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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FIFTYF!RST CONGRESS.
Sn.nuh lnssissn


second Session.
MONDAY, Jan. 10. - In the Senate
bills were introduced to prevent the
sale of firearms and ammunition to
Indians. and authorizing the Secretary
of Agriculture to inspect all vessels
that are to carry export cattle to for.
eign countries Thirty-tve petitions in
favor Of the Torrey bankruptcy bin
were presented by Senator Cullom
ml.). The elections bill was further
discussed. In the House resolution
was introduced by Mr.. Langston IVA. }
to amend the constitution so that no
election for Congressman. Senators and
Presidential electors who can not read
and write the English language.
TUESDAY. Jan. 20.-A petition was
presented in the Senate asking that
General Banks be placed on the re-
tired list of the army A discussion
of the elections bill occupied the re-
mainder of the session. in the House
q favorable report was made on the
bill imposing special tax upon all teas
imported from countries east of the
Cape of Good Hope. During the session
Mr.. Mills (Tex.) charged the Speaker
with intentionally pra:ticing a fraud
upon the House, and for 4 few minutes
: the House was in great confusion.
Throughout the scene the Speaker was
calm. but it took the services of the
scrgeant-at-arms to quell the tumult
which at one time threatened to cul-
inmate in personal violence.
| WEDNESDAY,. Jan. 2l.-The time OF
the Senate was taken up in roll calls.
in obtaining the attendance of absent
Senators and in the delivery of speeches
against the elections bill. and at mid
night the Senate adjourned, leaving the
subject of the approval of Tuesday S
journal to come up again. In the House
no business was done, the time being
occupied in wrangle over the approval
of the journal.
THURSDAY, Jan. 22.-In the Senate
the debate on the journal came to
an end and the cloturc rule was dis
cussed, but no action was taken. In
the House the journal was approved,
the district of Columbia appropriation
bill was passed and the appropriation
bill was considered. A bill was report.
ed favorably amending the interstate
commerce law 50 as to allow railroad
companies to make reduced rates OF
transportation and to permit them to
carry their own employees free. bill
was introduced appropriating 100000
for public building at Ionia, Mich.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
Condition Of Trade as Reported by Il. Il.
Dun'x Weekly Review.

NEW YORK, Jan. PR. G. Dun &
Co. S weekly review of trade says that
it has been noteworthy throughout re-
cent financial troubles that Western
centers of trade have been compara-
lively free from disturbances or appre-
tensions, and now the energy and
growth of the West have their effect in
larger trade and stronger confidence in
Eastern commercial centers In the
reports of this week moderate but
steady increase in the volume Of bust.
ness compared with last year 10 the
s.l0aA skrikinxy fsaHurA
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

THE Supreme Court of Missouri has
decided that the act extending the
limits of Kansas City a year ago, so as
to take in twenty-five miles of new
territory, was illegal and invalid. The
five aldermen elected from the new
territory will lose their seats. and all
ordinances passed since annexation are
invalidated
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

PROF. WIGGINs is again in an active
state of prediction. He says there will
be no earthquakes around here until
about August II, 1904. This makes our
safety from a shaking up, meanwhile,
lust trifle dubious.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

ONE result of the census inquiry in
the South.has been the disclosure of the
fact that the ratio of increase among
the blacks has been much overestimat-
ed. While the white population dur
ing the last decade has increased twen-
ty-six per cent, it is shown that the
negroes have not increased more than
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

SEVENTEEN hundred of the Sioux are
members of the Episcopal church, and
Baptists, Catholics and Congregational
lists are also well represented among
khnv,,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
cured at the Palace Hotel in San Fran

CURED at the Palace Hotel in San Fran
cisco on the 10th. ayed 55 years.
NEAR Glasgow, Mo-. ollie Thixton,
u negro. was lynchcd for an assault
upon Miss Mccrrws. the young daughter
of prominent citizen.
FLAMES destroyed the plant of the
Standard Motor Company in Chicago,
causing a loss Of siS7.000.
THE house of Richard Lane. in
Thomas County, Ca, with four children
locked up in it. was burned. and the
children pcrished in the flames.
THE following United States Senators
were elected IN the alst: Indiana. ID.
w. Voorhees, fDem.); Missouri, George
G. Vest DEM: Arkansas, J.. X.
Jones tDem.1; Colorado, II. NJ. Teller
(Rep. l;Washington, w. c. Squire tRep.) j;
Oregon. J. ii. Mitchell (Rep.); North
Carolina. u. Il. Vance tDem.).
THE State Bank at Kawalsa City,
Kan. went into the hands of receiver,
making the fourth bank failure within
week in Mitchell County.
A coLoRED woman named Rosa Bar
ton died at Galesburg. ILL.,, on the 2lst,
aged 1lS years.
AT Gro, Col. an unruiy horse threw
a wagon containing Mrs. Henry Smith
and Mrs. Nehslin over an embankment
100 feet high and both women were
fatally hurt.
The office Of De Grondwet, the larg-
est Dutch paper in the United States,
was totally destroyed by an incendiary
fire at Holland, Mich.
On the 2lst Nathan Whitney, of Rock
ford, believed to be the oldest Mason in
Illinois. celebrated his Tooth birthday.
THE troops in the field at Pine Ridge,
s. D.. were reviewed by General Miles.
There were 5000 men and $40 horses in
line.
On the 22d the funeral of King Ka,a-
kaua, of the Hawaiian Islands, took
place in San Francisco. and the remains
were placed on the steamer Charleston,
which sailed Immediately for Honolulu.
| AT Hamilton, o., John X. Aydclotte,
editor of the Daily Democrat, was
! caught in the fly-wheel in the engine
room and instantly killed.
THE death of Thomas Meirs occurred
on the ed near Akron, O., aged l00
years and 5 months.
DURING lovers quarrel at San An
| tonic, Tex, Bertha Gross shot and
fatally wounded James Hartley and
! then committed suicide.
NEARLY seventy letters belonging to
the Northwestern National Bank OF
Chicago. and supposed to contain over
100000 in drafts, etc, were delivered
to stranger by clerk in the Chicago
| poSt-office and were missing.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

PROF. HARRIET COOKE, professor Of
history in Cornell, is the first woman
ever honored with the chair and equal
pay with the men professors. She has
taught in Cornell twenty three years.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
The Convicted President and Ia hier Of a
National Bank Parsloned.

RALEIGH, Jan. a4.-Governor Fowle
has pardoned Charles E. Cross and
Samuel c. White, who, while respect
lively president and cashier of the State
National Bank here, fed to Canada in
March, lssS, with $4,000 which they
had just obtained by express from Rich
mond and Baltimore banks. They were
recaptured and sentenced to hard labor
on the public roads. Their wives re-
Gently began efforts to secure pardops
and presented to the Governor petitions
with thousands of signatures and the
Governor promptly granted pardon
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

ABOUT five hundred veterinary sur
geons in Great Britain signed paper
condemning overhead check-reins as
painful to horses and productive of dis
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

WITHIN sixty-two years Mexico has
had fifty-four presidents, one regency
and one empire. and nearly every
change Of government has been eff
fected bv violence.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

DIR. w. II. MILBURN. the blind Chap
lain of the House of Representatives. is
writing q book on the pioneers of the
Mississippi valley. He has a collabora-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

A New HAMPSHIRE saloon-keeper was
recently tried on one thousand distinct
charges, and was convicted on seven
hundred and fifteen. The aggregate of
his tines was $4,000.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
THE EAST.

UNITED STATES SENATORS were
elected as follows on the 2lst: New
York. David Il. Hill (Dem.): Connccti-
cut, Orville B. Platt (Rep.); New Hamp-
shire. Jacob II. Gallinger (Rep.); Penn
sylvania. J. d. Cameron tRep.).
JonN TONS, of New Brunswick. N. j.,
was robbed by thieves of ST. and then
hung up by the wrists. He was found
forty weight hours afterwards in an al
most dying condition.
In the rolling mills at Bristol, Pa,
Charles Carpenter was killed by red
hot iron being driven clean through his
body.
THE New York Equitable Insurance
Company will wind up its own affairs
and quit.
THE famous Eng...sh setter dog Count
Noble, owned by Il. +. Wilson. OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, and valued ut $4,000,
is dead.
AT Boston fincly-bred cow owned
by DIR. II. Z. bennett gave birth to three
fully-developed calves. They were
marked SO much alike that it was diff.
cult to tell one from another. This
freak of nature was one seldom heard
of in cattle history.
The match in New Yorl: between
Steinitz and Gunsberg for the chess
championship of the world. which had
been going on since December 9. was
decided in favor of Steinitz. The score
was: Stcinitz, q; Gunsberg, 4; drawn, o.
Mrs. LUDWIG ANDERSON poisoned
herself and three children at Brockton
Mass. on being told by a medium that
her husband was faithless
On the 22d what had been long known
as the oldest horse in the world died in
Buffalo, N. Y. lie was owned by Mr.
Braun, who bought him when he was
years old and had him forty years.
AT the age of 1OJ years Mrs. Mary
Ruaane died on the I'D at Jessup, Pa
She retained all her senses up to the
century mark and thea becam, blind.
In the New Eng land and the Middle
States freshets were reported at many
points. Bridges were swept away ir
Dutchess County, N. Y, and at Wassai.
two women and i team were drowned
Over one-third of Wilkesbarre, Pa, wa.
under water and traffic was completely
suspended.
A BUILDING destroyed at Morristown
N. j., by high water was the one il
which the first telegraph instrument
invented by 5. F. b. Morse was sta
toned when the initial message over q
telegraph wire was sent to Boston il
1885,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
The Mohawk River Overfiows, Causing
Considerable Damage.

TRIBES HILL, N. Y, Jan. 24.-As the
result of an ice gorge the Mohawk
river at Fort Hunter overtiowed its
banks Friday afternoon and the resi-.
dents of the place residing along its
banks have been driven from their
homes. Bo;.ts are being run about
some of the buildings that are sur
rounded by water. The water is still
rising and there is much excitement.
Should the ice come over the banks
great damage must result. At Mill
Point the water is up to the second
story of some Of tho dwellings.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

GENERAL LoNGsrKEEr is giving all
bis leisure time to his history of the
war OF the rebellion, with the expecta-
ton Of finishing it before the year is
evrt
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

AT public meetings in London, the
presence of ladies at the reporters table
is rapidly becoming the rule rather
than the exception.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

NINE young Irish girls recently gradu-
ated from Dublin University with the
degree of i. A. In the examination
papers they ranked above the men.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

TEE total debt of the United States in
1865, the highest point, was 81, ,77S, $780,
.73 The total debt OH Jan. l. 1891, was
1854, ,s71,19S. Tho difference, $780,
600, 900, with the interest on the whole
amount, has been paid off in twenty five
years. But that does not represent the
whole actual reduction. The Government
has in its vaults nearly seal 200, 900 held
for the redemption of Treasury notes,
which are counted as part of the debt.
The present debt, dedncting the cash in
the Treasury, is only ssC2, 43o,54l. The
real reduction in twenty-five years has
therefore been about 81, 700, 900, 900, or
over Sl,5OO, 600 a week for that period.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29

Snow b.oclsades are not commonly
associated with the African climate.
But the cable reports military convoy
showed up in Algeria. Spain is also
suffering severely from snow-storms
and cold. The present season is turn.
Ing oldworld records topsy turvy.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13
The prum Polnt Reeeivership.

The Mercantile Trust ard Deposit Com
psny has filed its answer by Messrs. Isl
dor Rayner, w. A. Fisher and Bruno 10
the bill of Henry +. Loane for the APP
pointment of receiver on the Drum
Point railroad. The company contends
that it has the right as trustee under the
deed of trust to the bondholders to take
all necessary steps for the preservation
or sale of the railroad. 1t denies that the
circumstances of The case justify the is
suing of receivers certificates, and ii
claims that such certificates could only
be sold at ruinous sacrifice, and would
not bring enough under any circumstan-
ces TO finish the road. The answer fur
thermore states that the majority of the
bondholders have the right to control the
sale, and that the court has no power to
deprive it of its legal title as trustee, and
that IL is willing to proceed and sell the
road If the court determines that ii should
be sold. The answer admits that on
February 1. 1888. the railroad company
made to the Mercantile Trust and Depos-
it Company its deed of trust to secure
the payment of 81 100000 of its bonds,
of which issue $1,111 900 have been GER
titled and delivered to the railroad COM
pany, leaving unissued $Se9,OO0.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13

Oyssermen Leaving for Other Fields
OF Labor-The EIopers Return.

business is little dull, as it IS every
where during bad weather. as our people
depend largely upon the oyster industry
for a living Indictment weather means
short rations. Some OF our oystermen
have Joined the Annapolis boys and have
left here for the oyster beds OF North
Carolina. and as your correspondent saw
our vessels moving ont of the harbor
this morning their crews waving adieu 10
home and friends, 1t presented sad
spectacle, and has brought more forcibly
10 our minds that our oyster industry is
fast becoming the thing of the past and
when we contemplate these facts we are
constrained TO say that our oystermen
themselves are largely at fault for the
condition of our longing bed, for until
the recent culling law was enacted our
oystermen caught and brought TO market
oysters so small that packers we fore
ed to dump them upon the shell pile as
unfit for market This has been going
on for years. and the young growth has
been killed OF, and il is we'll known
fact. il there 10 no seed there is no har-
our oystsrmen have been killing the
goose that laid the golden egg" But
we hope that through the stringent Gull
ing law now in force that Our oyster in
dustry may again revive and our people
will not be compelled to seek their livli-
hood in distant lands.
The lecture which was to be delivered
at the public school house by Mr. 4. #.
Johnson, came off last night and was
well attended by many of the villagers
and also many from Annapolis among
whom the Rev. s. Shannon, pastor Wes-
ley Chapel. who by the way is always on
hand when there is charitable effort in
view. Many of the pastors flock were
also present. The lecture was well de
livered and highly appreciated by those
present.
The ladies of the NJ. E. Sunday School
are making preparation for social and
supper, the receipts to be applied TO buy
ing books for the little ones, due notice of
which will be given in the CAPITAL.
Passport had its first social sensa-
ton in the elopsment of young couple.
an account of which appeared in the
CAPITAL few days ago. Locks and bars
1t would appear are no impeachment where
love is concerned. The young couple
have returned to The village. and settled
down to domestic life and the old folks
have accepted the situation.
The ship yard of the Messrs. Hellers.
are doing some business. The glass fac
tory is yet idle, fact which we all de-
plore.
The Sunday schools of the NJ. E. and
the Baptist churches are also well attend
ed and very interesting meeting,are held
every Sunday evening at the school house
ander the auspices of the Herbert pray
ing band. The sick people mentioned in
my last are fast becoming convalescent
and we know of no new cases in our
midst. RAMBLER
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13
Erroneous Report.

The report published in last evenings
CAPITAL that Mr.. L. Dorsey Gassaway,
first book keeper of the Farmers Nation
al Bank, had been appointed teller vice
J. II. Forbes, we are authoratively infor-
med by Mr.. Gassaway is incorrect, no
such appointment having been made. We
make this correction in justice to Mr.
Gassaway and Mr. Forbes, HON it places
in very wrong light before the public,
and we regret as much as they that the
report should have been published. We
published 1t merely as an item Of
news, the report having come to us from
a most relia bic source, and not from
any intention ON our part to do either
getleman any injustice.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13
CAPITAL JoTTlNGs

II YOU would buy cheap and durable
suit Of clothes cali at H. ii. Rehn's, and
see his great bargins.
II you would save money. save food,
save time and patience, and be happy buy
a"Peerless Steam Cooker and you
would never be without it.
Go to the Opera House tomorrow
night aud see the little amatuers In
santa Claus Mistake.
Much Of the fall vegetables of some Of
The truckers along the route of the Short
Line Railroad, is left in the fields TO rot
Gunners should remember that the law
prohibits partridge and rabbit shooting
al this season.
Il is said the scarcity of oysters this
season viii entail loss TO Annapolis
business men of from $4,000 to $4,000.
A slight fire occurred This morning In
IN The oyster packing house of Jesse Rus
sell, which was extinguished without
much damage.
Mr.. John +. Lowcamp, . we'll known
packer at Jessups, is reported 10 crit.
ieal condition.
The eantata of Santa Claus Mistake"
VIII be repeated at the Opera House to.
morrow night
The Court Of Appeals re -assembled to-
gay All the judges were present except
Judge Fowler snd Briscoe On motion
OF Albert Constable, Lawyer fanny, of
hariord county, was admitted 10 prac-
tioe in the court.
Deputy Sheriff Duvall arrested Walter
howes of the schooner ". II. yelling.
Tor having under size oysters in his poss-
eSSion he was held for hearing this ev.
ening al O'Clock before Justice CASA
way.
Chas Clark of BROOKLYN, this county
mas been awarded the free SCHOLARSHIP in
TIE Maryland Agricultural College.
Among the county folks in town to.
Gay We're. Capt Leatherburg, Jas N
Nichols, NJ. r. Howard. ex-sheriff II. p,
SSsllman and IL. 5. Anderson, and Mr.
Aunsy, of West River,
There are O. cases on the docket of the
Vourt Of Appeals.
Mr.. Calhoun, of the Sth district, died
recently and was buried on Wednesday
A. II, Zimmerman. state secretary 81
the \ NJ. c. A. has charge of the ar
tSngement for the Y. NJ. c. A. conven
", ZION which begins its session in Annapolis
Thursday
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13
Orphans, Court.

An account of sales of the personal es-
tate of Joshua Hawkins. deceased, was
filed and ratified
An account of sales of the personal es-
tate of ]. ID. Neeman was fled and ratiti-
ed.
Twelfth account of ]. NJ Munroe aud
Theodore Conner. guardian to Rosa E.
Tuers and Thos. i. Tuers was passed.
Release from Mrs. Maria Weems TO
John Glenn was filed and recorded
Bond of II. ] Mcdonald. guardian of
Josiah Thomas, ct al, was approved and
certificate of guardianship was granted
First account of Richard A. Richard
son, administrator of William Richard.
son was passed.
An inventory OF the ,rsonal estate of
]. Alex. Norris, deceased, was filed and
passed
After passing number OF claims the
Court adjourned to meet Tuesday, Janu-
airy Goth, 1891
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13
Annapolis Cab Company,
EpQAR HUTTON. Manager.
FOR NAVAL SUP
PLIES FOR THE NAVAL ACAD-

PROPOSALS. FOR NAVAL SUP
PLIES FOR THE NAVAL ACAD-
ENVY, ANNAPOLIS. MD.-January 8,
1891 Sealed proposals, endorsed Pro
posals for Naval Supplies for the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, Md, to be opened
January %. 1891, /" will be received at the
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing Navy
Department, Washington. y. c.. until
10 o'clock noon, January 81, 1891, and
publicly opened Immediately thereafter
to furnish at the Naval Academy, An
napolis, Md, quantity of stores, consis-
ting of pipe, pipe fittings, stationery,
hardware. bricks, iron. paints, drawing
material, electrical supplies, &c. The
articles must conform TO the Navy stand
ard and pass the usual naval inspection.
Blank proposals will be furnished upon
application to the Superintendent of the
Naval Academy or to the Bureau. The
attention of manufacturers and dealers
is invited. Tie bids. all other things
being equal, decided by lot. The De
partment reserves the right to waive de
fects or to reject any or all bids not deem
ed advantageous to the Government. ED-
WIN STEWART, PdyDaaster General, U.
:. Macy. Jan 1915 10 go.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13
Household gem.

One OF the most useful household in
ventions ever put upon the market is the
Peerless Steam Cooker" We have re-
Gently introduced one of these "house-
hold gems" for we can term it nothing
else) into our family, and must say as
. cooker of almost every kind Of food,
we have never seen anything to equal it.
II IL decidedly one Of the most adva' Ia
geous cooking utensils In the culinary
department aud no family can afford to be
without one. 1t saves time, saves wor-
~, and saves food. Mr.. r. r. Conner,
Church Circle and Northwest sire { is
the agent
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-13

Mr.. George Colhoun. who lived near
Owensvil'e. Anne Arundel county, died
at his home on Friday, aged seventy
three years Mr.. Colhoun was born in
Philadelphia, but removed to Pittsburg
early in life, where ne engaged in the
chemical business. Several years ago he
bought farm in Anne Arundel county,
where he lived up to the time Of his
death.
Mrs Louisa Posey died yesterday
morning at the residence of her son-in-
law, Mr.. Joseph j. Robinson, No 1919 St
Paul street, in her eighty-second year.
Mrs Posey seemed to have 3 Fremont
ton of her approaching end. and told
her daughter on Saturday that she
would soon die Sunday morning she
did not appear, and 1t 9 o'clock men,
Der of the family went to her room to
call her to the breakfast. After knock
ing At the door and receiving no response
the door, which was locked, was forced
open and Mrs. Posey was found on the
bed unconscious. Every effort was
made to restore her. bat she died with
out regaining consciousness. Mrs
Posey was the wife Of The late Adrian
Posey. of Charles county, q soldier in
the war of 1919, and . sister Of Daniel
Wells. who with Henry McComas. was
credited with killing General Ross at
North Point. She was born at Annapo-
lie. where she lived At the time of the
bombardment Of Fort McHenry.