The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-23
Epitome of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 18th was: Wheat,
t1,sO5, ss7 bushels: corn, 1864, ACT BUSH
els: oats, 4,563,3l0.
THE total value of the exports of
breadstuffs for the month of June was
sl3, 1879. 494
DURING the month of June the total
value of exports of beef and hog prod
ucts from the United States was Sc, 944.-
7s3
The money in the vaults Of the treas
ury has been counted on the transfer Of
the Office of treasurer from Mr.. Huston
to Mr.. Nebecker. 1t began April 81 and
involved the actual handling and count
ing piece by piece of s614,511, ,5s2 80.
Every cent called for by the books was
accounted for.
THE report that English capitalists
have secured control Of all the glucose
factories of the United States is denied.
A BULLETIN from the census office on
the subject of paupers in almshouses in
1890 in America shows a total of 73,Ol5,
as against 66, 2O3 in 1880.
THE EAST.
SECRETARY BLAINE said at Bar Har-
Dor, Me-, that the sensational reports
about his health sent to the press all
over the country were false, that he
was not sick man, and that a slight
illness caused by overwork had been
magnified into something serious.
In 1861 w. r. Crozier went from But
Ter, Pa, to the war and was never
heard from afterwards. Now he has
appeared very unexpectedly in Butler
and claims his property. Crozier re-
fused toexplain his prolonged absence.
AT Niagara Falls an unknown, fine
appearing gentleman about go years of
age jumped over the falls.
THE firm of f. C. Stark & Co., bank
ers at Oneida, n. Y. made an assign
ment. with liabilities estimated at
$40, 900.
THE failure of r. NJ. Bingham & Co.,
of Rome, N. Y, manufacturers of car
riages, with liabilities Of S325, 900 was
reported.
DYNAMITE cartridges in the hold of
the steamship &. r. Booth exploded at
Brooklyn, killing two men and fatally
injuring four others.
In self-defcnse Policeman Ryerson
fatally shot William Brennan and his
wife in their home in Jersey City, n. j.
The gas tank of the Municipal Gas
Company in Rochester, N. Y, holding
500. 900 cubic feet of gas, exploded,
causing two deaths and great havoc.
FIRE destroyed Bent Bros carriage
works and five stores at Pittsfeld,
Mass, the loss being Sl00,0O0
For no known cause Thomas Vachon,
aged 26 years, shot and fatally wounded
Mrs. Nora Landry at Gardiner, Me-,
and then committed suicide.
Miss LOUISE SHEPARD, a converted
society belle. offered the rings from her
fingers to aid in mission work at the
Round Lake meeting of the New York
Christian alliance. Her example was
followed by the congregation until the
collection aggregated $l.5
FIRE destroyed the pulp mill owned
by the Shawmut Fiber Company at
Shawmut, Me. Loss, S250.OOO
FLAMES in the carpet mills of John
W. Priestly in Philadelphia caused a
loss of $3.50, 900.
LIGHTNING struck the residence Of 8.
S. Kelly at Union City, Pa, and Mr..
Kelly and his son Willis, aged 20 years,
were killed.
In the White Hills Conn., school dis.
trict not child has been born in nine
years. The population Of the district is
500.
In one day five persons living in the
same house at Braddock, Pa, were in
jurcd in different ways SO seriously that
all died.
OWING to sorrow the mother of Jen-
mic Cramer. who was SO mysteriously
murdered at New Haven, Conn, ten
years ago. committed suicide at her
home by hanging.
KATE and Mary McGowan, two sis
ters aged Is and 20 years respectively,
were drowned in the Susquehanna
river at Pittston, Pa.