The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-11-11
NEWS AND NOTES.

In six years the number OF miles Of
railway in Florida has increased from
600 to 1000.
The fire records for the first ten
months Of '86 foots up &95 5.OOO. 900.
much more than the average.
Since the Irish landlords have
reduced their rentals a marked de-
crease Of disorder has followed.
The department Of public works of
New York city will need 93,OOO,O 900 to
pay next years expenses.
Thirty poor persons have been found
sleeping in warm-water drain in
Pesth. They were almost naked.
All shades Of brown are fashionable,
and bronze brown is held in high "a
vor for evening dress combinations.
The town Of Minhia, Burmah, has
been attacked and burned by 200 rebels
under Bohsway. The loss to property
is large.
The diet Of SAKE Weimar has abolished
the law exempting those Of the military
profession from the payment Of com.
munal taxes.
At Allegheny, Pa, the Humbolt
monument. which was put up in 1870,
is fast disintegrating, and its total
ruin is soon expected.
Three Of the brigands who attacked
and robbed Count Skarenski, Russian
consul at Sofia, while on q journey in
Bulgaria have been captured.
Asbe county. North Carolina. is
being searched from one end to the
other by crys.al-rock hunters. As 81
per pound is paid for the mineral, it is
becoming quite an industry.
The government has ordered that
the Russian language shall no longer
be taught in the public schools Of Bull
garia, but that the German Ian
guage shall be taught instead.
A riot occurred between the Saliva
tion army and the police in Quebec,
in which the mob was defeated, several
heads being broken in the mob and
three or four officers injured.
The Porte has acceded to the request
Of NJ. GrecOf to endeavOr to improve
the relations between Bulgaria and
Russia through the Intervention Of the
Ottoman embassy at St. Petersburg.
A Hamburg correspondent hears that
scheme is far advanced for second
Suez canal. to be exclusively English,
and that an enormous amount of capi-
tai is at the disposal Of the projectors.
At Eckville, Pa, two Young men
named Etting and Basing, who were
at work at Lambeth's lime kiln con-
verting young women to NJ rmonism,
were roughly treated by the people
and driven out of town.
Z The Western Barbed Wire Manufac-
turers' Association held . special meet
Ing in Chicago. They did not inter-
fere with the status of production, and
urge the claim that prices are now at
or below cost Of making.
The boiler Of the steamer Carthage,
at Newcastle, Eng, exploded while
the vessel wss being unlOaded. Six
persons were killed and 10 injured.
The force of the explosion carried a
body to the top Of lofty warehouse.
The illness Of King Otto Of Bavaris
has reached q crisis. 1t is rumored
that he is in a moribund condition
from exhaustion brought on by the
fury of his mania. The queen mother
has sent for priest to await the end.
viii Carleton. the author Of Farm
Ballads and similar poems. has shaved
off his beard and cut his hair and lost
in consequence, his Yankeeish air. He
has also grown stout, as his income has
grown. but he still retains his cheerful
manner and voice.
In New York and Boston over five
thousand cheap pianos are sold every
year at sales of household furniture,
and each one is advertised as ..bclong.
ing to q lady who is obliged to dispose
Of this magnificent instrument or &C
count of financial difficulties.
Countless herds of elephants tEat
roam over all the well-watered parts oi
inner Africa, from the Sahara desert te
Cape Colony, will furnish for years te
come the most important item (vory)
among the commodities that the con
tinent gives to commerce.
George B. Thayer. SON of ex-senator
Thaver, of Connecticut. who started
from Vernon, CT, on April 10 on 8
i Ol0y 0AuS lips H0o JO0I AOCuA0O~As CsAC0A
finishing 1924 miles on his wheel. He
went as far as the Pacific coast, made
sixty miles day. had no adventures
AID spent but &275.
| Thirty-seven Apa che Indian children
have arrived at the Indian trainin1
school at Carlisle, Pa. They were takeI
from Fort Marion, Fla, and are part o
the Apache band captured by Gen.
Miles several weeks ago. They viii
remain ut the school until they have
completed the full course.
Lady Annie Alymer, Of London
Eng, has entered petition for di
vorce from her husband, Sir Arthur
Percy Fitzgerald Alymer. on the grount
Of cruelty and adultery. The coupl'
were married in 1884. and lived ii
Remington until Sir Arthur eloped I,
America with flower girl known Al
Rocky" upon whom he spent |
thousand pounds. Lady Alymer is
daughter Of d. Reid of New York. an.
Sir Arthur is her second husband
She was divorced from her first hus
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