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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-18

Senator Cullen, of Tammany Hall. Mr.;
Kelly assured Governor Cleveland OF
the sincere support of Tammany.
Maybird, for which So, 600 has been
refused, dropped dead at Mystic Park,
after trotting in the 2:23 class.
Special dispatches from Cairo assert
that the Canadian boat men are unruly
and refused to obey their officers.
A heavy fall of snow was reported
yesterday morning in New Hamphlre'
1t is the first of the season.
The County Convention Of the Butler
party Endorsed the Tammany ticket in
New York.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-18

The French have had another fight
with the Chinese, and, as usual,
whipped them. The loss on the French
side was twenty men and one officer
killed, and on the Chinese side, 5000
killed, including their Chief Com
mander.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-18

Invitation Committee:
winnemueca- Fellows, w. J. Bell, L. L.
Richard
Paradise yalley-w. t. Twist, B. II. Luther,
j. w. Powell
Paradise MILL. V. McCurdy, 10. Boucher
Spring City-w. T. Burns, and Spring City
Miners Union.
Committee OF Arrangements,
OF MEALY, JOS RoUGAN,
GEO. A. SNYDER, VIM. BRADLEY,
c. M RIDDLE.
Floor Managers:
JE LUCAS, JOS. RoUGAN.
Floor Director:
B. H. LII I HE R.
MuSIC-By the Paradise String Band.
sUPPER-At Bell g. Burns Hotel
TICKETS, including Supper, - 90.
TT Tickets can be obtained from the In, ita-
ton Committee. oil
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-18
$3.50 REWARD.

The undersigned will pay reward OF $3.50 for
the arrest and conviction Of the person or per.
sons who teloniously, or for the purpose OF
PLAYING practical joke by alarming the town
made fire near u c dry kiln OF the Winnemucca
Reduction Works on Friday night, September
10Th, 1884.
ALEX. WISE.
Winnemucca, Sept. 2j, 1884. s26-lm
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
How 10 Create II Panic.

When jam in dangerous place oc-
ours in front of you don't stop. Keep
on. Shove on. Press on. Don't stop
to think. Shout as much a, you can.
Dig your way into the center of the
crowd. Put out of sight every
other thought or consideration save
that Of seeing whats up" 1t may be
q dog fight. 1t may be a sun-struck
patient. 1t may be a bowling drunk
ard. All these are wonderful things to
see. You and 300 or 500 Of your fell
low-idiots about you would mourn for a
month did you lose the opportunity of
seeing this particular case, So press
Oh and remember that every one Of you
adds say thirty pounds pressure to the
core of the human mass ahead of you.
That will soon augment SD as to burst
human bodies like applies in the cider
press, press the breath out Of their
lungs, break their ribs and make them
rs black as ink or blue as indigo in the
face. It's almost pity that you are
not now among the crushed. but keep
on. Every time there's street sensa-
ton go for it. Mix in with it. Add
your body and weight to it, and you
will in time get to the morgue or hos
pital.-Neu York Graphic.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
An italian in America.

Landing at New York by ferry
boat is the first impress sion / got OF
Americans. To us, who have no esti-
mate OF hurry, and live logger than
some of these people exist, the scene is
very attractiye--in one sense. The
ferry-boat is crossing early in the morn
ing, and is full of business men-that
proud term of country which recog-
Misses the dignity Of labor and condemns
our dolce far niente. No one waits
for tho chain to be lowered; this chain
oft times protects free people from
going overheard. They all Jump over
it, and frequently before the boat
touches the wharf. That is progressive
young America. And from that early
hour until the evening, when they go
back on this boat, they are jumping
over endless chains Of commerce and
coin. The great nation of jumpers!
The republic of hurry. Young mea in
the prime of life jump into graves;
middle-aged men hurry into collins. /
live on, type of retrogressive liberty
Oh, progress. progress On thy alear
are the sacrifices of millions of lives,
millions of Injuries, and millions Of
happiness. / am hurried of the ferry
boat and hurried into a cab; l am hur-
ried into hotel, bath, dining-room,
where dinner is hurried into me- and
then told that this is progress! l am
hurried into and ont Of bed and down
Broadway. the veriest gulf-stream Of
all hurry. Yes, 1t is progress So is
a locomotive on the Hudson River rail-
road, at eighty miles per hour. So is
cabling messages for the daily press
under the Atlantic, when the messages
are worth cabling! So is lobbying at
Albany on appropriation bills! Prog
ress here is to me paradox, because
| l have not yet lost my Italian peculiar
tiles. The American girl is cham
pagny. She is glittering, foamy,
hubby, sweet, dry, tart-in n word,
fizzy! She has not that dreamy,
magical, murmury loyahleness of our
Italian girl. And vet there is cos
mopolitan combination in the American
girl that makes her most attractive
coquette in her frankness, in her par
ionable frivolity, in her being phe
nomenon of verbal intrigue! You ma,
lose your head easily with her in 4
week, and, in the way of recollcctine
what you had said to her yesterday
for she is gifted with memory; but youl
heart --iamais It takes longer time
for that. But be sure she will hay.
both sooner or later. / don't believ,
she is half so mercenary as she talks
in the vein Of what female heart car
gold despise? Yet she gives you ;
a strong impression that the alpha ant
omega Of life is q modiste and mill
ionaire. My impression of the Ameri
can girl is one never to be forgotten
She is bright, brisk, and business-like
To be concise, would call the Ameri
can girl sort of social ea.echism--lul
of questions and answers. In man,
instances she omits the answers, an,
becomes an incarnate guestioaer.
never experienced such u pleasurabl
witness-box position in all my life. 50
Letter from an haitian IN Ne~ Tor.
to the Rome Italian Ners.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

Congressman Browne, Of Indiana, has
received letters giving details of gross frauds
praetioed by spectators in Understands on
the Pacific. II IL asserted that certain
senators and Representatives are interested
In the profits
4 Washington telegram says: The
House Commerce Committee, IA IL il consti-
tuted under the new order Of things, will be
devoted almost entirely 10 tho subject 1T in
terstaie commerce. This il II question with
respect 10 which party lines will he drawn.
At the White house reception the
question was decided ~ u whether, in the
absence OF MIR. President ar Mrs. Vice Presi-
dent, the wife of the Speaker ranked the
Misss Of f.e feereiary of State and Chief
Justice a. the first LAZY Of tie land. A pre-
eedent Was established, Tor when the hour
for the reception arrived Mis- Carlisle came
In upon the Presidents arm and took her
pieOe on bic right.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
SOUTHERN.

Fritz Halder, County Treasurer at
Yazoo, Miss, who was a peacemaker In the
recent tragedy, has expired from wounds re-
ceiyed.
James 4. Wallace, cashier Of the
Bank Of Hopkinsville, in Kentucky, has alb
seconded. leaving a dcfalcation of $4,000 to
S5o.0c0.
In tine mountains in Arkansas, bear,
deer. and wild turkey are exceedingly pienti-
full. A hunter in Searcy county recently had
Il desperate fgh, with a bear weighing 700
pounds, and came near losing his life.
Nalmar Rector, negro, was
hanged at natoa Rouge for the murder OF
Duncan Williams. The condemned man re-
fused to remain on the scauold, and screamed
and begged for life until he was bound. The
sheriff al Eastman, Ca, on opening the cell
door o. colored murderer named James
Crnmmiipc, about To be hanged, was al
tackled with knife. The doomed man then
made himself unconscious by hacking his
throat. He was taken 10 the seafold on u
stretcher, aud supported until the drop fell
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
BROWN AZ 4 tOIN DETECTOR.

How some Bank Uhsce,r Mnrpgca 10 Hid
Themselves of u l.Oafrf.
rs that good hall dol arp" asked d
gentleman Of friend, as they entered
a Dearborn street cigar store. Tie
coin had all the advertisements OF q
spurious piece. II looked like lead,
felt brgary and sounded dead when
thrown on tile coiintar.
Without waiting for afl nnsNer The
gentleman said: Il had some fun once
with one OF .hsse pieres. I was clerk
ing once in bank at Aurora, Il gool
many years ago, and Tiers was man
whom will call Brown. since he is
not here to defend himself, who used
to loaf about the bank and stick his
hose in everybody'- business. He was
y dreadful bore. always getting OF SLY
little practical jskcs on otlers, hut
never tolerant of the slightest joke on
himself One day Mr.. Bradley, tie
casli.s+, and Mr.. Rand, who has sine
been Mayor Of M.lneanslis, fixed up
job l was to go on. and pretend to
make collection, bringing back one OF
these half dollars, which had been pro-
vided. ! went, and when returned |
handed the money over the counter to
Mr.. Bradley.
Here, said he, holding up IL bad
looking coin, whit kind of money do
you call th:s?'
AT this Brown jumped up, as we
thought he would, and looking at the
coin. began to laugh at me and jcer me
fbf not knowing more thar t. take SO
bad counterfeit rs that.
Il said thought it was &. Cd money.
Brown said ] was n fool. Then Mr..
Rand came up and agreed with me.
well, said Brown. I'm ashamed
of you, Rand. A man that has handled
millions and millions, as You have,
ought to know just little something
about money
az do said Mr.. Rand, and that is
why say this is good piece.
I'd bet 81, 600 It isn't good money
said Brown.
"'All right said Mr.. Rand, taking
mp pen and writing q check for the
amount, I take the bet.
"Both checks were written, when
Brown asked, Who i to decide?'
"'You may, replied Mr.. Rand, peel
ing off the thin tin-foil with which tho
good coin had been carefully covered.
Brown was the maddest man ever
saw. Oh, how he ripped and swore.
He called us set OF thieves who had
conspired to rob him, and said he
would rather leave hs money On the
bar Of beer saloon than trust it to our
keeping any longer. As he went ont
the door he slammed it spitcfully, and
walked toward another bank. He re-
pented, however. and left his money
with us, simply because he knew it was
judicious from financial poilt of view.
In few days he learned that Mr..
Rand never had any idea of keeping
his 81 900; but for three or four months
he did not loaf about the bank. Then
he fell back into his old habits, and we
played another trick On him. 1t looked
like the same trick, and Brown Wis
glad to play the part Mr.. Rand had
played before. But this time it was re-
ally counterfeit half-dol.ar covered
with the tin-foil. The rage that fol-
lowed Browns discovery Of this second
trick on him was lasting one. He
never came into the bank except on mr.
gent bus ness after that, and then H.
was very short VIII us. and never
smiled. "-chicayo Ners.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
IN THE DEAD Of NIGHT.
A Michigan Dam Rent in Pieces and
Six Persons Swept Into the Lake.
EHougllton Mich Dispatch.l

Many years ago a dam covering several
acres was built by the Huron Mining COM
pany to supply water to its stamp mills. This
dam has always been considered safe, but
this morning 1t gave way, and the immense
body of water rushed down through mar
rev valley, "A distance of about a mile, to
Portage lake. The residences OF Mr..
Charles L. Raymond, Assistant Cashier OF
the First National Bank of Houshton, and
of Mr.. stephen f. Clevcs proprietor of the
Eureka Iron works, were situated near the
lake In the direct course of the current. Mrs.
Raymond, on the first sound OF danger,
seized two of her little children and rushed
through the snow. protested only by her
night-drcss. TO the high land near the house.
The rest of the family delayed for moment
and were swept away. The names OF those
lost Are: Charles T.. hammond, Assist
ant Cashier Of the First National
bank of Houghton, his son and
servant girl. and Howard Ray
mond wife and son, OF the Allouez mine.
The family of Mr.. Cloves remained in the up
per story of their house and passed through
the terrible ordeal safely. The buildings are
still standing, but are filled with debris. In
Mr.. Cle,es house the floors gave way and
the cellar and lower floors are filled with
trunks of trees and stones weighing tons,
the remains of a piano, stoves, ana other
furniture, all frozen into compact mass.
The track Of the torrent, which was covered
with heavy growth OF timber, Is swept clean
to the surface of the rock.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record OF the Week


The property Of the New York and
New England rcad has gone into the hands
OF receiver. it, Indebtedness Il over
el.350.00o.
Tire Art Loan exposition in favor Of
ebr Barthold statue pedestal fund. New
York. realized nrt receipts Of $4,000.
At point on the river nine miles
firm Pitt sburgh, the tu9-boat |. n. Bmnton
was ert on fire by Il collision with her tow,
Most of the crew srrang overheard. and
three arc still missing. She soon sank III
shallow water. as did three coa-boais The
total loss Is $4,000.
Robert Martin, agel 70. and James
y. Graves. 0, years, were hanged ut Newark
n, D.. for murder. Martins crime was the
murder of his wife, being drunk AT the time
he committed the dcad. Graves had always
been regarded "a II crank, and the little BOYS
called him Monkey Graves" He hal fire.
qucnt quarrels with Eddie soaen aged IL
years, and repeatedly threatened to kill him.
TN the night OF Dec. 20, 1881. Eddie started
out to perform his dutiee as lampli4hter.
Graves stea'thily followed. ani. while the boy
was mounted on lamp post, shot him down
from behind lie was Convicted JAN
~ lss2, OF murder In the first degree.
His defense was insanity. DR.. Spitka, the
medical expert who testified for Gniteau,
assisted by six other doctors. examined into
Graves case. They certified that he was
t0sane. The Court OF pardons refused to
commute the sentence The autopsy. made
by County Physician Hewlett. DR.. Sptka and
twelve other Doctors, showed that Graves
was insane. Signs of insanity more numer-
GUS and intense than are found in lunatics
who die In insane asylums were discovered.
been hanged.
The resignation Of Henry Willard as
President of the Northern Pacific road was
accepted by the Directors at their meeting in
New York last week. Willard is completely
ruined financially. The closing act of his
business career was the Landing over to
assignees of his New York mansion and
other property. with instructions to dispose
OF the same. Iay mortgage of Sa0o 600. and
discharge any Indebtedness to the Oregon
Railway company, the residue to be given to
his wife.
Russell Sage dropped 1000, 900 in
Wall street in one day A great tumble in
Union Pacific stock was the caus, of the
spectators grief.
Pittsburgh iron mills have plenty of
orders on hand, and the outlook for the trade
encouraging.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

An extraordinary scene is reported
FROM Vienna. 4 Jesuit preached the wicked
hess Of the workingmen, and twenty Of his
congregation began hombarding the pulpit
with stones. creating Il panic in which three
people were killed.
Lord Rector Lowell has resigned his
Lordship, finding some difficulty in holding
such a title and nj the same time serving a.
an ambassador Of the United States. The Dr.
fleials Of St Andrews university arc said to
greatly regrtt the resignation.
Jarmel, Hayti, has surrendered, and
tho rebellion has been crushed
Currieu, an Alsatian, who threatened
10 shoot Prime Minister Ferry Mt Paris, has
been sentenced To impr sonmeat for three
months.
The announcement comes from Paris
that the present French ministry Is consider.
Ing the project of selling tho railways owned
by the republic. The price namci i ss4. ood,-
900, and the bidders are the Ro,hschiids.
In the Dublin IIIeehly Ners A. M.
sullivan pays a tribute to Susan Gallagher.
killed Carey. because Of her love for truth in
not swearing that Carey had pistol, which
would have been Il great point in O'Donncl's
favor. Mr.. sullivan luls her the Irish
JEANNE Deans.
Notwithstanding the prohibition of
American pork in several countries OF Flu
rope the exports of hog produc. during the
past year increased 30 per cent.
United Ireland publishes m alleged
confession of ODonncll 10 private person
age. in which it is stated that the killing Of
Carey was deliberate. ana that there was no
struggle.
The Nihilist movement is now directed
from Paris and Geneva. and the leaders APP
pear 10 be disturbed since the recent muir.
ders ct st. Petersburg. In the latter city
more than thirty persons have been arrested
on suspicion.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

Bett, the public hangman in Austria,
who Was found dead i'll Led, is relieved to
have been murdered.
That China desires peace is stated on
the best authority by Tie London Times Ii
France will abstain from further hostile ac-
ton on the tied river, Il pacific agreement
can easily In concluded by the terms Of the
Hurlingame treaty the United States Is bound
10 offer it, good Offices whenever China makes
the request.
After battle, lasting ten hours, on
the heights of sloilon, ruga's forces were do
feated by the Peruvian Estoualists, under
command Of Col, Islesias,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

Salt Lake erected 5000 buildings
during the year, and claims population of
$4,000
Ernest Dix, Of Bloomington, ILL.,, died
Of trichniass the other day. His is the
second fatal case out of party Of nine who
ate uncooked sausage, and others are yet
suffering.
The recent terrible tragedy at Jack
son, Mich. has been reopened by the suicide
Of Mrs. David Holcomb, the eldest daughter
of Jacob u. Crouch. She has been nearly In
sane since the slaughter Of her father and
sister. and finally destroyed herself with
poison.
A serious railway accident happened
on the Iowa division of the Illinois Central,
near Fort Dodge. Three passcnper-cars
went down fifteen-foot emhankment. Mrs.
]. IL. Smith. or Bureau county. ILL.,, was in.
stantly killed, her infant escaping all injury
Seven passengers were wounded. some of
them very seriously.
The dam at the Huron mine, near Han
cock, Mich. burst the other evening, demol-
fishing two houses and a portion of foundry,
ana Killing Six persons.
The trial of Montgomery, Pettis, and
Clcms nti, for criminal assault upon Miss
Emma Bond, was brought to a conclusion at
Hillsboro, ILL.,. on the I'd inst, the jury rem.
dering verdict OF not guilty, after several
hours delibcration. There was u good deal
Of dissatisfaction over the verdict in
Christian county, particularly in
the neighborhood where the Bond
family live, and some talk of organizing a
mob to lynch the acquitted parties was in.
obliged in. Mr.. 4. ID. Bond, an uncle Of the
unfortunate girl, having lost his reason by
the outrage and the prolonged excitement.
hanged himself just before the conclusion OF
the trial. He was highly respected citizen,
and the event added greatly to the feeling
against the prisoners.
In the United States court at Kansas
City. Judge Krckel ordered that Frank
james be given to his bondsmen in the
Blue-cut robbery case, the State tribunal
having first gained possession of the pris-
oner.
Clement, one of the men acquitted
Of the Emma Bond outrage, went from the
Jail ut Hillsboro to Irving H., where the citi.
zens gave him ten minutes to leave.
Charles Deitzler, barber, shot and
killed a saloon keeper at weiser City, Idaho,
for which he was hanged to tree by a mob
In free fight in q saloon at Denver,
Slade. the pugilist, struck an officer, and was
placed In the station-house. John l.. Sui.
Ivan undertook to take revolver from q
hotel proprietor, but was chased out OF the
building.
In the Ottumwa iowa City Jail, q
person named Williams shot and killed q
turnkey and escaped. He also fired at the
Sheritf's wife, who endeavored TO stop him
but missed her.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

A soS of George Glaze. while out hunting
two miles below selnsgroye, Pa, ut place
known as the ..SarroMs," freed squirrel,
and, in charging the hole i'm order to secure
the game, came upon hard substance which
proved to be silver watch. Cutting IN deep
or, he succeeded In taking out eleven Of them.
some five years ago a jeMelry store In sun
bury was robbed OF a lot OF watches, and II IL
supposed that this Is part Of the plumber.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10
Washington dispatch.

IWIsHIHIUUH tlIsVatCIIaI
Under the provision of the last Postofice
Appropriation bill, when the compensation
OF any postmaster of the fourth class reaches
$3.50 for four consecutive quarters, exclusive
of commissions on his money-order business,
he Is to be assigned 10 the Presidential grade.
The following-named fourih-class offices have
been placed on the lis, Of Presidential offices,
with the salaries of postmasters as stated:
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

Gov. Hamilton, in his message to the
Legislature of Maryland, vigorously denoun.
ces the practice Of bribery at elections, which
he declares has reached the proportions of a
State Disgrace
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

A MEMBER of Kentucky church offered
the Ladies' Aid society s. Ii its memters
would meet ana make quilt without saying
a word. Two dozen Of the ladies met ut the
parsonage and In two hours the quilt was fin
ished, but they all say they would not do such
a thing again for $50.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-10

ARTICLES OF incorporation Of the Sioux
City water works have been fied. The capital
stock Is $i50,000. The work will he com
plotted tho coming season,