request of the
tribe.
PALo ALTO trotted mile in 2:Osa4 at
Stockton, Cal, thus securing the
worlds stallion record.
THE schooner Hattie E. Estelle, from
Chicago to Buffalo, was wrecked just
outside the harbor at Manistee, Mich,
and the captain, cook and sailor were
drowned.
/ AT Newark, N. j., John Rindell &
Sons planning mil. was burned. Loss,
$1,000
J. II. BRIGHAM, of Delta, O., was
| reelected master of the National
Grange at the session in Springfield.
AT st. Louis fire destroyed the stores
of Penny g. Gentles, the Sonnenfeld
Millinery Company and the Famous
Shoe and Clothing Company. Loss.
about $1,000. 900.
THE wholesale grocery building of
Griggs, Cooper & Co. and hardware
store at st. Paul, Mimi, were burned,
/ Vic ioSS oCiuS @ooosooo.
/ Miss FRANCES L. WILLARD was re-
elected president of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union at the conven-
tion in Boston.
The wholesale house of the Minneap-
oils Glass Company and Lindsay Bros. :.
agricultural implements, were burned,
causing loss Of $500. 1000.
NEAR Celina, O.. Frank Raynor. 10
years old, was instantly killed and his
younger brother fatally injured by the
bursting of "a shotgun.
A HIGH wind caused heavy loss in
towns and cities near New York.
AN aged couple, James Ellis and
wife. were found dead in their home at
Troy, O., from inhaling natural gas,
and their three children were not ex-
pected to live.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion of the village of Edgerton, Mo-
FouR cattle drovers went to the
house of John Rogan near Milan,
Tenn, to collect some money due them.
Rogan thought they meant to levy on
his cattle and gave them poisoned
whisky, from the effects of which all
died
BOXER, the famous brindle bull dog,
died in Boston. lie had won more
fights and killed more dogs than any
other fighting canine of the present
generation
JOHN FLICK and John Huth were ia.
tally injured by Pennsylvania train
at Tiffin, o.
| Mrs. JAMES CALyo, of Atlanta, Ga.
found her son who was stolen from hel
twenty-three years ago, he then being
child years of age.
| A COMPANY has been organized al
Fair Haven, Wash, to raise black cats
for their fur.
JAMES Il. THOMPSON, a stockman a,
Coleman, Tex, disappeared after Sc.
curing $4,000 by swindling and for.
gerry.
| A PASSENGER train rolled down so
foot embankment at Silver Springs
N. Y, and Mr.. Hoyt, of Rochester, was
fatally injured and his wife killed.
AT Denver. Col, the mining stock
exchange building was dedicated anC
the first National Mining congress
opened
COMMANDER IN CHIEF PALMER, of the
G. A. r., favors the purchase by the
national government of Mount Nc
Gregor, where Gen. Grant died.
The whaling schooner Nicotine, Capt
Ilerendon, arrived at San Francisco
after an absence of over two years in
the Arctic ocean. The schooner haG
several times been reported as lost.
BURGLARS relieved Charles Holback,
at Catasauqua, Pa. of $500 gold, consid'
cradle jewelry and SIC. .OO0 in bonds.
WAGON containing four persons
was struck by train near Greens
Lurg, Pa, and three .of the occupant:
w ere killed and the fourth fatally in
jured.
ANDREW GUIIcK's three children
were killed and partially devoured by
wolves at New Brighton, but few
miles from St Paul, Mimi.
THE statistician of the interstat.
commerce commission reported tha
the fatalities to railroad employees dur
ing the past year amounted to 1,y7a
while the cases of injuries. were 80, Oas
AT the closing session in Boston o
the Woman's Christian Temperance,
union resolutions were adopted pledg
ing the members of the union to re
} newed efforts in the cause of total ab
stinence and prohibitions; declaring un
alterable opposition to all politica
parties that in any way protect tn,
liquor system, and indorsing that party
which embodied in its platform
the enfranchisement of women
the prohibition of the liquor traffic ane
the preservation of the Sabbath.
A FREIGHT and passenger train col
lided ut Fairmont. Neb., killing two o