The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-08
of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ar twenty-six lending clearing houses I'm
;hc United States the exchanges during tho
week ended on tho eth aggregated
" 4t1a. - agains. y, ,1G4, ssi so the pre-
nous week As ompared with the CORE
Y,onding week Of 1885 the increase amount.
ID to 12I
In The United State. Treasury the count
,f the cash and securities incident TO the
nans.er of the office from Mr.. Hyatt to Mr..
Huston. the incumbent, was completed ou
The 9Th. There was s7uU, ,OOO.OOO A short
age OF IS was found In the new silver vault,
where S5. Coz, ,OO silver dollars were stored.
and deficit OF sl5 in the old silver vault
containing ~, 5,tOo.OOa
The fear Of . general war in Europe was
IN the 18th given ~ the reason why 50
much foreign capital was at the present
lime seeking investment in this country
ON the 18th Major Alexander Sharp, pay
master in the United States army. was
placed on the retired list
IT was decided by Acting Secretary Batch
,ller on the lst that the Chinese servants
IN the United States steamship Alert, now
IN route for San Francisco from Honolulu,
are laborers within the meaning OF the
Chinese Exclusion act and they will not be
allowed to land in the United StateA
The public debt statement issued on the
ist showed the total debt to be Si. .6l6 IT,
80; cash IN Treasury, $GI, 81. 600; debt less
;aah In Treasury, 9l.G1zCG5,93O Increase
Turing July, Sl.0l7 3ll. Increase since
June 81. 1858. $lOlS3ll
MARION ID. NEWMAN. in the peniten tiary
1t Washington for obtaining money under
false pretcnses, received telegram ON the
lst that he had fallen heir to $500. COO By
the death OF an uncle In San Francisco.
THE EAST.
E. & A. H. BATcHELLER, ono Of the largest
boot and shoe firms In Boston, failed on the
10th ult for &1 $4,000
The statement was made on the 30th ult.
that the standard Oil Company had bought
Ill the white lead companies in the United
States, the estimated sum paid being 46O,-
NO,OOO
DURING a rain-storm and high wind at
Concord, n. H, on the 30th ult the arsenal
and five houses were uNroOfed and several
others destroyed An elm tree one hundred
and twenty-five years old was torn up by
the roots and blown across Main street
A CYCLONE on the a0th ult at Ellis
Corners. Ulster County, N y, destroyed
large amount Of property and injured .
number OF persons.
ON the 3oth ult DR.. W. B. Roberts, tho
originator OF ro-glycerine torpedoes for
blasting in oil wells. died at Tftusviile, Pa
He left an estate valued at e3, COO. .OM
In session ut ooklyn. N T., OH the 3lgt
ult the iourneymen plumbers aud gas and
steam m-fitters' unions of the United States
and Canada voted to leave the Knights of
Labor and establish an independent or2ani-
zati0n. This will take thirty thousand
members from the Knights of Labor.
The death of ex Senator +. H. Rollins. OF
New Hampsbire. occurred at the Appledore
House, Isle of Shoals, ON the 3lst ult He
passed away without recovering conscious
four days before. He was sixty -four years
Of age.
The failure of the Connecticut Rubber
Company Of Norwich, Conn, occurred ON
the 3lst ult for slOO,OOO
REPUBLICANS Of Massachusetts, will hold
their State convention in Boston OH the
18th Of September.
TIE RELIEF commission met In Johnstown,
Pa, on the 3lst ult ind statement OF the
moneys In the hands OF the Governor wcs
rendered, showing that Governor Beaver
had received a total Of 81, 3A, ,&14.i6. and
that of this sSi0. 500 o. had been paid out,
leaving in his hands 81 .rpj. .OlsS6
FRANCIS j. CAPEN, noted as . weather
prophet, died In Boston on the 3lst ult.,
aged seventy-two years.
Is New York on the 3lst ult john l. Sui
livan was arrested on a rcquieitiOn from
Governor Lowry. OF Mississippi. for par
ticipating in the fight with Kilrain, and
locked up at police headquarters.
AT Plymouth, Mass. National monu-
ment In honor of the Pilgrim Fathers was
dedicated on the lst The cornerstone oil
the monument was laid August I, 1850.
Completed, 1t has cost over s3C0, 0,OOO col.
lected from oil parts Of the country. 1t is
of solid granite throughout
JOHN l. SULLIVAN, the prize fighter. said
before Judge OBricn in New York on the
lst that he was willing to go South, and the
Judge ordered that he be turned over tO
the Mississippi officers who caused his ar
rest He left for the South in the evening.
In the Connellsville PA district four
thousand coke workers went on q strike on
the lst
FRED PARR, an engineer at Carthage, N.
u, on the let shot his wife and himself, both
dying instantly. Domestic trouble was the
cause
W. F. JOHNSON 4 Co., of Boston, leather
dealers. failed ON the lst for &25O. 600.
At Watkins Glen, near Watkins, N. y. q
cloud bun at on tho lst nearly made a COM
pletc wreck Of that famous locality. The
town was flooded and bridges were carried
away.
WEST AND SOUTH.
In Rock and jefferson counties. Wis !. the
tobacco crops were said on the a9th tC
have been completely ruined by hail.
storm.
NEAR Banner. l. T., forest fires on the
18th destroyed the finest belt of timber In
the Territory, and were liable to spread to
q great extent
IN Indian Territory Texas fever was on
the 18th causing many deaths among cat
tie.