Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-22
FACTS BRIEFLY STATED.

Petroleum springs near Baku, Russia,
have caught fire and the whole valley Is q
sea of flames.
Joseph Jefferson made temperance talk
to 500 convicts in the Massachusetts state
prison at Charlestown.
Veronica Miller, member of the Grau
Opera company, playing at New Orleans,
died Tuesday morning.
The general council of the Evangelical
Lutheran church closed its sessions at
Erie, Pa, on Tuesday.
AT Denver, Col, on Tuesday Alden Law
ings died from the effects of morphine
taken while in Respondent mood.
DR.. William H. Ford, president of the
board of health of Philadelphia, died sud-
denly at his summer home in Belmar, N. J.,
aged IS years.
Fighting has been resumed in India, Gen.
Sir Yeatman Biggs having driven several
thousand tribesmen from Chagru and
burned many villages.
The Union Veterans union of Iowa began
q three days meeting at Cedar Rapids
Tuesday for the purpose of organizing a
permanent state organization.
The German government has granted the
exequatur of Benjamin Nusbaum, of Penn
sylvania, recently appointed consul at
Munich, against whom there was strong
fight.
The German government, it is UNDER
stood, has decided to rearm the entire in
fantry with the new siX-millimeter rifle.
said to surpass the weapons of all other
states
The ST. Louis police think they have To-
Vile, Wis. He is wanted in Union City,
Ind, on the charge of embezzling $50, 900
in 1896.
The convention of the Episcopal missions
airy council opened at st. Pauls church.
Milwaukee. Wis, Tuesday. This is one of
fHn To- ppnan hn1l INV f1,n
council.
John Martin, an employee of the United
States treasury, has been arrested and in
dicted for taking silver dollars from bags
and substituting lead to make up the
weight.
Consul Sharp. at Hiogo, Japan, sends to
| the state department a clipping from the
Kobe Herald showing that the rate of
wages in Japan is 80 per cent higher this
year than in 1895.
X. P. Sheedy, the high diver, leaped from
the Louisville & Jeffersonville bridge at
Louisville KY, into the Ohio river Tues
| day morning, a distance of los feet. He
! was not injured in the least.
Rogers Brown G. Co., of Cincinnati, O.,
have leased the entire plant, furnace and
ore mines of the Valentine Iron company
| at Bellefonte, Pa, and will prepare for a
resumption of the works on November 1.
President Mckinley. Mrs. Mckinley and
Secretary Porter will leave Washington
on the 18th inst. for visit to Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh. He will remain in Canton
until after the election on Tuesday, No
| vember 9.
In Hancock county, Tenn, near the Ken
lucky line, Sid Williams, a country mer-
chant. shot, killing William Epperson and
MORALLY wounding Milan Brewer, who
died shortly afterward. The two dead mer
assaulted Williams in his store.
The 800 employees OF John and James Dob.
sons Bradford (Pa.) cloth mills, who have
been on strike for several weeks, returned
to work Tuesday morning on receiving g
promise from the superintendent that the
ten per cent. in wages asked for would be
granted in the near future.
Consul-General Jernigen, at Shanghai
in report to the state department says
that since the Japanese-Chinese war The
tax on salt has been increased one-sixth Of
cent per pound. The revenue received
from the tax is estimated at $40, 927, 900, ant
the consumption at over $500, 00O, 900 pounds
At one period salt was used as money il