The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-01-09
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
saoM WASHINGTON.
Ar the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 26th aggregated
9o47, 1888, 249, against sl.134, 4O1, $50 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week Of 1883 the increase
amounted to 81.
THE Commissioner Of Education in his
report on the 3Oth ult. estimated that
$122, 455, 600 in round numbers was ex-
pended for the education Of twelve
million children In the United States
the past year, an average cost Of Sill .
child per annum.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of wheat and corn on the 3Oth ult
was. respectively, 33,s7l,64s and 5000.
oOl bushels.
OK tho 3Oth ult. the trade outlook was
very promising. and business men and
ananciers all over the country concurred
In the opinion that the next twelve
In the United States the number of
persons who committed suicide during
the year 1889 was 2, s24, against LAST in
1888. OF this number 1908 were males
and 321 females. The total number of
murders committed was 1867, against
2, 1s4 in 1888
DURING the past year Z, ,719 lives were
lost In various disasters in this country
Is follows: Drowning, 5,7O5; fires, $50;
cyclones. storms, 1853; explosions, $40;
mines, sOe; falling buildings, 90; light
ming, 215. In railway accidents 2,43S
persons wero killed, against 1854 in
1884, In marine disasters 1900 lives
were lost, against 4,O95 the previous
year.
TIE fire losses in the United States
during 1889 foot up S143, ,9O2, go, against
500, O0O. 900 in 1888.
DURING the past year S3 centenarians
died In the United States, of whom 81
were males and 46 were females.
THE total amount of money embezzled
from corporations, private firms and the
United States Government during the
year 1889 was ss, 562, 753.
THERE were 0s legal hangings in the
United States last year, against 81 the
previous year, and 115 persons were
lynched, against IA in 1883.
TnE public debt statement issued on
tho I'd showed the total debt to be ST..
6l0, ,,69, ,o53; cash in Treasury. $50, $685.
l42; debt less cash in Treasury, l.O52,-
952.9l1. Decrease during December,
63, las, ,Os3. Decrease since June 80,
1889, ss3, 1868, TO.
| THE East.
A BROOKLYN barber named Frank
Bruck killed his mother on the oSth
and then himself, because the mother
was sick and not expected to recover.
| ALEXANDER BECK & SoS. carpet man.
ufacturers at Philadelphia, failed on
the asth for $50, OO0
| OVER 1900 immigrants arrived In
New York from Europe on the 2Sth.
A PROCLAMATION was issued by Gov
ernor Godell, Of New Hampshire, on the
2Sth that all SALOONS in the State must
be closed and the prohibitory law strict
y enforced.
EMPLOYEES OF Carnegic's Homestead
pa steel works were notified on the
30th ult. of an advance of sixteen per
cent in wages to go into effect imme-
aiately.
MISS DoLIIE BEowN. aged seventy-one
years, died on the 30th ult while kneel-
ing in prayer at lr bedside at Middle
town, II. Y.
BHADsTREET reports total Of II, 719
business failures in the United States
the past year, against 10,5S7 in 1888.
Tho total liabilities were $40, ,559, 400,
against Sl20, 243, 4O3 the previous yesr.
The assets tho past year were SIC, ,599,-
1S9. against SOL, 999. .9ll in 1883.
On the 31st ult. Mrs. Mary Smith, .
giantess, died in New York. aged forty
eight years. She weighed seven hun
ircd pounds.
CHARLES KING, of Middleton, Mass,
celebrated his one hundred and ninth
birthday on the 1st.
AT Castle Garden, New York, immi-
grants arrived last year to the number
Of 315, 2o2S, which was falling Of from
tho year before of sc. 367.
On the s1st ult. Mrs. Polly French
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
at East Templeton. Mass.
message to the Massachusetts, Legisla
turc on tho I'd commended the Austria
lian system of voting, which was EN-
ployed at the last election, and recon.
mcnded tho extension Of . similar
method to tho primaries.
FLAMES on the I'd in the shops of the
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
at New York caused loss of $lOO. 900.
On the I'd Horatio Allen, who invent.
ed the Allen paper wheel, and who rar
the first locomotive ever propelled ovel
track in this country, died at his home
near South Orange, N. j., aged eighty
eight years.
SOME unknown person on the I'd cut
the throats of Sarah Kelly and Anr
Kelly, aged respectively eighty-one and
seventy-nine years, who lived alone in ,
little frame house in Philadelphia
Robbery was the motive.
CURTIS 4 Co., an iron firm at Roland
Pa, failed on the I'd for $500, 600. The
6rm was established in 1910.
STATISTICS of locomotive building TO
1889 show slight falling OF from tn,
product of 1883. Reports from abou
half the car-building companies show /,
decline of 20 per cent from the product
of 1883.
THE death of Hon. George II. Boxer
ex-United States Minister to Turke,
and Russia, occurred at his home ii
Philadelphia on the I'd.
WEST AND SOUTH.
An explosion on the 2Sth in the show
case mandatory of Schmitt & Co. .
Cincinnati killed three men.
THE annual report of the coroner o.
the 2Sth showed that ESQ persons wer
killed last year in Chicago by the rail
roads.
THEODORE GROSS family, consisting
of the parents and eight children, wit