The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-30
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
From WASHINGTON.
Ar twenty-sfx leading clearing -houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated l,O,l.-
~, ,3l, against 4l. los, ,GSl, ,3Di the previous
week Ar omparcd with the corresponding
week Of 1883 the incrca,e amounted to 1871.
The War Department was notified OH the
18th OF the capture Of two Of the bandits
who took part in tho attack upon Paymas-
ter Wham in Arizona
The Treasury Department during the sew
en- days ended on the 18th disbnrsed Sli,-
3SO, GOO on account Of pensions, thereby ex-
hausting the appropriation for the current
fiscal year. amounting to ISL. 10000
The accountants ON the 2lst completed
an estimate of the cash value of the cur
Tency, coin and securities turned over to
Treasurer Huston by ex-Treasurer Hyatt,
and found tho total amount to be 4122, ,OO0, :
100.
ON the 9lst the Secretary of the Treasury
received . conscience contribution from o
resident Of Washington i'm the form OF four
teen two-cent stamps.
the EAST.
ON the 18TH the ''tapeworm" railroad nc
Gettysburg. Pa, commenced by Thaddeus
Stevens half century ago, was finished,
thus connecting that place with Blue Ridge
Summit, on the Western Maryland main
line.
ON the Goth William NJ Derby, cashier OF
the Mutual District Messenger Company Of
Boston, was arrested for defrauding the
company out Of $4,000.
STEVE" BKoDIE. who achieved notoriety
by leaping from Brooklyn bridge, jumped
over the falls ut passaic, N. j., on the 1Oth,
a distance OF lO5 feet, and sustained no In
jury.
THE American Baptist Publication Socie-
ty began its sixty-f.fty annual meeting on
the 9Oth at Boston
In Girard College at Philadelphia appro-
pirate ceremonies were held on the 10th by
the Alumni Association. the occasion being
the one hundred and thirty ninth anniver-
sary OF the birth OF Stephen Girard
The news was received In New York on
the a,th of the murder of Rev. Mr. Hobbs, q
Baptist minister from the United States,
and his wife and little daughter, who had
been living at Florus bay, in the West In
dies. A sailor named Burrell had been ar
rested for the triple murder.
CYCLONE on the Goth swept through the
Lackawanna valley In Pennsylvania, and
many houses were wrecked. fences blown
down, barns demolished and whole or
chards ruined No loss of life was reported.
The report that John d Rockefeller had
offered to endow the proposed Baptist
University at Chicago to the amount OF
s6OO, 600 was confirmed at the Office of that
gentleman in New York on the Goth.
On the Goth the Neversink, q smaller
1Sk AHpn~n lneS
Boston for Paris by way Of Havre with
three men on board
The coal companies at Scranton, Pa.
ordered resumption of work in Their
collieries on the aOth The order gave work
to nearly eight thousand persons who had
been idle seven months.
AMBROSE VAN TAssEl. Of Elizabeth, ". j.
fell dead on the 2lst while funeral service,
were being conducted over the remains ol
his wife,
By an explosion Of gas in the basement
Of the Van Ness House at Boston on ths
I'D, five men were fatally burned
The annual examination took place OIL
the I'D at the Government Indian Trainin.
School Mt Carlisle. Pa The graduating class
consisted Of fourteen Indian pupils.
On the :.,Sd John Humphreys, miner: a
Plymouth, Pa, was notified that he hat
fallen heir to $4,000 by the death of hi.
aunt ip Australia.
FIRE destroyed the Ripley marble mill
ut Center Rutland, Vt, on the .3d. LOSS
$780, ,OOO
NUMEROUS vessels were wrecked on the
sd at Lewes, Del, by gale.
FLAMES swept away the passenger sta
ton, freight houses and wharyes Of tn.
Housat0nic railroad at Wilson's Point
Conn, causing loss of so00,OOO.
FRANK COMPTON, gardener ut Wes
Pittston, Pa. on the I'D cut his wife
throat and his own. Jealousy caused tn.
crime.
The death Of Charles Clendenning, tn,
Oldest resident of Allegheny County. Pa
occurred on the sd at Pittsburgh. at the ag,
OF one hundred and one years. The de
ceased never used whisky or tobacco in an,
form. and up to few weeks before hi
death was remarkably healthy.