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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
AN AWFUL DEED.

Bu1fhlO Man COnlossos tho Murder 0f
His Mother In Order to Save Her fr0n
the Poor House.
BUFFALO, N Y. Feb John Cullen, .
ship carpenter, killed his mother, aged %,
with an axe last night. and then went the
rounds OF tho drinking saloons telling Of his
deed. He was not believed ut first,
but was finally arrested His mothers
dead body was then found No one wit
messed the murder Cullen says he killed
his mother as she WAS getting supper
ready, and that when she fell dead he bent
over her and kissed her twice. He excused
his crime by saying that he did not want
his mother to 60 to the poor-house. Cullen
was drunk when arrested
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
A BIG LANDSLIDE.

A Hundred Miles Of California Railroad
Track Covered with Culnbrous Debris.
SAN Francisco. Feb !. - The greatest
land-slide ever known in California has
taken place ON the line of the California 4
Oregon railroad The road is new one,
and the recent heavy ra MS thoroughly
soaked the fresh roadbed 40 that
the whole country let 60 and came down
on the track" About 100 miles Of track
is covered with debria The worst slides
are on the divisions between the delta and
the eightee nth crossing Of the Sacramento
river and between Hornbrook and Ashland
A force Of 42O men h at work, but it u not
expected they can do much to clear Tho
track until spring
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
FROM COLORADO.


A. latssextasg Lsstse IRON 1ss. Tanner
-Wooso oaA Their 1ighss.
Nr4 4 n. Tanner, formerly Of
Rochester. o., sent from her new
home in Colorado > very interesting
letter to the president Of the Ladies'
Equal Rights Association Of Paines-
Vile:
Il am sorry that I can not help you
In your work In Ohio. but l find no
lack Of opportunity and need Of the
same kind Of work here, and am doing
my best TO meet It and create senti-
ment in favor of franchise Tor women
BY lending our leaflets, my NomGn's
Journal, Usion Signal, etc.
I'VE are in . new section lust settled
this summer, Ill Of u taking Govern
ment land. The cattle kings have
been accustomed to let their herds
range At will This state Of things
win continue until the settlers are M
merous enough to vote them out
The cattle men and cowboys on the
one side and the settlers on tho other
side. Undoubtedly there are settlers
enough here now who have taken land
to out-vote the cattle men, but think
fully half Of the land . entered BY
women. We are blessed with re-
markedly intelligent class Of settlerA
In order to succeed. we must cultivate
our land. and the Government requires
it, otherwise we forfeit our right to the
land, but you can see how utterly use
less it ID for us to plant trees, or SOW
grain. while the range-cattle can como
in by hundreds and thousands. - they
have done and are still doing. taking
nearly every green thing. Not : stalk
Of corn. or any thing else. has matured
this season because Of them. Nearly
every lady here has taken two quarter
sections Of one hundred and sixty
acres each, or three hundred and
twenty acres We are just - much In
terested, and have - much 1t stake
IS our gentleman neighbors; yet W
are utterly powerless to defend our
selves or our crops. We stand as
ciphers in the struggle for the protec-
ton Of our homes and crops which
means our livelihood.
! intend to draw up petition, and
circulate il and send to our Legislature
- petition setting forth our griev-
snces and asking for the franchise, -
necessary means Of self-defence.
Twenty miles from here We cross the
Wyoming line, where we stand on IN
equal footing with our brothers Il
we fail to have our claims regarded
here we intend to cross the line and
become citizens Of Wyoming when We
take our homesteada We have taken
pre-emptions and timber-claims here.
To those Of US who have supported our
families, and taken care Of them at the
same time; who have earned and kept
our homes; in short, have taken the
place Of both father and mother-tC
Us the franchise means self-protection.
For we are taxed, sometimes oppres-
sively taxed, while denied the privilege
of saying tor what purpose we shall
be taxed.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

Mr. WHITTIER is still receiving birth
day presents, one of the latest being a
balsam pillow embroidered with pine
cones. The balsam grew by the grave
of Helen Hunt jackson, in Colorado,
and the pillow was made by an Indian
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

The distinction Of being the oldest
man in Indianapolis is claimed for
Michael Shea, who was born St.
Michaers Day. November, 1881. MAX
ing him one hundred and seven years
of age. Mr. Shea is still in good
health. He prepares the stovewood
which is used in the household. looks
after the cows and attends church
services every Sunday. walking eight
squares and more in doing so.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

EVANGELIST MOODY had to give the
two hundred and fifty boys In his Mt.
Herman school talking to recently
because some of them epdeavored to
haze one of their fellows They got
him in room and were about to put
him through course Of sprouts when
he pulled big jack knife and threat
ened to carve into little pieces the first
boy that touched him. Nobody
touched him. Mr.. Moody got the
knife and talked like a kind father to
the boys They seemed impressed and
undoubtedly left his presence with The
dissemination to b COED.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

George Vanderbilt will build e75.-
900 library In New York.
AT q recent sale in London . copy
II the first edition Of Burns poems
brought $3.50.
General Lew Wallace has re ceived
ts7, 900 - royalties on '.Ben-Hur," the
sales OF which have reached nearly
200. 900 copies.
The wife Of President Carnot Is re-
puted to be one Of the best-read wom-
On in France. She has four daughters
two Of whom are unmarried
Richard K. Fox, Of the New York
Police Gazette, derives an income from
that paper u 500. 900 . year. and the
Christian at Work is printed on one Of
his presses.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland II
reported to have won both popularity
and substantial success - . school
teacher; she deserves it. She 10 . very
bright woman.
Julian Hawthorne, who has large
family to support thinks Of giving up
literature and taking up trade. He has
tried once or twice to make literature
. trade-always with unfortunate re-
suits.
Strangely enough, Mrs. Sarah J.
Hale. who was for many years the edit
or Of Godey's L0dy's Book and did .
vast amount Of literary work. is to-day
best remembered BY her verses: MARY
Had Little Lamb"
Alexander Dumas says he does not
write his memoirs because he does not
care to write about himself, and those
Of whom he would love to write. were
he to make such work complete,
would rather he would remain silent.
Henry Fielding Dickens, son Of the
late Charles Dickens, tho novelist, is q
lawyer who has high reputation for
wit and eloquence in the London
courts. He is clever in cross-exami-
nations and epigrammatic in his ora.
tory.
The aged Whittier d reported Is
saying at his birthday party to one who
referred to matrim ony: "Ah, / was 90
interested in my poetry and in the
slavery struggle that ! permitted
those golden days to 60 by without
getting married, and new I am sorry"
| Among tho women writer's on
specialties in America Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett is devoted to old
armor, Mrs. Mary L Booth, Of Har
pey's Baz0r. to old coins. Mrs. Frank
Leslie to laces, Jennie June to rare
china Anna Katherine Green to illu.
minated books and old missals, and
Mra Mary Mapss Dodge to rare prints.
-Dress
President Clsveland's present 4
the Pope was > copy sf the United
States constitution. beautifully en-
crossed and richly bound In bool
form. The book il gilt-edged, con
tains fifteen pages. each page eight
cen inches square, and ID bound will
vellum Of cream color. The words
"Ths Constitution Of the Unitei
States Of America" are On the center
in gilt letters. The book rests in
handsome case Of Tyrian purple. Tn,
gift was accompanied BY tho Presi
dents cordial congratulations
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

u, Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has no
indications of widowhood or bereave-
ment in her dress. for she shares her
dead husbands disbelief in the propri-
ETY. of mourning garments She looks
exceedingly venerable, however, and a
little less austere than of yore.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

EIH8uBmmOn BuyIny McXtC1h Lana.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. IN N. Con-
sales, agent for several wealthy residents
OF CoahuilA Mex, has closed the sale of
SOC, 600 acres OF land In the State OF Cos
hula to the representatives of an English
syndicate. who already own 1000, 900
acres in that State The consideration was
$l25, 600, or twenty five Gems per acxe
The purchase comprises much mountain
land English capitalists now own fully
one-quarter Of the State of Coahuila
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

WHAT has become Of those prophets
who have been predicting "a mild
and open winter?" SNOWFALL them,
says an exchange; skate them of into
an alr-hole; bury them under twenty
foot snow-bank; lay them gently down
on the middle Of toboggan slide, to
be run over; any thing 10 punish their
fOolishneSs,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

FRANCIS MURPHY, it is said, intends
to enter the ministry if the conference
of the Methodist church will accept
him. He already has license as q
local preacher, which was granted him
by the Erie (Pa.) conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church before he
went to Europe.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

RUNAWAY marriages are not popu-
lar in Russia. A young girl has been
sent to prison for four months, and
will lose her share in the family prop
erty because she married without the
'paternal consent
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
THREATENED WITH DISASTER.
(srsat Dangers Said to he Lurking In Gas
from Petroleum.

from Petroleum.
BUFFALO, N T., Feb Recent explo-
sions of and havoc wrought by naphtha-gas
In sewers In Rochester and Binghamton
have caused an inquiry to be made regard
ing the danger in this city from similar
causes There il not much to fear
from naphtha, but Buffalo Is menaced by
danger almost as great in the petroleum
pipo lines Should break occur at any
point . vast quantity OF crude oil
would be discharged into the sewer
system of the city in very short time.
and tho result might be . series
Of disasters which would canse the
Rochester calamity to sink into indgnif-
icance Cruie oil, exposed to the air, will
become reduced one-fOurth in volume bv
he escape Of the light and volatile gase&
Ii 10000 barrels Of crude oil should
How into q sewer At East Buffalo
from . broken ppe. and thence
make its way into the entire sewer
system Of the business heart of tho city,
pouring its gases into cellars and apart
ments Of houses through sinks, wash bowls.
and defective sewer connections, it would
finally come in contact with the gas-jetA
and something terrible would be sure t.
ans,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

LATEST adyices from China estimate
the total loss of human life by the
great food that submerged one Of its
chief and most populous provinces in
December last at seven million. It
was the most disastrous overflow
known in the history of the world
since the great Deluge of the Bible.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

SAN Francisco, Feb The Supreme
Court yesterday affirmed the decision d
the lower court granting divorce to sarah
Althea Hill from the lat, Senator Sharon.
She was given alimony Of 81. 800 and an
annual allowance Of $500 The counsel
fees Of $55, 900 were dlsallowed Three
of the seven Judges dissented. holding that
tho woman was never legally married to
Sharon
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

JAIL officials of Dayton, Tenn, hit
upon novel way of furnishing runa-
way prisoners. Silas Blanchard and
his wife. Alice, convicted of burglary,
escaped. but were recaptured at Stew
enson. seventy-tive miles away. As
hint to behave better in future they
were made to walk back the entire dis
tQncp
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

NV YORK. Feb L-1be Tribune publishes
. carefully prepared estimate of the prob
able population Of the United States
at the present time, and puts it at 62, 523,-
597 persona This figure Is arrived at BY
allowing the ratio Of deaths and births
which past experience has revealed, and
adding the excess Of births and the influx
by immigration during each year to the
population given by the census OF 1850,
which was so, Sd, 7S3
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

!, The monument of John I. Allen,
former State Treasurer Of Texas. will
be in the form Of an industrial school
in Galv veston. for the establishment of
which he bequeathed his entire fort
une, amounting to $3.50, 900.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


TIE receipts Of the Dominion Govern
ment for the last fiscal year amounted to
$35, 754. 093, against $33. III. .O4O in 1885,
So The expenses were $35, ,65s. 16l.
ADucEs from Fort Mcleod, Northwest
Territory, say that the recent chinook in
the mountains struck there with tremen-
dous force, raising tho roofs of many build
ings and the mercury from zero to 60
degrees above
IT was reported on the LIST that Andrew
]. Stewart, an agent of the Mormons in
Utah, had secured from the Mexican Gov
ernment the grant Of l, ,25O. 600 acres OF
land for q colonization scheme tho Nor
mons were getting mp
On the LIST ex-Mayor Sullivan, Of Dublin,
was released from Tullamore prison, after
two months confinement
TIE Michigan State Temperance Alliance
merged itself into the Prohibition party at
the annual convention ut Jackson on the
st
CHoLERA was epidemic among the hogs
near Lena, Stephenson County, Ill, on the
LIST, and large numbers were dying.
In various parts of England and Scotland
sharp shocks OF earthquake were felt on
the I'd
AT Kanturk. Ireland. eight persons were
sentenced on the I'd to two months i'm
prisonment at hard labor for attending
meetings Of proclaimed branches Of the
league.
On the Sd Dr.. Derby, chemist. his wife
and six children were found dead In their
dwelling In Manchester, Eng It was sup
posed that they were poisoned by the man,
who was made desperate by poverty.
In Rome on the Sd Mgr Adam, Of Cali
ifornia, presented the Pope . photograph
OF Gabriel. m Indian Catholic, 14O years
OLD, for whom he asked especial blessing
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
WEST AND SOUTH,

A STABLE Of Company !. First Cavalry, at
Leavenworth, Kan was burned on the 31st
ult, and thirty horses were sufIocatcd
THE Wisconsin Supreme Court decided on
the 31st ult that the Legislature Of 1855
extended to women the right to vote on
school matters only. and not ut general
elections
An express train was wrecked by an open
switch on the 31st ult at Urbana. O., and
two men were killed and others sustained
fatal injurieA
NEAR Prentiss Bay, Mich, several cedar
camps were closed on the 1st ON account of
the great depth Of snow, throwing out Of
employment five hundred men
JOHN 6TUNBAuoH pleaded guilty Of burg
larry on the 1st at Logansport, Ind, and
was sentenced by Judge Winfield to live
years In jail Stumbaugh was enraged at
tho length of the sentence and swore
oopiously at the Judge, who Immediately
added nine years to his sentence
THIRTY inoendiary fires have occurred
within the last four months ut Winona,
MINI.
Tn man who named Minneapolis, Charles
Hoag, died in that city on the I'd, aged
eighty yearA
On the 81st nit Colonel Alvsh W prisgs
u Chicago, dropped Asad, and his vita
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

The bodies of soldiers killed in In
dian wars in Wyoming, and buried at
stage stations or military reservations,
are being taken up by the Government
and reinterred in the National Gene
terry at Fort Mcpherson. Neb.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

! G. M. LOOMS, of New Haven, Conn.,.
recently asserted that in the last
twenty-five years he had sold more
than thirteen thousand pianos. He
has since appealed to the authorities
for protection.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

Z. LAST year one hundred and twenty
bull fghts were given in the City Of
Mexico. Seventeen bull-fighters were
wounded and one professional and
two amateur fighters killed
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

IT is estimated that the Chinese mer-
chants Of New York pay the United
States Government over q, 500. 600 per
year for duties on imported goods.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

-A'chison claims to be the coasting
city of Kansas, and the Champion
asserts that there is more fun on the
Atchison hills than at the St. Paul ice
palace or the famous toboggan chutes
of Canada.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

Prospective Customer-"That's q
very intelligent-looking bird. How
old is itP" Parrot speaking for her.
sslD-''That's pretty question to ask
about ladyl How would 5ou like
ity''
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
No OH Well ~ Carm,, mi

CARAu. III, Feb 1.-The report OF the dis.
covery Of gushing oil we'll near here. With
daily output Of 500 barrels, has ATTRACTED
several oil speculators from Pentsylv lvantA
Ths sllat4sr provSd hoax,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

DURING 1887 eleven and one-half
tons OF postage stamps-nearly one
hundred and seventy millions in num-
ber-were sold at the New York post
offina
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

A FIDDLE one hundred years old has
been presented to Governor Taylor, Of
Tennessee, who fiddled himself into
Office in contest with his Republican
brother.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
Woman Suffrage.

So many petitions for woman SUIT
rage are pouring in upon the Wash
ington Territory Legislature that the
clerks desk is piled up with them. and
1t has been voted 10 refer them to .
committee without reading. To read
them all would take . considerable
part Of every day. It will be remem-
bered that after women had voted
there for three years and hall. the
suffrage bill was unexpectedly declared
unconstitutional last winter by the
Supreme Court, because Of flaw in
its form. The best people Of the Ter
ritory are eager for Its re-enactment
and three bills to that effect have al
ready been introduced. The gamblers
and liquor-dealers, however. are max
ing . desperate tight against it. It was
on IN appeal raised BY gambler.
who had been convicted by . Jury
partly composed Of women. that the
Supreme Court, by majority Of one
vots, declared the law unconstitutional
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
Prof. Romanss on Womsn's Brains.

pr0y. n0manOS on W0mOn'S 0eAenSs
Prot Romanes notes that the brain
of the average man il slightly heavier
than that OF tho average woman, and
argues that ''there is . general corre-
latlon between brain weight and men,
tai capacity throughout the whole ami
NAL kingdom" But the brain Of IN
elephant is three or four times ~
heavy - that Of man. yet We do not
ind the elephant three or four times
= intelligent - the man. Again. il
the relative weight Of brain to body
b made the crucial test, the weight Of
the brain. - compared with that OF the
body, 10 greater In certain birds than
II 10 In the human species. Prof. Ro-
names ss5s that II Il could Be shown
tAAa ~ fsiuinins br6in differed from
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

1t is estimated that in the last ten
years North Carolina has expended
$1,000. 600 for commercial fertilizers,
while the value Of the crops has been
only t15, 5,0Q0. 900. ...
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09

ONLY twelve Indians are left of the
tribe of one thousand who inhabited
the Yosemite Valley few years ago.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
FROM WASHINGTON.

The public debt statement for January
il as follows: Total debt dncluding inter-
ost 81, 700. 191. 451; less cash items avail
able for reduction of debt and reserve bills
for redemption Of United States notes
t$4O4. 749, ,624). $1.21O,2l1, ,OS1; cash in
treasury, $S5, 23O, 746; debt, less amount in
treasury, $1,21O.21l, ,OS1. Decrease during
January, $15.3S7, 800 Decrease since
June 80. 1887, $69, 9,217 ,655.
TEE survivors Of the Thirty-fou Con-
Rress held reunion at Washington on the
I'd.
THERE were $50 business failures In the
United States during the seven days ended
on the Sd, against 268 the previous seven
days
PRESIDENT Cleveland on the Sd approved
and promulgated q revision of the civil
service rules, which makes an Office holder
who levies political assessments or attempts
to coerce the opinions OF their subordi-
mates liable to discharge Several other i'm
portant changes In the rules are also made
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-09
Sarah Althes'. Case

William Burns, Of Galena. ILL.,. WAS burned
to death In . hotel fire near Duluth, Mimi.