The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-11-19

Senator Sanford, trotted mile with
out break in 2:1oa at Stockton, Cal.
AGENTS Of the Canadian government
will visit Kansas, Dakota. Nebraska,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan to
induce farmers to locate in Manitoba
and the northwest.
LIPPIScoTT, JOHNSON & Co.'S whole
sale cloth and wooden goods house at
Philadelphia was burned. Loss,
$500, 200.
II. A. KRAMIa, q travelling salesman
for a Cincinnati diamond firm, left a
gripsack containing $4,000 worth of
diamonds in a car while he went out
to get some lunch at Dayton, o. When
he returned the grip was gone.
THE report of the director of the
mints to the secretary of the treasury
shows that during the last fiscal year
the coinage at United States mints ag-
gregated 119,547, ST. pieces, the largest
in the history of the country. The
mines of the United States yielded
during the year gold of a commercial
value of S32, s45, 900 and silver of the
value of s57, 2a5. 900.
A YOUNG man entered the Office Of J.
c. Davis, a money lender in Boston,
grabbed a roll of bills amounting to
| 1900, dashed into the street and es-
capped capture.
THE eleventh annual session of the
National Farmers congress met at Sc
| dalia, Mo-
THE statistical returns of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington for
| November make the corn crop one of
the largest in volume ever known, the
average yield being twenty-six bushels
per acre.
| AT Nashville, Tenn, the Rankin
Manufacturing Company, wholesale
clothing, made an assignment, with as
sets of Sl93, 900 and liabilities of $780,
600.
house at Hayward, Wis, injured six
persons, three fatally.
| MIS-. GEORGE DAHES, aged 60 years,
died suddenly of heart disease at Co.
lumbus, Ind, being the fifth and last
member of family all Of whom died
of the same disease
| c. Il. PAUL, wholesale lumber dealer
at Louisville, KY. has failed for $780,
900; assets, 100000.
Miss MATTE HENDERSON was so
badly burned by gas from stove at
New Castle, Ind, that she would lose
the sight of both eyes
IN the United States supreme court
Attorney General Miller announced
that it had been agreed to submit the
controversy between the United States
and England as to the Behring sea seal
fisheries to arbitration.
IT was reported that masked men
boarded train on the st. Paul road
near Western Union junction, Wis.
and robbed the express car of an enor-
nous sum of money.
A PASSENGER and freight train on
the Illinois Central road collided near
Jackson, Tenn, and four trainmen
were killed and a number of passen-
gers were injured.
A FIRE among mercantile houses in
Augusta. Ga, caused loss of S1a5. 900.
INSPECTOR HURBAgD compelled the
display of the American flag at an an
archist meeting in Chicago and said
that if any more incendiary language
was used he would clear the hall.
THE National Baseball league in
session at New York awarded the pen
mt for 1891 to Boston.
DURING October 36,19s immigrants
passed through the New York barge
office.
AT the first convention in Boston OF
.he Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn.
perance union Miss Frances Z. Willard,
IF Chicago, was elected president. The
.esolutions adopted favor the outlaw
ng of the traffic in alcoholic liquors,
opium. tobacco and impurity. the sup
preston of gambling and Sunday desc.
:ration and the enfranchisement of the
women of all nations.
THE livery stable Of William Powers
1t Yankton, S. d., was burned, and
twenty-six horses perished in the
lanes.
THE Pennsylvania senate his de.
:ided, by a strict party vote, tpat il
has no right to investigate the irregu-
arities OF the state treasurer and at
.orney general.
A NUMBER of buildings at Kensing
.on, Pa. were destroyed by cyclone
JoskPu UTILIZATION, notorious fol
he vagaries of his Imagination, was
imprisoned at Pittsburgh. Pa. fol
stealing money from man whom he
invited to his room to spend the night
, MRS JAMES kISEs. II widow. and hel
!. :hree children, were murdered near
~alverty, Va, by some one unknown.
, The immense barn of Connell Bros.
on Deer island, st. Ilelens. Ore, was
destroyed by fire. and seventy-twe
| COWS and nine horses were burned t.
. ieath.
A CENSUS bulletin shows that tho
population of Ohio under the present
census is 3,672,316, against 3 los. .06a il
;sSO. a gain OF 474,254, or ASS Pc,
cent.
, THE American bankers association
convened in seventeenth annual con
vention at New Orleans
, WILLIAM and Henry Thomas, lum'
, oermen, were killed by the explosion
, If a boiler at Nendora, o.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
{ Ex-Goy. S. GREGORY SMITH, of Yer
mont, died at st. Albans, Vt, aged ::
years.
/, PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed
/, Fenton Il. McCreery, of Michigan, te
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