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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
LAWS ARE VALID.
Judge Prouty, of the District Court IL
Des Moines, Says Paving Con-
tracts Are Constitutional.

Judge Prouty, of the district court in
Des Moines, decided that the Iowa paw
lng-assessment laws are constitutional.
In December the United States SUI
preme court handed down a decision in
the case of the village of Norwood
against Baker, and in February one in
the case of Dewey against the city of
Des Moines, which were supposed to
have invalidated all the Iowa paving
statutes. For that reason all contracts
for paving have been given up by the
contractors, and the chances were that
there would be no paving done in the
state this year, and until the law was
remedied at the next meeting of the
legislature. The leading papers of the
state for some time advocated spe-
cial session of the legislature to rem
edy the defect in the statute.
If the decision of Judge Prouty
stands, and it is based upon former
rulings of the state supreme court,
it will do away with the necessity of
amending the law. The case in ques-
ton was entitled Estey against Hub
bard, but was of small Importance in
itself. The court held, in the recent
decision, that while the Iowa law is
in conflict to some extent with the rul-
ing of the United States supreme court.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09

uomen. severe; 1. Peter Madsen; abdomen,
severe; X, william 1. johnson, knee, mod
crate; Grant Chinn, leg, severe; L, Willard
B. Mason. hip slight
First Montana-K. Capt. Thomas 8. Dill
Ion. chest, severe; Privates Bruce Belknap,
breast, Slight G, Fred w. Smith, ear, mod
crate.
First South Dakota-E. Musician Van
Hook, leg. severe.
Fifty-first Iowa-C. Corp. John Cushing,
scalp. slight; e, Privates Everett Bron-
son. abdomen, slight; H. Charles Borden.
heel. slight.
Second Oregon-I. Private John T.
Reeves. knee; K, Corp. Edgar Chamber
lain, thigh. moderate.
Dewey Coming Home.
New York, May g. A special to the
Herald from Washington says: There
is reason to believe that President Nc
Kinley has been advised that Admiral
Dewey contemplatesc coming home with
in a short time His return will, of
course, be dependent upon the success
of the commissions present negasia.
lions with the Filipinos.
AS soon as they have laid down their
arms it is expected that he will pro-
coed with the protected cruiser Olympia
to the United States, probably through
the Suez canal, to New York, and come
Immediately to Washington to consult
with the president regarding the Phil.
ippines.
Remington Damaged.
Washington, May s. The following
dispatch has been received at the navy
department.:
Manila, May 6-Secretary Navy. Wash
ington: The Bennington grounded. shoal
not on chart, on north side of Panay, Phil
ippine islands. Came off % hours later.
Has been examined by divers. Damage
Is not serious, but is necessary to dock
vessel. I have sent to Hong-Kong. No
blame attached to anyone.
(Signed) DEWEY"
Spain Getting Impatient.
Madrid, May s. = In view of Aguinal-
dos refusal to negotiate with Spain for
the release of the Spanish prisoners,
the government of Spain has asked the
French government to arrange for
fresh negotiations at Washington
through the French ambassador there,
NJ. Jules Cambon, for the release of the
prisoners according to the stipulations
of the Paris peace treaty.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
CAPTURED BY MAC ARrHun's ARMY.

Longsnoremen's union is expected here
at any hour, and the executive commit
tee will at once hold meeting. Secre-
tary Barter says he really believes the
trouble will be speedily settled after
Keefe's arrival.
Henry C. Barter, secretary-treasurer
OF the International Longshoremen's
association, informed the committee
that plan for settlement of the
trouble had been prepared and would be
made public after submission to Pres
ident Keefe of his association, who is
expected here. The plan is said to be
to consolidate the clashing factions and
accept such reasonable concessions as
may be had.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
FOR BETTER ARMY RATION
The Wade Court of Inquiry Into
Beef Question Bears Its
First Fruits.
PRESIDENT READS REPORT, THEN ACTS.
Has Orders Sent to Army in Philip
pines, Cuba and Porto Rico for
Appointment of Board to Investi-
gate and Suggest Changes In Ra-
lions of Troops.

Washington, May s.-As a result OF
the presidents consideration of the
report of the Wade court of inquiry APP.
pointed to investigate the character OF
the food supplied to the army, es.
pecially meats, during the recent war
with Spain, the following instructions
were cabled to the military commanders
in the Philippines, in Cuba and in Porto
Rico:
Gen. Otis, Manila Gen. Brooke, Ha-
vana: Gen. Davis, San Juan: BY the
presidents direction you have from time
to time been requested to make sugges-
tions as to change of rations for your
troops, which you have complied with;
but to better enable the president to de-
termine under provisions of section Ling,
Revised Statutes, what alterations. if any,
in established ration would be conducive
to the better health of troops serving in
tropical climates. acting secretary of war
directs that you institute board of three
officers noted for their ability and expert
ence, serving respectively in the line med
ical and subsistence departments, to fully
examine into subject of any desired
changes in the rations for the troops of
your command, and that you submit sub
stance of report of its investigation by
cable, and full report by mail, together
with your recommendation. Refer to
board previous correspondence and other
available information relating to diatetics.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
WHAT is SAID ABOUT THEM,

Richard Mansfield smokes cigar
made especially for his private use.
w. S. Gilbert, the librettist, counts his
working hours from midnight to noon.
Robert Knight, the cotton king of Prov
idence, r. l., started life as a penniless
farmland.
Paul Villars, the correspondent in Lon
don of the Paris Figaro, has received the
order of the Legion d'Honneur.
Secretary of State Hay was brought up
a Presbyterian, and as boy was a regu-
lar attendant at the Presbyterian Sunday
school at Warsaw, Ill.
The Heard family, Of Washington, Ga,
preserved unchanged in their old house
the room in which the Confederate Cabi-
net held its last meeting.
Robert Taylor, the sheep raiser of
Grand Island, owns more sheep than any
other man in the country. Including
90, 600. = A'S
Miss Laura Smith, professor of En-
glish literature in the University Of Ne
vada, has, by the death Of distant rela-
tive in London, just inherited fortune
of $15,0O0.OOO.
General Miles seal ring, which is
upon the third finger of his left hand. is
of black onyx stone bearing in mono
gram the initials N. A. NJ.
Mrs. Coils P; Huntington, of New
York, has given $4,000 to build a domi
tory for girls at Booker 7. Washington's
Tuskegee College for Colored Youth. In
the last ten years her husband, Mr..
Huntington, has given in all 5000 600.
Gerome, the French artist, is talking
of giving up signing his pictures. He
says: "Velasquez, Rubens, Zurbaran.
Gainsborough Reynolds, Lawrence, and
j. M. w. Turner rarely signed. II and
artist has style his work is signed all
over"
Herman Q. Armour, of New York, has
given $4,000 to Witworth College, a
Presbyterian institution of Sumner.
Wash The gift comprises $500 in cash
127 acres of land in West Seattle. a
house and lot in Seattle, and blocks Of
stock in two mining corporations.
Governor Rollins of New Hampshire
revived an old custom Of that common
wealth by attending church just before
being sworn into office the other day. The
retiring governor, Ramsdell, sat beside
him, and Bishop Miles of the Protestant
Episcopal Church read the service.
Israel Zangwill says he once overheard
some Jews discussing him. "He's not
clever" said one. "He is one of us and
knows all about us. OF course, he can
write of us. But there's Besant. He's
written a book about us and doesn't
know us at all. That's what cali
clever"
Mile. Lucie Faure, the only daughter
Of President Faure, whose engagement
to M. Georges Chris is announced, un-
derstands Latin, Greek and English, and
has written a book of travels. The BRIDE
groom-elect's father, M. Henri Chris of
Grasse, made a large fortune in per-
fumery
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
OPPOSED BY MERRIAM.
Does Not Favor the Establishment o
New Military Post Near
Wardner, Idaho.

Wardner, Idaho, May Sat a con-
ference with number of Wardner bust
ness men, Gen. Merriam declared
against the establishment of new
military post in the Couer d'Alenes for
the purpose of keeping down the dyna-
miters. The formation of a strong
militia, he suggested, would be the best
means of maintaining order after the
present riots are effectually quelled.
Washington, May s.-The war de-
partment has received the following
dispatch from Gen. Merriam:
Wardner, Idaho. May 5.-Adjutant Cen
eral. Washington: Three hundred and
fifty arrests have been made so far; pris-
oners guarded by troops. State officers
investigating. Understand the governor
of Montana will surrender fugitives es-
Gaping over mountain trails. will fur.
nish force to Idaho sheriff to secure them.
(Signed) MERRIAM.
"Brigadier General"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
MAY BE COMPROMISED.
Efforts to Settle the Strike at Buffalo
Still Being Mnde-Itnlians
Put to Work.

Buffalo, N. Y, May s.-The situation
on the docks is unchanged. There has
been no attempt at disorder.
The work of attempting to settle by
compromise the trouble between the
| grain contractors and the scoopers was
resumed Saturday morning. Before adj
| iournment at night, committee was
appointed to devise plan of settle
ment. This committee consists of Har-
vey ID. Goulder, of Cleveland, counsel
for the Lake Carriers association; II.
Colby and James Corrigan, of Cleve-
| land, both members of the executive
committee of the Lake Carriers assoc
citation; Capt. Thomas Wilson. of Cleve-
land, and George Sowerby, president of
| the Western Elevating association,
Buffalo.
This committee was on hand in the
morning and had conference and an
other meeting was planned, at which
representatives of the vessel owners and
tor and representatives of various labor
organizations are expected to be pres
ent.
Between so and GO Italians were put
to work Saturday morning. They were
escorted to the docks by detail of po-
lice.
About rs freight handlers were at
work on the Central docks. At the
Lackawanna docks the steamer John C.
Gault was lying with her cargo still I'M
touched. Twenty-one boats arrived
here Friday, 10 being grain laden.
Twelve elevators were worked and
about 100000 bushels of grain were
transferred. There are dozens of yes
sells waiting to be unloaded and the in
surance claims on all such tied-up car
goes are very heavy.
President Keefe of the International
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Die. nj a sanitarium m.

Clifton Springs, N. Y, May s. Rev.
Charles Henry Payne, d. D., of New
York city, secretary of the board of ed
ucation of the Methodist Episcopal
church, died at the sanitarium in this
village of influenza and organic disease
of the heart, aged 6s years. He had
been here about three months. The
funeral will be held in the Washington
Square Methodist Episcopal church,
New York, on Sunday afternoon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
IOWA STATE NEWS
SWEPT BY A TORNADO.
Monona County and the Whole of the
Soldier River Valley Devastated
and Lives Are Lost.

Ute, in Monona county, and the
whole of the Soldier river valley was
swept by terrific tornado about mid
night and the list of killed and injured
is extensive, while the property dam
age is immense.
The killed are Hanson Severson,
Harry FERN, Mrs. George FERN, I'M
known man, believed to be tramp
named Shields; John Amerston. A
great many were injured, all being dan
gerously hurt.
Eyewitnesses say the air was so full
OF twisted trees, pieces of houses and
other debris that anyone exposed for a
moment could not escape injury. The
path OF the whirlwind was nearly mile
wide, and is plainly marked for 20 miles.
Trees two feet thick were twisted off
by the hundreds, and in many cases
pulled up by the roots and carried miles
away. The large residence of George
Fernn was the first building of i'm
portance destroyed. 1t was in the CEN
ter of the cyclones track.
A great splinter passed entirely
through Mrs. Fernn's body. She died
Thursday. The house was cut to pieces
like SO much kindling wood. The five
daughters were found in as many diff
ferent places, after the storm had
passed. by their father, who was him
self badly hurt. All the daughters are
dangerously injured and not expected
to survive.
Harry FERN, another of the killed,
was ten-year-old boy. He was blown
nearly mile from his home and was
crushed out of resemblance to human
being when found. The most remark
able freak of the elements occurred in
the destruction of the FERN residence.
"A four-year-old boy was asleep by the
side of his mother, who was killed.
The supposed tramp killed had taken
refuge in the barn of Peter Peterson.
The storm broke his body to pieces and
mixed it up with the logs of the stable
Peterson's house was blown to pieces
and the owner was carried through the
air and mixed up in the debris. He is
not dead, but has lost both ears and is
otherwise frightfully hurt.
John Amerston, one of the farmers
killed, was swept away with his house
and his body carried half mile and
dropped into the river.
In Crawford county, on the county
line four miles from Ute, the residence
of Monday Peters was demolished by
the storm. The grain bin and barn
We're also destroyed. For mile on
either side of the Peters residence the
ground is strewn with pieces of houses,
trees, dead cattle and hundreds of ar
ticles of household furniture.
A cyclone passed two miles west of
Avoca at six o'clock in the evening, go
ing in southerly direction. All tele-
graph and telephone wires are down
at Oakland, and no news has been re-
ceived south from Avoca. At Avoca
the storm was severe and two houses
in the outskirts of the town were de-
molished.
A severe hailstorm passed over Hum
boldt county. The most damage was
at the little town of Bode, where near
ly all the window lights in the town
We're broken. The hailstones were of
enormous size. Stock was hurt by the
hail to some extent.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Victory for the miners.

The miners of the central field, COM
prislng Wapello, Mahaska ard Monroe
counties, won victory by the operators
conceding them an eight-hourday with
nine hours pay, on the present basis.
for day men The mining scale was
placed at 70 cents the year round for
screened coal and so cents for mine
run. The agreement is now in effect
and lasts until April /, 1900 The nine
hours pay will mean $1.s9 per day for
drivers and company hands. The
miners are jubilant over the victory.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Particularly should the experience of or
ficers and enlisted men of long service In
the tropics receive full consideration.
fSiened) III. C. CORBIN,
"Adjutant General"
DEFREYcINET RESIGNS.
Change in the French Cabinet-Hu-
NOR Of the Resignation of
President LOubet.

Paris, May s.-M. Charles Defreycinet
Saturday rendered his resignation to nj.
Dupuy, the premier, of the portfolio of
war. NJ. Dupuy Immediately sum
moned meeting of the cabinet, which
M. Defreycinet did not attend.
At the conclusion of the cabinet meet
ing M. Dupuy had conference with
President Loubet, with the result that
M. Camille Krantz, at present minister
of public works, was appointed to sue
coed NJ. Freycinet. Senator Mones-
tier has been selected to succeed M.
Krantz as minister of public works.
London, May s.-Rumors which are
current in Paris and are printed in
London that President Loubet has re-
signed seem to be without foundation.
Prohibits Politics Among Policemen.
Albany, N. Y, May s.-Gov, Roosevelt
has signed bill passed by the legisla-
ture providing that any person connect
ed with the police force from commits
sioner down to patrolman, who shall
use his official power either for or
against any political party, shall be gull
ty of misdemeanor. The bill prohibits
promotions for political reasons, con-
tributions to or collections for political
funds, and forbids any member of the
police force from being a member of
any political club
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Mrs. Marie Condo Rogers Dead.

New York, May s.-Mrs. Marie Condo
Rogers, daughter of Switz Condo, and
wife of Lebbins Harding Rogers, Jr.,
died at the home of her parents in this
city. On Sunday last she gave birth to
twin girls. Ensign G. L. P. Stone ere
ated sensation in 1897 by trying to
elope with Miss Condo from the Yates
hotel in Syracuse.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
WIN Go out Of Commission

Washington, May 8. The cruiser
Raleigh, after leaving Southport, where
she now is, will proceed northward,
probably touching at New York again,
on her way to Portsmouth, N. H.,
where she will be put out of commits
sion preliminary to extensive repairs
and alterations.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Funeral win BE Private.

Springfield, ILL.,, May s.-Private
funeral services over former Gov.
Oglesby will be held at nine o'clock
next Monday morning in the chapel of
St. John the Baptist, at Elkhart, where
the remains have lain in state since the
public funeral on April 2s. Rev. DR..
Frederick w. Taylor, rector of St.
Pauls pro-cathedral, of Springfield,
will officiate.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09

Entitled to the Actual Rank

Washington, May s.-Solicitor Cen
eral Richards has rendered an opinion
in which he sustains the views of the
navy department as to the proper con-
struction of section 2 of the act of
March 8, 1899, known as the navy per.
sonnet bill, to the effect that engineer
officers who, prior to the passage of the
act, attained the relative rank of COM
mander became entitled to take that
actual rank in the line of the navy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09

st. Paul, Mimi, May s. = John c
Wagner, who has carried bullet il
his head since the Custer massacre in
1875, committed suicide with morphine
at hotel in Saltwater Friday night, his
dead body being found Saturday. He
served in both the confederate and fed
eral armies during the civil war
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
opportunity for Amertcan..

Washington, May s.-Particulars of
the new Syria-O Ottoman railway, which
is to run from Haifa, near Beirut, to
Damascus, and thence to the Persian
gulf, have been furnished the state de-
partment by United States Consul
Rayndal, at Beirut. He says the
Thames iron works, one of the con-
tractors, being crowded with orders, the
rails and rolling stock for this road will
be bought in the United States.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Fishing Boat Lost.

Gloucester, Mass, May s. = A dis
patch received here from Amherst is
land, one of the Magdalen group, an
nounced the loss of the fishing schoon-
err Hiram Lowell, one of the finest YES
sells in the Gloucester fishing fleet. She
went ashore in Thursdays gale and
filed with water. The crew was saved
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Re1ieyed of HIS command.

Washington. May S. Col. Alfred
Mordecai, ordnance department, has
been relieved from command of the
Watervliet arsenal, Watervliet, N. Y,
and assigned to the command of the
Benecia arsenal, Benecia. Cal, reliev-
ing Col. Lawrence l. Babbitt, who has
been assigned to the command of the
United States powder depot at Dover,
N
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Carnegie Says 1t Is So.

London, May SIN response to an in
quiry from the correspondent here of
the press regarding the reported trans
fer of his business interests in the
United States to a syndicate, Mr.. An
drew Carnegie said he had given his
young partners the terms on which he
would be willing to sell and retire from
business, but he has no definite infor-
nation as yet whether they are going
to buy or not
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Death of Capt. Fullerton.

Word was received in Marshalltown
of the death by asphyxiation at the
Brunswick hotel, Minneapolis, of Capt.
Samuel Fullerton, of Green Mountain.
wealthy old sea captain, SIS years of
age, who has made his home for a num-
Der of years with his daughter, Mrs.
Robert Coates, two miles west of Green
Mountain church, on the old George
Pegg farm.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Newspaper writer Dead.

San Francisco, May s.-John Bonner,
one of the best-known newspaper writ
ers in America, is dead at his home in
this city, aged TO- Miss Geraldine Bon
ner, one of his three children, is well
known as magazine writer and nov
elist of ability.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Nitroglycerin Explodes.

Pinole, Cal, May 8. The nitro.
glycerin house of the California pow
der works exploded. Foreman Arthur
Graves and /. j. Wilkinson were killed.
Several others were injured.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
Bringing Back Remains.

Managua, Nicaragua, May (via
Galveston, Tex.). = Col Weiser has
started for the United States with the
remains of Gen. Daniel McAuley. Col.
Weiser is acting for Lafayette Post No.
14O, G. A. r., of New York,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
INFORMATION.

The presidential term in France is sew.
en- years.
The average duration of human life is
about 80 years.
Berlin is telephonically connected with
416 other cities.
There are six schools in Ireland where
Irish is taught.
There are more Germans than Irish in
the United States.
The first mint of the United States was
established in Philadelphia in 1892
Madrid abounds in slums, which are
even greater eyesores than those of Lon
don.
No fewer than 2,4O1 patents have been
taken out on processes for making sugar
and salt.
1t is a remarkable fact that, as rule,
the sewing done by male tailors is neat
er, finer and more uniform than that done
by women.
the Catholic church throughout the world
Is 230,S66,533; of Protestant churches,
143, 237. 625.
In Spain Hebrews are not permitted
to erect and maintain houses Of worship.
They have no civil rights, and exist in
the kingdom only as aliens.
There are over 200 brands of wine pro-
duced in France, but more wine is drunk
in England than in France, and London
is the greatest wine market in the world.
The gold production of the United
States for 1893, according to the director
of the mint, was $65, 1872, 677-a gain of
more than $S,0O0,0O0 over that of 1897.
The latest development of the art Of
advertisement has appeared in Sweden.
The advertisers have actually captured
the backs Of the Swedish national bank
note.
Estimates (made by governors of the
various commonwealth of the popula-
ton Of the United States on Jan. 1 placed
the number Of inhabitants at over H.
800. 231
Some of the petrifed wood found in
Arizona, it Is said, is SO hard that steel
tools will not work it, the petrifcations
being only three degrees less in hardness
than the diamond.
More than one-half the lord chancellors
of England during the past fifty years
were the sons Of poor men. One Of them
was the son of country barber, and the
father Of another was o Newcastle coal
HEAVIER.