Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13
FACTS BRIEFLY STATED.

Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympia sailed
Tuesday from Hong Kong for Singapore,
returning to the United States.
Col. r. F. Maddox, head of the banking
house of Maddox, Rucker & Co., died at his
home in Atlanta, Ga, of paralysis
The Reformed Presbyterian national
synod decided to meet May 80 next at Ce-
darville, o., for their annual conference.
Frederick O. Prince, well-known bank
er and former mayor of Boston, died Tues
day, aged 81 years. Death was due to lung
trouble.
The five-ton schooner Coke has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila. Capt.
Freitch, the sole occupant of the little ves-
sci, expects to reach the Philippines in 60
days.
The tracks of the White Pass railway
will be completed to Lake Bennett by July
l. The schedule time from Puget Sound
ports to Dawson will then be about eight
days.
| The exposition of natural and manufac-
tured products of the south will take place
| at the Grand Central palace in New York,
| commencing October 25 and ending Decem-
| Der l. 1899.
For three days the mercury has regis
tered in the nineties in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Many of the mills have been forced to shut
down temporarily, and a large number Of
prostratfons have occurred.
II. II. DyIQ, VI 1dlidpOOSa, Ga, secretary
or colony now being formed in that To-
cality for settlement in California, writes
that the organization is growing fast, and
that it will probably comprise some 500
members.
Mr.. Robert Wallace. liberal, member of
the British parliament for East Edinburgh,
who. while speaking during the debate
MONDAY on the grant to Gen. Kitchener, Of
khartoum. was seized with cerebral paraly-
sis, is dead.
Inc seventh annual convention of the
!lnnois Printing Crafts union convened in
Ottawa, Ill., Tuesday, for three days ses-
sion. representatives from Chicago, Elgin,
aurora. Peoria. Springfield, Danville and
Ottawa are present.
savings bank. of Dover. N. H., has been ar
rested and the bank closed, a shortage of
So,oVo being charged against him. The
Cocheco national bank, of which Hough
was teller, has also suspended.
The fifth annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Credit Men opened at
buHalo, N. T., and will continue for three
days. The question of petitioning congress
to amend the bankruptcy act will be the
most important subject considered.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the Amer
lean Medical association opened in Column
bus, O., Tuesday. Doctors from all parts
OF the United States are present, and it is
reach in the neighborhood of $500 persons.
The grand lodge of odd fellows for the
state of Wisconsin convened in annual ses-
sion in Oshkosh Tuesday with 600 members
present. The state encampment Daughters
of Rebekah is also in session, with an at
tendance of 80. The sessions last three
days.
"A cyclone struck the southwest part of
the town of Ryan, I. IT, and totally
wrecked two houses. The Davidson hotel
was partially destroyed No lives were
lost, but cyclone cellar saved the Shell
ton family, whose house was torn to
shreds.
BY direction of the president, the acting
secretary of war has issued an order for
the reestablishment of the military de-
partment of Texas and the assignment Of
Col. Chambers McKibben, of the Twenty
first infantry, to command of the depart
ment.
The cabinet Tuesday transacted no busi-
ness of general importance. The entire
time of the meeting was devoted to rou-
tine matters connected with the various
departments. The Philippine situation only
came up incidentally and developed MOTH
ing new.
Before leaving San Francisco for Eu-
rope Tuesday Mrs. Leland Stanford re-
peated her decision not to allow more than
800 female students admission to the Stan
ford university at once. her idea being to
prevent the Institution from becoming a
school for girls ra Their than for boys, for
which it was originally intended.
Gen. Maxine Gomez. the former COM
mander in chief of the Cuban army has is
sued his farewell manifesto in which, after
referring to his 80 years service in the
army inst disbalnded, he says there is no
longer need of soldiers, but men for the
maintenance of peace and order. which are
LAG oasis of Culba'S future welfare.