The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-11-03
LATER NEWS ITEMS,

LATER NEWS ITEMS.
The wreck Of the steamer Jennie Gil.
christ hoatcd down the Mississippi to Buffalo,
and lodged against tres. The corpse of Will
lam Wendt, Of Cordova, was found In tho cab
In. The body Of Mrs. Mary J. Camp was re.
covered twelve miles below Davenport. G. r.
johnson, Of Moline, ILL.,. and John Mccall, Of
Le Claire Iowa, are known to have perished
making thirteen victims.
Secretary Window il said to have
proposed to President Garfield at Long Branch,
the week before tho latter was shot, plan Of.
civil-scrvice reform for the Treasury Depart.
mont. This PLAN which met With the approval
Of tho late President, proposed to allot TO each
State > number Of appointments the appoint
ment Of I committee Of thioo In each
State before whom candidates for the places
should be examined It least once year. tho
examination to be 30 conducted % TO test tho
experience and capacity Of the applicants; ap-
pointments TO be made from among those who
stood highest ON the list. according q vacancies
to which tho State Of tho applicants was enti-
tied occurred. II was also contemplated that,
other things being equal, soldiers, their widows
and children should have preference.
Gen. Drum, in his annual report to
the General Of the Army, says the losses Of the
army during tho year were Deaths, 24s dis
charges, 6,s64; desertions, 2,s6l total, 9l7s.
The number Of recruits assigned was 3,s95 !;
the number Of soldiers re-enlisted, 1904; total,
6,769. This shows an increase OF 1900 dis
charges, IL deaths and 3l8 desertions. The
General recommends change In the method
Of promotion to tho rank Of field officers below
the rank OF Colonel, and this end no thinks
can only bs attained BY promotion In the
army instead Of By commission In particular
regiment.
Lieut.. Hoxic, Of the Engineer Corps,
in report to the Commissioners Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia, recommends tho reclamation
OF tho Potomac Flats, which would DO Of great
advantage from sanitary point Of view. He
also has q scheme for removing all steam
tracks from the streets Of the capital city and
placing them on elevated railroads or under
ground.
The Pacific Express Company opened
an Office at Galveston, and bred competition
which resulted in packages being carried free
Of charge.
Edgefeld Court House, 8. G., was the
scene Of calamitous fire, which destroyed the
business portion OF the town. leaving only three
stores standing Tho loss ia estimated at
100000, with little or no insurance.
Mrs. Bethune, Of Halifax, N. s., ac-
cidentally ignited her clothing At . stove. and
rolled on the foor to extinguish the flames.
Her babc crawled toward her and both per
ished.
A man in Cincinnati asked Arnold
Hammerschmidt for chew Of tobacco. and,
on being refused, struck him on tho head with
dray-pin inflicting wound that will prnba-
bly, prove fatal.
II stormed at intervals last week at
New York, and then there was ! corions rain,
which will probably have the OBJECT Of averting
the water famine. There is 4 prospect that
the New Workers may be enabled to take baths
without going to Brooklyn, and that tho saloon
keepers can take down the p.acards advising
customers to use water moderately.
The steamer Calcutta, from Melbourne
for Sydney, foundered At sea during gale
All on board, twenty-five persons, perished.
The British ship Omba, from Batavia for Mel
bourne, foundered in the same gale. All hands
were lost.
President Grevy has offered M. GAM
beta Cabinet position aud tho latter has ac-
cepted. II il expected that he will choose the
Office OF President Of the Council, and that
Leon Say will be Minister Of Finance, De Frey.
cinst Minister OF War, and Jules Ferry Minis
ter OF Public Instruction
Manila, the capital Of the Philippine
islands, suffered loss Of 4l.0Oo,O00 by con-
aagration last month.
Archbishop McCabe, in pastoral just
issued, decides that the rarnell "no-rent or
der il Communism, and opposed to the laws OF
God, tho teachings Of the church, aud of com
mon honesty.
Surcog 4 Debbas, Paris firm dealing
largely in Egyptian securities have failed for
5000, 900 francs.
Three young men in saloon at st.
Louis got into dispute, when ono Of them.
Henderson, In trying 70 shoot At his comrades.
struck two bystAnders, one Of whom hal
since died and tho other u in critical condi,
! tion