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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

The movement in favor Of Roman In
stead Of Gothic type Is rapidly gaining
ground in Germany, notes the Chicago
Herald. Many medical and scientific
periodicals are printed in Roman charac.
tors
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

The works of Thackeray are said to
sell more largely at the booksellers and
to be in greater demand at the libraries
now than ever before.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

; The United States is the first nation in
the worlds history to have three cities of
over mtllion each.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18

Says the New York Herald! "Oopies
of the Government weather chart were
issued yesterday to the Normal College,
the College of the City of New York and
to fifteen grammar schools, in order that
pupils in the schools of this city should
receive some general instructions in mete-
orology. The idea is good one, and it
should be adopted in the public schools of
all cities where daily weather charts are
'ssued by the Government Weather
Bureau. For all students of geography
nd physical geography a knowledge OF
tmospheric laws and movements is in
iispensable. But this knowledge can be
btained only in vague and fragmentary
say without the use of charts showing
ha actual daily progress of cyclones and
elopes aoross the continent, and
~ QYer the adjacent oceans"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-11-18
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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
NOTES OF INTEREST.

1T is said that the best designers OF
book-covers in the United States are
women. The finest work done for the
leading publishers comes from them.
Miss ANNIE Il. OsGooD, of Augusta.
Me-, has been appointed registrar of
deeds, to succeed her dead father. whose
assistant she was for number of
years.
A NEW industry for females has lately
come into public notice. They go from
house to house among the wealthy
classes, supplied with spirits Of am
monia. and other detergcnts. and solicit
employment to remove stains from
costly garments.
AN interesting foreign appointment is
that of Miss Xavier, formerly instructor
of Spanish in Wellesley College, to the
secrctaryship Of the French and Spanish
consulate. Miss Xavier is mistress of
the French. Spanish, Italian, German
and English languages, and is the first
of her sex to receive an official position
of this sort.
An education union for working girls
has recently been organized at Vienna.
Literature, physiology, French. vocal
music ana other branches are taught,
and one evening of each week is devoted
to social pleasures. The new move
ment is attracting considerable atten.
ton, and there are already three hun.
dred members
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FIFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
Second E4.1Ainn.


MONDAY, March 2.-Among the bills
passed in the senate were the postal
subsidy. the post Office appropriation,
the meat inspection, the agricultural
college and several public building
bills. In the house senate bills were
passed granting a pension of $500 a
year to the widow of Admiral Porter
and 500 month to the widow of Gen.
Fitzpatrick: for a public building at
Saginaw, Mich, and the district of Co
lumbia appropriation bill. The con-
ference report on the bill to repeal the
timber-cultare law was agreed to.
TUESDAY. March 3. In the Senate
the French spoliation bill was passed;
also the copyright bill, the diplo-
matte appropriation measure and 160
house pension bills. In the house
conference reports were agreed to on
the post Office appropriation, pension
appropriation, Indian appropriation and
copyright bills, and bill was passed to
provide for commission of five persons
on the subject of the alcoholic liquor
traffic. Nearly all the important meas
ures before the house were disposed of.
WEDNESDAY,. March 4.-The Fifty
first congress came to an end at II
o'clock tnoon). All the regular appro-
priation bills and other important
measures before both houses were
passed and were signed by Presi-
dent Harrison. In the senate res
olutions were unanimously adopted
thanking Vice President Morton for the
impartial manner in which he had pre-
sided over that body, and in the house
Speaker Reed was the recipient of sim
liar thanks from the republicans, the
democrats refusing to vote.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
LATER
A Wrecked Train.

HAVANA, H., March s.-A passenger
train on the Santa Fe road was wrecked
here to- night. About a half mile from
the depot there is sharp curve, and
the engine struck the curve at the
switch and left the track. All the cars
followed, piling up in great confusion.
The half dressed passengers clambered
out of the windows and through the
roof of the demolished cars and has
tened barcfooted through the sleet and
over the icy roads for the nearest
houses. The passengers who were in
the coach extricated their injured COM
panions.
Under the engine was Fireman Sad
dler, who was instantly killed. lie
|came here few days ago from the Bal
timore & Ohio road road. and was a
stranger. by the side of the engine
was Eengineer George Birkenhead of
of this city, with one arm and leg cut
off
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
VICTORY FOR MINERS.
Operators In the Monongahela valle
Agree to Advance Wages.

Operators In the Monongahela Valley
Agree to Advance Wages.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, March THE long
strike of the coal miners of the Monon-
gahela valley has ended in COM
plete victory for the men. At 10
IA. M. the operators met here
and decided to concede the demands
of the strikers for an advance in
the mining-rate of one-half-cent per
bushel. and resume work on Monday.
The strike was one of the longest and
most determined ever known in this
section. 1t lasted ten weeks and
the 5000 men lost in wages
alone over Sl,OOO.O0O The absence
of this great sum of money in the
valley has caused great Inconvenience
and actual suffering among not only
the miners and their families, but the
great majority of other persons in the
valley dependent directly or indi-
reetly upon the mining of coal
tor a living. Besides the miners,
this strike has affected a great
army Of day laborers. boat, yard and
millmen, storekeepers and even farm
ers who dispose of their produce to
the working people of the valley.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
CANADA'S VOTE.


Latest Returns from the Election Of
Thursday = The Conservative Majority
Is FL.
TORONTO, Ont. March 7.-Rcturns
are all in with the exception Of three
seats where elections will be held
later. Returns received late give sew
eral seats to the government that were
reported as going liberal. One OF these
is Richmond and Wolfe, where Hon.
Wilfred Laurier. liberal leader. was re-
ported to have been elected. Laurierdocs
not lose his seat, having been returned
last week by acclamation for east
Quebec. It is understood that the gov
ernmcnt will Immediately move in the
direction Of trade negotiations with the
United States. Complete returns show
that the government lost 9 seats in
Ontario and that the liberals are in y
majority of s in the province of Quebec.
The result of the vote in the province
;s as fo!s.r.S.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
THE HANGMAN CHEATED.

Dan Porter, an Escaped Illinois Murderer.
Blows Out His Drains Just as His Re-
capture Was About tc BE Effected.
ALEXANDRIA, Mo-. March - Dan
Parker. the condemned murderer of
Ed Smith, who escaped from Jail at
Quincy last Sunday night, killed him
self about o'clock Friday morning at
a point II miles southwest of kahoka.
Mo. Posses have been out hunting for
him all the week and traces of him had
been found at various points in Missouri.
northeast Of Quincy. lie was seen at
st. Patrick, a small town in Clark
county, Wednesday night and Thursday
evening four men-Noble Butler. j. L.
Kearfoot, L. NJ. Montgomery and L.
Tober-started out to follow up
the trail They followed him Is
miles to the west and corralled him
Friday morning in the house of
q colored man named Meyer, where
he had stopped for breakfast. They
called him out. and, covering him with
Winchesters and revolvers, demanded
his surrender. Porter refused, but gave
up revolver and razor. He then
pulled another revolver and, placing it
to his head, said: You shoot or | will
Still holding the revolver to his head
he backed off down the road, the four
men following him within a few feet.
He lowered the revolver rs if to
shoot, when Butler pulled the trigger
of his Winchester, but missed. Like a
fash Porter turned his revolver against
his head and sent bullet crashing
through his brain.
The crime for which Porter was to
hang was peculiarly cold blooded.
June % last he called Ed Smith to his
door and shot him. No motive was
ever assigned for the deed, as Porter
had refused to talk. He was sentenced
to hang March 20. Porter was lignt
mulatto and about 25 years old There
was a reward Of S2,7OO for Porter, dead
or alive.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In England the Tooth anniversary of
the death of John Wesley was observed
by the unveiling of statue erected in
his honor in London.
Two EXPRESS trains came into col
lision near Morshank, Russia, demol-
ishing the carriages Of both, and fifty
persons were killed outright and a
large number were seriously injured.
MADAGAscAR advices say that Rami-
asatra, governor OF the province of
Belanond, resenting a petition from
the populace to the government to de-
fend them from cruelties massacred 27S
persons, including men, women and
children, belonging to the leading fam
lilies.
THE death of Leonard Jerome, the
well-known New York turfman and
broker, occurred in Brighton, Eng,
aged 60 years.
ELECTIONS for members of the do.
minion parliament in Canada resulted
in the success of the government or
conservative party. It's majority in
the house of commons, however, would
be greatly reduced and would proba-
bly, not exceed Is. In the last house il
was 81.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

is 1,f1S.5S7. Of this number 554. 1i2
were whites. 5G2.s9 colorcd, 62s In
dams. 315 Chinese and 80 Japanese.
THE firm of Cornwall e. Bros, deal
ers in soap and candles at Louisville,
KY, made an assignment. The assets
were s1sO,OOO: liabilities, sl77.000.
THE statistics of the voting popula-
ton Of Chicago show slight prepon-
derance of foreign-born voters over
those of American birth.
AT Nashville, Tenn, Bette Sanders,
an aged colorcd woman, and her two
grandchildren died from the effects Of
poison put in tea which they drank.
In Chicago George Hathaway was
convicted of the murder of cx-Alderman
Whelan and sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
In Montana seven laborcrs working
on the Great Northern railway extern
sion were frozen to death. The bodies
of five were recovered.
THE governor of Nebraska signed the
Australian ballot bill, and.it is now a
law.
Ar Washington, Cal. the lcvecs on
the Sacramento river broke, and the
southern portion of the town and 1000
acres of grain land were flooded.
AT the Hebrew Union college at Gin
cinnati Isadore II. Frauenthal and
Earnest Sallingcr, students, committed
suicide with the same revolver.
In Detroit William P. Wells, a prom
inent Michigan lawyer, dropped dead
in a court rooD
On the 4th Myer Strauss. Of Cleve-
land, O., celebrated his Tooth birthday.
BAUDEr and Stevens. indicted for
frauds committed in taking the Mime
apolis census last summer. were fined
$1,000 and 81, 900 respectively.
NEAR Princeton, KY, six men were
drowned by the sinking OF a raft.
THE failure Of the Kentucky Union
Lumber Co., of Louisville, for $500, 900
was reported
SEVERAL United States officials have
completed raid through West Florida.
resulting in the capture and destruction
of twenty-six illicit stills and the arrest
| of thirty men.
NEAR Alta, Utah, two men were killed
! in an avalanche and two were fatally
| injured.
FIRE in feed stable at Des Moines,
| Ia. cremated sixteen horses.
THE buildings of the Worlds Colum.
bian exposition will be dedicated in
October, 1892, with imposing cere.
monies, the exercises to extend over four
| days.
THE schedule of baseball games oi
the National league for 1891 was made
public. The season opens April % and
and closes October 3.
ALBERT BosT, of Bost's Mills. n. c.,
and Thomas Pemberton, of Little Rock
Ark. were burned to death in fire
that destroyed the high school in Mon
roe, N. C.
In Oklahoma the race question was
said to be assuming a serious phase
and fighting between black and white
people was reported to be imminent
In Yolo county. Cal, hundreds Of
ranches were under water, and the loss
to property was estimated at 81. 900. 600
DANIEL MCMAHON killed Miss Annie
Murphy near Port Huron, Mich. and
then took his own life. Jealousy was
the cause.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

Government majority. ~.
The tory party lost in Ontario, Quebec
and Prince Edward Island. 1t
holds its own in Nova Scotia. New
brunswick, British Columbia and the
northwest territories. The majority
Of the government at the time Of disso-
luton Of parliament was 81.
There are thirteen cabinet minister's,
eleven of whom have been elected and
two defeated The latter are Hon. G.
c. Colby. president of the council, and
Hon. John CARING, minister OF agricul-
ture.
Hugh Macdonald conservative, son
of Sir John Macdonald, is elected at
Winnipeg. James Trow, prominent
liberal, is elected at South Perth.
Mackenzie Bowel, minister of customs,
is elected for North Hastings by 200
majority. Sir Adolphe Caron, min
lister of militia, is elected for
Rimouski. Hon. j. A. Chapleau, secrc-
tary of state. is elected for Tcrrebonnc,
Que. by large majority. John Hag-
CERT. postmastcr-General, is elected for
South Lanark by 500 majority. Hon.
j
fisheries, has been elected for Pictou.
Hon Sir John Thompson, minister
of justice, has been elected for
Antigonish. Sir Donald Smith (conserva-
tivel, has been elected for Montreal
Center. Dalton MacCarthy, q leading
conservative, is elected in North Simcoe.
SIR Richard Cartright, the prominent
liberal. is elected in South Oxford by
over 500 majority. Robert Beth
iliberaD is elected in West Dur
ham. defeating q. I. BlaclSstock
,concervative). Mr.. Blackstocs, it
will be remembered, defended
Brchell in the celebrated murder
trial ut Woodstock last summer.
William Mulock, liberal leader. is
elected in North York by large ma
jority. {. c. Colby, president of the
privy council, who was running for
Stlnstc;,i, province of Quebec, is de-
!, feated by over 100. The city of Ot-
tawa has elected two conservatives.
Toronto city has elected three conserya-
tives. Sir John Macdonald has been
| elected for Kingston by about $50 ma
| iority. Sir Hector Langevin, minister
of public works. has been elected for
Richelicu. Hon. j. A. Ouimet. cx-
speaker Of the house of commons. is
| elected. Hon. David Mills. minister Of
| the interior in the Mackenzie govern
ment. is elected for Boutwell, by ma-
jority.
| WASHINGTON, March 7.-Secretary
Blaine said that he had nothing to
say with regard to the Canadian elec-
tion, except that there seemed to be an
| impression in some quarters that
President Harrison's administration
was interested in the election. ''As a
matter of fact" he said. 1.-The admins
tration is utterly indifferent as to the
result. None Of the members of the
cabinet took any interest in the matter,
and cared less about it than Canadians
usually do about our elections"
| LONDON. March THE result of the
Canadian election is received with gen
eral satisfaction. 1t is looked upon as
triumph Of British feeling and a
pledge of attachment to the mother
country. The st. James Gazette is
cxultant, and winds up leading
editorial by declaring: Canada il
British still. Washington does not ye'
4 ,.,,la rx-ar attawa
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

A REGULAR exodus of Mormons from
Utah to Mexico is quietly taking place,
and within the next three months
large number of the saints will have
left. The Mormons have a tract of land
in the state of Chihuahua, one hundred
and twenty-five miles long and fifteen
miles wide, which they are settling up.
A colony of sixty will leave Provo in
April All over the territory the saints
are preparing to go south to live their
religion" The head of the church is
said to be favoring the immigration and
putting up funds for those who have
none. 1t is estimated that 1000 families
will move to Mexico this summer.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

GEN. GRANT died at sixty-thrce sheri-
dan at fifty-seven, Hancock at sixty
two, Meade at fifty-six, Logan sixty,
Hooker sixty, Thomas fifty-four, Lee
sixty-four, Bragg sisty-onc, Pembertcn
siSty-three, Hardce fifty-tive, Pickett
Fifty and Gen. Sherman seycnty-one
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

HALF-DIMEs were first coined in Octo-
Der, 1899. and continued at intervals till
1906, then discontinued until 1929 The
issue ceased in 1873. The three-cent
silver coins, first issued in 1851. ceased
in 1873. The ive-cent nickel was au-
thorized in 1866, and has been issued
regularly to the present time. In 1856
nickel three-cent pieces and a small
number of nickel cents were coined.
The two-cent bronze pieces were issued
in 1864 and discontinued in 1873. The
bronze cents issued in 1864 have been
coined annually since.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

THE Ohio canal commissioners have
discovered that strip ten feet wide, on
each side of the national road across
the entire state, and belonging to the
state, was held by private individuals.
1t amounts to thousands Of acres
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

MEXICO laid low a formidable bandit
the other day in the person of Demetrio
Jaurcgui, whose beat was in the state
of Jalisco. His confederates numbered
six, and it took company of infantry
to put them all under the sod. The
robbers were surrounded at q planta-
tion they were about to sack The strug-
gle took place in the house. and after
his followers had been downed in a des-
perate hand-to-hand fight the leader of
all was cornered in the attic. Finishing
. soldier he succumbed, though girt
about with many weapons. In this
struggle four soldiers were killed and
eleven wounded.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

MILAN, Tenn, has a 1i-year-old elec-
tric girl that can easily move tables,
bedsteads and other weighty articles of
household furniture, no matter how
heavily laden down with men, by
simply laying her hands thereon. The
tables, etc., move about and follow her
when she takes her hands off. This
story is told by the Memphis CONNER
cial, whose editor dispatched a reporter
to Milan to make due investigation.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

j. a. MORSE, a young man well
known in San Francisco, has set up a
kingdom of his own on little island in
the Pacific ocean, which he has bought
for $1,000. He has introduced popu-
lation Of South Sea islanders, and has
had them employed in setting out large
quantities of cocoanut and banana
trees. He is absolute ruler and mon
arch of everything in sight. His pur-
chase promises to be profitable one.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

THE eleventh report of the New York
state board of health contains record
Of its work during the last year The
most extraordinary occurrence during
the year was the outbreak of the epi-
demic of influenza, to which five thou
sand deaths are attributed.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12
THE EAST.

THE Renfrcw Manufacturing Co. at
Adams, Mass. lost $500, 900 by fire.
FIRE wiped out the home and cre-
mated the two young children of Henry
C. Rowe, at Litchfield, Conn. The
little ones were alone in the house.
THE remains of Emma Abbott, the
opera singer, were crematcd at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the ashes were placed
in jar and sent to New York.
HENRY w. SAGE & Co., lumber deal
ers at Albany, N. Y, were defrauded
out of sa75,oO0 by Joseph B. Abbott, a
trusted employee.
THE Rhode Island Nationalist society
met at Providence and nominated full
state ticket with Franklin L. Burton,
of Providence, for governor.
AT its convention in New York the
National baseball league adopted a
new form of contract which virtually
does away with the reserve clause and
gives the players more rights.
THE firm of Henry 4. Wills & Co.,
fruit merchants in New York city,
failed for 100000.
The two sons of Gen. Sherman re-
ceived in New York letters of admins
tration on their fathers estate. The
general left no will, and his personal
estate does not exceed So, 500.
In the Nottingham colliery at Ply
mouth, Pa, an explosion fatally injured
three men.
AT Bridgeport, Conn.,, Lawrence
Murphy, aged % years, died of heart
failure. caused by excessive cigarette
smoking.
FLAMES destroyed the fruit-preserv-
ing establishment of the j. O. Schim-
mel Preserving Co. at Philadelphia,
causing loss of Sl30,00O.
In New York the first of q series OF
meetings to be held throughout the
country by union prisoners of the war
to raise money for a memorial hall ut
Washington was heli.
FIRE destroyed the passenger boat
City of Richmond and cargo at New
York. The loss on the boat was $685..
600; fully insured.
OFF Cape Cod the schooner Elsie
Smith, of Portland, Me-, was wrecked
and eighteen lives were lost.
ROBBERS entered the savings bank at
Freeport. Pa, and carried Off SO, 900 in
money and securities.
ON April Is next a reunion of the
founders of the republican party will be
held at fremont temple in Boston.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

A SEA captain at Bangor, Me-, relates
that some years ago, before leaving
England for voyage to Montevideo.
he secured a pair of doves and placed
them in box on board ship as pets.
All went well till near the end of the
voyage, when the female bird was
blown away during terrible gale.
The male remained by the ship until
Monteyideo was reached when he dis
appeared and not returning the same
day was given up for lost In about a
week, however, he returned happy
with new mate and the two took up
the old quarters and went back to En-
gland with the ship.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

JOHN PLUMQUEsT. a New Jersey
sneak thief, was sentenced to six months
imprisonment for stealing fellow
boarder's glass eye. He has three
chances of seeing his error when the
ordinary criminal has two.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-03-12

THE quickest trial on record is report
ed from Oconee, Ga. A man who stole
an umbrella from a store was arrested,
arraigned, pleaded guilty. and paid a
fine Of so. 25 inside of fifteen minutes.
After the trial he claimed the umbrella,
but didn't ret it.