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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
Petit Jury, District Court, Howard

Petit Jury, District Court, Howard
county, June term, 1891:
A. NJ. Jewett, jamestown.
J. F. Pitzinowsky, New Oregon.
Frank Guyette, Paris.
John Ludwig, Albion.
w. + Laidlaw, Vernon Springs.
Robert Locke, Jr., Howard.
E. w. johnson, vernon Springs.
G.. 8. Gill, {" !"
James Irwin, Alton.
w. J. Lean, Forest City.
John Klingle, Paris.
w. +. Hoyt, Alton.
VIM. Michel, Albion.
H. A. Taft, Howard Center.
For Petit Jurors, District Court.
March term, 1891.
J. q. Glass, Vernon Springs.
A. J. Norton, " /"
VIM. Kellow. Jr. . :.
J. H. Jones, Forest City.
III. II. Wells, . i"
w. E. Roche, Alton.
g. N. Plummer, Chester.
James Birmingham, Paris.
Aaron st. John, jamestown.
Isaac Layman, Oak Dale.
John Mintey, New Oregon.
Fred Woellstein, :. 1"
Jos. Glass, /"
Michael Collins, Howard.
W.sK. Howe, Albion.
Grand Jurors for District Court
March term, 1891:
G. n. Quimby, Alton.
James Flaherty, Paris.
H. J. Turnkey, Howard,
Tracy Smith, Chester.
d. 8. Edmister, New Oregon.
A. H. Caward, Vernon Springs.
L. J. johnson, Forest City.
Carl Prinz, Howard Center.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
! Mortgage notes in judgment
Jan. l, 1891.
$4,000

Mortgage notes in judgment
Jan. /, 1891. $4,000
Jan. /, 1891, ~ slosss.4o
TEMPORARY SCHOOL FUND.
Amount on hand Jan. /, 1891, $2l84.1O
Interest collected since to
Jan. /, 1891, $3977.O1
Total on hand Jan. l, 1890,
and collected since, &6161.11
Transferred to the April,
1890, apportionment, $781.W
Transferred to the Sept, 1890
apportionment, S78l .O5
Transferred to State revenue, $870.28
Balance on hand Jan. /, 1891, $3728.73
further submit for your considera-
ton statement OF the expenses Of How
ard county, Iowa, for the year 1880, AS
per warrants drawn on the county Treas
urer.
REHABILITATION OF EXPENSES OF HOWARD
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-29
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF HOWARD
COUNTY, IOWA.

January Session. 1891.
Continued from last week.
SEVENTH DAY.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
The Gambling Prince.

The revelations in reference to the pri-
vate life of the Prince Of Wales made in
the baccarat case are apparently new to
great number Of the English people,
though, singularly enough, on this side Of
the Atlantic the reputation of the Prince
as gambler and reckless person has not
been a secret. AS the coming sovereign
by right Of inheritance of a great empire,
his power for good as an exemplar, a man
of uprightness and honor of Christian life
and experience, would exert most power
full influence upon the English nation. AS
a gambler, a visitor at the race-tracks, an
associate Of the demi-naonde, and a partici-
pator in scenes of revelry his influence,
great as 1t is, is exerted althogether in an
evil direction, and 1t Is no doubt this fact
ed to the just and general censure Of his
conduct.
After all, however, in the ultimate
analysis Of the thing, is there not a logical
argument in the case to demonstrate that
there should be in this progressive age,
no longer an established right for any
family, whether it be of royal or of COM
mon blood to rule the people? When royal
blood produces evil fruits it offers the best
and most convincing argument In favor Of
a republican form Of government, by
which the people shall choose their leaders
and make the pathway Of capacity and In
tegrity the only royal road to preferment.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
THE KING OF SPAIN.
An Ancient Spanish Custom Still Observed
by the Queen.

An Ancient Spanish Custom Still Observed
by the Queen.
The little king of Spain is very frank
and unrestrained in his expression of
opinions, and sometimes makes per-
sonal remarks about his subjects Of a
sort seldom INDUCED in by older and
more diplomatic kings. He is very mis-
chievous, but his attendants, in keeping
him out of scrapes, have to take great
care not to impair the dignity of his
most Catholic majesty Harper's
Weekly, from which this sketch Is
taken, says that u footman who put out
his arms and caught the king one day
when the little fellow trippcd. and was
about to fall headlong downstairs, was
dismissed from his post for having
dared to touch, with his plebcian hands,
the royal person. True, the queen re-
warded the man with a large sum OF
money, and gave him another situation,
but even she could not retain him in the
household.
On Good Friday, according to a Gus
tom which has prevailed in Spain since
the sixteenth century, seven criminals
received pardon. AS soon as vespers
were over in the chapel of the royal
palace, the cardinal archbishop of To-
ledo stepped down from the high altar,
and approached q table on which were
laid seven rolls of parchment.
Each roll contained the full pardon
of a prisoner lying under sentence OF
death, and had, few hours previously,
received the regents signature. Placing
his hand on these rolls, according to
custom, the chaplain asked the queen:
Sonora, does your majesty grant
pardon to these criminals?"
With a tender glance at the little boy,
whose hand she held, she replied:
''In the name Of the king, my son, I
pardon these persons, as look to Sod
to grant His pardon and mercy to us.
Amen"
The rolls were then placed on the
high altar, and, after a prayer and ben
ediction, delivered to the minister OF
Justice.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
PRINCE GEORGE OF GREECE.

Prince George is giant in stature and
! like all big creatures, both human and
animal, he is exceedingly cheerful, good
tempered and open-hearted. When he
starts to arise from his chair it appears as
| II he would never get through rising. He
carries with him a most extraordinary
walking stick with which. according to his
| own modest account he trapped" the
would-be assassin Of the Czarevitch on the
| head at Kroto, in Japan. Indeed, had it
not been for the timely and plucky inter-
vention of Prince George, by telling the
armed assassin of his cousin to the ground
with his cane, the Emperor and Empress
of Russia would have had to mourn the
loss of their eldest son. The stick in ques-
ton is familiar object to the members
of the Russian, Danish and Grecian
courts. 1t is of absolutely gigan-
tic size and weight, bears a striking
analogy to the traditional weaver
beam stag of Goliath, and was cut
especially for the Prince in the woods
around Poros. 1t Is for all the world like
one of those monstrous canes, or rather
clubs, which walking-stick and umbrella
dealers display in front Of their stores for
purposes Of advertisement This most ex-
travagant-looking stick was the despair
of Prince Georges family and attendants,
who repeatedly urged him to abandon it
for less gigantic and less conspicuous
article. This, however, Prince George alb
solutely refused to do, and even when in
the act of bidding adieu to his father be-
fore his departure for the far East with
his Russian cousin, he laughingly refused
to leave it behind him, declaring that 1t
was his mascot.
And SO indeed it has proven to be, for
the most extraordinary honors are await
| ing the young Prince in Russia on his re-
turn to Europe. Both the Gar and the
people are determined to show their graft
tude to the lad for saving the young Grand
Dukes life, and there is every probability
that before the year expires the midship-
mite of yesterday, the lieutenant Of to-day,
will find himself full-blown admiral Of
the Imperial Russian fleet.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
INVOLUNTARY HOMAGE.
Beauty the Cause of Many Man
Downfall.

Beauty the Cause of Many Mans
Downfall.
It Is one of the penalties, or, as some
would say, one of the rewards, of
beauty, that everyone wishes to look at
1t. There are times, however, when
even the love of the beautiful must be
held in check. The New York Sun de-
scribes an occurrence in Nassau street,
by which four prosperous citizens Of
the metropolis learned this lesson, one
day last winter, in a sudden and strik-
ing manner.
A group of three unusually pretty
young women were walking along the
sidewalk. Such attractive visitors are
not very numerous in this sordid quar-
ter of the town, and the girls found
themselves the objects of a good deal Of
attention from the hurrying throng of
bankers, brokers and clerks.
In front of one block the stone flag
ging had been worn very smooth, and
the messenger boys had made several
highly slippery slides upon the thin Gov
ering of ice. Still the spots could be
easily avoided if a man had his eyes
open, and the walk was safe enough
until the three pretty girls came along.
NN-e VAN
their passing, no less than four men
went sprawling to the ground.
Three of the victims were walking
toward the young women, and in turn
went fiat in the path before them. The
fourth man had passed them, and rash
ly turned his head to look back. He
was greatly demoralized. He was an
old man, apparently retired banker,
lirrnifa1 IN, Sc
tall hat went into the gutter, and an
amazing shifting of his scalp-loclz be-
trayed the fact that his thin iron-gray
hair was not natural growth.
The girls seemed not to understand
the significance of the accidents until
the third man went down. When they
realized that all this abject but unvol-
untary homage was being paid to them,
they almost lost their own footing, and
when the fourth gentleman went down
they could no longer control themselves,
but buried their noses in their muffs
and fastened across the street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
HEIRS I'd MILLIONS FOUND IN POVERTY.
Magnificent Scottish Estate now
Claimed bH q New York Woman.

A Magnificent Scottish Estate now
Claimed by New York Woman.
The broad acres Of the Earl of Airlie In
Scotland are claimed by New York wom-
an, who says that she alone Is the rightful
heir and that the Earl's ancestors who
have occupied the estate for the last one
hundred years, are no better than squat
ters. To support this claim she brings for
ward a genealogy that traces her descent
back several hundred years, to the earliest
records Of Scottish history, and adduces q
great deal Of other evidence, documentary
and otherwise. From this she has put to-
gether story of great romantic interest.
For several years Scotch lawyers have
been advertising in this country for q
certain John Wilson, supposed to be heir
to great property. Mrs. Belle Callag-
han, of New York, says that she is the
daughter of this John Wilson and that
the property is the vast Airlie estate The
John Wilson who Is Mrs. Callaghan's
father is still living, but. by a peculiar
deed, he is ruled out of the line of success
sion in favor of the female descendants Of
the house, and Mrs. Callaghan contends
that she Is the only female descendant.
Wilson Is sort Of hermit or recluse
with home in the heart of the Adiron-
dacks, where he has led a secluded life for
years. He supports his daughters
claim, and has furnished the genealogy
and much of the other testimony. At his
advice law firm Of New York, has been
them has now gone to Scotland for that
purpose.
A reporter called on the Airlie heiress at
her home the other afternoon. The house
is one of a long row of three story bricks
looking out upon bustling manufactures
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
AN AGREEABLE EMPRESS.

Her Royal Majesty of Austria Accommo-
dates Poor Woman.
The celebrated DR.. Metzger, of Am
sterdam. who last year successfully
treated the empress of Austria, has only
one waiting-room for all his patients,
whatever their rank or condition, says
La Bon Messenger. Each has to wait
his turn. Some time ago a poor woman,
who happened to be there, turned to
her neighbor, lady of distinguished
appearance, Notwithstanding the sim
plicity of her attire, aud said:
How long have we to wait, to be
sure! dare say you have got little
child at home. too?"
''No.'
but when you get back, you will
have to sweep out your rooms?"
No, 1 have folks who do that for
me-"
'1ndeed9 But you'll want to get din
ner ready?"
"Not even that, for l dine at the
hotel"
Very well, as you have nothing par
ticular to do, you might let me have
your turn?"
VERY willingly" replied the lady,
who was the empress of Austria.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03

A we1l-known Massachusetts, judge,
when at the bar, once obtained the ac-
qpittal of client charged with selling
liquor on Sunday by the following ad-
dress to the jury: "Gentlemen of the
jary, you have heard the evidence that
my client had a pint bottle full of
whisky, from which he sold drink at
eleven o'clock on Sunday morning-at
eleven o'clock Sunday morning, gentle
men Of the jury, a bottle full of whis-
ky-which he must have purchased over
night and had in his possession until
eleven o'clock in the morning. Now,
gentlemen, look at my client; there he
sits. Can you say on your oaths that
such a poor, miserable, ragged, besot-
ted, low down wretch as that could keep
n bottle full Of whisky from midnight
Saturday until eleven o'clock Sunday
morning?"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
er, Manhattan Athletic

certain t ha t O. A. J. QUEoKBERNER.
Queckberner's throw would have been bet
ter than the record. The Irish champion,
w. j. Barry. had his revenge over the
American Queckberner, in the shot put
ting contest. The Milesian hurled the
sixteen pound piece Of iron 40 feet inches.
Queckberner did 81 feet 10 inches.
The quarter-mile run contained the
names of five Americans. Remington won
the first heat in 81 4-5s. He also captured
the final heat in SIS, cantering away from
his antagonists. Roddy did not get q
place. Remington was dubbed Lon Myers
pupil, because he appeared to be so much
like the ex-champion American.
In the remainder Of the events the Amer
leans were defeated, but they were COM
peting under adverse conditions and be-
fore they were thoroughly recovered from
the effects of their Atlantic trip. On July
L. the Americans compete with the French
Athletes in the games Of the Racing Club
Ia the Bots de Boulogne. They will sail
for home on July 10.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
He Got His Dollar.

strapping young man sat in the Erie
depot, across the Hudson, the other day
waiting for his train. He had twelve
6cythe-Stones in a bundle on his right
hand, and a cuckoo clock in a box on his
left. AS he was looking around the wait
lng-room he gave a sudden start. Then
he started some more. Then he rose up
and walked over to flashily dressed man
about forty years old, whom any one would
have spotted as fakir, and asked:
Don't you travel around with tooth
POWDER"
No, SIR" was the sharp reply.
Wasn't you upin Elizabeth last Fall2''
mo, sirp'
Yes you was, and I'll bet on it! You
are The same burned fellow, and 1 know
itr'
Sir! What does this mean p' demanded
the other.
" 1t means that was in Elizabeth last
Fall and bought box of your tooth pow
der. You changed a five-dollar bill, and
darn my hide if you didn't hornswaggle
me out Of a dollar!'
"Sirp
mo use, old fellow! 1 knowed ye the
mint 1 got eyes on We. Same big dia-
mond pin-same red neck tie-same nose
bumped up in the middle like circus
camel 1 want that dollar!"
This is outrageous! I'll call a police
man2" shouted the fakir
"Call and be burned to we, but I'll lick
we first! You either come down with that
dollar or I'll wallop we till we can't holler p
Look here!" replied the other in much
milder tones, you are mistaken. 1t was
my cousin who was in Elizabeth. He is
dead now"
Then I'll take it out of your
HE is dead, as 1 remarked, and rather
than have any blot restin g on his fair es-
cutcheon will pay you the dollar"
That's all right! don't know anythin g
about 'scutcheons, but I've got to have
that dollar or pull hair! I've been lookin
for your hump-backed nose all over the
face :of the earth. And I've laid awake
nights thinkin' how'd make we boiler like
an Injun if I ever got my paws on YEP
He was given dollar, and the fakir dis
appeared at once and the young man ex-
planned to those about him:
I'm almost sorry he give up so soon,
was just achin' clean down to my toes to
lick him all over a forty acre lot!'-M
Quad in N. Y. World.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03

THE German imperial bureau of work
ingmen's insurance against accidents
has lately issued its report covering the
year 1890. In the course of that year
there were 200, 439 accidents to working
men under the operation of the insur-
ance laws, and in the cases of AZ, 206 of
these an indemnity was paid. Of the
total accidents calling for indemnity.
1929 caused death, 2,700 entire disabili-
ty, 81 ,674 permanent partial incapaci-
ty, and II, 913 temporary incapacity.
The indemnity paid amounted, all told,
to 49, 91 1894 marks, as against, II ,464,
3O3 paid in 1889, 9,6S1 ,449 i'll 1888 and
5,932, $50 in 1887. This steady increase
is mostly due to the extension of the in
surance legislation year by year, so as to
embrace new trades and industries.
Still, it appears that even within the
limits of the same trade the accidents
are much more numerous than former
ly, and complaints are made in the re-
port of the too frequent cases of pre-
tended injuries"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03

Queer world! Queer peoplei Here are
men and women by thousands suffering
from all sorts of diseases, bearing all
manners of pain, spending their ali on
physicians and getting no better, but
rather worse" when right at hand
there's a remedy which says it can help
them because it's helped thousands like
them. Another patent medicine ad-
vertisement you say. Yes-but not of
the ordinary sort. The medicine is DR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
its different from the ordinary nostrums
in this
1t does what it claims to do, or it costs
you nothing!
The way is this: You pay your drug
GIT 81. 90 for bottle. You read the d.
56tions and you follow them. You get
better, or you don't. If you do, yon buy
another bottle, and perhaps another. II
you don't get better, you get your money
back. And the queer thing is that SO
many people are willing to be sick when
the remedy's so near at hana.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03

PUTNAM, Conn, July S.-Messrs. Thos.
A. Painter of Columbia College and
Stanley Hayes Of Yale, have left for Peru
plaster casts, ETC., of some ancient mon
umsnt and other antiquities. They will
send these casts and pictures to the
Peabody Museum at Harvard, where
they will be arranged and set up, and
then sent to Chicago for use at the
Worlds Fair. These gentlemen have
been sent to Peru at the instance Of Mai.
William s. Bssbe, recently appointed by
Harvard College to take charge of the
archaeological exhibits at the Chicago
Exposition.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
Several Good Reasons.

Why did not the lions eat Daniel?"
asked the Sunday school teacher.
And Tommy, Johnny, Sammy, Bobby
and Dick answered all at once:
Cause DanI had been eatin onions"
They didn't eat him cause the Bible
says they didn't"
"'Cause it was Friday, reckon"
"Danl was cigarette-smoker."
cause he said entity biddy-bee, entity
biddy-by, patty patty gooiy, you stay
right there, bgum !! and the lions couldn' t
move: Daniel was the boss sleight-o' hand
man-thats what he was, you bet!-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03
SEDGWICK,
lis Bank st, and 1o4 So. Main st

The store No 03 Bank street (now 115)
which l have occupied for the past six
wears being too limited to accommodate
the steady increase of trade, necessitated
more com inolious quarters, consequently
have leased for term OF years the store
directly in the rear (Meigs' new block and
running to South Main street, and have
Just completed an addition connecting the
two stores. mukiugi it one continuous room
extending from Bank to South Main
street, with an entrance on both streets.
The new store in Meigs' block has been
nicely fitted and furnished, making it the
most elegant Fine Tailoring parlors in
New England, and will be used exclusive
" AS a Custom Department.
The front store has been extensively inn
proved and will be occupied as Mems
Furnishing Department, making two dis
tinct departments and making each de-
partment attractive and roomy.
The Mems Furnishing department is now
overlooking with all the novelties of the
season The goods are Fresh, New, De-
sirable and Cheap, and as an especial in
ducement for those who desire Fancy
Shirt for spring 1 am offering Cluett q
Ooon's Crown Monarch Shirts which have
always been sold for $1.50At 95cents.
The Custom Department as usual is
stocked with more extensive and elaborate
line than any tailoring establishment in
Conn, consisting of all the latest and most
desirable Suitings, Overcoatings and
Trouserings the market affords, (My trous
erings are unusually ine) and no effort
will be spared to please. The garments
will be turned out in the most approved
style, and made by the most skilled work
men.
The public are invited to call and look
at my mammoth stock and beautiful store.
1t will be pleasure to show you.
Entrance lis Bank st, formerly 93) and
1O4 South Main St. Respectfully,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03

MRS. BELLA CALLAGAAN alone, had made a
hasty toilet. Her willowy daughter,
Grace, was arrayed in a white calico, with
sleeves rolled high up. She was dressmak-
making amid this turmoil. Belle Callaghan,
granddaughter. fourth of that name, and
aged four. wore no outer garment over her
small petticoat.
YES" said the heiress leaning back in
her chair, II am the only daughter Of
John Wilson, and the Scottish estate be-
longs rightfully to me. My father has six
sons all born in Scotland. was born
here just after he came to America, forty
eight years ago. But let me show you the
papers"
She got them from the top of a tall
grandfather's clock, the family safe.
Mrs. Callahan is typical west side New
Yorker. She is still proposing, even
though grandmother. AS Bella Wilson
she was a belle of the Sixteenth ward in
her glrlish days. and her marriage with
Callahan was an event over there. Now
her figure Is slight and her features some
what sharp. Her iron gray hair is coiled
over her head in a fashion of thirty years
ago. There is not trace of the Scottish
accent in her talk.
The papers were the family genealogy
already quoted from. The hermit made
up the record sixteen years ago.
Old John Wilson the Hermit was inter-
viewed in his Adirondack hut. In answer
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-07-03

THE announcement from the census
office that Alabama has passed Pennsyl-
vania as an iron producing state is only
another one of many signs that the civil
war is about over. And if this sort of
thing goes on much longer at the south,
Pennsylvania may even be convinced of
the expediency of lowering the war
taxes