The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-10-03
EpltOme Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON,

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
On the 23d the silver dollars In tho
Treasury against which certificates could
be issued were reduced to a,oO0.VO: silver
certifca es In circulation were Ell, COZ, coo;
silver dollars In circulation. :6oO0,OO.
DR JAMES p. KIMBALI, OF Pennsylvania,
Director Of the Mint resigned on the oith
ON the Ath the Government printing
Office completed the immense work Of print
ing the testimony in the seventeen con-
cases which will come up
for settlement before the Tifty-first Con-
gress.
FoR the eight months ended August
3l last the Immigrants arriving in the
United st tes Except from Canada and
Mexico, numbered 3D,.6i. against 39a, 81.
during the same period In 1ssS
The Jows Of the country on the 18th be-
gan the celebration Of their 5.65Oth New
Year
TsU1 Kwo YISo, the new Chinese Min
lister to tho United States, arrived at
Washington on the 18th
OK the 26th the contract for furnishing
postage stamps for the next four years " "a
let to the American Bank Note Company
OF New York, the present contractors
the EAST.
On the 2Sd fifteen pedestrians started In Q
six-day go-as-you-please walk at New
Haven, Conn.
MOUNT WAs1ISoToN New Hampshir0)
dispatches OF tho 23d say that on the sum-
init snow was eighteen inches deep, and
that on that date the sun was shining for
the first time in q month
PARTY Of thirty young people went into
the country from E 10, Pa, on the 23d for 4
picnic On their return the driver waa
drunk and drove the party down an en-
bankment forty feet high, and all were
badly hurt, two fatally.
In Fritz Bros saw-mill near Berlin, Pa
the boiler burst on the 9th, killing John
Fritz Edward Fritz, Oliver Ross and David
Baker, all young men of that vicinity. Two
men named Brandt were badly hurt
The suspension of the New Yo rk
Graphic. daily pictorial paper, occurred
on the 24th
THE death OF cx- Surgeon General Joseph
Beale, with relative rank OF Commodore
in the United States navy. occurred on the
oath In Philadelphia, aged seventy five
years
EDWARD WALMUTH, nm aeronaut, made m
ascent at Cooperstown. N. T., on the 9th,
and when mile high, and over Usage lake
dropped into the water His body had moi
been recovered.
A NEW directory Of the city of Johns.
town, Pa. issued on the oath. showed that
the number Of deaths by tho Hood wal
$500
STATUES are to be erected in Boston OF
Grant, Sheridan and Farragut $lOO,O
having been provided for that purpose,
one-half by the city and tho rest by the
State.
The Republicans OF New York met in State
convention on the 18th at Saratoga and nom
mated ticket headed by John L Gilbert. ol
Malone, for Secretary of State. The reso
lutions affirm faith In the tariff, congratu.
late President Harrison upon the success o1
his Administration, and arraign Governo,
Hill for his various vetoes
FIRE destroyed tho Columbia Hotel a
Cape May, N. j.. on the 18th. Loss, $lOo, ,0OO
It was new building.
On the 18th six men who had served nv<
years in prison ut Scottsdale, Pa, wer,
discharged. their innocence OF the crime
having been established.
ALL the Pennsylvania railroad division,
east of the Pittsburgh and Erie showed OF
the 18th an increa>e in net earnings for thu
past eight months over the same period II
1855 Of $45S, COS. The divisions west o
Pittsburgh and Erie showed gain of sa3al ;.
s31 over the corresponding time last year
In the Ives case at New York the jury
failed to agree and were discharged on ths
25th. They stood ten for conviction ane
two for acquittal.
REPUBLICANS of Massachusetts met Il
State convention ut Boston on the 25th, az
J. @. A. Brackett was nominated for Gov
ernor.
A FARMER named Hornberger, OF Mohrs
vile, Pa, went to New York and paid S3et
for queer" greenbacks He expressed the
bundle to his address at home, and o,
opening IL on the .6th found sawdust ant
clay.
MISS ANITA MCCORMICK. of Chicago
daughter Of the late Cyrus Mccormick. In
ventOr OF the reaping machine. was mar
ried to MI. Emmons Blaine, son of tn.
Secretary of State, at Richtield Springs, n
L.. on the aGth
BY an explosion at Latin 4 Rand's pow
der mill ut Crcssona. Pa. on the Goth, thret
men were killed and several others in
iured.
The firm of Pagenstickcr l. Co.. of New
York, the largest exporters of petroleum il
the country. failed on the Goth for 800 100
On the 10Th seven men were horribl,
burned by molten metal at the Edga
Thomson steel works in Braddock, Pa
One had died and three others were fatal
~ injured.