The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-16

A revenue cutter brings news 10 San
Francisco from Alaska tina, the whale catch
Ia of good average, and that new volcano
has been discovered and the kowak River
fully explored.
A pleasure tug, carrying about twenty
persons, has left Grand Haven. Mich, for
New Orleans, on fishing excursion. eN-
pccting to take six weeks for tho down trip.
The Clearing House exchanges last
week -ssos. COZ. ias-were sao,ias,sai greater
than the preceding week; hut, compared
with the corresponding period In 1883, the
reduction Is cauivaien, 10 ss,s per cent
The Pennsylvania Line notifies the
Baltimore and Ohio Road that from oct. u
II will not he permitted tn run trains over
tho Pennsylvania tracks between baltimore
and New York. Neither passenger tickets
nor baggage from the West, by way of the
Baltimore and Ohio, will be received by the
Pennsylvania Company.
The federation of trade and labor as.
scmhiics OF the United States and Canada
was In session at Chicago during the week,
William ]. Hammond, OF the New Orleans
Typographical Union, presided, John i.
Hogan, OF Brooklyn, offered resolutions dc.
nouncing Whitcaw Reid and the New York
Tribune rs enemies Of tho working classes, to
be ecycos,ed by every American mechanic.
The resolutions were adopted.
The Manitoba and Northwestern and
Manitoba and Southwestern Railways have
| beer. granted land subsidies OF s,tna acres per
mile by the Canadian Government.
Because Of the increasing number of
dcfautcrs and tho immunity offenders on.
Joy, il Is said the British and American Gov
revision of the cxtradtion treaty, but a sat.
isfactory decision has no, been reached.
In the Magdalen Islands in the Cult
OF 81. Lawrence a number of persons are
said TO be starving. and aid is expected from
the Quebec and Dominion Governments.
Bishop Fahre, of Montreal, de.
nounees the Catholic Union Of the knights
OF ST. John as n sor, Of Frfemason society,
and therefore coming under the han of the
church.
At the annual meeting of tho West.
crn Union Telegraph Company frcsiden,
Green recommended that the dividends I've
reduced from , TO q Ter cent. for the pur
pose of increasing the surplus sn as to ac
! quirc other telegraph property when II /,
considered expcdient.
A powder mill explosion at Cum
minsville. Ont, killed four men and wounded
two others.
The Orangemen nj Harbor Grac.
Newfoundland, are again ON the war
path. The other night they tore down
convent gate and heat man almost I,
death.
The soldiers Of the Cuban army have
not been paid for Fix months, and the. al.
almost starving. In the interior towns o
the island they ot,aln food by force
The exports Of petroleum and PC
!, troleum products for the eight months Guides
Aug. 81. lssi. were 81. oai, 3is gallons, repre-
scntins 80, ooe,d.s. The exports Tor til,
same period tho previous year wer,
sN,sa-.. 90 gall ns, representing So ,as.
Bradstreefs journal, in its com
mercisl summary Ter the week, says: Tn,
general distribution 81 merchandise euniin
ncs ON the s'r.ctiy conservative basis hereto
fore Noted. Special kilograms tell OF "a some
what better trade al kansas .its, Topeka
aud at leading Southern distributing cen
! tiers, hui no gain has teen recorded AT TIA,
leading commercial eenters. Mercantile 90
lections are reported better in some local
ties and iess sat sfaetory ia others, tn
money markets West are ali close, and loan
are made only on exceptionally good paper
: Most of the funds loaned ~ the Ghleag
! BANKS have gone into the Northwest whea
J region. The failures throughout Tie Tuit.
:. States during the week numbered Led.