Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-07-14
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The sugar trust Is about to establish
large chemical plant at Philadelphia with
capital OF $1,50OOOO.
The Glenmary Coal company, of Glen
mary, Tenn, raised the wages of 500 miners
ten per cent Tuesday
President Mckinley sent message of
coincidence upon the occasion of the death
of Prince George of Russia.
1t Is reported that Russia Is arranging 8
loan in the United States and that large
orders have been made for rails and arma-
ments to counterbalance 1t.
President Mckinley is said to favor the
plan of allowing the Cuban people to vote
on the question Of independence for the
island or annexation to the United States.
A special from Cory, Pa. says Mrs. Ella
Shattuck, accused of numbering her hus-
band, Clarence e. Shattuck, Monday, has
been released, there being no evidence.
against her.
Fire destroyed the Pontiac spring and
wagon works at Pontiac. Mich. One dwell
Ing house adjoining was also burned. The
total loss is estimated at $4,000; insurance
about 100000
The steamer Portia, which struck on Big
Fish shoal, Is miles east of Halifax, Sum
day night, filled and sank Monday night
The only victim of the wreck was a 12-year-
old Assyrian lad.
At Tuesdays session of the Venezuelan
arbitration commission, in Paris, Sir Rich
ard Webster, the British attorney general,
continued his argument in behalf of the
case of Great Britain.
Three months court mourning for the
death OF the czarowitz Grand Duke George
OF Russia, brother of the car, who died
Monday of consumption al Abbas Tuman,
In the Caucasus, has been ordered
The war department announces that the
customs receipts at the port of Havana for
June were S1,Ol2s99. The total receipts for
1889 are, to be exact, $5,146,S3O. The MONTH
~ average for six months is 1857, $685.
1t may be authoritatively stated that re-
ports that Secretary Alger has rendered
his resignation are without foundation,
me secretary has taken no such action.
nor has his resignation been asked for.
The Distillery Company Of America with
an authorized capital of s125, O00,O 900, was in
ture and deal In whisky, spirits. alcohol,
gin and all distillery products and by.
products,
By direction of the president, the new
military post near Spokane, Wash, has
been named Fort Wright, in honor of Gen.
George Wright, who was colonel of the
Ninth infantry and a brigadier general of
volunteers.
Albert Smith, middle-aged negro, was
hanged Tuesday in the county Jail at Har-
risburg, Pa, for wife murder. Smith left
a statement to be made public after his
burial. No religious services were held
on the gallows.
An order Of the war department permits
the immediate family of the regular or
volunteer soldier who Is absent abroad to
purchase at cost prices fuel and subsist-
ence stores which are for the immediate
use of the family
Belgium, having removed the restrictions
on the importation of American cattle at
certain ports, provided they are immediate.
~ slaughtered, Germany hastens to forbid
the importation Of fresh beef from Bel
gium after July Is.
The Metropolis Tunnel Railroad COM
pany, with temporary capital of $50 900,
was incorporated in Albany to build a
100000 tunnel to connect Brooklyn and
Jersey City under the two rivers and the
Island of Manhattan.
A dispatch from Brussels says: Great
preparations are being made in view of the
expected arrival of the Brooklyn at Ant
werp. The king will probably visit the city
and festivities will be organized in honor
of the American sailors.
The government of Queensland has
cabled to the British secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain, Offering
zb0 mounted infantry with machine gun,
for service in South Africa, in case of hos:
tilities between Great Britain and the
Transvaal. ''
An order has been issued by the president
extending privileges and protection of the
American flag to the shipping of Porto Rico
and the Philippines. All ships owned by
residents of these islands at the time of
the exchange of the ratification of treaties
are included in the order.