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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
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sistency in his candidacy prevented a
concentration upon Mckinley and the
convention was reduced to the alterna-
tive OF taking Harrison or sweltering
for days in the torrid work Of finding .
dark horse" Harrison was. there
fore, sort OF Hobson's choice or rath-
er choice OF evils.
What strength has the Republican
nominee? the reader will ask. No
personal strength whatever. As cold
blooded as John Sherman, he is much
more aristocratic in his bearing.
Without executive training, without
ability or statecraft, without personal
following, he can not fail to prove a
weak candidate. His six years. serv-
ice in the United States Senate showed
him to be man OF mediocre talents
and OF slight equipment for the public
service His name is not connected
with any important measure OF legis-
| lation. He originated nothing nor in
any way impressed his personality
upon Federal legislation. He has been
regarded by the leading men of his
own party as political failure. He
was beaten for Governor OF Indiana in
1876 in q canvass in which the whole
power of the Grant Administration
was thrown in his favor. He was de-
feated for United States Senator in In
diana last year after a disgraceful par
ticipation in a partisan election of hon
est1y and fairly-elected Democratic
members Of the Legislature. How
can such man lead his party to VIC
tory?
1t is charged and the proofs will no
doubt be forthcoming that he was
sworn and active member of the Know
Nothing organization. His opposition
to the legislation prohibiting the inn
migration of Chinese was presented as
an argument against his nomination by
the delegates from the Pacific slope at
Chicago. These two blemishes in his
political record will repel thousands OF
voters who might otherwise be induced
to support him. He is defensive cam
didate from the very beginning. No
aggressive campaign in his behalf is
possible. His supporters will be kept
busy explaining and apologizing for
his political alterations during the en-
tire canvass. One needs not to be able
to read the stars to foretell the re-elec-
ton of Grover Cleveland in November
next.-Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

"BELLITE," the new explosive which
has been invented by Mr.. Lamm,
of Stockholm, seems destined to knock
dynamite and perhaps melinite out of
the field. The stuff resembles sulphur
and smells like pitch, and is made up
In capsules which look like thick wax
candles and are covered with glazed
paper. It is composed of about four
parts of nitrate of ammonium and one
part of a mixture of benitro and trini-
tro-benzine with saltpetre. A shell
filled with "bellite" blew wooden
RATED hut to pieces, and is evidently
efficient tor blasting purposes.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

General Boulanger
was slightly wound
ed In the leg, and n.
Floquet received .
cut on the right
hand. After resting,
tho men renewed
the fighting for the
third time. General
Boulanger made .
lunge at NJ Flo-
quet's left breast,
but only slightly
touched the mark.
General Boulanger
I b en- received .
wound In the throat
winch nlaf nm and IA
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
FROM WASHINGTON.

The National Department of Agriculture
reported on the 10th that the crop con-
ditions of the country greatly improved
within the past month.
A CONVENTION of the American party, to
nominate candidates for President and
Vice President, has been called to meet at
Washington on the 14th Of August
OVER 8, $40 bills had up to the 10th been
introduced in the Senate this session. In
the two sessions of the Forty ninth Con-
gress there were only 3,35S, and that was
more than the Senate had ever produced in
any previous Congress.
GEORGE v. N LATHRoP's resignation as
Minister to Russia was received at Wash
ington on the 18th. Ill-health was given as
the cause.
THERE were $50 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 18th, against 40 the previous seven
days. The total of failures in the United
States from January l to date 10 SIS,
against &, $50 in 1857.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

DIR. McGLYNN's latest advice to the
anti-povertyites is a little more pictur-
esque than any he has given them
heretofore. He now proposes that the
residents of New York, to the number
OF twenty thousand or SO, shall rise en-
masse and decline to come down with
the next months rent, trusting to their
numbers to clog the business of the
courts, and SO occupy the houses for q
few months at least, rent free.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

The results Of excessive Italian inn
migration into this country are now
seriously felt, and the Italian Immigra-
ton Society is having n severe strug-
gle to keep large number Of Italians
who are in this country without work
from starving. The president Of the
society estimates that at least eight
thousand Italians are in New York and
neighboring cities in actual want for
food. But requests for a number of
men have been received from Virginia
and other States for railroad and farm
work, and the society hopes to get rid
of many of them.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

AMONG the seven, five sons and two
daughters, of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
there are said to be but two conserva-
tive ones, but the others are all follow
ers in their mothers footsteps, radical
on all questions. They are widely sep
arated in the matter of space, Theodore
living in Paris, where he is one of the
editors OF an English journal; Mrs.
Blatch, in England; Henry, a lawyer,
in New York; Mrs. Lawrence, in the
far West, and the others scattered in
different parts of the country.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

MANY men and women lose all the
sweetness of life by giving way to a
spirit of grumbling and criticism.
There are many thousands surrounded
with good constantly by words and acts
asking: Is life worth living?' It's an
Improbable spirit to cultivate, and the
grumbler in the marble palace is not
so much man or woman rs the con-
tented and happy one in the humblest
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

GENERAL HARRrsoN's family consists
OF y wife. a son and daughter. The
daughter was married few years ago
to Mr.. j. r. Mckee, u young Wholesale
merchant of Indianapolis, and has now
an infant son, of whom General Harri-
son is very fond. MIR. Russell Harrison,
the Generals son, lives in Dakota.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
Steamboat travelling on the nj

Steamboat travelling on the Mis-
souri, is constantly enlivened by sound
ing, and the calls. "Six feet,' "Five
and a half" mo bottom etc, have
come to be given after traditional
musical formula very much like inton-
ing. A recent importation from the
land of 'praties having been or
dered to the lead, went bravely to
work. and sang out thusly: "Teo-rul."
'Too-rul-i-rul," Too-rul-i-' whats
that you are saying?' shouted the
mate. "Faix," answered Pat, "oi re-
member the chune, but olive forgot the
wurrds intoirely."- ."-Harper's Maga-
cine.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

GLADSTONE has q new plan for Ire
land home rule. He now proposes to
retain the present Irish representation
in the imperial Parliament and to give
Ireland National Assembly. with au-
thority over JUDICIARY and police.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
ZacllAr Dying.

RACINE, Wis, July l4.-Reports from
John Zachar, the Caledonia faster, are
that all attempts to obtain nourishment
from the light food administered to him
have proven futile. The milk and other
food taken is not retained on the stomach.
This has left him in 4 very weak and ex-
hausted condition and he will most prob
ably suffer death as the penalty Of his fifty
three days' willful fast
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

REV. JOHN JASPER, the colored min
lister Of Richmond, whose views on the
sun have made him celebrated, has
been preaching since 1910. He was a
slave when he professed Christianity.
and his first religious labor was per-
formed among his fellow-workmen in a
Richmond tobacco factory.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

ABOUT year ago a syndicate of New
Workers set out thousand acres of
land in Florida rs an experiment in
growing tobacco. Two kinds of Ha-
vana, Sumatra, Pennsylvania, Wis
consin and Connecticut, and the old
Florida broad-leaf tobaccos were plant
ed, all of which will grow six hundred
to fifteen hundred pounds per acre.
There are now only about three thou
sand acres in Florida under cultivation
Tor tobacco, but ii success shall crown
the present experiment, a great in
crease in acreage may be expected in q
few wears.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
Three ktlled by an Explosion,

READING, Pa, July 1.-The powder-mill
of Latin Rand, near Cressona, Schuylkill
County, exploded, wrecking several build
ings. George Dillman, aged 10; Edward
Reed, aged 80, and Harry Drench, aged IS,
were killed. The explosion occurred in the
glazing house, and the victims were blown
several hundred feet, their bodies being
horribly mangled. The mill was operated
by Asa &. Smith. of this city. Loss, IS, 600
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

BELIEVE" said the venerable DR..
McCosh, in laying down the presidency
OF Princeton College, II can truly say
that have coveted no mans silver or
gold. The little have laid up for old
age lowe to a revered father, who cul-
tivated the land in Scotland, and to a
beloved son, whose remains l have laid
in your graveyard"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
WHO BEARS THE BURDEN7
a Republican Argument Whose Stiffness
Was Exposed Years Ago.

a Republican Argument Whose Stiffness
Was Exposed Years Ago.
It used to be the fashion among
the beneficiaries of the high tariff to
assert that the foreign manufacturers
who sends goods to this country pays
the duty on them for the privilege OF
getting into our markets; and, although
the preposterous idea has long been
repudiated by those advocates of pro-
lection who hold themselves to re-
sponsibility in argument, it is still
ayowed by few brain-clouded Con-
gressmen who are the faithful repre-
sentatives of Eastern interests.
Mr.. jackson (Rep. }, of Pennsylvania,
in his speech against the tariff reduc-
ton bill in the House, asserted that
last year foreigners paid millions Of
tariff duties for the privilege OF getting
to our markets, and then imported and
sold us many million dollars worth of
iron, nails, glass, cotton and woolen
goods, and even wool and farm prod
ucts." And Mr.. Peters (Rep.), of
Kansas, in his speech, said: = / assert
that the tariff is not a tax, unless tho
purchaser of the protected article
pays more for it in consequence of the
duty imposed than he would il the duty
was not imposed"
That this assertion is not true; that
the idea that 1t is the foreign manu-
facturer who bears the duty imposed
on the goods which he sends to this
country Is ridiculously untrue is man.
ifest from one single consideration; ii
it were true, then every Government
on the earth could force the people of
other countries to pay all its revenues.
The United States would not need an
internal revenue system, nor any other
scheme of collecting money from its
own people; it would require nothing
more than a well adjusted high protec-
tive tariff that would extort all its rev.
enues from foreign peoples-and every
other country could pay the expenses
of its Government in the same way.
1t is little strange that the statesmen
and political economists OF the world
have never made this remarkable dis
covery before.
Every body knows that the duty on
imported goods is levied for the ex-
press purpose OF increasing their price
and the price of the similar articles
made in this country-and this is its
effect. A 50-per-cent duty on blan-
kets not only makes an imported En-
glish blanket worth 81 cost the Amer
lean consumer $1.5O. but it raises the
price Of a similar American blanket to
$l.5O, no matter how much less it may
cost to manufacture it; and every
Illinois farmer who buys such II blan-
ket actually pays. first, a fair price for
it, and, next, a tribute Of 30 cents to
the Eastern manufacturer who made it.
The tribute estimated on all pro-
tected home manufacturers amounts to
$500. 900, 900 a year-and it is this vast
sum annually poured into the manu-
featuring States that explains their
enormous wealth. - 81. Louis Repub-
Lc0D
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the encounter. The wound is . severe one,
but on account Of hemorrhage the doctors
are unable to decide whether it ID
likely to prove serious The duel was
dercely fought. General Boulanger tried
hard to kill NJ Floquet, and threw himself
upon him again and again. When n. Flo
Quet received the wound In the hand and il
began to bleed, the seconds proposed that
the fight be discontinued, but both the
combatants refused to stop. It is now be-
lieved that the wound in General Boulang-
er's throat Is serious one. N. Floquet
received scratches on his hand, chest and
foot. The seconds have made formal re-
port in which they state that General Bou-
langer received q serious wound in the
neck
DR.. Monod, who is attending General
Boulanger, has issued bulletin regarding
his condition. 1t says there Is deep
wound in the light side Of the Generals
neck, and that it causes marked difficulty
In his respiration. At present tho doctor
ls unable to give an opinion as to what
turn the case NAV take.
At o'clock p. m. General Boulanger's
physicians said there was . marked i'm
provement In his condition, but they de-
:lined to make . prognosis. There is .
deep wound in the Generals neck, which
seriously interferes with respiration Sew
eral journals assert that n. Floquet's
sword penetrated General Boulanger's
neck six centimeters at . point between
the jugular vein and the carotid artery.
The Soir says that the condition Of the
General is serious, that high fever sue
ceeded extreme prostration, and that his
respiration is rapid and sometimes very
difiicult.
NJ. Rochefort, on learning the result Of
the duel, exclaimed: "How wonderful, the
Youngest General in the army let himself
be pinked by barrister nearly 20 years
old"
NJ. FlouQuet presided at the unvailing
Of q statue to Gambetta. In his speech he
extolled the patriotic firmness which Gam
bctta had shown during the war with Ger
many, and the invincible energy with
which he afterwards foiled the reactionary
coalition against the Republic.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

JOHN WANAMAKER, of Philadelphia,
probably outside all his contemporaries
in carrying 81, 900, 900 insurance on his
life, though he is closely followed by
John B. Stetson, of that city, who
carries $75O,0OO. 1t is needless to say
that their deaths would be deeply
mourned by the life insurance COM
Danies
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

MORMON agents have turned over to
Receiver Dyer the celebrated church
farm Of l, ITO acres near Salt Lake City.
Other lands were expected to be re-
claimed by Government proceedings
against church property.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
THE AMERICAN PARTY.

Call for u National Convention August II.
WAsHINGToN, July 1.-THE Executive
Committee of the American party has is
sued q call for National convention
TO be held in Washington on the 14th
Of August for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidates for President and
Vice President and for the transaction OF
such other business as may properly come
before that body. Governor Sharp, the
chairman. said that in all probability the
platform to be adopted will not differ es-
sentially from that adopted at Philadel-
phia last year. In all its important feat
ures the present system of tariff will, no
doubt, be indorsed, and the temperance
question will not likely be touched upon.
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tance from the city. General Boulanger was
wounded In the arm and neck. His wounds
are not dangerous. NJ. Floquet's
hand was scratched by General Boulanger's
sword. Further than this he was not
touched. n Floquet's colleagues in the
Ministry were waiting ct his house for
news Of the duel, and were overjoyed to
see the Prime Minister return safe. He
was given an ovation A small crowd OF
General Boulanger's followers were In
front of his house when he reached home
Later details Of the duel are to the fol-
lowing effect: At the second encounter
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19
WEST AND SOUTH,

TIE training stable Of William Roe, at
Danville, KY, was burned on the 10th,
thirty three head of fine trotters being
cremated.
JOHN ZACHAR, a Racine (Wis.) farmer,
who abstained from food for fifty three
days, broke his fast on the 1lth and said
he would try to eat and live. The cause
Of his attempt to starve himself was
quarrel with his father.
The Wichita (Kan.) City Railway Com.
pany's stables were burned on the l1th, one
man and forty mules perishing in the
flameA
A FIRE at Alpena, Mich, on the nth
originating In sawdust pile at H. r.
Morse's mill rendered fifteen hundred
people homeless and destroyed two hundred
houses. Loss, 10000
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THE EAST.

EDWARD A. DEACONs, who last August
murdered Mrs. Ada Stone because she re-
fused to give him food, WAS hanged at
Rochester, N. ", on the 10th.
New YORK Republicans will hold their
State convention at Saratoga Springs Au-
gust q.
H. C. SPRINGER Il BROTHERS. livery
stable at Buffalo, N. Y, was burned on the
1lth, and two men and twenty horses
perished in the flames.
The rise In the Monongahela river and
other near streams and the freshets
throughout the vast territory Of which
Pittsburgh is on the border, were on the
llth almost without parallel in that por-
tion of the country. The rushing waters
had wiped out over f2,OOO,O0O worth of
property, and there had been loss of life
as WELL Millions of feet Of lumber, scores
of coal craft, fences, barns and buildings
Of every description had been destroyed,
and hundreds Of people had been driven
from their homes.
AT the session Of the Republican Nation
al Committee in New York City on the 18th,
NJ. s. Quay, Of Pennsylvania, was elected
chairman, and ]. 8. Fassett, of New York,
secretary.
On the 1lth the New York State conven-
tion of Republican clubs met at Saratoga
Springs and elected four delegates to at
tend the National convention in Chicago
The secretary's report showed that there
was $50 Republican clubs in the State, with
an aggregate membership of eighty thou.
sand.
The death of Hiram Sibley, one of the
founders of the Western Union Telegraph
Company and we'll known capitalist and
scotsman, occurred At Rochester, N. Y,
on the 18th, at the age Of eighty years.
On the 18th snow to the depth Of foot
fell on Mount Washington, N. H.
On the 18th the waters that had been
sweeping the valley of the Monongahela
and the valleys Of its tributaries for sixty
hours were falling into their natural chan
nels. The losses entailed by the flood
would not fall short of e3 OO0, 600, large
proportion of which fell upon the people
of the counties of Monongalia, Marion,
Taylor, Harrison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur
and Randolph, in West Virginia, and the
counties Of Allegheny, Washington, West
moroland, Fayctte and Greene, in Pcnnsyl-
vania
GENERAL SHERIDAN continued to improve
on the 18th in his cottage at Nonquitt.
Mass, and was able to sit up in chair.
Thirty five days had passed since an at
tack Of heart failure.
A CYCLONE swept over New England and
Eastern New York on the 12th. The great
est havoc in Mass achusetts was done in
Waltham, Cambridge. Watertown, Ded-
ham, Brighton and Winthrop Between
Pitts6eld and Albany, N. Y, q clear path
was swept, threc paper mills and many
houses being leveled.
The statement that General Sheridan
was able to leave his bed was denied on
the 18th by the Generals brother, who
said the sick man was still too weak to
raise his head, but that he was gaining
slowly.
On the 18th the Latin & Rand powder
works at Cressona, Pa, exploded, killing
George Gilman, Charles Reed and Henry
Bernich.
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The Salvation army at Nyack, N.
T., has adopted new plan of attack.
Every time a political parade Of any
sort takes place the army will turn out
and march in the rear singing its
hymns and soaring away the evil one
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-07-19

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS,

FlFTIETH CONGRESS-.
TUESDAY, July Senator Hoar ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
fisheries treaty. A resolution direct
ing the Finance Committee to report In
connection with revenue bills such meas
urcs as it may deem expedient to control
or prohibit all contracts, trusts or combi-
nations that tend to prevent competition
In trade was adopted. A bill was intro
duced to amend the act to punish postal
crimes. In the House the debate on the
Tariff bill was resumed At the evening
session numerous bills granting rights of
way through Indian reservations to various
railroads were passed.
"WEDNESDAY, July lin the Senate
the Fortifications and Sea-coast Defense
bill was considered, and a bill was intro
duced to appropriate 100000 for the erec-
tion Of public building at Burlington, Ia
Several petitions were presented from
labor organizations praying for the passage
Of bill to regulate and restrict immigra-
ti0n. The bill to prohibit the coming Of
Chinese laborers into the United States
was favorably reported. In the House q
conference on the Land grant Forfeiture
bill was ordered. The Senate amendment
to the Agricultural Appropriation bill ap-
propriating &lOO, 900 for sorghum sugar ex-
periments was agreed to. The Tariff bill
was again considered, the wool schedule
being reached before adjournment. At the
evening session bill to provide for tax
ing the eleventh census was passed.
THURSDAY, July IA motion made by
Senator Hawley in the Senate to have
extra copies printed of the report made
by the Committee on Pensions on the
Presidents pension vetoes led to an ami
mated discussion. Senator George spoke
in favor Of ratifying the fisheries treaty.
The bill to pay all the Government work
men for the excess OF work over eight
hours day since June 25, 1868, was dis
cussed. In the House resolution for the
appointment of . special committee to in
vestigate alleged invasions Of the Contract
Labor law was discussed. Discussion of
the wool schedule Of the Tariff bill occu-
pied the remainder of the session.
FRIDAY. July 13.-Bills were passed in
the Senate to build bridge across the
Mississippi river at Wabasha, Mimi, and
to establish branch home for soldiers and
sailors in Indiana, to cost &2OOO00 The
fisheries treaty was further discussed.
Adjourned to the 10th. In the House the
conference report on the Post -Office Appro-
priation bill was submitted, and all the
amendments were agreed to except the one
known as the subsidy" A long debate
followed, but no action was taken. At the
evening session twenty-four private pen
sion bills were passed.