The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Four prisoners were suffocated in
being Wall Dunsdan. James Gregg, Emile
kahler and August Schultz. The court
house was burned at the same time.
A train was wrecked at Charlestown.
Southern Indiana, on spur of the Ohio and
Mississippi, running from Vernon to Louis
VILE. 4 score of people were hurt, including
members of the Yale College Glec club.
The British Cabinet has sent word to
Egypt that the present p.o,eetoratc will be
kept up at all hazarls. Ell Mahdi will be Civ
en- the Soudan, but Lower Egypt will be
pnr-ed OF his influence. This policy the
kEeaivc does NOT consider bel gercn, enough.
and hints al repetition of his ultimatum,
in which he demanded imn,d ate military mid
for campaign in the Soudan, on pain of
turning over the whole region To the sultan.
The murder of Col Sudeikin has lei
to conference between Prince urlotf, the
Russian Ambassador to Paris. and Prince
Bismarck, ana general conference is being
arranged to he held ut Gatschina. Several
suspects have been arrested by the Russian
police. The two Nihilists who were wounded
in the attack on the Colonel have died.
Henry Cernuschi, the French iinan-
cier. has written 10 Congressman Kelley in
dorsine his bill proposing to limit the coinage
of silver dollars.
Senator Miller, of New York, is said
to Le lahoring hard for the defeat Of Presi-
dent Arthur, and it has been predicted that
he will control the delegation from his state
In the next National convention. He has
stepped into Conkling's shoes rs a leader, it
Is said.
The first matter that will be consid-
cred by the House Committee ON Agriculture
will he the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia
and other contagious diseases among cattle.
The polygamous Bishop Sharp in
formed his priests at Salt Lake City that,
from what he had heard at Washington re-
Gently. ii tho Almighty did not pilot the Nor
mon ship she would surely sink.
Twenty-seyen women, five Of them
religeusc and twenty-five young lady pupils
under their instruction. were burned to
death in the Convent OF the Immaculate Con-
ception, a Roman Catholic educational insti-
tuition ut Belleyille, Ill.
A heavy snow storm prevailed last
week in sections OF Virginia, Tennessee, and
North Carolina, with the coolest weather
known for years. At Charleston. s. G.. the
thermometer registered l3 degrees above
zero, being the coolest weather registered in
that region for l35 years.
The defunct city of Memphis, Tenn,
had a debt estimated at S,,50u.000.
OF this amount the funding board
of the taxing district has secured possession
of $4,000 in exchange for new tonds, and
two payments Of interest have been made.
Not n Stuffed BIRD.
The Americans have accomplished
many wonderful feats, but there is one
to which they never will be equal
They never will be able to please the
travelling English critic. Dickens,
Trollope and Matthew Arnold remind
one of flies that crawl all over a healthy
man for no other purpose than to dis
cover a pimple on which to dwell with
intense satisfaction. They also remind
ohe VI INC very ialeiiipcHt Siit Wiz
thought he knew all about birds. En-
tering the room Of friend, who had a
collection of stuffed birds, the critic
proceeded to pass very unfayorable
Judgment on a stuffed eagle he had not
seen before. The bird did not look at
all natural, and lie noticed that the
head was not in the right position.
Suppose YOU put the head in the
right position" suggested the proprie-
tor of the establishment.
| The critic attempted to do SO, but the
staffed bird took liberal bite out OF
his finger. He had been criticising q
/ liya hirl -Terns S;fy;ngs