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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15


0The committee on Logan monument
made report that there is now an ap-
preparation by congress of $4,000, tho
money to be expended under the direc-
tion Of the secretary of war, the chair
man of the joint committee Of the libra
ry of congress and the chairman of the
Logan statue committee of the army of
the Tennessee. The collections of the
grand army and the society of the Ten
nessee swells this sum to S67,O
The committee on place of next
meeting named st. Louis as the place,
and the president was empowered to
name the day; the orator of that occa-
sion was announced to be Rev. j. M.
Rush, and Gen. Richard M. Oglesby
was named as alternate. These names
elected great cheers. Both reports
were adopted.
The following officers were elected:
President, Gen. G. NJ. Dodge, OF Iowa: re-
cording secretary. Col. c. Cadle. Of Cincinnati;
corresponding secretary, Gen. Andreas Hicken-
looper; treasurer, Gen. M. +. Force, San
dusky, o.; vice presidents, Gen. Wal
ter Q. Gre sham, Chicago; Maj. Samuel
Z. Barrett, Chicago; Gen. G. B. Raum,
D. W. c. Loudon. Ohio; Mai. Charles Chris
tianson, st. Louis; Maj. O. G. Towne, Chicago;
Col. j. u. Macarthur, Buffalo, N. "; Lieut..
II. c. Adams, Minneapolis; Capt. H. A. Castle,
st. Paul: Maj Hoyt Sherman, Des Moines;
Capt r. H. Fleming. Kentucky.
The reunion closed with q banquet
Thursday night OF the Palmer house.
Over 600 persons were seated at the
tables, which were set in the main dim
ing hall. The banquet room
was handsomely decorated. Addresses
were made by Gen. Horace 0. Porter,
Henry Watterson, Judge 4. L. Tut
hill, Hon. James L. Blair Secretary of
War Noble, Charles M. Sherman, Gen.
f. S. Bragg and Col. Augustus Jacob
son. James Whltcomb Riley read an
original poem.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
Distrlbat,on Of tho Peabody Fund.

New York, Oct. S.-Bishop H. p.
Whipple presided at the meeting of tho
Peabody educational fund in the Fifth
avenue hotel Wednesday in the absence
of Robert G. Winthrop Among those
present were cx.Presidents Cleveland
and Hayes. The income from the fund
last year was distributed among schools
in the south as follows: Alabama, S.
3s5; Arkansas, $4,000; Georgia, $4.6s5;
Louisiana, S8,065; North Carolina, So
AT; Tennessee, S3,725; Peabody nor
NAL school in Nashville, $40. 900; Texas,
s., 800; Virginia, $7,a95; West Vlrginis,
8. 900, . total Of $S7, ,4S7.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

CHARLES II. COLEMAN, aged Il, and
Maggie Egan, aged i3, were married
at Shelbyville, Ind. Maggie is the
youngest American wife on record.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE. the well-known
publisher of New York, and Mr..
William c. X. Wilde, of London, Eng,
were married.
JACOB TURNEY, ex-congressman
from the Twenty-first Pennsylvania
district, died at his home in Green's
burg. aged 66 years.
A DAUGHTER was born in New York
to Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Miss ELIZABETH BIsLAND, the rival
of ''Nellie Bly," was married to Charles
w. Wetmore. New York lawyer
CHARLES CARROLL SAWYER died in
Brooklyn in his 57th year. lie COM
posed ''When This Cruel War Is Over, "
WHO viii Care for Mother Now.'
, Mother Would Comfort Me" and sew
eral other war songs.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
ALLERTON The VICTOR.

The Famous Iowa Trotter Defeats Hls
Rival, Nelson, at Grand Rapids, Mich,
for . Purse OF $4,000.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Oct 9.-Nel-
son made the fastest mile. won the
first heat. led in all others to the three
quarter pole, but lacked the staying
qualities. and Allerton won the money.
is the story of the great sl0.0 900 stallion
race. briefly told The event was wit
messed by at least $4,000 people. the
greatest crowd ever assembled on q
Michigan race track.
When the horses appeared il was
plain from the applause that Nelson
was the popular favorite, though Aller-
ton carried the most money. The lat
ter seemed nervous, but they went away
in the first heat quite steady, Nelson
having the pole and setting rapid
pace. The eastern favorite showed q
space of a length or two ahead of his
competitor in the middle half of the
mile, but Allerton closed up on the
homestretch, and they were neck and
neck at $50 yards distance from the
| post, when Allerton made slight
break, and Nelson won by length.
Time at the quarters, 80, l:O54, 1895.
a:13.
The crowd went wild and pools sold
| at even money for q minute, but Aller-
ton faith revived, and five minutes later
the figures were: Allerton, Si25; Nell
son, So. The second heat was a repe-
tition of the first to the three-quarter
pole. Alierton came to the front on
the homestretch and won easily by q
length, Nelson finishing under the
whip, to which he could not respond.
Quarter time, :3al4, loo, l:4l4, 2:l415.
Word was given for the third heat,
with Nelson full length in the lead,
and his driver attempted to have it all
his own way, and did have it until at
the last turn. by wonderful spurt
he took the pole and on the back
stretch showed fully six lengths
ahead. In the last quarter Allerton
closed up and at the distance post
Nelson swerved out and quit His
driver used the whip without effect.
| Allerton came on at terrific speed,
winning by two lengths. Time, :sa4,
l:O5t5. 1:40, o:l5.
In the fourth heat Nelson was not
SO eager to take the pole. They trotted
like q team until they entered the
homestretch, when Allerton forged
ahead and won the heat race and SlO.-
600, Nelson again making tagged
finish under the whip. Time: SEA,
l:071z, 1:4a, 216la.
The huge crowd broke through the
fence and packed the track about Al
lerton and his owner, and to show their
good will hung garlands of blossoms
on the Iowa king until his neck was al
most wholly covered. The summary:
| Nelson. Il
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DATES FROM HISTORY.
Chill was discovered by Spain in Is

CHILL was discovered by Spain in 1878
RHODE ISLAND was granted charter
on March IA, lG44.
MAINE was admitted as state to the
union on March IA, l644.
In TITO. six days after the British
seized the city, fire swept off all the
west side of New York city, from
broadway to the river
THE union flag was first unfurled on
the first of January. l776, over the camp
at Cambridge. 1t had thirteen stripes
Of white and red and retained the Eng
lish cross In one corner.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15

bus i n Z 5 S SeS-
sion in Grand
A r M y h a |,
Honore build
j n r Thurs
d q v morning
g e n NJ. n.
Bane, o t Illi-
n o is, i n t ro-
duced a resolu-
tion urging the
removal of Gen.
& r q n t. s re-
mains to A r
linUfnn nono-
terry at WASH
ington. After
a short discus
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
A FINE MANSION BURNED.
The New York Residence Of the lsel.
mOnts Destroyed by Fire.

NEW York, Oct 9.-Fire that broke
out at II o'clock a. m, destroyed the
five-story brown-stone ansion at
lOl Fifth avenue, owned by Mrs.
Haywood Cutting and occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. August Belmont. MIR.
Belmont was not at home, but his
wife, two children and number OF
servants had narrow escapes from
death. The house wac filed with cost
ly furniture and tapestries The build.
Ing is completely destroyed, and the
loss is estimated at 100000
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
HE'S HAD ENOUGH.
Ex-senator Blair Resigns rs Ministe
China.

Ex-senator Blair Resigns aS Minister to
China.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Ex-Senator
Blair, of New Hampshire, said Thurs
day that his resignation as minister to
China had been accepted. Con-
tinuing, he said: Il liked the idea
of going to China, but when the
Chinese government, influenced by lies,
refused to receive me, l was ready to
retire to private life. want no other
office. The president was willing to
give me an Office of equal dignity to
that to which was first appointed, but
! told him that did not care for anv
thing else"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15

A GUN to fire under water has been
invented and is in course of construc-
ton at Bethlehem, Pa The expert
mental gun is to be 35 feet long and
will throw projectile a5 feet in length.
containing 400 pounds of nitro-gly-
cerinc. 1000 feet through the water.
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LATER NEWS.
A MOb's VENGEANCE

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 9.-This was q
great day here, public sentiment had
been wrought up highly by the execn-
ton of Ed Neal. This tension was
added to when a report became current
that little Lizzie Yates, the five-year-
old victim of lustful assault by Joe
Coe, low disreputablc negro, had
died. Coe was confined in the city jail
but people did not know it. We will
lynch the niggcr" was soon heard on
every side. and it was evident that be-
fore nightfall the days comment would
terminate in ii tragedy. Night came
on with an ominous quiet. Few people
were in the streets. There was no in
timation Of the trouble in sight.
Suddenly about $3.50 clock there
came confused sounds Of tramping and
hurrying along the paved street toward
the county Jail, and in a remarkably
short time the Jail was surrounded.
An attempt to enter the front Of the
Jail failed. The rear was attacked and
notwithstanding the chief of police and
Gov. Boyd urged the mob to desist, the
doors were battered down. The negro
was secured, taken to the street, a
moose adjusted and the rope thrown
over the trolley wire of the electric
line. The negro was hauled up and in
a few minutes was dead.
ED. NEAL, the murderer of Allan and
Dorothy Jones was hanged at Omaha
on the 9th. The murderer's real name
is unknown and on the scaffold he re-
fused to reveal his identity although he
confessed his crime.
Emanuel. CADDEN made fortune at
Wausau, Wis, selling whiskey. Six
months ago he went to Chicago, and
|sreculated on the board of trade. Oct.
9th he was bankrupt and blew his
brains out in Washington Park.
THE National Bank of Enterprise,
Or, was robbed on the 9th. While the
cashier was alone a man entered and
drawing pistol, covered the bank Off
cial. At this juncture, two confcder-
ates came up on horseback, ,'one of them
sitting on his horse with pistol in each
hand and warned the people back, the
other entered the bank and poured into
a sack all the money on the counter,
about IS, 500. The three men then es-
capped to the mountains in the direction
of Cornucopia.
THREE masked men entered the car
barn of the cable railway at Kansas,
City, Mo-, at midnight of the 9th, took
possession of the cashiers Office and
latter recovering about $500 got away.
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ARMY or THE TENNESSEE.

Close OF the Annual Reunion 1T Chicago
Gen. Dodge, Of Iowa, Elected Presi.
dent.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-The Society of the
Army of the Tennessee continued ita
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
Time-2:la 2:l4l.. 2:la. 2:l6l..

A lively a:l7 race was sandwiched in
between the heats of the stallion race,
Harry Noble winning in three straight
heats. Time, 2:17h: 2:17A, 2:l9.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-15
CHICAGO TO GRANT.

Cnvciltng Of the Handsome Statue Of the
Warrior statesman at Lincoln Park
Imposing Parade and Naval DispLly-
Ceremonies at tho Park.
CHICAGO. Oct S.-The great mctropo-
lis of the west suspended the hustle
and activity of its business interests to
do honor to the memory of an Illus
trious citizcn-soldier and statesman.
The magnificent statue erected by the
citizens of Chicago to the immortal
memory Of Ulysses Simpson Grant, arti-
san. citizen-soldier, general, comnan-
der in chief of the armies Of the
United States. and twice elected to the
highest office in the gift Of the people
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
MAKING Riee Pap,r.

The so called rice paper is not made from
rice, as its name implies, but from the snow
white pith Of a small tree belonging to the
genus Aralia, genus represented in the
United States by the common sarsaparilla
and the spikenard. The tree grows in
Formosa, and, 50 far as IS known, nowhere
else. The stems are transported to China,
and there the rice paper is made, which IS
used by native artists for water color draw
ings, or dyed Of various colors and made
into artificial flowers. Mr.. Hosie, in his
Three Years in Western China, !" describes
the process Of making the paper.
was invited to visit a worker in pith
after nightfall Although somewhat sur
prised at the hour named, accepted the
invitation.
On arriving at the house, was ushered
into badly lighted room, where a man
was sitting at a table with his tools in
front OF him. These consisted Of a smooth
stone, about a foot square, and a large
knife or Ratchet with a short wooden han
die. The blade was about a foot long, two
inches broad, aud nearly half an inch thick
at the back. Il was sharp as a razor.
Placing piece Of cylindrical pith on the
stone, and his left hand opathe top, be
rolled the pith backward and forward for
a moment until he got it into the required
position. Then, seizing the knife with his |
right hand, he held the edge Of the blade, /
after a feint or two, close to the pith, which 1
he kept rolling to the left with his left |
hand until nothing remained to unrolld
for the pith had by the application Of the
knife, been pared into asquare white sheet
If uniform thickness. All that remained
70 be done was to square the edges.
If the reader viii roll up sheet Of paper,
ay it on a table, place the left hand on top,
md gently unroll it to the left, he viii have
good idea Of how the feat was accom-
,lished.
It seemed so easy that / determined to
ave trial. Posing as a professional
yorker, I succeeded in hacking the pith
nd nearly maiming myself
A steady hand and keen eye are re
uired for The work, and hence it is that
he so called rice paper is manufactured
My at night, when the city is asleep and
he makers are not liable to be disturbed.
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
Tnttno nTnrI,s Irren,nrnble-

1t has often been claimed that tattoC
marks may be removed by pricl1ing ovel
them goats milk. This is a mistaken
idea. Chemists and others have for years
experimental with various preparations
in the hope Of discovering some agent to
wholly remove india ink marks from the
human skin. Nothing, however, has as
yet been found that will remove a por-
tion even Of the Objectionable marks. un-
less, possibly, the attempt be made i'm
mediately following the tattooing proc
ess. At Mount Washington University
hospital, Baltimore, an experiment was
some years ago made in the presence of
the writer upon the forearm Of a noted
character Of that city who died there.
Before his death the man granted per-
mission to the students of the university
to experiment as they saw fit with his
dead body. One of these students, curl
Gus to learn everything possible connect
ed with the practice of t2ttooing, cut
from the dead mans arm a strip Of skin
upon which coat Of arms appeared. Be /
meath the skin the design remained visi. |
bic, by degrees the flesh was removed, !
the design in india ink still remaining in /
ight until finally the bone was reached. 1
After thorough sponging for the pur-
pose of removing the blood and pieces Of
iesh remaining, 1t was found that the
representation still appeared. After cut
ing away small section Of the bone the
ndia ink mark was found to have not
,enetrated beyond. Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
Abstract Numbers.

1t is not easy for children to conceive
Of numbers apart from sensible objects.
For this reason our elementary books in
arithmetic present pictures Of the articles
named. The child learns to add and
subtract simply by counting. Such a
practice has its place IN instruction, but
is apt to be encouraged too far. The re-
suit is the ridiculous habit Of counting
ones fingers in the work Of arithmetic.
The Wallachian peasant is said to per-
form all multiplications above four times
four by this method. It is evident from
the word which we use for the several
figures, digit, that they originally repre-
sented so many fingers.
The circumstance affords reason for
the decimal system of counting. The
highest number that could be expressed
by show CT fingers was ten. We know
that an early system Of counting was by
hves, or by the single hand. Perhaps
our duodecimal system Of counting by
twelve, or the dozen, grew ont Of the
practice of counting the two hands to-
gether with the ten fingers.
The score, or twenty, was a primitive
Of fingers and toes. 1t came
into use at a time when people went
barefoot. The French use this method |
in forming their tens; four twenties is /
French for eighty. The word "score" /
came from the practice of notching a
stick when one had counted to twenty.
In the Maya dialects of Central America
.he word for twenty is the same as for
nan. 1t represented his value in mathe-
natical calculations.-Youths' Compan-
on
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
Cats Enjoy Fun.

The spOrtiyeness. of kittens is exuber-
ant and makes them the most delightful
Of pets. Lindsay remark is superauous.
except that it has to be made for the
formal completeness OF his treatise that
dogs and cats take part in the fun and
frolic-sOmetimes rough and boisterous
enough-Of their child playfellows. They
give every evidence, in fact, that such
fun and frolio are the most enjoyed
features Of that period Of their lives. As
the animal natures it becomes more
sedate, and even assumes meditative
air, but the taste for sport does not die
out till infrmity begins to wear upon it.
A cat mentioned in The Animal
World would allow itself to be rolled up
or swung about in a tablecloth. and
seemed to enjoy the fun, and Woods
dignifed Pusset would let his friends do
anything they pleased with him-lift
him up by any part Of the body, toss
him In the air from one to another, use
him as a footstool, boa or pillow, make |
him jump over their hands or leap on
their shoulders, or walk along their ex-
ended arms with perfect complacency.
At the same time he was keenly sensi- |
i've to ridicule, and if laughed at would 1
walk off with every manifestation Of Of
ended dignity.-W. H. Larrabee in
Popular Science.
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
Spontaneous Combustion of the Body.

spontaneous combustion OF the Body.
The following taken from the memoirs
of Bianchini, originally appeared in The
Annual Register and is concerning tie re-
markable case Of combustion of the body
Of the Countess Bandi, OF the city Of Ce-
sena, Italy. One evening the countess felt
an unusual drowsiness and retired early.
her maid remaining with her until she had
fallen asleep Next morning when the
girl called to awaken her mistress she
found nothing but the charred remains of
the countess lying in heap in the middle
of the floor; the uneonsumed portions
feet, legs, hands and fingers-still glowing
with clear white heat.
In the center of the heap lay the head
the brain and chin being consumed. the
posterior portion of the Uranium, with the
parts above mentioned, being all that was
left Of the lady except a small heap of
ashes. Two tallow candles that had been
blown out and left on the table were found
to be melted, the wicks remaining, which
clearly proved that they had not been con
sumed in the regular way. Nothing in the
apartment had been injured in the least by
the remarkable case Of combustion that
had taken place within its walls, but ev-
erything-furniture, tapestry, bedclothes, !
etc.-was literally covered with a peculiar |
damp, sootlike substance which had even
penetrated the drawers Of bureaus and
soiled the linen.
Articles in a dining room adjoining were
also coated with the Shiny SCOT, piece OF (
bread in a cupboard being turned a Jet
black on account OF it. This was given to
2 stray dog, but was refused as if it had
been poison. The Register adds that while
he countess was not addicted to the use of
strong drink, she had for years been accus-
omed to daily bathe her body in campho-
'ated spirits Of wine,
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
Good Form in England.

A word about the etiquette of calls and
cards. In England it would be the worst
possible form for a gentleman to call on an
unmarried lady and ask the servant il she
is at home. He must always ask for the
mother only. A gentleman is never asked
TO ''call again soon," " but he is told, II hope
we shall see a good deal of you" In Eng
land Icards are left only when the person
called on is out. They are never. sent in
before the caller if the person called on is
at home. For husband and wife to have
both names on one card, as "Alr. and Mrs.
Jones'" is very bad form. So it is for
unmarried ladies' to have separate visiting
cards of their own. Their names should
be engraved under the names of their
mother or Of some other married female
relation.
In England ones address should always
be on ones card, in smaller letters, in the
right lower corner. We might enumerate
a thousand other peculiarities, but we have
cited enough to show that an American
citizen could not easily acquire what in
England is called good form" without an
expenditure Of time that could be put to a
better purpose.-New York Ledger.
Milford chronicle., 1891-02-06
The Anthor md LIZ 1York.

That the author is easily led to betray
excessive interest in himself is a fact due
in a great measure to the peculiar condi-
tions upon which his artistic success de
pends. Every piece of his work is the
product Of a mind that should be, from
first to last, completely absorbed in its
creation. He cannot, like the painter. or
ct sculptor, summon and dismiss his
see stsl at viii, with the certainty Of re-
covering at a moments notice the desired
pose.
His models are continually on the
move; each one, to be convincing, must
not only shine with the light Of varied
circumstance, but must also show cause
for existence by effect upon the others;
since the interest Of a story flags the in.
stant its characters are at a standstill
As natural consequence their creator
carries them always with him, really
most alert in their behalf when he seems
to be most inactive.
At home and abroad he is ever playing
his game Of chess whereof the pawns
are men, with no board to guide him
but that mysterious one traced upon the
table Of his brain. All he sees and hears
contributes its mite to the source of sug-
gestion from which he draws, and by his |
skill in the drawing his power is deter
mined. Intricate problems force them
selves upon him, to be solved with the /
incest discrimination out of his own ex-
With him eternal vigilance is
.he price of victory. of View in
sgribner's