The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-08-06
NEWS CONDENSED
Concise Record of the Week


A dispatch from Mount MacGreeor
says: The letter from Mrs. Grant put In the
Generals pocket when he was laid in bis
CONN simply read: Farewell. wc meet
again in q better world" It also contained
. lOek Of Mrs. Grants hair. Mrs. Grant Wis
ite1 the rema ms Thursday morning, and re-.
NAMED alone with them seven or eight min.
utes. Then IL went TO her room and re.
manned there .stil evening when she again
visited the rei..a.ns.
DR.. George +. Shrady, one Of Gen.
Grants medical advisers. publishes in the
Medical Record Of Aug. | an extended re-
view Of the .'snrg ical and pathological ~
poets OF Gen. Grants case He believes
that the disease had its inception in the
month of June. 1894, and gives q
succinct history OF the progress
apd treatment OF the case from the day in
October last when Genera. Grant flrst called
on DIR. Fortlycc Barker, his family physician,
up to its fatal termination. 1t suggests no
new theories in regard to the case, and IL
rather intended to lie a connected narrative
for the benefit or the medical profession, DO
that body.
An effort is being made by Col
James F. Coogan, OF New York, to buy the
house in which Gen. Grant Was born y
Michael f. Hirsch. In answer to an inquiry
from Col. Cocgan, Hirsch offered to cell the
house for $4,000. COL Coogan replied that
be would give $4,000. Mr.. Hirsch has been
pfered more than this. and evidently real.
lies the value OF hts possession.
Stanley Huntley, newspaper writer
vol known in the West having been con-
nected with newspapers In Chicago and st.
Louis and later achieving reputation in the
East BY the popular "Spoopendyke Papers, =
died in New York last week.
A deficiency OF SIC, 900 has been dis
covered in the accounts Of Henry Conover,
late Assistant Cashier Of the Manufacturers
BHd Traders Bank Of Buffalo, N. r., who
died suddenly last week. The officers Of the
bank claim that Its soundness is unaffected.
The American Benefit Association
and the "American Benefit Society,"" Of Bos-
ton, have been declared fraudulent concerns
by the State Insurance Commissioner OF
Massachusetts,, and will be suppressed by the
authorities.
A Mount MacGregor dispatch Of the
LIST inst. says: A considerable number Of
people came to the mountain to-day to view
the remains Of the dead General. The ex-
preston of the face remains very natural.
a magnificent floral memorial was received
from ex-liov. Leland Stanford, OF California,
and Mrs. Stanford, representing the .'Gates
Affair."" composed OF two gates six feet high
BY nve wide, composed of white and purple
immortelles spanred by an arch inscribed
with the name ~. 5. Grant," and with =
flight OF steps ascending to the hslf-opened
gates.
A New York dispatch of the LIST
inst. says: Preparations for the great mil
itary pageant, which is to be the principal
feature OF the Grant funeral on the 9Th, con-
unue with great zeal. With the exception
OF the vast number of details which will
now take care of themselves, these prepare
tions may now be called completed. Gen.
Hancock has appointed all his aids, and IL
now occupied during every working hour OF
the day in receiving and answering applica-
tions for place in the line, One hundred and
nifty dollars has been offered for
the use Of single window on
Broadway on the day Of the funeral.
The decorations Of the City Hall, where the
body is to lie In state. were finished to-day
and are very imposing. The building is be
ing girdlod with electric lights. SO that tho
somber center OF interest while the remains
lie there will be constantly illuminated.
General Hancock issued an order charging
Major General Alexander .haler with the
formation Of the escort column Of troops, in
which the army and navy and commissioned
State organizations Will be represented"
L. d. Munger, Of Detroit, at Boston
beat the bicycle road record OF 20s1. miles.
making ell. miles in twenty-four hours.
It was decided in the New York Su-
premc Court that band OF gypsies lately
brought to this countrs on steamer OF the
Bordeaux line must be r.turned to France.
Five hundred BOYS were discharged
from the Sham kin &. al colicrics, In Obcd.
eeuce to law recently passed by the Lcgis.
ature OF that state forbidding child labor In
mines and coal-breakers.