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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-16
OVER a MILLION.
Enormous Debts or tho Falls Bank Of
Louisville. Ky.


LOUISVILLE, Ky, july 1.-THE Falls
City bank has closed it's doors, making
an assignment to the Mechanics Trust
Company. Bad debts and bad manage
ment are responsible. For over six
months the clearing house has been
tiding it over, but it was never able
to recover from the panic of last
December, when the general money
market was SO tight. 1t had a capital
stock of s60o.o9o The liabilities. in
cluding the capital stock, will reach
sl,2oo,00O. The depositors will proba-
bly, be paid i'm full, but the stockholders
will be fortunate if they get 10 per
cent.
The bank has been in tottcring con-
dition for some time. 1t began to
topple last December. but the other
banks, fearful that its failure would
precipitate general crash, came to its
rescue. First the clearing house loaned
it 5000 then month later $50, 900
more. 1t has thus been kept up until
the danger of general panic was avert
cd. The other banks. however, have
s'"ce obtained firm footing and re-
i Gently concluded to withdraw the
props from the Falls City bank. This
was done with the above result.
In 1860 this bank was the victim OF
one of the most sensational robberes in
criminal history. The robbers engaged
IA room overhead and bored through the
walls into the vault, securing $500, 900
| in money and collaterals.
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erabie TIM, aftcrward il was paid of
by the Lucas estate and they got the
stock back
Mr.. Wanamaker also presented tho
committee with letter from John G.
Lucas. dated May %, 1886, inclosing a
check to pay the interest on this loan.
'Of the other unused five blocks OF
stock" said Mr.. WanamalScr, my
impression is that Mr.. Lucas
at first intended to ask for
a larger loan and 50 issued
them. 1t was never used. however. as
it could not have feen without my in-
dorsement know of no other stock,
but ! remember that ten years ago
when Lucas was securing control IF
the bank he came to me and said lie did
not want people to know who certain
stock belonged to. and for a time he
placed some IN my name. In regard
to certificate No. $50. which was trans
ferred by II. II. Yard to Scudder & Dur.
ham, of Trenton, that is a part of the
stock OH which the loan from the Girard
T,,tst Company was secured. and after
the Lucas estate got it back it was very
likely 10 pass over to Yard again to
raise money on"
The fact that some Of the certificates
held us collateral by Irwin & Toland
were dated after Lucas death ho said
was due to the brokers' refusal to
handle them while in dead mans
name. In closing his testimony Mr..
Wanamaker read letters from Comp.
trollcr Lacey and Assistant Secretary
Nettleton to show that he had never
influenced or delayed the appointment
for an instant of receiver for the Key
stone hank
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welcome attentions and Of winning the
bestower's real respect. Few men,
however brazen and lost to shame. can
stand against this steady ignoring of
the hascr part Of their natures, and a
sweet determination to see only re-
spec.ful. pure meaning in all their con-
versation. Just here think | hear
some one murmur, .I,ut they will
think me perfect silly No. they
won't, my dear, for it is these very
creatures who understand so well that
innocence is by no means Ignorance.
nor virtue stupidity. But, grant they
should condemn you as very silly
young woman. is not that a prefera Bile
character to that of bold, coarse
minded girl? And, to put it plainly,
that is just what the knowing made
moiselle is called in secret masculine
councils. Therefore. even il you are
persuaded that life is essentially hol-
low. men false and women cruel, don't
this is the name Of your womanhood
proclaim yonr iaundiced views, for
while your listener may agree with you,
or even more than share these beliefs.
You would be the dearer and the fairer
to him for some of the old-womanly de-
lusions his mother had, and which
found much surviving good in the
world. even though he knew them to
be delusions for all their sweet charity.
st Louis Globe Democrat.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The marriage of Princess Louise. of
Schleswig- Holstein, granddaughter of
Queen Victoria, and PRICE Albert. of
Anhalt, took place in Windsor castle at
London. The queen and Emperor Will
liam, of Germany, were witnesses of
the ceremony.
On the British warship Cordelia, in
Australian waters, gun exploded,
killing two lieutenants and four sea.
men and wounding thirteen other per-
sons.
TIE steamer Kinloch collided with
and sunk the steamer Dunholme off
Dover, Eng, and seventeen of the per-
sons on board the latter were drowned.
In British India much anxiety has
been caused by the discovery that Rus
sian merchants have succeeded in get.
ting foothold in Afghanistan.
LIGHTNING killed farmer and seven
children at Muhldorf, Bavaria.
A cLoUDEuIsr destroyed the village
of Eakterinoslav, Russia, sweeping
away $50 houses and drowning hun.
dreds of people.
In Carlow. Ireland. the Parnell can
didate for parliament was defeated by
vote of ), 155 to 1880.
TEN MILLION people were threatened
with famine in Madras, India, owing
to the partial failure of the monsoon.
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WOMEN AS SMUGGLERS.
The Shameless Manner In Which The
Cheat the Gust toms Officers.

The Shameless Manner In Which They
Cheat the Customs Officers.
Packed snugly away in that wilder.
ness of trunks and boxes are hundreds.
nay, thousands of pretty trifcs, which
it is the painful duty of every man. and
the proud ambition of every woman, to
carry in unscathed and undetected The
frank, shameless delight which wo-
man takes in smuggling has long puz.
zled the male moralist. who, following
the intricacics of the feminine con-
science, can find no satisfactory ex-
plana.ion of this by-path. He can not
bring her to understand why. when she
has purchased and paid for an article.
it should not be hers to take where she
likes, to deal with as she plcases; and a
dozen discourses on political economy
and the laws of nations leave her nn-
shaken in this simple and primitive corr
ception. As the English are said to
argue best in platoons. SO woman
argues best in action: and, while her
husband or brother is proving to her in
the clearest possible fashion that high
protective tariff is blessing to the
land, she is assiduously storing away
embroidered table covers, and silk
stockings, and silver spoons, and tor
toise shell combs, and tiny jeweled
pins, and bits of frail Venetian glass,
| wherever her practiced eye tells her
! they will best escape detection In the
abstract, of course, dear Edwin is right
he always is--but she is far too busy
| with her task to enter into abstra .tions
| just now. Whatever mental subtlety
| she possesses is reserved for much
more important ordeal-that of getting
| clear with clean conscience from the
searching questions of the inspector.
"When am asked If | have any pres
ents always answer no" said devout
church-going woman to me one day,
because do not consider them pres
ants until give tbcM away. "~-Atlantis>
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culLEp FOR WOMEN READERS.

FULLY eight hundred working girls
every week enjoy the benefits OF the
Boston Y. W. c. A. gymnasium.
A LAW has recently been enacted in
France which limits the hours of labor
for women and children and prohibits
their working at night.
ABOUT one hundred women stenog-
raphers and typewriters in New York
city are organizing to improve their
condition professionally.
Four thousand women are employed
in the various government Departments
in Washington. They get good salaries,
have easy hours and do good work.
SENATOR PETERS eldest daughter
has been taught to set type. and his
three other daughters are skilled in
stenography, typewriting and book
keeping.
CLEVER draughtswomen are in de
mand by dry goods houses to make per
and ink sketches of gowns, fur gar
ments and the like. Women are espe
cially adapted to this profession.
OF the two hundred and nineteen B
| As Of London university this year
fifty-two are women. OF the NJ. A.
five out of twenty are mothers daugh
ters, and eight ladies have received de
! grees of Il. Sc, and nine that of NJ. j..
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SOME DESIGNING MISSES.

Successes of Many Young Women In an
Agreeable and Artistic Line Of Work.
Miss Wooley, Of Wilkcsbarra. Pa.
who is pupil of the School of Indus
trial Art, earned 500 in ten weeks from
her carpet designs. Other students
have also met with success in the same
school. Miss Esther Kline. of the same
city, designed a pattern for mating,
sold it to al agent for Japanese firm.
and had the satisfaction of seeing it re-
produced and brought back to this coun-
try to sell. Clara NJ. Heath, a resident
of New York city, had 4 linen design
accepted by firm in Dundee. Scotland
Wall paper patterns designed by Emma
Humphrey, of Waterloo Ia. and Hattie
c. Bickford. of Oshkosh. Wis, have
been reproduced by the local trade and
greatly admired. Helen NJ. Grcenleaf,
Of Evanston. H., found a market for
her delicate floral pattern in Carlsbad.
and hopes to be able to own tea set
one of these fine days of that china with
her own wild roses growing round the
edge These frce-hand drawings give
the students an average of $50 each.
| To be sure. it is uphill work for mcst
of the scholars. For instance, during
the holidays Miss Humphrey sold a de.
| sign for silk and received $50. although
| forced to accept SO a few months be-
| fore for a drawing which she considered
| very tine.-Chicago Post.
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VISITING hOusEKEEPERS.
How some Entcrprising Women Gain
4

How some Entcrprising Women Gain
Livelihood.
Among most occupations for women
may be mentioned the new one of
visiting honsckccpers" among wealthy
families The man of wealth with en-
incara'olc or gay wife. who leaves
household affairs entirely to the Ser
wants 5 prey to the dishonesty Of
'butcli-r, baker and candlestick
maker and generally supports the
relatives of his entire retinue Of servants
besides. But the visiting housekeepcr
steps to the helm of the domestic barge
about nine o'clock in the morning She
inventories the contents of the larder,
expected for the day, makes out her
bills of fare for lunch. dinner and
breakfast the next morning, and goes
to market, watching the butcher while
he gives her the cuts of meat she orders,
and looking well to the ways of the
! grocer and fruit dealer. The market
| ing ordered. she returns to the house
and waits until all the parcels come in.
opening each to sec that it is correct.
and putting all away in appropriate
| places. She orders the coal. attends to
all bills, looks after any needed repair
/ ing about the place, and keeps up the
stock of the linen closet. She usually
remains until after luncheon, if the
house is kept up on large scale, or she
can attend to two families at once il
they live near together. One million
aire, who is paying his visiting house.
keeper 800 month, says he is spend
ing much less money on household cx
| penses than when he did not count hel
salary among them. and has more salts
factory meals and general household
/ comfort. u sun
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WEST AND SOUTH.

TWO INDIANS anu TWO WnlJe men
were killed in an encounter in Mojave
desert, California. An attempt was
being made to arrest the Indians for
burning haystaclss.
AT Baton Rouge, La, cyclone de-
molished one of the penitentiary build
ings. killing ten convicts and injuring
thirty-fivc five fatally. In the city
fifty houses were unroofed and mum.
Der of persons hurt.
TWELVE persons were poisoned at a
picnic at Altus, Ark, four fatally.
ALI. the barbed wire interests of the
country have been merged into trust
to be known as the Columbia Patent
Company.
MOSES BROTHERS bank at Mont
gomery. Ala, suspended payment, with
liabilities of 100000.
In the Missouri river ut Doniphan
point, Kan, i new channel was formed
and several valuable farms were sub
merged.
NEAR Boone, Ia, a heavy rain and
windstorm lodged much of the grain
which was ready to harvest and many
fields of oats were completely ruined.
In the northwest the yield of grain
promises to be without precedent.
THE cyclone at Baton Rouge, La. {,
which did great damage, took an air
line north through the state. and three
negroes and several animals were
killed. Hundreds of houses and barns
were demolished and acres of cotton
and corn destroyed.
ABOUT Cheyenne, Wyo., myriads of
grasshoppers We're devastating the
country. A strip about 10 miles wide
and 10 miles long was completely hid
den from view by the pests.
SEVERAL houses were destroyed. z
negro woman and her child were killed
and several other persons wounded in
a cyclone near Gloster. Miss.
The failure of the Bank of Commerce
of Sheffield, Ala, was reported.
WHILE drunk John Dowd, of Aurora,
Ill.,, fatally wounded his wife with a
hatchet and then stabbed himself to the
heart.
The Banner tobacco warehouse al
Clarksville. Tenn, owned by Merri.
wether & Co., with l,50O hogsheads oi
tobacco, and Draper Bros stable and
twenty-five mules were destroyed by
fire. Total loss, Sls5.000.
AT Newport, H.. J. II. Phillipston
and his son were killed by a passenger
train while crossing the tracks Of the
Big Four road.
DELEGATES to the number of over
1000 from the young peoples societies
of the Baptist churches in all the states
of the union met in Chicago and organ
lied the Baptist Young Peoples union,
CAPT. JOHNSON, his wife and child
were drowned by the capsizing of the
schooner Silver Cloud in Lake Michi-
gan off Port Washington. Wis.
ABE DOWNING. the noted trotter,
with a record of 2:ao*i, died at Waiver.
ly, la. The animal was valued ut $lO,'
900.
Carl. Nj. RoFF was killed by light
ming ut Eastport, Ind. His wife anG
child beside him in bed We're un
harmed.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railway directors say that the grea,
fight of that corporation against the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
cost Sa, ,oeo, 900.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-16

IT may not generally be known that
before the war there was no such flower
rs the daisy in the state of Virginia.
The hardy flower was curiosity. Now
the fields just around Richmond are
white with them. This is especially SO
of the late battiefields about Chicka-
hominy river and wherever the federals
had encampments. An investigation
shows that the seeds of the prolific
daisy were brought there in the bales
of hay brought by the union soldiers
in Virginia when they We're camped
near the city. An old battery west of
Richmond is the spot from which the
daisy began to spread.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-16

HORACE GREELEY once said: The
darkest day in any mans career is the
day when he first seeks to get 4 dollar
in some easier way than by squarely
earning it." This, says the Troy On.
w. Times, is sound doctrine, and cs-
peciaiiy timely in this period of reck-
less speculation, bank wrcclsing and
visionary financial theories. all directed
toward getting gain with the least pos
siblc return therefor
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A COMPANY has been organized in
New York with capital of Sl,000,O
for cultivating farm Of $4,000 acres
in Florida This will to the largest
farm in the world. and on it enough
could be raised to supply the city of
New York with food. The name of
the company is the San Sebastian Land
Improvement, sugar and Investment
Company. The farm lies between the
Indian, San Sebastian and St Johns
rivers, and is drained into the st. Johns.
The farm has muck soil similar to
that in the valley of the Nile. The
company is composed of New York and
Southern capitalists.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-16

MIR. HrLUkULU, one of the ENJOYS of
King Gungunhama, now visiting Eng
land, talked into a phonograph, and
when he presently heard his own
words repeated verbatim he remarked
that it was now no use for him to tell
lies as all his words were recorded.
What pity the monograph cannot be
put into more general use
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-16

THE new constitution for Kentucky
provides that the governor shall be
elected in the odd-numbered years. the
representatives in the even-numbered
years, and that the governor shall be
elected at the same time and place as
the representatives. And now the con-
stitution makers are wondering wheth-
er they have any provision at all for
the election of governor.
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IN one minute and half Pennsyl-
vanian ate twenty-four raw eggs. shells
and all, on wager and an empty
stomach, and is anxious to bet fifty dol
lars he can cat twice rs many in three
minutes. There are some men who
make whole communities tired. If this
man will promise to eat six hundred
eggs at one sitting, the money to pay
for them, together with fifty dollar
bonus. can be raised by public subscrip-
tiOn almost anywhere
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AN autograph letter of Abraham Lin

AN autograph letter of Abraham Lin
coin to a friend is said to contain the
following: 'Do not worry. Eat three
square meals a day. Say your pray
ers Think Of your wife. BE courteous
to your creditors. Keep your digestion
good. Steer clear of biliousness: Ea-
ercise. Go slow and 60 easy. Maybe
there are other reasons that your es-
pecial case requires to make you hap
py. but, my friend, these, l reckon, will
give you good lift
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-07-16

The word sulky, as applied to a
wheeled conveyance, had its origin in
the fact that when it first appeared the
person who saw it considered that none
but sulky. selfish man would ride in
such an affair, which afforded accom-
mediation to but one person.
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LATER.
Killed la u Lt.adsllde.

NANAIMo, Il. c.. July 12.-Thc steam
er Princess Louisa, from Skeena, brings
news of u terrible landslide on the
banks of the Skeena river, resulting in
the death of one woman and about
forty Indians.
On the 7th inst, at &. a. M, those re-
siding near the North Pacific cannery
ut Skcena river heard great rushing
noise in the direction of the high, steep
mountain ut the back of the cannery.
In y moment an avalanche of rocks
and earth and trees was upon the
doomed settlement, carrying every
thing before it into slough close to
the cannery. The occupants of the
buildings, but, before they could escape
from the advancing torrent Of debris,
were caught and carried along ut a
fearful velocity. In all nine houses,
with their occupants, were destroyed,
including the mess house and residence
of the foreman of the cannery.
In the mess room was the young
Swedish wife of the foreman. She was
carried along in the mad and deadly
current. Indians claim that among
those destroyed were about forty ln-
dians of the Port Simpson, Sitka, Met
lakatlah and Kitimat tribes, all of
whom are surely killed.
| A HORRIBLE accident occurred on
the railroad at Aspen junction, Colo.
on the night of the 18th. A train was
backing from the water tank on the
switch to the Aspen track, where a
road engine was run out of the railroad
round house, and the rear end of the
passenger train hit the check valve on
the side of the boiler, which exhausted
the hot steam in the broken end of the
passenger car, scalding thirteen pas
sengcrs-five men, seven women and
one child. The car was thrown from
the track. Seven deaths have already
occurred.
Mrs. KATE WILLIAMS, Houston, Tex,
on the 18th, gave birth to a boy baby
which has full set of teeth. Not
since the days of Richard Ill. has such
q case been heard Of
A NORTHERN PACIFIC train on the
night of the 18th. ran into II landslide
near Missoula, Mont. Two men who
were stealing ride on the trucks were
instantly killed.
WHILE playing base ball at Helena,
Mont, Willie Carrctte fell into an old
shaft and broke his neck.
Mrs. JOSIE ARMSTRONG, colored, died
at Chicago on the l2th, aged ITO years.
THE st. Louis hotel, Duluth, burned
lon the night of the 18th.
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WILLIAM J. LADD, who received from
Harvard this year the degree of bach
elor of arts, was the first union man to
enter Richmond, it is claimed, at the
close of the civil war. He had passed
his entrance examination when that
struggle began. but instead of going
through college he enlisted and made Il
rood record
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Last year 3.174 girl apprentices OPEN
cd accounts with the librarian of the
Society of Mechanics and Trademen.
In the three years of its existence the
night school connected with the society
graduated lis young women. These in
dustrious students are engaged during
the day in various pursuits, as saleswom-
en-. .dressmakers. millincrs, telegraph and
machine operators. clerks. domestics
and factory hands With the instruc-
ton received, all have been placed in
more desirable and profitable positions.
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FROM calculations recently made by
the British board of admiralty, it is
evident that the naval engagements of
the future will be very expensive af-
fairs. 1t was estimated that one YES
sci, carrying two l1o-ton guns, would,
in two ordinary engagements, use up
guns and ammunition to the value of
S65O 600
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DIR. LANEILoSGUE, of Paris, has laid
before the French academy the details
of new treatment for tuberculosis, in
which chloride of zinc is the principal
agent in changing the tissues. DR..
Lanellongue, who has used the treat
ment in his practice, asserts that he
has effected many cures and met no
failures
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LIVERPOOL. is excited over the report
of the registrar general announcing
that her population has decreased thirty
five thousand in the last ten years, and
that she is the only great city in Eng
land showing no growth. The result
of the census is II complete surprise.
The trade of the port has been increas-
ing steadily. shopleepers and middle
n.en have prospered and the working
classes have been well employed.
Moreover, there is no apparent decrease
wards On all sides arises protest
that mistake has been made, and the
registrar general is roundly abused.