The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-16
EpitOnle Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.


FROM WASHINGTON.
ASSISTANT ToRNEy-G zNERAI SHIELDS
decided on the 9TH that appointments to
service under the Census act we're not with
In the civi!-scrvice rules.
OS the 9TH the horses and carriages uscG
by Mr. Cleveland while President were sold
ut auction, the entire outfit realizing 81
H3s,
PRESIDENT HARRISON made the following
appointments ON the eth: A. l. Thomas and
Elijah Sells to be Governor and Secretary ot
Utah respectively frank W. Palmer. Of
Illinois, to be Public Printer: and Theodore
Roosevelt, OF New York. and Hugh $.
Thompson, of South Carolina, to be Civil
service Commissioners.
WILLIAM d. OCoNNoR. assistant general.
superintendent of tho lifc-saving service.
lied on the 9th.
The President on the nth appointed Asa
Matthew'S. Speaker Of the Illinois House os
Representatives.. to be First Comptroller OF
she Treasury. and Frank LOveland to be
pension agent Mt New York.
THE EAST.
OK the 9th the building trades strike II
Pittsburgh, Pa. which involved fifty thou
sand men, was settled in favor OF the em-
ployes, and work would be resumed at once
The death OF Mary Nolan occurred on tho
th at Glencoe. J.. l.. Mt the age OF one hun
dred and four years and nine months.
FIFTY THREE persons started in six days.
pedestrian contest at New York on tlse
morning Of the 9th, but over Onc-haf
dropped out before noon.
EDWARD :. ToBEY was ON the 9TH re-
elected at Boston as president OF the Amer
;can Peace Society
In New York on the 9th the centennial Of
the Introduction OF the first piano into th4.
United States by John Jacob AstOr was Gel
ebrated.
Two roUNG ladies', Margaret Donovan anG
Margaret OBrien. were struck by an
engine while walking on Il railway track at.
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the eth and both were
killed
The state of New York on the 1th pur-
| chased three alternating current electric
dynamos. to hc placed in the penitcntiarics
1t Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton, To be
used for the killing OF condemned GRIM
, mails.
IT was said on the eth that the steel
cruisers Chicago. Boston, Atlanta and York
town We're to lie fitted out as flying squad
ron and sent Oh y cruise around the world
The stockholders OF the New York Eqnit-
/ able Fire Insurance Company resolved OF
the 1th to wind up the affairs Of the cor
| poration and 60 out OF business
WATSON BowNEs residence at Westchester.
n. y. was DESTROYED by fire on the morning
of the .th, and Mr.. Bowncs mother. two
| children and two servants were burned to
! death. Mr.. Bowncs succeeded in saving he
| wife and one child
!, Ar Niagara Falls the new suspension
! bridge to replace the one carried away by i.
1 cyclone last winter was opened for travel Oh
|, the eth. The structure is NO feet long, Il
| feet wide and l97 feet above water
i The twenty eighth international conven-
4 ton Of the Young Mems Christian Associ-
I alton was opened at Philadelphia on the
Sth.
ON the Sth the steamship City Of Paris
| reached Sandy Hook. having covered the
| distance from Queenstown In five days,
| twenty three hours and seven minutes
lowering all previous records. She also
made the longest run recorded for a single
1 day-nl miles.
4 Ar Altoona, Pa. Mrs. James Early wal
1 burned to death on the sth and her aget
husband fatally injured by . lamp cxpI0
/ sion.
1 FOREST fires were doing great damage on
/ the sth i'm the Shawangunk mountains and
| in the Catskills. in the highlands below
Newburg, n. Y, and on the fishkill mount.
4 aims
On the sth Mrs. Catharine IIarkins, ol
Hollidaysburg, Pa, was burned to death b.
i her clothes taking fire from lamp, and il
Il attempting to cxtinguish the flames hel
husband was fatally burned
4 CAGE containing ten miners was AS
centling the shaft Mt collicry near Middle
4 ub. ia HuyhA
!. was pushed over the top and struck the
cage with terrific, force. shattering it to
pieces and instantly killing every one OF IT.
ten occupants
OK the nth the Oldest house in Boston,
wooden structure, fell while workmen wer,
engaged in taking down one OF its old
fashioned chimneys. and Mrs. Shea wa
killed by falling timbers. The house wa
two hundred and thirty-six years old.
Il The seventy-third annual meeting of the
I American Bible Society was held in New
i York on the 9th. The cash receipts durin:
I the year were s499. .s.;. and the disburse
ments .5l5, ,!39
FLAMES swept away the business distric
4 of Shrub Oak, y. L.. on the 9TH.
THE death OF HerrtMattieu, a veteran 0
the. battle of Waterloo, occurred in Nev
York City on the 9th
FIRE wiped out the. business part of tn
vill&ge of Danville, Vt, in IN hour ON tn
9TH only the bank and hotel escaping. :.