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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
SOUTHERN.

A cyclone destroyed schoolhouse
I'm Dallas, Tex. and wounded several chill.
dren.
Dispatches from Atlanta, Ca, give
meagcr accounts of the destruction wrought
hy another cyclone which passed over sec
ton III TINT state last week. Ii was first
heard from IN Harris County, and moved
from southwest to northeast. Forty-six
houses were completely blown away, eight
persons killed, ana many injured. Striking
into Mcrriwcthcr County, wholesale destruc-
tion or property took place, the damage be-
inv fully s2Ooooo. The Powell place, one OF
the most noted In the State, was utterly
swept AWAY. and Mr.. Powell, Sr., his grand
son. Hen Powell, ana four negroes were
killed outright, while Ave other persons are
SO manplcd that some Of them wi die.
Several negro children had been blown away
and have not since been heard from. Farther
on, II struck tho house Of Pete Tolson, de-
stroyinH everything. killing mules and break
ing tho thigh of negro man. negro girl
was killed. TN Dr. Reaslcys farm. near
Sanatown. terrible wreck was made. Six
colorcd people arc known TO have been killed
on one plantation and four on another.
Many persons were fatally injured in the
country adjacent TO Iogansville, several
houses destroyed, and barns burnt up.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
Ten. Buffers Views.

In speech in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, Feb. e, 1873, on the silver
bill, Gen. Butler said:
The american system of finance"
which will obtain in the near future
and hope at once, which l desire-is:
First-A dollar that shall have at all
times certain fixed aud stale value,
below which it cannot go.
Second Il demand that the dollar
shall be issued b. the Government
alone, in the exercise of it's high pre-
rogative and constitutional power. and
that the power shall not be delegated
to any corporation or individual, any
more than Charles III. ought to have
delegated his prerogative of stamping
gold coin for the benefit OF his para
mours, rs monopoly.
Third want that dollar stamped
upon some convenient und cheap mate
rial OF the |, a,t possible intrinsic value,
so that neither its wear nor its destruc-
ton will be any loss to the government
issuing it.
FOURTH also desire the dollar to be
made OF such material for the purpose
that it shall never be exported
or desirable to carry out Of the coun.
try. Framing an American system Of
finance, do not propose to adapt it to
the wants of any other nation, and es,
peeially the Chinese, who arc nearly
| one luarter of the world.
Fifth desire that the dollar SO is.
sued shall never be redeemed. see nc
more reason why tho unit of measure
of value should be redeemed or re-
decmable than that tine yard-stick witt
which measure my cloth or tho quart
with which l measure my milk, be re-
deemed.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
WESTERN.

A. ID. Lee, farmer, who went in
sane over the Crouch tragedy, committed
suicide with morphine at jackson, Mich.
Gov. Hoadly, Of Ohio, has appointed
commission Of four TO rebuild the cincin.
matt Court House. IL consists Of two Repub-
leans and two Democrats.
Lee Pettis, one of the men acquitted
Of the assault On Emma Bond. was married
recently. The father of rcttis' wife killed
himself year ago because of his daughter
affection for Fettis.
Three persons were killed at Grand
Haven. Mich. by the falling walls of brick
store which had been Quilted by fire.
The last gold bank in existence on
the Pacific coast has removed from san Fran
cisco to Pcialuma and reorsanizcd on a cur
rcncy basis.
Late aivices from the Caur d'Alene
gold fields report discoveries OF gold I'm the
district known as Dream 6ulch, SO called be-
cause Of It's discovery ON account Of the al
legged dream Of a Irenchman. Four men
sluictsd out fiye pounds tao ounces OF coarse
gold there in two days. The result Of the
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24

Mexico. Tho American Consul was attacked,
but recovered.
The Mexican Government is nego-
tiating for a loan or s2O,OOO,OOO from tho
Franco-Egyptian Bank, one-half the amount
to be advanced to the present administration.
During the week there were 100 bus
mess failures in the United states, as COM
pared with 195 the preceding week and leo
IN the corresponding week OF last year. Cam
ada had ~ failures, a decrease of IA from tho
previous week
Tho hnnCman swung off Theodore
Hoffman ut white Plains, N. ", for the MUIR
der of n Jewish pcddcr; Willis Hodges, at
Eastman, Ca, for killing a colored girl; and
Cube Turner, Mt Grcenvile, Ga, for taking
the life OF John schuttler.
An Indian outbreak has occurred in
the British Northwest Territory. A few ds.s
ago the telegraph operator Mt Battleford re-
ported 1000 Indians in the place and more
coming, and has not been heard from since.
II is teiicved he left as u measure of safety.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.


This sentence, from the form of prayer
the Master gave, through those who be-
lieved in Him, to the world, is not such
an empty formula as is generally sup
posed. As o social philosopher and a
Jealous believer in the progress of SO.
ciety until His Fathers will should he
done ION earth as it is done in heaven,
Christ could not SO mock us. His
slightest words are pregnant with the
truth.
by this prayer He would teach so
ciety as devoted to Mammon as this is
AS prone to rely upon treasure safe
~ hid in o mortgage-in stock in o ma
tional debt, or some other scheme for
robbing labor-that the real reliance
for our daily lives is solely upon the
providence of God, and that with each
recurring day we should humbly and
revcrently acknowledge it.
Tho sweet simplicity and childlike
reliance upon the infinite power that
holds this world and all that it con-
tains in tho hollow of His hand, will
appear more strikingly if we should
contrast this prayer for the believers in
Gods economy with what ue may
imagine the deyotee Of the economy Of
Mammon should utter.
Not for his daily bread does he pc
tition, but that his quarterly interest
may not fail; and he knows that his
reliance for this is not upon the eternal
benefcence OF his Father in Heaven,
but npon the continued ignorance oil
his brother man, and his patient con-
tinuance to submit to the robbery Of
the results of his labor. How impos-
sible, then, it is to unite the worship
of God and Mammon. Even though
the church itself engages in the at.
tempt to do this impossible thing, We
may count with certainty upon its foil.
ure.-CLica1O Sentinel.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
Law Must Work Both Wars.

Mr.. G. p. Huntington was lately an
applicant before the Connecticut Leg
islature for charter for the Southern
Pacific Railroad. He went to the Nut
meg State for it, he explained, because
the franchises granted by its Govern
ment were more liberal than those he
could obtain elsewhere. He got what
he wanted. The Standard Oil Com
pany appeared before the Iowa Legis-
latare during the session just closed
and made violent effort to use the
power of that body to prevent any
change in the State system of oil.
inspection. 1t has recently been before
the Massachusetts Legislature for a
change in the laws which would permit
it to introduce into that State gas
which is one of the products of its ref
use in the refining Of oil. 1t also
secured what it desired.
It is impossible to take up q news
paper, during the sessions Of the vari-
GUS State Legislatures. without coming
across some mention of the appeals of
men like Huntington and the Standard
Oil people to these repositories of
the public lower for some new fran
chise or some law that will enable them
to use their capital to still greater adj
vantage. But when the application
comes from the other direction, and
the representatives of those who have
given them those privileges 10y tho ex
ercise of which they have become mill
ionaires ask them what they have been
doing or desire to enforce some of the
limitations which were imposed when
the charter or privilege was given
them, how their attitude toward the
peoples representatives chaDgesi The
Legislature is good enough to grant
them fortunes under the glise of
articles Of incorporation and donations
of rights OF monopoly and the like, but
it is not good enough to call its bcne-
| ticiares to account.
When tie New York Legislature asks
| Vanderbilt about the management Of
| the New York ccntf | and the Harlem
the gift OF the State which has made
his family tho richest in Am.rica-he
| untruthiully answers to almost every
question, Il do not remember" or Il
do not know" When Rockefeller is
1 asked OV II cOntlitIec OI Tie 6aMe
kind some pertinent questions about
the companies which exist by the
fiat Of the State he replies,
Il decline to answer" New Jersey
has been covered by railroads which
have crossed its territory and gained
access to the metropolis Of New York
by its permission, but when its authori.
ties attempt to make these corporations
which it has enriched pay taxes like
other citizens, they resist them by oil
means, fair and foul. The owners of
tho Central Railroad Of Iowa got from
tho State tho right to operate their
road, but when the Board Of Railway
| Commissioners order it to continue to
run its trains on tho Northwood branch
i. refuses To obey, rs was chronicled in
cur dispatches of yesterday.
These corporations have too much Of
the spirit Of the Old Man of the Sea.
They will promise anything to get
| fairly seated on our necks. but when
once they are there they have vested
right to ride us to death. There are
two sides to this claim, even for the
/ corporations. Ono OF them Is, that one
Of the best investments they could
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
WASHINGTON.

If all of the l02 congressman who
are loaded with speeches on the Morrison
tariff bin arc given chance to talk, 1t is es-
tsmatcd by a Washington correspondent that
they win take up six weeks OF the time or
Congress. II is understood that the Repub-
Leans and the Democratic protectonists will
endeayor TO cnt them of by motion to strike
out the cnac,inr clause OF the bill at the ear
lost opportunity. This may not succeed. as
Mr.. Morrison has promised to acccdc to many
OF the amendments to he offered by the rep
resen,atises OF special interests, and to agree
to the abolition Of the internal-rcvenuc tax,
exccp, that ON whisky aud malt liquors. The
fate of the bill IN the House is involved in
much uncertainty.
by a vote of 10 to the House Com
mittcc on rostoitccs and post-Roads adopted
resolution declaring II to he the sense of
the committee that II is expedent to adopt
the contract system Of postal telegraphy.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
FOREIGN.

The financial crisis in Cuba much dis
turbs the members OF the Spanish Cabinet.
The cable reports that Ell Mahdi has
been twice defeated recently by hostile tribes
and Ia completely hemmcd in. Gordon Pasha
lie I'm the same fix. being completely hemmcd
In Mt khartoum. Zcbehr Pasha, who
IL known rs the .king OF the slave
Dealers" IL willing TO go to Khartoum
and .take hold" there If authorized by the
Khedivc. but will not recognize Gen. Gordon.
Nubnr pasha thinks that Zebchr's terms
should be accepted.
The Pope, in recent letter to the
Cardinals on secret political societies, pro-
nonnccs Frecmasonry the inspiring element
in all secret associations of Italy.
Cholera is raging at Calcutta, India,
25s deaths from the disease having occurred
In one week.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24

The peach and ounce trees in North
western Pennsylvania have necn destroyed
by the severe weather.
Services in memory of Wendell
Phillips were held in the fremont Temple.
hoston, las, week, several Of the friends
and ea-lahorers OF the deceased crater and
reiormor were present, among others Eli2ur
Wright L. NJ. Alcot,, Samuel Longfelow.
the key. james Freeman Clarke, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, j. u. Whittier, the Revs. Ed
ward Everett Hale, Philip brooks, T. II.
Atafieh, W. II. Howeiis, L. =. whipnle. aud
II. II. Dana. George William Curtis delivered
an ahle eulogs.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24

make would be to instill into the public
mind the belief that they were law.
abiding, loyal, honest, and public
spirited. They who hold SO much
property by the help. support, and
sanction of the law are of all others the
ones to treat it and its representatives
with the deepest and the most sincere
respect. -(Hic10O Tribune.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24

All press dispatches from Cuba to
places outside that island are subjected TO
the seyerest censorship. As a consequence
little ean DO learned of the progress Of the
filibuster Aguero. The news published in the
island Is also submitted TO most critical tests.
Thirteen deaths from yellow fever
occurred IN ono day last week at Vera Cruz.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24
Constitutional In Peace and In War.

United States Treasury notes, not re-
deemable in any other circulating
medium, are Constitutional Money in
peace or war. United States Supreme
Court, iil 1919.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24

THE Groves House burned to shell at Des
Moines The boarders were all asleep and
were aroused by Policeman johnson. Loss,
about $1,000; insured for $1,000. The IRE
was caused BY an incendiary.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-24

A BILL for the establishment of National
Bureau Of Labor Statistics, and appropriate
ing $as,ooo therefor, passed the House April 10.
The Speaker presented . message from tho
President recommending an appropriation q
3as,o00 to defray the expenses Of the special em-
bassy from SIAM The Senate was not In session.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
Foreign Flashes.

Queen Victoria has granted the widow OF
Balfe the composer, an annuity of $500
At Owen Sound, Ont, a jury decided that
Cook Teet blind wife poisoner, must hang.
Richard George Lumley, earl of Scarborough,
is dead in London, aged seventy-one He was
a liberal member of the house OF lords.
The house of lords, acting as a supreme
court of appeal, decided that the endorser of
bill of lading is not liable for freight
England holds to the position that the Congo
conference must not interfere with the Niger
territory already under her protection.
Hon S A. Smith has donated $4,000 to Nc
Gill university, Montreal, to be employed in
holding separate classes for the higher educa-
ton of ladies.
1t has been discovered that the vessels at the
London docks which were supposed to be tax
ing on board caagoes of provisions are really
loading munitions of war for China.
The question of improving the commercial
relations with America is exciting much interest
in the British West Indies, and some advance
has already been made in negotiations to that
end, which the British foreign Office is con-
Quoting.
1t is stated that the porte is negotiating with
England with regard to Egypt upon the basis
of British occupation for fifteen or twenty
years. recognition of the sultan's sovereignty,
and the Egyptian tribute to be so capitalized as
TO leave a surplus for Turkey.
1t is reported again that Gladstone has Of
fered the marquis of Ripon The position OF
viceroy of Ireland Before the marquis ac-
aepts it will be necessary or parliament to pass
a bill 10 enable Roman Catholic to hold
viceroyalty. Vanity Fair says the lords will
never pass such a bill
Count Herbert Bismarck recently challenged
Herr Eugene Richter on the ground that the
latter had insulted the chancellor i'll a speech
in the reichstag. Herr Richter refused TO ac
cept the challenge He declared he would not
fight a duel with Prince Bismarck even con-
corning a matter which occurred in parliament,
and if not with him much less with his son.
In the British commons the chief secretary
stated that the government would not give the
United Ireland fictitious importance by pros
ecuting that paper for the publication of ar
ticles melting to crime. William 0Brien, ed
itor of the United ireland, hereupon jumped to
his feet and declared the chief secretary was
making an attack on him The speaker of the
house declared OBrien out of order.
OBrien resumed his seat shouting he did
so: This is another sample of British fair
play"
The trlGf Of eight anarchists accused OF be-
ing engaged in the dynamite plot against the
emperor and crown prince Of Germany has be-
gun at Leipsic. The prosecution shows that
dynamite was concealed in hollow trees border
ing the route taken by the royal party; that dy-
Mantle was also placed under water III a con-
duit below the road, from which electric wires
ran into forest where they connected with
mines Remeidorf and Kuechler, compostors,
and Rupscn and Sader were the origiDators OF
the plot
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The Remorse of a rorger.

A stranger named n S. Travis obtained
from Spellman Il Bro, Council Bluffs, Iowa, a
check for 50. 81, which he raised to sS4 and en-
deavored to get it cashed, but was unsuecess-
full Being detected he escaped to Omaha, and
Thursday afternoon Mr.. specimen who was
looking for him, saw him come ont of saloon
The moment that Travis saw Spellman he
pulled out his pocket knife and plunged it
three times into his bowels, making severe
wounds The act was witnessed by several
men. among whom we're two policemen who
were looking for another party. Officers I'M
mediately took the wounded man to Jail, where
he was attended. He may recover. He said
he used 10 be sheriff IN one of the Black Hills
counties Of Dakota, and that having lost all
his money and friends by gambling he attempt
ed to raise money by forging check, and re-
morse at his conduct led him to attempt sui
eide.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
ra,,nrsa and Condition Of nusiness.

There were 296 failures in the United States
reported to Bradsneet's during the week end
ing 9Th against 237 in the preceding week, and
GAG. PAT and 100 in the corresponding weeks Of
1888, 1852 and 1881, respectively. About 81
per cent were those of small traders whose
capital was less than $500 Among those re-
ported embarrassed were;
Burr, Son & Co, beer brewers, New York; e.
B. parson & Co, bankers, De Ruyter, New York,
Farmers National bank, Bushnell, Ill Kramer
Bros. & Co, wholesale hats, Chicago; B. A.
Whitcomb, wholesale hats, Providence; Hill,
Fletcher & Co, wholesale notions, Louisville;
r. H Thomas Il CO., law books, st Louis;
Roberts 4 Co, wholesale grocers, Augusta
Rradstreet's Journal in its commercial sum
mary tomorrow viii say: The general COM
niercial situation throughout the United States
during the past week shows no material evl-
dences of improvement In the face
81 the continued depression, the somewhat
surprising fact is noted that at several
important points the general feeling In trade
circles itm0re huoyant and that greater con-
fidenee exists in the new year. Tangible data
for this view are not furnished The note
worthy exceptions to the continued depression
in business are at san Francisco, where trade
has been greatly improved OWING u more lib
eral purchases by farmers, and a. 4 few small
cities such as Savannah, Ga, and Evansville,
Ind
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Crimes and Criminals.

The sentence of Second Lieut. Charles A.
Churchill, Fifth infantry, has been mitgated.
Deacon Terry, who eIoped with the parsons
wife from Mortified, L L, did the fair thing
In providing for his Wife
Sheriff Day of Mount Sterling, KY, has ar
rested seven men charged with being members
of the band of regulators who few days ago
killed ]. J. Hughes, in Rowan county.
Michael Cannon, farmer four miles from
Missoula, Mont, was found dead in his house
from pistol ball. He was kneeling at chair
and Colts army pistol was lying on the bed
AtKingston, N Y, Louis Willet, aged eight
cen, was convicted of the murder of Edwin
Keland and sentenced to be hanged Jan. Y
Willet killed Kelland while asleep and robbed
the body.
Dock Chatham, aged fifty, was found dead
in bed at his home in Washington county, Ky,
with seven bullet holes in his body. He had
been on bad terms with his family and it is
supposed that some of them murdered him.
A Newport pawnbroker gave an unknown
young man So on a satcheL Not returning
the pawnbroker opened the bag and found
checks and papers worth 81 800, which had
been stolen from a New York firm, to which
they were returned
John Brewster, aged sixteen, sonOf t tiie post
master at Midland, Men, was taken to detroit
on charge of robbing the mails. He pleaded
guilty and was remanded to jail to await SEN
fence The stealing was caused by his lnfatla-
lion with young girl with whom he ran off,
but dropped her at East Saginaw.
Two boys ofa party of five were arrested re-
Gently at Worcester, Mass, for burglary and
larceny. All aged about twelve years They
had a shelter built in the woods, with revolvers,
slungshots etc, and proposed to harden them
selves this winter by exposure as preparation
for next summers campaign against the In
dams.
At White Plains, n. Y, James H. Peck has
begun an action against his uncle, Jared V.
Peck. to recover s73,000, the amount of the
legacy of Mary p. Peck out of the estate of
John A. Merritt Dec A, 1888, Mary p. Peck
was burned To death Jared claims Mary as
signed him her interest in the legacy for
$1,000
A man giving his name as Obec together
with woman with whom he was living as his
wife, was arrested aud jailed at Chippewa
Falls last Thursday. on complaint of the
womans husband who CLAIMS the parties ran
away from Michigan, and that the woman is
his wife. On the arrival of requisition from
chat state they will be taken back for trial
The federal grand jury in Chicago, returned
an Indictment agans B. T. O. Hubbard, and
in default of bail he was committed to Jail
Hubbard was cashier of the First National
Bank of Monmouth, H., which failed last
spring for about $4,000. The charge is that
he embezzled or lost in speculation about 1916,
90
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Personal News Notes.

Hon Clinton W Stanley. of the New Hamp-
shire supreme bench, died suddenly.
Emory A Storrs fires this bit of Shakespeare
at Dr. Burcbard; MANY a mans tongue
shakes ont his masters undoingA
Young George Simpson, whose finance, Mary
E Willard of Washington. ran away with an
other fellow, thinks he had lucky escape.
H. Parsons Famman of Boston, stakeholder
in New York Tribune and intimate friend of
Whitelaw Reid. dropped dead at Madison ave-
nue. and Fifty third street, New York.
Mr. Robert J. Burdette has ended his twelve
years connection with the Burlington Hawk
eye, and will make his home permanently at
Ardmore, Pa.
George s Davis, pay inspector United States
navy, died recently in Brooklyn. He was APP
pointed from Wisconsin in 1851. After the
capture of New Orleans hewas given charge of
the mint hers
Francis D. Moulton died in New York city
Wednesday afternoon. He viii be remembered
as in connection with the Beecher scandal as
the mutual friend" Mr. Moulton took an ac-
tive part in the Butter campaign He was q
member of the executive committee of the cat
temens convocation in st Louis recently. For
several years he was president of the interna-
tional dairy fair association He was forty
nine years old