The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-04-18
EpitOme Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON,


INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
From WASHINGTON.
The Secretary of War ON tho Sth ordered
hat the new military post near Denver
,haIl be known as Fort Logan, to honor the
memory Of the late General John A. Logan.
BIZ the direction of President Harrison the
State OF Wisconsin was on the Sth trans
erred from the Military Department of tho
East to the Department of Dakota
On the 9th Adam c. Tanner, Of Canton,
,, was appointed Chief Of the appointment
Division Of the Interior Department
The death OF Rear Admiral T. H. Pattcr-
ION (retired) occurred on the 10th at his
1ome IN Washington, at the age Of sixty
zine years.
THE President on the 18th appointed Ly-
nan E. Knapp, of Middlebury, Vt, to be
Governor Of Alaska
THERE were 1s6 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
IN the 18th, against l41 the previous seven
days The total OF failures in the United
States. from January | to date was 3S73,
against 33j2 in 1885,
DURING March the total value of exports
II beef and hog products from the United
states was $S. l25 ,06S, and for the five months
ended March 81, s4l .57.7l
THE EAST.
The Monongahela river coal works near
Pittsburgh, Pa. resumed work on the 9th
After shut down of a weeks duration,
giving employment to six thousand men.
In Albany on the yth memorial exercises
in honor Of the late General =. H. Sheridan
were held by the New York Legislature.
ON the 9th two strangers visited Daniel
Kcller's residence near Shamokin, Pa, and
robbed him of a. zoo
THE report of the State Board of Agri-
culture of Massachusetts, on the 9th noted
the great growth of the butter business in
the State, and spoke particularly Of the de-
velopment of the cooperative system,
twenty-six such institutions having made
during the year two million pounds
The elections held in Rhode Island on the
9TH assured the Legislature to the Republic
ans. who would elect the State officers.
MASKED men entered the house of Lewis
Patterson, q wealthy farmer living near
Ccntervillc, Ia, on the 9th and demanded
his gold On being told that he had none
they tortured him by holding his feet and
his face to the stove. and after securing s43
and gold watch they left.
AT the National convention of the Sons oi
Veterans in Albany, n Y. on the 10th, it wat
decided to consolidate the post and
''camp" system.
WILLIAM J. IRVING, JR, was arrested on
the 10th at Hartford, Conn, for cmbezzlc-
ment of 80, COO from the Hammond Dressed
Beef Company, for which he was local man.
ager.
On the 10th Jerry Sullivan, aged seventeen
years, was steamed to death in q large keir
ut the print works at Dover, N. H.
NATHAN +. DIXON Rep.) was elected
United States Senator on the 10th by the
Rhode Island Legislature.
On the 10th the propeller Oswego left
Buffalo for Chicago. This was the first de-
parture of the season from that port.
THE American schooner Bucknam arrived
in New York on the 10th, and Captain
Stubbs reported that he was chased and
fired upon by q Dominican man-of-war on
March n. The American flag was flying at
the schooner's peak at the time. The
Bucknam soon distanced the steamer and
the latter gave up the chase.
MANY acres of fine pine timber land be-
tween Pittston and Wilkesbarre, Pa. had
ON the 11th been destroyed by forest fires.
The firm of Billings 4 Eaton, wholesale
leather dealers ut Boston, failed on the 11tf
for $4,000.
FIRE destroyed the storehOuse and con-
tents Of the Chelsea Cordage Company al
Boston on the 1lth, causing loss ol
sl50,OOO
On the llth Edgar Swan. ex-cashier Of tho
First National Bank OF Lynn, Mass. was
sentenced to five years in Jail for the en-
bezzlement of $33,OO0.
Ar Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th license
was issued for the marriage OF Samuel K
Welser. aged seventy two years, to Edith
Wilson, girl fifteen years old.
The jute mills of Buchanan & Lyell at
Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned on the llth
the loss reaching 800 COO
The death of Mrs. Lydia Watson, Of Lei
nester, Mass, occurred on the 18th at thu
age OF one hundred and two years anc
three months She had been remarkably
we'll and vigorous up to her final illness.
ELECTIONS for members of the Rhode ISL
and Legislature were ended on the 18th
and the complexion of that body stands or
Joint ballot: Republicans, 50; Democrats, ~