The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-01-17
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returned verdict i'm which tho management
OF the burned convent il blamed for the ter
rible loss Of life, as the precautions required
by the character OF the building and the
number OF inmates were wholly neglected.
The jury say that dormitorics should never
be allowed above the second story in institu-
tions of learning, and urge the necessity of
legislative action on the subject.
The annual report of the Attorney
General recommends the abolition of the sys-
tenn of paying marshals and deputy marshals
in fees.
More than 100 bills have been in
troduced in the present Congress to extend
the provisions of the Pension law. Commits
soncr Dudley says that under the existing
law, ii all claims were pa sscd, il would take
sl,2a5, $4,000 to pay OF the pensioners.
Mr.. Springer, of the Judiciary In
vestigating committee, thinks that the attor-
neys employed by the Government in the
s,ar-routc trials did not do their full duty.
and intimates that for valuable consideration
some of the most guilty of the star-routers
were allowed to escape. Mr.. Springer pro-
poses to probe further into this matter.
The debt of New York city amounts
to Sa2, $40, 900, decrease OF s3,595, 900 during
the past year.
Dr. Tanner, the faster, accused Of
practicing illegally by the physicians Of
jamestown, N. Y, has been indicated by
the courts.
The cutting of the great diamond re-
Gently found in South Africa has been CON-
pleted at Boston. The stone now weighs r
carats.
Mike Cleary, of New York, offers to
fight any man in America for $1,000, with
hard gloves, the fight to be in private, and
has put up a forfeit Of $3.50.
The farmhouse of Michael Ulrich,
near Harrisburg, Pa, proves to DO verita-
bic bonanza not less than $4,000 in coin and
notes having been found secreted in various
places within two months.
Amachine has been invented ct Pitts
burgh for manufacturing hob-nails, which
has capacity of one ton Il day, and is ope-
rated by three men. The use of these ma.
chimes will throw thousands of men out of
employment.
The fiftieth anniversary of the ordi-
nation of Cardinal McCloskey was celebrated
with great pomp in the cathedral at New
York Ten Bishops and 800 priests were in
attendance. The Cardinal Is feeble in gait,
but his voice is still clear.
The Panama Company has now H.
600 men employed on the work.
Swine for breeding purposes from
the Western States will be quarantined here
after ut Point Edwards, Canada, for three
weeks.
Emile Karst, the French Consul at
ST. Louis. says that the recent French procla-
nation against the importation of American
pork was due to the rumor which reached
France that 10000 pounds of diseased Amer
lean meat was to be shipped to that country.
The foreign exhibition at Boston,
representing forty-six countries, is to be re-
moved to Chicago during the summer.
The orchards in the peach belt of
Michigan passed uninjurcd through the Sc
we're weather.
Ex-senator Dorsey has been sued at
Denver for s53,200, with interest since 1873,
for bills of exchange he signed as President
of the Arkansas Central Railway COMPANY
about ten years ago.
A Nationalist meeting in County Fer
managh which Riggar, NJ. p, was announced
to address, was prohibited by the authorities.
When the Egyptians eyacuate Khar-
toum and adjacent cities it is estimated that
there will be ll,O0O Christian and European
victims of Moslem fanaticism, unless they
can be immediately transported to Upper
Egypt.