Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-09-23
CURRENT EVENTS.

Hamlin Garland, the western novelist, Is
reported to have made rich gold disoov-
try on Attn lake, Alaska.
Ex-Gov, A. P. swineford, Of Alaska, es;
Inmates that about SIS 100000 worth Of gold
will be taken out this year.
The Big -Four passenger station at New
Paris, IND, was robbed of 500 Tuesday
while the agent was at dinner,
Secretary Aess. when asked about his re.
ported resignation, saidt There's not q
word Of truth In II, that's ALL"
The Carriage Builders National associe,
ton assembled for the twenty-sixth annual
convention in St Louis Tuesday.
Queen Wilhelmina, accompanied by the
(parliament Of the Netherlands) Tues.
day.
st. Louis companies are said to be In
cluded in a deal for the consolidation of all
the plug tobacco factories in the United
States.
Special dispatches from Madrid say the
provincial councils election has resulted III
the return Of the ministerial nominees, ex-
cept at Bilbao.
miners lockout situation at Pana. ILL.,, from
the standpoi Of victory for either the OPP
orators or miners
The survey for an electric line to con-
meet Morris, ILL.,, with Lake Geneva, Wis.
Is nearly finished Several towns will be
benefited by the line
Martin de Grody, the well-known rabbit
raiser Of Great Britain. is in Chicago, with
q view OF investigating the facilities of the
industry in the United States.
At the republican congressional conven.
ton Of the Fourth Connecticut district
Tuesday, Representative e. ]. Hill, of Nor
walk, was unanimously renominatsd.
Battery B, Illinois national guard, which
has been in camp at Camp Lincoln, Spring
Held, for three weeks ready to move to
Pana, left for home (Galesburg) Tuesday
afternoon
Brown Bros, OF New York, have engaged
f1,000,0 900 and Zimmerman & Forshay $780,
900 gold for import Lazard Freres have
engaged s1,000,O00 gold in London for I'M
port to New York.
The Sixth Illinois infantry will leave
Springfield for home at once on a 60-day
furlough. OF 40 siok In the military hos
pital Is were sent home. The others win
remain In the hospital.
The French cabinet council Tuesday
morning reappointed Gen. Zurlinden to the
post OF military governor of Paris, which
he occupied previous to accepting the port
folio Of minister Of war
The supreme council Of Sovereign Grand
Inspectors General Of the thirty-third de-
sonic jurisdiction, opened its eighty-sixth
annual session in Cincinnati Tuesday.
A rear-end collision between freight
trains occurred on the Union Pacific near
Grand Island, Neb., Tuesday morning,
Engineer Reddy was fatally scalded, his
engine was demolished and several cara
wrecked.
The coal miners strike In the third pool
- over and work will be resumed in all
a ne
the differences by arbitration. Both sides
have agreed to abide by the decision Of the
arbltrators.
A telegram from Lillooet, B. O., states
that 500 ounces Of gold amalgam have been
stolen from the Golden Cache mine, 1t was
the result Of three-weeks' cleanup and
was worth about $4,000. There is no clew
to the robbers
Fire damaged the building at Taylor and
Rockwell streets. Chicago, occupied by
Miller, Hall & Co., iron and brass bed man.
ufaoturers, to the extent of about $4,000.
Forty men at work in the building narrow-
ly escaped death.
Agas explosion occurred in the Slope coal
mine at Lisbon, 80 miles from Youngstown,
o., Monday night. John Connolly was
killed. The remainder Of the night shift
had narrow escapes. The mine is on fire
half q mile from the entrance.
Hon. John Sherman is Ill at his residence
IA washington from an acute attack Of
bronchitis. He has been in bed for about
week. but his condition is not regarded
~ at all dangerous and the hope is ex-
pressed that he will soon recover.
The most influential and commercial
bodies in California have united in send
Ing President Mckinley telegraphic in
vttatton for him to visit that state and San
Francisco Immediately after his con.
templated visit to Omaha next month.
It is said that Col. William Jennings
Bryan, Of the Third Nebraska volunteers,
will shortly resign his commission in the
United States army and resume the discus.
sion Of public questions. This statement
is not made upon the authority of Col.
Bryan. however.
It is the intention Of the navy depart
ment to place three men-of-war in commits
sion during the coming month. They are
the cruisers Chicago and Atlanta, which
have been undergoing repairs at the New
York navy yard for two years. and the
gunboat Yorktown, which has been put in
condition for service at the Mare Island
navy yard.