The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-09-12
|Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
THE public debt statement issued on the
2d showed the total debt to he 81 .Gh,, SH,-
lG3: cash In Treasury. 81. 4s,. .9lO; debt les,
cash in Treasury. $i.csS,. 740.6.. Increase
during August s6..I.6H. Increase since
June 3. 1855. s1,t9s.Oo4.
The War Department on the I'd ordered
the abandonment OF the military posts at
Fort Laramie. Wy. T., Fort Hayes Kan.
and Fort Lyon, Col
THROUGHOUT the country Labor Day was
generally observed ON the ed
COLONEL WILLIAM W. BURNS, Assistant
Commissary General of Subsistence. was
on the I'D placed on the retired list OF tho
army on account Of age.
On the 9Th Albert F. ChiIds, Of Ohio. was
appointed chief clerk OF the Census Office
the EAST.
IN the Schuy.kill Pal valley rolling
mills big industrial boom was begun on
the I'd, with advanced wages for the en-
ployes.
WILLIAM IT. HOAGLAND, OF Newark, N.
j., sged twenty seven years. who was bit
ten by cur dog three weeks ago, died OF
hydrophobia on the I'd.
THE leading piano and organ manu-
facturers o. the country were forming a
trust on the 3D.
On the I'd I. II. Musgrave, OF Musgravc b
Co. bear operator In Wall street. New
York. failed for .1O3 QUO.
The twenty-fourth annual session of the
American Social Science Association began
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. on the 3d.
ALL but one OF the shoe shops at North
Adams, Mass, were closed on the Sd and
fifteen hundred persons were idle. owing
to difference as to wages
ON the Sd the towns of Yarmouth and
Sandwich Mass. celebrated the two hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary Of their In
corportion.
At the sheepshead Bay IN. Y) races on
the 4th W. L. SCOTS colt Chaos won $751;
0vO. the richest prize ever run for in this
country.
MASSACHUSETTS Prohibitionists in State
convention at Worcester on the 4th nomi-
mated DIR. John Blackmer, of Springfield,
for Governor.
In convention on the 4th at Harrisburg,
Pa the Democrats nominated Edward A.
Biglcr. of Clearteld County, for State
Treasurer.
ON the 5th the old Log College celebra-
tion under the auspices OF the Philadelphia
Presbytery WIS G mmenced on the old
Torment farm at HRtsvilie, Bucks County,
IA President and Mrs Harrison, Governor
Beaver and Postmaster General Wana-
maker were In attendance The celebra-
tion Is rea ly commemorative of the found
Ing of the Presbyterian church in the
United stat .. The Log College was found
ed in 1876 by William Tennenu. from which
in ls42 sprung Princeton College.
AT Montpelier. Vt. in fit OF jealousy on
the 5th Sherman Caswell killed George
Gould, who had been married but twenty
four hours
JoHN ScnLAEpLEn. about thirty years old
shot and killed his brother Jacob and ther
shot himself on the ath at Union Hill, N. J.
The murderer was insane.
AROUND Wilkesbarre. Pa. collieries were
on the 5th forced to suspend work on ac
count OF q disease which had disabled
many OF the horses and mules.
RELIGIOUS fanatic of Hadley, n. Y. jim
Stearncs, began to fast on the 9Th with thu
avowed purpose of ending his life.
In tho Delaware 4 Hudson Canal Com
pany's colliery No 2 at Oily, hant. Pa, sew
eral acres of coal were on the 5th burning
nearly two hundred feet below the surfac,
of the earth.
On the 5th an unknown woman, supposed
to be from brooklyn. n. L.. committed sui
c1Qe o. niagara FaIIs Dy jumping INTO tHt
water above the falls and going over Tho
cataract
PRESIDENT DAY refused an offer of 500,
600 for the franchise of tho New York Base
Ball Club on the 5th
Ex-PIEsIDENr LEGITIME, of Hayti, ar
rived at New York on the 9Th with his fam
lily.
NEW York Prohibitionists in State con
vention on the 9Th Mt Syracuse nominated
full Safe ticket headed by Jesse II
Griffin for Secretary Of State.