Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-29
SHORT SPECIALS.

61lOlU1 C1
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is seriously
Ill at San Diego, Cal.
United States marshal of Oklahoma ter
ritory.
The losses of the tribesmen at the storm
ing of Dargal ridge were 1000 killed and
wounded.
Stephen Scroggins has been killed with
three other men near Weiner Ark, by a
boiler explosion.
pleading guilty to murder, was sentenced
to prison for life.
William B. Sorsby, of Mississippi, has
been appointed consul at San Juan Del
Norte (Greytown), Nicaragua.
The large grain elevator of Frost Bros.
eat Macon, Ill.,, was totally destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
The boiler on Bedford, Weikel & Nugent's
gravel digger, Evansville, Ind, blew up,
killing one man and wounding five Others
The Northwestern military academy at
Highland Park, ILL.,, Is designated by Adjt.
Gen. Reece as a post of the Illinois national
guard.
Tuesday the council of the London assoc
ciated stock exchanges adopted a resolu-
ton against the Bank of England holding
silver. in its reserve.
Eugene v. Debs spoke at Faneuil hall,
Boston. Tuesday to an audience of work.
ingmen and women on his cooperative COM
monwealth project.
Ex-Congressman Charles w. Woodman
was found insane by jury in Judge Car
ter's court, Chicago, and has been taken to
the asylum at Elgin.
DR.. Gorfrey Hunter, of Kentucky it is
understood, has accepted the mission to
Guatemala and will be appointed soon after
the election in Kentucky.
Andrew Hasche, 10 years old, had his
neck broken in scrimmage during game
OF football at Casino Beach, near Stein
way, l.. l., Sunday afternoon.
The Brazil Qnd.) block coal miners have
orders to quit work Saturday unless the op-
orators decide to adopt the check-off sys-
tenn of dues for United Mine Workers.
Over 100000 of alleged fraudulent war;
rants on the United States treasury on the
account of the Creek Indian nation in In
dian territory have been discovered by gov
eminent authorities.
The supreme court of Iowa declares that
while no law compels bicyclists to use lam
terms or bells at night, wheelmen without
them are guilty of contributory negligence
in case Of accident.
Another woman has come forward to
claim portion of the $25 900, 900 estate left
by 1mbay Clarke, who died in Australia in
1876 She is Ellen Clarke Linforth, widow
of the late Edward Fl. Linford.
DR.. Kathrein, president of the lower house
of the Austrian reichsrath, has rendered
his resignation as president. The resigna-
ton was undoubtedly due to the recent dis
orderly scenes in the reichsrath
| Harvard and the University of California
| will have an intercollegiate chess match
by telegraph month hence, and prepara-
| tions have been commenced for telegraph
lie match with Princeton and with the Dem
yer Chess club.
Prof Charles w. Shields, of Princeton
university, announces that he will with.
| draw from the Presbyterian church be-
cause of the trouble over granting liquor
license to Princeton inn, the petition for
which he signed.
The newspapers of Paris publish a tele-
gram from Saragossa, Spain, declaring the
king of Siam, who has been visiting Spain
and Portugal, has condemned member of
| his suite to be executed for breach of ETH
quette committed at Lisbon.
Miss Estella Rowena Guthries body was
| found in the lake off Graceland avenue
! Chicago. She was the daughter of Rev,
| Hugh w. Guthrie and a teacher in the
; Belle PLANE avenue school, 1t is supposed
| she committed suicide because of grief over
| her mothers death.
| The Colorado statute under which for
several years the police department of Den.
| yer has at will seized, confiscated and de-
| stroyed gambling implements was declared
by Judge Allen in the district court Mon
day to be unconstitutional and in conflict
| with federal statutes.
| William Broderick Cloete, of London, has
purchased at Marcus Days Bitter Root
stock farm in Montana imported Matt
Byrnes, by Hampton, dam Cherry, paying
$4,000 for the horse. Mr.. Cloete has also
| purchased six mares The lot will be
shipped to England.
| All of the coal miners of Boulder coun.
| ty, Col, are out on strike. 1t is said that
at one of the mines in Lafayette the man.
! ayers reduced the wages of machine men
| ten cents a ton. Word was sent to all the
| miners in the district to close down and
| the order was implicitly obeyed