Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-12-03
SHORT SPECIALS.

John w. Kelley. of Kelley motor fame,
has invented flying machine.
Rev. Prof. James Legge. D. D., LII. D.,
Is dead at London, aged 50 years.
Ex-senator Philetus Sawyer is i'll with
tonsilitis at his home In Oshkosh. Wis.
The corner stone of the new 81, O0O, 900 Con.
gregational house was laid at Boston rues-
day.
A dime-in-the-slot machine for registered
letters is being tested in the New York post
Office.
The Boston republican convention has
unanimously nominated Edwin M. Curtis
for mayor.
Gen. John s. Mason, veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, died in Washing
ton. aged 70 years.
DR.. Won Narquardson. the eminent Ba-
varian jurist and professor Of Erlangen
university. is dead.
Sir Henry Arthur Blake, captain general
and governor in chief of Jamaica since 1889,
| has been appointed governor of Hong
Kong.
The American Electric Vehicle company
Of Chicago has decided to locate its plant
for manufacturing horseless carriages at
Dayton, o.
The steamer Dauntless has again eluded
the officials Of the government and is of
| for Cuba with cargo Of arms and NUM-
lions of war.
DR.. John L. Elliott. of Duluth, MIMI,
died of typhoid fever. He was formerly a
resident of Bay City. Mich, and was 40
years of age.
The new Austrian cabinet Of which
Baron Won Gautsch Won Frankenthurn Is
president of the council of ministers, has
been completed.
kegee, Ala. was formally opened Tuesday
in connection with Booker T. Washington's
normal and Industrial institution
Judge w. p. Douthitt, one of the Oldest
citizens of Topeka and a lawyer Of promi-
nence In Kansas, is dead. He was born In
Vevay, Switzerland county, md, December
Is, 1927.
A twosyear-old daughter of Charles Chef
Ter, or st. Anne, ILL.,. died of burns. six.
year-old sister playing with matches set
fire to the dress of the child while the
mother was at neighbours house.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse made new
eastward record on her last trip from
Sandy Hook to Southampton. her time be-
Ing days, II hours and As minutes
The supreme court Of Missouri has over
| ruled the motion for rehearing in the case
| of George Thompson, st. Louis negro
sentenced TO be hanged on January Z, 1898,
| for the murder of church sexton.
| Chicago parties have purchased the plant
and business Of the Illinois Sewing Ma
| chine company. one of the largest indus
tries in Rockford, ILL., They will continue
the business on an increased scale.
| At Baltimore. Md. United States Sen.
ator George L. Wellington Tuesday morn.
Ing filed presentment against Gen. Felix
| Agnus, charging criminal libel, and II is
understood that civil suits will follow.
John Mccormick. editor and publisher of
the Meridian Daily News, of Meridian,
| Miss, stopped in st. Louis Tuesday on his
| way to Chicago in search Of his son John.
who has been mysteriously missing since
last July.
The president appointed Mr.. George M.
Harries, of Washington, to be brigadier
general of the militia of the District Of
Columbia, to succeed the late Gen. Ordway,
former commanding officer of the district
national guard.
| The plan to consolidate the wire rod, wire
| nail and other wire industries Of the United
| States is reported to be near completion. It
is understood that each mill is to be Dur.
| chased outright and that the enterprise
will involve s60.000,0O0.
| monthly steamship service has been
| established between New York and India.
| The first steamer, the Sahara. has arrived.
Heretofore American trade with the far
east has been usually done by transfer In
English or Mediterranean ports.
| In an address reviewing the recent gen.
eral assembly at Louisville the executive
board of the Knights of Labor declares that
the order has largely increased in member.
ship during the last year, and that 1t is
in better condition than ever before.
The last session OF the present German
reichstag was opened in the white hall Of
4 the royal castle at noon Tuesday EN-.
tperor William opened the.session in person
for the first time since 1894. The ceremony
| took place in the white hall Of the royal
/ castle. His majesty read the speech from
| the throne.