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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
WEST AND SOuTH,

WEST ANO oOUIns
On the 18th Murray Lewis (colored) was
hanged at Greenville, Miss, for the muir
der of his mistress.
gan establishment and in the Chicago Car
pet Company's store in Chicago did dam
age or the 18th to the extent Of $3O0, 600
TENNESSEE Republicans met at Nashville
on the 1Stn and nominated Samuel w.
Hawkins, an ex-Union soldier, for Gov
ernor. The platform indorses the Chicago
platform
The death Of Mrs. Agnes Boyd occurred
at Kewanee, ILL.,, on the 18th, at the ad-
vanced age of one hundred and five years.
In the river at Louisville, KY, a skih
capsized ON the 18th, and Jack Pendergast,
William &. Malone and Dan Morrill, were
drowned.
DEMOCRATS Of the Eleventh Illinois dis
trict on the 18th nominated William Prem.
tiss for Congress.
The Democrats of the Second Mississippi
district renominated J. b. Morgan for Con-
grcss on the 18th.
ABOUT eight miles south of Vincennes.
Ind. at point known as Bald Hill, on the
banks of the River Duchee, y water. spout
on the 18th flooded the country to the depth
of four feet. doing great damage.
WILL HousToN was hanged at Winston,
N. c., on the 10Th for killing negro
woman.
T. NJ. SLULrz, of Kansas City, had four
teen horses poisoned on the 10th by some
unknown person.
DEMOCRATS and Greenbackers of Michi-
gan held their conventions on the 10th,
the former at Detroit and the latter at
Grand Rapids. A coalition ticket was
nominated. the Greenbackers securing the
the Auditor General,
the Commissioner of the State Land ONCE,
and the electors for tho Second, Eighth and
Eleventh districts. The Democrats ap-
propriated the rest Of the ticket, nominst-
Ing wellington p, Burt Of saginaw, tor
osvsrasr.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
A Former Executive OF the State Of Ohio
Passes Away.
Drunken Men Drowned.

THREE RIVERS, Can, July 2l.-A river
man from up the river tells o thrilling
story. He was one of . party of fifty log
drivers. At the rapids on Mattawan river
they got whisky, and fourteen Of them
while intoxicated, tried to shoot the rapids
in big boat, which was overturned, ant
all were drowned or killed on the rocks
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

In the library of DR.. Williams, in
London. is copy of the Bible in short
hand. 1t is exquisitely written, and is
said to have belonged to an appren-
tice OF the time OF James H., who
feared that the Bible was about to be
prohibited, and so wrote this copy.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

"ONE dose of tea in the twenty-four
hours is quite sufficient" says Lon
don exchange. land many people who
are at present troubled with headaches
and many of the so-called nervous dis
eases, would be far better if they never
drank tea at all. Especially should all
avoid that very great mistake known
IS high tea. Tea and meat should
never be taken together, at least as
forming the principal meal. The tan
nin, an important constituent of the tea,
prevents the digestion of the meat"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

A VERY dangerous counterfeit silver
dollar was passed on Police Officer
Hermann Meyer in Chicago the other
day. The bogus coin has splendid
ring and is of the exact size, but is
rather light. 1t is difficult to detect.
The officer had no idea where it came
fpnyn
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
THERE is still another Presto

THERE is still another Presidential
candidate in the field. General A.
Servius st. Claire, of Boston, has pub
iished u manifesto, in which he argues
that he is eminently fitted to fill the
Executive chair. He says that he and
Garibaldi captured an Austrian army
q $4,000 men in the war for Italian
independence. He further asserts that
he is president Of society which has
222, GOO, 600 members; that he has in
vented large number of devices i'm
portant to the welfare of civilization,
and that he has got forty-seven bills
through Congress.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

JOAQUIN MILLER is living the exist
ence of a hermit in the mountains near
Oakland. Cal. He is engaged upon a
poem OF some length, entitled LEG
ends of Christ" embodying quaint
stories picked up by Miller when he
lived in the Levant
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

THERE is said to be Il great deal of
want among the German population Of
Paris. 1t appears that the German
Aid Society thero has, in the course OF
few years. sent back to Germany
nearly six Thousand persons who could
not earn livelihood in the French
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

A Long BRANCH woman has 1913
dresses, and a woman has been dis
covered in Pennsylvania who has eleven
husbands. 1t might not be improper
to inquire, whittier are we drifting?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

SAMUEL You've made an ascent of
one thousand feet in hot-;ir balloon,
near Cincinnati. the other night. He
dropped from that height, but his par
achute did not work we'll and he fell
into the Ohio river and sank to the
bottom. He was rescued.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

AT one of the Sunday-schools in
town the superintendent asked the
scholars to name some of the idols
which people worship nowadays. One
Of the small boys answered Politics. !"
-RNslond Horold.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
.Well, CAPTAIN, were YOU pleased

-"Well, Captain, were you pleased
with the lady?' ITO speak frankly.
was somewhat disappointed" "How
SOP. They said she was intellectual;
but ! talked with her half an hour, and
she did not open her mouth once.'
"You are mistaken there, Captain. She
yawned six or eight times. ."-Fiegende
Blatter.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

COMPLAINT is made at Pittsburgh,
Pa, Of the systematic unloading of
alien paupers in that city. Only re-
Gently family that had been in the
country but forty eight hours were sent
to the pOOrhouse
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

The Civil-Service Commission made pub
lie its fourth report on the 18th, which
showed that between January l6, 1856. and
June 80, 1857, 436 examinations were held
in various parts Of the country for the
classified service, at which 13. 965 men and
1,sS7 women were examined and 2, 40 men
and $40 women successfully passed. OF
the successful applicants 4 3O3 men and 100
women received appointments.
The Director of the Mint reported on the
10Th that for the year 1887 the product of
gold amounted to $4,000 900, and of silver
to SIS, PSI, ,OOO Coinage of the mints during
the calendar year, $50, $40 Isl.
THERE were 14l business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
days.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

IT is said that Carter, of the Yale
crew, was promised by his father 500
for every length Yale beat Harvard.
lie accordingly got check for 81. $50,
and to add to his qualification he has
been made captain Of the crew for next
wear
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

LONDON, July 2l.-The select committee
appointed by the House Of Commons K
consider the question has submitted re
port to the House recommending perpetua
sunday closing in all parts Of Ireland, ant
also the closing Of .nns ~ . e'clesk On BAT
uraay nights,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

RouEN, July a0-Fire broke out on the
Spanish steamer Austriano, at this port
from New York, and caused tremendous
explosion, there being on board cargo Of
$50 barrels Of petroleum. Eight et ths
oscw were killed,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

BUFFALO, N. Y, July 20.-Henry s. Ives
and his partner, Stayner, are in this
vicinity, but since the Cincinnati authori-
ties are trying to get warrants for their
arrest they have confined themselves close
~ to the Canadian side
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

BENKLEMAN, Neb.. July 18.-A fearful
wind-storm passed over this place Sunday
night, destroying the Presbyterian church
and twenty frame dwellings. No lives
were lost, though several persons were in.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
MANY vosaalS l.Oat.

LONDON, July 2O-Dispatches from the
continent report the prevalence Of storms,
with heavy rainfalls, which are destroying
crops. In Spain many coasting vessels
We're lost. There was q heavy cyclone in
Rome, resulting in great damage to ttle-
graph lines and other property.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

The German doctors who attended
the late Emperor Frederick dcnounce
the methods practiced by DR.. Macken-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

DURING the recent celebration of
Yale's victory at New London every
remaining rail Of the Yale fence was
torn from its place and carried away
as souvenirs
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

The Executive Committee OF the
National Editorial Association met in
Cincinnati recently and decided to hold
the next meeting OF the association at
San Antonio, Tex. beginning Wednes-
day, November 81, and continuing
three days. 1t will be followed by q
tour of Texas and a visit to the south
Of Mexico. The committee mapped
out a full programme Of papers to be
prepared and read, but left the selection
Of the writers to the different State
associations. The only exception to
this Is the topic, THE Relation Of the
Advertising Agent to the Publisher"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
THE EIGHT-HouR LAW.
The senate Passes the Bill-A synOpsiI OF
Its Provisions.

WASHINGTON, July II. - The Senate
on Tuesday resumed the consideration
of the bill providing for the adjustment OF
accounts of laborers, workmcn and me
chanics employed by the Government
under the eight hour law.
Senator Dawes Mass moved to amend
the bill by inserting the words whether
engaged ata price per day or on piece e-work
or on task work" Agreed to.
Tho bill was then passed-35 to g. The
yoas were.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

The father, mother and six chill
drcn OF family in Shillington. Pa.
each celebrate Washington's birthday
as their own.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

Killed His Brother and Himself.
Ntw YoRK, July ls.--Michael Dumphy,
while druns. shct duad ais brother jeke
In kferklyn and then killed hiinee;i
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

AMONG the authorities at Helena,
Mo-, there is amazement about an ap-
plicant who wishes to become United
States citizen. The case is that of
Licutenant-C Colonel Leslie Smith, COM
manding the post at Fort Maginnis,
who for thirty years has been an Of
ticer of the United States army, draw
ing the pay and emoluments of his va
rious grades, and who will retire with
pay and rank of Colonel in the United
States army next May. He has never
been entitled to the right of suffrage.
This is the only case of its kind known
In the United States army.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

New JERSEY is putting up bronze
statue Of General Phil Kearney In
Statuary Hall at the capitol.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches,
FIFTIETH CoNCREss,


TUESDAY. July H-An eight hour law
applying to laborcrs, wcrkmen or mcchan-
les in the employ Of the Government was
passed in the Senate; also a bill placing
John {. Fremont on the army retired list
as Major General. The Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill G27,3OOOOO was re-
ported, and four pension vctoes were re-
ceivcd from the President. In the House
the Tariff bill was again considered, and
an amendment to repeal all internal taxes
and one to abolish the tax on oleonar-
garinc were defeated.
"WEDNESDAY, July IS in the Senate
the session was spent in discussing the bill
Tor the admission Of Washington Territory
as State, but no action was taken. The
bill for the establishment of bureau Of
harbors and waterways was reported from
the Committee on Commerce without rec
ommcndation. In the House the Tariff bill
was considered.
THURSDAY. July ia bill was intro
duced in the Senate declaring that here
after no alien shall be admitted to
naturalization until after he shall have
been q resident Of the United States five
years, and requiring that he be Of good
character and able to speak, read and
write the English language. A bill was
passed declaring non-mailable all matter
on any part Of which, exterior or interior,
indecent, lewd, defamatory or threaten
ing delineations, epithets or language is
written or printed. In the House debate
on the Mills Tariff bill in committee of the
whole came to an end
FRIDAY, July 20.-The Senate confirmed
Melville w. Fuller, Of Chicago, for
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. The vote stood Al ayes to 20 noes.
The Naval Appropriation bill was reported
and placed on the calendar, and the bill to
prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers
into the United States was considered. In
the House the Senate bill appropriating
S25O, 600 to aid State homes for disabled
volunteers was passed. The conference
report on the River and Harbor bill (s22,-
27,1l6) was agreed to. At the evening
session twenty -four private pension bills
were passed
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

KANSAS Prohib.tionists met at Hutchin-
son on the 18th and nominated a full State
ticket, with Rev. j. j. Bodkin, OF Wichita,
for Governor. The platform favors woman
suffrage, repeal Of the tariff laws, and de
mands absolute prohibition OF the liquor
traffic.
A FIRE on the 18th in Rockingham, n. G.,
destroyed the courthouse, seven stores
and one dwelling.
THE Arkansas Republican State Central
Committee on the 10Th decided to put q
State ticket in the field, but recommended
Republicans to support the Union Labor
ticket, headed by c. N. Norwood for Gov
ernor.
On the 10th General Forney was renomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats Of
the Seventh district Of Alabama.
THE population of California was on The
10Th said to be 1.5OO, 600, nearly double that
Of 1880
AT Wheeling, W. Va, heavy rain caused
Hood on the 10Th, debris from the hillside
rendering some streets impossible. One OF
the Baltimore Il Ohio bridges collapsed,
and it was feared that from ten to twenty
persons were drowned. At Caldwcils Run
four dwellings were swept away, eleven
persons being drowned. The damage in
Wheeling was placed at $50 600, while the
loss to crops in the surrounding country
could not be estimated.
THE DEMOCRATS Of the Fourth Missouri
district on the 10Th renominated James n
Barnes for Congress.
THREE Of the alleged conspirators against
the Burlington road-Beauereisen, Brod-
erick and Goding-were held under s., 600
bonds each in Chicago on the 10Th to the
Federal grand jury.
MINNESOTA Republicans will hold their
State convention at st. Paul September ).
CLARK BYRSE's livery stable at Leaven-
worth, Kan, was burned on the 10Th, and
fourteen horses were cremated.
On the 10th Simon Pitts, blind negro,
was hanged at Clayton, Ala, for the muir
der of Loudon Walker.
SEVEN men were killed by steamboat
explosion at Westport, Ind, on the Goth.
DEMOCRATS of the Third Tennessee dis
trict on the 2Oth nominated Greed F. Bates
for Congress on the 34Sth ballot
ALL over Arenac County, Mich, heavy
forest fires were raging on the Goth and
all the way between Deep river and Glad
win. Timber Of all kinds had been de-
stroyed, fences had been burned and other
property damaged.
IT was said on the 2Oth that one of the
three Chicago Anarchists under arrest for
conspiracy to murder Judges Gary and
Grinnell and Inspector Bonfield had made
o confession.
In the Eighth Iowa district George c.
Calkins was nominated for Congress on
the 10th by the Union Labor party
In the Lake Superior Company's mine
near Ishpeming, Mich, a single blast on
the Goth dislodged mass Of gold bearing
rock, weighing three hundred pounds, the
gold in which was valued at $4,000 to so,
600.
HICKS CARMICHAEL (colored) was ex
ecuted on the Goth in Knoxville, Tenn, for
the murder of Deputy Sheriff Shipe
LINvILLE COMBS, aged eleven years, was
on the 10th imprisoned for life at Frank
fort, KY, for killing his three year old
sister.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26

MORE than *4O,OOO,OOO will be spent
In England and India on railway capi-
tal account during 1889.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
YELLOW FEVER IN FLORIDA.

An Appeal Made by the Governor for
Help from Washington.
WASHINGTON, July I.-Secretary Fair.
child has received a telegram from the
Governor of Florida asking the as.
sistance of the Government in sup.
pressing the yellow fever which,
he says, threatens to become epi.
demic at Tampa and Manatee. The Secre-
tai'y had a conference with Surgeon-G Gen.
eral Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital
Bureau, on the subject, and instructed him
70 render all possible assistance He also
informed the Governor Of Florida by tele.
graph that the necessary steps would hs
taken By the proper Federal ofAssrs to Aia
the local autherities,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
THE EAST,

A NEW counterfeit of the one dollar
silver certificate made its appearance in
New York on the 18th. Tho paper was =
poor imitation of treasury paper, but the
bill was perfect in details, and only frac-
tion longer than the treasury plate.
WHILE drunk on the 18th at Brooklyn, N.
Y, Michael Dunphcy shot and killed his
brother and then committed suicide.
A SPECIAL session Of the New York Leg
islature convened at Albany on the 18th
for the purpose of appropriating funds to
provide work for State convicts.
The Phoenix Manufacturing Company's
new silk mills at Pottsville, Pa, equipped
at cost of s25O,0OO, began operations on
the 18th, employing one Thousand hands.
JOSEPH SlPPEL and Anthony Smith, two
boys, were fatally bitten by large blood
hound at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th.
A FIRE ruined the Dunn breaker and
buildings connected Herewith at Old
Forge, Pa, on the nth. LOSS. 100000
MRs. MARY +. Floss and her sister in
law, Mrs. Mary +. Wittig, were burned to
death by kerosene lamp explosion on the
18th at East Buffalo. N. Y.
On the 18th Jacob P. Rciff, an aged farm
cr living near Norristown, Pa, was swim
died out of $4,000 by confidence men.
REPUBLICANS of the Twenty fourth Penn.
sylvania district on the 18th renominated J.
Warren Ray for Congress.
On the 18th General Sheridan passed q
good day at his cottage in Nonquitt, Mass,
showing decided evidence of increasing
mental activity and nerve force.
In New Jersey on the 18th Richard Kear-
ney was hanged at Freehold, for the mur-
der of Mrs Margaret Purcell, and Henry
Conrad Ebert, at Jersey City, for wife
murder.
THE death of William w. Wenans, a
veteran Of the war of 1872, occurred at
New York on the 10Th at the age Of ninety
six years.
The New Hampshire Republicans will
hold their State convention in Concord Sep
tember 4.
LESTER HOWE died at Coblcskill, N. Y,
on the 10th, aged seventy eight years On
May -, 1872, he discovered the now famous
Howe's cave, next in size to Mammoth
cave All his children were married in
the cave.
GENERAL SHERIDAN's physicians report
ed on the Goth that his condition had not
materially altered in the last three days.
He was improving.
On the aOth Rev. f. p. Roe, the we'll
known novelist, died in Newburgh, N. Y,
of neuralgia Of the heart, aged fifty years.
hanged on the 10th for the murder O: Ulsurs
Ulrich last October.
THE Legislature Of New York on the 10th
abolished the use Of machinery in penal in
stitutions, decreeing that convicts shall
make only and by hand the goods required
in the prison system.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
{. p. ROE is DEAD.

The Well-Known Author Passes Away Ut
His Home in Newburg, N. Y.
NEwBURGH, N. Y, July 2l.-E p. Roe,
the author. died here.
Mr.. Roe was best known to the literary
world and the world at large as the author
of "Opening q Chestnut Burr" Barriers
Burned Away" . tale Of the Chicago fire
'The Gates Ajar," He Fell in Love with
His Wife," without Home" ""The Earth
Trembled," tale of the Charleston earth
Quake, etc.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-26
FOREICN iNTELLICENcE,

ON the 18th seven persons confined in the
jails Of Havana, Cuba, charged with kid
naping, were released, their innocence
being shown.
A MERCHANT in Vienna, charged with
speaking disrespectfully Of the Dowager
Empress Victoria, was on the 18th SEN
fenced to eighteen months imprisonment.
ApvIcEs Of the 18th from London say
that a volcanic eruption had occurred at
Makmats, in Japan, by which four hum
dred persons were killed and one thousand
injured.
AMONG Europeans ut Hong Kong, China,
cholera prevailed TO an alarming extent on
the 18th.
The steamer Austriano was destroyed by
an explosion at Rouen, France, on the 18th,
and eight men were killed.
HEAVY storms in Spain caused the loss
of many coasting vessels on the 10Th, and
in Rome cyclone did great damage to
property.
The British ship Star was wrecked in
Aldinger bay, Australia, on tho 18th, and
twenty persons were drowned.
A COMMITTEE Of the British House OF
Commons submitted q report on the 10th
recommending perpetual Sunday closing
of saloons in all parts Of Ireland. and also
the closing of inns at nine o'clock on
Saturday nights.
The Madrid police on the 3Oth searched
the houses of persons suspected of plotting
against the Government and found three
Thousand weapons.
FOURTEEN men on a og-drive on the
Mattawan river, near st. Maurice, Can,
procured some whisky on the 10th, and, in
a drunken freak, decided to run the rapids,
but the boat was capsized and all were
drowned