The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
EpitOme Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
PRESIDENT HARRISON appointed the fol-
lowing Cons.I Generals on the 18th: Wake
field G. Frye, of Maine. at Halifax. Jo-
seph A. Leonard, of Minnesota. at Shang-
hal; Zachary T. Sweeney, of Indiana. at
constantinoplc; Oliver II. Dockery. Of
North Carolina at Rio lie JancirO; Oliver
IL Simons of Colorado, at st Petersburg;
George NJ Roosevelt OF Pennsylvania. at
BRUSSELS; Levi W. Brown, of Ohio at Gias-
gov.
Ar twensy-six leading clearing houses in
the United states the exchanges during tho
week ended on the 18th aggregated sl.Gai.
IA, l49. against :l,IlS.Gis6ii the previous
week. AS ompared with the correspond
ing week OF 1855 the increase amounted to
i7.9
FIRE losses in the United States and Cam
ada for the first five months OF the year
were sJ6,5i3 0Op, against s5s.Gs6, 80 during
the corresponding months of last year.
Oy the 18th General Lticius A.. Fair
child, OF Wisconsin, x-Commander-in-
Chief of the Grand Army Of the Republic,
was appointed a member Of the Sioux COM
mission.
THE EAST.
On the 18th the granite monument to the
late President Arthur in Rural Cemetery at
Albany, n. Y. was dedicated with brief
and simple ceremonies conducted by the
New York friends of the late President
who contributed to the cost of the memo
rial.
JOHN GILBERT, tho veteran actor, who
had been OH the stage sixty years, died at
Boston ut noon on the l7th aged seventy
nine years
JOHN LEwEs, aged forty years. the pho
nomenal fat man, who weighed six hum
dred and forty pounds, died at his home at
Elmira, N. u, on the 18th from erysipelas.
The death Of Rev. William Hosmer,
conspicuous figure in the anti-slavery agi-
tation and one OF the first temperance ad-
vocates, occurred in Auburn, n. u, on the
18th
On the 18th Pennsylvania voted on the
question OF the adoption OF n constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale OF intoxicants in tho State, and the
returns Indicated a majority of 15,OO
against prohibition. An amendment in
favor of abolishing the poll tax was de-
featcd
WILLIAM i. CHANDLER was elected United
States Senator by tho New Hampshire Leg
islature on the 18th
In New York Antonio Ricomio was re-
leased from prison ON the 18th, where no
served a term for having stabbed his wife.
returned home and crushed her skull with
flat-iron, killing her. He was arrested
THE Baltimore 4 Ohio Telegraph Company
on The 18th conveyed TO the Western Union
Telegraph Company all its telegraph lines
and property OF every nature and descrip-
ton.
RETURNS on the 10Th from every county
In Pennsylvania showed that the prohibi-
ton amendment was defeated in the re.
cent election by 1SS. 40 majority. Reports
from all but twelve counties showed a
majority Of li6, ,!yyj against the amendment
Ir5viding for the repeal Of tho poll-tax
qualification.
THE flood loss in Williamsport, Pa, was
estimated on the 10th ut s10,Ou0,O0O
On the 18th the Cunard steamer Bothnia
sailed from New York for Liverpool
crowded with delegates for the Worlds
Sunday school convention to be held in
London July 2 to-.
THE death OF Charles s. Collins, for many
years q leading editorial writer on the
Troy Times, occurred at Troy, N. L., on the
10th.
Ar Stclton, n J.. the Baptist church, the
third Oldest in the United States, cele-
hrated its two hundredth anniversary on
the 10th.
On the 2oth sixteen bodies were found at
JOhnstown, Ia. and Immediately buried.
A train consisting OF eighteen freight cars,
loaded with provisions Of all kinds, arrived
from Caldron, Neb.
AT West Mystic, Conn, Alvin Park, a Wild
over aged forty-one years. murdered a
fourteen year old girl named Littlefield on
the 10Th because she refused to marry
him.
In Rhode Island the fifth amendment to
the constitution-the prohibitory amend
ment-was on tho Goth repealed by vote
OF 5,409 more than the three -fifths Of the
total vote necessary to carry the amend
ment The question before the people was
the adoption OF an amendment repeating
the prohibitory amendment adopted three
years ago. The total vote was: Approve,
.. 40; reject. a,Si3
On the Goth Andrew Grimes tcolorcdl
was hanged ut Mays Landing. n. j., for the
murder OF John Martin, mate OF schooner.