Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-11-05
SHORT SPECIALS.

Spain is reported to have purchased new
cruisers In England.
A strawboard trust, controlling every
plant in the United States. has been formed.
Thirty-f1ve New York women will start
December l for the Klondike by way Of
Cape Horn.
Gen. j. c. Howe, adjutant general OF
Ohio under Gov. Mckinley, is dead at Ken
ton, aged 43.
The Lehigh brick and tile plant at Web
ster City, Ia. burned. Loss, $4,000: in
surance, $1,000
William F. Brown died at Newcastle, Pa,
from injuries received In football game
three years ago.
At st. Louis Tuesday two men were IA
tally hurt and four badly injured by the
fall of a scaffold.
Seven persons were killed and "a were
hurt by trolley cars In Chicago during the
month of October.
A society has been formed by employers
In Germany to insure against strikes. It
Will have capital Of 100000 marks.
A meeting of prominent Cubans at New
York declared against autonomy and de.
cided to stand for the complete independ.
ence Of Cuba.
The trouble over the Princeton inn LIQUOR
license Is likely to result in serious breach
between Princeton university and the
Presbyterian church.
os an eAplosion IN the National match
factory In Buenos Ayres the building was
badly damaged. Five persons were killed
and four badly injured.
The Illinois supreme court has decided
that physicians are compelled to give ex.
pert testimony in court without other com.
pensation than regular witness fees,
James H. Jordan, postmaster of Denver
COL, olea at midnight from an overdose
OF morphine pills which he had taken Mon.
day evening, SuppoSine them IN he 20 tho vi,
pills. - - NsAA' ''e
Representative w. F. Brown, of the Kan.
sas legislature, accuses national republican
committeeman of offering him a bribe to
vote against the maximum railroad bin
last winter.
and great philanthropist died at Valpa raise.
chill, of pulmonary disease. He was a
FORMER senator and had also held the Of
flee of minister of state.
The prospects for crops In Argentina
are splendid. and there Is every Indication
IN Inat the yield OF wheat will be very large.
wheat Is being purchased there.
Col. James Cochrane. the republican can.
oidate Tor state senator from the Ninth
virginia senatorial district, was stricken
with apopleXy in Virginia Tuesday morn
Ing and died In few moments
-Four laborers were killed and several
"SAS AhJu1eo ny an explosion OF
dynamite near Victor, Cal, Tuesday. The
men We're blasting rock in grading for the
roadbed of the Cripple Creek District cleo.
trio railway.
During the progress of fire at Rornot,.
oyeing and securing establishment in Phil.
adelphia Tuesday a large can of ben.
zine exploded. Thirteen firemen were CT
seriously burned that they had to be taken
to hospital.
The Northern Illinois Poultry associa flor
mas elected w. w. Sawyer president: W
II. heyt, vice president, and A. H. Curr,er
secretary, and fixed the date OF the m
nual exhibit for January l0-l5. at Armor,
hall, Rockford. ILL.,
The largest cargo of wheat ever loaded
IN vessel of Puget sound was nIacee
on the steamer Clenfarg Tuesday. which
cleared at Tacoma, WASH. for ST. Vincent
The cargo consisted of l7O.43O bushels ~
wheat. valued at $4,000.
At meeting Of the Seattle, Wash. cham
per OF commerce steps We're taken to ente
the city OF Seattle for prize competitio,
! at the Paris exposition of 1890. Some ca at
ern city OF the same size as Seattle is asked
10 enter into competition with It,
| The bishops of the Methodist Episcona
church who have been meeting in semi
annual session at Baltimore, Nd, com
pleteo their work Monday Eight. when Thu
heeting adjourned. The next meeting viii
be held In Albion. Mich. May 4. 1898.
Inc village of Pinconning, Mich, wa
| visited by the worst conflagrat ton in q
history Tuesday. The fire started in DR.
Porter's residence on Second street. lea ne,
across to Kaiser street. and cleaned out tn
buildings on both sides for a distance o
three blocks,