The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-22
TWELVE horses were burned to death
n Michael Weise's barn near Salina,

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Michael Weise's barn near Salina,
IAN.
TERRIFIC storms along the coast
rom Maine to Florida have done great
amage to shipping.
DURING the twelve months ended
september 80 last 214 new national
,anks were established in the United
tates with q total capitalization OF
23, 400, 200.
Two or the overdue Atlantic steam
RS, the Umbria and Augusta Victoria,
.rrived in New York. They reported
storm from the 4th to the 9th of un-
.xampled severity.
A REMARKABLY large vein of zinc
lance has been discovered in the mines
# the Washington Zinc Company at
sonsacks, Va.
IT was estimated that about 400
square miles of territory in Minnesota
we're devastated by the recent tornado.
The loss of pine timber was great.
WILLIAM EVANS, secretary OF the
Morse Wool Securing Company OF St
Louis, was said to be short $50, 900 in
his accounts. He was fugitive.
Mrs. GEN. JOSEPH T. ToREENCE,
aged Al years, one of the best-known
society ladies in Chicago, was killed
py being thrown from her carriage
while driving The horse SHE'D, and
Mrs. Terrence was thrown against the
.urb, breaking her neck.
THE wife and mother of Joe Coe,
vho was hanged by mob at Omaha,
Neb., claim that Coe was innocent OF
.he crime with which he was charged.
IT was estimated that the total yield
If corn in Iowa the present season
would be 800. 900, 600 bushels.
FIVE children of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Hammond, of Stantonville, Ill,
nave died of diphtheria within week.
JOHN IIoEY, of New York, was de-
posed of his position as president of
the Adams Express Company for NAL
feasance in office.
+. w. BoLAND, a convicted forger,
,hot himself fatally in court at Kansas
'ity as sentence was being pronounced
IN him.
sts was found hanging to tree near
Rio Grande City. Tex, with nineteen
bullets in his body.
SHIPMENTS of fruit to the east from
San Jose. Cal, during the last week
were the heaviest on record, amounting
&c nearly 4, lc0,0)o pounls.
lHE Pennsylvania senate assembled
in special session at Harrisburg to con-
,ider charges made by Gov. Pattison
against the state treasurer and state
auditor.
AT Utica, n. Y, soldiers and sail
ors' monument, which cost $35, 900, was
unveiled in the presence of thousands
IF persons.
| Snow was falling all over North Da-
kota, and it was estimated that at least
two-thirds of the splendid wheat crop
would be ruined.
FIFTY employees in A. r. Dolman's
barrel-heading factory at Upton, Ind,
were injured by boiler explosion. two
fatally.
STEPHEN RIDLEN, aged 55, well.
known farmer of Fountaintown, Ind.
nded his troubles by hanging himself
with clothes line. This was the tenth
suicide in Shelby county this year
HENRY SANFORD, of Bridgeport
Conn.,, has been chosen president of tht
Adams Express Company to succeed
John Hoey.
THE statistics compiled by Treasurer
NJ aiming of the barge Office at New
York show that 80, lls steerage passen
gers were landed during September
Of these 36.59l were immigrants ant
2,52a were citizens of the United States
| FARMERS have boycotted the town o
Ladonia, Tex, because the town coun
ell passed an ordinance prohibiting tn,
running at large of stock in the col
porate limits.
AT Lima, O., Ray F. Burke shot hi
aunt, Mrs. Frank Burke, killing her in
stantly, and then shot himself. Trouble
over money matters was the cause.
FLAMES destroyed several busines
houses at Shawneetown. Ill, the los
being 100000.
THREE colored men were killed an,
two white men fatally injured by tn
| falling of a cage in the tunnel shaft q
Niagara Falls.
By the explosion of cask of gian
powder near Ensley City, Ala, 81:
negroes were fatally hurt
The Guion line steamer Alaska Al
rived in New York thirty-six hour
overdue. She encountered . terribl
storm on her passage.
SYLVESTER ELLIS, of Wabash, Ind
died of starvation, resulting from
partial paralysis Of the muscles of tn
throat.
The grand council of the America
Sons of Columbus, new secret orde
composed of Catholics. met at Fol-
Wayne, Ind.
For the month ended September
breadstuffs exports from the Unite
States were valued at Sl45,0 IL.
against $1lO, Cos, $40 for the nine month
ended Sept. 80, 1890.
IT was reported that at least twent
lives were lost off the Rockaway n
j. beach during the recent storm.
THREE of Andrew Lup's childre
living near Martinsville, N. j., built
bonfire near barrel of benzine and a
were burned fatally.
DIR. JOSEPH BENSON, who had bee
army surgeon at Fort Robinson fo
years, was burned to death in the ia
at Casper, Wyo., where he was col
fined for drunkenness.
A STATEMENT from the pension offic
shows that the total number of pei
sions granted during the week ende
October ) was 7,193, on which the az
gregate first payment amounted
s. .O09, Ola.
The customs receipts at New Yor
during the first ten days of Octobe
We're Sc. $50, being $4,5ss, 3S6 lei
than they were during the correspond
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