Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03
CURRENT EVENTS.

Sir Francis Clare Ford, recently British
ambassador at Rome, is dead.
A special from Winnipeg, Man, says that
Chief Justice Sir Thomas Taylor, Of Mani.
toba, has resigned.
The comptroller of the currency has re-
celVed a telegram announcing the failure
OIL the First national bank of Russell, Kan.
There is now no prospect that the record
or the court-martial In the case of Gen.
Eagan will reach the president before the
end of this week.
The state department has been informed
that the president of Honduras has formal-
~ recognized DR.. Hunter as United States
minister to that country.
The French government is negotiating
with French and British f1nanciers for a
loan of $4,000, 900 to a10, 600, 900 Gao, O0O, 900 to
Sol, 100000 to be devoted to army and navy
purposes.
Rev. Charles A.. Berry, D. D., fell dead
tuesday while conducting the funeral serv-
Tothericks, in the Wesleyan chapel at
Bilslon. Staffordshire. England.
Bishop Santander at Havana has served
notice that no Protestant priest can take
active part in the ceremonies over the
graves Of the Names dead who are buried
in the Cristobal Colon cemetery.
a parrot that had more accomplishments
than a vaudeville star and a market value
of $1,000 died at New York last Friday. Its
name was Mynah. and 1t had been for many
years the pet Of Miss Emma Thursby. the
singer.
Ethan Allen, aged "a, a veteran newspa-
per man, who has conducted various pa
pers In Missouri since 1856, was foundd dead
In bed at Lexington. Mo-, Tuesday. Allen
was born In keesville, N. Y, and had been
a mason for IS years.
Believing the Philippines and Hawaiian
islands are to be trans-Mississippi territory,
Secretary Knight, Of the commercial con-
gress. has extended an invitation to Aguin-
aldo and President Dole to be present at the
meeting in Wichita, Kan, In May.
Postal Inspector ]. ]. Larmour, of Chi
cago, has left Seattle, Wash, having in
custody w. G. Simmons, who is accused of
embezzling $1,000 from the government
while acting as postmaster at Hesperia,
Mich. Mr.. Simmons has been wanted since
1898.
Ferdinand w. Peck, commissioner gem
eral. and other members Of the Paris expo
mousse committee on appropriations at
Washington and urged that the appropria-
ton for the United States exhibit be in
creased to 81, 500, 600.
Charles Schultz, known in San Francisco
as 6 bartender and in Evansville, Ind, as
the exiled son Of a millionaire lumber
dealer, wac found dead in a lodging house
in the former city and his body was taken
to the morgue. His relatives have been
notified of his death.
Michael Rumniski, who %strangled him
self to death in the county jail at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, on January II, confessed before
committing suicide that he had not only
killed his wife, but had strangled his baby,
three years ago. He was Jealous of his
wife, and killed the child because he did
not think 1t was his.
Arrangements were perfected at the war
department Tuesday for the muster out of
the Eighth Illinois infantry and the Twen-
ty-third Kansas infantry, now in the de-
partment of Santiago. and the Forty
seventh New York infantry and the Sixth !
U. 8. v. infantry (white immunes) now
stationed in Porto Rico.
The great record of the freight movement
made January Is on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, when 50 trains passed eastward
through Altoona, Pa, was broken Saturday
when 81 trains passed eastward. At the
same time there were from so to 70 west
bound trains to be looked after, besides
clearing S6 passenger trains.