Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-19
SHORT SPECIALS.

The pope has condemned the settlement
OF the Manitoba school question.
Prof. w. II. Won Riehl the Bavarian pub
licist and historian, is dead, aged rs years.
Frank Blair, aged seven, died at Penn
Station, Pa, from injuries received in
football game.
The storehouse Of the c. A. Woolsey
paint and color works in Jersey City coll
lapsed Tuesday. The loss to the company
will be about $4,000.
Frank A. Price. building contractor, was
Instantly killed in Chicago by falling from
the fourth story of a new building of the
Mccormick harvesting machine works.
The general assembly of the knights Of
Labor Tuesday morning selected Chicago
as the place and the first Tuesday in Mo-
vember. 1898. as the time for their next meet
Ing.
William Sidney Wilson, prominent law
yer and son of the late United States Sena-
tor Wilson, committed suicide at his home
In Snow Hill. Md, while temporarily in
sane.
The Jury in the Dorsey bank-wrecking
case has announced It's inability to agree.
Assistant Cashier Higgins. who was joint
iy indicted with Frank NJ. Dorsey, was
acquitted.
Consul Macbride. at Edinburgh, says in
a report to the state department that it
is claimed in that city that American frozen
clandestinely.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says: Ar
gentfna's coming wheat crop is estimated
at 10000 tons. Deducting home consume
ton, there will remain at least 1,O0O, 900 tons
for export.
Col. John Jameson, general superintend-
ent Of the United States railway mail SER
vice under President Arthur, is dead at his
home In Brooklyn. He was born in AL
bany, N. Y, in 1871.
The Spanish newspaper National asserts
that Spain will grant Gen. Weyler the
grand cross of Saint Ferdinand and year.
ly pension of $1,000, besides appointing him
captain general Of the Philippines.
L. d. Spickler, a farmer, shot and killed
his wife and afterwards blew out his own
brains at Gushing. Ia. The wife was shot
in the breast and did not die for several
hours. Four children are made ophans by
the tragedy.
The president is gathering information
regarding his message and has been dis
GUESSING the subject with members of the
cabinet. ascertaining their views and their
opinions of suggestions offered by senator's
and representatives.
After prolonged session the directors of
the Delta county (Col.) bank concluded to
suspend business and place the Institutions
affairs In the hands of an assignee. The
bank has been regarded as one of the sound
est on the western slope.
l. A. Winstanley and c. ]. Frederick,
president and cashier respectively of the
defunct New Albany Qnd) Banking COM
| pany, were arrested in New Albany and
taken to Jeffersonville to answer indict-
ments charging perjury.
Orders have been issued for the final
| trials of the Wheeling and the Marietta at
Mare Island. The Wheeling will go to sea
for two days run on the 26th and the
trial of the Marietta will occur as soon as
she returns from Alaska
Senior Ramos and a delegation of Next
cans interested in the manufacture of ma.
Per near the City of Mexico. are inspecting
the paper mills at Glens Falls N. v, with
view to introducing improved American
machinery in their own mills
The secretary Of the navy has ordered
| an investigation of charges that discrimina-
| ton against grand army veterans is prac.
| ticed IN the employment of men at Mare
Island navy yard. A formal complaint
was lodged recently by 100 veterans.
| The threatened rupture between Germany
and Hayti has been amicably settled.
thanks to the mediation Of United States
Minister W. F. Powell. The dispute arose
| out of the Imprisonment of Emile Leuders.
the son of German who married a Haytia n
woman.
number of representative men of Fort
Scott. Kan. have perfected the organiza-
tion of league for the purpose of OPEN
4 Ing throughout the state an aggressive ca m.
paign Of business men for the resubmis.
sion and the repeal of the Kansas prohib-
itory law.
At Liberty. Mo-. William Carr. the fill
eide, was Tuesday morning sentenced to
hang on December II. Carr drowned his
three-year-old daughter in the Missouri
river, Weighing the body down with stones.
He received the sentence with a smile Of
| satisfaction.