The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-10-31
EpitOme Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
FaoM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Ar the leading clearing houses In tho
United States the exchanges during tho
week ended on tho 18Th aggregated
ti.2lS $50 ~ againss 81, M .t1a. .ta, the pre-
vious week. A compared with the cor
responding week Of 1855 ths Increase
amounted to 1l.A
GENERAL GREEN y. EArM assumed control
of the Pension Office on the als.,
Rev. GEORGE W. LEE tcoiored, In a re-
cent lecture in Washington on Southern
Outrages' advised the negroes TO strike
back when they were assaulted
The President on ths 3lst appointed
Oliver r. Williams. of Rochester. n T., to
be United States Consal mt Havre. France.
and Nicholas Smith, OF New York, to be
Consul ut Three Rivers, eau
TIE Secretary OF War said on tho ed that
tne Government was experimenting with
the smokeless powder.
In September last cs5A immigrants
came to this country, against ~. oG5 in Sep
tsmber. 1883
EXPORTS of merchandise from the United
States during September aggregated III
value &c., ,31. against "A. ..E,a. .5S4 in Sep
te,nber. 1Ssa imports for last month were
valued at s53, ,Gi2. sio, against 45i, l93, ,2l5 in
September. lssS
POSTMASTER GENERAL WASAMAKER on the
9th awarded the contract for furnishing
postage stamps for four years to the Amer
lean Bank Note Com any of New York.
THE EAST.
TnE New York Greenback party nomi-
mated . State ticket in New York City on
the 2lst. headed by Rev. Thomas X. Beech
cr. Of Elmira, for Secretary OF State.
JAxEs PEATrlELD. the we'll l-known IN
vcntor Of Ipswich, Masa. whose name was
closely associated with the early lace and
wool manufacturing OF this country, died
ON the 2lst
The steamship Brooklyn which sailed
October IL from Darien. Ga, for Brooklyn,
was ON the 2Ist given up as lost with all on
board. eighteen persons
CITiz Ms OF Johnstown, Pa. had on the
21st raised $500 to continue the search for
the dead
ONLY one out of sixteen bodies renter, cd
on the 2o.d at Johnstown. Pa, was idcnti-
fed
On the cd the third game of the worlds
Sol les for the base ball championship be-
tween the New Yorks aud Brooklyns took
place ut New York ON the 2ad and resulted
in victory for the Brooklyns by score Of
Sto7
ON the 23d an old gentleman named Fort
xinger committed suicide in the town OF
Conemaugh. Pa He was respondent over
his great losses by the Hood.
ON the Esd bicycle road-race from Buf
falot to Rochester. y Y. seventy-four miles,
was won by the West EnI Club of Roches
ter. The hest time was by c. j. Ives, tive
hours and thirty mine minutes
AT Pottsviile, Pa. Pietro Baranovski was
hanged On the sd for numbering the wife
OF Anthony Putlavitch. a afellow- miner. and
their maid-scrvant. and robbing and burn
ing their house on May 12, 1859
1nE death OF John G. K. Truair. for thirty
years publisher of the Syracuse N. "
Journal occurred on the 23d, aged seventy.
two years
IN Brooklyn on the 2.sd the fourth game
of the words series for the base ball cham.
pionship between the New Yorks and
! Brooklyns took place and resulted In q
victory for tho Brooklyns BY score Of II
to-.
IL a quarrel at Boston Oh tho ed over one
dollar bet on q horse race Roderick McKin.
non. aged twenty-eight wears, was stabbed
and killed by TN unknown uan.
ABOUT two hundred Cinnamon left New
York on the Esd for China to return no
more.
LYMAN DAVIS. aged ono hundred and
fourteen years, died In the town OF Sails
bury. n T., on the 23d He wes q farmer
and had lived In Salisbury for nearly /;
century.
On the 24th Rev. Dr. CYRUS A. Barthoi. fol
fifty years pastor of the Old West Church il
Boston. resigned on account OF poor health
AT Milton. N. Y. Mrs. Robert D. Dickey
aud her mother, Mrs Murray. were thrown
from q carriage and fatally injured on tn.
4tll
THE loss of tho steamer brooklyn. er
route from Darlen, Ga. to Brooklyn. Will
her captain aud crew Of thirteen men, wa.
verified on the ath
o. tho oath the fifth game Of the world,
series for the baseball, championship be-
! tween the New Yorks aud Brookiyns toal
place at Brooklyn and resulted in . victor,
for the New Yorks by score of IL toa
FIRE destroyed the business portion o.
the village Of Felt's Mills. N. T., on ths
nth