The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-23
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Ar twenty-six leading clearing houses IN
the United states the exchanges d.ring the
week ended on the 1tth aggregated I.ins,-
jSi. .35I, against sSi3. IL; the previous
week. AZ ompared with the corresponding
week Of 1883 the increa .e amounted to i3a
The validity of the law excluding Chi
nesc labOTers, known AZ the Scott Exclu-
sion act was affirmed by the United States
Court Oh the 18th
On the 18th Judge Matthews. who sue
ceeds Judge Durham as First Con9tr0Iler
Of the Treasury; Mr. Huston, who succeeds
Mr. Hyatt rs Treasurer Of the United States.
and Frank W. Palmer, who succeeds Mr.
Benedict m Public Printer, entered upon
their new duties.
On the 18th the United states Supreme
Court awarded the executors Of the will OF
Myra Clark Gaines the sum OF $51b.UN.
This decision ended one Of the most famous
cases on record. which had been In the
courts since 1854.
ON the 18th the United states Supreme
Court adjourned until October next
The President made the following ap-
pointnents on the 10th: Soiomon Hirsch. Of
Oregon. Minister to Turkey; Colonel CLARK
J.. Carr, OF Illinois, Minister to Denmark;
Henry W. Severance. OF California. Consul
at Honolulu: John jarrett, Of Pennsylva
Consul mt Birmingham: Thomas Sherman,
oil Washington. Consul Mt Liverpool
THE EAST.
THE death OF Washington Irvin. Bishop
the mind-rcader. occurred in New York on
the 18th
ROYAL D. srrRrEvANr. of Springfield
Mas., mistook his brother law, james u.
Smith, for burglar. and shot him dead on
the 18th
THE death Of Edward NJ Bid.lle. secretary
and treasurer Of the Cumberland Valley
railroad and the oldest railway official in
the United States occurred on the 18th at
his home In Carlisle, Pa. aged eighty one
Years
MONUMENT in city hall square, New York,
to the memory or Horace Greeley, is to be
erected.
Ar the annual meeting In Boston on the
18th Of the Woman Baptist Home Mission
nry Society Mrs. !. n Grouse, Of Chicago.
Was elected president
els Wayne County. Pa. valuable copper
ore was discovered on the Nth.
OK the 18th H. II Piatt and John Allen,
the former riding instructor and the lat
ter hOtcl-keeper, started from New York
to ride to San Francisco on horseback.
THE New York Legislature on the 18th re-
iected the bill prohibiting the importation
Of dressed beef from other states
The death Of William H. Harding. for
twenty years publisher OF the philalclp
Enquirer, occurred i'm that city on the 18th
ON the 18th Mrs. Catherine storey. aged
eighty years, was burned to death at Lynn,
Mass.
MINISTER LINCOLN. with his family. sailed
from New York for England ON tho 18th on
the steamer city Of Paris.
The seventy fifth anniversary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union was
celebrated in Boston on the 18th The
union has constituency ot nearly ;,N.N Z
church members, and IL the largest mis-
sionary society in the world
IN Philadelphia hotel OH the l,tl, Gcn-
| raj Adna Anderson. OF Sing Sing. n j.,
aged sixty years. and one OF the hest
known railway men in the country. conl-
Mitted suicide by shooting himself in his
room. The caIss for the deed was un-
known.
THE newly appointed United States Min
lister to Russia. Allen Thorndike Rice. die,
| sudden y at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York on the 10th from throat trouble. Mr..
Rice was thirty-siN years of age, was a
bachelor and was very wealthy.
The Legislature OF New York adjourned
, , sine III on the lt,th.
On the 10th two thousand employees Of the
National Tube Works Company nj McKees-
port. Pn struck for ten per cent advance
in wages.
l. TnE general assembly OF the Presbyterian
church began it's one hundred and first an
| nnal session In New York City Oh the 10th
ON the 9TH James Dorai, Of Maltby, Pa
killed his wife with an axe and then tool
his own life. Domestic trouble was the
| cause.
| making heavy depretlations on the oyster
beds in Long Island sound.