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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

THE bureau of American republics
reports that the official returns from
Brazil indicate great commercial ac-
tivity in the new republic. During the
year 1890 corporations were organized
with capital as follows: January, 81,
Oil, ,72o: February, SlO1, $40. 900: March,
$l,0s9, 600; April. Sll.616.OOO; May, S.
2as, 900; June, $3.50, 900; July. S77.44o,-
600; August, $5S,OS0,O 900; September,
Sl25, $40. 900; October. Slss, 760, 900: No
vember, S3s, 72O. 1000: December, Sl9,-
500, OOO-total, S642, ,O64. .72O.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

A. N. LOCKWOOD. president of an ac-
cident association in New York, says
that since the accident companies
offered an indemnity of $500 for the
loss Of hand or a. foot there has been
a great increase in the number of acci-
dents in the left hand: so many, in
deed, that it was found that people
were manning themselves to get the
insurance Finally the companies
were forced to offer less sum for the
left hand than for the right, since
which time there has been a decrease of
50 per cent in this variety of accidents.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

THE past winter will go on record as
one of the most disastrous in the his
tory Of navigation. The loss of the
Utopia with over four hundred persons
at Gibraltar is the greatest of the sea-
son, but smaller catastrophes have been
uncommonly numerous Now comes
the report that eleven vessels have
been wrecked and fifty-four lives lost
by.hurricanes in the south seas.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

WHILE playing in New York recently
Sara Bernhard discovered that her fos-
ter brother was living there. She
hunted him up, found that he had a
charming little girl six years old, with
whom Sara fell in love, and she asked
to have charge of Regina. Sara means
to send her to France and have her
sDlendidly educated.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK.

MME DE STAEL said that what she
was most proud of was the fact that she
had acquired seventeen trades, by any
one of which she could make liveli-
hood.
A NEW industry for women is putting
lisle-thread feet in the legs ofsilk stock
ings, and New York girl, consignor
at the Woman's Exchange, makes Sl5 .
week at it.
WOMEN are beginning - excel IN
handicrafts. Three classes 81 art work
stood out prominently at the Exhibition
in London recently-these were the en-
broideries, wood carvings AID leather
work.
IT is stated that there are ever $500
women physicians now earning good
living by their practice in this country.
In thirteen states women physicians
have been employed in insane asylums,
reformatories and other public institu-
tions of which women are inmates.
THERE are 100000 factory girls in
London. The needs of these working
women have been but family recog-
nized by the benevolent agencies. Ii
has been estimated that fer every
shilling contributed toward the amelior.
alton of the social and moral condition
of workingwomen a pound is subscribed
for the benefit of men. While $3.50
900 has been given by government for
technical education of men and boys,
nothing has been done toward the tech
meal education of women.
A CONTEMPORARY suggests as new
pursuit for women, that they should
learn the use of the turning lathe. II
says it is pleasant and profitable EN-
ployment, as lathes can be secured that
require very little bodily exertion. II
also suggests as an avenue now open,
the making of the picture frames which
are now made to harmonize as much as
possible with the picture. For in
stance, the picture of enthusiastically
architectural outline with a top in .
pointed arch. But anything, from
chessmen to bread d-boards can be turned
| on lathe.
THE average wages of $50, 900 ill-fated
working girls of New York is sixty
cents q day, and that includes the in
come of the stylish cashiers who ge'
two dollars day, as well as the un
fortunate girls who receive thirt.. cents
= day in east side factories and shops
! The lot Of the average saleswoman wht
has not the help and shelter that par
ents or married brother or sister coult
share is hard indeed One has only t.
look into the pale, pinched faces Q
these poor girls to know that thousand
of them are actually starving to death
And that, too, in New York.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

A cABLEGRAM of over thirteen hun
dred words. which passed through New
York from Lima to London one night
recently, over the lines of the Western
Union Company, cost a pretty penny to
transmit, the rate being over two dol
lars word. This would represent an
outlay of over twenty-six hundred dol
lars, and is probably the largest toll
paid by an individual or company out
side of newspaper corporations.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
Republican League Convention.

New York, April 1.-THE fourth
annual convention of the Republican
league of the United States will meet
in Music hall, Cincinnati. at noon,
April 81. If the convention allows rep
resentation according to the new con-
gressional apportionment the va
rious state and territorial delegations
including the six state delegates)
would be composed of l,0l9 delegates.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

EVERYONE may not know that the
Bank of England notes are made from
new white linen cuttings-neyer from
anything that has been worn. So
carefully is the paper prepared that
even the number of dips into the pulp
made by each workman is registered
on dial by machinery, and the sheets
are counted and booked to each person
through whose hands they pass. They
are made ut Laverstroke, in Hampshire,
and are printed within the building,
there being an elaborate arrangement
for making them SO that each note of
the same denomination shall differ in
some particular from the others.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

the sth that all the returns af the Chi
cago election had been received and
that the vote for mayor stood: Cregier
ldem.), 1896: Hampstead Washburne
irep.), 46.7O0; Cregier's plurality, 235.
The republicans, on the other hand,
strongly maintained that Hampstead
Washburne had been elected. and only
the official count would decide which
was mayor.
JAMES ANDERSON, of Peru, Ind, is
the oldest Snowman in this country
since the death Of p. T. Barnum.
AN engineer. fireman and brakeman
were pinioned under the engine and
fatally scalded in a wreck on the Wis
consin Central railroad near Vernon,
Wis
A CYCLONE visited Nevada, Mo-, and
houses were unroofed, wires prostrated
and havoc played in all directions. One
person was killed.
THE death Of William Wallace, post
master of Indianapolis, Ind, occurred
at the age of 66 years. lie was a son
of the late Gov. David Wallace, brother
OF Gen. Lew Wallace, and was Presi-
dent Harrison's first law partner.
AT Huron, S. d., Fred Hundley, 1S
years of age, was sentenced to four
teen years in the penitentiary for shoot
ing his father over quarrel in putting
down carpet last summer.
/ In Jeffersonville, Ind, James Cow
ard and his mother quarreled. She
struck him with stone. when he shot
and killed her.
| In Chicago the second annual election
of the Worlds Columbian exposition
was held and ticket composed of
thirty-one old and sixteen new directors
was elected.
WHILE insane Mrs. Andrew Doll, of
Herman, Neb.. killed her two children
and committed suicide by taking dose
of concentrated lye.
AFTER an absence of twenty-five
years, Rue Westerville, of Windfall,
Ind, has returned home, having made
town.
A FIRE in the village of Cheviot, O.,
destroyed property covering nearly an
acre of ground.
THE supreme court of Indiana has de.
cided that where candidates for public
office receive an equal number of votes
the election may be determined by the
drawing of lots.
FLAMES destroyed the cotton sheds
at Memphis, Tenn, causing loss oi
S325, ZOO.
THE name of the city of Spokane
Falls. WASH. has been changed to Spo-
kane.
FIRE destroyed Peoples & Shields
livery stables at Mandan. N. D., and
thirteen horses were cremated.
AT Martinsville, Ind, Mrs. John Oil
yer committed suicide by hanging her.
self because her granddaughter had dis
graced the family.
WHILE smoking boys set fire to the
stock yards near Cincinnati and prop
erty valued at $3.50. 600 was destroyed.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

MRS. E. d. E. n. SoUTHwoRTH, the
novelist, is still writing, though over
seventy-five years of age. As to her full
name, which is Emma Dorothy Eliza
Nevitte Southworth, she says: "When
] was born my people were too poor to
give anything else SO they gave me all
those names"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
VIII Talk Reciprocity ON October 1e.

OTTAWA, Ont, April IA dispatch
from Sir Julian Pauncefote says that
Monday, October 1a, has been fixed on
as the date on which President Har-
rison and Mr.. Blaine will meet the Ca
madam delegates to dissass the ques-
ton of trade relations.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

CHARLES BROADWAY ROUSE. of New
York, is one of the few business men
In the country who pay their employees
at the end of each day. The services Of
one extra clerk enable him to do this
and he says the system is satisfactory
both to his employees and himself.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
JUBILEE OF A JOURNAL.

The Golden Anniversary of the New York
.sTrlbune."
New YORK. April 1l.--Friday was
the tiftieth anniversary of the birth of
the New York Tribune, and the event
was fittingly celebrated at night by a
jubille at the Metropolitan opera
house. The vast edifice was
we'll filled and programme worthy
of the occasion was rendered. Adj
dresses were made by William Me-
kinley, Jr., Chauncey NJ. Depew,
Charles A. Dana. Roswell q. Hmr and
George William Curtis, an original
poem was read by Edmund Clarence
Stedman
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
Double Murder st Wnukesha

WAuKEsHA, Wis, April ll.-At 10
o'clock Friday night Christian Preise,
aged IS years, and his wife, aged -
years, were found lying nearly naked
on the floor of their home, the wife
dead and the husband dying. 1t is sup
posed to be double murder.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
MIR. CrOunze Amounted,

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE presi-
dent has appointed ex-Congressman
Alonzo Crounze, of Nebraska. third as
sistant secretary of the treasury.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

THE wife OF Senator Stanford. of Cal
ifornia. receives large begging mail,
among which the other day was letter
from Texan gentleman who wanted
fifty dollars to get new set of teeth.
1t was a clear case of gum game.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

A BILL is now before the New York
legislature to authorize charter for
Greater New York which will take in
Brooklyn. Staten Island and all the
suburban towns near the city which are
in the state
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

"A Chicago Blaze.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 13-This city was
visited by fire last night that de-
srroyed the Haymarket theatre, Kohl
4 Middleton's Museum and other pro-
perty amounting to nearly million of
dollars Many of the freaks in the
museum had narrow escapes and were
rescued with great difficulty. The fire
started in the Smyth furnishing factory.
1t took forty fire engines and nearly 800
firemen to bring the fire under subjec-
| ton. Several times it seemed as if the
men would be compelled to abandon
their engines, SO intense was the heat,
but cheered on by indefatigable supe-
riors, they managed to withstand the
heat by turning the hose upon them
selves. The nerve displayed by the
firemen was heightened by the fact
that all the time they knew at least a
hundred barrels of oil We're stored in
the basement of the Smyth establish
ment, likely at any time to cause ter
rife explosion. Several lives were lost.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made
in New York City on the 18th to lynch
a man named Davis.
A FIRE in the Paxton hotel, Omaha,
Neb., on the 18th, did So, ZOO damage.
One fireman was killed and three badly
injured.
ABOUT noon on the 18th four Italians
were boat riding on Millers river,
Orange, Mass, when they came too
near the rapids near the sewing
machine works and were swept over
the dam and drowned. No bodies have
been found.
THE body of Mabel Horton, the child
orton was drowned, was found in the
Mississippi river about two miles be-
low st. Paul. The body was identified
by her father, Walter Horton, who was
acquitted of the charge of numbering
the mother.
A MAN named Messie was arrested at
Chicago on the llth,' charged with
eloping with the wife of BENJAMIN
Blake, of Lima, o. At the station
Messie denied the charge and showed
receipt for S. signed by Blake, wherein
he relinquished all claim to his wife
and turned her over to Messie. Mrs.
Blake is so years of age and Messie is
about FL.
THREE small boys, all sons of Thomas
Munce of Washington, Pa, on the lath,
found a can of nitro-glycerine and not
knowing the character of the stuff, be-
gan pounding it with stones The can
exploded, blowing two of the boys to
atoms and fatally injuring the third.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

TwENTY-NINE THIRTIETHs of all the
diamond mines in the world are con-
trolled by one company, whose capital
ization is $4,000, 600. In the mines Of
Kimberly, South Africa, eight-tenths Of
one carat is found in every sixteen hun
drcd pounds of dirt taken out
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
In the United States the visible sup
ply of grain on the 9th was: Wheat,
-. 2.4S3.910 bushels: corn, 1861, 233 BUSH
els: oats, 2.513.337 bushels.
THE Tooth anniversary celebration of
the establishment of the American pat
ent system was begun in Washington,
large number Of inventors participa-
ting.
In Washington Charles f. Kincaid,
the newspaper correspondent on trial
for the shooting of ex-Representative
Taulbee, of Kentucky, in February,
1890, was acquitted.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SPAULDING has
decided that Chinese laundryman is a
laborer, and that the proprietor Of a
laundry is also laborer within the
meaning of the Chinese exclusion act.
THE EAST.
In Philadelphia the suit of T. l.. Long
against the Pennsylvania railroad to
recover for trunk lost in the Cone
maugh flood was decided against him.
The Judge said the trunk was lost
through the results of IAN act Of God. -
AN explosion wrecked the government
powder mills at Bnceo, N. Y, and John
Harlom, Thomas Rogers. George
Thompson and Harry Thompson were
blown to atoms Fifty persons were
injured, some fatally.
In q fire at Rochester, Pa, nine
Italians were burned to death.
AT Lancaster, Pa, Edwin Eberman,
lumber dealer, has assigned, with liza.
bilities of about S300.00O.
HARVARD and Yale have completed
arrangements for series of annual
athletic contests. this years meeting tc
be at New Haven, Conn, May 16.
AT 6:a2 on the evening of the 7th
Phineas 7. Barnum, the great show
man. died at his home in Bridgeport,
Conn.,. after an illness of twenty-one
weeks, aged 81 years. lie left an es-
tate valued at Sl0.00O,OOO.
AN explosion in a Hungarian board
ing house at Braddock, Pa. burned
eleven men. four fatally.
AFTER service of twenty-five year.
Senator George +. Edmunds. of Yer
mont, has resigned from the United
States senate.
THE Methodist conference of New
york has decided overwhelmingly that
women shall not be admitted to the
eneral conference.
THE new mayor of Philadelphia give.
the police department ten days to ge1
out of politics or out of the city's em
ploy.
The lecture tour of Henry M. Stan
ley in the United States is over. II.
said in New York that the total number
of miles he had travelled in all his ex
ploration of Africa was $4,000, and tha
he had beaten the record by over 2,O0l
miles on his lecture journey.
AT Lancaster, Pa, n. Byres & Co.
lumber Dealers have failed for $50. .O0O
THREE llungar.ans who were in tn,
labor riot at Hraddock, Pa, last New
Years day. in which Michael Quinn
was killed, were convicted of murde
and sentenced to be hanged.
THE death of Russell Erret, who tool
an active part in the formation of tn,
republican party anu scrVeu IhIcs
terms in congress, occurred at his hom,
in Pittsburgh, Pa, aged "a years.
AFTER serving nearly forty years as
missionary in foreign lands, Rev. l.. II
Gulich died at Springfield, Mass.
AT Lancaster, Pa, Harry Kaufman
committed suicide by taking arsenic
His brother died in the same manne
ten days before. They had agreed t
die together.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

SIXTY THOUSAND workmen Of Switzer-
land do embroidery. They are paid
about s1o,OOo,O 900 annually. and their
machines are worth $4,000, 900,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
WHY WOMEN MARRY.

Only the Woman Who WEEDS for Love 10
Worthy . Mans Affection.
You see the day has gone by when a
man would do any thing for woman;
countries need to be either very young
or very old when this sort Of thing hap
pens. but after all cant help but re-
member that question, What do wom-
en- marry for?"
Some women marry because they
want home of their own, and these
are my conclusions:
Some women marry because they
haven't the moral courage to remain
single.
Some women marry because they
want a little more money in their
purses and little larger credit at the
shops.
Some women marry because they
want to put Mrs" on their visiting
cards.
Some women marry because their
mother wants them to.
Some women marry because q man
asked them to, and they don't like to
say no.
Some women marry for money
money, and nothing else. These wom-
en- get the money, and with it great re-
sponsihilities they never dreamed Of.
Some women marry because they
love the man, because they want to be
his wife, his friend and his hel.mate;
because they want to make J = eel
that there is one woman in t..e world
whom he can love and cherish, and
from whom he will receive love and
consideration in return. Because they
want him to feel that If sorrow comes
he has q sympathizing. loving friend
close beside him, and that in the day Of
JOY there is one who can give him smile
for smile. These are the women worth
marrying. The others are of little
worth, and never would be missed If
they suddenly dropped out of the matri-
monial bonds. New York Let
ter
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16

Ing far larger number than the most
sanguine friends Of the cause hnd ex-
pected. And what pupils:" writes
Miss krasnorhorska. .'Such enthusi-
asm, such diligence. Why, in Latin
and Greek they will accomplish in one
year what the boys do in two.'' Now
the people of Prague are proud Of the
school. Now they rejoice that in all
northwestern Europe, or rather among
the Germanic states, their little king
dom of Bohemia was the first to raise
the standard Of higher education for
women.-Frances Gregor, in Chicago
Inter no0an
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
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Some Florida Women.

Some public-spirited women in win
ter resort in Florida have formed them
selves into a society which they call the
Village Improvement association, and
have assumed the duty Of keeping the
streets clean. They employ man to
pick every scrap of refuse which litters
the pavement or gutter, and, as this
factotum is practically in the employ
and under the authority of every won.
an in town, whose vigilance is unceas.
ing, his work is thoroughly and ef-
ficientlv accomplished. At intervals
along the pavement they have caused to
be placed neatly painted barrels, with
bit Of verse begging the passer-by to
utilize them by tossing into them the
bit of paper, cigar stump or fruit skin
which would otherwise be thrown down
untidily. They have also organized the
children into society pledged not to
throw any kind of litter into the pub
lie ways. That town is model of
Utopian cleanliness, and suggests the
idea that ''city mothers instead Of
fathers might be successful
nhia Innuirpr
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
Preacher spurgeon'. Helpful wife.

Mrs. Spurgeon. the wife Of the great
London preacher. though an invalid, is
fairy god-mother to poor ministers.
She sends gifts of clothing to their
wives, which small society under her
supervision have fashioned, and to the
pastors themselves she makes gifts Of
books. During the past year 1916 vol
umes, making a total of 1926. vol
umes given since the book fund was es-
tablished. have been distributed among
516 ministers of different denomina-
tions, including l5a clergy of the church
of England: 6,565 have been distributed
in England and 1000 in foreign lands.
The remarkable part of the work is that
it is carried on single handed by this
invalid ladv
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-16
An Athletic Feat.

in my life." said the drummer. with the
air Of man who thinks he has some
thing worth the telling. lit was down
in Maine" he continued, after waiting
long enough to set curiosity on an edge.
I'D been living on railway sandwiches
for a week, and l just longed for
square meal. Well, we had to stop at
way station for a couple of hours, on
account of hot box or something o.
that sort, and one of the brakemen put
me on to what he said was first-class
restaurant. looked it up and ordered
q steak. The steak came, but it was
disappointment. l sawed away on it
till my arms ached. 1t was out of the
question to chew the small hits tore
off from it, though tried hard. gave
it up finally. and as paid my score
said. incidentally: That's about the
toughest eating ever experienced lie
took the money, swept it into the
drawer. and without quiver he coolly
remarked: You don't seem to consider
how much good it'll do you in the way
Of exercise. ."-Boston Transcript.
Before and After.
Bingo-I must go home. My wife
doesn't want me to stay out after nine
o'clock.
Kingley-I thought she let you stay
out until eleven.
Bingo-She did. But that was before
I was married.-Judgs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-09-18

guincasI another three-y ear-oh sold for 9b0
guineas. A fair proportion OF tho two and
aud three-yclr old only fetched from 10
sunea9 down to 90 guineas. The average
realized from 41rams was 594 guinens This
ia nothing like SO good as was expected, but
probably sheep growers, owing to vorious
causes, have not quite 80 much spare cash al
usual to invest in fancy animals.
Saxony imports did badly. Tho highest
price paid was given for n mogndoeut Tas-
manian merino ram, which fetched 40
guineos, for use by a sheep breeders ssso.
citation. Others sold for 300 guinoas, 40
guneas, and a choice ram from Queensland
fetched $50 guiness. MIR s. McCaughey
was a free bidder for tho Vermouters. and
S, Wilson secured DO Of Z. l. Warby's lot.