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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

''DEATH from misadvcnture,a is the
verdict returned in the inquest of an
English laborer who met his death by
sucking one Of number Of pheasants'
eggs laid about the grounds of his
employer for the purpose Of killing
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

A FRENCH count when brought into
court by cighty-two different credit
ors acknowledged that he was some
what financially embarrassed, but he
wanted u little more time to conclude
u marriage with an American girl.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

..WE venture to assert in all candor,'
says paper published at Madrid,
THAT the United States will yet give
the black men the right to vote at
Presidential elections, if no more"
How far off this country must seem to
that editor
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Lost Logs Recovered.

WILLlAMsPoRT. Pa, June - The host
log committee informs the Lumbermen's
Exchange that about l2,. .OOO. .eO feet of logs
have been found below Clark's Ferry, Il
cluding those in Chesapeak bay, and more
will yet be recovered These can be sold
for at least SO per thousand feet, thus ma
terially reducing the total loss by the flood
Dwellings Damaged, Trees UprOoted aud
Crops Greatly Damaged.
PERU, Ind. June IA terribly destruct-
i've storm passed through the city Tuesday
afternoon. doing many Thousand dollars
worth of damage throughout the city and
country. The Standard Oil Company's
huge plant was almost entirely leyeled.
scores OF dwellings were badly damaged,
trees were torn up aud much Injury was
done to growing crops by the driving rain
and hail At The Lake Erie railway shops
stationary freight cars on the side tracks,
hundreds of feet away. were driven with
trightful velocity clear through the heavy
doors Of the freight shops. Reports from the
country show equal destruc;ivenoss No
lives are yet reported lost.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Culpa Not for Sale.

MADRID, June en- the Cortez Friday
Senator Becerra, Minister Of the Colonies,
reaffirmed that the United States Govern.
ment had made no proposition relative to
the purchase of Cuba. HE added that no
proposal looking to the sale OF the island
would be entertained by tho Spanish Gov
ernm0nt
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Klllaal NV R8la Ee,urth yVaEe.

DEs MoINEs Ia, June =. --on Wednesday
Frank Roster, living In Maynard, Fayctte
County. Ia, was shot and killed by his wife.
who claims that he had attacked her.
Roster had been married four times, two OF
his wives having obtained divorces from
him. The death of his first wife. it is
claimed, was caused by his ill-trcatment Of
her
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
WILL HANDLE THE MAILS.

Now PO.tmasters for Western Towns
Named by the President.
WAsHlNGTON, June 1a-The President on
Tuesday appointed many new postlnasters,
among whom were the following:
Oh.o-Bowlins Green, George w. Gahan;
National Military Home. Abram $. Galbreath.
lllinois-Mount Carmel. John 7. StansfieldS
Sparta, S. S. Taylor: Salem, X. II Williams;
Eureka, +. NJ. Hoyt; Metropolis City, N. J.
Slack.
Observation-Disclosures G. q. Lewis.
lowa-Cornng II. q. Aukeny: Correction.
vile, d. X. Freeman; Emmettsburg, A. w.
Utter; Ida Grove. George w. Walton.
Nebraska-Rushville. Henry w. Crow;
ONeiii, Edwin Heishlser
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Red-Nose Mike Must Die.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, June ,. Governor
Beaver will not interfere In the case Of
"Red-Nose Nike" the murderer of Pay.
master Mcclure and Flanagan The con-
demned man will be hanged on Tuesday.
His aged mother made last appeal to the
Governor Friday hut without avail
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Gold for EurOpe.

New YORK, June a2!a-One million, ono
hundred and fifty thousand dollars In gold
bars were engaged for shipment to Europe.
Total gold engaged to go by to days
steamers, s., 10000
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

A PORTLAND uOrc.) nan examined
an electric motor recently and said it
worked all right. bDt that the elec-
tricity s,ncllcd dreadf,,lly. The motor
had just been vanished.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Held Responsible tor the Armagh Horror.

Held Responsible for tho Armagh Horror.
LONDON, juno 22-The coroner's jury In
vestigating the circumstances connected
with the recent frightful railroad disaster
near Armagh have brought In q verdics
holding five of tho officials Of the railway
responsible for the loss Of life and charging
them with manslaughter.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
The Weather Too Hot.

LONDON, June 24.-Advices from South.
ern Russia, the great wheat section OF
Europe, state that the crors are in bad
condition owing to excessively hot
weather.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Death Of the Oldest Mason.

WATERBURY,. Conn, June - Amos s.
Beecher, OF Wmsted. aged 81 died Thurs
day. He was the Oldest Mason in the State.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
seventeen Fine Workers" I'm ST. Louis
Indicted.

ST. LOUIS, June 81 The United States
grand jury has returned indictments
against seventeen alleged offenders against
the naturalization laws. Among the In.
dicted are several well-known politicians
and city officials The indictments grew
out Of the late election, when much fraud
was charged, and it is now asserted that a
political sensation is III store and will be
brought to the surface at an early date.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE French Government seized ON the
l7th thirty thousand letters written to Gen.
eral Boulanger from sympathizers.
On the 18th three lepers-one man and
two women-were found on Cape Breton
island, N. s.
A PROCESSION was passing through the
streets of a Silesan town in Germany on
the 18th when five of the paraders were
struck by lightning and killed, and forty
others received severe shocks.
RICHARD Wilson's house Mt Gloucester,
Ont. was destroyed by fire on the 18th, and
Mrs. Wilson and two children perished in
the flames. Mr.. Wilson succeeded in saw
ing three children. The mother lost her
life in trying to save her children.
On the PonsOnby estate in Ireland the
work of eviction was resumed on the 18th,
and several tenants were elected from their
homes.
On the 18th the mayor of Belfast, Ireland,
sent f5O0 by cable to the Johnstown pa.
sufferers as an installmcnt on the amount
to be raised by the citizens of Belfast
DISPATCHES of the aOth say that onc-hali
Of the important city Of Lachan, in the
province OF Szechucn, China, had been de.
stroyed by fire. 1t was estimated that
twelve hundred persons were killed and
ten thousand were homeless
In the Rosenbach river at Stuttgart, Ger
many. floods on the 9Oth submerged por.
tions of the city and eight persons were
drowned
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
Two Girls Drowned.

CHICAGO, June 2a-At a picnic at Def
PLANES Friday boat containing five per-
sons capsized Three gained the shore, bw
two young ladies were drowned.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

A WELL that produces turpentinc fy
the barrel is the latest Georgia ctl-
riosity. 1t is located in Laurcns County.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27
News Of Frightiui Outrages Committed In
M0ntanA- xteri0ux Axxaxsinatiullx.

HELENA, Mont, June n-News has
reached this city OF series OF brutal
murders about $50 miles north of here,
evidently committed by one person. Sat
urday the body of a middle-aged woman
was found She had been shot in the back
Tuesday the bodies Of two men and two
girls, the latter aged about III and 20 re-
spectively, were found within 100 yards Of
the same spot None Of the bodies could
be identified Near the spot was found the
remains Of camp equipage, supposed to be
that OF emigrants travelling across the
country in wagons All possible efforts are
being made to find the perpetrator OF the
murders.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-06-27

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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
What Syndicate Claims They Have OBJ
tanned from Queen Victoria.

talneu from queen Victoria.
LONDON. November 1st.-The most extr aord
nary charter has just been obtained from the
Queen by the Duke of Fife and other titled per-
sonages. 1t is q charter of incorporation granted
to the British South african Company, under
the Queens sign manual at Westminster on the
Goth of october, 10 the ffty-third year of her
reign giving them absolute control lover that
region OF South Africa lying to the north of
British Beehuanaland and TO the north and west
of the South Africa Republic and to the west of
the Portuguese Dominion" The terms of the
charter are almost as wide as the territory over
which the incorporated company will hold
sway.
Special clauses empower the company to hoist
and use the British flag on it buildings and else
where in its territories and on its vessels, TO es-
tabliSh ana maintain force OF police and TO
control the traffic in spirits and intoxicating
liquors, to enforce close season tor the preser-
vation of elephants and other game and to i'm
pose game licenses.
The company and its officers have extensive
powers, and indeed so far as can be judged it is
a replica of the East India Company's charter,
granted in the good old days when it was re-
garded an excellent thing to give the classes
absolute and irresponsible control of the
masses.
one clause in the charter has grim satire all
its own. 1t says: Nothing in this charter
shall be deemed TO authorize this company to
set up grant any monopoly OF trade, provided
that the establishment of or grant of conces-
sions for blanks, railways, tramways, DOCKS tel
egraphs, water works, or otner similar under
takings. or the establishment of any system of
patents or COZ yrights approved by our secretary
of State shall not be deemed monOpolies for this
purpose" This is to be taken, construed. and
adjudged in the most favorable and beneficial
sense for and to the best advantage of the COM
pany in the Courts of the United Kingdom and
the colonies.
The petitioners for the concession, as set forth
in the preamble of the deed, are the Duke of
Abercorn, Duke of Fife, Lord Clifford, V. G.
Cecil, John Rhodes Alfred Best, Albert Henry.
George Grey and George CawstOn.
When Parliament meets there will surely be
little excusable curiosity on the part of some
members over the provisions of the charter, for
it means the capture by the British of the main
portion of the continent of Africa
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
In ConstantinopIe.
POULTICE PAvEMENTS.
Mayor Pond Will Not Append His sigma
fnre to Corrunf Measures

SAN FRANCISCO, November 1st.-Mayor Pond
this afternoon returned TO the Board of Super
visors without his signature Orders No. ,l24 and
212l The first of these is the ordinance i'm
posing a license of 3,000 a year upon all ath-
letic clubs where boxing or prize-fghting is
given as an exhibition. and providing that the
ounces. The latter is the ordinance providing
for the acceptance by the city of bitUminous-
rock pavement only when laid on six inches of
concrete.
II has been anticipated that the Mayor would
veto the pavement order, but there has been no
intimation that he intended TO dispose of the
sloggers' ordinance in the same way. The veto
messages are both sealed, but it is stated that
the ground for refusing to sign the sloggers'
order is that all prize-hghling or physical con
tention Of every kind is prohibited by the Penal
Code in plain terms, and the passage of an order
such as this would be simply effort on the
part of the Il gislatiye authorities ofthis city 10
compound felony. The Mayor says il is not
the fault of the aw-abiding portion of the COM
munit that Jurors refuse to convict the sloggers
when they are arrested.
1t is stated that one Of the main grounds for
vetoing the pavement order is that by requiring
concrete under basalt blocks competition in
street pavement is destroyed. Also that concrete
is unnecessary under stone, especially since
the greater portion OF the city is now paved
with blocks, and II is proposed to put concrete
under streets in the outskirts where there viii
be no heavy travel for century TO come.
Both veto messages will be presented to the
Board ON Monday morning.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
England,s Queer Juries.

Two examples of the mode in which lu-
ries sometimes decide may be added. In
one case, at the Assizes in Midland town,
a girl was charged with the murder Of her
illegitimate child. The evidence clearly
pointed to her guilt but the circumstances
were painful, and, to the general relief of
everybody in Court, the jury declared her
not guilty. Asked privately how they
came to deliver such a verdict, the fore
man stated that he had seen the black cap
lying on the Judges bench, and the sight
was too much for him; he hadn't the heart
to bring in verdict of guilty. "And the
othersY "Oh, well, said the foreman, "ien
of them were neighbors and customers OF
mine, and | easily persuaded them"
"What about the eleventh man ~ "Well,
he was a farmer whom didn't know and
/ said to him, Well, Mr.. Chumps, what do
you think about this caseT 'Ohp he re-
piled, 4 amt thought nowt about it all
sir rn Yet the trial had lasted for the
whole of day.
The other case is a Welch one-a trial
for murder. The prosecution had broken
down on point of law, and the Judge "di-
rected" the jury to find the man not guilty
But all the same they delivered a verdict
of guilty. His lordship, in a voice that
thundered with wrath, explained that he
and not the jury, was the judge of the law
and asked them what they meant by defy
ing his direction "0h, indeed, my lord,
said the foreman with a bland Celtic smile
abut the man at the turnpike told US ht
knew Peter Jones did it's. James Ga
| zette.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
PIERS LOOKING STREAM OCTOBER

of the character of this American river
boom for practical work."
ut would not be possible to build boom
at any point on the American river where
slack water TO the extent of one or TWO
miles was not afforded. This requirement
is afforded by the dam of the Folsom Water
Power Company, which backs the water
up from the dam about four miles. AS OBJ
served during the late freshet, the current
ct the boom will run logs at the rate of about
mile and half an hour. When the water
is higher there will be more resistance and
the current will not run very much faster
two or three miles an hour will probably
be the average. When the water is low in
the river there will still be some water in
the boom. 1t will always be, at the lowest
stage of the water somewhat higher than
it now is; when the dam is completed to
its full height the tops of our piers will be
just ten feet higher than the masonry of the
dam. When the water runs over the dam
the tops of our piers will still be ten feet
out of the water. As to the location. no
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02


C-Chains to boom.
be seen from some points in the midst of
the largest timber"
Has the American Land and Lumber
Company lands in the timber region?"
THE company own about 10 600 acres of
this timber land. The lands of the COM
pany are not located on the river, but on
the tributaries. They do not own any tim
ber to which this system of floating out
logs is applicable; their lands come under
the W hume system"
RAPID WORK.
The representatives of the RECORD q MON
ascertained further that the work upon the
"boom" was commenced on the 18th of
July last, a fact that is surprising when the
massiveness of the piers and the difficulties
of construction are considered. That so
much should have been accomplished in so
brief d time testifies to the fine executive
and supervising ability of the Superintend-
ent and bis foreman, Andrew Burnett, who
is practical workman from Springfield,
o., where he owned and worked in quar-
ries. Colonel Cummings has also had
broad experience in great engineering
works, and in handling large problems of
construction.
FORCE MISUNDERSTANDING
From forty to sixty men have been con-
stantly employed upon the work. The
granite has been taken out of bowlder quar-
ries without the use of powder, the blocks
having all been split of with wedges and
by drilling. The rock splits so perfectly,
that after the cleaving down of the great
rocks very little dressing has been needed
to fit them for the masonry walls of the
piers. The works in all their ramifcations
have involved an outlay of more than
100000. The officers of the company are
A. J. Ralston, President; H. P. Livermore,
Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager;
G. W. Cummings, Superintendent.
CONCLUSION.
1t may have been thought by some that
the boom company would by its operations
be thrown into antagonism with the north
coast lumber companies and enterprises,
but it will on reflection, be seen that this
cannot be, since the American River
Company deals only with pines, and does
not have redwood within the scope of its
operations. Concerning the importance of
the boom we have described to Sacramento,
it is not proposed to question the intelli-
gence of our readers by going into details.
1t must be obvious to all that such a vast
industry will contribute greatly to the i'm
portance of Sacramento as a distributing
center; it must add to its commercial
volume, stimulate building by reduction of
the price of lumber, encourage investment
and invite mems attention to the Sacra-
mento section. No benefit can accrue to
any community within the trade area of
this CITY and not inure to the benefit of
Sacramento. Much less can one of the
most promising townships in all this part
of the State, and which is within the
limits of this county, prosper so greatly as
that containing the boom will, and Sacra-
mento City not be profted thereby.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02

are not all set in the same direction, but
are so placed as to meet the current in its
direct flow. The piers will each support a
strain of 2,200 tons; that is, just its weight
and massiveness, exclusive of considera-
ton of strength by the binding together of
the stones by the concrete.
VIEW NUMBER THREE-THE BOOM.
View No. 8 shows the river at the high
water mark of the recent hood-about %
feet high around the middle pier. On the
left can be seen the smoke-stack of a SUBJ
merged stationary engine, and on the other
side two more similar smoke stacks can be
seen sticking out of the water, just below
pier No. 8. The boom consists of eleven
sections, each so feet in length and each
composed of logs II inches square, bolted
and banded together, forming compact
section feet square. The connecting bolts
are feet apart, alternating on each side,
so that every 8 feet a pair of bolts pass
through from side to side. Thus there
will be twelve logs in each section. These
sections are joined by steel clevices II feet
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02

best they can, then the boom company
employs drivers to navigate the logs down
the stream. Wherever a log lodges they
work it out and see that it gels down to the
boom. For the driving and storage and
general care of the logs, which may, at the
owners option. remain from one season to
another in the boom, charge of $2 per
thousand feet of lumber is made
GETTING OUT OF THE BOOM.
when are the logs taken out of the
BOOM"
During the low water season the boom
is opened at various points and the logs are
RATED out, each mark being kept separate
from the others, until the whole boom is
cleared and the logs delivered to their re-
spective mills. In doing this the men use
oaken wedges about an inch square at the
large end. These they drive. without bor-
ing or cutting, through the bark and into
the solid log, about midway of the length.
They then take a half-hitch around this
wedge with small cord, and when they
get another log of the same brand they
fasten them together, and repeat this pro-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02
BOULANGER'S CAMPAIGN.
A Story of His Plans to Use the French
ARMY.


PARIS. November lst.-The Figaro has COM
menced the publication of a series of notes on
Boulangism, the author of which appears to be
thoroughly at home with regard to the private
action of the party. According to these notes it
attempting coup de force after the victory of
energetic in their support of the idea and de-
sired that it should be attemyted before the fall
of the FloqueI Cabinet, the weakness of the
Ministry being regarded then as pledge of
success.
on the other hand, Naquet Rochefort and
Dillon opposed any attempt at violence. La
guerre, Herisse and Verdoan remained neutral.
AS for the General, he was undecided and in
active, thinking above all of his own pleasure.
Deroulede pursued his projected plan of keep
ing the troops he meant to use as members of
the Patriotic League in continual expectation.
He frequently passed the army in review. going
from one arrono issement to another to strength
en- the zeal of his agents.
After the Sagallo incident the protest was is
sued which brought about the dissolution of the
League. Soon afterward the trial by the High
Court commenced, and BoulangeTs flight fol-
lowed.
If the facts relsted are correct, it would seem
that there really did exist plot in the Bou-
langist party against the safety of the State but
the High Court of Justice would have given
proof of very little discernment and equity in
condemning BOulanger Rochefort and Dillon
and sparing Deroulede and Thiebant, if the first
named were opposed TO the employment of
force, which the latter advised and prepared
OF course the story must be accepted for what
II worth
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-02

II was brought up in the mountains of
Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna
river, where the largest booms in the world
are located-at Lockhaven, on the west
branch of the Susguehanna, and at Will
Transport, thirty miles below, the latter be-
ing the larger, the line of piers extend
along the river for seven miles. AT Lock
haven the line of piers runs for two
and a half miles along the river.
have frequently seen from 400,
100000 to 60O,000,OOO feet of logs in
the Williamsport boom, the result of one
seasons drive, or, so to speak, one freshet
of the river. These logs are marked
with the owners private mark by stamp
ing on each end of the log. They are
thrown into the river and foated down;
gangs of men from fifty to one hundred in
each, following them up until the last one
is safely housed in the BOOM"
GETTING INTO THE BOOM.
How are the logs gathered originally ?"
1.-The owners of the timber lands along
the stream get their logs into the river as