The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-29
EpltOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WAeHiNGToN.

PV0m WA0OJN6 vONs
A STATEMENT issued by the Internal
Revenue Department on the 10Th showed
that = ~ distillcries were running and
their product was nearly fifty Thousand
gallons day In excess of last We r.
The Treasury reports on the 3Gth showed
that only aV,O.U.0UO Of the -, ,OO0, ,UOU stand
ard silver dollars coined rem sined In the
treasury unrepresanted by silver certifi-
Gates National bank notes were being
retired at the rate OF about three million
dollars per month, ani silver certificates
issued at nearly the same rate
REPORTS on the I'D from all tho seed
leaf tobacco-growing sections of the United
States indicated q fair yield of average
quality.
REPoRrs Of the I'D say that this years
cotton crop promises to be the largest ever
produced in the United States
Word was received at the Treasury De-
partment on tho I'D or the discovery OF .
counterfeit two-dOllar silver certificate
which had Just made its appearance in the
West
THE EAST.
PREPARATIONS were being made by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the 10th
to establish among its employees pension
system, the first of the kind In the United
States
AFTER eighteen weeks idleness the
Pennsvlvania Iron Company OF Lancaster,
Pa. resumed work on the 10Th.
NEAR BeartOwn, Pa, Rev. Abraham Mar
tin the Oldest Mennonite minister in this
country, died on the 10Th, aged nincty-one
years.
AMONG the cattle In several localities near
Greensburg, Pa, Texas fever was raging
on the 10Th, and were dying ut an alarming
rate.
A FIRE destroyed a tenement-house on
West Seventh street, New York City, on the
10th, and nine people lost their lives and
three were seriously injured
In the lumber yard Of b. j. Godkin.
near Tonawanda, N. u, q fire on the 10Th
destroyed about =. 2s5O, 900 feet of lumber.
CITIZENS OF Titusville. Pa, on the 10th
celebrated the thirtieth anniversary Of the
discovery OF the first oil well in that State.
The New York Democrats will hold their
State convention at Syracuse October l.
SAMUEL AYERS of Worcester. Mass, an
Adventist. predicted on the 2lst the end OF
the world on the night of October I, 1850
The suspension of the Wauregan Wooden
Company Of Providence, r. l., operating
several mills. was announced on tho 2lst
with liabilities of si,UO,c0o; assets
s2,OOOOOO.
A CYCLONE passed over Winthrop, Me-. on
the olst, doing great damage to crops and
lovcling trees and fences.
An explosion ignited o5,0oO barrels of oil
at the oil refinery of A. d. Miller Son at
Allegheny. Pa, on the alst. and the entire
plant was burned. Loss Sss25, ,OUO. Two mon
wero consumed in the flames
TnE death of Horace Seaver, editor OF the
Boston Investigator for the past fifty -one
years, occurred in that city on the 2lst, 1t
the age OF sevcnty-nine years
On the 2lst the 1870, ,O0O appropriated to
clean the streets and cellars of Johnstown,
Pa, was exhausted, and unless there was
more money Forthcoming the work would
have to he suspended DR. Lee was of the
opinion that there were hundreds of bodies
stili buried in the cellars of houses
On the 2lst the British bark Onaway,
which smiled from Philadelphia June ) for
Bilboa with crew of fifteen men and l24,-
23i gallons OF crude petroleum, was given
up as lost
A CROWD gathered at the dock in New
York on the list to witness the big racers
Teutonic. City OF New York, Saals and City
OF Rome set out on their trip to Queens
town
Ina wreck on the .,.d in the Like shore
yard at Erie, Pa, an oil tank exploded, and
property valued at s5o,aD was destroyed
md two men were fatally burned
New HAMPSHIRE was on the ed pro-
nonDced out Of debt.
AT gathering OF American pubiicists in
Saratoga n. u, on the 2o..,d a National league
was orgai lied for the protection of Ames-
lean institutions. with John Jay, Of New
York, as president