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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
MErEoRlTE FALLS IN KANSAS.
Weight Over 200 Pounds and Plows Up
the Ground Distance OF Twenty Feet.

Weight Over 200 Pounds and Plows Up
the Ground . Distance OF Twenty Feet.
bingham, country town 10 miles
west of Atchison, Kan, had recent
visitation from meteorite, which meas.
ured in length two feet, in width from q
foot to foot and half and which
weighed about ESQ pounds. II fell IRON,
cloudless sky about II o'clock at
night, and It's contact with. the earth
was accompanied by loud report. Its
course was from east to west, and Its
passage over the city was observed by
q number of people, as it left In its
wake luminous tail fully 800 yards In
length.
The meteorite itself was an intense
white ball. throwing out an occasional
streak Of red, but the tail varied In
color from white to glaring red. 1t
plowed up the ground after it struck
the earth o distance of go feet, and FINAL
ly half buried itself In the ground. II
was rough and jagged, except that part
above the ground, and had the general
appearance of an immense cinder.
When the meteorite was discovered II
was broken by sledgehammer. A
great many pebbles were found on the
inside, firmly imbedded in o compact
mass of what appeared to be iron ore.
Some of the pebbles were white and
clear, but the majority were black and
brown. The pebbles had the appear.
once of having been cooled off suddenly
after being subjected to intense heat,
Specimens of the meteorite will be sent
to the state university at Lawrence.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
LEADING LIBRARY OF WORLD
More Books Circulated in Chicago Than
in ANY Other City.

e@AAJ
The report Of the Chicago public Ii,
brary board for the fiscal year ended
June /, just presented, makes o very
satisfactory showing. 1t is set forth
that the number Of books taken to
homes from the library and SUBJ.
stations during the year, 1,173,5s6 vol
umes, is greater than in the case Of any,
similar Institution in the world. Man
chester, England, is not close second,
with 975,94 volumes. Boston, Mass,
comes next with s47,321 volumes; Bir-
mingham, England, being the fourth,
with record of s16,312.
In the report it is shown the total
number Of volumes held by the library
is 217,203. Accessions for the YEAR
equaled 1o,4s5. !
The aggregate number of books, pc
riodicals, ETC., in use during the year,
including books of reference, was {, 642,7
PA, an increase OF 57,1o2 over the pre-
vious year.
The attendance at the central read
ing-room and at the substations was
materially greater than for the pre-
ceding year. A GREAT demand is noted
for additional readhg-rooms through
out the city, notably in those districts
of dense population where the poorer
people live. Lack of funds has pre-
vented extension to Us great degree
as is desirable. For the reason that
space is limited, as we'll as money, COM
paratively. few volumes We're purchased
during the year. All this will be
changed after January /, when the move
will be made to the new building on
the lake front More money will be
available, while space will be ample.
A feature of the year just entered
upon will be the establishment of adj
ditional substations, to contain read
ing-rooms, and for the distribution of
books
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
ANOTHER DARING TRIP.
Capt. Frietxel starts Around the worl
In o Small Sailing Craft

Capt. Frietzel starts Around the World
In Small Sailing Craft.
Capt Adolf Frietzel, we'll known as
one Of the most daring sea1nen on this
Side of the Atlantic ocean, has Just
started to make ON all-around- the-globe
voyage in q cookie shell. The captain
has already made one trip across the
Atlantic in his open sail boat, the Nina.
The new craft is of cypress, oak and
red cedar, and is % feet long, with a
ten-foot beam. All the material is Of
the best quality that money could buy,
and the tiny craft is also furnished with
double set Of sails and a complete
outfit of books, charts and other nau-
teal apparatus.
The start was made on July 4th
from New York city, and the captain in
tends going via the Illinois canal down
the Mississippi river to New Orleans,
thence across the Mexican seq to AS
pinwall, by rail across the Isthmus of
Panama, thence north along the Pacific
coast to San Francisco; thence west
ward through the Pacific ocean to Hon
olulu and the Samoan islands, TO New
Zealand. to the principal ports of Aus
tralia; thence to Japan, to China, the
philippine islands, to Singapore and
the East India ports; thence through
the Indian ocean, the Red sea, the Suez
canal and the Mediterranean to the Eu-
ropcan ports, and thence across the At
lantic to New York and home TO Brook
lyn,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
PRISONER IN DEPOSIT VAULT.
Joker Runs at High Speed to Save
Woman He Had Imperiled.

Joker Runs at High Speed to Save .
Woman He Had Imperiled.
Miss Rosa Caudill, daughter of ex.
Senator W. j. Caudill. came near dy.
ing of suffocation in her fathers de-
posit vault at Barboursville. KY, the
other day. Mr.. Caudill is deputy In.
ternal revenue collector for this dis
trict, and his daughter acts as his clerk.
He LETT the Office early to take train
out of the city. he left Miss Caudill
and her friend, J. II. Byerly, in the
office. For amusement Mr.. Byerly had
the young lady go In the vault and let
him close the door. When he did so
the combination was Internationally
turned and the vault locked. It was
then train time, the station almost a
mile away, and Mr.. Caudill at the de-
pot with the secret of the combination
to the vault. Mr.. Byerly ran for his
life, and happily the train was reached
as 1t was leaving the station. The COM
bination was secured and the vault
opened after the expiration Of about IS
minutes. Miss Caudill was found to
be unconscious, but under the care Of
physicians is slowly recovering.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
THE DUMB PROPHET.

stake this message from your King, to Hil
people.
lie that sheweth It complctest,
Shall have need of me the sweetest.
Heralds of the Prince on high,
Tell 1t clearly, though you die.
None shall on this mission go
Who hath faltering voice or low"
One whose heart within him burned, and
whose lips
AS with fire were eloquent,
Kissed his Masters feet and went
Till the pale and suffering host
He confronted as a ghost;
To his tongue no speech would come,
He was stricken-stricken dumb!
anguish;
But a lost.child. piteously.
Ran into his arms, and he
Bore 1t to its home. And one
By the worlds cold scorn undone.
Stony by the drear wayside,
Looked upon his face, and cried,
Lost. his message, evermore; but his feet
forever hasted.
Low he bent to every need
That his toiling hands could feed:
And the sick and dying bed
Still his mute face comforted.
Still, through every woe and loss,
Dumb, he pointed to the Cross.
Came the hour when, bowed and gray, the
King called him.
lord" his soul cried: Thy great word
None from my poor lips hath heard.
l have failed. But, for Thy grace,
Give these souls about me place.
Let me wander hence unblest,
So Thou take them to Thy rest"
Conquerors from every cline through the
Kings gate hasted;
Heroes famed from land affair."
Captains in His holy war.
Souls triumphant, forgiven,
Singing-but the King of Heaven
saw, without, the prophet dumb,
Weeping, and he called him: "Comel"
And there followed In train, clutch,ng nj
the poor mute's dress;
In his arms was wan child,
And the great King looked and smiled.
Son." He said, II babe thee show
Gods great depth of love; and 10,
Thou hast come with regal token;
Thou supreme DER all hast spoken!"
IS. p. Mel. Greene, in N, Y. Independent
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
IN A CUBAN PRISON.
Letter from Owen Milton, the Amer.
loan Captured on Competitor.
How tho Spanish General Tried to Intimi-
date Him-Would Give His Right
Arm for Sight of His
Country's Flag,

A New York Herald special from Key
West, Fla, says: There was sensa-
tional scene in the Cabanas fortress,
Havana, on June 20, in which Owen
Milton, the American captured on the
Competitor, and Gen. Olivera, governor
OF the prison, were principals. Gen.
Oliyera had received an anonymous let
ter from Key West for Milton contain
ing ten dollars and had summoned the
prisoner to his Office. Describing what
happened, Milton, In letter to friend
here, says: Gen. Olivera showed tho
letter and money and said Consul-Ge
eral Lee wanted to know the name Of
the writer. refused to disclose the
writer's name, and Gen. Olivera threat-
ened to run his sword through me.
Again he demanded the writer's name.
told Olivera would furnish It to Gen.
Lee In person.
"The spaniard saw that had pene.
trated his purpose, and stormed in a
terrible manner, swinging his sword
about my head. Finally he ordered me
back to the prison, telling the guard
not to let me escape. Olivera used Lees
name without authority, and I have
learned he has tried to trap other pris-
oners in o similar manner"
Milton says new prisoners are being
thrust into the Cabanas daily. Almost
every new prisoner has story of al
legged Spanish atrocities to relate.
Ciprian Perez, one Of the late arrivals,
tells Of an alleged massacre near Guiana
jay. Spanish guerillas, the prisoner
says raided an estate near that place
on June 90, burning buildings and
shooting Jose Gonzalez, serafn Ca
ravaja, Pedro Hanero, Jose Castro, Juan
Gonzalez, Meregito Perez and Julian
Castaneda. Perez also reports that two
women were killed.
Milton says he fears he will never
live to return home. 81 would give .
nc says, zone of my arms for sight
OF the United States flag"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
A FUNNY MISTAKE.
English Paper Reports q Drunk4
ards Colony in America. Z
Tho Fact Is That It Is the Dunkarda
Who Are Organizing End They !
Arc Neither Tipplers Nor :
Drinkers.

The gross blunders about the United
States and its people, once SO common
In even the best-informed English news
papers, are rarely met with nowadays,
Once in awhile we hear something
about the Estate of Albany" and occa-;
slonally that the Indian savages
threaten Chicago, but as o rule English
editors avoid serious errors, though
they sometimes make laughable ones.
OF this latter character is the follow
ing, says the Chicago Times-Herald,
which we clip from the last number
of the Westminster Gazette. It GER
talnly ought to have startling effect
wherever it is read<
A COLONY OF TIPPLERs.
One OF the most curious colonies that
have ever been established on the Ameri.
can continent Is we learn from the London
American, about to settle in North Da>
kota. 1t Is colony Of drunkards. Twenty.
one drunkerds and their families are about
abode upon the virgin soil of North Da-
kota. They say they will establish q
model drunkard colony" Already they
have purchased 1000 acres Of land. and each
family will receive an allotment Of about
60 acres The colony will be watched with
month. Very likely all the colonists will
want to start saloons. and then the ques-
ton arises who will be ready to till the
soil7
We fancy we can see John Bull elevat-
ing his eyebrows at this paragraph and
exclaiming: "What very remarkable
people!"
The joke, if there is one in this amus1
ing mistake, is on our esteemed fellow
citizens, the Dunkards, who are neither
tipplers nor drinkers, and look not upon
the wine when it is red. A colony Of
Dunkards from Indiana have recently
established themselves in North Dakota,
fact that was stated month or two
ago. It was the misleading Of this
piece Of news by our English contcmpol
rary that made them out colony Of
tipplers."'
They are, in fact, religious sect Of
German origin and are nicknamedl
Dunkers or Tunkers-"dippers'-be-
cause OF their mode of baptism. They
call themselves 1.-THE Brethren"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
TUNNEL BENEATH A BANK.

Robbers Dig Over One Hundred Feet to
Los Angeles (CaL) Vault.
The boldest attempt at bank robbery
ever made on the Pacific coast has just
come to light. The object OF the at
tack was the heavy steel vault Of the
First national bank of Los Angeles, CAL,
one of the largest financial institutions
of its kind in southern California, and
to reach 1t the robbers dug o tunnel
1o2 feet in length, running from street
adjoining the FiNt national, and thence
under the cellars q three other banks.
This tunnel had progressed to point
directly beneath the vault, when the
police authorities We're appraised Of Its
existence.
When the scheme was discovered the
burglars had begun to remove the
brick masonry supporting the steel
vault. The work is believed to have
been done by gang OF at least five OF
six persons, but only one suspect
James K. Stevens-has thus far been
arrested,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
cHIoAeo's POSTAL GAINS.
Beats All Other Cities In Swelling tho
Revenue on Malls


Chicago again leads all the cities in
the United States In the gain in postal
revenue. A statement has been pre-
pared at the department. showing that
In the last fiscal year the receipts of the
Chicago Office amounted to $5,o7s,51s.
This sum is $612, 1900 in excess of the re-
ceipts for the previous fiscal year. In
no other post office in the United States
is the gain SO great. The New York Of
flee is close second, with gain Of
s543,314. The fiscal year of the post Of
fee department ends on March 81. It
is estimated that the receipts of the
Chicago Office up to July will show
still further increase, making the sum
nearly $T6o,o0o more than last year.
Postmaster Hesing, of Chicago, has re-
Gently applied for authority to establish
a large number of additional postal SUBJ
citations in that city. The splendid show
ing in receipts of the Office induces the
postal authorities to grant almost any
reasonable request made by Mr.. Hesing,
but it is not decided yet whether the
stations will be authorized.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
How to Dispose of bad Coins.

Some one gave me bad
coin yesterday, and didn't know what
to do with it.
Won Blumer-Couldn't you pass 1t?
Not for long time. The first man
I tried it on was a ticket clerk, and he
refused it with scorn."
why didn't you try it on chem
list? Their profits are so great they're
likely 10 be careless in money matters"
"Oh, did; but it wasn't any use.
Then | tried to buy newspaper with
it, but the bog wouldn't have it. Invent
In to buy drink, but that wouldn't do.
was almost discouraged, old man."
IL should say you might have been.
But you finally passed it, didn't you?"
(Proudly): "Oh. yes"
"On whom?''
"On friend OF mine."-Tit-B Bits.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07

You are engaged to be married, and
well, will be honest; I did like them
when you said them, but I've forgotten
now, and the damage can be repaired"
"There was little dumage, then,
Rosie?" "a quick rustic, little sound,
it might have been n low laugh, or 1t
might have been sob; Capt. Barnes
was alone).
"oh, Is that you, Mayq Aren't you
dancing?"
mo; I'm going home, Phil; Tn
tired; but want to confess something
first. Phil, five years is long time to
be away from anyone, isn't it?"
"Ies. May; but what Of that?r
"Wen, one might change, and It
wouldn't be very wicked, would it? And
want you to let me off, Phil, will you?'
"Whot, let you OFF marrying ME,
May?"
"Yes; I've changed my mind; a
woman may, you know. don't think
we are suited; no-don't say anything,
Phil, it won't be any USE"
SWELL, if you mean it, May; of course
I must let you off, as you put it; it's a
queer way Of expressing 1T, and, Of
course, I'm awfully sorry and all that,
but know never was worthy of YOU"
"Oh, that's nonsense. Well, good
night, Phil; mind you tell every one
Tilted you. By-the-hye, was trying to
creep OUT Of here softly just now, and
upset n plant; such joke, Phil!
think there was little love scene going
on on the other side, 30 run because
was afraid l might hear. l was with
Jack Ramsay; 1 wonder If he picked it
up. VIII you go and see?"
(Jncl Ramsay to friend in the supper
room): Queer girl, that Miss Gwynne
Been trying to get little fun out of her
in the conservatory just now, and I'm
bothered If believe she heard n word I
said; got up In hurry, too, and bolted,
with some rotten excuse, and upset one
of old Earton's best zaleas."-Aladame.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
proposals In Boston.

Mr.. Beacon Street (Boston)-I pre-
sume, Miss fremont, you are cognizant
of the continuation of the symposiums
on the interrogatory: us Marriage a
Failure'" and l beg the privilege of
testing the question with you.
Miss Tremont-Since the only way to
understandingly embark in the discus
sion is by practical experiment. I will
relinquish my individual freedom and
genealogical cognomen to immediate my
identity on the altar of metaphysical
investigation.-N. Y. Weekly,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
KILLED BY REMoRsE.
Indiana Man Finds Relief frem His Suf-
ferins In Death.

Indiana Man Finds Relief fr0m His Suf-
fering In Death.
George Lucas, of Walton, near Koko-
mo, Ind, is dead of remorse and fear.
His life has been a sad one, and death
was no doubt welcomed as relief. In
1864 Mr.. Lucas, who was an ardent and
uncompromising unionist, killed two
soldier boys that were home on fur
Tough, they being Byron and George
knight, sons of a near neighbor. Some
one as q joke told Lucas that the Knight
boys had deserted and were plotting
against the government. Lucas tried
to compel the Knights to return to the
service, and in the fight that followed
he shot both of them fatally. When
matters We're explained Lucas went raw
ing mad, and from that hour he was u
mental wreck, and for 80 years has been
a greet care to his family. To the hour
of his death he was tortured by the
fear that the dead mems friends were
seeking his life.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07


to India for five years when you had
only seen her three times, and you pro-
posed to her just before you left, and
never saw her again till this morning,
and now she has come out all this long
way to be married to you, and-oh!
Capt. Barnes, hope I don't seem
cheeky, do talk SO, but It's all so love-
~ and romantic, isn't it? Imean, hay
ing been true to each other all these
years, and now, after all the waiting.
You know didn't even know you were
engaged till Miss Gwynne was pointed
out to me as your fiancee, and I was
introduced. Why didn't you tell me
you We're engaged Capt. Barnes?"
81 didn't think it would interest you,
Miss Rosie"
ooh! is that snub? No? Well,
it has more than interested me, it has
made me. l think that's the music
beginning; shall we move?"
Not yet; will you finish your SEN
tence? 1t has made you-what2"
"oh, nothing, only-well, ii you must
know, it has made me think"
"Of what?"
"of men, and their ways; you see
Oh, it is so hard to explain!"
"Never mind, try again; I'm not in
any hurry, and when you get excited
you do look SO bewitching, you know,
Miss Rosie"
There, now, that's what mean; you
see you've so often said things Of that
sort to me before, and didn't think
when men We're engaged they said
things like that to other girls; that's
why I was so surprised to hear you
had fiancee."
"You are very young, Miss Rosie"
us that why you said those things to
me?" -
"INhat things?" :.
"Why, that was bewitchhg when /
got excited, and that my eyes had a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
Rubber Sails.

A proposition is at present in the
wind to make the sails Of ships of rub
Der instead Of canvas. It is supposed
that if roped strongly along foot, huff
and leach, the result will be superior to
the canvas sails. Surely, however, 9
sudden increase Of wind power would
expand the sail too much and cause
some difficulty in governing the course
of the boat. Paper pulp is again sug-
gested as being an adequate substitute
for canvas. When pressed into sheets
and stitched together it would make a
light and effective sail.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07


strange fascination for you, and you
wished there We're more girls like me
in the world, and-oh we'll, Capt.
Barnes, you must remember lots and
lots of things you said"
Don't scold me, Miss Rosie; it was
very wrong of me, but tried not to,
and won't any more; will that please
your"
pause, then rather constrained lit
tile voice): 81 don't understand, Capt.
Barnes; you tried not to?-why did you
try not to? didn't ask you to say such
things!" Voice rising in indigna-
tion.)
Don't talk so loud, Miss Rosie, there
might be another couple sitting behind
those plants; in fact, can hear voices"
eyes (viciously), it might be Miss
Gwynne, mightn't it? And, of course.
when she was in England she couldn't
possibly hear what you said to me; but
why did you try not to, Capt. Barnes I?
l didn't ask you to; didn't want YOU
to-"
No? No, Of course not; you didn't
ask, but sometimes you-you tempted
me-"
What nonsense! tempted you!
never wanted you to say them, tell
you. How did tempt you?"
well, You locked rather happy some
times after have said some such things
to you, and that made me want to say
something else"
And all the time you knew you were
engaged to Mss Gwynne, and in love
with her, and-no, still don't under
stand, Capt. Barnes"
NO, of course you don't understand;
you're only little girl, Miss Rosie, and
You think everyone in the world ID
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07

good, and honest. and innocent, like
yourself; but do you think you could
try and understand how a man might
think he had met the one woman In the
world for him, and he asks her to go
through life with him, and then he
has to go away for a long time, and the
remembrance OF her growsa little faint?
He tries hard not to let 1t die out al
together, because he knows he is in
honor bound, and that the woman loves
him, and then-do you follow me, Miss
Rosie ?-he meets another woman"
"There are such a lot of women in this
story, Capt. Barnes, 1t is growing ratih-
er confusing. Shall we go back to the
dancing roomT
"lIe meets another woman, who Is
altogether different, above and apart
from anything he ever dreamed of In q
woman"
Eyes, 1t is very pretty story, Capt.
Barnes, but have been here long
enough; besides, you needn't trouble to
explain: there hasn't been any damage
done, to this woman, at any rate; Of
course, don't know about the others. y
Miss Rosie, you do Understand,
really, don't you? There are only two
women, one is May Gwynne, and the
other"
Good gracious! what smashi
Somebody has knocked down a pot,
believe, and one of those lovely azaleas.
Then there was some one there, and
they must have heard that silly story Of
yours!"
II don't think SO; don't care. Miss
Rosie, you are quite cure it didn't do
any damage?"
what. the flower pot2 Well. don't
know. Shall I go and see?"
"You know what 1 mean-not the
flower pot-the things said"
II have forgotten them, Capt. Basnes.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-07
Dog browns Rats.

Jesse Bartlett, of Gardiner, Me-, owns
dog that can be clsssed among the In
telligent ones. His master catches a.
great many rats in trap, and Is in the
habit Of taking the rodents in cage
to nearby stream, placing the cage In
the water, thus drowning them. Re-
Gently Mr.. Bartlettwas away, and, after
waiting until II o'clock and he not re-
turning, the dog seized the cage in his
teeth, bore it to the stream and dropped
it in. 1t was big load for him, but he
got there on time